Peters, de Bruin, and Crutzen (2013) concluded (1) that past research syntheses have often neglected the finer points of behavioural theories, making for dubious conclusions and ineffective health promotion efforts and (2) offered an iterative protocol for evidence base accumulation (IPEBA) as a way to blend work from theories, experiments, and metaanalyses of experiments. In the spirit of scie...

Over the past few years, a continually increasing number of research efforts have investigated the application of evolutionary computation techniques for the solution of scheduling problems. Scheduling problems can pose extremely complex combinatorial optimization problems. The necessity to satisfy various kinds of constraint makes the scheduling task even more difficult. The major portion of t...

Introduction It is clear from the presentations at this symposium that Assisted Reproductive Technologies (ARTs) in nonhuman primates have made substantial progress since 1984, when the first reports appeared of successful births following in vitro fertilization (IVF) [1,2]. It can truly be said that nonhuman primate ARTs have "come of age" because these births occurred 21 years ago (Figure 1)....

Audio mining is currently the subject of several research efforts, especially because of its potential to speed up search for spoken words in audio recordings. This study explores a method for approaching the problem from the bottom. It proposes a framework based on smart logic, mainly fuzzy logic, and on an audio model applicable to any kind of audio recording, including music.

Legal texts, such as regulations and legislation, are increasingly playing an important role in requirements engineering and system development. Monitoring systems for requirements and policy compliance has been recognized in the requirements engineering community as a key area for research. Similarly, regulatory compliance is critical in systems that are governed by regulations and law, especi...

At present, a major concern regarding data centers is their extremely high energy consumption and carbon dioxide emissions. However, because of the over-provisioning of resources, the utilization of existing data centers is, in fact, remarkably low, leading to considerable energy waste. Therefore, over the past few years, many research efforts have been devoted to increasing efficiency for the ...

This paper concerns two major research questions. The first is the ways in which Toronto’s social landscape throughout the past century, and especially following World War Two, has been changed by the diverse array of immigrant groups that have entered the city. For researchers and policy makers concerned with urban settlement patterns, Toronto represents a particularly intriguing study area, n...