in order to identify the “direction of the wind. ” Instead, we propose to use as a building block the more robust Lax-Friedrichs (LxF) solver. The main advantage is simplicity: no Riemann problems are solved and hence field-by-field decompositions are avoided. The main disadvantage is the excessive

Today’s extensible operating systems allow applications to modify kernel behavior by providing mechanisms for application code to run in the kernel address space. The advantage of this approach is that it provides improved application flexibility and performance; the disadvantage is that buggy

independenceassumption and maintain statistics (typically histograms) on individual attributes only. In reality, this assumption is almost always wrong and the resulting estimations tend to be highly inaccurate. In this paper, we propose two main alternatives to effectively approximate (multi-dimensional) joint data

time to track their evolving interests. Fab is such a recommendation system for the Web, and has been operational in several versions since December 1994. The problem of recommending items from some fixed database has been studied extensively, and two main paradigms have emerged. In content

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and the assistance of disadvantaged groups should not be ignored in spite of the positive dynamics of the main economic indicators. 1.1 Features of labour market disequilibria In comparison with the European Union as a whole, Romania presents important differences concerning the main employment indicators

Abstract In this paper the project Eswimming realized in the framework of EU LifeLong Learning Programme and its results are described. The main aims of the project were to increase the use of swimming as therapy for disadvantaged people in the to increase the number of educated trainer

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