1983: World Communication Year

World Mental Health Year

Deterministic small-world communication networks

Many real life networks, including the World Wide Web, electric power grids, and social networks, are small-world networks. The two distinguishing characteristics of small-world networks are strong local clustering (nodes have many mutual neighbors), and small average distance between two nodes. Small-world networks are promising candidates for communication networks since typical data-flow pat...

Agent Communication in DAML World

Darpa Agent Markup Language (DAML) [7] is the newest effort for Semantic Web [5]. It can be used to create ontologies and markup information resource like web pages. The information resource can be read by human and understood by agent programs. We believed DAML could be used to markup agent communication content and promote knowledge sharing and exchanging between agents. This paper also sugge...

The effects of World Health Organization chemotherapy on imported leprosy in Auckland, New Zealand, 1983-90.

Between January 1983 and December 1990 in Auckland, New Zealand, 87 patients (28 paucibacillary disease (PBD) and 59 multibacillary disease (MBD)) commenced WHO multidrug therapy (MDT). All were immigrants from the Pacific Islands (65) or Asia (22). A total of 57 patients had already received non-WHO regimens, some continuously, but often intermittently, for many years; 30 patients received WHO...

The public world of insect vibrational communication.

Food webs involving plants, herbivorous insects and their predators account for 75% of terrestrial biodiversity (Price 2002). Within the abundant arthropod community on plants, myriad ecological and social interactions depend on the perception and production of plant-borne mechanical vibrations (Hill 2008). Study of ecological relationships has shown, for example, that termites monitor the vibr...