For system LSI’s to be widely accepted and to answer society’s needs is to achieve short development cycles [*] and greatly reduce the man-hours for customer responsive design. At Oki Electric, we have built a hierarchical LSI platform known as SPA and are providing customers with solutions, which include a high level of special knowledge. With the expansion of application areas comes the requi...

A rogue access point is a wireless access point that has either been installed on a secure company network without explicit authorization from a local network administrator or has been created to allow a hacker to conduct a man-in-themiddle attack. In this paper, we propose two online algorithms to detect rogue access points using sequential hypothesis tests applied to packet-header data collec...

©2016 8872147 Canada Inc. or its licensors CMAJ, March 15, 2016, 188(5) 319 Do you remember the advertisement with a cartoon elephant lying in bed between a man and a woman, implying a huge problem in the bedroom? This was the beginning of a direct-toconsumer information campaign about erectile dysfunction. Called “40over40,” the campaign was sponsored by Eli Lilly, the manufacturer of Cialis (...

OBJECTIVE To determine the informational content of nine pharmaceutical company websites about the antidepressant medication marketed by the company. METHOD A structured, explicit review of materials found on pharmaceutical company websites about nine antidepressants for which no generic drug is available was conducted using eight popular search engines. The accessibility of these websites wa...

PT. X is a German-based multinational chemical company that produces surfactant as one of its products. As processing company, the operational activities production process in poses risks could happen at any time. This research conducted to identify, analyze, and propose mitigation plan for plants operated by X. Interviews are identify using Fishbone diagram framework Ishikawa method categorize...

This paper models how imperfect memory affects the optimal continuity of policies. We examine the choices of a player (individual or firm) who observes previous actions but cannot remember the rationale for these actions. In a stable environment, the player optimally responds to memory loss with excess inertia, defined as a higher probability of following old policies than would occur under ful...

The outbreak of the Panic of 1907 occurred following a series of scandalous revelations about the investments of some prominent New York financiers, resulting in widespread runs on trust companies throughout New York City. The connections between the trust companies that came under severe strain during the crisis, and their client firms, may have transmitted the financial crisis to nonfinancial...

This paper examines the time structure of the effects of R&D activities on firm growth. The main questions are whether R&D activities come together with firms’ growth in the subsequent periods and how this relationship depends on other characteristics of the firms, such as size and industry. In addition, we study the relationship between R&D effects and the autocorrelation dynamics of firm grow...