the increasing number of scientific journals, even in a subfield, necessitates a reliable and authoritative measure for researchers and libraries to identify core journals in a given subfield. the impact factor value is affected by different factors such as subject area, type of documents or length of the citation measurement window. in order to prioritize the choice of quality journals for sci...

In this article the answer for the question ‘is education a scientific discipline?’ will be analyzed. Regarding this question, those who oppose the arguments that education is a scientific discipline and others who claim that education is not a philosophic discipline are both right. The question will be reviewed within the framework of philosophy’s and sciences’ basic structures. Those who clai...

Generally, with a limited number of fixed priorities ( ) within a network, applications sharing a same priority are scheduled according to First in First out ( I O) discipline. This policy is called FP/FIFO. However real time applications have deadline requirements which aren’t taken into account with the I O discipline. That is why we propose to introduce the Earliest Deadline First ( D ) disc...

A history of exposure to harsh physical discipline has been linked to negative outcomes for children, ranging from conduct disorder to depression and low self-esteem. The present study extends this work into adolescence, and examines the relationship of lifetime histories of harsh discipline to adolescents' internalizing and externalizing symptoms and to their developing capacities for establis...

In the current study, two hypotheses about the role of harsh discipline (HD) in explaining the sex difference in the prevalence of conduct disorder (CD) were evaluated: that boys exhibit more CD than girls because (1) they are exposed to more HD and/or (2) there is a greater association between HD and CD in boys. These hypotheses were evaluated in a sample of male and female adult twins from di...

Family medicine is a discipline that has only recently joined the academic arena. Because of this, the academic contribution of this discipline to universities has not been clarified yet. On the other hand, the medical schools suffer from well-known challenges, that have been largely known in the discussions about the crisis of academic medicine. The article explores the possibilities of mutual...

highly motivated to contribute to the welfare of the poor through a community-oriented approach, the main focus in the early years of family medicine was on the relationship of the physician with the individual patient and his/her family. It was mainly public health programmes that looked at the broader societal context and tried to act at that level. The World Health Organization (WHO) Alma-At...

A model of P systems with symport / antiport rules is given in terms of hypernets, a generalization of a class of hierarchical Petri nets introduced for modeling mobility inside the nets-within-nets paradigm. The hierarchical structure of a P system is reflected by the associated hypernet, where molecules are modeled by unstructured agents (simple tokens) and membranes by agents. Each agent is ...

Service-oriented computing provides a suitable technological foundation for developing and executing dynamic business processes. However, most current approaches for composition languages and architectures for dynamic process integration do not provide the flexibility and dynamism required by interorganisational evolving environments. In this work, the DENEB platform for the development and exe...