Importance of Academic Freedom, Tenure, and Shared Governance in Higher Education
Academic freedom, tenure, and shared governance are crucial in higher education for fostering open inquiry, protecting faculty rights, and ensuring institutional integrity. Organizations like the American Association of University Professors (AAUP) advocate for these principles to uphold faculty aut
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Understanding Memory Allocation in Operating Systems
Memory allocation in operating systems involves fair distribution of physical memory among running processes. The memory management subsystem ensures each process gets its fair share. Shared virtual memory and the efficient use of resources like dynamic libraries contribute to better memory utilizat
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Understanding Culture and Society
Culture and society are interconnected concepts, where culture encompasses beliefs, behaviors, and objects shared within a community, shaping their identity and values. Society, on the other hand, comprises individuals interacting based on common cultural bonds, whether ethnic, gender-based, or thro
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Understanding Cladograms and Phylogenetic Analysis
Cladograms are used in cladistics to illustrate evolutionary relationships between organisms based on shared ancestral and derived characters. They are created by grouping species by common descent, forming clades that include an ancestral species and all its descendants. Valid clades are monophylet
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Understanding Distributed Mutual Exclusion in Operating Systems
In distributed systems, the problem of mutual exclusion arises when multiple sites/processes need to access shared resources concurrently. Unlike in single-computer systems, distributed systems lack shared memory, leading to the need for communication-based approaches rather than shared variables li
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Understanding Shared Memory Architectures and Cache Coherence
Shared memory architectures involve multiple CPUs sharing one memory with a global address space, with challenges like the cache coherence problem. This summary delves into UMA and NUMA architectures, addressing issues like memory latency and bandwidth, as well as the bus-based UMA and NUMA shared m
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Understanding Shared Memory Systems in Computer Architecture
Shared memory systems in computer architecture allow all processors to have direct access to common physical memory, enabling efficient data sharing and communication among processors. These systems consist of a global address space accessible by all processors, facilitating parallel processing but
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Enhancing Organizational Learning through BeSafe Taranaki Shared Learnings
BeSafe Taranaki Shared Learnings aims to facilitate cross-organizational learning by sharing insights from incidents and investigations. The focus is on identifying key lessons, target audiences, necessary process changes, and safety expectations. Two types of learnings are emphasized: Immediate Not
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Understanding Social Systems: Meaning, Elements, Characteristics, and Types
Social systems are orderly arrangements of social interactions based on shared norms and values. Talcott Parsons introduced the concept in modern sociology, defining it as an interrelationship of social actors interacting based on shared cultural norms. Social systems encompass various subsystems li
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Understanding the Main Characteristics of Culture
Culture is a complex social phenomenon that involves shared beliefs, values, norms, and traditions learned and transmitted among members of a society. It is a dynamic and accumulative process shaped through social interactions. Key characteristics include being learned, shared, social, transmitted,
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Community Offer for Frailty Management: Building a Shared Understanding
This project focuses on developing a shared understanding of community offers for different scales of frailty, aiming to encourage the adoption of a common language using the Clinical Frailty Scale Rockwood Score framework. Through collaboration with health, social care, and community partners, the
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Creating a Shared Address Book in VSPS
Learn how to create a shared address book in VSPS by setting up a practice managed by the Practice Manager, who can add or remove users to access the address book. Follow step-by-step instructions to invite users and manage access to the shared address book efficiently.
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Understanding Shared Memory Architectures and Cache Coherence
Shared memory architectures involve multiple CPUs accessing a common memory, leading to challenges like the cache coherence problem. This article delves into different types of shared memory architectures, such as UMA and NUMA, and explores the cache coherence issue and protocols. It also highlights
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Shared Living Service Overview for Independent Living with Supports
The Shared Living Service, facilitated by Deanna L. Parker, MPA VA DBHDS, offers individuals aged 18 and above the opportunity to live independently with some support. This service is available under all three waivers and entails a one-to-one living arrangement where a roommate provides agreed-upon
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Collaborative Shared Print Initiatives in Canadian Libraries: PAN Annual 2023
North/Nord initiative began in August 2021 to coordinate shared print efforts across Canadian libraries, focusing on Canadian materials. The program evaluation is set for Summer 2023, emphasizing collaboration for success. COPPUL SPAN expands on prioritizing partnerships, Indigenous publications, an
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Overview of Mutual Exclusion and Memory Models in Distributed Systems
Discussion on fast, randomized mutual exclusion techniques by George Giakkoupis and Philipp Woelfel. Exploring asynchronous shared memory systems with atomic operations. Understanding mutual exclusion principles as outlined by Dijkstra in 1965 and measuring time efficiency in critical sections. Delv
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Understanding Faculty Handbooks and Shared Governance in Higher Education
College and university handbooks play a crucial role in faculty members' employment contracts and academic responsibilities. Faculty handbooks cover a wide range of topics from governance structure to employment rights. Shared governance aims to reduce confusion by involving faculty, administration,
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Understanding Citizenship: A Shared Identity and History
Explore the diverse perspectives on citizenship through respectful devotion to one's country or school. Discover what citizenship means to individuals in just six words and how it ties into shared histories and identities. Delve into the American Dream and the shared privilege it represents, emphasi
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Enhancing Reading Skills Through Whole Class Shared Reading
Shared reading is an instructional approach where the teacher models reading strategies for students, fostering interactive reading experiences that promote fluency, comprehension, and vocabulary development. Benefits include improved access to texts, increased comprehension, and support for struggl
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Understanding Interprocess Communication in Operating Systems
Interprocess communication (IPC) is essential for processes within a system to cooperate and share information. IPC facilitates message passing and shared memory, enabling processes to communicate and synchronize their actions effectively. This article explores the different models of IPC, such as m
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Excel Model for Shared Leave Training Detail
The Excel model for shared leave training detail allows school district employees to share leave both within and outside their district. The model facilitates the calculation of hourly salary rates and benefits for employees interested in participating in the shared leave program. The implementation
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Effective Strategies for Shared Reading in Non-Fiction Settings
Shared reading in non-fiction is an effective approach to reinforce literacy skills while teaching subject-specific content. Teachers choose texts that match students' reading levels, are cross-curricular, and engaging. Discussions, predictions, vocabulary exploration, and historical context are int
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Understanding Cultural Consensus Analysis in Psychological Anthropology
Explore the essence of Cultural Consensus Analysis (CCA) as a significant aspect of psychological anthropology. Through ethnographic work and structured techniques, CCA helps verify shared knowledge within cultural domains and enhance the comprehension of cultural models. The model and steps involve
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Ligra: A Lightweight Graph Processing Framework for Shared Memory
Ligra is a lightweight graph processing framework developed by Julian Shun during his time at the Miller Institute, UC Berkeley. This framework, created in collaboration with Laxman Dhulipala and Guy Blelloch, is designed for shared memory systems to efficiently analyze large graphs. Key features in
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Introduction to Boston University's Shared Computing Cluster
Boston University's Shared Computing Cluster (SCC) provides researchers with access to a high-performance computing environment for running code, collaborating on shared data, and utilizing specialized software packages. With over 800 nodes, 20,000 processors, and hundreds of GPUs, the SCC offers re
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Impact of Shared Automated Vehicles on Transportation System Performance
This study by Dr. Louis A. Merlin and James Fischelson explores the potential impact of shared automated vehicles on transportation systems. By reviewing 39 papers and simulations, the research delves into the implications of new shared automated modes, such as automated taxis, shuttles, and shared
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SCELC Shared Print Feasibility Study Overview
Explore the goals and challenges of the SCELC Shared Print Feasibility Study, focusing on understanding member readiness, collection analysis, sustainability proposals, user behaviors, and cost analysis. The study aims to develop shared print programs to preserve and share print materials among dive
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Transforming Big Ten Libraries through Shared Print Collections and Collective Action
Aspiration for a tremendous vision to unite Big Ten university collections into one shared and fully networked "BIG Collection." This initiative aims to increase findability, usability, and value at scale while deepening interdependence and resilience for an uncertain future. The Knowledge Commons w
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Debate on Shared Sanitation: Improved or Not?
The discussion revolves around the classification of shared sanitation as improved or unimproved. WHO and UNICEF have a classification system where shared sanitation is considered unimproved due to concerns about cleanliness and accessibility. A proposed policy change by JMP seeks to include shared
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Interactive Workshop for Diverse Input and Shared Understanding
This interactive workshop aims to create a safe space for expression to explore various issues, fostering diverse input and building shared understanding. Participants engage in self-reflection, idea generation, paired discussions, and table group sharing to develop key ideas. The session focuses on
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Alliance Shared Print Program Overview
Colorado Alliance of Research Libraries established the Alliance Shared Print program focusing on distributed print repositories. The program allows libraries to voluntarily participate, maintain their holdings, and retain materials on behalf of the group. Key features include flexibility, no centra
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Leveraging MPI's One-Sided Communication Interface for Shared Memory Programming
This content discusses the utilization of MPI's one-sided communication interface for shared memory programming, addressing the benefits of using multi- and manycore systems, challenges in programming shared memory efficiently, the differences between MPI and OS tools, MPI-3.0 one-sided memory model
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Understanding Shared Memory, Distributed Memory, and Hybrid Distributed-Shared Memory
Shared memory systems allow multiple processors to access the same memory resources, with changes made by one processor visible to all others. This concept is categorized into Uniform Memory Access (UMA) and Non-Uniform Memory Access (NUMA) architectures. UMA provides equal access times to memory, w
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Shared-Memory Computing with Open MP
Shared-memory computing with Open MP offers a parallel programming model that is portable and scalable across shared-memory architectures. It allows for incremental parallelization, compiler-based thread program generation, and synchronization. Open MP pragmas help in parallelizing individual comput
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Metadata Guidelines for Disclosing Shared Print Commitments
Shared Print Metadata Guidelines aim to establish new Shared Print Institution Symbols and add them to bibliographic records for resource sharing. These guidelines involve creating MARC Local Holdings Records (LHRs) to document archiving commitments for journals. The Shared Print initiative supports
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Shared Print Monograph Summit: Progress and Future Directions
The Shared Print Monograph Summit held in June 2018 focused on collaboration and coordination among North American shared print programs. Key priorities included open data on retention commitments, research on risks, establishing community standards, and more. Working groups were formed to address o
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Understanding Computer Architecture: Shared Memory Systems
Shared memory multiprocessors in computer architecture involve multiple threads using shared memory for communication, with synchronization complexities and implicit communication challenges. Despite these drawbacks, Shared Memory Systems have proven to be successful machines due to their evolutiona
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Synchronization and Shared Memory in GPU Computing
Synchronization and shared memory play vital roles in optimizing parallelism in GPU computing. __syncthreads() enables thread synchronization within blocks, while atomic instructions ensure serialized access to shared resources. Examples like Parallel BFS and summing numbers highlight the need for s
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Understanding Health Inequalities and Communities of Shared Interest in Leeds
In Leeds, a focus is placed on addressing health inequalities by working with individuals who are at higher risk due to various factors impacting their lives. These factors include medical conditions, socioeconomic status, living conditions, and more, which can greatly influence overall health outco
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Collaboration for Shared Print Collections: Vision, Mission, and Principles
This collaboration between HathiTrust, CDL, and CRL aims to enhance access to shared print collections, promote equity in scholarly resources, and leverage networks for collaborative infrastructure. The vision includes embedding shared print in library collections, enriching the scholarly record, an
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