The service and business models of a Distributed Cloud solution based on peer-to-peer technology are presented in this article, in order to implement the proposed solution. Methods for organizing the interaction between the participants’ nodes and nodes that are non-participants in the Distributed Cloud are proposed. Passive replication is used to improve service reliability. A competitive anal...

The Peer-to-Peer system has the potential capacity in building an efficient unified network structure for location based secure data transfer with information sharing and minimizing the failure factor. In this study we define the data transfer with certain futuristic characters that will provide data sharing strength for the users to understand the efficiency with which the data reaches the end...

In this paper we present a scalable and distributed system for image retrieval based on visual features and annotated text. This system is the core of the SAPIR project. Its architecture makes use of Peer-to-Peer networks to achieve scalability and efficiency allowing the management of huge amount of data. For the presented demo we use 10 million images and accompanying text (tags, comments, et...

Top-k query processing in P2P systems has focused on efficiently computing the top-k results while reducing network traffic and query response time. However, in overloaded P2P systems (with very high query loads), some peers may take a long time to answer, thus making the user wait a long time to obtain the final top-k result. In this paper, we address this problem, which we reformulate as earl...

Heightened sensitivity to emotional faces may contribute to less risk taking and susceptibility to peer influence in adolescents. A longitudinal study from Pfeifer et al. reveals a developmental increase in ventral striatum activity in early adolescence in response to emotional faces, which correlates with improved measures of resistance to peer influence and risky behavior.

introduction: low self-esteem in adolescence is one of the risk factors for negative outcomes in important domains of adulthood life. due to the lack of trials based on modern methods of teaching in the field of self-esteem, this study aimed to investigate the effects of a peer-led training program on female second graders’ self-esteem in public secondary schools in shiraz. methods: the present...

background & aim: breastfeeding self-efficacy is an important factor affecting the success and duration of breastfeeding. self-efficacy of people is influenced by four sources including performance accomplishments, vicarious experiences, verbal persuasion and the physiological responses which seem to be modified by breastfeeding intervention.  this study was conducted to compare the effect of p...

AbstractIn the present study, attempt has been made to examine the effectiveness of peer and teacher scaffolding in reading comprehension of intermediate EFL students in symmetrical and asymmetrical groups. To do so, sixty intermediate students were purposively selected out of 150 intermediate students in Hamadan Islamic Azad University and Kish Language Institute in Hamadan. They were divided ...