Sharing location traces with context-aware service providers has privacy implications. Location-privacy preserving mechanisms, such as obfuscation, anonymization and cryptographic primitives, have been shown to have impractical utility/privacy tradeoff. Another solution for enhancing user privacy is to minimize data sharing by executing the tasks conventionally carried out at the service provid...

We compare the pattern of intergenerational social mobility late in Soviet-era Russia with data collected recently. We find evidence of a strong vertical hierarchy in the Russian occupational structure both during and after the Soviet era. Gender-typing shaped men’s and women’s occupational opportunities in Russia, but origins affected men and women similarly. Social mobility decreased slightly...

In mobile ad hoc networks (MANETs), the mobility of the nodes is a complicating factor that significantly affects the effectiveness and performance of the routing protocols. Our work builds upon recent results on the effect of node mobility on the performance of available routing strategies (i.e., path-based, using support) and proposes a protocol framework that exploits the usually different m...

Education has been given significant responsibilities as a way of promoting social class mobility. With the development market economy, there is growing concerns about whether and how much more education can still change class. This paper uses data Chinese General Social Survey (CGSS)2017 to examine effects marriage matching on mobility; used multiple linear regression explore pathways specific...

Transmission Control Protocol (TCP) is one of the popular transport-level protocols for distributed applications like FTP, http, telnet, email applications due to its rich set of desirable features, including a reliable, ordered, duplex byte stream, flow control, and congestion control. The performance of TCP is affected due to various factors including the congestion window, maximum packet siz...

Performance evaluations of routing protocols for wireless adhoc networks were largely done using simulation tools. Few factors need to be controlled to have useful simulation results are transmission power, power consumption, mobility model, traffic etc. since performance of an ad hoc network protocol can vary significantly with different mobility models and also under same mobility models with...

Pruni cortex, the bark of Prunus jamasakura Siebold ex Koidzumi, has been used in the Japanese systems of medicine for many years for its anti-inflammatory, antioxidant and antitussive properties. In this study, we investigated the effect of pruni cortex on atopic dermatitis NC/Nga mouse model. Atopic dermatitis-like lesion was induced by the application of house dust mite extract to the dorsal...

BACKGROUND The measurement and meaning of disability depend on the indicators used. In this study the indicators of dependency and severe residual disability are examined on two levels: in each of the 14 selected activities of daily living (ADL) and also as a summary score of the activities count. METHODS The data are extracted of the Disability, Impairment and Health Survey (INE, 1999). The ...

This paper explores growth models for regions or countries which are highly interdependent, but which may differ in initial factor endowments and technology. The regions interact through trade, factor mobility and the diffusion of innovations. The implications of traditional and recent growth theories for an explicit two-region situation are identified and the properties of the growth process a...