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The authors examined possible cultural differences in psychological distress between Asian and Caucasion American college students using the Brief Symptom Inventory.International students at U.S. universities experience a variety of problems, some of which are common to all college students and others that are unique to international students (Leong, 1985).Common problems experienced by international students and US. students include homesickness, the need to develop new peer relationships, and the need to become independent. Problems experienced by international students but not by U.S. students include language difficulties, immigration difficulties, culture shock, and culture fatigue. From this variety of problems, it seems that adjusting to college life would be as difficult if not more so for international students than it would be for U.S. students.In fact, Leong and Sedlacek (1989) found that international students expressed significantly greater academic and career needs than U.S. students did. In addition, international students rank ordered the importance of their academic and career needs in different ways than did U.S. students. For instance. the need to feel less anxious when

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A continuum of disk scheduling algorithms, V(R), having endpoints V(0) = SSTF and V(1) = SCAN, is defined. V(R) maintains a current SCAN direction (in or out) and services next the request with the smallest effective distance. The effective distance of a request that lies in the current direction is its physical distance (in cylinders) from the read/write head. The effective distance of a request in the opposite direction is its physical distance plus R X (total number of cylinders on the disk). By use of simulation methods, it is shown that this definitional continuum also provides a continuum in performance, both with respect to the mean and with respect to the standard deviation of request waiting time. For objective functions that are linear combinations of the two measures, pw + kuw, intermediate points of the continuum are seen to provide performance uniformly superior to both SSTF and SCAN. A method of implementing V(R) and the results of its experimental use in a real system are presented.