A Local University, Connected to Internet2, Employs Several Professors in Its

question 159

Multiple Choice

A local university, connected to Internet2, employs several professors in its school of engineering that are part of a research project that makes extremely heavy use of the bandwidth this connection provides. In fact, the engineering professors would like to get even more bandwidth. Given the way its designers set up Internet2, the researchers at the university

• A) are out of luck. One drawback of Internet2 is that, unlike the regular Internet, the technology of Internet2 can allocate only a fixed amount of bandwidth to each user.
• B) may be able to obtain more bandwidth, but only if the university is willing to pay for it.
• C) must petition the Internet2 Usage Committee and obtain approval.
• D) can install a simple bandwidth amplification card in each computer that compresses data, thus allowing it to flow more rapidly.

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Definitions:

Mean Length Of Utterance

A measure used in the study of child language acquisition, indicating the average number of morphemes per utterance spoken by a child.

Morphemes

The smallest units of meaning in a language, which can be words or parts of words (like prefixes).

MLU

Mean Length of Utterance, a measure used in the study of child language acquisition indicating the average length of a child's spoken statements.

Overextension

In language acquisition, the use by children of a word in a broader context than is appropriate, indicating the developmental process of understanding linguistic categories.