The problem of nding an optimal route between two points in a space strewn with obstacles has been extensively studied in robotics. The standard approach to such problems is rst to reduce the original geometrical speciication to a nite graph of possible routes, and then to use graph-searching techniques together with the metrical information available in the original geometrical speciication to...

A major challenge in the treatment of major depressive episodes associated with bipolar disorder is differentiating this illness from major depressive episodes associated with major depressive disorder. Mistaking the former for the latter will lead to incorrect treatment and poor outcomes. None of the classic antidepressants, serotonin specific reuptake inhibitors, or serotonin-norepinephrine r...

The circumvention of technical protection systems and the making of tools to enable such circumventions may seem to financial cryptographers a wholly natural and constructive set of activities. This community knows that it is impossible to make encryption systems more secure unless one tests how strong they are from time to time by trying to break them. However, now that other industries, notab...

The package bspline, downloadable from SSC, now has 3 modules. The first, bspline, generates a basis of Schoenberg B-splines. The second, frencurv, generates a basis of reference splines, whose parameters in the regression model are simply values of the spline at reference points on the Xaxis. The recent addition, flexcurv, is an easy–to–use version of frencurv, and generates reference splines ...

Review received on February 03, 2013 and accepted for publication on May 22, 2013 [1] Postgraduate Program in History at Universidade Federal de Santa Catarina (UFSC) – Florianópolis (SC), Brazil. E-mail: [email protected] To my knowledge, there is only one place in the entire universe where pure thought is capable of moving matter. This place is the body. In the body, we think about a st...

Wir beschreiben an einem Beispiel, wie mit Hilfe von Technik Verbundenheitspraktiken unterstützt, erweitert oder neue Praktiken etabliert werden können. Dafür werden fünf Familien, jeweils bestehend aus drei Generationen, umfassend betrachtet und mögliche Veränderungspotentiale identifiziert. Diese werden dann in Konzepte übersetzt und als funktionale Prototypen mindestens zehn Tage im Alltag d...

Douglas McDonald: There are three basic ways that criminal justice agencies and drug treatment programs can interact: (1) justice agency employees conduct screening and assessment and refer patients to independ­ ent organizations for treatment; (2) a jus­ tice agency contracts with a treatment organ­ ization to screen, assess, place, and treat patients; and (3) a justice agency engages an inter...

In this paper, an approach of conflict classification and detection is proposed in a domain independent framework for conflict management, and deployed in Sensible Agent Architectures. Sensible agents are agents that operate in a multi-agent based system with the ability to dynamically adapt their level of autonomy. Conflicts are classified as goal, plan and belief conflicts. It is shown that s...