Many works have studied the negative impact of slow start on the performance of short transfers. Some works propose to accelerate the window increase during this phase in order to improve the performance especially on satellite links. Others propose to set the slow start threshold at the beginning of the connection to a more accurate value in order to avoid losses. But, these works didn’t accou...

Chip Interconnect delay and power is a primary criterion in the design of an Integrated Circuit because of its close connection to the speed of IC. Interconnect Buffers in VLSI circuits is the most widespread procedure used to decrease power and delay but they outcome in high Delay and power dissipation, thereby degrading the performance (i.e.) operating speed of an integrated circuit. Use of b...

Diode lasers operating at 3 mu m in continuous wave mode at room temperature were fabricated using metamorphic molecular beam epitaxy. The laser heterostructures have a lattice constant 1.3-1.6% bigger than that of the GaSb substrates. The mismatch between the epi-structure and the substrate lattice constants was accommodated by a network of misfit dislocations confined within linearly composit...

Roughly 45% of the assessed lakes in the United States are impaired for one or more reasons. Eutrophication due to excess phosphorus loading is common in many impaired lakes. Various strategies are available to lake residents for addressing declining lake water quality, including septic system upgrades and establishing riparian buffers. This study examines 25 lakes to determine whether septic u...

Transactional memory is an appealing technology which frees programmer from lock-based programming. However, most of current hardware transactional memory systems are proposed for multi-core processors, and may face some challenges with the increasing of processor cores in many-core systems, such as inefficient utilization of transactional buffers, unsolved problem of transactional buffer overf...

Aim To examine the trends of 1982–2003 satellite-derived normalized difference vegetation index (NDVI) values at several spatial scales within tundra and boreal forest areas of Alaska. Location Arctic and subarctic Alaska. Methods Annual maximum NDVI data from the twice monthly Global Inventory Modelling and Mapping Studies (GIMMS) NDVI 1982–2003 data set with 64-km 2 pixels were extracted from...

Monoclonal antisera against helper (serum OKT4) and suppressor (serum OKT8) T cells were employed in a complement-dependent lymphocytotoxicity reaction to isolate helper and suppressor T cells from peripheral blood mononuclear cells. When prepared by this method, helper and suppressor T cells had a purity of 67.8 percent and 78.8 percent, respectively. Approximately 56 percent of viable suppres...

VC merging allows many routes to be mapped to the same VC label, thereby providing a scalable mapping method that can support thousands of edge routers. VC merging requires reassembly buffers so that cells belonging to different packets intended for the same destination do not interleave with each other. This document investigates the impact of VC merging on the additional buffer required for t...

This chapter describes an empirical analysis of the mediating effects of supply chain coordination strategy and manufacturing IT infrastructure on the relationship between business complexity and inventory turnover. Business complexity describes the diversity and volatility associated with a firm’s product markets. To cope with this complexity, firms deploy inventory buffers. This deployment sh...

Four criteria are generally used to prioritize agricultural lands for placing conservation buffers. The criteria include soil erodibility, hydrological sensitivity, wildlife habitat, and impervious surface rate that capture conservation buffers' benefits in reducing soil erosion, controlling runoff generation, enhancing wildlife habitat, and mitigating stormwater impacts, respectively. This art...