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This paper examines the impact of Puritan ideology on various aspects of project management. By using a memetic approach to project management research, this paper traces the development of the ethos or spirit of project management from its Puritan origins. It argues that contrary to traditional thinking, project management has developed against a background of Puritan elements (memes) that are favourable to the development of capitalism. Moreover, it is suggested that these religious origins continue to impact in a conservative way on how the project management discipline evolves; limiting its development, oversimplifying the process of managing people, and consequentially thwarting nonconformists.

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Provision of multimedia communication services on today's packet-switched network infrastructure is becoming increasingly feasible. However, there remains a lack of information regarding the performance of multimedia sources operating in bursty data traffic conditions. In this study, a videotelephony system deployed on the Ethernet LAN is simulated, employing high time-resolution LAN traces as the data traffic load. In comparison with Poisson traffic models, the trace-driven cases produce highly variable packet delays, and higher packet loss, thereby degrading video traffic performance. In order to compensate for these effects, a delay control scheme based on a timed packet dropping algorithm is examined. Simulations of the scheme indicate that improvements in real time loss rates of videotelphony sources can be achieved.