How does organizational slack affect firm performance? Organization theory posits that slack, despite its costs, has a positive impact on firm performance. In contrast, agency theory suggests that slack breeds inefficiency and inhibits performance. The empirical evidence, largely from developed economies, has been inconclusive. Moreover, little effort has been made to empirically test whether s...

Designing low overhead mechanisms for improving soft error reliability will be a key requirement at future technologies. The slack of an instruction is the number of cycles it can be delayed without extending the execution time. We make the observation that while the slack cycles do not affect execution time, they add to the total number of program cycles vulnerable to soft errors. In this pape...

In order to improve service reliability, many transit agencies add a significant amount of slack in the schedule. However, too much slack in the schedule reduces service frequency. We study the problem of determining the optimal slack that minimizes the passengers’ expected waiting times under schedule-based control. By associating with a D/G/c queue model, we show that the system is stable if ...

In this paper we discuss the algorithmic aspects of uncertainty driven scheduling which is a new design paradigm. Slack oriented design flow could be used to address the uncertainty problem in high level synthesis. We formalize the concept of slack and discuss different variations of the slack driven scheduling problem.

Loss of the RNA-binding protein fragile X mental retardation protein (FMRP) represents the most common form of inherited intellectual disability. Studies with heterologous expression systems indicate that FMRP interacts directly with Slack Na(+)-activated K(+) channels (K(Na)), producing an enhancement of channel activity. We have now used Aplysia bag cell (BC) neurons, which regulate reproduct...

In digital forensics, different forms of slack space can be used to hide information from either the operating system or other users, or both. While some forms are easily detectable others are very subtle, and require an experienced forensic investigator to discover the hidden information. The exact amount of information that can be hidden varies with the form of slack space used, as well as en...

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We explore how slack time might drive the quantity and quality of creative projects. We model slack time as continguous blocks of low opportunity cost time. We model contiguous blocks of time as particularly useful for complex projects. The model predicts that more creative projects are produced during slack time because it is low opportunity cost time. The model also predicts that slack time g...

This paper presents a robust control scheme for distributed generations (DGs) in islanded mode operation of a microgrid (MG). In this strategy, assuming a dynamic slack bus with constant voltage magnitude and phase angle, nonlinear equations of the MG are solved in the slack-voltage-oriented synchronous reference frame, and the instantaneous active and reactive power reference for the slack bus...