An essential issue in designing, operating and managing a modern network is to assure end-to-end QoS from users perspective, and in the meantime to optimize a certain average performance objective from the systems perspective. So in the first part of this paper, we address the above issue by using the rerouting approach, where the objective is to minimize the average cross-network packet delay ...

CrN layers, 0.5 mm thick, were grown on MgO~001! at Ts5570– 775 °C by ultrahigh vacuum magnetically unbalanced magnetron sputter deposition in pure N2 discharges at 20 mTorr. Layers grown at Ts<700 °C are stoichiometric single crystals exhibiting cube-on-cube epitaxy: (001)CrNuu(001)MgO with @100#CrNuu@100#MgO . At higher temperatures, N2 desorption during deposition results in understoichiomet...

OBJECTIVE To assess the trend in the number of published articles by Brazilian graduate programs in child and adolescent health and the proportion of such publications cited in MEDLINE and Thomson Scientific's Journal Citation Reports (JCR), using the former database as a proxy for efficiency and the latter as an indicator of visibility. METHODS We assessed the trends of 14 graduate programs ...

Biomechanics is a discipline with many applications and sub-areas so scholars often publish their work in journals in different subject categories used in the ISI Journal Citation Reports (JCR). It is not known whether the quality/prestige of journals in the discipline of biomechanics matches the ISI Impact Factor (IF) ratings reported in JCR. A survey of the membership of the American Society ...

A representative empirical bibliometric analysis of Russian journals included in the Journal Citation Reports-Science Edition (JCR-SE) for the time period 1995-2010 was conducted at the macro level (excluding the subject categories). It was found that the growth in the number of articles covered by JCR (a 1.8-fold increase compared to 1995) is ahead of the growth rates of Russian publications (...