Abstract Numerous investigations have sought to understand the types of individuals who engage in post-retirement work. However, little is known about why older adults are motivated engage. The aim present article examine extent which two possible mechanisms—adaptation (adjusting loss work role) and exploration (retirement as opportunity activities line with personal values)—play a role explain...

The goal of this research is to develop agents that are adaptive and predictable and timely. At rst blush, these three requirements seem contradictory. For example, adaptation risks introducing undesirable side eeects, thereby making agents' behavior less predictable. Furthermore, although formal veriication can assist in ensuring behavioral predictability , it is known to be time-consuming. Ou...

This paper reviews 44 National Adaptation Programmes of Action (NAPAs) to assess the NAPA process and identify the range of interventions included in countries' priority adaptation actions and highlight how population issues and reproductive health/family planning (RH/FP) are addressed as part of the adaptation agenda. A majority of the 44 NAPAs identify rapid population growth as a key compone...

Behavioural evidences suggest that sequential saccades to multiple stimuli are planned in parallel. However, it remains unclear whether such parallel programming reflects concurrent processing of goals or whether multiple motor plans coexist, unfolding subsequently during execution. Here we use midway saccades, directed at intermediate locations between two targets, as a probe to address this q...

In order to improve students' teaching/learning processes computational systems have been developed allowing to adapt virtual courses based on the students' profiles. There are currently various kinds of adaptation such as instruccional adaptation of plans, assessments adaptation, and adaptation of educational contents, among others.The aim of this paper is to propose a fuzzy inference model fo...

This paper introduces a technique for adapting GF (Grammatical Framework)-based dialogue systems. This technique can be used to adapt dialogue systems in two aspects: user adaptation and self-adaptation. By user adaptation, users can customize the system to their own needs and define alternatives for a series of information to use in later utterances. By self-adaptation, the system can update G...

The aim of the article is to inform about the INEX initiative, its testing data set, actual results, and future plans. We discuss and demonstrate possible utilization of the INEX data set for our own research and testing purposes. Our example – adaptation of approximate tree embedding algorithm provides a basis for discussion about INEX data set suitability and about eventual consecutive experi...

We consider how the method of analytic tableau coupled with interpolant extraction can be adapted to enumerate possible query plans for a given user query in the context of a first order theory that defines a relational database schema. In standard analytic tableau calculi, the sub-formula property of proofs limits the variety of interpolants and consequently of plans that can be generated for ...

Genetic diversity is needed for species' adaptation to changing selective pressures and is particularly important in regions with rapid environmental change such as the Baltic Sea. Conservation measures should consider maintaining large gene pools to maximize species' adaptive potential for long-term survival. In this study, we explored concerns regarding genetic variation in international and ...