We propose an adaptive carrier sense (CS) scheme with enhanced fairness based on an observation that the conventional adaptive CS mechanism may lead to significant unfairness. Our experimental study with an IEEE 802.15.4 WPAN testbed shows that the proposed algorithm significantly improves fairness compared to the conventional mechanism while providing competitive throughput performance. Copyri...

BACKGROUND The focus on the determinants of the quality of health services in low-income countries is increasing. Health workers' motivation has emerged as a topic of substantial interest in this context. The main objective of this article is to explore health workers' experience of working conditions, linked to motivation to work. Working conditions have been pointed out as a key factor in ens...

Abstract This paper addresses a question which is fundamental to the perceived legitimacy of distribution resources today: what extent does unfairness in how assets came be acquired past affect incomes and wealth now? To answer that requires two things: first, principle determine is, not, just acquisition or source income; second, means using estimate fraction income now unjust. I use put forwa...

STEALTH is a method for using some artificial intelligence-generated models without suffering from malicious attacks or associated unfairness issues. asks so few queries (one per data cluster) that algorithms cannot detect its operation know when to lie.

Fairness of wireless channel access in terms of utilisation and throughput is studied for IEEE 802.11g by using the process algebra PEPA. Three models are presented to describe different operating scenarios. Results are derived which demonstrate when and how unfairness might occur, leading to the penalisation of some nodes in a network.

OBJECTIVE The aim of this study was to examine preschoolers' perceptions of maternal discipline's unfairness. The participants' gender, age, SES, family intactness and sibship size were examined for their possible relevance to such perceptions. METHOD Five vignettes, describing forms of discipline the literature suggests constitute psychological maltreatment, were presented to 57 preschoolers...