Service systems for children and families have been shaped by standard approaches to knowledge-building, which reflect a reductionist approach assume linearity and/or that individuals experiences are normally distributed. Yet, these may be inadequate clients most at-risk, especially those who would analytic ‘outliers’. A complexity lens focuses on the whole system seeks identify patterns, inclu...

A detailed treatment of tide-generating forces is given, followed by a simplified dynamic theory of tidal waves. To clarify the underlying physics, we use a simple model of the ocean that consists of a water shell of uniform depth completely covering the globe. The treatment is appropriate for college and university undergraduate students studying introductory geophysics or astronomy, general p...

We show that the number of disjointed families needed in the Besicovitch Covering Theorem equals the number of unit spheres that can be packed into a ball of radius five, with one at the center, and get estimates on this number.

This paper deals with the problem of finding a base and strong generating set for the group generated by a given set of permutations. The concepts of base and strong generating set were introduced by Sims [5], [6] and provide the most effective tool for computing with permutation groups of high degree. One algorithm, originally proposed by Sims [7], is described in detail; its behavior on a num...

abstract background: admission to an intensive care unit (icu) is recognized as a situation with emotional strain, uncertainty, and fear of losing the patient. in such stressful situations, it is hope that can promote psychological stability in the patient’s family members. related literature revealed that sources of hope in this situation have still not been discussed well in studies. the purp...

Generating timed test sequences by hand is error-prone and time consuming, and it is easy to overlook important scenarios. The paper presents a tool based on formal methods that automatically computes a test suite for conformance testing of time critical systems. The generated tests are selected on the basis of a coverage criterion of the specification. The tool guarantees production of sound t...

The multicovering radii of a code are recent generalizations of the covering radius of a code. For positive m, the m-covering radius of C is the least radius t such that every m-tuple of vectors is contained in at least one ball of radius t centered at some codeword. In this paper upper bounds are found for the multicovering radii of first order Reed-Muller codes. These bounds generalize the we...

We present a new algorithm for exact two-level logic optimization. It diiers from the classical approach; rather than generating the set of all prime implicants of a function, and then deriving a covering problem, we derive the covering problem directly and implicitly, and then generate only those primes involved in the covering problem. We represent a set of primes by the cube of their interse...