Antimicrobial Curtains: Are They as Clean as You Think?

Are You as Good a Teacher as You Think ? by Paul C . Price

reminded of some less competent co-worker who absolutely swears by a clearly ineffective teaching approach. A third is concern. You always thought you were better than average, but now you might start to wonder. Perhaps your teaching skills are not what you’ve always imagined them to be. Unfortunately, the most appropriate reaction—concern—is also the least likely, because people’s tendency to ...

UK medical tourists in Thailand: they are not who you think they are

BACKGROUND Travel for medical treatment is an aspect of globalization and health that is comparatively less understood. Little is known about volume, characteristic and motivation of medical tourists, limiting understanding of effects on health systems and patients. Thailand is amongst a handful of countries that have positioned themselves as medical tourism destination. This paper examines in ...

Scheduling heterogeneous processors isn't as easy as you think

We consider preemptive online scheduling algorithms to minimize the total weighted/unweighted flow time plus energy for speed-scalable heterogeneous multiprocessors. We show that the well-known priority scheduling algorithms Highest Density First, Weighted Shortest Elapsed Time First, and Weighted Late Arrival Processor Sharing, are not O(1)-speed O(1)-competitive for the objective of weighted ...

Most Ransomware Isn ’ t As Complex As You Might Think

_____________________________________________________________________________ Ransomware has been widely touted as a highly dangerous, sophisticated and destructive breed of malware. And some of it certainly is. But based on recent academic research into constraints, commonalities and advancements across 15 ransomware families, many of the ransomware families in the wild today are not necessar...

Who do they think they are?