Donald Trump’s election was a significant surprise. The reaction of company stock prices to the election reflects shifts in investor expectations about economic growth, taxes, and trade policy. High-beta stocks outperformed, presumably due to strengthened growth expectations. Expectations of significant corporate tax cuts boosted high-tax firms, but hurt firms with significant net operating los...

Group communication systems increasingly provide security services. However, in practice, the use of such systems is complicated by the divergent requirements and abilities of group members. In this paper, we define a policy language called Ismene that directs the provisioning of security-related resources at member sites. The communication service is defined through a reconciliation of a group...

We present a generic formal security model for operating systems of multiapplicative smart cards. The model formalizes the main security aspects of secrecy, integrity, secure communication between applications and secure downloading of new applications. The model satisfies a security policy consisting of authentication and intransitive noninterference. The model extends the classical security m...

Donald Trump’s election was a significant surprise. The reaction of company stock prices to the election reflects shifts in investor expectations about economic growth, taxes, and trade policy. High-beta stocks outperformed, presumably due to strengthened growth expectations. Expectations of significant corporate tax cuts boosted high-tax firms, but hurt firms with significant net operating los...

through a collection of cooperative agents called ants, the near optimal solution to the multi-reservoir operation problem may be effectively achieved employing ant colony optimization algorithms (acoas). the problem is approached by considering a finite operating horizon, classifying the possible releases from the reservoir(s) into pre-determined intervals, and projecting the problem on a grap...

We investigated the average operating time and extent of intra-operative blood loss in orthognathic surgeries performed using induced hypotensive general anaesthesia, with the intention of devising a practical guideline for blood unit preparation for these procedures. We prospectively studied 32 Chinese patients undergoing surgery to correct dentofacial deformities at a public hospital in Hong ...

16. Abstract In the transit business, planners often face a difficult decision when having to choose what type of operating policy to put in place in a given service area. In fact, the decision is not straightforward, mainly because the demand for the service is often unknown beforehand and it will depend on the established system itself. This is especially true for feeder lines, one of the mos...

Chen, Hong Ph.D., Purdue University, December 2009. Analysis of Access Control Poli­ cies in Operating Systems . Major Professor: Ninghui Li. Operating systems rely heavily on access control mechanisms to achieve security goals and defend against remote and local attacks. The complexities of modern access control mechanisms and the scale of policy configurations are often overwhelming to system...

Transnational companies, operating in extremely competitive global markets, always seek to lower different operating costs, such as inventory holding costs in their intra- supply chain system. This paper incorporates a cost reducing product distribution policy into an intra-supply chain system with multiple sales locations and quality assurance studied by [Chiu et al., Expert Syst Appl, 40:2669...

The Unified Extensible Firmware Interface (UEFI) provides a consistent set of interfaces designed to support the booting of shrink-wrap operating systems, loading of drivers that replace legacy PC/AT option ROM’s, and support operating-system absent diagnostics and applications. In addition to this, UEFI capabilities are exported by C-callable interfaces, thus allowing for UEFI platforms to spa...