An Acculturation Program for Foreign-Born Workers at Multinational Companies Transferred to Offices in the United States

The purpose of this study is to create an acculturation program that multinational companies can use to ease the transition of foreign-born employees who are transferred to the United States. There are a number of challenges for these employees, from navigating the logistics of finding a place to live, setting up a bank account and filling out taxes to the social emotional issues of trying to adapt to another culture, build community and be successful in a new work environment. Through interviews with foreign-born employees, Human Resources professionals, and intercultural trainers, qualitative and quantitative data was collected to understand current gaps and best practices in acculturation programs at multinational companies. The findings show that some companies have no formal acculturation programs and while others have well-developed processes, they only address practical aspects of living in the United States, and ignore social emotional needs. Using the data collected, the study contains a proposed acculturation program framework which multinational companies can adapt to their organizational culture in helping to implement clearly defined processes and procedures to ease the foreign-born employee’s transition to the United States

Why elasticity matters

In this paper we proposed a new research agenda focused on elasticity. We argued that elasticity is an important area of research and hypothesized that research in this area will lead to more efficient systems with less hoarding, new applications that exploit massive cloud resources elastically, and system software and libraries that will simplify the task of developing elastic applications. We discussed some of our thoughts on a top-to-bottom cloud-scale system focused on elasticity. We argued that such a system will require: 1) a HW/IaaS layer that can quickly reallocated resources to different applications, 2) an event driven model where resource demand flows from the high level layers as transparently as possible to the lowest level of the system, and 3) a model of modularity that allows layers to be overridden as necessary and provides applications with a component model that enables the base elasticity to be exploited by new and advanced applications.Department of Energy Office of Science (DE-SC0005365), National Science Foundation (1012798

Why elasticity matters

In this paper we proposed a new research agenda focused on elasticity. We argued that elasticity is an important area of research and hypothesized that research in this area will lead to more efficient systems with less hoarding, new applications that exploit massive cloud resources elastically, and system software and libraries that will simplify the task of developing elastic applications. We discussed some of our thoughts on a top-to-bottom cloud-scale system focused on elasticity. We argued that such a system will require: 1) a HW/IaaS layer that can quickly reallocated resources to different applications, 2) an event driven model where resource demand flows from the high level layers as transparently as possible to the lowest level of the system, and 3) a model of modularity that allows layers to be overridden as necessary and provides applications with a component model that enables the base elasticity to be exploited by new and advanced applications.Department of Energy Office of Science (DE-SC0005365), National Science Foundation (1012798

Polynomial diffeomorphisms of C^2, IV: The measure of maximal entropy and laminar currents

This paper concerns the dynamics of polynomial automorphisms of ${\bf C}^2$. One can associate to such an automorphism two currents $\mu^\pm$ and the equilibrium measure $\mu=\mu^+\wedge\mu^-$. In this paper we study some geometric and dynamical properties of these objects. First, we characterize $\mu$ as the unique measure of maximal entropy. Then we show that the measure $\mu$ has a local product structure and that the currents $\mu^\pm$ have a laminar structure. This allows us to deduce information about periodic points and heteroclinic intersections. For example, we prove that the support of $\mu$ coincides with the closure of the set of saddle points. The methods used combine the pluripotential theory with the theory of non-uniformly hyperbolic dynamical systems