SLIM: A Language for Microcode Description and Simulation in VLSI

SLIM (Stanford Language for Implementing Microcode) is a programming language based system for specifying and simulating microcode in a VLSI chip. The language is oriented towards PLA implementations of microcoded machines using either a microprogram counter or a finite state machine. The system supports simulation of the microcode and will drive a PLA layout program to automatically create the PLA

Kilroy at the Zero Hour, Story Time

Recent work of John Hennessy has appeared or is forthcoming in The New Republic, The Yale Review, Harvard Review, and Best New Poets, 2005. He resides in Amherst, Massachusetts

The Humphreys Nobody Knows: One Common Soldier\u27s Satire Of The Union Officer Corps

With Red-Tape and Pigeon-Hole Generals, Fred Arner has established himself as a champion of the Army of the Potomac\u27s downtrodden and an assailant of its legendary elite. In a previous work, Mutiny at Brandy Station, Arner dissected the causes and personalities associated with an upris...

Ballots del Barrio: An Investigation of Latino Participation

This research examines the disjuncture between Hispanic strength in population and Hispanic participation in politics. This paper examines the nature of this disjuncture: its severity, its causes, and its consequences. Hispanics currently comprise 11.2% of the U.S. population, but the Hispanic vote in the 1998 elections comprised only 4.7% of all ballots cast

Genetic Information in Agricultural Productivity and Product Development

A prominent facet of recent changes in agriculture has been the advent of precision breeding techniques. Another has been an increase in the level of information inputs and outputs associated with agricultural production. This paper identifies ways in which these features may complement in expanding the variety of processed products, the level of productivity, and the rate of change in productivity. Using a martingale concept of ﾓmore information,ﾔ we identify conditions under which more information increases the incentives to invest and engage in product differentiation. A theory on how genetic uniformity can enhance the rate of learning through process experimentation, and so the rate of technical change, is also developed.experimentation, genetics, information, martingale, sorting, uniformity, value added.

The HERMES model of the Irish Energy Sector. ESRI WP396. July 2011

In Ireland, the energy sector has undergone significant change in the last forty years. In this period, there has been a significant increase in the demand for energy. This increase has been driven by economic and demographic factors. Although the current deep recession has quelled the upward trend in the demand for energy, a future economic recovery will bring these issues back into focus. This paper documents a model of the Irish energy sector which relates energy demand to real economic variables. As part of the HERMES macro-economic model this model of the energy sector has, for a number of years, been used to forecast energy demand. However, the energy model itself can be considered in isolation from the MERMES macro-economic model and this paper gives details of its specification

CONSUMERS' VALUATION OF INSECTICIDE USE RESTRICTIONS: AN APPLICATION TO APPLES

Economic assessments of pesticide regulations typically focus on producer impacts and generally ignore possible changes in product demand. These changes may be nonnegligible if real and/or perceived product attributes change. We measure consumersÂ’' willingness to pay (WTP) for the elimination of one insecticide and also a whole group of insecticides in apple production using a multiple-round Vickrey auction. The data are analyzed using nonparametric statistical tests and a double-hurdle model. Our findings show that consumer perceptions of product attributes change if pesticides are removed from production, and this is reflected in WTP changes. WTP is shown to be income elastic.Consumer/Household Economics, Crop Production/Industries,