F a c u l t y M e n t o r Jerry L. McCullough College of Medicine

We consider the problem of dividing a territory into sub-regions so as to balance the workloads of a collection of facilities or vehicles over that territory. We assume that the territory is a connected polygonal region, i.e. a simply connected polygon containing a set of simply connected obstacles. The territory also contains a collection of facilities, represented by a set of n fixed points i...

Consider a group of mobile finite automata, referred to as agents, located in the origin of an infinite grid. The grid is occupied by obstacles, i.e., sets of cells that can not be entered by the agents. In every step, an agent can sense the states of the co-located agents and is allowed to move to any neighboring cell of the grid not blocked by an obstacle. We assume that the circumference of ...

This paper addresses the human aspects of change at a time when the rapid wide-spread implementation of a new infostructure has become the cornerstone of national security policies. The author explores the behavioral characteristics of human beings from a point of view that is not based on inter-human comparisons, but on an examination of the innate physical, biological, intellectual, emotional...

ISO 10993-4 is an international standard describing the methods of testing of medical devices for interactions with blood for regulatory purpose. The complexity of blood responses to biomaterial surfaces and the variability of blood functions in different individuals and species pose difficulties in standardisation. Moreover, in vivo or in vitro testing, as well as the clinical relevance of cer...

architecture education has social, interpersonal and ethical aspects. the role of narration and storytelling as a pedagogical tool in clarification of academic subjects has been argued by researchers.architecture is a multidisciplinary field of study that draws on the arts, science and social sciences. the aim in educating architects is seen as developing the imaginative, conceptual and practic...

Management theory teaches that successful innovation requires concomitant changes among the system ’ s components to achieve congruence or fi t . 1 Similar thinking has been applied to changing the U.S. health care system. 2 In recent years, there has been growing recognition that payment reform of the U.S. health care system must be accompanied by corresponding reforms in the delivery system. ...

In this article, we are concerned with the following problem: let X be a Banach space, over the field F (F = C or R), V ⊂ X is an n-dimensional subspace of X and u1, . . . ,um are m linearly independent functionals on X. given x∈X we want to recover x on the basis of the values u1(x), . . . ,um(x)∈ F. Hence we are looking for a map F : X → V such that uj (Fx) = uj (x) for all j = 1, . . . ,m. S...