There is currently a large variety of heterogeneous wireless access networks and cellular systems available, capable of providing data services. However, such systems require that users remain connected to a same network or terminate all communications when changing the point of attachment during handoff to another network or access technique. This paper describes link layer parameters which ca...

Networking for challenged environments, or Delayand Disruption-Tolerant Networking as it is now most commonly referred to, has attracted great attention in the past few years by the networking research community. Connectivity disruptions, limited network capacity, energy and storage constraints of the participating, mobile devices and the arbitrary movement of nodes are only a few of the challe...

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The efficacy of three different treatment protocols was compared: 1) simple chest tube drainage (Drain); 2) adjunctive intrapleural streptokinase (IP-SK); and 3) an aggressive empirical approach incorporating SK and early surgical drainage (SK+early OP) in patients with pleural empyema and high-risk parapneumonic effusions. This was a nonrandomized, prospective, controlled time series study of ...

Fibre Channel Over TCP/IP (FCIP) describes mechanisms that allow the interconnection of islands of Fibre Channel storage area networks over IP-based networks to form a unified storage area network in a single Fibre Channel fabric. FCIP relies on IP-based network services to provide the connectivity between the storage area network islands over local area networks, metropolitan area networks, or...

Selecting the most reliable method to deliver exogenous steroids remains a problem for researchers, particularly when designing experiments on small birds. We used intraperitoneal (IP) osmotic pumps to deliver exogenous corticosterone (CORT) and RU486 in captive White-throated Sparrows. Males received implants containing either a low (LD) or moderate dose (MD) of CORT, RU486 (RU), or polyethyle...

The initiative taken by the PRIDE investigators is to be commended and fully supported (1). They correctly identify gaps in the knowledge of how to manage inpatient dysglycemia, in particular hyperglycemia. However, as discussed recently by one of us, while there is plenty of evidence to show that hyperglycemia is associated with poor outcomes in hospitalized patients, there is almost no data t...

Using twisted Fock spaces, we formulate and study two twisted versions of the n-point correlation functions of Bloch-Okounkov [BO], and then identify them with q-expectation values of certain functions on the set of (odd) strict partitions. We find closed formulas for the 1-point functions in both cases in terms of Jacobi θ-functions. These correlation functions afford several distinct interpre...

Solutions for mobility, multi-homing, support for localised address management (i.e. via NATs), and end-to-end security are functions that Internet users find increasingly desirable. Their respective solutions have not been developed in concert and their combined use may not be harmonious. Meanwhile, the Internet has a number of different namespaces, for example the IP address or the Domain Nam...

-Website phishing is one of the crucial research topics for the internet community due to the massive number of online daily transactions. The process of predicting the phishing activity for a website is a typical classification problem in data mining where different website’s features such as URL length, prefix and suffix, IP address, etc., are used to discover concealed correlations (knowledg...