Bluetooth is expected to be an important basic constructing component of smart homes. In a smart home environment, many devices will be portable and battery-operated, making power saving an essential issue. In this article we study the problem of managing the low-power sniff mode in Bluetooth, where a slave is allowed to be awake only periodically. One challenging problem is how to schedule eac...

Bluetooth is a universal radio interface in the 2.45Ghz frequency band, which will enable users to connect a range of small electronic devices. Any two or more Bluetooth-enabled devices that come within range of each other can set up an ad hoc connection, called a piconet. Within a piconet, the unit that establishes the piconet becomes the master and the rest of the units act as slaves. The mas...

Scholars have frequently observed that Dionysus is a god who breaks down barriers (of gender, class, social norms, et cetera). This is true in Euripides's Bacchae to a certain extent, and the play's breakdown of the divide between male/female and Greek/foreign has been well examined in scholarship. However, the limitations of this questioning of boundaries are much less discussed. For instance,...

working conditions made them more susceptible to many infectious and parasitic diseases). He describes the types of home and professional care provided to sick slaves by their masters and other slaves. This book contains several outstanding and many valuable essays. It does not alter the support of this reviewer for Cassedy's explanation of the assertions of the distinctiveness of southern scie...

Enslaved healers including herbalists, kaperlatas, hospitalières, infirmières, and accoucheuses existed and flourished in the medical world of Saint Domingue. They were responsible for the creation of an indigenous form of medicine on the island. Using Western, African, and Caribbean remedies, they treated their fellow slaves and white residents of the island. Slaves were more comfortable and m...

Adam Smith made two positive claims about slavery in the context of developing economies. First, Smith explains that slavery is in general highly inefficient. By his account, the net product under freedom is 12 times larger than under slavery. Second, he observes that, despite its inefficiencies, slavery persists in most of the world. Taken together, these claims create a fundamental puzzle: Wh...

January 2, 2006 Abstract The profitability of owning slaves has been a popular area of research in economic history. Existing analyses have focused on estimating the rate of return on slaves and presenting rates of return on other available antebellum investments. Modern stockportfolio performance measures allow us to rank the owning on slaves with other investments of the period over an extend...