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Showing 1 to 12 of 12 for “"network diversity"”.
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Towards utilizing network diversity for future internet protocols
In den vergangenen Jahrzehnten hat sich das Internet von einem Forschungsnetzwerk hin zu einer wichtigen, von der Allgemeinheit genutzten Infrastruktur entwickelt. Dabei hat es sich in nahezu allen Bereichen einschließlich seiner Größe, Topologie und Nutzungsweise entscheidend verändert. Die …
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An Opportunistic Routing Protocol Design for Wireless Networks: A Physical Layer Perspective
Ad hoc networking research has received considerable attention in recent years as it represents the next phase of networking evolution. Efficient and reliable routing of data from the source to destination with minimal power consumption remains the crux of the research problem. Fading mechanisms …
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Analysis of the Indian Vegetable Seed Industry
… is due to the large infrastructural research network, diversity of agro-climatic conditions, and relatively less expensive labor and technical manpower in India. The complementary mode of public/private partnership in seed R&D and marketing linkages are likely to continue which will support …
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Diversity in students' personal networks : an egocentric network analysis of diversity's role in student thriving.
Racial and ethnic diversity has previously been linked with a multitude of positive benefits in business, K-12 education, higher education, and in communities. Additionally, The Thriving Quotient is a mechanism for better understanding student success and wellbeing from a psychological perspective. …
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Springdale, Arkansas Public Art and Its Impact on Diverse Community Members
… public art on locals’ lives and their social network diversity. Throughout the interviews several themes emerged. These include notions that the public art’s impact on an individual is driven by the individual’s 1) relationship with the art’s setting, 2) self-identified commonalities with the …
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UNEQUAL EXPERIENCES: HOW SOCIAL ENVIRONMENTS SHAPE PEOPLE¿S ATTITUDES TOWARDS INEQUALITY
… how social environments—particularly personal networks and socializing institutions—shape individuals' attitudes towards inequality. It fills a critical gap in distributive justice research by exploring the effects of the socioeconomic composition of acquaintances, social network size, and life …
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Exploiting System Diversity in Peer-to-Peer Publish-Subscribe Systems
… presents new techniques that exploit system diversity within a particular class of peer-to-peer publish-subscribe systems. We show that by directly addressing interest and network diversity as a first class design principle, the scale and performance of such systems can be improved. This …
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Cross-layer design for wireless sensor relay networks
In recent years, the idea of wireless sensor networks has gathered a great deal of attention. A distributed wireless sensor network may have hundreds of small sensor nodes. Each individual sensor contains both processing and communication elements and is designed in some degree to monitor the …
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Essays on Information Technologies, Social Networks and Individual Economic Outcomes
… on connectivity through social and communication networks and labor market outcomes. The first paper offers a simple model of how technology may be reshaping the distribution of individual income in the US between 1960 and 2008. First, is shows fractal patterns of the income distribution, which …
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Mobile ad hoc networks for intelligent systems
… major promotion toward the development of ad hoc networks. Mobile ad hoc networks feature dynamic topology, self-organization, limited bandwidth and battery power of a node. They do not rely on specialized routers for path discovery and traffic routing. Research on ad hoc networks has been …
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Supporting Intercultural Collaborations In Blended And Online Settings: A Randomised Control Trial Of Internationalised Academic Content
… incorporating learning analytics and social network analysis highlighted that social network diversity and cultural traits strongly impacted participation. This was next evaluated through in-depth interviews using a unique mediating artefact method. These findings provided a nuanced …
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Effects of long-term participation in tennis on cognitive function in elderly individuals
… (13.6 ± 3.0 y), BMI (27.8 ± 4.3), social network diversity, cognitive activity, depression, total physical activity energy expenditure (4285.4 ± 2723.4 kcal), and physical function. Global cognitive function was determined by the Montreal Cognitive Assessment (MoCA). The cognitive function …