Compound TCP (CTCP) is a sender-side improvement for TCP in high-speed and long distance networks. CTCP is a synergy of delay and loss-based congestion control, effectively combining them to achieve good efficiency, RTT fairness and TCP-friendliness. However, CTCP requires detecting incipient congestion effectively by estimating the backlogged packets and comparing it to a pre-defined parameter...

Unlike green sand, chemically bonded sand cannot be used again and again without reclamation because in this system, the mixed sand gets it`s strength through chemical reaction which is irreversible in nature. Each sand particle is coated with this reacted chemical, which behaves like an inert element after usage once. This inert coating also called “Dead” binder needs to be removed from the us...

The home ventilator market has grown in size and complexity. The aim of this study was to determine if common home ventilators are user-friendly for trained intensive care unit (ICU) physicians. Eleven ventilator models were tested by 13 ICU physicians without practical experience in home mechanical ventilation. Six tests were defined (start-up, unlocking, mode and setting recognition, mode cha...

Abstract As the prevalence of dementia rises, modifying built and social environments persons living with (PLWD) becomes increasingly essential. Although there is a call to rigorously evaluate dementia-friendly community initiatives, no known comprehensive evaluation tools exist assess small communities (churches centers). Therefore, we are developing person-centered Dementia-Friendly Community...

1. Introduction The PROGRESS project [1] started in the end of 2001 as a grant from the Polish Committee of Scientific Research co-financed by Sun Microsystems. It aimed to design and implement an access environment to computational services performed by a cluster of Sun servers [2]. The grant, which finished in 2004 with the deployment of the PROGRESS HPC Portal [3], produced a set of grid-por...

This study is concerned with the introduction of synthesized speech into the humancomputer interface. A simulated hotel booking system is described which asks for information via either the screen or a DECtalk speech synthesizer. The degree of redundancy within the computer's response set is varied. The perceived 'friendliness' of the system increased with the use of synthesized speech incorpor...