Modern Land Mobile Radio has the potential for large growth in the near future. Current regulations have set the stage for a required transition to more spectrally efficient technologies. While several organizations are working to ease this transition, there still remain many details and feature sets which the end user must decide amongst and often there is no clear dividing line between these ...

With the advent of new game controllers, traditional input mechanisms for games have changed to include gestural interfaces and camera recognition techniques, which are being further explored with the likes of Sony’s PlayStation Move and Microsoft’s Kinect. Soon these techniques will include affective input to control game interaction and mechanics. Thus, it is important to explore which game d...

Compressors based on the Burrows Wheeler transform (BWT) convert the transformed text into a string of (move-to-front) ranks. These ranks are then encoded with an Ordermodel, or a hierarchy of such models. Although these rank-based methods perform very well, we believe the transformation to MTF numbers blurs the distinction between individual symbols and is a possible cause of inefficiency. Ins...

We consider the online list accessing problem and present a new family of competitive-optimal deterministic list update algorithms which is the largest class of such algorithms known to-date. This family, called Sort-by-Rank (sbr), is parametrized with a real 0 1, where sbr(0) is the Move-to-Front algorithm and sbr(1) is equivalent to the Timestamp algorithm. The behaviour of sbr() mediates bet...

The global human resources for health (HRH) challenge remains persistent. In 2006, the World Health Report identified 57 crisis countries, and, despite increased attention and investment in strengthening the workforce, those countries are still in crisis. While chronic HRH problems still exist, progress has been made in some countries where innovative programs have been implemented that show pr...