Large-scale populations of autonomous mobile robots inserted into remote and hostile environments will require autonomous maintenance. Issues include fault detection, identification and rectification as well as routine servicing. The cooperative autonomous robot colony architecture (CARC) demonstrates a coherent resolution strategy that enables near optimal physical graceful degradation on a su...

1251 urincs were examined and iii each case the three following criteria were studied 1_ presence of pus cells in wet mount (4 or more hpf). 2_ isolation of pathogenic bacteria  :j_ presence of 10,000 or more bacteria per c.c. of urine 801 specimens were obtained from patients referred to the diagnastic iaboratorv of institute of public health research. and 450 specimens were collected from hea...

research related to colonialism and post colonialism shows how the identities of indigenous people were constructed and how these identities are reconstructed in our contemporary world. the thrust of this paper is that colonialism brought a shift in the linguistic structure of ghana with the introduction of the use of english among ghanaians. the coexistence of both ghanaian languages and engli...

As XML data becomes central to business-critical applications, there is a growing need for efficient and reliable XML storage. Two main approaches have been proposed for storing XML data: native and colonial systems. Native systems (e.g., [9, 20]) are designed from the ground up specifically for XML and XML query languages. Colonial systems (e.g., [5, 7, 19]), on the other hand, attempt to reus...

Dilettante speculation has given currency to the notion that the English common law was not received by our several states until after the Revolution. According to this notion, there prevailed during the colonial period "a layman law, a popular, equitable system," 1 fostered by frontier conditions.2 Such views have infected even serious legal scholars, who have asserted that the common law in t...

This joint paper attempts an unusual collaborative approach that offers an understanding of the problems that registered nurses of India have faced. Through this paper, we seek to locate the problem of ‘social status’ in both historical and contemporary landscapes, representing a relatively rare attempt to bridge the gap between studies of the institutions of colonial society, and studies of th...

Historically, the fact that the people of Mindanao and Sulu were able to successfully resist all attempts to subjugate them only increased the obsession of the Spanish colonial government and of the church hierarchy to conquer the south and to convert the people to Catholicism. Thus was created the "Moro Problem" which, in the mind of colonial officials, was simply the problem of creating effec...

The student of colonial history who attempts to draw a comparison between Java (or rather, in view of the huge regional disparities: parts of Java) and parts of the Philippines (for instance Luzon) is struck by the sharp contrasts in development. While Javanese society during the 19th century, and well into the 20th century has remained a society of small peasants, in Luzon the process of colon...

This article takes issue with Stephen Lansing's bottom-up model of Balinese irrigation management. Based on archival research and extensive fieldwork in the former south Balinese kingdom of Mengwi, it is argued that in pre-colonial days large scale irrigation depended largely on dynastic involvement. During the colonial period (1906-1942) the Dutch took over the role of regional irrigation mana...

"The waste of only a single cent a coolie a day on a labour force of forty thousands means a direct loss of 126,000 Straits dollars (almost £15,000) per annum; and to increase the efficiency of the labour by a cent a day means a corresponding gain" (Malcolm Watson, Rural sanitation in the tropics, London, 1915, p. xviii). Watson's observation may appear a little crude but it depicts a reality-a...