477 research outputs found
Comment: Monitoring Networked Applications With Incremental Quantile Estimation
Comment: Monitoring Networked Applications With Incremental Quantile
Estimation [arXiv:0708.0302]Comment: Published at http://dx.doi.org/10.1214/088342306000000619 in the
Statistical Science (http://www.imstat.org/sts/) by the Institute of
Mathematical Statistics (http://www.imstat.org
Using data network metrics, graphics, and topology to explore network characteristics
Yehuda Vardi introduced the term network tomography and was the first to
propose and study how statistical inverse methods could be adapted to attack
important network problems (Vardi, 1996). More recently, in one of his final
papers, Vardi proposed notions of metrics on networks to define and measure
distances between a network's links, its paths, and also between different
networks (Vardi, 2004). In this paper, we apply Vardi's general approach for
network metrics to a real data network by using data obtained from special data
network tools and testing procedures presented here. We illustrate how the
metrics help explicate interesting features of the traffic characteristics on
the network. We also adapt the metrics in order to condition on traffic passing
through a portion of the network, such as a router or pair of routers, and show
further how this approach helps to discover and explain interesting network
characteristics.Comment: Published at http://dx.doi.org/10.1214/074921707000000058 in the IMS
Lecture Notes Monograph Series
(http://www.imstat.org/publications/lecnotes.htm) by the Institute of
Mathematical Statistics (http://www.imstat.org
British Army Women in the Seven Years\u27 War
During the Seven Years\u27 War, many soldiers\u27 wives and female camp followers contributed to the British war effort in numerous ways and did so in the face of great oppression. Using the themes of labour, conditions and dangers, sexual and domestic life, illicit activities, and discipline and punishment, this essay will demonstrate that both the presence and labour of women within the army were essential to British success because without women the army would have been strained to recruit, maintain, and care for its soldiers. It will also show that, to contribute to the war effort, army women were expected to be subordinate to the military – an institution which used gender to control them, belittle their contributions, and which also exposed them to the horrors of war
Surface spin dynamics of antiferromagnetically coupled frustrated triangular films
Results are presented for spin-wave dispersions in geometrically frustrated
stacked triangular antiferromagnets with a thin film or semi-infinite geometry
having either zero, easy-plane, or easy-axis anisotropy. Surface effects on the
equilibrium spin configurations and excitation spectrum are investigated for
the case of antiferromagnetically coupled films, serving to extend previous
results on ferromagnetically coupled layers [E. Meloche et al., Phys. Rev. B
74, 094424 (2006)]. An operator equation of motion formalism is applied to
systems which are quasi-one and quasi-two dimensional in character. In contrast
to the case of ferromagnetically coupled films the new results show surface
modes that are well separated in frequency from bulk excitations. Magnetic
excitations in thin films with an even or an odd number of layers show
qualitatively different behavior. These results are relevant for a wide variety
of stacked triangular antiferromagnetics materials.Comment: 24 pages, 9 figure
Opportunities for interactivity in public health websites: a content analysis approach
The Internet has many advantages over other media in the provision of information services in the area of public health. However many designers are not yet taking full advantage of its potential for interactivity. This paper examines the development of interactivity in public health websites in the increasingly important area of Palliative Care. Content analysis is used here to map the interactivity in a sample of 30 existing websites along with Heeter’s six dimensions (content and availability of choice, effort users must exert, responsiveness to the users, and the ease of adding information, monitoring the information and the system use, and facilitation of interpersonal communication). The results of this study show that the effort users must currently exert in finding information .The presence of content as well as the availability of choice are the most prevalent options currently found in these websites. However, the overall level of opportunities for interactivity was low. This suggests that online palliative care sites are not as interactive as they could be. Designers are not yet taking full advantage of the range of opportunities that the Internet offers to promote health and the benefits that would come from using interactive tools for more active communication
Simulating information exchanges in order to investigate the utility of public health websites
This paper explores the nature of communication and information flows in critical medicalenvironments to inform the design of public website support. Results are presented of a study ofcommunication in Intensive Care Units (ICU), where data was collected from the website owners,public users of the site and ICU clinicians who traditionally find communication with families ofpatients difficult. The paper presents the results of this research aimed at understanding the situationand needs of potential website users. The study has provided a greater understanding of howinformation technologies can help to resolve problems that arise with the ad-hoc, face-to-facecommunication that currently occurs in this area. To underpin the research a systems-dynamics modelof information flows in an ICU, was developed in an evolutionary fashion using Stella software. Themodelling process was informed by a review of literature, as well as data from various stakeholdergroups. The model provided a means of re-interpreting the data, encapsulating the knowledge gainedfrom the study and visualising the research findings in an innovative way that is enabling the projectto move forward
Correlation Between Q-Angle, Arch Index, and Weight Distribution Dependent on Supination and Pronation While Walking
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Co-creating corporate knowledge with a Wiki
Wikis have a growing reputation on the open Internet for producing evolving stores of shared knowledge. However, such democratic systems are often treated with suspicion within corporations for management, legal, social, and other reasons. This article describes a field study of a corporate Wiki that has been developed to capture, and make available, organisational knowledge in a large manufacturing company as an initiative of their Knowledge Management (KM) program. As this approach to KM is a controversial and rapidly changing phenomenon, a Q Methodology research approach was selected to uncover employees- subjective attitudes to the Wiki. Activity Theory was used to provide a deeper interpretation of the findings of the Q-study. The results are enabling the firm to more fully exploit the potential of the Wiki as a ubiquitous tool for successful tacit and explicit knowledge management as more employees are encouraged to participate in a process of cocreating the store of corporate knowledge. The article also demonstrates how meaningful and rigorous research on this new democratic direction of corporate KM should continue
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