Controller Area Network (CAN) is a well designed communications bus for sending and receiving short real-time control messages at speeds of up to 1Mbit/sec. One of the perceived drawbacks to CAN has been the inability to bound accurately the worst-case response time of a given message (i.e. the longest time between queueing the message and the message arriving at the destination processors). Th...

The Interconnection Network (IN) connecting computing nodes in parallel systems has become one of the key research issues in parallel computer architecture. Traditionally, the INs in parallel systems for message passing have been built on the basis of logic circuits with different topology structures. Currently, the bandwidth of data transmission for message passing in available parallel system...

One of the missing features in the existing Internet mail and messaging standards is a facility for server-to-server and server-toclient event notifications related to message store events. As the scope of Internet mail expands to support more diverse media (such as voice mail) and devices (such as cell phones) and to provide rich interactions with other services (such as web portals and legal ...

The sleeper effect in persuasion is a delayed increase in the impact of a message that is accompanied by a discounting cue. Despite a long history, the sleeper effect has been notoriously difficult to obtain or to replicate, with the exception of a pair of studies by Gruder et al. (1978). We conducted a series of 16 computer-controlled experiments and a replication of the Gruder et al. study to...

Children with autism may have difficulties with visual disengagement-that is, inhibiting current fixations and orienting to new stimuli in the periphery. These difficulties may limit these children's ability to flexibly monitor the environment, regulate their internal states, and interact with others. In typical development, visual disengagement is influenced by a phasic alerting network that i...