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ACLU Article on the Etsitty V. UTA Case [2007]
No full textText document article from the ACLU of Utah web page on the Etsitty V. UTA Case in which a transgendered woman was terminated from her Job working at the Utah Transit Authority because they "Didn\u27t know which bathroom she should use
alexandru-uta/cloud_network_variability_data: Cloud Network Variability Data
No full text# Dataset on Cloud Network Variability
This is the dataset obtained while benchmarking public and private clouds for the following article:
### Alexandru Uta, Alexandru Custura, Dmitry Duplyakin, Ivo Jimenez, Jan Rellermeyer, Carlos Maltzahn, Robert Ricci, Alexandru Iosup. Is Big Data Performance Reproducible in Modern Cloud Networks?. In proceedings of 17th USENIX Symposium on Networked Systems Design and Implementation (NSDI), 2020, February 25-27, Santa Clara, USA.
The dataset contains bandwidth variability data for:
- Amazon EC2
- Google Compute Engine
- Microsoft Azure (limited data)
- Scaleway (limited data)
- SURFsara HPCCloud
The dataset contains TCP latency (RTT) data for:
- Amazon EC2
- Google Compute Engine
The dataset contains data regarding token bucket sizes (explained in depth in the aforementioned article) for Amazon EC2.
Please note that the full archive is over 3.5 GB of data, made up of hundreds of thousands of small files. This is why we decided to archive the data, which we then split into smaller files, to accommodate for the Github max file size of 100 MB.
===== DETAILS ON THE ARCHIVE FORMAT =====
1. The Bandwidth Variability data:
- archived in the bandwidth_variability_data.tar.bz2.parta, .partb, .partc
- after unpacking the archive, the data is split in directories per machine type, and experiment type, for example:
--- perfvar-aws-m5xlarge-fullspeed: contains iperf3 output files for continuous communication between 2 m5.xlarge VMs in Amazon EC2.
--- perfvar-google-4cpu-bursty-5s30s: contains iperf3 output files for bursty communication (5 seconds communication, 30 seconds break; repeat)
2. The Latency Variability data:
- archived in the file latency_study.tar.bz2
- after unpacking the archive, the directories contain TCP dump RTT data and iperf3 outputs
3. The Token Bucket AWS study:
- archived in the file token_bucket_study.tar.bz2
- contains files of form INSTANCE_TYPE-REGION-TIMESTAMP.{bw, raw, tb}
- files with extension .raw contain raw iperf3 client output
- files with extension .bw contain bandwidth samples taken at 1 second intervals from the iperf3 utility
- files with extension .tb contain a triple of form
- example of a file name: c5.2xlarge-us-west-1-1567733720.ra
Oral history interview with Uta C. Merzbach
No full textCopyright to this oral history is held by George D. Green and Uta C. Merzbach. Transcript not available electronically. Please contact CBI.Merzbach provides a brief overview of the history of electronic computing. She begins with the early projects in the 1940s that grew out of the need for advanced military technology, such as the ENIAC, the EDVAC, the Institute for Advanced Study computer, and the Whirlwind computer. She touches on the transition from military to commercial computers, with the UNIVAC of Eckert and Mauchly and International Business Machine's 650 and 700 series. She discusses early memory systems (mercury delay line, Williams electrostatic storage tube, Selectron tube, and magnetic drum) and how they were all superseded by the magnetic core in the 1950s.
Merzbach also cites the development of FORTRAN, the first high-level programming language.Merzbach, Uta C., 1933-. (1980). Oral history interview with Uta C. Merzbach. Retrieved from the University Digital Conservancy, https://hdl.handle.net/11299/107492
UTA shuttle to Alta/Snowbird
No full textPhoto shows a UTA (Utah Transit Authority) bus being used as a shuttle to reach the ski resorts in Little Cottonwood Canyon, Salt Lake County, Uta
Islamophobia, ‘gross offensiveness’ and the internet
No full textThis article argues that restrictions on expression based on ‘gross offensiveness’ or similar public morality notions embedded in speech offences are not and cannot be politically neutral and be evenly applied to political speech, no matter who is the author. Such concepts draw on a majoritarian perspective purporting to be reflective of unified base values of the ‘national community’. The article explores why such concepts of unacceptable speech are a poor fit for a deeply heterogeneous community, and all the more so on the internet, where those who engage in public discourse are even more numerous and more diverse in ethnic, cultural, political and social terms. Set against such a diverse speech landscape the prohibition of ‘gross offensiveness’, or what are considered the outer boundaries of acceptability, is repressive of minorities and of challenges to conventional opinions and existing power dynamics, and is liable to reinforce the very bigotry it seeks to relieve
Letter to Misao Okada from Mr. and Mrs. Kinuhachi and Uta Okada, July 11, 1947
No full textCorrespondence from Misao Okada's scrapbook. Japanese to English Translation:
Although it was always our intention to live harmoniously with our landlord and neighbors, it seems that there is no other way to move out as we have been requested to do so. Our landlord misinterpreted certain things that I did with the chrysanthemum flower beds as malicious. She complains that she is no longer able to live as easily and happily as she wishes while we continue to stay with her.
Her malicious intention to force us out is so obvious. We believe she planned our eviction with one of her friends. She threatened my son that she will ruin his family unless we move out. Although it is our intention to live harmoniously, we can’t help but accept this eviction to avoid the possible break-up of our son’s family. Due to the current shortage of houses, we need at least 6 months before the move-out date, hopefully we can negotiate that much time in order to find a new place to move into. We accepted moving out immediately after her request at the night of July 11th, 1947.
From Kinuhachi and Uta OkadaMisao Okada’s scrapbook contains photographs, ephemera, notes, and correspondence documenting her time at Amache and a visit and reunion over 50 years later. The scrapbook also includes materials relating to reparations and events observing Japanese American incarceration
Amici Curiae Brief in the Etsitty V. UTA Case [2007]
No full textText document Amici Curiae brief appealing the lower court\u27s decision in favor of the Utah Transit Authorities Firing of Krystal Etsitty on the basis of being transgendere
A multicriteria analysis of stated preferences among freight transport alternatives
Full text linkStated preferences data can be of different types: choice data, rankings or ratings. In all cases, these data can be used in different ways as inputs of econometric discrete choice models. This allows to estimate the weights of the different attributes characterizing an alternative. For freight transport, an alternative's attributes would be, for example, reliability, safety, frequency, etc., besides time and cost. Depending on the data sample, number of alternatives and number of attributes, it is possible to proceed to an analysis of individual data or of aggregated data. In case one is interested to analyze individual behaviors in depth, the option exists to rely on some kind of multicriteria analysis for deriving individual utility functions (actually, decision functions) rather than on a classic discrete choice model. Such a procedure also can be useful for deriving individual utilities as input in a hybrid model combining individual utilities with group data. Such a multicriteria approach is envisaged in the context of a stated preference experiment that is currently applied to freight shippers in Belgium. The data in this case are rankings of alternatives, and there is multicritera method that is particularly well adapted for such data: the UTA models developed by Jacquet-Lagrèze and Siskos. It is based on the specification of an additive utility made of non-linear partial utility functions that are piecewise linear. This allows the convenient set-up of a linear goal programming problem which estimates all the functions and their weights. The paper intends to present the ranking experiment, and to use some of the preliminary interviews to illustrate this UTA methodology. Also, it will be shown how it can be used to derive equivalent money values for each attributes on the basis of the cost attribute, and how to distinguish valuations in terms of willingness to pay and willingness to accept a compensation.
UTA methods
No full textSummarization: UTA methods refer to the philosophy of assessing a set of value or utility functions, assuming the axiomatic basis of MAUT and adopting the preference disaggregation principle. UTA methodology uses linear programming techniques in order to optimally infer additive value/utility functions, so that these functions are as consistent as possible with the global decision-maker’s preferences (inference principle). The main objective of this chapter is to analytically present the UTA method and its variants and to summarize the progress made in this field. The historical background and the philosophy of the aggregation-disaggregation approach are firstly given. The detailed presentation of the basic UTA algorithm is presented, including discussion on the stability and sensitivity analyses. Several variants of the UTA method, which incorporate different forms of optimality criteria, are also discussed. The implementation of the UTA methods is illustrated by a general overview of UTA-based DSSs, as well as real-world decision-making applications. Finally, several potential future research developments are discussed.Appearing in: Multiple Criteria Decision Analysi
TAI (UTA), Noumea
No full textTai = Transports Aeriens Intercontinentaux, UTA = Union de Transports Aeriens
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