Why and how should a society devote special resources to the development of giftedness in young people for the twenty-first century? If we agree that the goals of gifted education and talent development are to maximize young people’s opportunities for self-fulfillment and increase society’s reservoir of creative problem solvers and producers of knowledge, then it would seem wise that programmin...

OF THESIS Submitted in Partial Fulfillment of the Requirements for the Degree of Master of Science

OF THESIS Submitted in Partial Fulfillment of the Requirements for the Degree of Master of Science

A project submitted in partial fulfillment of the requirements for the degree of Master of Science

to the Department of Mathematics in partial fulfillment of the requirements for an honors degree.

Cooperation between and collaboration with partner organisations is a business requirement, which needs for its fulfillment a fast and easy exchange of information between the partners. Therefore interoperation between heterogeneous ICT systems is becoming a high priority requirement in such a global business enterprise environment. Numerous standards to support this interoperation have been or...

Receptor-Mediated Antigen Delivery by α2-Macroglobulin: Effect on Cytotoxic T Lymphocyte Immunity and Implications for Vaccine Development by Edith Villette Bowers Department of Pathology Duke University Date:_______________________ Approved: ___________________________ Salvatore V. Pizzo, MD, PhD, Supervisor ___________________________ George J. Cianciolo, PhD ___________________________ Soman...

Dynamic events in a multiagent environment can be a source of conflict. We model the network of inter-agent commitments as a constraint graph. Conflicts arise when an event prevents fulfillment of a commitment, resulting in an infeasible constraint graph. Constraint relaxation directed by a mediating agent is used to reconfigure the commitment graph. We investigate this general approach in the ...

Evidence-based IT development aims at developing a new commercial contract model for IT projects where the customer’s payment is dependent on measurable effects of using the vendor’s system. The idea is to establish a strategic partnership in which customer and IT vendor share the responsibility of providing IT solutions that meet agreed-upon, measurable effects. The project investigates effect...

The present paper is devoted to the development of the theory of monotone difference schemes, approximating the so-called weakly coupled system of linear elliptic and quasilinear parabolic equations. Similarly to the scalar case, the canonical form of the vector-difference schemes is introduced and the definition of its monotonicity is given. This definition is closely associated with the prope...