There is a growing need to understand how mobile devices are used to reach people in a crisis. This study focuses on how work organizations play a gatekeeping role in how their employees receive crisis information. Relying on research in the digital divide and organizational justice, this study compares two different types of organizations and their policies banning or allowing mobile devices a...

Making Sense of Normative Functions and Information in Neurobiological Systems by Daniel Mark Kraemer Department of Philosophy Duke University Date:_______________________ Approved: ___________________________ Karen Neander, Supervisor ___________________________ Fred Dretske ___________________________ Owen Flanagan ___________________________ Alex Rosenberg ___________________________ Robert ...

High-quality surface reconstruction of scanned physical objects using CAD or polygonal modeling packages represents a time consuming manual process. So far none of the fully automatic approaches to reconstruct free-from surfaces have lead to satisfying results that can compete with manually created objects based on traditional modeling techniques and most importantly an artist’s experience. In ...

abstract background: supervisors should have certain characteristics and adequate preparation for their roles. yet, there are no well‑educated experts knowing about the supervisor’s role and responsibilities and how to train them. so, this research was conducted with the purpose of finding the factors affecting nursing supervisor training. materials and methods: this research is an inductive co...

Abandoned object detection is one of the most practically useful areas of computer vision due to its application in automated video surveillance systems for the detection of suspicious activities that might endanger public safety, especially in crowded places like airports, railway stations, shopping malls, movie theatres and the like. An abandoned object is defined as one that has been lying s...