The UK Ministry of Defence (2003) recently argued that the use of night vision equipment improves ‘shared situation awareness’ and ‘greatly enhanced operational effectiveness... in surveillance and target acquisition in close combat’. They are ‘particularly effective in the urban environment’ and in support of ‘marshalling and logistic maneuvers at night’. However, there is good evidence to sug...

• Let T be a countable theory with a distinguished predicate R. A model of T is said to be of type (λ,μ) if the cardinality of the model is λ and the cardinality of the model’s interpretation of R is μ. For cardinals α,β, γ, and δ, (α,β) → (γ, δ) is the assertion that for every countable theory T , if T has a model of type (α,β), then it has a model of type (γ, δ). Chang showed that under GCH, ...

Deriving a thematically meaningful partition of an unlabeled document corpus is a challenging task. In this context, the use of document representations based on latent thematic generative models can lead to improved clustering. However, determining a priori the optimal document indexing technique is not straighforward, as it depends on the clustering problem faced and the partitioning strategy...

BACKGROUND Blended learning (BL) in a cell biology course of the premedical program at the Kasturba Medical College International Centre, Manipal, India, commenced in 2006. The program provides training in basic sciences to students, especially from the United States and Canada. The approach to the study was phenomenographic, with a qualitative study design using an open-ended questionnaire, fo...

Erik Sandberg and Carlos Mena, Exploring strategic strengths and weaknesses of retail purchasing groups, 2015, International Review of Retail Distribution & Consumer Research, (25), 3, 276-297. International Review of Retail Distribution & Consumer Research is available online at informaworldTM: http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/09593969.2014.982679 Copyright: Taylor & Francis (Routledge): SSH Titles h...

introduction: awareness of outlook, objectives, benefits and impact of telemedicine technology that can promote services quality, reduce costs, increase access to specialized and subspecialty services. therefore, the aim of this study was to determine the strengths, weaknesses, opportunities and threats in the telemedicine strategic planning from the managers and expert’s perspective in the hea...