Budgetary constraints are almost a constant challenge confronted by academia. In the case of small colleges and universities, these constraints become even more pronounced when these institutions enhance their programs to meet the needs of their constituents. While in some cases program enhancement might simply be accomplished by hiring new faculty members; in others, it might require additiona...

There are several watermarking applications that require the deployment of a very large number of watermark embedders. These applications often have severe budgetary constraints that limit the computation resources that are available. Under these circumstances, only simple embedding algorithms can be deployed, which have limited performance. In order to improve performance, we propose preproces...

An active learning activity for a computer design and assembly with practical, technical and budgetary constraints was implemented to study real-life design concepts and project-based design outcomes, supplementing the traditional lecture style, implementing a potential interview process to synthesize the innovative design ideas and requirements, and relevant academic experiences as well as per...

We study how the COVID-19 pandemic reshaped relation between corporate and sovereign credit risk in cross-section of countries European Union. Surprisingly, outbreak triggered higher elasticity to CDS spreads core countries, which realigned that peripheral with lower fiscal capacity, for impact on was essentially muted. During pandemic, we observe systematic departures actual from those implied...