Overview Scaling integrated circuit technology into the deep submicron regime is expected to increase both soft and hard error rates significantly [1]. Therefore, providing high availability in the presence of relatively unreliable components is likely to become an increasingly important requirement for a diverse set of systems, including general-purpose commodity systems. Traditionally, high a...

Since China has been Iran's most important trading partner in recent years, the present study has attempted to investigate the effect of bilateral real exchange rate fluctuations on the trade relationship between Iran and China during the period 1992-2017. To investigate this relationship, the business data in the export and import sectors were divided into 15 major commodity segments, and the ...

This study estimates returns to density in the U.S. Railroad industry using a cost function with commodity-specific outputs and explores implications for differential pricing. We find that large economies persist railroad industry, suggesting marginal pricing would not come close recovering costs. Increased freedom from deregulation has enabled railroads retain relatively competitive shippers f...

Geospatial Processing, such as queries based on point-to-polyline shortest distance and point-in-polygon test, are fundamental to many scientific and engineering applications, including post-processing large-scale environmental and climate model outputs and analyzing traffic and travel patterns from massive GPS collections in transportation engineering and urban studies. Commodity parallel hard...

Haque, Samiul. Ph.D., Purdue University, December 2014. US Commodity Support Payments: On Allocation of Resources and Fairness, Post 1996. Major Professor: Kenneth Foster This dissertation investigates the effect of US commodity support payment on agricultural producer decisions during the “decoupled” regime. Particular attention is paid to the national optimal output mix, input proportions, an...

This research presents the Enhanced Commodity Forward Buy (ECFB) heuristic, a new method for commodity purchasing, which allows strategic forward buying of commodities for products that include commodity components or materials. The Enhanced Commodity Forward Buy addresses limitations of existing methods by considering stochastic demand and stochastic commodity prices for products that contain ...

Using a structural VAR with block exogeneity, diagonality and identifying restrictions, this paper analyzes: first, the macroeconomic linkages among the oil price, U.S. output, interest rate, money supply, general price level and exchange rate and second, the relationships of the macroeconomic variables with the price indices of ten international nonfuel commodity groups. By assuming the block ...