196 research outputs found
The reasons for continued investment in company housing: A case study of the village of Deloro, Ontario.
This study examined company housing in the Village of Deloro, Ontario from 1916 to 1961 by investigating the factors of labour maintenance, industry profits, housing profits, social control and labour control. The Deloro Smelting and Refining case study uses pattern matching to determine which factors were involved in the decision making process. The analysis suggested that the prosperity of the resource extraction operation was the primary reason for continued investment in company housing. Although the profitability of company housing was a factor, producing a capital return was by and large insignificant to the continued maintenance of the units. Despite the auxiliary benefits of profits, social control and selective labour control, company housing was subsidiary to the resource extraction industry. In this regard the Deloro Smelting and Refining case study has demonstrated that there is a need to ensure that dominant industries powers are kept in check. As long as dominant industries are pressured to produce greater capital returns they will utilize any means at their disposal to ensure survival in the free market, this includes using company housing to manipulate their employees. (Abstract shortened by UMI.)Dept. of Geography. Paper copy at Leddy Library: Theses & Major Papers - Basement, West Bldg. / Call Number: Thesis1998 .W66. Source: Masters Abstracts International, Volume: 39-02, page: 0423. Adviser: Anna Vakil. Thesis (M.A.)--University of Windsor (Canada), 1998
Cross-Layer Optimization of Fast Video Delivery in Cache-Enabled Relaying Networks
This paper investigates the cross-layer optimization of fast video delivery
and caching for minimization of the overall video delivery time in a two-hop
relaying network. The half-duplex relay nodes are equipped with both a cache
and a buffer which facilitate joint scheduling of fetching and delivery to
exploit the channel diversity for improving the overall delivery performance.
The fast delivery control is formulated as a two-stage functional non-convex
optimization problem. By exploiting the underlying convex and quasi-convex
structures, the problem can be solved exactly and efficiently by the developed
algorithm. Simulation results show that significant caching and buffering gains
can be achieved with the proposed framework, which translates into a reduction
of the overall video delivery time. Besides, a trade-off between caching and
buffering gains is unveiled.Comment: 7 pages, 4 figures; accepted for presentation at IEEE Globecom, San
Diego, CA, Dec. 201
Exploring the Intellectual Composition of Academic Research Conferences: Computational Text Analysis of the HICSS Paper Archive from 2017-2022
The impact of regional jets on air service at selected US airports and markets
Regional jets, normally defined as jet aircraft introduced since 1993 with less than 100 seats, have been
thought to have significant impacts on air services at airports, for example, in improving service
frequency, allowing airlines to exploit niche markets and to feed hubs. Previous studies have focused
on regional jet deployment strategy and the overall situation and they suggest that deployment was
generally to larger cities first and, in addition, to locations east of the Mississippi. It has also been
suggested that smaller airports might lose service when regional jets replace turbo-props and that
carrier competition would increase, to the benefit of the consumer.
This paper aims to throw more light on these issues from the individual airportsâ point of view. Data on
changes in schedules from the Official Airline Guide (OAG) at a series of case study airports from
1994 to 2002 is used to examine, the impacts on new route development, market dynamics, carrier
competition and concentration and deployment status. In particular, the impact on smaller airports is
examined.
It is concluded, subject to the usual caveats on sample size, that there is little evidence of a uniform
impact on routes or airports. The aggregate picture often described by the industry and government is
shown to be a combination of highly dissimilar cases. A spectrum of effects is identified across
different types of airports and routes but some of the anticipated trends, such as hub bypassing, are not
observed. Some airports reaped significant benefits in terms of improved frequency and services to new
destinations, whilst others gained little
Cache-Aided Non-Orthogonal Multiple Access: The Two-User Case
In this paper, we propose a cache-aided non-orthogonal multiple access (NOMA)
scheme for spectrally efficient downlink transmission. The proposed scheme not
only reaps the benefits associated with NOMA and caching, but also exploits the
data cached at the users for interference cancellation. As a consequence,
caching can help to reduce the residual interference power, making multiple
decoding orders at the users feasible. The resulting flexibility in decoding
can be exploited for improved NOMA detection. We characterize the achievable
rate region of cache-aided NOMA and derive the Pareto optimal rate tuples
forming the boundary of the rate region. Moreover, we optimize cache-aided NOMA
for minimization of the time required for completing file delivery. The optimal
decoding order and the optimal transmit power and rate allocation are derived
as functions of the cache status, the file sizes, and the channel conditions.
Simulation results confirm that, compared to several baseline schemes, the
proposed cache-aided NOMA scheme significantly expands the achievable rate
region and increases the sum rate for downlink transmission, which translates
into substantially reduced file delivery times.Comment: Accepted for publication in IEEE J. Sel. Topics Signal Process. arXiv
admin note: text overlap with arXiv:1712.0955
The development of a more risk-sensitive and flexible airport safety area strategy: Part II. Accident location analysis and airport risk assessment case studies
This two-part paper presents the development of an improved airport risk assessment
methodology aimed at assessing risks related to aircraft accidents at and in the
vicinity of airports and managing Airport Safety Areas (ASAs) as a risk mitigation
measure. The improved methodology is more quantitative, risk-sensitive, flexible
and transparent than standard risk assessment approaches. As such, it contributes to
the implementation of Safety Management Systems at airports, as stipulated by the
International Civil Aviation Organisation.
The second part of the paper presents the analysis of accident locations, including the
plotting of Complementary Cumulative Probability Distributions for the relevant
accident types. These were then used in conjunction with the improved accident
frequency models to produce Complementary Cumulative Frequency Distributions
that could be used to assess risks related to specific runways and determine Airport
Safety Area (ASA) dimensions necessary to meet a quantitative target level of safety.
The approach not only takes into account risk factors previously ignored by standard
risk assessments but also considers the operational and traffic characteristics of the
runway concerned. The use of the improved risk assessment technique and risk
management strategy using ASAs was also demonstrated in two case studies based on
New York LaGuardia Airport and Boca Raton Airport in Florida
Quantifying and characterising aviation accident risk factors
This paper compares normal flightsâ exposure to a number of meteorological factors with
the equivalent for certain accident flights. The factors examined include visibility, ceiling
height, temperature, crosswind, tailwind and instrument or visual meteorological
conditions. Differences in exposure and to measure accident propensity related to
different levels of risk exposure are quantified based on relative accident involvement
ratios. Four categories of aircraft accidents relevant to the assessment of airport safety are
examined
Tag-Based Annotation for Avatar Face Creation
Currently, digital avatars can be created manually using human images as
reference. Systems such as Bitmoji are excellent producers of detailed avatar
designs, with hundreds of choices for customization. A supervised learning
model could be trained to generate avatars automatically, but the hundreds of
possible options create difficulty in securing non-noisy data to train a model.
As a solution, we train a model to produce avatars from human images using
tag-based annotations. This method provides better annotator agreement, leading
to less noisy data and higher quality model predictions. Our contribution is an
application of tag-based annotation to train a model for avatar face creation.
We design tags for 3 different facial facial features offered by Bitmoji, and
train a model using tag-based annotation to predict the nose.Comment: 9 pages, 5 figures, 18 table
LEO Satellite Constellations for 5G and Beyond: How Will They Reshape Vertical Domains?
The rapid development of communication technologies in the past decades has
provided immense vertical opportunities for individuals and enterprises.
However, conventional terrestrial cellular networks have unfortunately
neglected the huge geographical digital divide, since high bandwidth wireless
coverage is concentrated to urban areas. To meet the goal of ``connecting the
unconnected'', integrating low Earth orbit (LEO) satellites with the
terrestrial cellular networks has been widely considered as a promising
solution. In this article, we first introduce the development roadmap of LEO
satellite constellations (SatCons), including early attempts in LEO satellites
with the emerging LEO constellations. Further, we discuss the unique
opportunities of employing LEO SatCons for the delivery of integrating 5G
networks. Specifically, we present their key performance indicators, which
offer important guidelines for the design of associated enabling techniques,
and then discuss the potential impact of integrating LEO SatCons with typical
5G use cases, where we engrave our vision of various vertical domains reshaped
by LEO SatCons. Technical challenges are finally provided to specify future
research directions.Comment: 4 figures, 1 table, accepted by Communications Magazin
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