The advent of Grid environments made feasible the solution of computational intensive problems in a reliable and cost-effective way. As workflow systems carry out more complex and mission-critical applications, Quality of Service (QoS) analysis serves to ensure that each application meets user requirements. In that frame, we present a novel algorithm which allows the mapping of workflow process...

Multihop wireless network applications require that mission-critical data should be guaranteed to be delivered to their corresponding targets in time. However, end-to-end QoS (Quality of Service) assurance in multihop networks is a very challenging topic. Several schemes have been proposed to provide end-to-end delay assurance for multihop wireless network environment. However, these schemes do...

BACKGROUND Animal and human studies suggest that stress experienced early in life has detrimental consequences on brain development, including brain regions involved in cognitive function. Cognitive changes are cardinal features of depression and posttraumatic stress disorder. Early-life trauma is a major risk factor for these disorders. Only few studies have measured the long-term consequences...

MetaNet is a network management system that provides end-to-end communication services with QoS and communication planning support for mission critical applications. It supports immediate and advance resource reservation, and provides information on immediate and future available communication capacity taking into account network configuration and traffic. MetaNet supports these services over m...

This work presents a case study for a portion of a business process improvement systematic innovation analysis completed at Presbyterian Health Services of New Mexico. Manifold techniques and methodologies are demonstrated which could be useful to anyone pursuing innovation work. The reader will be given insight to: what aspects of an innovation analysis correlate with what portions of the prob...

The present study aimed to assess the factor structure of the childhood trauma questionnaire (CTQ; Bernstein & Fink, 1998), and use it to describe the prevalence of abuse and neglect in Indian adolescents, and its associations with gender, family structure (nuclear vs. joint), and level of parental education. Participants were 702 adolescents from Jammu in the age range of 13-17 years (41.5% fe...

introduction: emotion is fundamental to nursing practice and emotional intelligence is considered as an important characteristic of nurses that can affect the quality of their work including clinical decision-making, critical thinking, evidence and knowledge use in practice, etc. the aim of this research was to assess and compare emotional intelligence between freshman and senior baccalaureate ...

In addition to heredity, exposure early-life adversity is an important predisposing risk factor of suicidal behaviour. Although the association between Childhood Trauma (CT) and suicide well documented, interactions CT behaviour in Treatment-Resistant Depression (TRD) populations have received little coverage. This study aimed evaluate i) a TRD population, ii) role personality traits impulsiven...