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This study examined conflict behaviors (self, other) among 127 Turkish college students. Differences in five conflict behaviors (forcing, avoiding, accommodating, compromising, and collaborating) were then explored in relation to popularity and unpopularity. Results indicated that the students engaged in more avoiding and compromising behaviors, while perceiving more forcing behavior in others....

In 1879 the North American Review published in four separate monthly installments excerpts from "The Diary of a Public Man" in which the name of the diarist was withheld. It was, or purported to be, a diary kept during the "secession winter" of 1860-61. It appeared to offer verbatim accounts of behind-the-scenes discussions at the very highest levels during the greatest crisis the US had ever f...

Hanusch and Andreas Pyka. Quite obviously, this paper is largely based on earlier articles written jointly with Franco Malerba, Richard Nelson and Sidney Winter. However, they are not responsible for any mistakes nor they might necessarily agree with all the ideas presented in this paper.

The delivery of health care continues to change rapidly. Consumers are driving and so is technology. There new competitors entering into address access care, efficiencies, coordination. Many times, nurses have great ideas on how can be improved yet do not know effect the change. Jasmine Bhatti, RN, PhD(c), MS, chief executive officer Navi Nurses, decided she would figure out make her idea becom...

This work focuses on evolving purposeful collective behavior in a swarm of Jasmine micro-robots. We investigate the stability of the online and on-board evolutionary approaches, where mutation, crossover as well as fitness calculation are performed only by interacting micro-robots without using any centralized resources. In this work it is demonstrated that the environment-adaptive collective b...

Like any other database application object database applications are subject to evolution. Evolution is, however, critical in object databases because it is the very characteristic of complex applications such as CAD, etc. for which they provide inherent support. This paper discusses the evolution facilities offered by some of the existing systems. We first provide an overview of the ODMG 2.0 s...