Many, if not most, well-designed Future Internet protocols fail, and some badly-designed protocols are very successful. This somewhat depressing statement illustrates starkly the critical importance of a protocol's deployability. We present a framework for considering deployment and adoption issues, and apply it to two protocols, Multipath TCP and Congestion Exposure, which we are developing in...

Everyone has experienced injustices and slights, and so approximately everyone has experienced sentiments like anger, resentment, and vengefulness. These are not just feelings. They are also motives; I call them retributive motives. In their grip, one is motivated to confront, retaliate, avenge, or seek retribution, often contrary to better judgment. These motives can be contrasted with prospec...

The mass assembly is believed to be the dominant process of early galaxy formation. This mechanism of galaxy building can proceed either by repeated major mergers with other systems, or by means of accretion of matter from the surrounding regions.

As a result of mass migration from Samoa to neighbouring countries during the 1950s and 1960s, there are now more Samoans living outside of their homeland than there are within the country itself. As many Samoan migrants are getting older, there is an urgent need to transfer the wealth of indigenous knowledge that they possess to the younger generations before it is too late. This is to ensure ...

Using individual employee data from four unionized organization~ over Iwo 3-year periods, this study analyzes the effects of grievance filing and ~ettlement activity on post-grievance settlement outcomes. The results show that performance ratings, work attendance rates, and promotion rates declined and turnover rates increased for grievance filers compared with nonfilers following grievance set...

Ghandmjit L. Bajaj t Department of Computer Science, Purdue University, West Lafayette, IN 47907 In this paper (part one of a trilogy), we introduce the concept of a discriminating family of regular algebraic curves (real, nonsingular and connected). Several discriminating families are obtained by different characterizations of the zero contours of the Bernstein-Bezier (BB) form of bivariate po...

Using the Einstein-Cartan-Dirac theory, we study the effect of torsion on neutrino oscillation. We see that torsion cannot induce neutrino oscillation, but affects it whenever oscillation exists for other reasons. We show that the torsion effect on neutrino oscillation is as important as the neutrino mass effect, whenever the ratio of neutrino number density to neutrino energy is ∼ 10 cm−3 /eV,...

Abstract: For many years, the bulk of research on mathematics teacher learning has consisted of small-scale qualitative studies. While this work has made significant advances in identifying and explicating instructional practices that have the potential for affording all students equitable access to high-quality classroom learning opportunities, what teacher learning and improvement looks like ...