At the beginning o f 1914, there hadn't been a war involving all the major European powers for almost a century, since Napoleon's defeat at Waterloo. But the recent economic and political growth o f Germany and the emergence o f a unified Italy had made the traditional powers nervous. France sought an ally and found one in Russia. Britain, protected by the sea and its navy, followed a policy o ...

Rather than pursue questions related to learning in biology from separate camps, recent calls highlight the necessity of interdisciplinary research agendas. Interdisciplinary collaborations allow for a complicated and expanded approach to questions about learning within specific science domains, such as biology. Despite its benefits, interdisciplinary work inevitably involves challenges. Some s...

Since mid 2011 the tragedy unfolding across the Horn of Africa following prolonged drought in the region has been a major focus for international relief operations and emergency aid. However, the most effective strategies for mitigating the effects of the drought have not been given sufficient media coverage or discussed critically enough in the public arena. Instead, while important and necess...

It seems like a day does not go by in the United States without hearing about immigration on televised news broadcasts, print news stories, radio talk shows, or Internet blogs. Immigration, more specifically “illegal immigration,” is a hot topic in the U.S., perhaps fueled by the fact that 2008 is a presidential election year. Furthermore, since the issue of illegal immigration tends to divide ...

Since the outbreak of new crown, people’s lifestyles have undergone a radical change. Among them, travel plans been greatly restricted. Based on background post-epidemic era, this paper analyzes and compares changes in life before after epidemic, summarizes connection between “outdoor leisure” boom, proposes corresponding shared camp space design strategies based current development status real...

This paper proposes a control theoretic formulation and a controller design method for the feature-based visual servoing with redundant features. The linear time-invariant (LTI) formulation copes with the redundant features and provides a simple framework for controller design. The proposed linear quadratic (LQ) method can deal with the redundant features, which is important because the previou...

As of March 2016, 4.8 million Syrian refugees were scattered in two dozen countries by the civil war. Refugee smuggling has been a major catalyst of human trafficking in the Middle East and Europe migrant crises. Data on the extent to which smuggling devolved into trafficking in this refugee wave is, however, scarce. This article investigates how Syrian refugees interact with smugglers, sheddin...

as possible in a short amount of time. However, it was not the amount done that mattered. Quality of instruction was stressed more than gathering great quantities of evidence or writing complete cases. Because over half of the students who participated had no previous exposure to debate, the rational for proceeding slowly and explaining clearly was appropriate and justified. The teachers emphas...