Recent theoretical and empirical analysis in the field of economic organisation has focussed almost exclusively on identifying organisational practices and complementarities between such practices, invariant to the type of activity in question. However, this paper takes its point of departure in the observation from organisational theory that more knowledgeintensive production activities often ...

Detecting and debugging data races is a complex task due to the large number of interleavings possible in a parallel program. Most tools can find the data races reliably in an observed execution, but they miss errors in alternative reorderings of events. In this paper we describe an automated approach to generate, from a single program trace, a model in CSP with alternative interleavings. We ch...

This research examines the prevalence of the “new” or contemporary form of racism that exists in post-Civil Rights American society. Since the 1960s, racial ideologies and racism have shifted from “traditional” or overt to a “new” form that is covert and dialectical in nature. This study explores the ways in which the “new” form of racism manifests in discussions about sports and race in an int...

We formalise the data race free (DRF) guarantee provided by Java, as captured by the semi-formal Java Memory Model (JMM) [1] and published in the Java Language Specification [2]. The DRF guarantee says that all programs which are correctly synchronised (i.e., free of data races) can only have sequentially consistent behaviours. Such programs can be understood intuitively by programmers. Formali...

Sea level, currents, and ice distribution are studied in the Bering Sea during storm events. The ice and ice edge are incorporated into storm surge model. The interaction of wind, ice, and water is expressed by the normal and tangential stresses. A numerical grid is established for the Bering Sea, and a second refined grid is constructed for Norton Sound. Construction of open boundary condition...

Global Garbage Detection (GGD) in object-oriented distributed systems requires that each application process maintains some information in support of GGD. Maintaining this information is known as log-keeping. In this paper we describe a low-overhead, log-keeping mechanism which proceeds lazily and avoids race conditions while nevertheless maintaining enough information for comprehensive GGD to ...

During the past 20 years we have witnessed an increase in joint research between universities and Þrms. Nevertheless, this increase, which is largely attributed to the Bayh-Dole Act, has fallen short of expectations. This paper examines the conditions under which a Þrm will Þnd it proÞtable to form an RJV with a university. My results indicate that Þrms, which work on new-technologies, are more...

This paper focuses upon recent annual national trends in racial segregation in professional occupations which are based on Current Population Survey (microdata) occupationand industry-specific distributions of employed black and white professionals for 1968-1979. Annual changes in the patterns of these trends are descripti~ely analyzed with the objective of exposing their implications to constr...

In spite of decades of reform attempts urban education remains an intractable policy issue for educators. National and state level data continue to show disparities in educational achievement and attainment between students from affluent and poor urban communities. If past policies have not proven to be effective in substantially improving urban educational systems the question is why? In this ...

There is no doubt that management practices are linked to the productivity and performance of a company. However, research findings are mixed. This paper provides a multi-disciplinary review of the current evidence of such a relationship and offers suggestions for further exploration. We provide an extensive review of the literature in terms of research findings from studies that have been tryi...