Large-scale competitive P2P systems are threatened by the noncooperation problem, where peers do not forward queries to potential competitors. While non-cooperation is not a problem in current P2P free file-sharing systems, it is likely to be a problem in such P2P systems as pay-per-transaction file-sharing systems, P2P auctions, and P2P service discovery systems, where peers are in competition...

The field of humanoids robotics is widely recognized as the current challenge for robotics research. Developing humanoids poses fascinating problems in the realization of manipulation capability, which is still one of most complex problem in robotics. The paper, starting from an overview of current activities in the development of humanoid robots, with special focus on manipulation, presents th...

Magical thinking is of relevance to obsessive compulsive disorder (OCD), and has been most widely investigated in relation to the cognitive bias known as thought-action fusion (TAF). This is seen as playing a role in the formation of fears about responsibility for harm. We suggest that magical thinking may also characterise some types of neutralising behaviour, which arise in response to those ...

With an emphasis on the novel's description of magical realism and social reformation, this research paper seeks to study Joanne Harris's Chocolat its depiction a society in which residents strongly regard so-called Christian orthodoxy. The researcher used qualitative method, such as literary analysis, analyze novel explore themes motifs. For this, is examined detail, motifs are identified, cha...

with hisextensiveknowledgeof mythologicalstories, astronomy andalchemy, nezamicreatesin haft peykara mysterious narration, which offers new dimensions and colors in every reading.bahrām-egōr, the hero ofnezami’s narration, goes through sevenstages toachieveself-knowledgeand perfection. this process ofindividualityterminateson a friday by his marriage withthe iranian princess. bahrām’s (mars) ma...