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background activity. Incremental checkpointing is able to continuously advance the database checkpoint, i.e., the starting position in the redo log for crash recovery, resulting in dramatic improvements in recovery time while imposing minimal overhead during normal processing. The rate of bu$er writes

This paper explores the competition between two trading venues, Electronic Communication Networks (ECNs) and Nasdaq market makers. ECNs o¡er the advantages of anonymity and speed of execution, which attract informed traders. Thus, trades are more likely to occur on ECNs when information asymmetry

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Currently, the business environment is dramatically changing. Globa-lization, increasing competition and expanding markets are main factors that influence the business complexity (Umble et al., 2003). Those rapid changing business environment have forced firms to introduce and mana-ge successfully

We improve on previous recommender systems by taking advantage of the layered structure of software. We use a random-walk approach, mimicking the more focused behavior of a developer, who browses the caller-callee links in the callgraph of a large program, seeking routines that are likely

Background: ER-Golgi network plays an important role in the processing, sorting and transport of proteins, and it’s also a site for many signaling pathways that regulate the cell cycle. Accumulating evidence suggests that, the stressed ER and malfunction of Golgi apparatus are associated

THE early gene expression studies in breast cancer have provided a molecular classification ofthese tumors into at least three clinically relevant subtypes (ER-/HER2-, HER2+ or ER+/HER2). Our group recently introduced a robust method for subtype identification, exhibiting numerous advan-tages