With the rapid development in China's IT outsourcing industry, the number of employees in software outsourcing enterprises increases rapidly. IT expatriates not only bring huge economic benefits to the software company, but also reduce the customers’ development and operation costs, improving IT performance. However, since these expatriates who are away from the parent company, are working in c...

This paper describes a new platform for monitoring elderly people living alone. An architecture is proposed, it includes three subsystems, with various types of sensors for different sensing modalities incorporated into a smart house. The originality of this system is the combination and the synchronization of three different televigilance modalities for acquiring and recording data. The paper ...

OBJECTIVE To evaluate the effect of an anti-smoking advertisement on young women's perceptions of smoking in movies and their intention to smoke. SUBJECTS/ SETTING: 2038 females aged 12-17 years attending cinemas in New South Wales, Australia. DESIGN/ INTERVENTION: Quasi-experimental study of patrons, who were surveyed after having viewed a movie at their local cinema. The control group was sur...

This article introduces actuaries to the concept of "copulas," a tool for understanding relationships among multivariate outcomes. A copula is a function that links univariate marginals to their full multivariate distribution. Copulas were introduced in 1959 in the context of probabilistic metric spaces. Recently, there has been a rapidly developing literature on the statistical properties and ...

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We introduce and study the online house numbering problem, where houses are added arbitrarily along a road and must be assigned labels to maintain their ordering along the road. The online house numbering problem is related to classic online list labeling problems, except that the optimization goal here is to minimize the maximum number of times that any house is relabeled. We provide several a...

(1) Russian prefixes and prepositions, Matushansky (2002); Svenonius (2004b) a. iz-bežatj out.from-run a′. iz out.from doma house ‘avoid’ ‘out of the house’ b. pod-bežatj under-run b′. pod under domom house ‘run up to’ ‘under the house’ c. pri-bežatj by-run c′. pri by dome house ‘come running’ ‘by the house’ d. ot-bežatj away.from-run d′. ot away.from doma house ‘run off’ ‘from the house’ e. v-...