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Grafu: Unleashing the Full Potential of Future Value Computation for Out-of-core Synchronous Graph Processing

International Conference on Architectural Support for Programming Languages and Operating Systems
As graphs exponentially grow recently, out-of-core graph systems have been invented to process large-scale graphs by keeping massive data in storage. Among them, many systems process the graphs iteration-by-iteration and provide synchronous semantics ...
Tsun-Yu Yang   +4 more
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Valuing future benefits

Health Economics, 1994
AbstractThis paper reports the results of a study of time preference amongst the general public in the Grampian region of Scotland. The subjects, who were selected randomly from the electoral roll, were offered a series of inter‐temporal choices. Their responses were used to calculate private financial time preference rates, social non‐monetary time ...
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On Expected Value Vs. Expected Future Value

The Journal of Finance, 1975
be more investment promoting than the second. The implications of the analysis for the problem of portfolio selection are also discussed. The formal discussion presented below concentrates on a risk-neutral investor who is thus interested only in expected values (present or future) of wealth. Our approach can obviously serve as a starting point for the
Pazner, Elisha A, Razin, Assaf
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„Impatient Women“ or The Future of шhe Values / Values of the Future

Chuzhdoezikovo Obuchenie-Foreign Language Teaching
The article focuses on the book by Cameroonian writer Djaili Amadou Amal, Impatient Women, in which the author addresses the painful issue of women’s rights in certain societies, as well as in modern civilization, which sometimes disregards the double standards prevalent in its practices and does nothing to change the status quo.
Magdalena Kostova-Panayotova   +1 more
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Valuing the Future

Medical Decision Making, 1995
Normative discounted utility theory specifies that the values of all future outcomes (for example, those related to health and money) should be discounted at a constant rate. Two experiments demonstrated that, contrary to this prescription, decision makers use different discount rates for health-related decisions and money-related decisions.
G B, Chapman, A S, Elstein
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The future of e-service value

2014 IEEE/ACIS 13th International Conference on Computer and Information Science (ICIS), 2014
Service science research has been developing rapidly in this decade and provided a lot of contributions to enhance the value of information systems. At this point, most of IT scientists are promoting their researches based on the concept what information systems make an effective, an optimal, and confortable society.
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Valuing the Future

World Economics Journal, 2003
One of the most controversial areas of economics is the practice of discounting: attaching a lower weight to future costs and benefits than present costs and benefits. Discounting appears to offend notions of sustainable development and the interests of future generations.
David Pearce   +3 more
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Values and the Future

2019
The chapter details the relationship between values on the one hand and concepts of the future on the other. Values guide the actions an individual or a company decides upon for pursuing goals and objectives. Goals and objectives, unlike values, can be adjusted.
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The values of global futures

Current Sociology, 2011
This article provides concluding reflections for the monograph on Values and Culture by focusing on the role that values can play in the shaping of global futures. It discusses the emerging reconceptualizations of values and culture vis-a-vis accelerated financial flows and neoliberal deregulation, transnational migration, social movements and ...
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