Seating arrangement in Althingi

Seating Arrangement and Question-asking

This study investigated the relationship between classroom seating arrangements and the question-asking of fourth-graders. Data were collected during 53 lessons spread over 8 weeks. Children were assigned to sit in a semicircle and then in a row-and-column seating arrangement for 2 weeks each. This rotation was repeated. Both children’s questions and the teacher’s verbal reactions were recorded...

The Environment and Seating Arrangement of a Small Teaching Group

Small groups which form for teaching and learning process would have substantial outcomes if manage properly. Evidence suggests that environment and seating arrangement of the learners would have considerable impacts on the success of a facilitator to properly use from the dynamics of the group. The aim of the present article is therefore to discuss the appropriate environment and seating arran...

Effects of Seating Arrangement on Affective Meanings and Group Interaction in Healthy Senior Citizens

Random maximal independent sets and the unfriendly theater seating arrangement problem

People arrive one at a time to a theater consisting of m rows of length n. Being unfriendly they choose seats at random so that no one is in front of them, behind them or to either side. What is the expected number of people in the theater when it becomes full, i.e., it cannot accommodate any more unfriendly people? This is equivalent to the random process of generating a maximal independent se...

Physiological considerations in seating.

Physiological changes occur with change of posture. Seating imposes significant effect on the cardiovascular, respiratory, abdominal, renal and neurological systems. The presence of severe skeletal deformities can significantly alter the physiological responses of the individual to changes in posture. In the case of severe kyphoscoliosis profound haemodynamic changes may occur. Lung perfusion h...