Journal articles: 'Award restructuring'

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Owen∗, Sian. "General Staff Award Restructuring." Journal of Tertiary Education Administration 13, no. 1 (May 1991): 67–72. http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/0157603910130106.

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Grange∗, Chris. "Award Restructuring For General Staff." Journal of Tertiary Education Administration 13, no. 1 (May 1991): 59–66. http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/0157603910130105.

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Plowman, David H. "Award Restructuring: Possibilities and Portents." Economic and Labour Relations Review 1, no. 1 (June 1990): 15–40. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/103530469000100102.

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Probert, Belinda. "Award Restructuring and Clerical Work: Skills, Training and Careers in a Feminized Occupation." Journal of Industrial Relations 34, no. 3 (September 1992): 436–54. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/002218569203400304.

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Clerical workers are the largest single occupational grouping in Australia, and they are predominantly female. For most women, clerical work has meant poor pay, low status, few career prospects and little recognition of their skills. This paper looks at the potential of award restructuring to improve women's employment opportunities in this occupation. In particular it examines the restructuring of the Victorian Commercial Clerks' Award, and analyzes the obstacles that lie in the way of its translation into real benefits for female clerical workers. Comparisons are drawn with developments in public sector award restructuring. The paper looks at the structure of clerical employment in the private sector, and the implications of its distribution across all industries—the predominance of small firms and the absence of industry-based career paths. It goes on to apply a feminist perspective to the key issues of skill, training and careers in clerical work, arguing that it is essential to any analysis of the actual outcomes of award restructuring in this area. The paper concludes that award restructuring is an inappropriate mechanism for improving skills and career paths in such afeminized occupation. The paper uses data from a survey of clerical employees in a wide range of workplaces to illustrate the argument. The potential of award restructuring to address unequal pay among male and female clerks through the process of reclassifying women's skills is also considered. Finally, the significance of the low level of unionization among private sector clerical employees is discussed, raising further doubts about the real benefits of award restructuring.

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Manning, Haydon. "Award Restructuring in the Australian Banking Industry." Journal of Industrial Relations 32, no. 3 (September 1990): 334–52. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/002218569003200302.

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Currie, Jan. "AWARD RESTRUCTURING FOR ACADEMICS: THE NEGOTIATING PROCESS." Discourse: Studies in the Cultural Politics of Education 15, no. 2 (December 1994): 22–33. http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/0159630940150203.

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Plowman, David. "Administered Flexibility: Restructuring the Metal Industry Award." Economic and Labour Relations Review 1, no. 2 (December 1990): 48–70. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/103530469000100204.

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Curtain, Richard, and John Mathews. "Two Models of Award Restructuring in Australia." Labour & Industry: a journal of the social and economic relations of work 3, no. 1 (March 1990): 58–75. http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/10301763.1990.11673898.

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Marginson∗, Simon. "Academic Salaries: Will Award Restructuring Make A Difference?" Journal of Tertiary Education Administration 13, no. 1 (May 1991): 19–44. http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/0157603910130103.

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Watson, Graeme. "AWARD RESTRUCTURING IN THE HYDROCARBONS INDUSTRY — PROGRESS AND PROSPECTS." APPEA Journal 31, no. 1 (1991): 481. http://dx.doi.org/10.1071/aj90043.

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Award restructuring is the most significant development in industrial relations reform in recent times. The process evolved from the Australian Industrial Relations Commission's concern for the economy and recognition of the need for micro-economic reform. It encourages a fundamental review of work practices, award structures, union coverage and the organisation of the workforce with a particular focus on the enterprise. Award restructuring has particular relevance to the upstream hydrocarbons industry in which stability, labour flexibility, efficiency, skill development and multi-skilling are of critical importance.It is acknowledged that the potential for change in the hydrocarbons industry is not as great as in most other industries. Award regulation in the industry is relatively new; it has been established with close regard to the needs of the industry and it has evolved to enable a greater enterprise focus prior to the adoption of award restructuring by the Australian Industrial Relations Commission (AIRC). Nevertheless, there are a number of changes which can give rise to greater efficiency and productivity and these need to be developed. It may be that an innovative approach is required in view of the unique circumstances of the industry.

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Baldock, Cora Vellekoop. "Award restructuring for women. Tool of change or stagnation?" Australian Feminist Studies 5, no. 12 (December 1990): 43–49. http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/08164649.1990.9961696.

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Mathews, J. A. "Theoretical Perspectives on Enterprise and Award Restructuring in Australia." Asia Pacific Journal of Human Resources 28, no. 4 (November 1, 1990): 30–39. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/103841119002800403.

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Wooden, Mark, and Judith Sloan. "Award Restructuring: Factors Associated with its Progress and Success." Labour & Industry: a journal of the social and economic relations of work 3, no. 2-3 (June 1990): 215–34. http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/10301763.1990.10669086.

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Bridgland, Angela. "Award restructuring, the Training Guarantee Act and staff development." Australian Library Journal 42, no. 3 (January 1993): 205–13. http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/00049670.1993.10755647.

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Bramble, Tom. "Award Restructuring and the Australian Trade Union Movement: A Critique." Labour & Industry: a journal of the social and economic relations of work 2, no. 3 (October 1989): 372–98. http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/10301763.1989.10669076.

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Provis, C. "Book Reviews : Award Restructuring by J.J. Macken, Sydney, Federation Press, 1989." Asia Pacific Journal of Human Resources 28, no. 3 (August 1, 1990): 92–94. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/103841119002800311.

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Euler, Dimitrij. "Breaking the Bond: Vulture Funds and Investment Arbitration." ASA Bulletin 31, Issue 3 (October 1, 2013): 558–82. http://dx.doi.org/10.54648/asab2013053.

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The recent decision on jurisdiction and admissibility in Abaclat and others v. Argentina has brought to the public's attention the issue of sovereign defaults and restructuring. Whilst in the Abaclat case, claimants were mostly individual retirees who then assembled to file a class action, a more frightening protagonist is made up of "vulture" funds. These are hedge funds, or other financial vehicles, which purchase sovereign (or corporate) bonds on secondary markets when their prices are extremely low due to the debtor's repudiation or inability to pay back. They then litigate before national courts or international arbitral tribunals in order to recover the entire sums accrued. The analysis in this article begins with an overview of the process of sovereign debt restructuring. We then explore the case of a vulture fund which does not participate in a debt restructuring, and proceeds to enforce an award condemning a State to pay on its bonds, outside of the ICSID framework. Art. V(2) of the New York Convention offers two potential grounds to the State: non-arbitrability and public policy. We examine the interpretations given to the two notions in several cases most relevant to our research. Arguably, the interests involved in debt restructuring proceedings do appear to be sufficient to preclude arbitrability of the subject matter, and thus the enforcement of the award may be prevented. Secondly, the permeability of the public policy exception to economic considerations of fundamental importance - such as those involved in sovereign debt restructuring - finds supporting evidence in a host of jurisdictions. The two grounds might thus be used by States to "break the bond" and prevent non-participating vulture funds from obtaining an unfair advantage over the rest of the creditors.

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Bray, Mark. "Award Restructuring and Workplace Reform in New South Wales Road Freight Transport." Journal of Industrial Relations 34, no. 2 (June 1992): 199–228. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/002218569203400202.

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Fells, R. E. "Award Restructuring, Workplace Reform and the Changing Nature of Australian Industrial Relations." Economic and Labour Relations Review 4, no. 2 (December 1993): 257–78. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/103530469300400206.

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This paper examines the changes taking place in Australian industrial relations. It takes as its starting point the policy objective of improving workplace productivity and examines the impact of reforms on this objective using Lewin's framework for the analysis of change and a mining operation as a case study. The paper suggests that the reforms are only facilitative and this exposes a reliance on management for the achievement of the policy objective. The dominance of managerial perspective changes the fundamental nature of the industrial relations system and raises several important policy considerations, in particular issues relating to the recognition of trade unions.

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Curtain, R. "How to Identify Skills for Award Restructuring Purposes, Using a Modified DACUM Technique." Asia Pacific Journal of Human Resources 28, no. 4 (November 1, 1990): 112–25. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/103841119002800412.

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Wilkinson, David. "Vocational education and training results in the context of award restructuring: An australian case study." Performance + Instruction 29, no. 8 (September 1990): 23–32. http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/pfi.4160290808.

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Frenkel, Stephen, and David Peetz. "Enterprise Bargaining: The BCA's Report on Industrial Relations Reform." Journal of Industrial Relations 32, no. 1 (March 1990): 69–99. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/002218569003200105.

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The Business Council of Australia's report on industrial relations argues that the major barrier to the competitiveness of large Australian firms is the centralized system, which hosts a fragmented structure of awards and unions that is out of touch with the requirements of corporate management and inconsistent with employee needs. We examine the various elements of the research underlying the Business Council report and show that the report's conclusions are either not supported by the evidence or greatly overstated. A shift towards unregulated decentralized bargaining, as favoured by the report, would probably yield less benefit than the present direction of reform through the award restructuring process within the context of a centralized framework. We conclude that the report diverts attention from the many factors that will determine the future competitiveness of Australian firms and that it serves as a warning about the limitations of sponsored research.

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Lambert, R. "State of the Union: An Assessment of Union Strategies." Economic and Labour Relations Review 2, no. 2 (December 1991): 1–24. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/103530469100200201.

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Accelerating global economic change reflected in the high degree of capital mobility and integrated global markets has intensified investment competition between states. The union movement reacted through a commitment to strategic unionism and award restructuring. However, the impact of the latter has been limited by the occupationally divided structure of Australian unions. The paper analyses attempts to change this structure through union amalgamations and considers the impact inter-union power struggles, shaped by factional alignments, have had on the process. The paper assesses the organizational problems of conglomerate unionism and evaluates possible counters to likely tendencies.

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Mitsou, Anna O. "Greek Debt Restructuring and Investment Treaty Arbitration: Jurisdictional Stumbling Blocks for Bondholders." Journal of International Arbitration 33, Issue 6 (December 1, 2016): 687–721. http://dx.doi.org/10.54648/joia2016043.

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The recent award of an International Center for the Settlement of Investment Disputes (ICSID) tribunal in Poštová banka a.s. and ISTROKAPITAL SE v. Hellenic Republic came as an unpleasant surprise for holders of Greek sovereign debt, who suffered losses because of the sovereign debt restructuring (SDR) that took place in February 2012, since it seems to be at odds with past case law on the matter. The tribunal found that it did not have jurisdiction to hear the dispute, inter alia, because the acquisition of Greek sovereign bonds by Poštová banka did not constitute an ‘investment’ under Article 1(1) of the Greece-Slovakia Bilateral Investment Treaty (BIT). At any rate, according to the tribunal, transactions over sovereign bonds on the secondary markets do not fall within the definition of ‘investment’ under Article 25 of the ICSID Convention. In this article, the author questions the narrow interpretation of the definition of ‘investment’, as set forth in Article 1(1) of the Greece-Slovakia BIT, adopted by the tribunal. In declining jurisdiction, the tribunal looked through the provisions of Greek law so as to ascertain whether the claimants had rights protected under the BIT. The author advocates a different interpretation of the relevant provisions of Greek law in accordance with legal doctrine in Greece concerning the rights of investors over dematerialized government debt. The author also supports a wide meaning of the term ‘investment’ under Article 25 of the ICSID Convention, so that sovereign bonds are included in the definition.

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Megliani, Mauro. "Thou Shalt Not Arbitrate: Sovereign Debt and Investment Arbitration." Journal of International Arbitration 35, Issue 5 (October 1, 2018): 599–623. http://dx.doi.org/10.54648/joia2018031.

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This article addresses the issue of the interaction between sovereign debt and investment arbitration. The point has been recently highlighted by the Report of the UN Independent Expert on Sovereign Debt. In this context, investment arbitration has been regarded as capable of disrupting an orderly debt restructuring, since creditors may prefer operating outside a restructuring process and submitting their claims to arbitration. Arbitration becomes an escape route for creditors who do not want to accept take-it-or-leave-it conditions and are faced with domestic courts who decline to hear the case on the basis of the immunity doctrine. Arbitration may well be the ideal venue to balance the interests at stake. Under a human rights approach, creditors are called not to lend or have to cease lending when doing so would affect the socio-economic rights of the population. Under a necessity approach, the obligation of paying interest and reimbursing capital would be suspended to the extent that it would affect the duty of a state to provide essential services to the population. Under a transnational public policy approach, a claim is not enforceable when doing so would infringe the socio-economic rights of the population. Under an expropriation approach, the compensation for a default should consider the speculative intent in purchasing bonds after the default and award not the nominal value but the purchase price.

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Ryan, Brendan. "Industrial Relations and the Rationalisation of Australian Education." Australian Journal of Education 38, no. 2 (August 1994): 147–56. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/000494419403800205.

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There is a recognisable orthodoxy in current discussion of award restructuring in Australian education. Its central proposition is that productivity-based wage increases would inevitably be accompanied by a general improvement in the quality of education. However the new industrial logic would lead to a substantial narrowing of the mainstream curriculum. Furthermore teacher union representation within corporatist decision-making procedures would increasingly be forced to accept as a given the contemporary trend towards consolidation of economic rationalist controls over educational priorities and practices. Rejecting any pursuit of wage justice for teachers that proposes to trade away ‘old style’ teacher union commitments to democracy and equality in education, I argue for a much more inclusive model of educational accountability, one based resolutely on anti-corporatist forms of educational participation.

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Lewis, Philip E. T., and David J. Spiers. "Six Years of the Accord: An Assessment." Journal of Industrial Relations 32, no. 1 (March 1990): 53–68. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/002218569003200104.

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For six years the Accord has been the cornerstone of the Australian Government's economic strategy. It has taken many different forms and has displayed considerable adaptability. An assessment of the success of the Accord is important not only for Australia but because of its implications for macro-economicpolicy generally. It may be that the Australian experience has a much wider effect on discussions of appropriate policy formation in other countries. Recent developments in award restructuring have implications for micro-economic policy also. In this paper the evidence regarding the impact of the Accord is assembled and critically evaluated. The general conclusion is that the Accord has had very important beneficial effects on employment and industrial relations. This supports the view that incomes policy is a viable instrument for economic policy.

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Burgess, John. "Aggregate Wage Indicators, Enterprise Bargaining and Recent Wage Increases." Economic and Labour Relations Review 6, no. 2 (December 1995): 216–33. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/103530469500600204.

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To what extent have wages recently increased in Australia? Have these increases been excessive? There are a myriad of wage data series produced by the Australian Bureau of Statistics. These series reflect different questions and different perspectives about wages. In the context of the previously centralised wage determination process the dissection and analysis of aggregate wage series was an important exercise for industry and academic economists. However, the analysis and interpretation of aggregate wage data has become more difficult in the light of a number of developments: (a) falling award coverage, (b) the development and uneven spread of enterprise bargaining, (c) the industrial and demographic restructuring of the workforce, (d) the growth in non-wage benefits, (e) the growth in non-standard employment What are the available options for measuring aggregate wages growth in the light of these above developments? To what extent has recent wage growth been excessive?

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Stockley, David. "Being Productive, Being Clever: The Enchanted Forest of Intellectual Property." Australian Journal of Education 37, no. 1 (April 1993): 96–111. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/000494419303700107.

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Government rhetoric and policies exhort Australian universities to be ‘productive’ and to build a ‘clever country’. Academic award restructuring is an important element in this re-shaping of Australian higher education, although the increasingly fashionable term ‘intellectual property’ enters higher education discourse and re-defines academic labour and the ways in which academics perceive themselves and their roles. It is argued that the term intellectual property carries within it a range of meanings extending beyond the legal world of patent and copyright and that this privatising and capitalising discourse has the capacity to transform universities. The individualising and formalising of academic labour goes against the tradition of university collegiality and, crucially, contradicts the processes by which ideas and skills are constituted within a university. Inappropriate intellectual property discourse has the potential to devalue university work by positing a model drawn from the world of the managerialists within the bureaucracy and private sector.

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Bianco, Giuseppe. "The Bitter End of Sovereign Debt Restructurings: The Abaclat v. Argentina Arbitration and the Eurozone Crisis." Legal Issues of Economic Integration 40, Issue 4 (November 1, 2013): 315–37. http://dx.doi.org/10.54648/leie2013017.

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Among the measures adopted to tackle the financial crisis in Europe, part of the sovereign debt of the Greek government was restructured in early 2012.The current Greek predicament bears a significant resemblance with Argentina's situation after the 2001 economic crisis. Its sovereign debt restructuring has been challenged before an investment arbitral tribunal by a group of Italian bondholders, who have thus far succeeded at the jurisdictional phase. The Abaclat and others v. Argentina case is the first International Centre for Settlement of Investment Disputes (ICSID) arbitration which deals with a sovereign debt workout. Albeit the award on the merits is still pending, the importance of the dispute cannot be overestimated. It signals a new forum bondholders could use, when they do not participate in an exchange, to still seek to obtain their interest and capital from the debtor State. This article aims at assessing the possibility of analogous developments for Greece, and potentially other Eurozone countries which might need to restructure their debt in the near future. To do so, it compares the historical unravelling of the crises in Argentina and in the Eurozone. It then offers a careful analysis of the recent arbitral decision in the Abaclat case. Finally, it evaluates the potential risks for the Eurozone and reviews several options for action at the European level.

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Tsamenyi, Mathew, and Nana Yaa Antwi-Gyamfi. "mSimps: decision-making in scaling up a small business." Emerald Emerging Markets Case Studies 6, no. 2 (June 6, 2016): 1–26. http://dx.doi.org/10.1108/eemcs-03-2015-0050.

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Subject area Entrepreneurship. Study level/applicability This case is suitable for graduate-level programmes in business management, as well as for executive education programmes. Case overview Mabel Simpson, the sole proprietor of the award-winning mSimps fashion accessories house in Ghana, must choose from among three options for scaling up her business: an offer from a private investor for GHS 100,000 in exchange for 51 per cent stake in mSimps; or 30 per cent stake for half the amount; an offer from a fashion industry expert for GHS 10,000 in exchange for 30 per cent ownership; or a restructuring of her business model and value chain to enable her release cash to grow her business organically. Expected learning outcomes Students should be able to: understand the interplay of choice and trade-offs in business management and apply theory-driven frameworks in making optimal choices and analytically assess instances of tension between the art (e.g. passion, emotional stakes, psychological and other influences on business management philosophies) and science (e.g. the need for business skills, use of effective models and the quest for production efficiency) of business management. Supplementary materials Teaching Notes are available for educators only. Please contact your library to gain login details or email support@emeraldinsight.com to request teaching notes. Subject code CSS 3: Entrepreneurship

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Peter, Valentin, Britta Hachenberg, and Dirk Schiereck. "Retail investors as stumbling blocks in bond restructuring: Evidence from bondholder meetings." Corporate Ownership and Control 19, no. 1 (2021): 169–87. http://dx.doi.org/10.22495/cocv19i1art13.

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Using a detailed database of meeting agendas, participation rates, and voting outcomes of bondholder meetings collected from bundesanzeiger.de, the official press releases of issuers, and the documents provided by Schutzgemeinschaft der Kapitalanleger as well as Deutsche Investoren Union, we analyze the determinants for successful bond restructurings under the German Bond Act. The law regulates bond restructuring in Germany and contains collective action clauses that intend to make the amendment of bond terms easy compared to the U.S. where these clauses are not common. We find that bond restructuring is relatively convenient under the German Bond Act, as the majority of restructuring attempts are successful. Applying ordinary least squares regression as well as a probit regression model, we explicitly focus on how bond holdings of retail investors impact bond restructuring and find that participation rates, the probability to constitute quorums in bondholder meetings, and most importantly, the probability to successfully amend bond terms, are negatively related to the degree of bond holdings of retail investors. Given that German corporate bond markets just recently opened up for retail investors through the introduction of mini-bond segments, bond issuers need to be aware that targeting retail investors reduces the ability to amend bond terms, which can be particularly relevant in times when issuers are faced with financial difficulties.

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Latifah Ahmed Almulhim, Latifah Ahmed Almulhim. "Brief Strategy Family Therapy from Theory to Practice: Generating Evidence through Scientific Articles: العلاج الاستراتيجي الموجز للأسرة من حيز النظرية إلى التطبيق: توليد الأدلة عبر الدراسات العلمية." مجلة العلوم التربوية و النفسية 6, no. 20 (April 30, 2022): 133–52. http://dx.doi.org/10.26389/ajsrp.s041021.

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Brief Strategy Family Therapy (BSFT) is an award-winning, evidence-based program that has been listed by SAMHSA - Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services since 2008. which is used to overcome some behavioral problems such as bullying; Take drugs; socially unacceptable behavior; school truancy. It is an intervention based on a program designed around the effective role of the family to reduce behavioral problems. The main aim of it, is the restructuring of the family and its relations with each other. It is a short-term, structured, and practical approach that addresses the behavioral problems of children and adolescents. Specifically targets children and adolescents between the ages of 6 and 18, who are at risk for behavioral problems, including substance abuse. Its importance is that it is the only model that is strongly categorized into the three categories: mental health insurance; overcoming the problem of drug abuse; Strengthening pedagogical parenting skills at home. While the Arab studies did not address Brief Strategy Family Therapy as an evidence-based program and intervention, to the knowledge of the researcher. The researcher considered it important to review a summary of this intervention, its objectives, steps, and other studies that dealt with Brief Strategic Family Therapy. Noting the extent to which it can be applied in the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia while presenting a vision that puts theoretical information into practice. This is in addition to presenting suggestions that guide future Arab research for the application of Brief Strategic Family Therapy in Kingdom of Saudi Arabia and Arab countries.

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Mooney, Christopher J., Stephen Joseph Powell, Spencer Dahl, Carly Eiduson, Benjamin Reinhardt, and Robert Thompson Stone. "A Long-term Faculty Development Initiative Improves Specificity and Usefulness of Narrative Evaluations of Clerkship Students." Neurology: Education 1, no. 1 (September 2022): e200003. http://dx.doi.org/10.1212/ne9.0000000000200003.

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Background and ObjectivesNarrative-based evaluations are increasingly used to discriminate between levels of trainee performance, yet barriers to high-quality narratives remain. Prior evidence shows mixed results regarding the effectiveness of faculty development efforts on improving narrative evaluation quality.MethodsWe used a quasi-experimental study incorporating a historical control group to examine the effectiveness of a pragmatic, multipronged, 4-year faculty development initiative on narrative evaluation quality in a neurology clerkship. We evaluated narrative evaluation quality using the narrative evaluation quality instrument (NEQI) in random samples of narrative evaluations from a historical control and intervention group. We used multilevel modeling to compare NEQI scores (and subscale scores) across groups. Informed by the theory of deliberate practice, our faculty development initiative included (1) annual grand rounds sessions focused on developing high-quality narratives and reporting evaluation metrics, (2) restructuring the clerkship assessment form to simplify and prioritize narratives, (3) recruiting key faculty to rotate on the clerkship grading committee to gain experience with and practice developing quality narratives, and (4) instituting a narrative evaluation excellence award to faculty and residents.ResultsThe faculty development initiative was associated with improvements in the quality of students' narrative evaluations. Specifically, the intervention group was a significant predictor of NEQI score, with means of 6.4 (95% CI 5.9–6.9) and 7.6 (95% CI 7.2–8.1) for the historical control and intervention groups, respectively. In addition, the intervention group was associated with significant improvement in the specificity and usefulness NEQI subscale scores, but not the performance domain subscale score.DiscussionA long-term, multipronged faculty development initiative can facilitate improvements in narrative evaluation quality. We attribute these findings to 2 factors: (1) pragmatic, solution-oriented efforts that balance focused didactics with programmatic shifts that promote deliberate practice and skill improvement and (2) departmental resources that prioritize and convey a commitment to improving trainee assessment.

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Murphy, J., and D. Ingram. "Integrating Informatics into the Undergraduate Curriculum: A Report on a Pilot Project." Yearbook of Medical Informatics 05, no. 01 (August 1996): 116–21. http://dx.doi.org/10.1055/s-0038-1638053.

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AbstractPrevious case reports in this series on Education and Training have looked at specialist courses for postgraduate students seeking an in-depth know ledge of informatics and a career in the field. By contrast, this review describes a project designed to pilot a series of learning opportunities for undergraduate medical students. Although some UK medical colleges have opted to introduce informatics into the curriculum as a discipline in its own right, the Informatics Department at St Bartholomew’s Hospital Medical College chose a different approach. When a new curriculum was introduced at St Bartholomew’s and at The London Hospital Medical College, the Head of the Informatics Department saw this as an ideal opportunity to explore ways of integrating informatics into the curriculum. The initiatives described in this paper were made possible as a result of an award from the UK government Department of Employment. Money from an Enterprise in Higher Education grant funded a range of programmes, one of which was designed to introduce students to selected aspects of informatics and to demonstrate what is feasible in the undergraduate curriculum. The work carried out over a period of three and a half years was intended to provide the basis for the next phase of curriculum development. However, in the wake of the restructuring which has taken place in London medical colleges, the Informatics Department at what was St Bartholomew’s has relocated to University College London Medical School, and is now called The Centre for Health Informatics and Multi professional Education (CHIME). University College is designing a new medical curriculum and CHIME is drawing on the experience gained through the Enterprise Project to find the best way to integrate informatics into this curriculum.

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Dong, Zhi-Chao, Wenming Wu, Zenghao Xu, Qi Sun, Guanjie Yuan, Ligang Liu, and Xiao-Ming Fu. "Tailored Reality: Perception-aware Scene Restructuring for Adaptive VR Navigation." ACM Transactions on Graphics 40, no. 5 (October 31, 2021): 1–15. http://dx.doi.org/10.1145/3470847.

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In virtual reality (VR), the virtual scenes are pre-designed by creators. Our physical surroundings, however, comprise significantly varied sizes, layouts, and components. To bridge the gap and further enable natural navigation, recent solutions have been proposed to redirect users or recreate the virtual content. However, they suffer from either interrupted experience or distorted appearances. We present a novel VR-oriented algorithm that automatically restructures a given virtual scene for a user’s physical environment. Different from the previous methods, we introduce neither interrupted walking experience nor curved appearances. Instead, a perception-aware function optimizes our retargeting technique to preserve the fidelity of the virtual scene that appears in VR head-mounted displays. Besides geometric and topological properties, it emphasizes the unique first-person view perceptual factors in VR, such as dynamic visibility and objectwise relationships. We conduct both analytical experiments and subjective studies. The results demonstrate our system’s versatile capability and practicability for natural navigation in VR: It reduces the virtual space by 40% without statistical loss of perceptual identicality.

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Chang, Chih-Yung, and Chao-Tsun Chang. "TARP: A traffic-aware restructuring protocol for Bluetooth radio networks." Computer Networks 51, no. 14 (October 2007): 4070–91. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.comnet.2007.04.010.

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Paul, D. R. L., A. M. Eastwood, D. J. P. Hare, A. S. Macdonald, J. R. Muirhead, J. F. Mulligan, D. M. Pike, and E. F. Smith. "Restructuring Mutuals—Principles and Practice." Transactions of the Faculty of Actuaries 43 (1992): 167–277. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s0071368600010089.

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1.1 This paper owes its existence on two counts to the late Jim Souness whose term of office as President of the Faculty coincided with the bulk of our research. Firstly, as President, he encouraged Faculty research groups to be active and to produce material worthy of sessional papers. More directly it was the late President who funnelled our general investigations of life office management (which had continued after the Group's 1987 sessional paper) towards the issue of demutualisation.There have been several notable demutualisations of life offices in recent years, yet there is little published research in the UK other than case studies into the actuarial issues which these restructurings raise for the profession. Furthermore much of what has been published pertains to overseas regimes not subject to UK-style regulation. However at the time of writing we are aware that another paper (reference 20) was being written concurrently, and it relates specifically to the UK.

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Michell, Mervyn D. "Commentary: The 1995 Research Awards in Psychogeriatrics." International Psychogeriatrics 8, no. 1 (March 1996): 7–8. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s104161029600244x.

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As life expectancy continues to rise, research is focusing increasingly on improving the quality of life of individuals, particularly the geriatric population. As blockbuster pharmacological breakthroughs become more expensive and even more elusive, the research environment is also changing. This has been evident in recent years in the pharmaceutical industry as well as in academic institutions where the rationalization and internationalization of research and development activities have manifested as major restructuring and development of collaborative associations.

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Oh, Kyung-Ae, and Jeong-Ah Lee. "대학의 구조 조정이 원어민과 비원어민 영어교육자의 고용 구도에 미친 영향." Korean Association For Learner-Centered Curriculum And Instruction 22, no. 11 (June 15, 2022): 787–810. http://dx.doi.org/10.22251/jlcci.2022.22.11.787.

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Objectives The study aimed to investigate how the restructuring of higher education in Korea influenced contingent faculty, in particular, NESTs and NNESTs. Methods Laws relevant to academic labor from 2005 to 2019 were collected and analyzed, and the educational statistics were also collected and analyzed to support the results of the analysis of the laws. Furthermore, five NESTS and five NNESTs were interviewed to provide the contexts to the quantitative data. Results The results reveal that 1) despite their original intentions, the laws negatively influenced contingent faculty in higher education, 2) the personal and professional lives of NESTs and NNESTs were affected by social-structural constraints, and 3) as a result, the competition between NESTs and NNESTs for reduced job openings grew, and individuals struggled to secure their position in the academic job market. Conclusions The findings imply that the problems that contingent faculty face are not individual problems but social-structural problems, so educational administrators and the Ministry of Education should work on preventing the academic job market from becoming more competitive than necessary. Contingent faculty also need to be aware that individuals have power to bring about change.

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Aksoy, Erdem, and Gulfem Dilek. "ANALYSIS OF RESTRUCTURING, AND RESCHEDULING OF THE DEBT." Finance & Accounting Research Journal 2, no. 1 (June 22, 2020): 12–21. http://dx.doi.org/10.51594/farj.v2i1.99.

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The paper investigates a semantic confusion about rescheduling and restructuring of a public debt. There issues are not related to the default. The rescheduling refers to the swap of debt towards long term and restructuring as a change in the denomination of the debt. The paper conducts empirical evidence for the swaps involved using the econometrics exercise. The findings of the paper are that a swap of short term replacing long term debt is continuously implemented by the central bank of Turkey. Lengthening the maturity of the debt seems to be covert policy of debt management. The paper reported that another covert policy is that bank often swap local debt for dollar or euro debt or change the currency issuance or restructure it. Even though, the bank is involved in these covert policies, the central bank is publishing this data and making no efforts for hiding such information. Thus, we assume that the rating agencies are aware about these debt transactions due to the fact that these transactions are conducted in market prices. The covert policies are good enough as they seems to be working and should be regarded as such without regard to their interest cost.

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Junior, Rubens Corrêa, and Augusto Hauber Gameiro. "Cash Flow in an Agribusiness Restructuring Process." Journal of Agricultural Studies 8, no. 4 (October 19, 2020): 589. http://dx.doi.org/10.5296/jas.v8i4.17850.

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The purpose of this article is to present cash flow as an accessible and efficient tool for the management of small and medium-sized egg companies, including those close to bankruptcy, aiming at their financial recovery. In order to achieve results, action research and the cash flow management method were adopted. The data were collected from a Brazilian egg producer that was close to bankruptcy. Data collection, implementation of the management tool and performance monitoring took place between July 2016 and December 2017. The use of the cash flow tool allowed the company’s financial recovery, which led to an increase of 951.5% in its cash and cash equivalents at the end of the research period, generating 22.5% of cash on the operating result and maintaining its minimum balance of cash by 23.6% above the limit required for it to keep operating safely. The method considered only the Cash Flow Statement, as it is the most practical and easy to understand for managers who have no management experience or training. The Balance Sheet and Income Statement were not explored. From the research results it is expected that the proposed management tool would be adopted by other small and medium-sized egg producers in Brazil, as well as in other branches of agribusiness. Hitherto, we are not aware of the availability of a tool proposed for small and medium companies in the animal production segment in Brazil. Therefore, it could be a valuable contribution to the socioeconomic development of this sector.

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Mutmainah, Mutmainah. "Konseling Kelompok dengan Teknik Cognitive Restructuring dalam Meningkatkan Motivasi Belajar Siswa Slow Learner." Bulletin of Counseling and Psychotherapy 2, no. 1 (May 13, 2020): 14–19. http://dx.doi.org/10.51214/bocp.v2i1.30.

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The slow learner in this study is a condition in which children experience slowness in their cognitive abilities and are below the average normal child so he needs more time to understand or master the subject matter. The purpose of this study was to determine the effectiveness of cognitive restructuring techniques to increase students' slow learner learning motivation, cognitive restructuring techniques to replace negative thoughts and interpretations with positive action thoughts so as not to get used to and become aware of their thought processes. This type of research uses Quasi Experiments with pre-test and post-test designs to compare the experimental group and the control group. Research subjects are slow learner students who have low motivation levels with a total of 14 students. The results of the experimental group measurements showed that the post-test score was higher than the pre-test score. Besides that, the Wilcoxon signed Rank Test test shows that the Sig. <0.05 so that Ho is rejected and Ha is accepted, meaning that there are significant differences in the level of slow learner student learning motivation before and after treatment is given. This shows that group counseling with cognitive restructuring techniques is effective in increasing slow learner students' learning motivation.

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Roldán, Martha. "INDUSTRIAL RESTRUCTURING, DEREGULATION AND NEW JIT LABOUR PROCESSES IN ARGENTINA: TOWARDS A GENDER-AWARE PERSPECTIVE?" IDS Bulletin 24, no. 2 (April 1993): 42–52. http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/j.1759-5436.1993.mp24002006.x.

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Bienz, Amanda, William D. Gropp, and Luke N. Olson. "Reducing communication in algebraic multigrid with multi-step node aware communication." International Journal of High Performance Computing Applications 34, no. 5 (June 11, 2020): 547–61. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/1094342020925535.

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Algebraic multigrid (AMG) is often viewed as a scalable [Formula: see text] solver for sparse linear systems. Yet, AMG lacks parallel scalability due to increasingly large costs associated with communication, both in the initial construction of a multigrid hierarchy and in the iterative solve phase. This work introduces a parallel implementation of AMG that reduces the cost of communication, yielding improved parallel scalability. It is common in Message Passing Interface (MPI), particularly in the MPI-everywhere approach, to arrange inter-process communication, so that communication is transported regardless of the location of the send and receive processes. Performance tests show notable differences in the cost of intra- and internode communication, motivating a restructuring of communication. In this case, the communication schedule takes advantage of the less costly intra-node communication, reducing both the number and the size of internode messages. Node-centric communication extends to the range of components in both the setup and solve phase of AMG, yielding an increase in the weak and strong scaling of the entire method.

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TOLENTINO, Marta, Francisco JAREÑO, and Rocío Rubio. "THE EFFECT OF BANK RESTRUCTURING ON THE ISSUANCE OF PREFERRED SHARES IN SPAIN." Revista Galega de Economía 27, no. 1 (June 26, 2018): 123–44. http://dx.doi.org/10.15304/rge.27.1.5231.

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Since 2007, when the real estate bubble burst, we was immersed in a global economiccrisis. During this period, the Spanish financial system has experienced a process ofeconomic imbalance and downturn as a consequence of massive exposure to theconstruction sector. In this context, the banking institutions, aware of the need torecapitalize their balance sheets, offered their retail clients a complex and high-riskproduct: preferred shares. What at first was considered the ideal solution forrecapitalizing the institutions has done nothing but worsen the economic situation,highlighting the vulnerability of the banking Spanish system. All of this gave rise to aprocess of bank restructuring that was unprecedented in Spain. The result has been thereduction of the number of banking institutions from 45 in 2009 to 12 today, with theconsequent repercussions on the macroeconomic variables and the economies of familiesand businesses.

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Ebrahim, Shamier. "Equal Pay in Terms of the Employment Equity Act: The Role of Seniority, Collective Agreements and Good Industrial Relations: Pioneer Foods (Pty) Ltd v Workers against Regression 2016 ZALCCT 14." Potchefstroom Electronic Law Journal 20 (December 5, 2017): 1–19. http://dx.doi.org/10.17159/1727-3781/2017/v20i0a1524.

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Equal pay for equal work and work of equal value is recognised as a human right in international law. South Africa has introduced a specific provision in the EEA in the form of section 6(4) which sets out the causes of action in respect of equal pay claims. The causes of action are: (a) equal pay for the same work; (b) equal pay for substantially the same work; and (c) equal pay for work of equal value. In addition to the introduction of section 6(4) to the EEA, the Minister of Labour has published the Employment Equity Regulations of 2014 and a Code of Good Practice on Equal Pay for work of Equal Value. This constitutes the equal pay legal framework in terms of the EEA. The Regulations sets out the factors which should be used to evaluate whether two different jobs are of equal value. It further provides for the methodology which must be used to determine an equal pay dispute and it sets out factors which would justify a differentiation in pay. The Code provides practical guidance to both employers and employees regarding the application of the principle of equal pay for work of equal value in the workplace, inter alia. Regulation 7 sets out factors which would justify pay differentiation. These factors are: (a) seniority (length of service); (b) qualifications, ability and competence; (c) performance (quality of work); (d) where an employee is demoted as a result of organisational restructuring (or any other legitimate reason) without a reduction in pay and his salary remains the same until the remuneration of his co-employees in the same job category reaches his level (red-circling); (e) where a person is employed temporarily for the purpose of gaining experience (training) and as a result thereof receives different remuneration; (f) skills scarcity; and (g) any other relevant factor. If a difference in pay is based on any one or more of the above factors then it is not unfair discrimination if it is fair and rational. This is spelt out in regulation 7(1). In Pioneer Foods (Pty) Ltd v Workers Against Regression 2016 ZALCCT 14 the seniority (length of service) factor was at the fore in the Labour Court. The Labour Court, on appeal, reversed an arbitration award in which the Commissioner found that paying newly appointed drivers at an 80% rate for the first two years of employment as opposed to the 100% rate paid to drivers working longer than two years in terms of a collective agreement amounted to unfair discrimination in pay. The CCMA, in essence, regarded the factor of seniority as a ground of discrimination as opposed to a ground justifying pay differentiation. Pioneer Foods is noteworthy as it is one of the first reported cases from the Labour Court dealing with the relatively new equal pay legal framework. It raises the following important equal pay issues: (a) is seniority a ground of discrimination or a ground justifying pay differentiation? And (b) what is the role of a collective agreement and good industrial relations when determining an equal pay claim? The purpose of this note is to critically analyse these issues and guidance will be sought from South African Law, Foreign law and relevant ILO materials in this regard.

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Kikuchi, Satoko, and Goutam Chakraborty. "An Efficient Genome Fragment Assembling Using GA with Neighborhood Aware Fitness Function." Applied Computational Intelligence and Soft Computing 2012 (2012): 1–11. http://dx.doi.org/10.1155/2012/945401.

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To decode a long genome sequence, shotgun sequencing is the state-of-the-art technique. It needs to properly sequence a very large number, sometimes as large as millions, of short partially readable strings (fragments). Arranging those fragments in correct sequence is known as fragment assembling, which is an NP-problem. Presently used methods require enormous computational cost. In this work, we have shown how our modified genetic algorithm (GA) could solve this problem efficiently. In the proposed GA, the length of the chromosome, which represents the volume of the search space, is reduced with advancing generations, and thereby improves search efficiency. We also introduced a greedy mutation, by swapping nearby fragments using some heuristics, to improve the fitness of chromosomes. We compared results with Parsons’ algorithm which is based on GA too. We used fragments with partial reads on both sides, mimicking fragments in real genome assembling process. In Parsons’ work base-pair array of the whole fragment is known. Even then, we could obtain much better results, and we succeeded in restructuring contigs covering 100% of the genome sequences.

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Farrall, Stephen, Emily Gray, and Philip Mike Jones. "The Role of Radical Economic Restructuring in Truancy from School and Engagement in Crime." British Journal of Criminology 60, no. 1 (July 28, 2019): 118–40. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/bjc/azz040.

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Abstract Of late, criminologists have become acutely aware of the relationship between school outcomes and engagement in crime as an adult. This phenomenon—which has come to be known as the ‘school-to-prison-pipeline’—has been studied in North America and the United Kingdom, and requires longitudinal data sets. Typically, these studies approach the phenomenon from an individualist perspective and examine truancy in terms of the truants’ attitudes, academic achievement or their home life. What remains unclear, however, is a consideration of (1) how macro-level social and economic processes may influence the incidence of truancy, and (2) how structural processes fluctuate over time, and in so doing produce variations in truancy rates or the causal processes associated with truancy. Using longitudinal data from two birth cohort studies, we empirically address these blind spots and test the role of social-structural processes in truancy, and how these may change over time.

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Peluso, Valentino, Roberto Giorgio Rizzo, and Andrea Calimera. "Performance Profiling of Embedded ConvNets under Thermal-Aware DVFS." Electronics 8, no. 12 (November 29, 2019): 1423. http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/electronics8121423.

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Convolutional Neural Networks (ConvNets) can be shrunk to fit embedded CPUs adopted on mobile end-nodes, like smartphones or drones. The deployment onto such devices encompasses several algorithmic level optimizations, e.g., topology restructuring, pruning, and quantization, that reduce the complexity of the network, ensuring less resource usage and hence higher speed. Several studies revealed remarkable performance, paving the way towards real-time inference on low power cores. However, continuous execution at maximum speed is quite unrealistic due to a fast increase of the on-chip temperature. Indeed, proper thermal management is paramount to guarantee silicon reliability and a safe user experience. Power management schemes, like voltage lowering and frequency scaling, are common knobs to control the thermal stability. Obviously, this implies a performance degradation, often not considered during the training and optimization stages. The objective of this work is to present the performance assessment of embedded ConvNets under thermal management. Our study covers the behavior of two control policies, namely reactive and proactive, implemented through the Dynamic Voltage-Frequency Scaling (DVFS) mechanism available on commercial embedded CPUs. As benchmarks, we used four state-of-the-art ConvNets for computer vision flashed into the ARM Cortex-A15 CPU. With the collected results, we aim to show the existing temperature-performance trade-off and give a more realistic analysis of the maximum performance achievable. Moreover, we empirically demonstrate the strict relationship between the on-chip thermal behavior and the hyper-parameters of the ConvNet, revealing optimization margins for a thermal-aware design of neural network layers.

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