A mobile ad-hoc network is an autonomous system of mobile routers that are self-organizing and completely decentralized with no requirements for dedicated infrastructure support. However, such infrastructure in terms of base stations is available in many popular areas already. These base stations often offer high-speed data connectivity to a wired network. In this paper, we describe an approach...

A logical partition in an IBM pSeries symmetric multiprocessor (SMP) system is a subset of the hardware of the SMP that can host an operating system (OS) instance. Dynamic reconfiguration (DR) on these logically partitioned servers enables the movement of hardware resources (such as processors, memory, and I/O slots) from one logical partition to another without requiring reboots. This capabili...

OBJECTIVES Public policies target a subset of the population defined as poor or needy, but rarely are people poor or needy in the same way. This is particularly true among older adults. This study investigates poverty among older adults in order to identify who among them is financially worst off. METHODS We use 20 years of data from the Consumer Expenditure Survey to examine the income and c...

law details numerous negative consequences associated with out-of-wedlock births, single-parent families, and welfare receipt that helped motivate the 1996 overhaul. With this law, Congress ended the existing Aid to Families with Dependent Children (AFDC) program and replaced it with Temporary Assistance for Needy Families (TANF). TANF is intended to (1) provide assistance for needy families to...

The present study had two goals: first, to determine whether neediness and self-criticism are associated with distinct marital environments and, second, to evaluate two pathways by which marital environments may be related to personality and depressive symptoms. Personality vulnerability may be more strongly associated with depressive symptoms when the spouse’s behavior matches the vulnerabilit...

T problem of the extent to which the children of aged, needy persons should contribute to their support has been a persistent one in the administration of public assistance since the days of the Elizabethan poor law and even earlier. In recent years this problem has acquired a new urgency because of the mounting cost of old-age assistance. The response to the problem has varied considerably amo...

Hardcore poverty is a problem that still plagues the community in this country. Although various efforts have been implemented by Malaysian Government to overcome it, but until now these havent succeeded achieving goals set before. Zakat social and economic system its implementation controlled government. Through zakat provision, Islam has ahead of times defending plight poor needy asnafs. In 2...