An important current trend for the ACT-R community is to apply cognitive modelling to real world problems like HCI (Byrne 2001) or human machine interaction (Gluck 2002). Important developments of the architecture that are necessary to do so are PM for integration to the task environment and new ways of goal management. An area that still needs attention is timing for operating human-machine sy...

FucoPol, a fucose-rich polyanionic polysaccharide, was used for the first time preparation of hydrogel membranes (HMs) using Fe3+ as crosslinking agent. This study evaluated impact and FucoPol concentrations on HMs’ strength. The results show that, above 1.5 g/L, concentration had limited influence strength, varying more significant effect. Three different (1.0, 1.75 2.5 wt.%) were combined wit...

Background: A system-wide health system strengthening (HSS) initiative, the Health Systems Governance and Accountability (HSGA) intervention, was developed, translated to policy, implemented in Free State province. This study assessed managers (HMs) community representatives’ (CRs) views of intervention whether it improved integration performance.
 
 Method: questionnaire survey among...

Introduction The indigenous microbiota of traditional date vinegar is inadequately reported in the literature, yet its understanding necessary for industrial development this product. This study aimed to perform microbiological and chemical analyses vinegar. Methods Forty home-made samples (HMS) laboratory-made (LMS) were analyzed. Escherichia coli , coliforms, Enterobacteriaceae enumerated usi...

About the lead author (Dr Weiner): I am a pediatric emergency medicine physician at Children’s Hospital Boston (CHB)/Harvard Medical School (HMS) and the CHB representative and a chartermember of the HMS Section on Disaster Medicine. I have been a National Disaster Medical Systemmember on the Disaster Medical Assistance Team, the International Medical Surgical Response Team, and the Pediatric S...

Traditional techniques for balancing privacy and awareness in video media spaces have been proven to be ineffective for compromising home situations involving a media space. As such, we present the rationale and prototype design of a context-aware home media space (HMS)—defined as an always-on video media space used within a home setting— that focuses on identifying plausible solutions for bala...

This paper focuses on the dynamic re-configuration and task optimization of holonic manufacturing systems (HMS). The concept of dynamic virtual clustering is extended to the control process of a holarchy or holonic organization. A task-oriented clustering mechanism and a corresponding optimization algorithm are presented as an efficient approach to the holonic control in the HMS domain. The med...

Research on Holonic Manufacturing Systems (HMS) is undergoing a huge amount of interest and developments. In spite of the great amount of effort devoted to architectures and algorithms for holonic control of manufacturing systems there are little work about design methodologies. In this work we present a multi agent methodology for analysis and design of HMS, it is based on an abstract agent de...

Hierarchical models (HMs) provide a flexible framework for modeling data. The ongoing development of techniques like the EM algorithm and Markov chain Monte Carlo has enabled statisticians to make use of increasingly more complicated HMs over the last few decades. In this article, we consider Bayesian and frequentist versions of a general, two-stage HM, and describe several examples from the li...

Traditional techniques for balancing privacy and awareness in video media spaces, like blur filtration, have been proven to be ineffective for compromising home situations involving a media space. As such, this paper presents the rationale and prototype design of a context-aware home media space (HMS)—defined as an always-on video media space used within a home setting—that focuses on identifyi...