One of the biggest challenges facing human service organizations is the proliferation of information from inside and outside the agency that needs to be managed if it is to be of use. The concepts of tacit and explicit knowledge can inform an approach to this challenge. Tacit knowledge is stored in the minds of practitioners (often called practice wisdom) and the explicit knowledge is often fou...

Some modern writers on mental deficiency regard the feeble-minded as a class that has some one mental defect in common, varying in degree only. This simple conception is perhaps due to the tendency of late years to emphasise the quantitative aspect of mental deficiency and to neglect qualitative distinctions. But teachers, psychologists, and medical officers, who deal with the practical problem...

Within the Drosophila embryo, two related bHLH-PAS proteins, Single-minded and Trachealess, control development of the central nervous system midline and the trachea, respectively. These two proteins are bHLH-PAS transcription factors and independently form heterodimers with another bHLH-PAS protein, Tango. During early embryogenesis, expression of Single-minded is restricted to the midline and...

User based collaborative filtering (UserCF) is a method that generates recommendations based on the preferences and past actions of like-minded users. Currently, most UserCF based recommendation systems do not consider the users’ purchase precedence and activeness when locating those like-minded users. Yet, these two factors contain valuable information that can contribute to recommendation acc...

INTRODUCTION The present study aimed to investigate the negative perceptions of paternal and maternal smoking and their associated factors among adolescents in Hong Kong. METHODS In a school-based cross-sectional survey in 2010 to 2011, 61,810 Hong Kong secondary school students (mean age 14.6 years, 50.8% boys) reported whether their parents smoked and whether they considered their parents’ sm...

This paper studies Algorithmic Mechanism Design where the bidders are “single-parameter”(have the same private value for all desired outcomes), with a focus on Combinatorial Auctions(CA). We study four variants of the CA model: where each player desires a single bundle(“single-minded”) or he desires any one of several bundles (“multi-minded”), and where thedesired bundles are pu...

Many logics for modelling beliefs, desires and intentions of agents, such as Rao and Georgeff’s BDI logic and Wooldridge’s LORA, are based on temporal logics like CTL/CTL∗ (Computational Tree Logic) in which the structure of time is branching in the future and linear in the past. Recently, many attempts have been made to define logics for BDI agents by using extensions of CTL. In this paper, we...

This paper presents the MINDED-FBA, a remote-sensing-based tool for determination of both flooded and burned areas. The tool, freely distributed as QGIS plugin, consists an adaptation development previously published Multi Index Image Differencing methods (MINDED MINDED-BA). MINDED-FBA allows integration combination wider diversity satellite sensor datasets, now including synthetic aperture rad...