FOR MOST LAW ENFORCEMENT AND EMERGENCY SERVICES AGENCIES, THE costs related to the purchasing, equipping, operating and maintaining of fleets is the largest single recurring cost, outside that of personnel. The cost of acquiring vehicles, the costs associated with equipping and maintaining these vehicles, and escalating fuel costs have created difficulties for many departments— including police...

Argyris and Schön distinguish espoused theories those which people speak about – from theory-in-use those which can be inferred from action. In small software teams, developing reflective thinking about action is a vital necessity in coping with change. We address these issues in a Masters of Software Engineering, performed with an alternation between university and industry. University periods...

The online encyclopedia Wikipedia has become a popular source of knowledge and often constitutes the first choice for humans looking up information on the internet. Thereby, additional characteristics like the categorization of articles and the allocation of disambiguation pages support Wikipedia users in their search for the relevant article. By representing this information in an adequate for...

This chapter describes the behaviors of the ethical leader and explores the reasons why leaders do not always act ethically. The chapter also offers five recommendations to help educators integrate the practices of ethical leadership into their work with student leaders.

As the proportion of older patients with frailty presenting to health services increases, so does the need for doctors to be adequately trained to meet their needs. The presentations seen in such patients, the evidence-based models of care and skillsets required to deliver them are different than for younger patient groups-so specific training is required. Several research programmes have used ...

Time perception is a fundamental capacity of autonomous living biological and computational systems that plays a key role in the development of intelligence. In particular, time is important for encoding, revisiting and exploiting experiences (knowing), for making plans to accomplish timely goals at certain moments (doing), for maintaining the identity of self over time despite changing context...