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Showing 1 to 20 of 38 for “"Internet applications"”.
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Latency-bandwidth tradeoffs in Internet applications
Wide-area Internet links are slow, expensive, and unreliable. This affects applications in two distinct ways. Back-end data processing applications, which need to transfer large amounts of data between data centers across the world, are primarily constrained by the limited capacity of Internet …
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Understanding User Trust Processes in Internet Applications
People appear to be inconsistent when deciding what to trust online. They are cautious in onlinedating platforms but are often naive and careless when acessing online services. We conductedtwo user studies to better understand this difference: one on evaluating online dating profiles andanother on …
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Scalability and performance management of internet applications in the cloud
… a cloud environment enables the hosted Internet application to quickly cope when there is an increase in the workload. However, the overhead of provisioning resources exposes the Internet application to periods of under-provisioning and performance degradation. Moreover, the performance …
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Adoption of the Internet in local sporting bodies : an innovation diffusion approach
… primary aim of this study was to determine the Internet applications being adopted within local sporting clubs and to determine the adoption factors that affect both local sporting clubs and their members. Within this primary aim, the study examined, *The areas where Internet applications are …
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Distributed control of reconfigurable mobile network agents for resource coordination
Considering the tremendous growth of internet applications and network resource federation proposed towards future open access network (FOAN), the need to analyze the robustness of the classical signalling mechanisms across multiple network operators cannot be over-emphasized. It is envisaged, …
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The impact of online forums in the basic english teaching-learning process during semester I 2012 at the Foreign Language Department of the University of El Salvador.
Currently, Internet applications such as blogs, web pages and online forums have played a significant role in education. Classes at the Foreign Language Department (FLD) have been traditional; however, in semester I-2012, it was created the “Basic English Forum” which proves that this kind of …
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Learning to Predict End-to-End Network Performance
… network performance is essential to many Internet applications and systems including traffic engineering, content distribution networks, overlay routing, application-level multicast, and peer-to-peer applications. On the one hand, such knowledge allows service providers to adjust their …
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Cryptarray A Scalable And Reconfigurable Architecture For Cryptographic Applications
… authentication for information exchange between Internet applications. However, software implementations of cryptographic applications are unable to support the quality of service from a bandwidth perspective required by most Internet applications. As a result, various hardware implementations, …
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Impact of technology implementation in a fourth grade classroom: Teacher and student perspectives
… support to the teacher and students with Internet applications and technology devices. Interviews were conducted with students and teacher, and observations were completed over the course of six weeks. Interviews and observations were coded using a comparative analysis method to determine …
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Individual Differences in Internet Usage Motives
… devised by Eysenck & Eysenck (1985) and Internet use and usage motives was examined. A sample of 210 undergraduate students were asked to report on their motives for using the Internet and how often they engaged in a variety of Internet and web-based activities. The findings demonstrate …
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Hooked on the Internet: the prevalence, risk, theory and presenting problem of Internet addiction
As the Internet becomes increasingly ubiquitous and mobile, Internet addiction appears as a potential mental health problem in adolescents and students. From the reported negative consequences, it appears Internet addiction can have a variety of detrimental outcomes for young people that may …
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THE PROGRESSIVE BLOGOSPHERE AS E-MOVEMENT: IDENTITY, MOBILIZATION, AND THE USER-BASED MODEL
… movement. Previous research into social movement applications of the Internet and computer-mediated communication (CMC) focuses on "street" movement application of Internet resources. These studies find that though Internet applications are a boon to movements, they offer nothing novel, instead …
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Business development trends and analysis for the data networking market
The Internet has come a long way after the widely reported invention by Sandra Lerner and Leonard Bosack of the router, a device that can transmit data from one network to another based on certain protocols and principles. Despite a slow start in the mid 1980s, the Internet has emerged as one of …
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Design and Implementation of User Level Socket Application Programming Interface with Socket Splitting and Mediation
… the past few decades, the size and scope of the Internet has grown exponentially. In order to maintain support for legacy clients, new applications and services have been limited by dependence on traditional sockets and TCP, which provide no support for modifying endpoints after connection setup. …
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Burst TCP: an approach for benefiting mice flows
… stack and for carrying most than 90% of all Internet traffic. In addition, the stability and efficiency of the actual TCP congestion control mechanisms have been extensively studied and are indeed well known by the networking community. However, new Internet applications and functionalities …
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Some new localized quality of service models and algorithms for communication networks. The development and evaluation of new localized quality of service routing algorithms and path selection methods for both flat and hierarchical communication networks.
… is gaining an increasing interest in the Internet community due to the new emerging Internet applications such as real-time multimedia applications. These applications require better levels of quality of services than those supported by best effort networks. Therefore providing such …
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LibX 2.0
As Internet applications continue to gain popularity, users are becoming increasingly comfortable with using the Web as part of their daily lives. Content is becoming digitized on a massive scale, and web browsers are emerging as the platform of choice. Library catalogs, or OPACs, have become …
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UIA : a global connectivity architecture for mobile personal devices
The Internet's architecture, designed in the days of large, stationary computers tended by technically savvy and accountable administrators, fails to meet the demands of the emerging ubiquitous computing era. Nontechnical users now routinely own multiple personal devices, many of them mobile, and …
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