Nicholas Hobbs (1915–1983).

Presents an obituary for Nicholas Hobbs. Just at the end of his stellar career of public service through psychology, Nick Hobbs received very appropriate honors showing that psychologists and many others knew what a precious national resource his life had been. Only days before his death from cancer on January 23, 1983, he participated in the dedication of the Nicholas Hobbs Laboratory of Human Development of the Peabody College for Teachers of Vanderbilt University, part of the Kennedy Center for Research on Education and Human Development that he founded and directed at its beginning. Two years earlier, he had received two parallel American Psychological Association (APA) awards--one for Distinguished Contributions to Psychology in the Public Interest and another for Distinguished Professional Contributions "utilizing psychological knowledge in the public interest and social policy." As the citations and testimonials on these occasions variously noted, Nick gave creative, responsible, and effective service to the institutions that he helped administer, to the Southern region from which he sprang, to the APA, and to the profession of psychology, but above all to the nation's children and youth, especially those who grew up with disadvantage and difficulty. (PsycINFO Database Record (c) 2010 APA, all rights reserved)     

A review on queueing network models with finite capacity queues for software architectures performance prediction

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石油企业办社会的“悖理行为”辨疑

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基于ATM的网络互连方式

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巧用心理暗示提升高校图书馆服务质量

心理暗示是用含蓄、间接的方法,在无对抗的条件下,对人的心理和行为产生影响的过程。在高校图书馆的读者服务工作中,馆员们若能遵循目的性、权威性等原则,灵活掌握和运用言语暗示、行为暗示、环境暗示等方法,就能更好地利用心理暗示的积极作用,提升服务质量。     

美国食品安全管理法规与举措

以美国国会研究服务部对第107届国会就食品安全方面的一份报告为基础,主要对美国的公共健康问题现状、美国食品安全的联邦规范框架组成、美国食品安全控制最新进展和国会对食品安全提出的新议题做了综述,对我国的食品安全控制和管理体系的建设发挥一点借鉴作用。     

《无线电频率划分规定》学习心得

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论社区服务产业化

社区经济作为一种优化的资源配置方式，利用社区服务为载体，将社区内互不相联的各种经济成份变为利益共同体，建立一种新的经济生产方式，从而带动社区乃至更广区域的经济发展。     

An accurate and practical buffer allocation model for the buffer cache based on marginal gains

A new dynamic buffer allocation strategy based on the notion of marginal gains is presented for the buffer cache that is used by the operating system to store frequently accessed disk blocks in main memory, and the performance of the proposed strategy is compared with those of previous allocation strategies. In the proposed strategy, marginal gain values are predicted by exploiting functions that approximate the expected number of buffer hits per unit time. Experimental results from both trace-driven simulation and an actual implementation in the FreeBSD operating system show that the proposed strategy accurately predicts the marginal gain values for various workloads resulting in significantly improved buffer hit ratios.     

电厂热力系统耗差分析系统实现的研究与发展

总结了电厂热力系统耗差分析几种实现方式，回顾了国内在该领域的发展过程。电厂热力系统耗差分析实现方式分别经历了独立的耗差分析系统、基于DCS的耗差分析系统、基于MIS的耗差分析系统。并在不同的分析方式上进行了评价，指出了耗差分析系统的发展方向。