Online social networking has quickly become one of the most common activities of Internet users. As social networks evolve, they encourage users to share more information, requiring the users, in turn, to place more trust into social networks. Peer-to-peer (P2P) overlays provide an environment that can return ownership of information, trust, and control to the users, away from centralized third...

Large scale distributed applications spanning multiple domains should satisfy administrative autonomy property — allow users in a domain to control flow of information in to and out of their domains. Though DHTs offer a scalable solution for building distributed applications, they do not guarantee this property. We present a novel Autonomous DHT (ADHT) that guarantees path locality and path con...

In four studies children were asked to read aloud a passage of randomly ordered common words with and without a coloured sheet of plastic (overlay) placed upon the page. The children's rate of reading increased with the overlay, for some children more than for others. The children were also asked to undertake a test of texture segmentation in which targets consisting of a structured texture had...

The aging of reinforced concrete structures is one the biggest concerns in civil engineering today since billions dollars are spent annually on deck repairs and replacements. This study focuses rehabilitation box girders used bridge construction. Bridge with a new overlay possesses many challenges that involve cracking debonding caused by restraining effect substrate. leads to development tensi...

Many structured overlay networks rely on a ring invariant as a core network connectivity element. The responsibility ranges of the participating peers and navigability principles (greedy routing) heavily depend on the ring structure. For correctness guarantees, each node needs to eagerly maintain its immediate neighboring links the ring invariant. However, the ring maintenance is an expensive t...