Online text chat is a very popular Internet-based application. Previous studies have identified several problems with standard text chat systems. Real-time collaborative editing systems can be used for text chat. This paper compares text chat via collaborative editing systems with text chat via standard text chat systems. It has been identified that standard text chat system do not maintain som...

In IEEE802.11,it is the general case that the further away the stations from the access point (AP), the slower the data rate is to transmit to the AP. With the existing IEEE 802.11 MAC, in the long run all stations end up with the same amount of throughput, no matter if they transmit slow or fast. When one host captures the channel for a long time because its bit rate is low, it penalizes other...

We study the transmission of two correlated and memoryless sources (U, V ) over several multipleuser phase asynchronous channels. Namely, we consider a class of phase-incoherent multiple access relay channels (MARC) with both non-causal and causal unidirectional cooperation between encoders, referred to as phase-incoherent unidirectional non-causal cooperative MARC (PI-UNCC-MARC), and phase-inc...

Mediated discourse as learnable social interaction: a study of the language of novice users of communication channels. (2004) " Bye alligator, " – mediated discourse as learnable social interaction: a study of the language of novice users of communication channels. Unpublished paper. Online at [wherever you found it and access date] Abstract Polyvocality, according to Bakhtin (1986), is integra...

We test the common assumption that information ‘rich’ contexts lead to more accurate personality judgments than information ‘lean’ contexts. Pairs of unacquainted students rendered judgments of one another’s personalities after interacting in one of three, increasingly rich, contexts: Internet ‘chat’, telephone, or face-to-face. Accuracy was assessed by correlating participants’ judgments with ...

OBJECTIVE To test the efficacy of Counselor-Assisted Problem Solving (CAPS) versus an Internet resource comparison (IRC) condition in reducing behavior problems in adolescents following traumatic brain injury (TBI). DESIGN Randomized clinical trial with interviewers naive to treatment condition. SETTING Three large tertiary children's hospitals and 2 general hospitals with pediatric commitm...

This paper describes the implementation of a computer program that responds to chat messages sent by users of an internet chat client. The program uses a statistical model of previous chat messages sent and received by the author to determine possible meanings of incoming messages and select an appropriate response. Two heuristics are also used to allow the program to respond in cases where the...

The potential of synchronous chat through the Internet to improve online learning experiences has rarely been discussed by researchers. The case study reported in this paper discovers the needs of synchronous communication and assesses the value of online chats in distance-learning environments. Both qualitative and quantitative methods were used to analyze the value of the chat sessions. Insig...

Status of This Memo This document specifies an Internet standards track protocol for the Internet community, and requests discussion and suggestions for improvements. Please refer to the current edition of the "Internet Official Protocol Standards" (STD 1) for the standardization state and status of this protocol. Distribution of this memo is unlimited. Abstract A frame relay pseudowire is a me...

The content of many popular ftp and web sites on the Internet are replicated at other sites, called ‘‘mirrors’’; typically, to decrease the network load at the original site, to make information available closer to its users for higher availability; and to decrease the bandwidth requirements these sites place on long-haul network connections, such as international and backbone links. Even thoug...