This document suggests an X.500 Directory Schema, or Naming Architecture, for use in the COSINE and Internet X.500 pilots. The schema is independent of any specific implementation. As well as indicating support for the standard object classes and attributes, a large number of generally useful object classes and attributes are also defined. An appendix to this document includes a machine process...

The Internet is rapidly becoming the communications infrastructure. With its advantages of speed, availability, and `different time, different place' mode of communication, it can be successfully harnessed to accomplish tasks that previously required face-to-face meetings. Such meetings can consume large travel budgets and staff time, and therefore alternative mechanisms that achieve the same r...

Département de Santé Publique, Unité de Recherche sur les Politiques et Systèmes de Santé, Centre Muraz, 2054 Avenue Mamadou Konaté, 01 BP 390 Bobo-Dioulasso, Burkina Faso Agence de Formation, de Recherche et d’Expertise en Santé pour l’Afrique (AFRICSanté), 773 Rue Guillaume Ouédraogo 01 BP 298 Bobo-Dioulasso, Burkina Faso Department of Community Medicine, University of Oslo, Post Box 1130 Bli...

In the words of Lord Kelvin, “if you cannot measure it, you cannot improve it”. One of the longlasting successes of the Top 500 list is sustained, community-wide floating point performance improvement. Emerging large-data problems, either resulting from measured real-world phenomena or as further processing of data generated by simulation, have radically different performance characteristics an...

Interconnect (CI) bus. All Digital's decision stations were to be dual to implement the fiber attachment stations (DASs) distributed data interface and the interconnections (FDDI) physical topology between the stations were with a dual ring of to be wired directly, trees, as opposed to a without patch panels or dual ring only, resulted similar structured wiring in the development of schemes. th...

Previous work by Tesser (1993) and Bourgeois (2002) found that heritable attitudes are more resistant to social influence and attitude change. The present study sought to replicate and extend previous work by utilizing attitudes and heritability estimates not previously used in studies examining the effect of heritable attitudes on social influence processes. It was hypothesized that attitudesw...

Poverty analysis is often based on national level indicators that are compared over time or across countries. The broad trends that can be identified using aggregate information are useful for evaluating and monitoring the overall performance of a country. For many policy and research applications, however, the information that can be extracted from aggregate indicators is not sufficient. Resea...

This paper examines the out-of-sample performance of various financial variables as predictors of U.S. recessions. Series such as interest rates and spreads, stock prices, and monetary aggregates are evaluated individually and in comparison with other financial and nonfinancial indicators. The analysis focuses on out-of-sample performance from one to eight quarters ahead. Results show that stoc...

In this paper, we investigate competition in banking systems in the EU27 as a whole for the period 2004– 2010, but also for old members’ banking systems compared with new members’ banking systems and for banking systems from countries member of euro zone compares with banking systems from countries non-member of euro zone. In order to investigate this issue, we estimate a non-structural indicat...