purpose: to evaluate the anatomical and functional outcomes of surgical management of retinal detachments associated with choroidal colobomas methods: in this retrospective study, 31 eyes of 31 patients with coloboma-related retinal detachments enrolled. all the eyes underwent standard three-port pars plana vitrectomy with internal tamponade with nonheavy silicon oil in 24 (77.4%) or 20% sulfur...

This article aims at discussing the involvement of “humanitarian” actors, stemming from civil society, in treatment issue refugees’ reception. It suggests concept “de-bordering solidarity,” to express political meaning such mobilizations. With this term, it refers various forms support provided by activists and volunteers, through which these actors contest policies asylum borders practice, eve...

Since 2015 when migration across the Mediterranean was declared a “crisis” in Europe, language of crisis and invasion has persisted, structuring conversations political imaginations. This led many to argue for strict closure borders deportation migrants or “people on move,” 1 deepening set racisms within borders. But this also less publicized, opposing struggle against borders, service more ega...

A key challenge to create a sustainable and energyefficient society is in making consumer demand adaptive to energy supply, especially renewable supply. In this paper, we propose a partially-centralized organization of consumers, namely, a consumer cooperative for purchasing electricity from the market. We propose a novel multiagent coordination algorithm to shape the energy consumption of the ...

Understanding the evolutionary mechanisms that promote and maintain cooperative behavior is recognized as a major theoretical problem where the intricacy increases with the complexity of the participating individuals. This is epitomized by the diverse nature of Human interactions, contexts, preferences and social structures. Here we discuss how social diversity, in several of its flavors, catal...

This thesis takes in to account mainly the cooperative design and human factors from ubiquitous computing design perspective. Areas such as role of cooperative design in ubiquitous computing perspective, the changing attributes of society and the associated issues, the changing shape of public service delivery and need for a change in methodology in ubiquitous computing projects have been discu...

Future information society will widely use Internet-based technologies not only for gathering information but also for educational purposes and for the cooperative work. The paper gives an overview of techniques suitable for these tasks using standardized 3-dimensional virtual environment (VRML) as a framework and a common platform. Theoretical considerations are followed by practical experiments.

The nucleon is introduced as a new allocation concept for non-negative cooperative n-person transferable utility games. The nucleon may be viewed as the multiplicative analogue of Schmeidler's nucleolus. It is shown that the nucleon of (not necessarily bipartite) matching games can be computed in polynomial time. 9 1998 The Mathematical Programming Society, Inc. Published by Elsevier Science B.V.