From a theoretical perspective, cash balances are thought to play a role in common value auctions because of limited liability. However, they have also been found to be important in common value auctions where limited liability is not an issue. This paper investigates whether this effect carries over to private value auctions, since limited liability issues do not arise in private value auction...

Future CMPs will have more cores and greater onchip cache capacity. The on-chip cache can either be divided into separate private L2 caches for each core, or treated as a large shared L2 cache. Private caches provide low hit latency but low capacity, while shared caches have higher hit latencies but greater capacity. Victim replication was previously introduced as a way of reducing the average ...

This methodology was applied for the early design of a mechatronic laboratory in the Monterrey campus of the ITESM. The aim was to support the design and development of their didactic equipment workstation of automatic logic control by creating a standard guide allowing the group involved to have a documented process to obtain a teaching guide of automatic logical control. The outcome expected ...

BACKGROUND Quality laboratory service is an essential component of health care system but in Sub-Saharan Africa such as Ethiopia, laboratories quality system remains weak due to several factors and it needs more attention to strengthen its capacity and quality system. METHODOLOGY A cross sectional study was conducted using a questionnaire to assess factors affecting the quality of laboratory ...

Attacks against the information flowing on the Internet cause a serious security threat nowadays, and force the developers to consider the system security aspects. This paper presents the use and suitability of Virtual Private Networks (VPNs) in the prevention of security breaches. An Open Service Gateway Initiative (OSGi) platform is presented and integration with VPN is studied as a case stud...

This poster session describes the selection criteria and process used for evaluating three repository software offerings and cloud platforms, with pros and cons. It describes implementation of workflows, representations of PREMIS metadata for objects in the repository, documenting fixity checks performed on datastreams, mapping of “rights” elements in DC datastreams to PREMIS “rightsExtension” ...

BACKGROUND Hepatitis E Virus (HEV) infection is globally increasing. The present study was performed to investigate the HEV seroprevalence, exposure risks as well as occupational risks for military personnel in Austria, a Central European country. METHODS AND FINDINGS A nationwide cross-sectional seroprevalence study was performed in 997 healthy Austrian adults, professional soldiers and civi...

Ethiopia adopted Public-Private Mix Directly Observed Treatment Short Course Chemotherapy (PPM-DOTS) strategy for tuberculosis (TB) control program. Quality of sputum smear microscopy has paramount importance for tuberculosis control program in resource-poor countries like Ethiopia. A cross-sectional study was conducted to assess the quality of sputum smear microscopy in 37 Public-Private Mix l...

In this paper, we present a multi-criteria decision aid methodology optimizing the performance of Service Provider Agents in a Virtual Private Network, according to the Specifications posed by the Foundation for Intelligent Physical Agents (FIPA). We enhance the basic protocol steps for a service brokering procedure, and apply the methodology to a specific case of Network Providers: the Interne...