The sharing of wild plant foods is infrequent in chimpanzees, but in chimpanzee communities that engage in hunting, meat is frequently used as a 'social tool' for nurturing alliances and social bonds. Here we report the only recorded example of regular sharing of plant foods by unrelated, non-provisioned wild chimpanzees, and the contexts in which these sharing behaviours occur. From direct obs...

Ride Connect is a tool integrated into the social networking site Facebook’s (www.Facebook.com) event planning feature. Ride Connect helps people coordinate transportation to specific events. We chose to focus on undergraduate students because changes in their attitudes and habits towards shared transportation will lead to a sustainable increase in public transportation (PT) use. Ride Connect e...

Most models of computer programming explain the programmer’s behoviour by a single design strategy. This article presents o cognitive architecture that uses cue-based search to model multiple design strategies including procedural, functional, means-end or focal, and opportunistic design. The model has been implemented in an artificial intelligence (Al) system that generates Postal progroms fro...

Humans are thought to possess a unique proclivity to share with others--including strangers. This puzzling phenomenon has led many to suggest that sharing with strangers originates from human-unique language, social norms, warfare and/or cooperative breeding. However, bonobos, our closest living relative, are highly tolerant and, in the wild, are capable of having affiliative interactions with ...

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Proportional-share scheduling has been investigated by many researchers including: Wald-spurger et. al. at MIT and by Stoica et. al. at Old Dominion University. This work, however, suuers from high overhead and limited scalability problems when applied to a distributed system. This paper presents an alternative approach to proportion-share scheduling, which overcomes these problems. Our system ...

OVER THE PAST DECADE, HEALTHCARE facilities across the U.S. have been transitioning to safety-engineered needle devices—a process that rapidly accelerated after the Needlestick Safety and Prevention Act was passed in November 2000. Two nurses who have spearheaded safety device implementation at their facilities shared their experience with us: Pam Gill, RN, BSN, the HIV/HBV Prevention Nurse at ...

In the following a brief commentary is given on a new European project that aims to provide the European countries with recommendations for the care of children and yound adults with rheumatic diseases. These recommendations will be based on surveys sent to PRINTO members and systematic literature reviews. Surveys on current local standard of care and best practice will be send to PRINTO member...

The knowledge required for decision making in a firm is distributed across various departments. In practice cross functional teams are used to integrate this distributed knowledge. Incentive schemes are of crucial importance to encourage departments to share knowledge. In this paper, we study different incentive schemes by means of a two stage model. In the first step departments have to choose...

OURMINE is an environment for developing and sharing data mining experiments. Adding new tools to OURMINE, in a variety of languages, is a rapid and simple process. This makes it a useful research tool. OURMINE also has pedagogical advantages. Complicated graphical interfaces have been eschewed for simple commandline prompts. This simplifies the learning curve for data mining novices. The simpl...