New Method of Measuring TCP Performance of IP Network using Bio-computing

The measurement of performance of Internet Protocol IP network can be done by Transmission Control Protocol TCP because it guarantees send data from one end of the connection actually gets to the other end and in the same order it was send, otherwise an error is reported. There are several methods to measure the performance of TCP among these methods genetic algorithms, neural network, data mining etc, all these methods have weakness and can't reach to correct measure of TCP performance. This paper proposed a new method of measuring TCP performance for real time IP network using Biocomputing, especially molecular calculation because it provides wisdom results and it can exploit all facilities of phylogentic analysis. Applying the new method at real time on Biological Kurdish Messenger BIOKM model designed to measure the TCP performance in two types of protocols File Transfer Protocol FTP and Internet Relay Chat Daemon IRCD. This application gives very close result of TCP performance comparing with TCP performance which obtains from Little's law using same model (BIOKM), i.e. the different percentage of utilization (Busy or traffic industry) and the idle time which are obtained from a new method base on Bio-computing comparing with Little's law was (nearly) 0.13%. KEYWORDS Bio-computing, TCP performance, Phylogenetic tree, Hybridized Model (Normalized), FTP, IRCDComment: 17 Pages,10 Figures,5 Table

PENGARUH SIKAP METTA DAN KARUNA PADA DIRI ANAK TERHADAP PENINGKATAN BAKTI PADA ORANG TUA

Sikap metta dan karuna pada diri anak memberikan manfaat yang besar terhadap peningkatan bakti anak terhadap orangtua. Anak-anak dikenalkan dan ditanamkan mengenai sikap cinta kasih dan kasih sayang dari orangtuanya. Setiap orangtua tentunya ingin menumbuhkan kualitas baik kepada anak yang disayanginya agar anak tidak berbuat kejahatan dan memiliki sifat peduli, dengan demikian orangtua harus melatih anaknya agar mempunyai rasa hormat, rasa bakti dan memiliki kesabaran. Bakti pada orangtua merupakan modal awal untuk dapat menjalani kehidupan ini dengan baik bahkan merupakan kekayaan yang terbaik yang dapat dimiliki seseorang, kekayaan di sini tidak hanya harta benda namun juga sukses dalam kehidupan sosial, hingga dapat terlahir di alam-alam bahagia dan akhirnya mencapai Nibbana. Metode penulisan yang digunakan oleh penulis dalam penelitian ini adalah dengan menggunakan kajian pustaka melalui pendekatan Sosiologi, Budaya, dan Psikologi. Sikap metta atau cinta kasih yang dijabarkan adalah sikap yang mengharapkan kesejahteraan dan kebahagiaan orangtua, sebagai orang yang paling berjasa bagi seorang anak, dengan semangat metta seorang anak selalu melakukan perbuatan yang bermanfaat dan tidak akan pernah melakukan berbuatan yang menimbulkan penderitaan terutama bagi orangtuanya sebagai rasa bakti seorang anak akan melaksanakan kewajiban-kewajiban terhadap orangtuanya dan selalu menjunjung tinggi kehormatan keluarga, sedangkan karuna atau kasih sayang seorang anak terhadap orangtuanya tidak lepas dari teladan yang dilakukan oleh orangtuanya, karena seorang anak pada masa pertumbuhannya memerlukan kasih sayang, perawatan, dan perhatian orangtua, tanpa kasih sayang dan bimbingan orangtua, seorang anak akan menjadi cacat secara emosional dan keluaraga akan menjadi tempat yang tidak bersahabat baginya untuk hidup sehingga bila ini yang terjadi akan mengurangi rasa bakti anak terhadap orangtua

Lebanon: contesting trash politics

The 29 of August 2015 may one day be remembered as historic in Lebanon’s turbulent history

User-friendly waterfronts: a dialogue of responsiveness and placemaking

In contemporary times, waterfronts reveal themselves to have a special role in offering society diversified opportunities for economic development, public enjoyment and civic identity. Optimally, successful waterfront developments strive to exert user-friendly impacts on the quality of life in urban settlements. To this end, the aim of this paper is to explore the process of creating user-friendly waterfront developments. In doing so, the paper elaborates on certain sets of criteria that can be implemented in the process of creating a uniquely user-friendly waterfront development. The sets of criteria under study are related to the two notions of "responsiveness" and "placemaking". These two notions are chosen under the hypothesis that the concept of user-friendliness is comprehensive in its nature while being quite associated with the criteria of successful making of places that can be responsive to people needs, demands and aspirations. The scope of the paper is then narrowed to cover mixed-use waterfronts developments. The choice of this set of developments in particular is based on their vitality and coherent relationship with the criteria of responsiveness and successful placemaking. Mixed-use waterfronts are diverse in their activities and offer wide possibilities of user-friendliness. In light of all of this, the research methodology of this paper is devised to elaborate on the concepts of waterfronts, placemaking, waterfronts development, responsiveness, and mixed-uses while following a multidisciplinary path in the trial to weave all these terms together into one coherent discussion that is related to the quality of life and user-friendliness. All of these terms intersect to yield a focal study point that is concerned with successful placemaking criteria and their coherence to responsive design criteria. The discussion is finally sealed with the matching of placemaking criteria with responsiveness criteria within the scope of providing a clearer view of the principles that can guide the development of user-friendly waterfront developments

Using Twitter to learn about the autism community

Considering the raising socio-economic burden of autism spectrum disorder (ASD), timely and evidence-driven public policy decision making and communication of the latest guidelines pertaining to the treatment and management of the disorder is crucial. Yet evidence suggests that policy makers and medical practitioners do not always have a good understanding of the practices and relevant beliefs of ASD-afflicted individuals' carers who often follow questionable recommendations and adopt advice poorly supported by scientific data. The key goal of the present work is to explore the idea that Twitter, as a highly popular platform for information exchange, could be used as a data-mining source to learn about the population affected by ASD -- their behaviour, concerns, needs etc. To this end, using a large data set of over 11 million harvested tweets as the basis for our investigation, we describe a series of experiments which examine a range of linguistic and semantic aspects of messages posted by individuals interested in ASD. Our findings, the first of their nature in the published scientific literature, strongly motivate additional research on this topic and present a methodological basis for further work.Comment: Social Network Analysis and Mining, 201

Cooperative localisation in underwater robotic swarms for ocean bottom seismic imaging.

Spatial information must be collected alongside the data modality of interest in wide variety of sub-sea applications, such as deep sea exploration, environmental monitoring, geological and ecological research, and samples collection. Ocean-bottom seismic surveys are vital for oil and gas exploration, and for productivity enhancement of an existing production facility. Ocean-bottom seismic sensors are deployed on the seabed to acquire those surveys. Node deployment methods used in industry today are costly, time-consuming and unusable in deep oceans. This study proposes the autonomous deployment of ocean-bottom seismic nodes, implemented by a swarm of Autonomous Underwater Vehicles (AUVs). In autonomous deployment of ocean-bottom seismic nodes, a swarm of sensor-equipped AUVs are deployed to achieve ocean-bottom seismic imaging through collaboration and communication. However, the severely limited bandwidth of underwater acoustic communications and the high cost of maritime assets limit the number of AUVs that can be deployed for experiments. A holistic fuzzy-based localisation framework for large underwater robotic swarms (i.e. with hundreds of AUVs) to dynamically fuse multiple position estimates of an autonomous underwater vehicle is proposed. Simplicity, exibility and scalability are the main three advantages inherent in the proposed localisation framework, when compared to other traditional and commonly adopted underwater localisation methods, such as the Extended Kalman Filter. The proposed fuzzy-based localisation algorithm improves the entire swarm mean localisation error and standard deviation (by 16.53% and 35.17% respectively) at a swarm size of 150 AUVs when compared to the Extended Kalman Filter based localisation with round-robin scheduling. The proposed fuzzy based localisation method requires fuzzy rules and fuzzy set parameters tuning, if the deployment scenario is changed. Therefore a cooperative localisation scheme that relies on a scalar localisation confidence value is proposed. A swarm subset is navigationally aided by ultra-short baseline and a swarm subset (i.e. navigation beacons) is configured to broadcast navigation aids (i.e. range-only), once their confidence values are higher than a predetermined confidence threshold. The confidence value and navigation beacons subset size are two key parameters for the proposed algorithm, so that they are optimised using the evolutionary multi-objective optimisation algorithm NSGA-II to enhance its localisation performance. Confidence value-based localisation is proposed to control the cooperation dynamics among the swarm agents, in terms of aiding acoustic exteroceptive sensors. Given the error characteristics of a commercially available ultra-short baseline system and the covariance matrix of a trilaterated underwater vehicle position, dead reckoning navigation - aided by Extended Kalman Filter-based acoustic exteroceptive sensors - is performed and controlled by the vehicle's confidence value. The proposed confidence-based localisation algorithm has significantly improved the entire swarm mean localisation error when compared to the fuzzy-based and round-robin Extended Kalman Filter-based localisation methods (by 67.10% and 59.28% respectively, at a swarm size of 150 AUVs). The proposed fuzzy-based and confidence-based localisation algorithms for cooperative underwater robotic swarms are validated on a co-simulation platform. A physics-based co-simulation platform that considers an environment's hydrodynamics, industrial grade inertial measurement unit and underwater acoustic communications characteristics is implemented for validation and optimisation purposes

Reading Capital: towards an understanding of the process of colonization in India

This thesis examines the applicability of Karl Marx’s theoretical apparatuses in explaining the development of capital relations in India’s transition from commercial to industrial colonialism. Its findings engage with and are a response to the preponderance of secondary literature that argues against Marx’s usefulness in understanding the colonial moment in the Global South. Many of these secondary studies have argued against the use of Marx because of his purported Eurocentricity that renders his conclusions regarding the Global South inadequate. This study argues that fundamental to dissecting this intellectual argument is developing an understanding of Marx’s levels of generality whereby the historical descriptions and conclusions, and the theoretical framework and methods he employs are abstracted. To this end, this thesis asserts the levels of generality as the most critical to reading Marx as they permit the reader to move beyond the causal laws and tendencies and instead delve further into the relations that allow them to exist. Finally, this study shows how Marx’s totality of social life can be used to understand a particular society in a specific moment: India in the colonial period. While not all-encompassing, it shows the applicability of Marx’s theoretical apparatus to examine a colonized society — using India as an illustration — especially with regards to modes of production, social relations, and some aspects of legal and governmental arrangements. While further research would need to incorporate additional aspects of the social totality, including mental conceptions, reproduction of daily life, technology, and relationships to nature, its combination with the findings of the present study allows for a more complete view of capital relations in colonial India