The assumption underpinning the push to “shrink State” may have been that ongoing globalization of markets had made traditional forms government intervention in economic sphere redundant and possibly harmful; that, any event, were more efficient at allocating resources than either politicians or professional bureaucrats. In my modest opinion, this view though not completely unfounded, takes ins...

Literature demonstrating the importance of social relationships for cancer survivorship is accumulating. Building on that literature, the term "Healing Ties" refers to the scientific and popular factors supporting the idea that relationships and community are essential for healing. However, difficulties arise in assessing the effect of social support for survivorship.The current paper reviews t...

Of late, mobile technology has introduced new, novel environment that can be capitalized to further enrich the teaching and learning process in classrooms. Taking cognizance of this promising setting, a study was undertaken to investigate the impact of such an environment enabled by android platform on the learning process among undergraduates of Sultan Idris Education University, Malaysia; in ...

Workload characteristics in a modern networking environment are very dynamic. In order to maximize performance continuously, it is natural to explore the possibility of intelligent systems which can take cognizance of the dynamics in workload and adapt themselves for future control applications. In this paper, we propose a mechanism which represents the previous state of the system as a string....

A microorganism cultivated in the course of experiments with the virus of hog cholera shows the following points of interest. It is pleomorphic in extreme degree. Among the forms are coccoid and bacillary bodies at the lower limits of visibility. The culture can be completely regenerated after filtration through some Berkefeld N filters although these retain Bacillus abortus (Bang). The culture...

Technologies are neither developed nor used in a sociocultural vacuum. They always embody and make use of some kind of tacit knowledge. The gulf between the knowledge that designers possess and the knowledge that users have increases when ICTs are distributed in non-Western developing countries. If an ICT project is ignorant about how to effect local implementation, progress will probably be ne...

In recent years, process-oriented translator training has gained popularity among trainers and trainees alike, thanks to new, user-friendly pedagogical tools geared towards fostering cognizance of problems and problem-solving. This chapter reports on a corpus-based exploratory study that set out to document variation in student problem-solving discourse when utilizing Integrated Problem and Dec...

Improving the quality of care is essential for achieving reductions in maternal mortality. Audit is one of the methods which can be used to simultaneously assess as well as improve quality. This commentary discusses one type of audit--confidential enquiries into maternal death. We believe that the enthusiasm for establishing a confidential enquiry system in Nigeria is growing. The challenges fa...

The routing of packets are generally performed based on the destination address and forward link channel available from the instantaneous Router without sufficient cognizance of either the performance of the forward Router or forward channel characteristics. The lack of awareness of forward channel property can lead to packet loss or delayed delivery leading to multiple retransmissions or routi...

The role of resonance centers in obtaining large size matrices via an artificial intelligence (AI) search is discussed. The results are used to develop for an AI search an evaluation function which takes cognizance of isolated internal resonances in these many-state systems. The effect of later-accepted states on resonance centers is included. This evaluation function and one without a resonanc...