Animal research is not only regulated by legislation but also by self-regulatory mechanisms within the scientific community, which include biomedical journals' policies on animal use. For editorial policies to meaningfully impact attitudes and practice, they must not only be put into effect by editors and reviewers, but also be set to high standards. We present a novel tool to classify journals...

The popularization of science and public health was a major reason for the choice by the Editors of CSP to illustrate the covers of the journal’s 2017 editions with the theme Street Art 1. This same choice served as the inspiration for organizing the first internship program in science publishing in Brazil. Just as many people believe that the urban canvases covering cities are hardly appropria...

This paper addresses the problem of scheduling a Markovian multiclass queue with a finite dedicated buffer for each class, where class-dependent linear holding and rejection cost rates model differing levels of tolerance to delay and loss. The goal is to design well-grounded and tractable scheduling policies that nearly minimize expected total discounted or long-run average cost. New dynamic in...

The paper investigates stochastic resource allocation problems with scarce, reusable resources and non-preemtive, time-dependent, interconnected tasks. This approach is a natural generalization of several standard resource management problems, such as scheduling and transportation problems. First, reactive solutions are considered and defined as control policies of suitably reformulated Markov ...

Many current state-of-the-art planners rely on forward heuristic search. The success of such search typically depends on heuristic distance-to-the-goal estimates derived from the plangraph. Such estimates are effective in guiding search for many domains, but there remain many other domains where current heuristics are inadequate to guide forward search effectively. In some of these domains, it ...

Abstract This study aims to understand the practice of government policy in dealing with Covid-19 pandemic a focus on cross-sectoral and cross-level synergies. At central level, ministries tend respond sectorally fragmentedly issue. Whereas from hierarchical perspective, practices at regional levels clash each other. Policy communication through media also shows atmosphere competition between s...

User data can originate from three sources – the user, the user’s friends and acquaintances, and services with which the user interacts – and users may be harmed by the disclosure of data from any of these sources, some of which are not directly under her control. We argue that, for data disclosed by the user herself, tag-based privacy policy languages are flexible, are easy for users to unders...

improvements in the properties of ordinary sidewall compound (nr/br) with the addition of epdm by reactive processing method were evaluated. the results show that ozone resistance of these sidewalls was improved with increased addition of epdm. also the tensile strength and elongation-at-break were increased in comparison with nrbrepdm compounds that were made by non-reactive processing. sem ph...