The lifetime of a mobile ad hoc network (MANET) depends on the durability of the battery resource of the mobile hosts. Earlier research has proposed several routing protocols specifically on MANET, but most studies have not focused on the limitations of battery resource. This study proposes a new energy-aware routing protocol, which can increase the durability of the energy resource and, theref...

Background: Infertility leads to profound human suffering, particularly on the women. Women's lack of pregnancy is both physically and socially visible, especially in high fertility societies where women are typically blamed for reproductive failures, even in cases of male infertility. Childless women are more likely to be the victims of domestic violence and may also endure various forms ...

Numerous papers have addressed building Union Catalog (UC) technologies, such as metadata schema, data exchange (e.g., OAI-PMH, Z39.50), and resource classification. In contrast to these approaches, in this article, we focus on UC technologies that leverage resource utilization across digital resources. We take the repositories of National Digital Archives Program (NDAP) in Taiwan as the projec...

In virtualization, without proper scheduling and resource management, a load surge in one VM may unacceptably degrade the performance of another. Key requirement of IO performance virtualization is performance isolation. The current state of performance isolation for virtualization is more rudimentary. This paper presents a resources allocation framework, based on abstracted Xen IO model, that ...

This paper discusses the application of the resource mobilization theory (RMT) to clarify the activities of certain key socio-political groups and movements in Egypt up till 2011. It contends that the political movements in the country have utilized information and communication technologies (ICTs) and social networks sites (SNSs) as a tool for mobilizing people and coordinating anti-regime act...

This exploratory qualitative inquiry examines the perspectives of 26 board members in medium-sized, privately held companies operating United Kingdom. The study question investigates how digital technologies (DT)1 are impacting on director capabilities. Different members’ experiences from their own examined, with attention capturing influence way that directors work. Thematic analysis offers a ...