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...

Invisible Man is a novel by Ralph Ellison published Random House in 1952. was an American writer best known for his man which won the ‘National Book Award’ 1953. This milestone literature deeply discusses social problem of racism America. Bildungs roman where narrator (main character) begins as bright high school student, intelligent, and matures into who understands nature world later part lif...

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...