This novel, exploratory study investigated the effect of a short, 20 min, dog-assisted intervention on student well-being, mood, and anxiety. One hundred and thirty-two university students were allocated to either an experimental condition or one of two control conditions. Each participant completed the Warwick-Edinburgh Mental Well-Being Scale (WEMBS), the State Trait Anxiety Scale (STAI), and...

A future is a well-known programming construct used to introduce concurrency to sequential programs. Computations annotated as futures are executed asynchronously and run concurrently with their continuations. Typically, futures are not transparent annotations: a program with futures need not produce the same result as the sequential program from which it was derived. Safe futures guarantee a f...

To develop context-aware workflow services in ubiquitous computing environments, a service developer must describe and recognize context information as transition constraints. uWDL (ubiquitous Workflow Description Language)[1] is a workflow language that describes the situation information of ubiquitous environments as a rule-based service transition condition. In this paper, we suggest a uWDL ...

The use of covert human intelligence sources for the protection national security is an important but under-researched area. In light increased globalisation, and technological developments, examining gathering online may have operational relevance. This study examined similarities in self-disclosure to develop rapport with mock online. A sample 66 participants were asked assume role a CHIS, li...

One of the most important topics in the field of automation systems is the integration of sensors, actuators, measurement devices and automation subsystems. Especially automation systems like test beds in the automotive industry impose high requirements regarding flexibility and reduced setup and integration time for new devices and operating modes. The core function of any automation system is...

Semi-captive Asian elephants (Elephas maximus) engaged in forestry activities Myanmar account for 20% of all captive and semi-captive the world, are important both conservation elephant populations. Understanding moving behavior is required to sustain them. Our specific goals 1) determine range during free time, 2) hourly distance skidding when off duty. Three were fitted with handheld global n...

This paper describes the design and implementation of an ARM based embedded operating system micro kernel developed on Linux platform with GNU tool chain in technical details, including the three-layer architecture of the kernel (boot layer, core layer and task layer), multi-task schedule (priority for real-time and round-robin for time-sharing), IRQ handler, SWI handler, system calls, and inte...

This paper describes a family of design patterns that enhance the flexibility and extensibility of communication software by permitting network services to evolve independently of the strategies used to passively initialize the services. The paper makes three contributions to the study and development of configurable distributed systems. First, it identifies five orthogonal dimensions of passiv...