Insisting on victory

Insisting on Persistent Mobile Agent Systems

In this paper we continue arguing that persistence is a fundamental requirement to support the development of next-generation agent-based applications. After a general overview of mobility and persistence to clarify the main issues discussed in the paper, we propose a tentative list of facilities that should be supported by persistent mobile agent systems. The main contribution of the paper is ...

Comeback victory.

A Victory for Equivalent Background - On Average

A psychophysical experiment was carried out to examine the relationship between image contrast and overall perceived brightness. A second phase of the experiment looked at the relationship between the perceived brightness of variegated backgrounds and the simultaneous contrast effect produced by such backgrounds. These results have important ramifications for procedures used to calculate adapti...

Victory over Suffering

Miss Ikin writes from the fulness of her own experience. After years of activity during the War in which she travelled up and down the country lecturing to the Forces on personal problems, both spiritual and domestic, she now finds herself extremely limited in physical ability and unable to walk more than a short distance. Consequently she knows what she is talking about, and she gives many pra...

Victory of Community Engagement

Loretta Jones, MA; Kenneth Wells, MD; Keith Norris, MD; Barbara Meade, MA; Paul Koegel, PhD This chapter provides an overview of Community-Partnered Participatory Research (CPPR) and introduces the articles in this special issue. CPPR is a model to engage community and academic partners equally in an initiative to benefit the community while contributing to science. This article reviews the his...