Although the journey to pursuing an online doctoral degree is unique for each student, reflections of success offered by those who completed the journey can be helpful both in normalizing certain experiences and in detailing strategies for success.

During the last three decades motion planning has emerged as a crucial and productive research area in robotics. In the mid-80's the most advanced planners were barely able to compute collisionfree paths for objects crawling in planar workspaces. Today, planners e ciently deal with robots with many degrees of freedom in complex environments. Techniques also exist to generate quasioptimal trajec...

BACKGROUND Learning plans are a compulsory component of the training and assessment requirements of general practice (GP) registrars in Australia. There is a small but growing number of studies reporting that learning plans are not well accepted or utilised in general practice training. There is a lack of research examining this apparent contradiction. The aim of this study was to examine use a...

It is nowadays well-known that Hardy’s inequality (like many other inequalities) follows directly from Jensen’s inequality. Most of the development of Hardy type inequalities has not used this simple fact, which obviously was unknown by Hardy himself and many others. Here we report on some results obtained in this way mostly after 2002 by mainly using this fundamental idea.

This demonstration describes the generation of ambient and latent NPC behavior scripts using generative behavior patterns with ScriptEase. Our behavior model supports behavior roles, a powerful mechanism that allows an NPC to change behavior sets during the story. Our motivation model for selecting ambient behaviors generates more realistic NPC behaviors and our novel collaboration protocol sim...

AMITA GOYAL Over the course of history, women have slowly begun to hold influential roles in the computing industry, Although progress has been made, the precipitous journey is not yet complete. This paper presents a historical analysis of the entrance and role of women in the computing industry, a discussion on the existence and impact of the glass ceiling, and a detailed and informative colle...

The legitimacy and accountability of polycentric regulatory regimes, particularly at the transnational level, has been severely criticized, and the search is on to find ways in which they can be enhanced. This paper argues that before developing even more proposals, we need to pay far greater attention to the dynamics of accountability and legitimacy relationships, and to how those in regulator...

Detainees are a particularly vulnerable group in society and face a wide range of health issues that are often associated with their offending behaviour, yet many fail to receive the healthcare that they need. The authors’ research indicates that continuity of care, sometimes known as throughcare, is essential to successfully reducing recidivism among offenders and helping them to become contri...

emergency departments (eds) are the most challenging ward with respect to patient delay. the goal of this study is to present strategies that have proven to reduce delay and overcrowding in eds. in this review article, initial electronic database search resulted in a total of 1006 articles. thirty articles were included after reviewing full texts. inclusion criteria were assessments of real pat...

ACKNOWLEDGEMENT This thesis could not be developed without the contribution from a lot of people in the last two years. First, I would like to thank my advisors, Dr. Gábor C. Temes and Dr. Un-Ku Moon, for the guidance and support. They gave me a chance to start my education here, and provided a very good environment for my research and study. I would also like to acknowledge the other members o...