As case-based reasoning systems are deployed in real-world situations the issue of case maintenance becomes more and more critical. Uncontrolled case-base growth can cause serious performance problems as retrieval efficiency degrades and incorrect or inconsistent cases become increasingly difficult to detect. This paper surveys recent progress in the area of knowledge maintenance, and propose a...

Stress is an integral part of our lives. It also applies to childhood. That why it so important know how children cope with stress (how they learn coping strategies) and equip them the competences constructively stressful situations throughout life. This article describes strategies for that are characteristic at end early school education. They have been identified in course my own research ai...

Ethical leadership is crucial in today's complex business landscape, as it sets the tone for organizational culture, guides decision-making processes, and shapes team behaviors values. leaders prioritize transparency, honesty, accountability, integrity, setting a positive example others to follow. Research consistently shows impact of ethical on outcomes, such trust, credibility, employee engag...

When people make inferences about causal situations with vague and imperfect information, their judgments often deviate from the normative prescription of classical probability. As a result, it is difficult to apply popular models of causal reasoning such as ∆P and causal power, which provide good accounts of behavior in casual learning tasks and tasks where statistical information is provided ...

Managing thyroid dysfunction is simple at first glance, the idea is to bring hormone levels in the euthyroid range, treat with antithyroid drugs, radio-iodine or surgery if toxic and replace with thyroxine or T3 if hypothyroid. Complexities arise when there are coexisting conditions that affect the thyroid or are affected by thyroid dysfunction and this review will deal with the special situati...

Today mergers of larger financial institutions are quite common place. You often find conglomerates that stem from a sequence of merger & acquisition activities. In each such case, IT management is confronted with more than one set of applications, often more than one IT service organization and the question is how to deal with such a situation. Typically management likes to reduce cost by migr...