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Pet attachment has been shown to provide myriad benefits to individuals both physiologically and psychologically. A large percentage of individuals attached to pets may obtain happiness. However, associating pet attachment (intrinsic factor) with happiness may require leisure coping (extrinsic factor.) Therefore, further investigation into the subject of leisure coping could furnish pet owners with...
The 3rd Generation Partnership Project (3GPP) has adopted Session Initiation Protocol (SIP) as the signaling protocol to manage multimedia sessions in the IP Multimedia Subsystem (IMS). When the User Equipment (UE) moves between the heterogeneous networks such as Universal Mobile Telecommunications System (UMTS) and Wireless Local Area Network (WLAN), SIP is used to perform the handoff for SIP-based...
This paper addresses the multiple-query matching problem on XML streams. The goal is to extract all XML data that match queries from the XML streams immediately and efficiently under the constraint of scanning the streams only once. A grammar-based, continuous-query matching method, namely GCQ, is proposed. GCQ generates a context-free grammar according to the queries being processed, and then produces...
Spray and Wait protocol, which is a typical routing protocol in Delay/Disruption/Disconnection Tolerant Network (DTN), sets a maximum number of replications per message for restricting a number of replications. However, it is difficult to set a maximum number of appropriate replications in advance. Moreover, there is possibility to replicate to nodes that do not contribute to the data arrival, because...
We have developed a WiFi users' information indicating system with AR (Augmented Reality). In a campus LAN, each WiFi user connects nearest WiFi Access-Point (AP). The system provides an AR based interface for indicating users' information. When an administrator points his/her Android Smart Phone at an AP, the interface shows associated user-ids superimposed into a real video view of the AP. Using...
In this paper, our proposed architecture involve new four-layer clustering topology architecture based on LEACH architecture. We propose four-layer clustering topology architecture: the Random Cluster Head and Maximum Energy Sub-cluster Head with Relay node and Sleep mode (RCHMESHR-S) architecture, the aim is to improve energy efficiency and extend the lifetime of wireless sensor networks. The RCHMESHR-S...
In the various wireless networks, there are lots of link breakage occurs because of a variety of triggers such as a natural disaster, a burst of traffic, running out of power, etc. This situation would be greatly inhibit the activity data communications, and causes the length of time of data packet delivery activity. Due to such kind of situations, we propose a based on cooperative bit-map routing...
In linear networks with physical layer network coding (PNC), the relay node performs the combination of the relaying data from both end users. Moreover, the adaptive power allocation (APA) scheme can optimize the transmission rate of PNC for relaying communication systems. However, when the relay nodes are deployed with different distance to both of end user nodes, it is called near-far effect (NFE)...
Recently, several firms are award of the importance of reflecting consumers' attitudes towards the society in developing their marketing strategies. Socially responsible consumption (SRC) can promote social and ecological causes consumers deem important. Based on the SRC behaviors in both ecological and societal concerns, the present study will apply the model of value-attitude/belief-behavior hierarchy...
This study assessed the Balanced Scorecard (BSC) approach to strategy and its usefulness for three buffet-service restaurants in Taiwan. Data were gathered from fourteen members of upper management via face-to-face in-depth interviews. Content analysis showed an application of the BSC in all four category groupings identified in the BSC framework. The BSC approach provides a summary of the results...
This paper presents an automatic 3D furniture placement system for 3D virtual room generation. The layout work for 3D virtual room takes a long time because 3D objects have six degrees of freedom and furniture has peculiar features. To deal with this problem, the authors present an automatic optimization method by using interactive evolutionary computation. Furniture layouts are optimized through...
In providing e-Government services, it is necessary to conduct a user-centric evaluation periodically, to improve the usability, accessibility, and effectiveness of e-Government services for citizens. In a qualitative evaluation, gathering user's opinions and recommendations to the e-Government services are commonly used to get a real feedback from the citizens. However, such the user feedback commonly...
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