Contact management is a twofold problem involving a local and global level where the separation between them is rather fuzzy. Locally, users need to deal with contact management, which refers to a local need to store, organize, maintain up to date, and find information that will allow them contacting or reaching other people, organizations, etc. Globally, users deal with identity management tha...

MUD (Multiple User Dungeon) systems are client-server. When the single server goes down, everyone is kicked off and no one can log on. Also, even if there are only a handful of people talking in a given room, a large overall number of users can slow the server and cause lag (higher latency) which makes fluent communication impossible. We introduce Happy Fun MUD, a distributed, peer-to-peer MUD ...

A permutation graph is a simple graph associated with a permutation. Let cn be the number of connected permutation graphs on n vertices. Then the sequence {cn} satisfies an interesting recurrence relation such that it provides partitions of n! as n! =nk=1 ck · (n− k)!. We also see that, if uniformly chosen at random, asymptotically almost all permutation graphs are connected. © 2007 Elsevier B....

A semantic link P2P network specifies and manages semantic relationships between peers’ data schemas. The proposed approach includes a tool for constructing and maintaining P2P semantic link networks, a semantic-based peer similarity measurement approach for efficient query routing, and peer schema mapping algorithms for query reformulation and heterogeneous data integration. The advantages of ...

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UNLABELLED Parental input has been described as influential in early childhood stuttering yet the exact nature of this influence remains equivocal. The present study aimed to examine whether quantitative measures of parenting styles, parent and peer attachment patterns, and parent- and self-reported child behaviour could differentiate between school-aged children who stutter (CWS) (n=10) and th...

introduction: adolescence is concerned as a developmental and crucial process. the majority of adolescents are experienced less or more some difficulties in emotional, behavioral, and social domains. the present study is focused on the girl adolescents’ behavioral problems. methods: the sample included 1879 girls with a range age of 11-21 years. participants were randomly selected from 10 provi...

The purpose of the study was to examine the relations of authoritative parenting and corporal punishment to Chinese first and second graders' effortful control (EC), impulsivity, ego resilience, and maladjustment, as well as mediating relations. A parent and teacher reported on children's EC, impulsivity, and ego resilience; parents reported on children's internalizing symptoms and their own pa...

P2P worms pose a serious threat to Internet infrastructure and terminal users because of their overwhelming propagation speed. Manual reactions fall behind the fast propagation of P2P worms. Current automatic techniques are still not adequate to be deployed on a large scale for several challenges including low accuracy, low efficiency, etc. In this paper, we bring forward a repair-andpatch appr...