This article highlights strategies that link the child welfare, court, and Early Intervention systems to enhance the healthy development of young children in foster care. It spotlights the need for infants and young children in foster care to be referred to the Early Intervention Program (EIP) and outlines the importance of implementing the new Child Abuse Prevention and Treatment Act Part C re...

We present the first algorithm to compute the geodesic Fréchet distance between two polygonal curves in a plane with polygonal obstacles, where distances between points are measured as the length of a shortest path between them. Using shortest path structures that we call dynamic and static spotlights, we efficiently construct and propagate reachability information through the free space diagra...

The Code Provisions V through IX focus on a variety of responsibilities for the professional nurse. Provision V spotlights nurses' obligation to the same values and actions for themselves as are espoused in The Code for their patients. Provision VI addresses the responsibility of all nurses to maintain quality patient care, regardless of their roles in the health care system. Meeting profession...

Abstract Over the last 50+ years, there has been a huge rise in interest consumer language research. This manuscript spotlights emergence and evolution of this area, identifying key themes trends, highlighting topics for future Work evolved from exploration broad concepts (e.g., rhetorics) to specific linguistic features phonemes) monologues advertiser consumer) two-way dialogues service repres...

Abstract Surveillance capitalism hinges on the appropriationand commercialisationof personal datafor profit-making. This chapter spotlights three cases connected to surveillance capitalism: data appropriation, monetisationof health and unfair commercial practice when “free” isn’t “free”. It discusses related ethical concerns of powerinequality, privacy protection, lack transparencyand explainab...

Meysam Yarie was born in 1987 in Malayer/ Hamedan, Iran. He received his B.Sc. in Applied Chemistry (2010) from Malek-Ashtar University of Technology and M.Sc. in Organic Chemistry (2012) from Kurdistan University under the supervision of Dr. Kamal Amani. He received his Ph.D. from Bu-Ali Sina University under the supervision of Professor Mohammad Ali Zolfigol. He is currently working towards h...

Meysam Yarie was born in 1987 in Malayer/ Hamedan, Iran. He received his B.Sc. in Applied Chemistry (2010) from Malek-Ashtar University of Technology and M.Sc. in Organic Chemistry (2012) from Kurdistan University under the supervision of Dr. Kamal Amani. He received his Ph.D. from Bu-Ali Sina University under the supervision of Professor Mohammad Ali Zolfigol. He is currently working towards h...

Mahmoud Zarei was born in Hamedan, Iran in 1986. He received his B.Sc. in Pure Chemistry (2010) from Islamic Azad University Arak and M.Sc. in Organic Chemistry (2013) at Bu-Ali Sina University, Iran. In addition, He received his Ph.D. in Organic Chemistry (2017) under the supervision of Prof. Mohammad Ali Zolfigol. He is currently working towards his Postdoctoral under the supervision of Prof....