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Small computers and small investors

Proceedings of the June 13-16, 1977, national computer conference on - AFIPS '77, 1977
The availability of low-cost hardware and the activity of turnkey developers has significantly expanded the number of potential computer users. Limited capital has been a major inhibiting factor in the growth of this marketplace. This paper proposes a method whereby small investors can use leveraged leasing to inject the capital necessary for expansion
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Small Hospital Obstetrics: Is Small Beautiful?*

The Journal of Rural Health, 1988
ABSTRACT:The number of deliveries in small Canadian hospitals over the last 15 years was reviewed. The two provinces with the highest percentage of deliveries in small hospitals had similar patterns of Perinatal Mortality Rates to the two provinces with the lowest percentage of small hospital deliveries.
G, Fallis, E, Dunn, J, Hilditch
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Small is not too Small

Qualitative Social Work, 2009
This article discusses issues of validity in focus group methodology when very few people actually participate in the research. The defense of small size emerges from experiences in dissertation research with women who have abused illegal substances and self-identify as addicts. Validity is addressed through application of standard measures of validity
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Privacy in elections: How small is “small”?

Journal of Information Security and Applications, 2017
Abstract We study the impact on privacy in results reporting in elections. In the interests of transparency election commissions report details of aggregated vote counts; in the interests of privacy some of that information must be suppressed. We apply recent advances in Quantitative Information Flow (QiF) to describe several privacy properties in ...
Annabelle McIver   +3 more
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Small optical transponder for small satellites

2010 7th International Symposium on Communication Systems, Networks & Digital Signal Processing (CSNDSP 2010), 2010
Space optical communications from small satellites need to be developed for the high-data-rate communications link to the ground. The requirements for the onboard resources are discussed with respect to the antenna diameter, the mass, and the consumption power.
Morio Toyoshima   +5 more
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A Small Festival for Small People: The WeeFestival as Advocacy

Theatre Research in Canada, 2019
The WeeFestival, English Canada’s first performance festival dedicated to children from ages 0 to 5, acts as an advocate for the early years demographic and for the artists who create for them through three key elements of festival structure: programming, space, and creative/artistic exchange. Engaging with research by Ben Fletcher-Watson, Lise Hovik,
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On the Smallness of Small Antennas

2022 IEEE International Symposium on Antennas and Propagation and USNC-URSI Radio Science Meeting (AP-S/URSI), 2022
Shambhu Nath Jha   +2 more
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How small is small?

2002
Abstract Throughout the 1930s Leo Szilard brooded on the prospects of a nuclear chain reaction [20] and the possibility, therefore, of an atomic bomb, and from time to time whipped himself into a paroxysm of apprehension. In 1939, he met Isidor Rabi [21] in washington to discuss his fears.
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The Small Deviation of the Small Noise Solution

2013
In this chapter we shall consider the solution \({Y }^{\varepsilon }\) of the SPDE ( 3.11), consisting of the deterministic Chafee–Infante equation perturbed by just the small jump part \({\xi }^{\varepsilon }\) of our Levy process L.
Debussche, Arnaud   +2 more
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Small is as Small Does

2003
Most of the great discoveries of the astronomical past were made with telescopes now thought of as small, though they were not at the time. This chapter presents an overview of some of these past triumphs (with details relegated to appendices), followed by a consideration of what can and cannot be done with small telescopes at present and looking into ...
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