This article was accepted under the editorship of David A. F. Haaga. This paper is drawn from a doctoral dissertation by the first author, entitled “Parenting and Family Support in Primary Care Settings,” which was supervised by the second author. Special thanks go to Dr. Jan Nicholson, School of Public Health, Queensland University of Technology, who as associate supervisor provided invaluable...

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In this paper, a comparative study is carried using three nature-inspired algorithms namely Genetic Algorithm (GA), Particle Swarm Optimization (PSO) and Cuckoo Search (CS) on clustering problem. Cuckoo search is used with levy flight. The heavy-tail property of levy flight is exploited here. These algorithms are used on three standard benchmark datasets and one real-time multi-spectral satelli...

The Levy Economics Institute Working Paper Collection presents research in progress by Levy Institute scholars and conference participants. The purpose of the series is to disseminate ideas to and elicit comments from academics and professionals. The Levy Economics Institute of Bard College, founded in 1986, is a nonprofit, nonpartisan, independently funded research organization devoted to publ...

In this article, stress analysis and energy estimation during cold-roll forming of symmetrical channel sections have been discussed. Geometry of sheet strip is pre-estimated by a shape function. Then longitudinal, transversal and shear strains have been calculated. Using both the Levy-Mises and the Prandtl Reuss equations, and also considering the Bauschinger effect, stress distributions have b...

An old problem of P. Levy is to characterize those Banach spaces which embed isometrically in Lp. We show a new criterion in terms of the second derivative of the norm. As a consequence we show that, if M is a twice differentiable Orlicz function with M (0) = M (0) = 0, then the n-dimensional Orlicz space l M , n ≥ 3 does not embed isometrically in Lp with 0 < p ≤ 2. These results generalize an...

Testing the effectiveness of user-tested patient information on recruitment rates across multiple trials: meta-analysis of data from the start programme Peter Bower, Jo Rick, Anne Kennedy, Chris Salisbury, David Collier, David Torgerson, Jonathan Graffy, Shaun Treweek, Sandra Eldridge, Vichithranie Madurasinghe, Peter Knapp, Adwoa Hughes-Morley, Nicola Small, CASPER Research team, Healthlines R...

This paper considers one of the paradoxes of incentive pay used in Britain’s public services, namely that despite much evidence that it does not motivate employees, it continues to be widely used. It is argued that behind this evidence, there are significant examples in which its use has been associated with improved performance. A good part of this is to be explained by the way performance pay...