Fair Deal: spelling it out for service users

Spelling it out! Accounting for Spelling Difficulties for Arab Learners of English

User Fair Queing: Fair Allocation of Bandwidth for Users

User Fairness aims at fairly distributing the network resources among users, where a user is an entity that can possibly send different flows through different paths. In this paper we first propose a criterion for user fairness based on political economics fairness theory: the User Maxmin Fairness criterion. Then we propose an architecture, User Fair Queuing (UFQ), that provides user maxmin fai...

A fair deal for the future: flexibilities under TRIPS.

When the Uruguay Rounds concluded in 1994, many countries signed on to the trade agreements creating the World Trade Organization (WTO) in hopes of benefiting from a system of trade rules “dedicated to open, fair and undistorted competition” (1). WTO members also undertook to implement the TradeRelated Aspects of Intellectual Property Rights (TRIPS) Agreement. Developing countries, major develo...

A fair deal for PhD students and postdocs

The relentless expansion that threatens the sustainability of biomedical research in the US takes a heavy toll on young researchers.

Spam E-mail: How Malaysian E-mail Users Deal with It?

This paper attempts to discuss the spam issue from the Malaysian e-mail users’ perspective. The purpose is to discover how Malaysian users handle the spam e-mail problem. From the experiences we hope to discover the necessary effort needed to be undertaken to face this problem in the context of Malaysia. A survey was conducted to understand how Malaysian individual perceived spam and what they ...