Although the journey to pursuing an online doctoral degree is unique for each student, reflections of success offered by those who completed the journey can be helpful both in normalizing certain experiences and in detailing strategies for success.

Insect behaviors, such as flying, oviposition, parasitism, mating/calling, response to semiochemicals, and others, might be influenced by barometric pressure fluctuations. Abiotic factors controlled in the laboratory facilitate observation of particularities related development, behavior, and/or habits arthropods plants their interactions. This study aimed design an automated chamber for resear...

It is nowadays well-known that Hardy’s inequality (like many other inequalities) follows directly from Jensen’s inequality. Most of the development of Hardy type inequalities has not used this simple fact, which obviously was unknown by Hardy himself and many others. Here we report on some results obtained in this way mostly after 2002 by mainly using this fundamental idea.

This demonstration describes the generation of ambient and latent NPC behavior scripts using generative behavior patterns with ScriptEase. Our behavior model supports behavior roles, a powerful mechanism that allows an NPC to change behavior sets during the story. Our motivation model for selecting ambient behaviors generates more realistic NPC behaviors and our novel collaboration protocol sim...

AMITA GOYAL Over the course of history, women have slowly begun to hold influential roles in the computing industry, Although progress has been made, the precipitous journey is not yet complete. This paper presents a historical analysis of the entrance and role of women in the computing industry, a discussion on the existence and impact of the glass ceiling, and a detailed and informative colle...

The legitimacy and accountability of polycentric regulatory regimes, particularly at the transnational level, has been severely criticized, and the search is on to find ways in which they can be enhanced. This paper argues that before developing even more proposals, we need to pay far greater attention to the dynamics of accountability and legitimacy relationships, and to how those in regulator...

Detainees are a particularly vulnerable group in society and face a wide range of health issues that are often associated with their offending behaviour, yet many fail to receive the healthcare that they need. The authors’ research indicates that continuity of care, sometimes known as throughcare, is essential to successfully reducing recidivism among offenders and helping them to become contri...

emergency departments (eds) are the most challenging ward with respect to patient delay. the goal of this study is to present strategies that have proven to reduce delay and overcrowding in eds. in this review article, initial electronic database search resulted in a total of 1006 articles. thirty articles were included after reviewing full texts. inclusion criteria were assessments of real pat...