Implementation of a Pipelined Control Cell Processor

A fast control cell processor (CCP) has been designed and implemented in order to process control cells as they enter the module. This fast CCP is capable of receiving back-to-back control cells, processing them, and sending them out in back-to-back fashion. The fast CCP comes equipped with a SRAM interface and a statistics interface. Currently, the fast CCP uses the Statistics Counter Plus to count the number of control cells on each VCI, the number of SRAM reads on each VCI, the number of SRAM writes on each VCI, and the total number of control cells that pass through the module

Usage of the Statistics Counter Plus Component in Networking Hardware Modules

The Statistics Counter Plus is a more generalized version of the Statistics Counter circuit developed earlier this year. When an event occurs multiple times, the user may hold the increment event signal asserted while the event occurs. As before, 256 separate events can be tracked

A Recent Decline in Available Moisture in Northern Victoria Land, Antarctia

Evidence from two areas in northern Victoria Land, Antarctica demonstrate that available moisture has been declining since at least I 265 B.P. The cause is not known

Geographic Location, Excess Control Rights, and Cash Holdings

We assess the extent to which remotely-located firms are likely to discretionarily accumulate cash rather than distribute it to shareholders. We consider that these firms are less subject to shareholder scrutiny and, thus, will have high agency conflicts as the distance will facilitate the extraction of private benefits. Consistent with our predictions, we find a positive relation between the distance to the main metropolitan area and cash holdings, and this impact is more pronounced when the controlling shareholder has high levels of excess control rights (i.e., separation of cash-flow rights and control rights). Our results hold even after accounting for all control variables, including financial constraints, and suggest that geographic remoteness can be conducive to severe agency problems, particularly when there is a large separation of cash-flow rights and control rights

Migrant remittances and the web of family obligations: Ongoing support among spatially extended kin in North-east Thailand, 1984–94

Exchanges of money, goods, and assistance among family/kin members are influenced by the intertwined lives of individuals and their family/kin. As people pass through the young adulthood years, acquiring obligations as spouses and parents, and migrating in search of economic opportunities, tensions can arise over existing obligations. Using rich longitudinal data from Northeast Thailand, we examined the role of family networks (origin and destination) on migrants’ exchanges with family/kin. Our approach overcame many shortcomings of earlier studies, allowing us to 'see' the family social network arrayed in a broader network. We show that intra-family exchanges are influenced by marital status, the presence of children, having parents in the origin household, and having siblings depart from it. The results are stable across sensitivity tests that systematically include or exclude various familial links. And reports provided by origin households on migrant remittances are consistent with reports from migrants themselves