Using Psychological Reactance as the framework, this study sought to understand consumer attitudes towards two major direct marketing techniques: unsolicited commercial e-mail and postal direct mail. In particular, audience perceptions of advertising intrusiveness, perceived loss of control (as conceptualized by Psychological Reactance), and irritation regarding the direct marketing techniques ...

This paper describes an efficient hardware implementation of a new technique for interfacing the data exchange between the microprocessor-based systems and the external devices. This technique, based on the use of software/hardware system and a reduced physical address, enlarges the interfacing capacity of the microprocessor-based systems, uses the Direct Memory Access (DMA) to increases the fr...

SCI has many advantages compared with other modern high speed interconnections that makes it very attractive for building costeffective clusters from standard computer systems and PCI-SCI bridges. In this paper we present some ideas for new architecture of such communication hardware, which will combine the benefits of SCI distributed shared memory with high effectiveness and low latencies of p...

Status of this Memo This memo defines a standard way of converting IP addresses to CCITT X.121 addresses and is the recommended standard for use on the Internet, specifically for the Defense Data Network (DDN). This memo provides information for the Internet community. It does not specify an Internet standard. Distribution of this memo is unlimited. 1. Overview The Defense Communication Agency ...