In recent years, the number of organizations connected to thie Internet has grown, resulting in an increasingly diverse set of connected users. As a result, network managers have growing concerns about the security and control of network resources. This concern has led protocol engineers to design routing protocols, such as Inter-Domain Policy Routing (IDPR), that include policy restrictions. T...

Recent work has presented theoretical frameworks that rigorously model the behavior of path-vector protocols [6, 7, 13], which are primarily used for inter-domain routing on the Internet. We expand the scope of these to include protocols with route-selection procedures that cannot be captured by a per-node linear order on paths; in particular, our generalized model captures the use of commonly ...

This study addresses the high stakes nature of teacher performance assessments and consequential outcomes of passing versus failing based on decisions of those who subjectively score them. Specifically, this study examines the inter-rater reliability of an emerging national model, the Performance Assessment for California Teachers (PACT). Current reports on the inter-rater reliability of PACT u...

This paper investigates inter-industry wage differentials in Ireland, taking advantage of access to a dataset that is uniquely suitable for this purpose, the 1996 Structure of Earnings Survey. This allows us to measure not simply overall differentials in the average wage across sectors, but also the extent to which these are associated with a range of employee, job, employer and sectoral charac...

Abstract This study combines the type of partners and number partnerships’ purposes to assess municipal effectiveness in bringing international aid. First, test whether inter-municipal cooperation (homogenous partners) is more effective than inter-governmental (heterogeneous increasing aid at local level. Second, tests partnerships with sole purpose raising (single purpose) are additional (mult...