U.S. civilian (non-VA/non-military) Advanced Education in General Dentistry (AEGD) and General Practice Residency (GPR) programs were identified (n=208) and surveyed. The assessment evaluated infrastructure support, populations served, services provided, and trainee stipends. One hundred thirty-one programs responded (thirty-two AEGD, 64 percent/ninety-nine GPR, 63 percent). Sixty-nine programs...

The global system for mobile communications, (GSM) is the most popular standard that implements second generation (2G) cellular systems. 2G systems combined with general packet radio services (GPRS) (3GPP TS 03.6, 2002) are often described as 2.5G, that is, a technology between the 2G and third generation (3G) of mobile systems. GPRS is a service that provides packet radio access for GSM users....

Based on the GSM radio architecture, general packet radio service (GPRS) provides users data connections with variable data rates and high bandwidth efficiency. In GPRS service, allocation of physical channels is flexible, i.e., multiple channels can be allocated to a user. In this paper, we propose four algorithms for the GPRS radio resource allocation: fixed resource allocation (FRA), dynamic...

General Packet Radio Service (GPRS)—a bearer service to GSM—has been deployed worldwide, and is widely considered a technology precursor to the evolving third generation (3G) wireless networks. The general conception has been that while users will be exposed to faster wide-area wireless data access, experience gained from GPRS could well prove useful for 3G, and also for systems beyond 3G deplo...

With the development of agricultural production technology, characteristics that appear in the farmland information such as diversity, polytropy and dispersity. In order to solve the problems of obtaining quickly and long-distance transmission the farmland information, the paper proposes a farmland data acquisition system based on the GPRS technology. The system exerts GPRS network of the china...

We investigate, in this paper, the performance of service disciplines in General Packet Radio Service (GPRS) system. The GPRS system is a new additional GSM service, which provide packet switched data services over GSM network and a packet access to data networks. Using either best effort service or guaranteed performance service, the service discipline affects considerably the MAC layer perfor...