* Earlier version presented at ASEM 98. Accepted to Engineering Management Journal. Abstract This article presents a cost and performance measurement system that integrates activity-based costing (ABC) with the economic value added financial performance measure. This proposed ABC-and-EVA system is a management support tool for managing cost and capital. The integrated ABC-and-EVA system include...

Much prior work has studied processor cache replacement policies, but a large gap remains between theory and practice. The optimal policy (MIN) requires unobtainable knowledge of the future, and prior theoretically-grounded policies use reference models that do not match real programs. Meanwhile, practical policies are designed empirically. Lacking a strong theoretical foundation, they do not m...

As is known, Spanish (along with other Romance languages, such as Portuguese and Catalan) has two copular verbs, SER and ESTAR, to express what in other languages (e.g. French or English) is expressed via a single copula. Hence, in French we find Adán est intelligent and also Eva est malade, and in English Adán is intelligent and Eva is ill, in every case using the same copular verb (être in Fr...

Comprehensive analysis of expansive pharmacogenomic datasets is a daunting challenge. A thorough exploration of experimental results requires both statistical and annotative information. Therefore, appropriate analysis tools must bring a readily-accessible, flexible combination of statistics and biological annotation to the user's desktop. We present the Exploratory Visual Analysis (EVA) softwa...

This paper will discuss an infrared camera inspection system that has been developed to allow astronauts to demonstrate the ability to inspect reinforced carbon-carbon (RCC) components on the space shuttle as part of extra-vehicular activities (EVA) while in orbit. Presented will be the performance of the EVA camera system coupled with solar heating for inspection of damaged RCC specimens and N...

This paper briefs the photothermal reliability studies we conducted on different encapsulation materials for some U.S. PV companies that are subcontractors of the Photovoltaic Manufacturing Technology (PVMaT) program. The results indicate that the photothermal stability of two foreign ethylene vinyl acetate (EVA) films is dependent on the formulation, curing method and condition, as well as acc...

   Repeated oral administration of mexazolam, an anti-anxiety agent, may cause adverse effects such as gastric disturbance, drowsiness, and ataxia due to transiently high blood levels. Transdermal administration would avoid the systemic side effects and gastric disorders after oral administration. We have developed a matrix using ethylene-vinyl acetate (EVA), a heat-processible and flexible mat...