"Centre-Ville," Montreal, Quebec, Canada H3C 3P8. Electronic mail may be sent via the Internet to vallerand.robertj@uqam.ca. a motivational model of high school dropout on the basis of theory and research in the field of intrinsic and extrinsic motivation. We believe that such an undertaking

As wireless sensor networks continue to grow in size, we are faced with the prospect of emerging wireless networks with hundreds or thousands of nodes. Geographic routing algorithms are a promising alternative to tradition ad hoc routing algorithms in this new domain for point-to-point routing

to their portfolio companies, such as addressing weaknesses in the original business plan or the entrepreneurial team (Kaplan and Strömberg (2004)), professionalizing the company (Hellmann and Puri In addition to measures of how well networked each VC is, we require data on the performance of VC investments. We

; social theory; social morphology INTRODUCTION The network society is a speci c form of social structure tentatively identied by empirical research as being characteristic of the Information Age. By social structure I understand the organizational arrangements of humans in relationships of production

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commands relatively modest attention in contemporary research on attitude change. While it is acknowledged that group influence can bias responses to persuasion The interpersonal transmission of meaning is underscored by the finding that as early as 12 months of age human beings interpret objects in light

are client-server based, which is feasible for relatively slow role-playing games. Those have modest bandwidth and latency requirements and are paid for by their customers. For MMOGs with higher realtime requirements and/or a smaller number of customers willing to pay, peer-to-peer networking seems to be a

, and with misfit resource renting policies, the current industry practice is to maintain for each game tens of self-owned data centers. In this work we investigate the dynamic resource provisioning from external data centers for MMOG operation. We introduce a novel MMOG workload model that represents the dynamics

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was flagged as an outlier if it exceeded twice the mean diagonal element of the hat matrix (see 2.2 Model-generated data sets S09 hypothesized that these effects arise from a lucky match between the spatial pattern of socioeconomic activity and the spatial pattern of enhanced natural and greenhouse forcing