Abstract Welfare reforms often focus on stimulating employment among benefit recipients, based the theoretical mechanism that performance of low income work will serve as a stepping stone towards financial self-sufficiency. Alternative theories, however, argue acceptance reduce job search intensity and can signal productivity, therefore not enable people to support themselves. Using longitudina...

s o YOU think that politics Is big-time stuff? Have you ever wondered why people enter this field, and how valid their motivations are? Some go into it for egosatisfaction, some because they want it as a stepping-stone, some because they can use it to improve themselves financially, a few because they have a sense of mis•ion. Those who do it for ego•atisfaction are fooling themselves. Tb * powe...

We herein report the case of a 47-year-old female with the colony-stimulating factor 1 receptor (CSF1R) mutation p.G589R, which is related to hereditary leukoencephalopathy with axonal spheroid (HDLS). The patient presented with an early-onset cognitive decline and progressive aphasia. Brain magnetic resonance imaging revealed HDLS-related alterations. In addition, brain computed tomography rev...

In this paper we present a thrust in three directions of visual development using supervised and semi-supervised techniques. The first is an implementation of semi-supervised object detection and recognition using the principles of Soft Attention and Generative Adversarial Networks (GANs). The second and the third are supervised networks that learn basic concepts of spatial locality and quantit...

Dynamic system adaptation is modeled in the coordination language Paradigm as coordination of collaborating components. A special component McPal allows for addition of new behavior, of new constraints and of new control in view of a new collaboration. McPal gradually adapts the system dynamics. It is shown that the approach also applies to the probabilistic setting. For a client-server example...

Knowledge of the mechanism of action of antimicrobial agents is crucial for the development of new compounds to combat microbial pathogens. To this end, computational studies on the interaction of known membrane-active antimicrobial polymers with phospholipid bilayers reveal spontaneous membrane insertion and cooperative action at low and high concentrations, respectively. In late-stage attack,...

This article discusses five college students’ experiences in a simulated fullimmersion, Arabic-speaking language village and the impact of that experience on learners’ beliefs about the power of collaborative learning, the critical importance of cultural awareness, the efficacy of learning languages within a functioning community of practice, and the utility of role play and experiential learni...

During the 1990s an international collaboration has been studying the possibility of constructing and operating a high-energy high-luminosity μ+μ− collider. Such a machine could be the approach of choice to extend our discovery reach beyond that of the LHC. More recently, a growing collaboration is exploring the potential of a stored-muon-beam “neutrino factory” to elucidate neutrino oscillatio...