Community resilience is a key concept in the National Health Security Strategy that emphasizes development of multi-sector partnerships and equity through community engagement. Here, we describe the advancement of CR principles through community participatory methods in the Los Angeles County Community Disaster Resilience (LACCDR) initiative. LACCDR, an initiative led by the Los Angeles County ...

Coalitions among males during within group conflicts have a strong influence on the competitive and social environment within social groups. To evaluate possible variation in the occurrence of such coalitions in our closest relatives, chimpanzees and bonobos, we compared male aggression and coalitionary behavior in two natural communities, one of each species, with a similar size and compositio...

We build upon control theoretic concepts like robustness and dynamics to better accommodate all the situations where the coalitions’ values are uncertain and subject to changes over time. The proposed robust dynamic framework provides an alternative perspective on the study of sequences of coalitional games or interval valued games. For a sequence of coalitional games, either balanced or unbala...

In group living animals, especially among primates, there is consistent evidence that high-ranking males gain a higher reproductive output than low-ranking males. Primate studies have shown that male coalitions and sociality can impact male fitness; however, it remains unclear whether males could potentially increase their fitness by preferentially supporting and socializing with females. Here ...

A large and growing literature confirms that well-designed web-based programs can be effective in preventing or treating several chronic diseases. This study examined how the Internet can deliver information and train community activists and specifically tested the effects of web-based technical assistance on local tobacco control coalitions' efforts to use media advocacy to advance their agend...

In this paper, we propose a method of coalition formation for assigning tasks to appropriate agents to improve the e ciency of multiagent systems. To form a coalition, we introduce subjective information to agents, which are the internal information of the agents. The subjective information re ect the agents' cooperative behavior of the past. Next, we introduce loose coalition, a concept of a c...

Computer-Supported Collaborative Learning environments (CSCL) are used today as a platform for delivering distance education and as a tool to improve student understanding using collaborative learning methods. The success of a CSCL environment in improving the knowledge of a student depends on the quality of group work of its participants. However, forming human user groups that allow all the u...

Coalition formation has been a very active area of research in multiagent systems. Most of this research has concentrated on decentralized procedures that allow selfinterested agents to negotiate the formation of coalitions and division of coalition payoffs. A different line of research has addressed the problem of finding the optimal division of agents into coalitions such that the sum total o...

We propose Alternating-time Dynamic Logic (ADL) as a multi-agent variant of Dynamic Logic in which atomic programs are replaced by coalitions. In ADL, the Dynamic Logic operators are parametrised with regular expressions over coalitions and tests. Such regular expressions describe the dynamic structure of a coalition. This means that, when moving from Dynamic Logic to ADL, the focus shifts away...

known disorder in pediatric and adolescent patients who present with persistent foot pain. Talocalcaneal and calcaneonavicular coalitions are most frequently encountered, but naviculocuneiform coalition is uncommon.1-3 Tarsal coalition often is overlooked in plain radiographs of the feet. This article reports a case of bilateral naviculocuneiform coalitions diagnosed using multi-planar reconstr...