Many people in our Developed Western World believe that we are entering or are already in, an era of great societal change, redolent of the Renaissance and the Reformation periods from a cultural perspective and of the Industrial Revolution in terms of commerce, manufacturing industry and service provision. This study reviews and critiques a broad literature of developments from twelve areas namely 1. Loss of spiritual Faith by many; 2. Increasing Economic Inequality across the social strata; 3.The Increasing Incidence of Mental Illness in ...

This contribution is concerned with the performance evaluation of topology control algorithms for indoor ad hoc networks in multi-storey buildings. Several proposed topology control algorithms based on discrete sets are compared. The topology control algorithms operate with wireless links having variable transmission rates according to existing wireless communication standards. The maximum number of routing steps is limited to 15 hops. Computational experiments with a queuing analyzer for open networks are performed to extimate the connectivity ...