The journal has made several important changes this year. First, we moved to a rolling article publication mode; that is, articles are published as soon they fully reviewed, accepted and copyedited. This allows quicker diffusion of the studies authors’ work. Our second innovation been removing need register reader access contents. original rationale for was assess number readers journal; howeve...

Testing is performed for a variety of reasons-performance verification, experimentation, manufacturing assurance, diagnosis, process improvement, etc. Tlhe growing complexity of full-scale systems has outstripped our ability to provide detailed simulations for micro level diagnosis. When we have completed the experimentation and the verification through brass-board, we begin full scale engineer...

In this paper, we propose a new, e cient, fast retransmission scheme for wireless LANs. Wireless LANs are becoming popular and providing an e cient protocol over a wireless link is important. In our experiments with 2.4 GHz WaveLAN, the poor TCP performance observed was attributed to frequent expiration of the retransmission timer. To avoid unnecessary expiration of the retransmission timer, we...

We analyze amodel in which firms are able to acquire information about product risks and may or may not be required to disclose this information. We initially study the effect of disclosure rules assuming that firms are not liable for the harm caused by their products. Mandatory disclosure is obviously superior to voluntary disclosure given the information about product risks that firms possess...

This study aims to identify characteristics that predict full disclosure by victims of sexual abuse during a forensic interview. Data came from agency files for 987 cases of sexual abuse between December 2001 and December 2003 from Children’s Advocacy Centers (CACs) and comparison communities within four U.S. states. Cases of children fully disclosing abuse when interviewed were compared to cas...