When the Greedy Giant Tumbling Down: Analyzing Nickelodeon's Spatialization Practice in Indonesia

When the walls come tumbling down.

This is a first-person narrative of a dentist's slow slide into alcohol and drug abuse, his denial in the face of a professional intervention, and his eventual acceptance of personal responsibility and recovery. There is also a discussion of the dentist diversion program in Minnesota.

Will the wall come tumbling down?

The company 23andMe was founded ‘‘to help people access, understand and benefit from the human genome,’’ and in turn transfer genetic information from the lab to the home (23andMe, n.d.). Their Saliva Collection Kit and Personal Genome Service (PGS) gave consumers health reports on over 200 diseases along with their ancestry information. That changed when, on November 22, 2013, the Food and Dru...

When the greedy algorithm fails

We provide a characterization of the cases when the greedy algorithm may produce the unique worst possible solution for the problem of finding a minimum weight base in an independence system when the weights are taken from a finite range. We apply this theorem to TSP and the minimum bisection problem. The practical message of this paper is that the greedy algorithm should be used with great car...

Tumbling Giant: Germany’s Experience with the Maastricht Fiscal Criteria

Balance Assessment in Children with Down Syndrome Who Practice Dance

Background. It is observed that dance delivers a valuable contribution to the development of bodily motor functions. Objectives. To evaluate the static and dynamic balance in children with Down syndrome - DS enrolled in a Dance Workshop for people with disabilities. Methods. Balance tests proposed by Oliveira (2009) were used on 14 children with DS aged between 8 and 12 (mean 9.36 ± 1.2 years...