While more and more people are relying on social media for news feeds, serious news consumers still resort to well-established news outlets for more accurate and in-depth reporting and analyses. They may also look for reports on related events that have happened before and other background information in order to better understand the event being reported. Many news outlets already create sideb...

Advancements in information and communication technologies have enhanced our possibilities to communicate worldwide, eliminating borders and making it possible to interact with people coming from other cultures like never happened before. Such powerful tools have brought us to reconsider our concept of privacy and social involvement in order to make them fit into this wider environment. It is p...

“Experimental applied mathematics” comprises the usage of modern computer technology as an active agent of research, for the purposes of gaining insight and intuition, discovering new patterns and relationships, testing and conjectures, and confirming analytically derived results, much in the same spirit that laboratory experimentation is employed in the physical sciences. It is closely related...

The paper follows a discourse on computer-assisted language learning. We examine problems of foreign language teaching and learning and introduce a metamodel that can be used to define learning models of language grammar structures in order to support teacher/student interaction. Special attention is paid to the concept of a virtual language lab. Our approach to language education assumes to en...

The importance of computer science education in secondary, and even primary school, has been pointed out by many authors. But too often pupils only experience ICT, both at home and at school, and confuse it with computer science. We organized a game-contest, the Kangourou of Informatics, with the aim to attract all pupils (not only the talented ones), expose them to the scientific aspects of in...

Methods Four towns and two rural districts of the Republic of Bashkortostan (Russia) were chosen for the questionnaire. The total number of the childhood population was 50442 children under 17 years of age. Totally 43907 children or their parents were examined with the help of the screening questionnaire. The parents were questioned by medical nurses during consulting reception hours, or in kin...

Transition from socialist to capitalist economy led to enormous changes in earnings and employment. In our study a long-horizon descriptive analysis is presented about the major trends, including the last fifteen years of socialism. Education, gender, calendar time, age and vintage effects are separately analyzed. Aggregate (quasi-) panel analysis is used to assess the role of labor demand and ...

This letter deals with the problem of fluctuating target detection in heavy-tailed -distributed clutter over a number of independent coherent intervals, e.g., in the case of a long observation interval (“stare mode”), or that of independent (range) resolution cells as per the track before detect techniques. The generalized likelihood ratio test for the problem at hand is derived, as well as an ...