The ability to genetically breed computer programs is a relatively new approach to problem solving. Recent advances in parallel processing have provided platforms to eeciently carry out this type of computation. In this paper we describe a genetically optimized artiicial lifeform. The goal of this work is to breed swarms of artiicial organisms that can move over corrupted bitmapped images and c...

Wildberger became a renowned local figure and received an honorary medical doctorate from Jena and many foreign honours. In later life he moved his institute to Forchheim, where he had the assistance of his medically-qualified son before the latter emigrated to America. His writings on the proper training of orthopaedic surgeons, with their insistence on early specialist education in methods an...

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“Never get so busy making a living that you forget to make a life.” Anonymous. This quote stands out because as we highlight our career goals and strategically plan for them, our personal lives often happen as an afterthought. To be successful at achieving a work–life balance, we should pay equal attention to planning all spheres of our life. While God and Family have been the bedrock in my own...

This paper presents StandFit a mobile application aimed at encouraging people to lead non-sedentary lifestyles at the workplace, through simple exercises that can be executed during breaks. Results from a 3-week field evaluation demonstrated that adoption was encouraged by the users’ perception of the app as having positive impact on their health. Issues related to the intrusiveness of the noti...

Evaluations of major policy initiatives on workplace health and teamwork have found significant progress on some issues and inertia on others. This article explores the applicability of a model describing employees' psychological relationships with work as a framework for considering workplace health initiatives. The Mediation Model contributes a way of focusing on experiences that are integral...

teacher, the founder and leader of the psycho-analytical movement. The second volume of the biography is concerned with the years of maturity at the age of 45 onwards, from 1901 to 1919, when Freud's great exploration of the unconscious mind and the discovery of infantile sexuality were made. The present volume deals fully not only with the background and evolution of Freudian concepts but with...

the field of cognitive psychology has increasingly provided scientific insights to explore how humans are subject to unconscious sources of evidentiary bias, leading to errors that can affect judgement and decision-making. increasingly these insights are being applied outside the realm of individual decision-making to the collective arena of policy-making as well. a recent editorial in this jou...

The importance of leadership in organizations, has prompted scientists and researchers to discover the characteristics of successful leaders in organizations and also to try to assign the characteristics of a successful leaders. Following these efforts, in recent decades various schools and theories on leadership were formed and also were introduced to scientific community. Servant leadership c...