20,659 research outputs found
The FDICIA and bank CEOs' pay-performance relationship: an empirical investigation
A look at how the FDICIA changes the relationship between pay and performance for bank CEOs. It finds that the legislation improves healthy banks’ growth opportunities, making their CEOs’ total compensation less sensitive to performance. For unhealthy banks, total compensation becomes more performance-sensitive.Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation Improvement Act of 1991 ; Executives - Salaries
Credit rationing, bankruptcy cost, and the optimal debt contract for small business
An examination of whether the costly random verification scheme affects the optimal debt contract for small business. It finds, contrary to Townsend (1979) and Williamson (1986, 1987), that the standard debt contract is the optimal debt contract with the costly random verification scheme.Discrimination in consumer credit ; Bankruptcy ; Debt ; Small business
Weighted citation: An indicator of an article's prestige
We propose using the technique of weighted citation to measure an article's
prestige. The technique allocates a different weight to each reference by
taking into account the impact of citing journals and citation time intervals.
Weighted citation captures prestige, whereas citation counts capture
popularity. We compare the value variances for popularity and prestige for
articles published in the Journal of the American Society for Information
Science and Technology from 1998 to 2007, and find that the majority have
comparable status.Comment: 17 pages, 6 figure
Trust and investment corporations in China
A description of the formation and expansion of Chinese trust and investment corporations, including an account of their current problems and recommendations for solving them.China
Detection of Fog Network Data Telemetry Using Data Plane Programming
Fog computing has been introduced to deliver Cloud-based services to the Internet of Things (IoT) devices. It locates geographically closer to IoT devices than Cloud networks and aims at offering latency-critical computation and storage to end-user applications. To leverage Fog computing for computational offloading from end-users, it is important to optimize resources in the Fog nodes dynamically. Provisioning requires knowledge of the current network state, thus, monitoring mechanisms play a significant role to conduct resource management in the network. To keep track of the state of devices, we use P4, a data-plane programming language, to describe data-plane abstraction of Fog network devices and collect telemetry without the intervention of the control plane or adding a big amount of overhead. In this paper, we propose a software-defined architecture with a programmable data plane for data telemetry detection that can be integrated into Fog network resource management. After the implementation of detecting data telemetry based on In-Band Network Telemetry (INT) within a Mininet simulation, we show the available features and preliminary Fog resource management based on the collected data telemetry and future telemetry-based traffic engineering possibilities
Image Type Water Meter Character Recognition Based on Embedded DSP
In the paper, we combined DSP processor with image processing algorithm and
studied the method of water meter character recognition. We collected water
meter image through camera at a fixed angle, and the projection method is used
to recognize those digital images. The experiment results show that the method
can recognize the meter characters accurately and artificial meter reading is
replaced by automatic digital recognition, which improves working efficiency
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