Agradecimento a pareceristas do volume 10, n. 1, maio 2014 │ Acknowledgment to the referees of volume 10, number 1, May 2014

Abstracts Volume 10 Number 1

The recent advances in Computer Science and Technology have revolutionized the way graphical user interfaces are used towards Human Machine Interface (HMI). The graphical user interface is so powerful, that the knowledge of a process or system can be transferred to plant personnel accurately and effectively within a short period of time. The techniques of animation can enhance the illusion of d...

School Libraries Worldwide Volume 7, Number 1, 2001, 1-10

ILPO—Information Literacy Planning Overview—and the supporting documents combine the many facets of information literacy including critical thinking, problemsolving, and information technology into a planning document to support teachers and teacherlibrarians. The program advocates a whole-school approach to the integration of information literacy into the curriculum, encouraging the developmen...

Drinking Water Week — May 4–10, 2014

Abstracts Volume 10 Number 4

A subsidized primary care clinic in Singapore wanted to evaluate the impact of different patient appointment apportionment and patient-doctor allocation strategies on the cycle time that their patients need to spend during their clinic visits. To the best of the authors’ knowledge, there is limited literature on such studies. This paper aims to fill this research gap via scientific evaluation o...

Pseudorandomness, Volume 46, Number 10

T his essay considers finite objects, encoded by binary finite sequences called strings. When we talk of distributions we mean discrete probability distributions having a finite support that is a set of strings. Of special interest is the uniform distribution, which for a length parameter n (explicit or implicit in the discussion), assigns each n-bit string x ∈ {0,1}n equal probability (i.e., p...