Peer-to-peer networks are useful for the file transferring within the group of peers in the network. But usually files are transferred in slow speed, if the files are larger in size. Also the peers don‟t have much utility within them. In order to enhance the utilities of the individual peers, each peer has to configure with greater CPU power, bandwidth, and storage space. But practically it is ...

We study the formation of gender identity by looking at the labor-market decisions of young women. Specifically, we investigate whether and how a woman’s work behavior depends on the work behavior of her mother and that of her friends’ mothers. Using a representative sample of U.S. teenagers and their schoolmates followed over time, we find that both intergenerational channels positively affect...

Over the past year, several hundred Army officers have discussed tactical and military management scenarios using an electronic collaborative learning environment. The scenarios were either “Think Like a Commander” scenarios developed at Ft. Leavenworth or “Tacit Knowledge of Military Leadership” scenarios developed jointly by the Army Research Institute and Yale University. A standard threaded...

Social interactions are widely recognized to play an important role in smoking initiation among adolescents. In this paper we hypothesize that individual with ‘stronger’ personalities (i.e. emotionally stable, conscientious individuals) are better able to resist peer pressure in the uptake of smoking. We exploit detailed friendship nominations in the US Add Health data, and extend the Spatial A...

The present investigation is engaged with a quantitative study of German compounds in the text of technical science. We have analyzed word classes for German compounds in Book “Wirtschaftsinformatik” by H. R. Hansen et al (2015). In such a way, 20 pages of the above-mentioned book have been studied with a sample of 221 German compounds. The data have been processed statistically. The results ca...

The second year of life sees dramatic developments in infants' ability to understand emotions in adults alongside their growing interest in peers. In this study, the authors used a social-referencing paradigm to examine whether 12-, 18-, and 24-month-old children could use a peer's positive or negative emotion messages about toys to regulate their own behavior with the toys. They found that 12-...

A fundamental consideration in designing successful trust scores in a peer-to-peer system is the self-interest of individual peers. We propose a strategyproof partition mechanism that provides incentives for peers to share files, is non-manipulable by selfish interests, and approximates trust scores based on EigenTrust[5]. The basic idea behind the partition mechanism is that the peers are part...

In reputation-based peer-to-peer systems, reputation is used to build trust between peers and help selecting the right peers to download from. In this paper, we argue that reputation should not be used for service differentiation among the peers. To provide the right incentives for peers to share files and contribute to the system, the new concept of Contribution Behavior is introduced for part...