For many years, the only way to attain an education in software engineering has been through the school of hard knocks. A common lament among experienced software developers is that colleges don’t teach students the skills they need to perform effectively on the job. What is needed to give software developers a better start? Formal professional education has traditionally been divided into thre...

Intuitiveness, attractiveness and efficiency are in general important characteristics of high quality User Interfaces (UI). In the case of a Mass Casualty Incident (MCI) and other life threatening situations good user interfaces are essential as every second counts in these time-critical situations. Finding the best way to interact with the system is a challenge with many open issues. Therefore...

Let V denote a vector space with finite positive dimension. We consider a pair of linear transformations A : V → V and A : V → V that satisfy (i) and (ii) below: (i) There exists a basis for V with respect to which the matrix representing A is irreducible tridiagonal and the matrix representing A is diagonal. (ii) There exists a basis for V with respect to which the matrix representing A is irr...

Great Britain's 1983 "Christmas Crusade" against drunken drivers, during which the police of England and Wales administered an average of 1350 breath tests daily, is discussed. Although not deliberately planned and organized, the campaign, fueled by press reports, was perceived by many observes to be a national organized deterrent effort. To test the hypothesis that the crusade reduced drunken ...

(d) Suppose list1 contains N1 elements and list2 contains N2 elements. The first while loop is executed O(N1) times. The body of this loop takes O(N1) since GetNextItem takes O(1) and InsertItem takes O(N1). So, the complexity of the first loop is O(N1N1). The second while loop is executed O(N2) times. The body of that loop takes O(N1+N2) time since GetNextItem takes O(1), RetrieveItem takes O(...

Adolescence is often described as a period of heightened risk-taking. Adolescents are notorious for impulsivity, emotional volatility, and risky behaviors such as drinking and driving under the influence of alcohol. By contrast, we found that risk-taking declines linearly from childhood to adulthood when individuals make choices over monetary gambles. Further, with age we found increases in the...

Let K denote a field. Let d denote a nonnegative integer and consider a sequence p = (θi, θ ∗ i , i = 0...d;φj , φj , j = 1...d) consisting of scalars taken from K. We call p a parameter array whenever: (PA1) θi 6= θj, θ ∗ i 6= θ ∗ j if i 6= j, (0 ≤ i, j ≤ d); (PA2) φi 6= 0, φi 6= 0 (1 ≤ i ≤ d); (PA3) φi = φ1 ∑i−1 h=0 θh−θd−h θ0−θd + (θ i − θ ∗ 0)(θi−1 − θd) (1 ≤ i ≤ d); (PA4) φi = φ1 ∑i−1 h=0 ...