Patterns of Protocols are introduced for describing communication across networks, providing conceptual patterns for behaviors of protocols and common terminology for their operations. The two basic structural patterns are Protocol-ProviderPeer-Pair-Packet and User-Provider-Agent, orthogonal to one another. The first views protocols in a common manner related to instances at each node, addresse...

A case report is a detailed narrative that usually illustrates a diagnostic or therapeutic problem experienced by one or several patients. Case reports commonly serve as the first line of evidence for new interventions or they function as alarms that an issue exists with an already established therapy. Case reports are of minor importance in evidence-based medicine; however, they make meaningfu...

This article distills the economic and current significance contained in the political economy of J.R. Commons. It compares descriptions of his three main works that discuss “sovereignty”: A Sociological View of Sovereignty (SVS), Legal Foundations of Capitalism (LFC), and Institutional Economics (IE). Through this comparison, we find that the role of sovereignty in his theory changed dramatica...

This study investigated the correlation between noncognitive variables and academic success in a freshman composition course. A sample of 257 freshmen taking an introductory English course completed a survey assessinE their attitudes and achievement expectancies. The questionnaire measured self-ratings of overall academic ability, drive to achieve, writing ability, creativity, and self-confiden...

Completion of research is logically followed by process of submission of the outcomes for publication. The objective of this article is to sensitise the young potential authors to improve their skill of writing so that the acceptance rate of publication is improved without significant comments and efforts of the editors of the journal. The article is based on the available literature combined w...

Last weekend in New York heralded another of the annual UN heads-of-state summits at which inappropriate targets, processes and evaluation systems were reconfirmed. Politicians joined multilateral bureaucrats to congratulate [2] each other for hitting many of the MDG targets during the 2000-2015 period. Now there are 17 new SDGs with 169 new targets and more than 300 indicators to aim for by 2030.

*Other members of the Scienti c Committee: Alegre EJ, Clopés A, Garrido P, Isla D, Lamas MJ, Martín M, Martín-Algarra S, Massuti B, Piulats JM 1 Facultad de Terapia Ocupacional, Logopedia y Enfermería de Talavera de la Reina. Toledo. Universidad Castilla-La Mancha, Spain. 2 Facultad de Ciencias Jurídicas y Sociales de Toledo. Universidad Castilla-La Mancha, Spain. 3 Facultad de Economía y Empre...

Brazilian researchers and health professionals often face the challenge of having to use tests developed in foreign languages and standardized for populations of other countries, especially in the fields of Neuropsychology and Neurolinguistics. This fact promotes a feeling that some scoring systems may be inadequate for our sociocultural reality. In the present study, we describe the performanc...