TRIESTE, ITALY--Arbab Ibrahim Arbab had reached a dead end. He'd earned a bachelor's degree at the University of Khartoum, Sudan, in the early 1990s but was unable to continue his studies in astrophysics. "There is hardly any money for research in Sudan," he explains. Then one of his former professors suggested that he apply for a new diploma course at the United Nations-backed Abdus Salam Inte...

Being on the wrong side of the digital divide limits the life chances of the socially excluded, who have had neither the wherewithal nor the opportunity to obtain highly paid, skilled positions in IT. Irish policy makers see education as the solution to this problem. However, providing institutional support for the socially disadvantaged who wish to avail of third level education in IT poses si...

A postgraduate Diploma in Medical Ethics and Law was started in October 1984 by the Centre of Medical Law and Ethics at King's College. It is a part-time one year course designed so as to enable students to continue with full-time employment if they wish. It is multidiscipinary and is open to all who have a first degree in a relevant discipline, for example law, philosophy, theology, medicine a...

Inspections and testing represent core techniques to ensure reliable software. Inspections also seem to have a positive effect on predictability, total costs and delivery time. This paper presents a case study of inspections and testing, done at the Ericsson development department outside Oslo in Norway. This department develops and maintains customer-defined services around AXE phone switches,...

● Numerous job openings should arise for most types of information and record clerks, due to employment growth and the need to replace workers who leave this large occupational group. ● A high school diploma or its equivalent is the most common educational requirement. ● Because many information and record clerks deal directly with the public, a professional appearance and a pleasant personalit...

T his volume describes changes in the workplace for Americans who do not earn enough to support themselves and their families. The number of such workers is substantial. In 2001 about 34 million Americans, 23.9 percent of the labor force, earned less than $8.70 an hour (Mishel, Bernstein, and Boushey 2003, table 2.9). Working full-time for the entire year at this wage produces annual earnings o...

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Congress has historically been quite interested in recruiting and retention of personnel in the nation's Armed Forces, since maintaining a fully manned and capable workforce is a key component of military readiness. This report provides a brief overview of the recruiting and retention results for Active and Reserve Component enlisted personnel during FY2011 and FY2012. Both years were considere...

In this thesis I try to answer the question of how information spaces can be designed so that they support humans in the exploration of a large set of scientific literature items. I will argue that the degree of support increases if the spatial representation assembles the mental representation of a certain spectator. In this regard, I will illustrate how humans build such mental representation...

Consent-based networking, which requires senders to have permission to send traffic, can protect against multiple attacks on the network. Highly dynamic networks like Mobile Ad-hoc Networks (MANETs) require destination-based consent networking, where consent needs to be given to send to a destination in any path. These networks are susceptible to multipath misuses by misbehaving nodes. In this ...