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Research ArticleOpen accessIn the keywordsA Grade-Based Incentive Mechanism for Peer-to-Peer NetworksS. Moses Dian, B. RamadossFree-riding is a desperate and a constant menace to many P2P systems, to violate the cooperation among peers. This study proposes a grade-based approach, which expeditiously maintains fairness in the network by encouraging the high contributed peers and altogether wiping out the free-riders. The Network Contribution Ratio determines the contribution of users globally. Besides, the proposed grading algorithm uses a … …American Journal of Engineering and Applied Sciences, Vol. 5, Issue 3 · 3 Sep 2012 · 7,489 accessesView PDFCite
EditorialOpen accessIn the abstractIs Rerum® the New Coley's Vaccine?Marco RuggieroColey's Vaccine and Cancer Immunotherapy Dr. William B. Coley is credited for having been the first to translate the observation of an association between bacterial infections, high fever and cancer remission into a successful cancer treatment. However, it is worth noting that such an association dates back to at least one century before Coley's times; as Wiemann and Starnes from … …American Journal of Immunology, Vol. 13, Issue 2 · 31 May 2017 · 12,281 accessesView PDFCite
Research ArticleOpen accessIn the abstractLot-Sizing Decisions under Trade Credit Depending on the Ordering Quantity in Fuzzy Annual DemandChui-Yu Chiu, Zhi-Ping Lin, Yi LinProblem statement: In reality, there are of various products such as liquids, volatile, medicines and materials, in which the rate of deterioration is very large. However, little attention has been mentioned what the effects of deterioration occur in most inventory systems. Also, the loss of the deterioration should not be neglected as an important issue. Approach: In this study, we … …American Journal of Applied Sciences, Vol. 6, Issue 12 · 31 Dec 2009 · 6,763 accessesView PDFCite
Research ArticleOpen accessIn the abstractInvestigating Mechanisms of Marginal Settlement Life ImprovementHamid Movahed Mohammadi, Yaser Mohammadi, Mehdi Rahimian, Navid LoghmaniThe main purpose of this research was to investigate mechanisms to improve marginal settlement life in Koohdasht County in Lorestan province. This research was a sort of the survey studies and a questionnaire was compiled for collection of data. Statistical population of this study was included 1560 households; also sampling method was a sort of random sampling. Number of sample … …Journal of Social Sciences, Vol. 4, Issue 3 · 30 Sep 2008 · 7,710 accessesView PDFCite
Research ArticleOpen accessIn the abstractImproving Response Time of Authorization Process of Credit Card System Using Multi-Threading and Shared-Memory Pool TechniquesSiti H.A. Hamid, Mohd H.N.M. Nasir, Wong Y. Ming, Hazrina HassanCurrent credit card authorization was developed on single-threaded model whereby authentication process takes longer time to respond due to sequential process of card's risk management profile and its limitation of handling huge number of simultaneous transactions at single point of time. As a result, the performance of the authorization system was affected during peak hours. This study presented an architectural … …Journal of Computer Science, Vol. 4, Issue 2 · 28 Feb 2008 · 7,236 accessesView PDFCite
Research ArticleOpen accessAll words, across the recordCustomers Perceptions to Accept the Islamic Credit Card (ICC) in BangladeshMd. Shariful Haque, A. M. Shahabuddin, Mohammad Emdad Hossain et al.The survey study is conducted to measure knowledge of ICC, attitude towards ICC, perceived usefulness of ICC and its shariah compliance to ICC factor with the demographic variables that influence the acceptance of ICC. In the study, opinion from 400 respondents is collected on a five-point Likert scale by survey questionnaire method in purposeful sampling in randomized block design via … …American Journal of Economics and Business Administration, Vol. 15, Issue 1 · 27 Nov 2023 · 5,726 accessesView PDFCite
Research ArticleOpen accessAll words, across the recordMacroeconomic Determinants of Non-Performing Loans: An Empirical Study of Some Arab CountriesMahmoud Abdelaziz Touny, Mohamed Abdelhameed ShehabThe issue of non-performing loans is one of the factors that reflect the soundness of the banking sector. The main objective of this study is to identify macroeconomic determinants of non-performing loans in some Arab countries through the period 2000-2012 using the dynamic panel data approach. The outcomes of this paper suggest that inflation rate has a negative impact on … …American Journal of Economics and Business Administration, Vol. 7, Issue 1 · 9 May 2015 · 7,930 accessesView PDFCite