Ownership types were proposed to characterize the topology of objects on the heap. They notionally organize objects into boxes, and each box belongs to an object – its owner. In most ownership-based systems, the box protects the object from its environment in some way. Thus, the owner may play the owners-as-dominators role, whereby the owner restricts access to the objects in a box, (i.e. the “...

For some Canadians, the term “housing policy” evokes images of public housing, government subsidies for low-income households, and programs aimed at helping Canada’s unhoused individuals and families. It is easy, though inaccurate, to view housing policy as having this limited scope. After all, 95 percent of Canadian households obtain their housing from the private market. Two-thirds of all hou...

OBJECTIVE To estimate disease prevalence among dogs and cats in the United States and Australia and proportions of dogs and cats that receive therapeutic diets or dietary supplements. DESIGN Telephone survey. Sample Population-Dog and cat owners located in 5 geographic areas. PROCEDURES A telephone survey was administered to dog and cat owners. RESULTS Of 18,194 telephone calls that were ...

Despite huge environmental, economic, health, and social costs of pesticides, evidence revealed that farmers in developing countries would continue to use pesticides. The root of the problem appears to be related to the way of farmers’ decision making. As such, it is crucial for policymakers to understand how farmers think and behave with regard to these inputs. Therefore, the aim of this resea...

Dog walking is a popular everyday physical activity. Dog owners are generally more active than non-owners, but some rarely walk with their dog. The strength of the dog-owner relationship is known to be correlated with dog walking, and this qualitative study investigates why. Twenty-six interviews were combined with autoethnography of dog walking experiences. Dog walking was constructed as "for ...

In the inverse problem en electrocardiology, the goal is to recover electrophysiological activity in the heart without measuring directly on its surface (without using catheter interventions). Note that today the inverse computation is frequently used by solving the quasi-static model. This model doesnt take into account the heart dynamic in time and may result in considerable errors in the rec...