access to development and life quality improvement are ideals that all the time has involved human’s mind. nowadays development phenomenon besides economic programs contains cultural and social subject. one of the important subjects in development part is women's issues. in these days, even though trend to women's issues in new approaches of development has increased, but in many coun...

The link between behaviour of a stockperson towards animals and the animals' behavioural response to humans is an important indicator of animal welfare. However, the economical importance of the human-animal relationship has only recently been acknowledged. The potential to improve animal productivity by improving these human-animal interactions is a positive step towards improving the welfare ...

The evaluation of conservation programs is rare but increasingly important in improving their effectiveness. Regular evaluations of conservation programs and the implementation of recommendations resulting from such assessments are infrequent because of resistance by participants and lack of funding. Evaluations may be internal or external, depending on the purpose of the review and how broadly...

Modern multi-paradigm declarative languages integrate features from functional, logic, and concurrent programming. In this work, we consider the adaptation of the logic programming transformation based on the introduction of diierence-lists to an integrated setting. Unfortunately, the use of diierence-lists is impractical due to the absence of non-strict equality in lazy (call-by-name) language...

Intelligent agent technology has evolved rapidly over the past few years along with the growing number of agent applications in various domains. However, very little work has been dedicated to define quality metrics for the design of an agent-based system. Previous efforts mostly focus on adopting classical metrics such as coupling and cohesion to measure quality of an agent design. We argue th...

We study the performance portability of OpenCL across diverse architectures including NVIDIA GPU, Intel Ivy Bridge CPU, and AMD Fusion APU. We present detailed performance analysis at assembly level on three exemplar OpenCL benchmarks: SGEMM, SpMV, and FFT. We also identify a number of tuning knobs that are critical to performance portability, including threads-data mapping, data layout, tiling...

The magnitude of the global youth employment challenge cannot be overstated. As many as 100 million young people around the world are unable to find decent work, and many more are underemployed, often in unsafe, dead-end seasonal jobs. Moreover, the world’s youth population is rapidly expanding, predominantly in developing countries, placing even greater pressure on governments and society to a...

Refactoring is an established technique from the object-oriented (OO) programming community to restructure code: it aims at improving software readability, maintainability and extensibility. Although refactoring is not tied to the OO-paradigm in particular, its ideas have not been applied to Logic Programming until now. This paper applies the ideas of refactoring to Prolog programs. A catalogue...

tool for controlling juvenile offenders; however, little attention has been paid to the programs that need to be linked with them. In this bulletin, we describe a systematic approach to developing practice guidelines from the large body of outcome research on delinquency programs and using this knowledge to evaluate and improve routine programs spanning the continuum from prevention to treatmen...

O ut of hospital cardiac arrest (OHCA) is one of the most frequent causes of death and leading cause of healthcare expenditures. This has led to significant research to study ways to reduce morbidity and mortality secondary to OHCA. The American Heart Association has developed a campaign to improve awareness and outcomes of patients suffering an OHCA. A prominent part of this campaign is the de...