The aim of this cross-sectional study was to quantify the implementation of MPOWER tobacco control policies among Eastern Mediterranean Region countries. Information was obtained from the 2011 WHO MPOWER report. A checklist was designed and its scoring was agreed by Iranian and international tobacco control specialists. Seven questions were scored from 0-4 and 3 from 0-3. The 22 countries were ...

Replacement policy defines the enhancement factor in deciding the system performance. Many different policies have different effects on the system performance, but still there exist performance gap between processors and memory system. In the IPTV services it provides the various services to the user as per their request, the proposed policy is based on the no of hit count and miss count on the...

eCommerce is a faceless business arrangement where the process of creating trust towards merchants, hereby referred to as “merchant trust”, is still a big challenge. Merchant trust framework can be created by using several factors such as existence (people, physical, and registration), affiliation (third party endorsement, membership, and portal), performance (delivery, payment and community co...

With the evolution of technology, the maintenance of sophisticated systems is of concern for system engineers and system designers. The maintenance cost of the system depends in general on the replacement and repair policies. The system replacement may be in a strictly periodic fashion or on a random basis depending upon the maintenance policy. At failure, the repair of the system may be perfor...

This paper introduces the notion of PoP (Policy of Policies) used to define standard policy replacement strategies in a policy-based network. We also propose an architecture to support PoP within PDPs (Policy Decision Points originally defined by the IETF). The notion of PoP, and the proposed architecture allow the automation of the policy replacement task currently manually executed by the net...

Multimedia proxy plays an important role in media streaming applications. In this paper, we propose an architecture for multimedia proxy across wireless Internet. By considering multiple objectives of multimedia proxy, we design a unified cost metric to measure proxy performance in wireless Internet. Furthermore, we propose a cost-based replacement policy for wireless Internet to improve the pe...

The goal of this thesis is to describe, model, and optimize reverse logistics systems commonly used in the Consumer Electronics industry. The context and motivation for this work stem from a collaboration with an industrial partner, a Fortune 500 company that sells consumer electronics and is one of the top retailers in its sector. The thesis is divided into three parts. In the first part of th...

BACKGROUND In a retrospective case-note and computer database analysis we assessed the outcome of very elderly patients (> or = 75 years old) with end-stage renal disease (ESRD) on renal replacement therapy (RRT). METHODS Fifty-eight individuals aged 75 or over (group 1) commenced RRT between 1 January 1991 and 31 December 1995. Comparisons were made with other patients commencing RRT who wer...

Web proxy caching is used to improve the performance of the Web infrastructure. It aims to reduce network traffic, server load, and user perceived retrieval delays. The heart of a caching system is its page replacement policy, which needs to make good replacement decisions when its cache is full and a new document needs to be stored. The latest and most popular replacement policies like GDSF us...

In this document, we describe the fractal structure of the Netsukuku topology. Moreover, we show how it is possible to use the QSPN v2 on the high levels of the fractal. This document is free; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by the Free Software Foundation; either version 2 of the License, or (at your option) any later vers...