Business process models are a suitable means to describe the temporal and logical order of tasks for achieving a given goal. Therefore they become crucial in the coordination of intervention actions to efficiently recover from a disaster or tragic event. Past experience is vital in handling these scenarios, but every new emergency would almost always present peculiar characteristics. So althoug...

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We show that drought-induced changes in the intensity of riots lead to moves towards democracy in sub-Saharan Africa, and that these changes are often a result of concessions made as a result of the riots. This provides evidence that low-intensity conflict can have a substantial short-run impact on democratic change, and supports the “window of opportunity” hypothesis: droughts lead to an incre...

This paper addresses the problem of guaranteed delivery of messages with hard deadlines in a DQDB network. We present a cyclic reservation scheme capable of allocating bandwidth with any arbitrary granular-ity and provide deterministic delay guarantees. We propose two implementations of the allocation scheme within the framework of DQDB medium access control protocol. The proposed implementatio...

Health care processes are nowadays heavily dependent on Information Technology (IT). On the other side, assessing a higher quality of health care to patients has become increasingly important. Effective health care processes are thereby heavily dependent on a comprehensive IT-support. Therefore, a thorough understanding about both the hospital IT-systems and clinical pathways is required, to id...

Anumber of midwifery programmes that I have been involved with offer an interesting session, early on in the course, in which students undertake one or more exercises designed to help them identify their individual learning style and/or preferred ways of knowing. In theory, this enables the future midwife to gain knowledge of their personal idiosyncrasies and learning preferences, which can be ...

Most research on machine learning has focused on scenarios in which a learner faces a single, isolated learning task. The lifelong learning framework assumes that the learner encounters a multitude of related learning tasks over its lifetime, providing the opportunity for the transfer of knowledge among these. This paper studies lifelong learning in the context of binary classification. It pres...

Problem-based learning (PBL) provides real-world, purposeful interactions to help graduate and undergraduate students learn how to work with and learn from a diverse group of people laterally and horizontally within a learning community. At the same time, information technology in the 21 century provides the opportunity to integrate learner support into PBL learning environments. PBL and techno...