The level of information today is decisive in the socio-economic development of the country. The purpose of the article is to identify the most influential factors in the process of developing informatization in the context of international globalization. The assessment of factors influencing world information is based on the following stages: forming incoming information about the state of wor...

Date bunch fading disorder (DBFD) has been one of the major issues facing date palm growers in recent decades. This order has caused high and non-compensable losses to date palm product. Despite numerous studies, predominantly focusing on the causes and mitigation methods of this disorder, no precise influencing factors have been established and practices which can completely control it are not...

WE AVE ~r.T. famlhar with the observation that when two pahents undergo the same operalaon, one may vomit repeatedly, while the other may not even be nauseated Much interest has centred around the reasons underlying these differences, since many anaesthetists and surgeons are reluctant to gwe powerful ant:-emehe drugs unnecessarily to pataents who may not have vom:ted without them : If we could...

Due to the improvements in medical care, individuals with spinal cord injury (SCI) are now mirroring the nondisabled population in life expectancy and cause of death . In a study by Geisler and Jousse (1), renal (kidney) failure remained the leading cause of death, at 30.8 percent of the population with SCI studied . A 1983 study on the survival rates of individuals with SCI done by Geisler, sh...

Previous research suggests that intonation is a particularly challenging aspect of L2 speech learning. While most research focuses on speech production, we widen the focus and study the perception of intonation by L2 learners. We investigate whether advanced German learners of English have knowledge of the appropriate English intonation patterns in a narrative context with different sentence ty...

We describe a framework and an algorithm for solving hybrid influence diagrams with discrete, continuous, and deterministic chance variables, and discrete and continuous decision variables. A continuous chance variable in an influence diagram is said to be deterministic if its conditional distributions have zero variances. The solution algorithm is an extension of Shenoy’s fusion algorithm for ...

We extend the logical model of agency known as the KGP model, to support agents with normative concepts, based on the roles an agent plays and the obligations and prohibitions that result from playing these roles. The proposed framework illustrates how the resulting normative concepts, including the roles, can evolve dynamically during the lifetime of the agent. Furthermore, we illustrate how t...