Intelligent agent-based peer-to-peer (IP2P) environments provide a means for pervasively providing and flexibly co-ordinating ubiquitous business application services to the mobile users and workers in the dynamically changing contexts of open, large-scale, and pervasive settings. In this paper, we present an abstract architecture for service delivery and coordination in IP2P environments that ...

Do not cite without permission of the author(s). It has been peer-reviewed by an external reviewer and a member of the US2010 Advisory Board. Brown University. We are grateful to John Logan for leading the US2010 project, Claude Fischer for helpful comments on earlier drafts, Brian Stults for providing us with data files, and Lindsay Fox for her outstanding research assistance.

Purpose To advance the discussion of retro-innovation and highlight implications this has for provision agricultural advice role advisors.Design/Methodology/Approach 70 interviews with farmers 10 experts on biological pest control direct marketing in Latvia were conducted.Findings Biological are practices that challenge existing conceptions as they exhibit incremental development, while still c...

OBJECTIVE To determine whether a finite population, with severe physical disability, had better perceived quality of life, health status, and lower cost depending on whether they used agencies for their caregivers or hired, trained, and reimbursed their caregivers, independently. DESIGN AND SETTING A survey, including demographics and portions of the Rand-36, LSI-A, PASI, PIP and CHART. The i...

Various kinds of assistance, including prompts, worked examples, direct instruction, and modeling, are widely provided to learners across educational and training programs. Yet, the effectiveness of assistance during training on long-term learning is widely debated. The authors examined how the extent and schedule of assistance during training on a novel mouse movement task impacted unassisted ...

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Doctor Benzer is an Addiction Medicine Specialist. He is Medical Director of the Statewide Physician Health Program. .................................................................................................................................................... INTRODUCTION The State Medical Society of Wisconsin’s Statewide Physician Health Program (SPHP) is entering its third decade of pro...

This chapter presents a clustered peer-to-peer system as a resource organization structure for webservice hosting platforms where service quality such as response time and service availability are provided with assurance. The peer-to-peer organization allows integration of autonomous resources into a single platform in a scalable manner. In clustered peer-to-peer systems, nodes are organized in...

A high prevalence of clinically significant mental health problems was found in children affected by the Fukushima disaster Japan. We reviewed literature on child to examine how disasters impacted Fukushima. Children’s environments, such as family and peer systems, were disrupted radiation concerns evacuation. As struggled with less resources at home school, they also had deal discrimination. V...