The lack of exibility and performance of current communication subsystems has led researchers to look for new protocol architectures. A new design philosophy, exible and eecient, referred to in the literature as function-based communication model is emerging and seems to be very promising. It consists of designing application-tailored communication subsystems adapted to the speciic requirements...

This contribution proposes an approach to man which integrates psychological, linguistic and neurobiological perspectives. In addition, precise definitions of psychological terms and a psychophysical structure model are suggested as fundaments for a comprehensive understanding of human experience, thinking and action. A theoretically crucial distinction is made between cognition and intention. ...

Abstract Through the Stimulus-Organism-Response (SOR) Model, paper was designed to answer five (5) questions: (a) What are factors affecting decision of Filipinos in buying refrigerators?; (b) reasons that encourage purchase (c) is relationship between energy labels and purchasing behavior Filipinos?; (d) internal external referents associated behavior?; (e) How do socio-demographics affect beh...

It is generally accepted that silica (SiO2) is not toxic. But the increasing use of silica nanoparticles (SiO2NPs) in many different industrial fields has prompted the careful investigation of their toxicity in biological systems. In this report, we describe the effects elicited by SiO2NPs on animal and cell physiology. Stable and monodisperse amorphous silica nanoparticles, 25 nM in diameter, ...

We sketch an algorithmic framework to integrate (iterative) solvers of subsystems of a large nonlinear system into a joint iterative solution process.

In this paper we give a description of the subsystem construct in the Uniied Modeling Language, emphasizing its dynamic aspects , thus giving a detailed description of the semantics of interaction with subsystems. Depending on whether the surroundings of the subsystem make use of public elements in the subsystem or not, the subsystem is considered to be open or closed, respectively. This leads ...

Location-specific Internet services are predicated on the ability to identify the geographic position of IP hosts accurately. Fundamental to prior geolocation techniques is their reliance on landmarks with known coordinates whose distance from target hosts is intrinsically tied to the ability to make accurate location estimates. In this paper, we introduce a new lightweight framework for IP geo...

The third-generation partnership project 3GPP and 3GPP2 have standardized the IP multimedia subsystem (IMS) to provide ubiquitous and access network-independent IP-based services for next-generation networks via merging cellular networks and the Internet. The IP Multimedia Subsystem (IMS) seems to be the technology that will prevail in Next Generation Networks (NGNs). The users wish to communic...

A critical step in experimental quantum information processing QIP is to implement control of quantum systems protected against decoherence via informational encodings, such as quantum error-correcting codes, noiseless subsystems, and decoherence-free subspaces. These encodings lead to the promise of fault-tolerant QIP, but they come at the expense of resource overheads. Part of the challenge i...