In this paper the existence of a common Lyapunov function for stability is guaranteed in a switching network of agents. The objective of the team is to achieve consensus in a modifiedleader follower team while the team structure is changing during the mission. The stability of the team dynamics is guaranteed for networks with both balanced or unbalanced describing graphs with directional commun...

On his election as President, Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva announced his intention to give the highest priority to the eradication of hunger through the implementation of Projeto Fome Zero (PFZ). The Director-General of FAO, in congratulating him on his election victory, agreed to the President-Elect’s request that an FAO technical team visit Brazil to work with the Transition Team in reviewing th...

The membership of the American Association of Colleges of Nursing, in partnership with its practice partners, has initiated a national effort to create a new nursing role that is more responsive to the realities of a complex technologically advanced, ever-changing healthcare system. This new role is the clinical nurse leader. Nurses in this role will be prepared at the master’s level and will a...

Injury is the leading cause of death and disability in children. Each year, almost one in six children in the United States require emergency department (ED) care for the treatment of injuries, and more than 10,000 children die from injuries. Severely injured children need to be transported to a facility that is staffed 24/7 by personnel experienced in the management of children, and that has a...

We summarize here the main practical results obtained in the Institute of Electronics at the Bulgarian Academy of Sciences under the project: “New alloptical systems and methods for magnetic and electromagnetic field measurement”, financed by EC (contract G6RD-CT-2001-00642). The project Consortium consists of the following partners: Department of Physics, University of Siena, Italy, Project Co...

All communications about this column should be sent to Professor R.E. Woodrow, Department of Mathematics and Statistics, University of Calgary, Calgary, Alberta, Canada. T2N 1N4. We begin this number with the problems of the IV class of the Croatian National Mathematical Competition, Novi Vinodolski, May 8{11, 1997. Thanks go to Richard Nowakowski, Canadian Team Leader to the IMO in Argentina f...

*Corresponding author: Mohammad Azhar Aziz, Team Leader-Colorectal Cancer Research program (CCRP), Research Scientist/Principal Investigator, King Abdullah International Medical Research Center (KAIMRC), King Saud Bin Abdulaziz University for Health Sciences, King Abdulaziz Medical City, Ministry of National Guard Health Affairs, P.O. Box 22490, Riyadh 11426 KSA, Mail Code 2216, Saudi Arabia, T...

3.1 Members Toshiyuki Imamura (Team Leader) Yoshiharu Ohi (PostDoctoral Researcher) Yusuke Hirota (PostDoctoral Researcher) Daichi Mukunoki (PostDoctoral Researcher) Daisuke Takahashi (Senior Visiting Researcher) Franz Franchetti (Visiting Researcher) Yoshio Okamoto (Visiting Researcher) Takeshi Fukaya (Visiting Researcher) Cong Li (Student Trainee) Doru Thom Popovich (Student Trainee) Yukiko A...