Due to the exibility in adapting to diierent tness landscapes, self-adaptive evolutionary algorithms (SA-EAs) have been gaining popularity in the recent past. In this paper, we postulate the properties that SA-EA operators should have for successful applications in real-valued search spaces. Speciically, population mean and variance of a number of SA-EA operators, such as various real-parameter...

BACKGROUND A 2005 survey reported 87% of surgery program directors believed practice management training should occur during residency. However, only 8% of program directors believed residents received adequate training in practice management [1]. In addition to the gap in practice financial management knowledge, we recognized the need for training in personal finance among residents. A literat...

While inclusion of emerging technology-based Non-Volatile Memory (NVM) devices in on-chip memory subsystems offers excellent potential for energy savings and scalability, their sensing vulnerability creates Process Variation (PV) challenges. This paper presents a circuit-architecture cross-layer solution to realize a radically-different approach to leveraging as-built variations via specific Se...

This paper describes a machine learning approach to evaluate the relationship between trust behavior and Situation Awareness (SA) in the context of a 3-player Iterated Diner’s Dilemma game. Our experimental setup consisted of a set of 24 supervised studies in which participants played against computer opponents with different cooperation strategies. Three user interfaces were evaluated in the s...

BACKGROUND Whereas non-suicidal self-injury (NSSI) and suicide attempts (SA) are rather common among adolescents, the description of risk factors has often failed to take migration into perspective. Our study aimed to describe immigration status in adolescents with regards to their lifetime history of NSSI and SA. METHODS We carried out a population based study in a school community of ninth-...

BACKGROUND Suicide is among the most important mental health issues affecting adolescents today despite much research on its detection and prevention. Beyond suicide attempts (SAs), clinicians are increasingly confronted with another, potentially related problem: non-suicidal self-injury (NSSI)-defined as the deliberate destruction of body tissue without intent to die. NSSI may increase risk fo...

Chapter 5 has provided step-by-step guidelines on how to design selfaware and self-expressive systems, including several architectural patterns with different levels of self-awareness. Chapter 6 has explained important features in self-aware and self-expressive systems, including adaptivity, robustness, multiobjectivity and decentralisation. To allow such self-aware capabilities in each design ...

Assessing sustainability is increasingly becoming a common practice in the appraisal of products and policy plans. Nonetheless, there are many concerns about the operationalisation of sustainability assessment. In the present paper we discuss the distinction between integrated assessment and sustainability assessment (SA), and using a systemic approach, w...

BACKGROUND The present naturalistic study aimed to distinguish between suicide attempts (SAs) of bipolar and unipolar patients, and among SAs characterized by different lethality risk. METHODS The records of 2395 consecutive admissions to our psychiatric intensive care unit (PICU) were assessed for presence of suicide attempt (SA). Cases of SA were rated for symptom severity with the brief ps...

It is well established that social anxiety (SA) has a positive relationship with neuroticism and a negative relationship with extraversion. However, findings on the relationships between SA and agreeableness, conscientiousness, and openness to experience are mixed. In regard to facet-level personality traits, SA is negatively correlated with trust (a facet of agreeableness) and self-efficacy (a...