QIAN, LV. Economic Models for Tiered Network Services. (Under the direction of Dr. George N. Rouskas). Tiered network services have been prevalent in current networking industry. The term tiered service means that the network operator only provides a small set of tiers (levels) which offer progressively higher levels of service to the customers each of whom will be mapped to one of the given ti...

despite the extensive deployment of multi-core architectures in the past few years, the design and optimization of each single processing core is still a fresh field in computing .on the other hand, having a design procedure (used to solve the problems related to the design of a single processing core )makes it possible to apply the proposed solutions to specific-purpose processing cores .the i...

BACKGROUND Physicians in the United States sometimes need to evaluate a patient for suspected Lyme borreliosis (LB) who may have acquired the infection in Europe. Using serum samples from European LB patients, we compared the performance of European and US serodiagnostic tests, including newer-generation assays containing Vmp-like sequence, expressed or its C6 peptide. METHODS The sensitivity...

Based on the value system of the supply chain, an analytical procedure which focused on the interactive relationship among the multi-tiered business network is proposed to generate the strategies and the activities for implementing SCM. The proposed methodology begins with analyzing the value system of the three-tiered supply chain and respectively explores the core activities and linkages in b...

indubitably, the efficacy of metalinguistic awareness in improving efl learners’ grammatical knowledge and writing quality has long been an area of great interest in applied linguistics brown (2001). accordingly, the main objective of the present study was to investigate the impact of planned and unplanned focus on form instruction on students’ ability to learn grammar and use it appropriately ...

OBJECTIVES To synthesize methodologically comparable evidence from the published literature regarding the outcomes of tiered formularies and therapeutic reference pricing of prescription drugs. METHODS We searched the following electronic databases: ABI/Inform, CINAHL, Clinical Evidence, Digital Dissertations & Theses, Evidence-Based Medicine Reviews (which incorporates ACP Journal Club, Coch...

The purpose of this paper is to stress the need for strategies in the framework of term-rewriting analysis of complexity classes. Independently our results can be conceived as a simplification and clarification of the results obtained in [6]. In particular, we introduce a new path order ≺pop for polynomial time computable functions, such that for a finite rewrite system R compatible with ≺pop, ...

This paper first constructs a tiered network model of the interbank market. Then, from the perspective of contagion risk, it studies numerically the resilience of four types of interbank market network models to shocks, namely, tiered networks, random networks, small-world networks, and scale-free networks. This paper studies the interbank market with homogeneous and heterogeneous banks and ana...