In this paper, the notion of declarative goals as used in agent programming is central. Declarative goals describe desirable states and are updated during the execution of an agent. These goal dynamics are analyzed by distinguishing and formalizing various notions of goal dropping and goal adoption. Furthermore, possible motivations for an agent to drop or adopt goals are identified. Based on t...

The proportion of people with low school qualifications remains significant in Hungary, which not only makes it difficult for them to enter the current labour market but may also exclude long term. For increasing number a level education, dropping out seems be one most common reasons. Prevention as determinative measure can provide answers this problem. study focuses on issue secondary drop-out...

The packets in a mobile wireless ad-hoc network (MANET) are vulnerable to various packet-dropping attacks. Due to the lack of a centralized monitoring mechanism, it is a challenging problem to identify the attackers that launch the packet-dropping attacks in MANET. The existing DoS defensive techniques have not provided a scheme to efficiently and effectively solve this challenging problem. Hen...

The current study was conducted to consider how pedigree and the gene-dropping analysis can use to monitor genetic diversity, and to recommend a breeding strategy for improving breast weight (BRW) in a population of Japanese quail. A total of 312 birds were divided equally into two lines. One line (S1) was selected for four-week body weight (BW) based on breeding value, and the other (S2) was s...

A 28-year-old female with history of chest wall extraskeletal myxoid chondrosarcoma (EMC) presented to the emergency department complaining of two weeks of lightheadedness and fatigue. Laboratories showed hemoglobin of 7.6 g/dL and a positive hemoccult test. Upper and lower endoscopies were unremarkable, and the patient was discharged after blood transfusion. The next day she returned to the ED...