Article: During the past decade, there has been discussion over the need for outcome research documenting the work of school counselors and the lack of research delineating the work of school counselors (Baker, 2000; Fairchild, 1993; Green & Keys, 2001; Myrick, 1990; Paisley & McMahon, 2001; Rhyne-Winkler & Wooten, 1996; Vacc & Rhyne-Winkler, 1993; Whiston & Sexton, 1998). Outcome research supp...

The dilution of academic standards and poor quality publications have become a global concern. Recently, in an editorial of Current Science, SC Lakhotia, an eminent scientist from Banaras Hindu University (BHU) has raised a very important issue regarding predatory journals and academic pollution. This problem is presently worrying almost every conscientious academician. [1] Substantial efforts ...

The increasing role of such systems in safety-critical applications establishes the need for methods to analyse and justify their safety. However, the essential characteristics of SoS present serious difficulties for traditional hazard analysis techniques. Operational independence, heterogenous composition, emergent behaviour and the desire for dynamic reconfiguration make conventional hazard a...