The purpose of this study was to test direct, additive, and mediation models involving family, neighborhood, and peer factors in relation to emerging antisocial behavior and social skills. Neighborhood danger, maternal depressive symptoms, and supportive parenting were assessed in early childhood. Peer group acceptance was measured in middle childhood, and data on antisocial behavior and social...

A Systematic change of Neighborhood within a possibly randomized local search algorithm yields a simple and effective metaheuristic for combinatorial and global optimization. In this paper we present a Variable Neighborhood Search implementation designed to find high quality solutions for the NP-hard Linear Ordering Problem, which has a significant number of application in practice, such triang...

The Pickup and Delivery Problem (PDP) consists in defining a set of routes that satisfy transportation requests between a pickup point and a delivery point. This paper addresses a variant of the PDP where the requests are transportation demands arising from disabled persons. Vehicle passengers can change of vehicle during their trip on specific locations called “transfer points”. Solving this v...

In network-based walkthroughs the server transmits online only the primitives which are potentially visible from the client’s current viewpoint (visibility streaming). To reduce the bandwidth requirements it is necessary to minimize the set of view-dependent potentially visible primitives using occlusion culling techniques. However, even a slight change in the viewpoint might require the comput...

In network-based walkthroughs the server transmits online only the primitives which are potentially visible from the client’s current viewpoint (visibility streaming). To reduce the bandwidth requirements it is necessary to minimize the set of view-dependent potentially visible primitives using occlusion culling techniques. However, even a slight change in the viewpoint might require the comput...

resources directly into the Community at the Neighborhood level. Our "Neighborhood Technology Master Family", "Youth Technology Corps" and "Community Technology Advisory Councils" are the tools by which we create effective, actively used Community level Internet resources. Three essential "Change Agents" within our programs. RAIN begins use of two "Internet Bus" vehicles in September 1999. Each...

The Sagittarius dwarf tidal stream may be showering dark matter onto the solar neighborhood, which can change the results and interpretation of direct detection searches for weakly interacting massive particles (WIMPs). Stars in the stream may already have been detected in the solar neighborhood, and the dark matter in the stream is (0.3-25)% of the local density. Experiments should see an annu...

We introduce neighborhood effects in the costs of human capital acquisition into a model of statistical discrimination in labor markets. This creates a link between the level of segregation and the likelihood and extent of statistical discrimination. As long as negative stereotypes persist in the face of increasing integration, skill levels rise in the disadvantaged group and fall in the advant...

Systematic change of neighborhood within a possibly randomized local search algorithm yields a simple and e€ective metaheuristic for combinatorial and global optimization, called variable neighborhood search (VNS). We present a basic scheme for this purpose, which can easily be implemented using any local search algorithm as a subroutine. Its e€ectiveness is illustrated by solving several class...