background and objectives: data on patient complains can be used as a feedback to improve the quality of healthcare services. the aim of this study was to develop an indicator for reliable retrieval of statistical data on patient complaints.   methods: a triangulated study was conducted. a comprehensive literature review was done to identifying the relevant major themes. two-rounds of delphi se...

In the paper, we propose a reliable asynchronous image transfer protocol, RAIT. RAIT applies a double sliding window method to node-to-node transfer, with one sliding window for the receiving queue, which is used to prevent packet loss caused by communication failure between nodes, and another sliding window for the sending queue, which prevents packet loss caused by network congestion. The rou...

Abstract: Transfer Entropy has been applied to experimental datasets to unveil causality between variables. In particular, its application to non-stationary systems has posed a great challenge due to restrictions on the sample size. Here, we have investigated the minimum sample size that produces a reliable causal inference. The methodology has been applied to two prototypical models: the linea...

Reliable multicast in wireless applications is gaining importance with the development in technology. Applications like multicast file transfer, distributed computing, chat and whiteboard applications need reliability. However, due to mobility and wireless channel characteristics, obtaining reliability in data transfer is a difficult and challenging task. IEEE 802.11 does not support reliable m...

End-to-end data transfer has long been a fundamental service of Internet. With the trend of multi-interface communication terminals and redundant paths between them both in cellular networks and in the Internet, efficient protocols of multipath transfer are needed to gain the benefits of multi-interfaces. In this paper, we propose SAR-RMTP, a Self-adapted Rescheduling Reliable Multipath Transfe...

In this paper we discuss the application of the certified reduced basis method and the associated software package rbMIT c © to “worked problems” in steady and unsteady conduction. Each worked problem is characterized by an input parameter vector — material properties, boundary conditions and sources, and geometry — and desired outputs — selected fluxes and temperatures. The methodology and ass...

We investigate the custody transfer mechanism proposed for enhancing reliability in delay-tolerant networks. This mechanism, which utilizes hop-by-hop transfer of reliable delivery responsibility, shares many features in common with a database transaction. By considering custody transfer in this light, we observe that it can cause the creation of duplicate message fragments within the network t...

Sender-initiated reliable multicast protocols based on the use of positive acknowledgments (ACKs) can suffer performance degradation as the number of receivers increases. This degradation is due to the fact that the sender must bear much of the complexity associated with reliable data transfer (e.g., maintaining state information and timers for each of the receivers and responding to receivers’...

The present paper deals with the prediction of three-dimensional fluid flow and heat transfer in rib-roughened ducts of square cross-section. Such flows are of direct relevance to the internal cooling system of modern gas turbine blades. The main objective is to assess how a recently developed variant of a cubic non-linear model (proposed by Craft et al. (1999)), that has been shown to produce ...