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A recurrent problem in the study of Egyptian ceramics is the distinction between the everyday types of vessels used by the living and the pots chosen as grave goods. Since most of our standard typologies are composed of examples from tomb groups, utilitarian wares are often not represented (Bourriau 1986/87). This distinction is even greater for the cultures of Nubia where we have far fewer cor...

In network management middle wares are required to enhance reliability and efficiency of distributed systems. The proposed approach uses swarm-intelligence networks at the monitoring level to provide self-organization, adaptability, scalability and reactivity features. Resource management is performed by a multi-agent based layer. Knowledge exchange between the monitoring and management layers ...

We propose a 0/1 integer programming model to tackle the office space allocation (OSA) problem which refers to assigning room space to a set of entities (people, machines, roles, etc.), with the goal of optimising the space utilisation while satisfying a set of additional requirements. In the proposed approach, these requirements can be modelled as constraints (hard constraints) or as objective...

A retrospective survey was conducted on 67 boys in a London remand home during the years 1965-7 inclusive who were known to have taken drugs. The boys were divided into a "hard" and a "soft" group according to whether or not there was evidence of narcotic taking. The groups were compared and the hard group showed a significantly greater incidence of abnormal personality, family history of psych...

This paper describes a Windows NT utility the CPU Power Regulator CPR which improves the ca pability of Windows NT in servicing time critical applications CPR considers a distance model to service time critical applications such as multimedia softwares and electronic games in a timely fashion Distinct from the past work CPR adopts a user level control mechanism to manage the resource allocation...

Mobile Agents are soft wares migrating from one node to another to fulfill the task of its owner. In Static mobile agents, agent travels on the predefined path whereas in Dynamic mobile agents, agent route is decided by the host or the agent itself, which makes security much more difficult in it. Mobile agents are not properly utilized because of security concerns. Security becomes more challen...

Noise abatement in office environments often focuses on the reduction of background speech intelligibility and noise level, as attainable with frequency-specific insulation. However, only limited empirical evidence exists regarding the effects of reducing speech intelligibility on cognitive performance and subjectively perceived disturbance. Three experiments tested the impact of low background...

Mobile technology has emerged as a necessity from luxury in day todays lives. This rapid increase in mobile telecommunication has also increased large number of mobile application development strategies. As mobile Application development has distinct requirements which drive several challenges, the appropriate methodology need to be adopted. The unique characteristics of mobile devices and appl...

Green Computing is one of the emerging computing technology in the field of computer science engineering and technology to provide Green Information Technology (Green IT / GC). It is mainly used to protect environment, optimize energy consumption and keeps green environment. Green computing also refers to environmentally sustainable computing. In recent years, companies in the computer industry...