Large-scale populations of autonomous mobile robots inserted into remote and hostile environments will require autonomous maintenance. Issues include fault detection, identification and rectification as well as routine servicing. The cooperative autonomous robot colony architecture (CARC) demonstrates a coherent resolution strategy that enables near optimal physical graceful degradation on a su...

1251 urincs were examined and iii each case the three following criteria were studied 1_ presence of pus cells in wet mount (4 or more hpf). 2_ isolation of pathogenic bacteria  :j_ presence of 10,000 or more bacteria per c.c. of urine 801 specimens were obtained from patients referred to the diagnastic iaboratorv of institute of public health research. and 450 specimens were collected from hea...

research related to colonialism and post colonialism shows how the identities of indigenous people were constructed and how these identities are reconstructed in our contemporary world. the thrust of this paper is that colonialism brought a shift in the linguistic structure of ghana with the introduction of the use of english among ghanaians. the coexistence of both ghanaian languages and engli...

As XML data becomes central to business-critical applications, there is a growing need for efficient and reliable XML storage. Two main approaches have been proposed for storing XML data: native and colonial systems. Native systems (e.g., [9, 20]) are designed from the ground up specifically for XML and XML query languages. Colonial systems (e.g., [5, 7, 19]), on the other hand, attempt to reus...

The importance of metallurgy for social and economic development is indisputable. Although copper (Cu) was essential for the wealth of pre- and post-colonial societies in the Andes, the onset of extensive Cu metallurgy in South America is still debated. Comprehensive archaeological findings point to first sophisticated Cu metallurgy during the Moche culture ~200-800 AD, whereas peat-bog records...

This study analyzes intersections between penal deportation and Indigenous captivity in southeastern South America during the eighteenth century. Via records on Lincompani, a cacique taken captive southern borderlands of Buenos Aires exiled to Malvinas Islands alongside other prison laborers (presidiarios), it highlights scale within early Americas connects practice formation geopolitical borde...

This joint paper attempts an unusual collaborative approach that offers an understanding of the problems that registered nurses of India have faced. Through this paper, we seek to locate the problem of ‘social status’ in both historical and contemporary landscapes, representing a relatively rare attempt to bridge the gap between studies of the institutions of colonial society, and studies of th...

Herbaria and natural history collections (NHC) are critical to the practice of taxonomy and have potential to serve as sources of data for biodiversity and conservation. They are the repositories of vital reference specimens, enabling species to be studied and their distribution in space and time to be documented and analysed, as well as enabling the development of hypotheses about species rela...

As formalized by Montgomery (1991), referral by employees improves e¢ ciency if the unobserved quality of a new worker is higher than that of unrefereed workers. Using data compiled from army archives, we test whether the referral system in use in the British colonial army in Ghana served to improve the unobserved quality of new recruits. We …nd that it did not: referred recruits were more like...

The northeastern United States is a predominately-forested region that, like most of the eastern U.S., has undergone a 400-year history of intense logging, land clearance for agriculture, and natural reforestation. This setting affords the opportunity to address a major ecological question: How similar are today's forests to those existing prior to European colonization? Working throughout a ni...