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Re-thinking termination guarantee of eBPF
… critical. We also find that eBPF's termination guarantee is insufficient to protect systems from BPF programs running extraordinarily long due to compute-heavy operations and runtime factors such as contention. Operators lack a crucial mechanism to identify and avoid installing long-running BPF …
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The Hollow Promise: 'Guarantee of Title' in Registered Land
The ‘guarantee of title’ obtained upon the registration of an estate in land is an oft-cited yet elusive concept. The term has become ubiquitous, yet with no unanimity as to its meaning. It is often recognised as a fundamental principle of the land registration system, yet the actual meaning of the …
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Money, Work, and Mass Extinction: Transformational Degrowth and the Job Guarantee
… capitalist institutions and proposes how a job guarantee (JG) can be adapted to resolve them in the context of degrowth. The first essay focuses on the relationship between economic growth and ecological destruction. In a monetary production economy, there is a trade-off between employment and …
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Replica Control Protocols That Guarantee High Availability and Low Access Cost
Making data instantly available is very important for nowadays industrial applications. The goal of this research is to provide database management schemes for distributed systems so that data can be efficiently accessed even if there are a lot of failures and busy sites in the distributed system.
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Three Essays on China's Political Economy, Environmental Policy, and Green Job Guarantee
… policies, and proposing a Chinese Green Job Guarantee. Delineating China’s political economy post-1949, I challenge the Eurocentric interpretation of China’s post-1978 economic reform as an incomplete and ongoing transition and argue that the Chinese economy, instead of transitioning, has …
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Reframing citizenship by decentralizing development under India's National Rural Employment Guarantee Act
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Exploring the Impacts of Service Guarantee Strategy in the Casual Restaurant Sector
This study examined the impacts of service guarantees in terms of consumers' perceived risks, loyalty, and word-of-mouth intent in the casual dining restaurant segment. In addition, the study investigated what type of service guarantee consumers preferred. A total of seven research hypotheses were …
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Does the Saudi Competition Law Guarantee Protection to Fair Competition? A Critical Assessment.
… investigates whether the Saudi Competition Law guarantees protection for fair competition. . It looks into the defects in the Saudi Competition Law and its enforcement. The research also explores reforms needed to improve the Saudi Competition Law and how such reforms can be achieved. The study …
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Money-Back Guarantee, Service Quality, and Productivity: The Marketing of In-Vitro Fertilization
Marketing practices like Money-Back Guarantees (MBGs) and warranties are quite controversial in the health care market. Despite their professed intention to improve consumer welfare, MBGs are often decried for taking advantage of consumers who might not have the correct information. This concern is …
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What Effect Does the Hampton Inn 100% Unconditional Satisfaction Guarantee have on Customer Loyalty?
… by offering a 100% unconditional satisfaction guarantee. The purpose of this study was to investigate the extent to which a specific value-enhancing feature—the 100% unconditional guarantee—is likely to influence customer loyalty. In this study, loyalty was defined in two ways: (a) the …
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Sweetness is Not a Guarantee: Disrupting Picture Book Depictions of Black Children as Comestible
… moral expectations. Goodness, however, is not a guarantee that they won’t come to mortal harm and or enjoy stable existences; hence, I posit that liberation from this system will not come through succumbing to it. Instead, it must come through finding alternative spaces in the margins away from …
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Essays on the Externalities of the Mahatma Gandhi National Rural Employment Guarantee Act of India
… of the Mahatma Gandhi National Rural Employment Guarantee Act (MGNREGA) of India. The MGNREGA is an employment guarantee scheme implemented in rural India since 2006 and is the world’s largest public works project. In the first study, I look at the effects of the MGNREGA on crime in India. I use …
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British Foreign Policy from the Munich Conference to the Polish Guarantee: A Study in Imponderables
Before the year succeeding the First World War, and reaching back to the time of Pitt, the great classic enunciator of British foreign policy, historians had enjoyed the phenomenon of a mighty power whose continental foreign policy held no deep mysteries. It was a clear, pragmatic Realpolitik. …
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Pricing and dynamic hedging strategies for a bond-linked life insurance policy with a guarantee
… great popularity for its fluctuating but minimum guaranteed death benefit under the high level of inflation in the late 1970's. It also offers policyowner a choice of vehicles in which the cash value can be invested. The risk from the death value guarantee is systematic and thus may jeopardize the …
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Employment generation programs and long term development- the case of India's National Rural Employment Guarantee Act
… the case of India's National Rural Employment Guarantee Act has been taken as a case study. The study argues that employment generation programs by the government is not only important to create jobs, but is also necessary for long term development of the country. The study concludes the impact …
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United States Governmental Investment Guarantee Program for Private Foreign Direct Investments, Development and Application, 1946-1954
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Social protection in South Africa: a quest for an appropriate dispensation through a Minimum Employment Guarantee Scheme
… in the implementation of a Minimum Employment Guarantee Scheme. It has further analysed the South African social protection system, and highlighted the gaps that currently exist in terms of providing social security, to the multitudes of the unemployed and poor. This is in spite of the …
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