Recent outbreaks of Ebola, H1N1 and other infectious diseases have shown that the assumptions underlying the established theory of epidemics management are too idealistic. For an improvement of procedures and organizations involved in fighting epidemics, extended models of epidemics management are required. The necessary extensions consist in a representation of the management loop and the pote...

In 2009, four institutes of the Canadian Institutes of Health Research (Gender and Health; Health Services and Policy Research; Neurosciences, Mental Health and Addiction; and Population and Public Health) sponsored the Fourth Annual Canadian Research Congress on Mental Health and Addictions in the Workplace, in Toronto, Ontario. Hosted by the Work and Well-Being Research and Evaluation Program...

It is has been well documented that the performance of group housed pigs is considerably lower than the performance of their genetic contemporaries when housed singularly in idealistic environments (Black et al. 2001). The review by Black et al. (2001) suggested that within commercial environments group housed pigs had depressed feed intakes and efficiency of feed usage as well as a tendency to...

Western theater theory and criticism is generally considered to be set forth by the Greeks. Plato was “the first theater critic” with his negative comments about theater owing to his idealistic views about “the truth.” Then came Aristotle who used a different viewpoint from that of Plato, saying that there is “truth” in theater. However, hostile criticism on theater came back in the Middle Ages...

This paper discusses the theory behind the existence of an idealistic model for business network governance and uses a clarifying case-study, containing governance structures and processes within a business network framework. The case study from a German pharmaceutical industry company complements existing literature by providing a comprehensive explanation of the relations between supply chain...

Each state is required by the No Child Left Behind Act to report the percents of its students who have reached a score level called “proficient” or above for certain grades in the content areas of reading (or a similar construct) and math. Using 2005 data from public web sites of states and the National Assessment of Educational Progress (NAEP), state-to-state differences in percents were analy...

The word over, among others, is associated with a great variety of syntactic categories and meanings. Although over has received attention from scholars in different frameworks for various aspects, there is little research, to my knowledge, to take a comprehensive approach to both syntax and semantics of the word over. This article proposes algorithms for identifying from the context a case of ...

We present in this paper the advantages of using the model of Euclidean paths for the geometrical analysis of a discrete curve. The Euclidean paths are a semi-continuous representation of a discrete path providing a good approximation of the underlying real curve. We describe the use of this model to obtain accurate estimations of lenght, tangent orientation and curvature.

We show that a theorem of Shchepin and Repovš concerning the smoothness of compacta follows from the theory of semicontinuous relations.

We consider the upper semicontinuity of the global random attractors for the stochastic three-component reversible Gray–Scott system on unbounded domains when the intensity of the noise converges to zero. 2013 Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.