Individuals investing in a Venture Capital Trust IPO listed on the London Stock Exchange receive a number of conditional tax incentives; the time related nature of the conditions can create a “lock in effect”. By deriving a dynamic model of the value of these incentives we examine how they influence investors’ pricing and trading decisions. This contributes to the ongoing tax capitalisation deb...

An electronic commerce marketing channel is fully mediated by information technology, creating information asymmetry (i.e., limited information). Such asymmetry may impede consumers’ ability to effectively assess certain types of products, thus creating challenges for online sellers. Signaling theory can aid in the understanding of how extrinsic cues—signals—can be used by sellers to convey pro...

USING TIMED-RELEASE CRYPTOGRAPHY TO MITIGATE PRESERVATION RISK OF EMBARGO PERIODS Rabia Haq Old Dominion University, 2008 Director: Dr. Michael L. Nelson This research defines Time-Locked Embargo, a framework designed to mitigate the Preservation Risk Interval: the preservation risk associated with embargoed scholarly material. Due to temporary access restrictions, embargoed data cannot be dist...

Infection is a common complication and is the second leading cause of death in hemodialysis patients. The risk of bacteremia in hemodialysis patients is 26-fold higher than in the general population, and 1/2-3/4 of the causative organisms of bacteremia in hemodialysis patients are Gram-positive bacteria. The ratio of resistant bacteria in hemodialysis patients compared to the general population...

The advent of multi-core microprocessors with restricted transactional memory (RTM) and accompanying compiler support allows us to revisit fundamental data structures with an eye to extracting more parallelism. The Patricia trie is one such common data structure used for storing both sets and dictionaries in a variety of contexts. This paper presents a concurrent implementation of a dynamically...

Techniques for Constructing Efficient Lock-free Data Structures Trevor Brown Doctor of Philosophy Graduate Department of Computer Science University of Toronto 2017 Building a library of concurrent data structures is an essential way to simplify the difficult task of developing concurrent software. Lock-free data structures, in which processes can help one another to complete operations, offer ...