The importation of Chinese porcelain and celadon into Europe has long been thought to have first begun around the thirteenth century AD. A unique group ceramic sherds from archaeological contexts in Spain dated between ninth eleventh centuries, however, now represents earliest wares identified Europe. Such an unexpectedly early presence on high-status sites Western probably reflects changing pa...

Future ATM networks will support real-time voice and video services and we need to guarantee cell transfer delay and cell loss probability to launch such services. The Earliest Deadline First (EDF) scheme is a suitable service scheduling scheme for these services since it has been proven that it can minimize the number of late cells by assigning deadlines to the cells. However, the EDF scheme c...

Scheduling is an important factor for the performance of Wimax system, especially for real-time applications. Earliest Deadline First (EDF) is a delay-optimal scheduling discipline commonly used in real-time applications in wired and wireless networks. Traditional schedulers like EDF do not take the packet destination distance into account. In this paper, we present a scheme that differentiates...

In this paper, we validate the performance of the MKMV EDF credit measure in its timeliness of default prediction, ability to discriminate good firms from bad firms, and accuracy of levels, with a focus on U.S. markets. We focus on the period 1996-2004 for most of our tests. Wherever possible, we compare the performance to that of other popular alternatives like agency ratings, Z-Scores, and a ...