A recent National Labor Relations Board ruling declared Northwestern football players employees and gave them the right to unionize. This ruling is part of ongoing scrutiny of The National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA’s) model which labels college athletes as amateurs and limits player compensation to grant-in-aid (scholarships). Our paper estimates the marginal revenue product (MRP) o...

A (randomized, anonymous) voting rule maps any multiset of total orders of (aka. votes over) a fixed set of alternatives to a probability distribution over these alternatives. A voting rule f is neutral if it treats all alternatives symmetrically. It satisfies participation if no voter ever benefits from not casting her vote. It is falsename-proof if no voter ever benefits from casting addition...

IMPORTANCE Rituximab induces B-lymphocyte apoptosis by targeting CD20 antigen and has shown efficacy in antibody-mediated autoimmune disease. Rituximab is increasingly being acknowledged as an effective and safe treatment option for pemphigus. OBJECTIVE To assess the clinical response of patients with pemphigus to rituximab using a modified fixed-dose rheumatoid arthritis protocol (1 g intrav...

This article describes the identification protocol on a hybrid Wireless Local Area Network (WLAN) with mobile and fixed stations. Our objective is to add decision elements to optimize the routing in such a system. Our protocol is based on the use of distributed reception tables in mobile stations. This protocol has been developed in Java.

Recently, Wireless network industry for the ubiquitous generation is growing quickly. Especially, MANET (Mobile Ad-hoc Networks) is one of special issues of the networking technology for the ubiquitous environments. Then, many researchers are study MANET for enhanced performance. But many researchers are not focusing on developing routing protocol. In this paper, we proposed enhanced routing pr...

A new combined test, accelerated exercise following mild hyperventilation (HV), was examined to determine whether it is effective at detecting a positive response in patients with pharmacologically-induced coronary vasospasm and near normal coronary arteries. Fifty-eight consecutive patients who underwent both triple non-invasive spasm provocation tests and diagnostic coronary angiography were ...

In this paper, we study the multichannel exposed terminal problem in multihop wireless networks. We propose a multichannel medium access control (MAC) protocol, called multichannel MAC protocol with hopping reservation (MMAC-HR), to resolve the multichannel exposed terminal problem. MMAC-HR uses two radio interfaces; one interface is fixed over the control channel, and the other interface switc...

This paper presents Direction based Hazard Routing Protocol (DHRP) for disseminating information about fixed road hazards such as road blocks, tree fall, boulders on road, snow pile up, landslide, road maintenance work and other obstacles to the vehicles approaching the hazardous location. The proposed work focuses on dissemination of hazard messages on highways with sparse traffic. The vehicle...

A mobile ad-hoc network (MANET) is collection of intercommunicating mobile hosts forming a spontaneous network without using established network infrastructure. Unlike the cellular or infrastructure networks who have a wired backbone connecting the base-station, the MANETs have neither fixed routers nor fixed locations. Their performance largely depend upon the routing mechanism & nature of mob...

Transmission Control Protocol (TCP) performs well in traditional wired networks where the packet loss rate is low. However, in heterogeneous wired/wireless networks, the high packet loss rate over wireless links may result in excessive invocation of the congestion control algorithm, thus deteriorating the performance of TCP. In this paper, a novel localized link layer retransmission protocol, c...