On the political and policy front, interest has increased in making communities more "age-friendly", an ongoing trend since the World Health Organization launched its global Age-Friendly Cities project. We conceptualize age-friendly communities by building on the WHO framework and applying an ecological perspective. We thereby aim to make explicit key assumptions of the interplay between the pe...

The emergence of large-scale distributed applications based on many-to-many communication models, e.g., broadcast and decentralized group communication, has an important impact on the underlying layers, notably the Internet routing infrastructure. To make an e ective use of network resources, protocols should both limit the stress (amount of messages) on each infrastructure entity (routers, lin...

We give a general overview of C U N T , a userfriendly interactive concept-learner, which can be used as a module for Learning Apprentice Systems. CLINT combines several interesting features : it uses domain-knowledge, generates examples, copes with indirect relevance, shifts its bias, recovers from errors and identifies concepts in the limit.

tion. I defended my thesis with spit up on my blouse while my 8-monthold daughter waited in the hallway with a babysitter. I lugged her to field sites, carrying her on my back while wading into ponds to collect data on frog populations. But over time, this approach wore me out. I was both disappointed in myself for not being productive enough in my research and frustrated that I wasn’t spending...

Student-Friendly Precision Pendulum Germany (latitude 52 N → 981,274) in the early part of this century. With the information provided in this article, students should be able to easily measure the gravitational field strength to a few parts in 10,000, a degree of precision one to two orders of magnitude better than can be achieved with the usual simple pendulum under comparable conditions. The...

In a previous paper [16], the sup-interpretation method was proposed as a new tool to control memory resources of first order functional programs with pattern matching by static analysis. Basically, a sup-interpretation provides an upper bound on the size of function outputs. In this former work, a criterion, which can be applied to terminating as well as non-terminating programs, was developed...

Muscle-based skinning is well-known for its ability to produce detailed visual quality. Unfortunately, this advantage has not been well realised in the animation industry, because it works against the normal animation production pipeline. In this paper, we present a novel muscle-based technique, which rather than modelling muscles inside-out, will start from an already modelled character. We pr...

Let $G$ be a graph with vertex set $V(G)$ and edge set $E(G)$, a vertex labeling $f : V(G)rightarrow mathbb{Z}_2$ induces an edge labeling $ f^{+} : E(G)rightarrow mathbb{Z}_2$ defined by $f^{+}(xy) = f(x) + f(y)$, for each edge $ xyin E(G)$.  For each $i in mathbb{Z}_2$, let $ v_{f}(i)=|{u in V(G) : f(u) = i}|$ and $e_{f^+}(i)=|{xyin E(G) : f^{+}(xy) = i}|$. A vertex labeling $f$ of a graph $G...

Tools that perform semi-automated refactoring are currently under-utilized by programmers. If more programmers adopted refactoring tools, software projects could make enormous productivity gains. However, as more advanced refactoring tools are designed, a great chasm widens between how the tools must be used and how programmers want to use them. The proposed research will bridge this chasm by e...