Communication is essential to members of a society not only for the expression of personal information, but also for the protection from environmental threats. Highly social mammals have a distinct characteristic: when conspecific animals are together, they show a better recovery from experiences of distress. This phenomenon, termed 'social buffering', has been found in rodents, birds, non-huma...

The subjective quality of video streaming has been studied for typical mobile setups, where bad radio conditions give rise to buffering effects (initial buffering and rebuffering). The study included a variety of transport bit rates, frame rates, types of content and buffering/rebuffering conditions. The properties of interruptions having the greatest impact on the perceived quality were found ...

A wearable computing has been proposed as an alternative of the best mobile computing interfaces and devices. A digital garment acts as a key element of wearable computing. We will apply digital yarn link as material of data communications on purpose to take advantage of a digital garment. This paper proposes the link buffering architecture and the transmission processes for peer-to-peer (P2P) ...

Chemical Buffering Extracellular buffers, including plasma proteins, phosphates, and bicarbonate, are the earliest defense against acidosis. The most prominent extracellular buffer is bicarbonate, which is highly abundant and acts as a dynamic buffer by independently regulating Pco2 through changes in alveolar ventilation. This feature increases buffering capacity by more than 10-fold. Bufferin...

We consider buffer management in support of large-scale gossip-based peer-to-peer data dissemination protocols. Coupled with an efficient buffering mechanism, system-wide buffer usage can be optimized while providing reliability and scalability in such protocols. We propose a novel approach, Stepwise Fair-share Buffering, that provides uniform load distribution and reduces the overall buffer us...

Buffering architectures and policies for their efficient management constitute one of the core ingredients of a network architecture. In this work we introduce a new specification language, BASEL, that allows to express virtual buffering architectures and management policies representing a variety of economic models. BASEL does not require the user to implement policies in a high-level language...

The arterial baroreflex buffers slow (<0.05 Hz) blood pressure (BP) fluctuations, mainly by controlling peripheral resistance. Baroreflex sensitivity (BRS), an important characteristic of baroreflex control, is often noninvasively assessed by relating heart rate (HR) fluctuations to BP fluctuations; more specifically, spectral BRS assessment techniques focus on the BP-to-HR transfer function ar...

Direct survey measures of turnout often suffer from misreporting, particularly among non-voters. We investigate whether misreporting in online surveys can be reduced by two new question designs aimed at strengthening or buffering respondent's self-integrity against the perceived psychological threat admitting non-voting. Drawing on evidence experiments embedded vote validated after 2016 UK EU R...

Aim of the study is to evaluate the correlation between dental caries and salivary flow, pH and buffering capacity in young adult South Indian population. According to DMFT scores eighty subjects between 20 to 30 years of age were divided into four groups. Saliva samples collected were estimated for salivary flow, pH and buffering capacity and the data was statistically analysed. The pH, flow r...