TCP Westwood (TCPW), is a TCP protocol with a sender-side modification of the window congestion control scheme. This protocol is intended to act in packet lossy environments. It relies on a continuous estimation, by the traffic source, of the connection packet rate based on the ACK reception rate. And this in order to compute the congestion window and the slow start threshold settings after a c...

due to the increasing importance of internet banking and the critical actions taken by banks in order to offer internet banking services in iran and also according to the increasing number of customers using internet banking services, it is essential for bank marketers to understand internet banking customers better. only through this comprehension the marketers are able to develop strategies a...

BACKGROUND To address the age-friendliness of living environment in cities, the World Health Organization (WHO) launched the "Age-friendly cities" (AFC) initiative in 2005. To date, however, no universal standard tool for assessing age-friendliness of a community has been agreed. METHODOLOGY Two quantitative studies on AFC conducted in two Hong Kong districts-Sha Tin and Tuen Mun-were compare...

Patient satisfaction scores are increasingly affecting reimbursement for medical care as value-based purchasing becomes more prevalent. Succeeding in this payment model requires physicians and their organizations to first understand how patients judge service quality and then to take a systematic approach to using patient feedback to improve service. All customers form opinions about service...

Objective There is a general tendency toward direct marketing these days. Therefore, instead of designing advertisement and marketing strategies for all the customers in the market, it is recommended to classify the customers based on clustering techniques and then design specific strategies accordingly. This will reduce marketing and advertisement expenses, increase sale department efficientl...

The ideal visualization tools in microneurosurgery should provide magnification, illumination, wide fields of view, ergonomics, and unobstructed access to the surgical field. The operative microscope was the predominant innovation in modern neurosurgery. Recently, a high-definition three-dimensional (3D) exoscope was developed. We describe the first applications in pediatric neurosurgery. The V...

Using a life course perspective, this study analyzes the adaptive strategy of community selection utilized by middle-class dual-earner couples, as well as the perceived family friendliness of their communities. Although many common concerns exist (most paramount being safety, jobs, and housing quality), parents are more apt than nonparents to mention the importance of schools, parks, libraries,...

To respond to increasingly diversifying customer's needs of a product, it has become important to acquire potential viewpoints of the customer’s criteria for product evaluation in the design process. Furthermore, emotional needs, such as design styling and user-friendliness, have become increasingly important for a differentiation strategy in a market in which products have similar performances...

Eggshell was found to be a versatile heterogeneous catalyst for the synthesis of pyrano[3,2-c]quinoline derivatives in good yields. This protocol has the advantages of environmental friendliness, short reaction time, low cost and convenient operation.