The key innovation in a hive plot, compared to other means of graphically displaying network structure, is in how node information is handled. Nodes are assigned to axes based upon qualitative or quantitative characteristics of the the node, for instance membership in a certain category, and the position of the node along the axis is based upon some quantitative characteristic of the node. In a...

The question of whether bees can take novel short cuts between familiar sites has been central to the discussion about the existence of cognitive maps in these insects. The failure of bees to show this capacity in the majority of previous studies may be a result of the training procedure, because extensive training to one feeding site may have eliminated or weakened memories for other sites tha...

OBJECTIVE Non-supermarket food retailers can be a promising channel for increasing the availability of healthy foods in underserved communities. The present paper reports on retailer practices, attitudes and beliefs about the supply of healthy foods before and after the introduction of new subsidies for healthy foods by the US Special Supplemental Nutrition Program for Women, Infants, and Child...

In 1993, National Car Rental faced liquidation. General Motors Corporation (National's parent) took a $744 million charge against earnings related to its ownership of National Car Rental Systems. National faced liquidation, with the loss of 7,500 jobs, unless it could show a profit in the short term. National initiated a comprehensive revenue management program whose core is a suite of analytic...

Wireless sensor nodes are applicable in a wide range of situations such as the medical, industrial or environmental domains, but the focus is on the biomedical domain. This paper presents the steps taken to develop a low power processor using Silicon Hive technology and mapping an electrocardiogram analysis algorithm on that processor. Today’s energyscavengers are able to deliver 100μW. This is...