This paper describes recent development e orts on the integrated simulation environment TENT. TENT is a component-based software integration and work ow management system using the capabilities of CORBA and Java. It is used to integrate the applications required to form complex work ows, which are typical of multidisciplinary simulations in engineering, in which di erent simulation codes have t...

BACKGROUND Behavioral interventions such as psychotherapy are leading, evidence-based practices for a variety of problems (e.g., substance abuse), but the evaluation of provider fidelity to behavioral interventions is limited by the need for human judgment. The current study evaluated the accuracy of statistical text classification in replicating human-based judgments of provider fidelity in on...

This paper argues that California’s self-help county tax legislation, which funds additional highway spending, amounts to a natural experiment that can be used to construct a valid instrument to determine highway congestion’s causal effect on the growth rates of GDP, employment, wages, and commodity freight flows for California counties. Our estimation results indicate that highway congestion h...

This paper investigates price rigidity arise out of the speci c market structures, such as degree of market concentration and pricing decisions of retailers and manufacturers. Using Japanese scanner data that contains transaction prices and sales for more than 1,600 commodity groups from 1988 to 2008, we nd statistically signi cant negative correlation between the degree of market concentration...

Like existing commodity computer systems, embedded systems are no more small, static, stable nor safe. They have huge amount of source codes, interact with the internet, download and install applications from external, which incur the increase of bugs and security holes. To solve these problems, we propose to leverage virtualization techniques on embedded systems. We ported a machine emulator s...

SUMMARY This paper describes recent development eeorts on the integrated simulation environment TENT. TENT is a component-based software integration and workkow management system using the capabilities of CORBA and Java. It is used to integrate the applications required to form complex workkows, which are typical of multidisciplinary simulations in engineering, in which diierent simulation code...

We prove a general possibility result for collective decision problems where individual allocations are one-dimensional, preferences are single-peaked (strictly convex), and feasible allocation profiles cover a closed convex set. Special cases include the celebrated median voter theorem ([10], [21]) and the division of a non disposable commodity by the uniform rationing rule ([47]). We construc...

Commodity off-the-shelf GPUs lack error checking mechanisms for graphics memory, whereas conventional HPC platforms have used hardware-based ECC for DRAMs. To alleviate this reliability concern, we propose a software-based ECC for GPGPU applications. We add small program codes to normal CUDA programs that compute ECCs for data residing in graphics memory so that transient bit-flips can be detec...

accordingly, this study attempts to present an effective tool based on the securitized commodity murabahah and to fulfill its feasibility study.  the overall structure of the tool is such that the banks with surplus funds, at first, reallocate their resources to banks in deficit by commodity murabahah program and then convert their demands from those banks to securitized commodity murabahah, an...