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... interest in it.Science writers and editors needn’t start off knowingmuch science. Some ofthe best of them do, but some of the best of them don’t. They must, though, be able to learn sci-ence, be ... one way or the other, sitting beside her at her desk, the manuscript on the sliding desk tray between us, I learned.I can attest to the wisdom ofthe writerly injunctionsyou’ll find in these pages ... intelligentquestions, and shake off the high intimidation quotient of adense, jargon-laden article in the Proceedings ofthe National Acad-emy of Sciences. Elise was a member of this breed; she was...
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... purposes the code field looks like this: The second partofthe diagram shows how the codebits would be set when one ofthe TCP entities wantsto indicate the end ofthe session to the other TCPentity. ... bytes,reflecting the fact that 1460 bytes of data plus the 20bytes in each ofthe IP and TCP headers and the 18bytes of Ethernet header and trailer will total 1518bytes. This is the maximum size of an Ethernet ... and(3) The operation ofthe TCP protocol.First we reviewed the meaning ofthe bit error rate.Then, we established that it is distinct from the frameerror rate. In particular, if the bit error...
... resources are reserved all the way from sender to receiver before the start ofthe transfer, thereby creating a circuit. The resources are dedicated to the circuit during the whole transfer. Control ... VoP is growing, there is still considerable debate about whether the underlying network technology will be ATM or IP. At the edge ofthe network the choice, driven primarily by the regional Bell ... gateway controller," is software that provides the call control and signaling for the next-generation network. The softswitch moves the service intelligence out ofthe switch into a database...
... iSome ofthe characteristics of these three types of companies are discussed inChapter 3.A Regrouping ofthe Disciplines ofthe Ultimate Six Sigma The original Ultimate Six Sigma book grouped the ... research extending the frontiers of product qual-ity to all areas of a company—including the quality of leadership, the quality of employees, the quality of organization, and the quality of business ... investors, and on to the panorama ofthe ultimate purpose of busi-ness—societal value the betterment of mankind, with profit at the end ofthe rainbow.This is not just Pollyanna optimism. The movement...