In open real-time systems with a non-stationary workload, tasks can be dynamically mapped to servers. If a server-based, slack reclamation scheduler is used, each task reserves a fraction of the bandwidth based on its resource estimation. However, the slack time scheduler makes no guarantee to a task beyond its processor capacity reserve, i.e., the scheduler cannot guarantee that a soft real-ti...

Sodium-activated potassium (K(Na)) channels have been suggested to set the resting potential, to modulate slow after-hyperpolarizations, and to control bursting behavior or spike frequency adaptation (Trends Neurosci 28:422-428, 2005). One of the genes that encodes K(Na) channels is called Slack (Kcnt1, Slo2.2). Studies found that Slack channels were highly expressed in nociceptive dorsal root ...

The authors demonstrate that people discount delayed outcomes as a result of perceived changes over time in supplies of slack. Slack is the perceived surplus of a given resource available to complete a focal task. The present research shows that, in general, people expect slack for time to be greater in the future than in the present. Typically, this expectation of growth of slack in the future...

This paper proposes a procedure for avoiding delay faults in field with slack assessment during standby time. The proposed procedure performs path delay testing and checks if the slack is larger than a threshold value using selectable delay embedded in basic elements (BE). If the slack is smaller than the threshold, a pair of BEs to be replaced, which maximizes the path slack, is identified. Ex...

a r t i c l e i n f o The first decade of the twenty-first century has witnessed a significant increase in technology strategy research related to innovation capacity and technological diversity. Recent studies in the field of innovation capacity investigate whether the underlying performance differential among firms is attributable to organizational slack resources. However, few scholars have ...

Latecomer companies are those that have been slow in adopting modern enterprise systems. A key feature of latecomer companies is that they have been automating operations and digitizing administrative processes but their efforts have generally been local and segmented, which limits information exchange and makes resource coordination across business units difficult. As a result, slack resources...

Transition has entailed the introduction of policies to stimulate product market competition, to establish effective corporate governance and to harden enterprise budget constraints. How do these policies interact? Are they substitute policy instruments or does one policy reinforce the effect of another? Although early endogenous growth models predicted a negative relationship between competiti...

The sodium-activated potassium KNa channels Slack and Slick are encoded by KCNT1 and KCNT2, respectively. These channels are found in neurons throughout the brain, and are responsible for a delayed outward current termed I KNa. These currents integrate into shaping neuronal excitability, as well as adaptation in response to maintained stimulation. Abnormal Slack channel activity may play a role...

In Situ X-Ray Absorption Spectroscopic Study of Li1.05Ni0.35Co0.25Mn0.4O2 Cathode Material Coated with LiCoO2 Aniruddha Deb, Uwe Bergmann, Stephen P. Cramer, and Elton J. Cairns* Environmental Energy Technologies Division and Physical Bioscience Division, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, Berkeley, California 94720, USA Stanford Synchrotron Radiation Laboratory, Menlo Park, California 9402...