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Organisational slack, corporate reputation and financial performance
No full textThis discussion paper aims to fill the gap left by the latest research on organisational slack that has been focused on emerging economies or on a single company or on a single industry. Senior executives’ perceptions that contribute to a measure of corporate reputation are tested as a proxy measure of unabsorbed slack. Disaggregating the components that make up reputation enables the perceptions of a company’s ‘ability to innovate’ and how efficiently they ‘use their corporate assets’ to also be tested as measures of unabsorbed, perceptual or discretionary slack. The impact of these variables is considered in terms of company performance
Towards minimizing the energy of slack variables for binary classification
No full text20.09.13 KB. Ok to add to spiral, author says conference already available online.This paper presents a binary classification algorithm that is based on the minimization of the energy of slack variables, called the Mean Squared Slack (MSS). A novel kernel extension is proposed which includes the withholding of just a subset of input patterns that are misclassified during training. The later leads to a time and memory efficient system that converges in a few iterations. Two datasets are exploited for performance evaluation, namely the adult and the vertebral column dataset. Experimental results demonstrate the effectiveness of the proposed algorithm with respect to computation time and scalability. Accuracy is also high. In specific, it equals 84.951% for the adult dataset and 91.935%, for the vertebral column dataset, outperforming state-of-the-art methods. © 2012 EURASIP
Global Slack and Domestic Inflation Rates: A Structural Investigation for G-7 Countries
No full textRecent papers have argued that one implication of globalization is that domestic inflation rates may have now become more a function of ``global", rather than domestic, economic conditions, as postulated by closed-economy Phillips curves. This paper aims to assess the empirical importance of global output in determining domestic inflation rates by estimating a structural model for a sample of G-7 economies. The model can capture the potential effects of global output fluctuations on both the aggregate supply and the aggregate demand relations in the economy and it is estimated using full-information Bayesian methods. The empirical results reveal a significant effect of global output on aggregate demand in most countries. Through this channel, global economic conditions can indirectly affect inflation. The results, instead, do not seem to provide evidence in favor of altering domestic Phillips curves to include global slack as an additional driving variable for inflation.Globalization; Global Slack; Inflation Dynamics; Phillips Curve; Bayesian Estimation
slack a: slack ice
No full textslack aThere is a large field of slack ice in sight [off Fogo]PRINTED ITEM DNE SupG. M. Story MAR 7 1988 WK[Antedates other cites collected for DNE Sup, to be considered for new entry]Used I and SupUsed SupUsed Supslack v, slack off
slack a / slack (ice
No full textslack a[We steered away north] threu slack ice all the time until..we ran her into another block of ice which split the vessel in two.PRINTED ITEM DNE SupG. M. Story OCT. 7 1987WK [_slack_ a maybe common term]Used I and SupUsed SupUsed Supslack v, slack off
slack a
No full textslack aGull Steadies has these long stretches of low mud banks with slack water, the perfect place for muskrats.PRINTED ITEM DNE SupG. M. Story NOV. 9 1987WK [Add to DNE slack a 3, to 1979 (saltwater) cite]Used I and SupUsed SupUsed Supslack v, slack off
A dynamic slack management technique for real-time distributed embedded systems
No full textThis work presents a novel slack management technique, the Service Rate Based Slack Distribution Technique, for dynamic real-time distributed embedded systems targeting the reduction and management of energy consumption. Energy minimization is critical for devices such as laptop computers, PCS telephones, PDAs and other mobile and embedded computing systems simply because it leads to extended battery lifetime. Such systems being power hungry rely greatly upon the system design and algorithms for processing, slack and power management. This work presents an effcient dynamic slack management scheme for an energy aware design of such systems. The proposed Service Rate Based Slack Distribution Technique has been considered with two static(FCFS, WRR) and two dynamic(EDF, RBS) scheduling schemes used most commonly in distributed systems. A fault tolerance mechanism has also been incorporated into the proposed technique inorder to use the available dynamic slack to maintain checkpoints and provide for rollbacks on faults. Results show that in comparion to contemporary techniques, the proposed Service Rate Based Slack Distribution Technique provides for about 29% more perfor-mance/overhead savings when validated with real world and random benchmarks
slack a
No full textslack aBut when we got there the ice hove us back, / Went up to Jigger Tickles the ice it was slack.PRINTED ITEM DNE SupG. M. Story NOV. 19 1987WK [Consider for DNE Sup at slack a , new sense]Used I and SupUsed SupUsed Supslack v, slack off
Wetwang Slack : an Iron Age cemetery on the Yorkshire Wolds.
No full textThis work is an examination of a large Iron Age cemetery which was
excavated by the writer at Wetwang Slack on the Yorkshire Wolds between
1975 and 1979.
The chief features which make this site exceptional are the large number
of inhumation burials involved (446), the unusually good stratigraphical
evidence for the relative chronology of the cemetery, and the extensive
remains of the contemporary settlement which the cemetery served.
In an introduction British Iron Age studies and the extent of
archaeological research in the region are summarised to indicate the
extent of knowledge at the time when excavations were underway.
Part 1 describes the circumstances of excavation and the location of the
site, isolates the ditched enclosures and graves which were the principle
constituents of the cemetery, and details the types of burial which were
encountered.
In Part 2 the evidence for a relative chronology of the cemetery is
considered at length and from the stratification, the artifacts, and some
changing characteristics recognisable among the burials and enclosures
different chronological horizons can be recognised. Unlike artifacts
found on settlement sites those found in graves can reasonably be assumed
to have been in use up until the time of their burial. For this reason
the cemetery provides a much needed guide to the relative date of
artifacts, many of which are types with a widespread distribution.
The skeletal evidence is examined in Part 3 for evidence of physical
type, disease etc. and the data is searched for signs of social
organisation.
The settlement evidence in the form of buildings, land boundaries and
trackways is described in Part 4 and the inter-relationship of burials
and settlement is examined. Finally, the cultural affinities of the whole complex with the East
Yorkshire "Arras Culture" and other traditions of Iron Age Britain are
sought and an interpretation is given which identifies population growth
as a principle underlying cause of changes which took place in society,
settlement patterns and economy in the region during the Iron Age
slack a
No full textslack a'If you ever comes in talk wid'n, ax un who was the bes' man, the day de two uv us killed the water bear on d'ice. But was de good o' dat when I'm slack yer (pointin' to me bald head). But if I had the learnin', I'de cum out fur a member...' T Hanrahan, S.C.S. 'A Modern Ursus.'PRINTED ITEM DNE supNOV 30 1987 WKG. M. StoryUsed I and SupNot usedNot usedslack v, slack off
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