This research examined the development of stress responses across second to sixth grades and whether exposure to peer victimization alters stress response trajectories. Youth (338 girls; 298 boys; Mage  = 7.97 years, SD = .37) reported on stress responses; teachers and youth reported on peer victimization. Latent growth curve modeling revealed an increase in effortful engagement responses and a...

This paper presents a new Distributed Spatial Join algorithm with Semijoin technique in a scalable peer-to-peer platform. This technique reduces the network traffic and minimize the processing cost. Tests have demonstrated that the response time has been drastically reduced with the Distributed Spatial Join proposed in this paper. Resumo. Este trabalho apresenta um novo algoritmo de Junção Espa...

Peer influence is generally believed to be a major cause of adolescent drug behavior. This paper reviews research findings on friend selection and projection to suggest that the magnitude of friend influence may be overestimated. This paper also observes that, although adolescent drug use is assumed to begin in response to peer group influence, peer groups have rarely been measured in studies o...

Peer Discovery Protocol for JXTA Peer-to-Peer Network By Snehal Nirav Patel Peer-to-peer (P2P) networking has recently emerged as a new paradigm for resource sharing, for building distributed network, and for grid technology. Peer-to-peer networks offer the significant advantages of decentralized, faulttolerant, and load-balancing systems, with simplicity and ease of use. Despite the multidimen...

Extensive application of Peer-to-Peer systems demands an effective solution for efficient query processing, handling of churn rate, load balancing and maintenance of healthy arrangement of nodes for the improved response of the system. Several key based systems offer an efficient solution for query processing but suffer from transient node population. We present a structured hierarchical Peer-t...

Ontology matching is a key problem in many metadata intensive application domains, including emergency response, data integration, peer-to-peer information sharing, web service composition, and query answering on the web. In this paper we present an emergency response scenario based on the organizational model as used in Trentino region, Italy. We provide a formalization of this scenario with t...

alternative assessment approaches and, among them, self-assessment and peer-assessment are becoming increasingly important in educational contexts. designed to compare self-assessment, peer-assessment, and teacher-assessment, this study included 90 efl students from 3 intact classes divided into 3 groups: self-assessment, peer-assessment, and teacher-assessment. after taking the toefl proficien...

The present study compared the impact of teacher-provided and peer-provided oral assistance in the acquisition of English wh-question forms. Participants were 90 female Iranian EFL learners who constituted the 3 groups of the study: teacherassisted, peer-assisted, and a control group. Participants in the experimental groups received assistance either from the teacher or a peer during task-based...

This study aimed to evaluate the effect of peer performance, future competitive performance and factors of correlation with peer companies on the manipulation of abnormal real operations. The research subjects included listed companies in Tehran Stock Exchange during 2013-2017. In total, 128 companies were selected as the statistical sample using systematic elimination approach. Peer performanc...