A commonly employed abstraction for studying the object placement problem for the purpose of Internet content distribution is that of a distributed replication group. In this work the initial model of distributed replication group of Leff, Wolf, and Yu (IEEE TPDS ’93) is extended to the case that individual nodes act selfishly, i.e., cater to the optimization of their individual local utilities...

Due to the increase of users the efficient usage of spectrum plays an important role in digital terrestrial television networks. In digital video broadcasting, local and global content are transmitted by single frequency network and multifrequency network respectively. Multifrequency network support transmission of global content and it consumes large spectrum. Similarly local content are well ...

In a quest to overcome the resource curse and enclave extractivism, many rich countries opt implement local content policies (LCPs), popular type of mining reform. LCPs aim facilitate inclusive resource-based development through maximization direct indirect employment, as well creation linkages along beyond value chain. This paper examines why like Guinea – low-income country extremely in bauxi...

this study carried out to determine the differences between oil content and fatty acid compositions of 12 exotic and 6 local safflower genotypes. the experiments were arranged in randomized complete blocks design with three replications in research station of ferdowsi university of mashhad. the results of variance analysis showed that the differences of seed yield, oil content and fatty acid co...