by Lewis Yablonsky, Emeritus Professor of Sociology and Criminology, California State University-Northridge (Published in the American Sociological Association, "Sociological Practice Newsletter" 8/2000 on my acceptance of THE WILLIAM FOOTE WHYTE CAREER AWARD FOR SOCIOLOGICAL PRACTICE at the ASA Meetings 8/2000 in Washington, D.C.; and was the basis for a lecture on 1/25/01 presented at Grand V...

A simple binary model to compute the degree of balancedness in the output sequence of LFSR-combinational generators has been developed. The computational method is based exclusively on the handling of binary strings by means of logic operations. The proposed model can serve as a deterministic alternative to existing probabilistic methods for checking balancedness in binary sequence generators. ...

One commonly acknowledged factor in the successful implementation of any application or information system is user satisfaction. This paper studied users' judgments on a new technology in an educational context. This study found that, while perceived usefulness and perceived ease of use each had a positive correlation with user satisfaction, there are likely to be additional factors that contri...

Palliative care patients are an immunocompromised population, so the cocooning strategy of vaccinating those around them is a suitable protective against infections. This especially significant for infectious diseases such as influenza and COVID-19, which pose challenge to healthcare system. In order improve patient’s quality life, it necessary develop research-based, defined strategies. questi...

It has now been over a decade since the introduction of Aspect-Oriented Programming (AOP). As the AspectJ programming language (being one of the notable technologies of AOP) gains acceptance in industry and academia, its comprehensibility property is an important factor in determining an eventual wide acceptance by practitioners in development and maintenance as well as by educators who aim at ...

In this paper we describe the use of coupling to interconnect different Simulated Annealing (SA) processes. The objective is to allow cooperative behavior among the processes in order to improve performance. Coupled Simulated Annealing (CSA) permits a high degree of parallelization while delivering much better results than a typical Parallel SA (PSA) algorithm. This is possible due to the intro...