Before handing out my midterm exam the Thursday before Spring Break, unease in classroom was palpable. I questioned, is it right thing to do give a now? Two days prior we learned online instruction would begin week after spring break for and possibly longer. This an unprecedented scenario. never took seminar titled, How Continue Teaching During Pandemic. resolved myself with attitude of we’ll g...

Abstract This chapter discusses how philosophy can help us understand family responses and decision-making when one child serves as a donor of bodily tissue to seriously ill sibling. Drawing on interviews conducted with families in which served the donor, I explore relational understanding autonomy might map initial decision-making, an ethics care contribute balancing personal needs against wha...

Background: Family caregivers with continuous caregiving responsibilities are at increased risk for adverse physical and mental health outcomes. In response to the challenges of caregiving, a mobile system (iMHere 2.0) was developed support caregivers. The study's objective gather feedback from family older adults on current features iMHere 2.0 formulate design criteria future iterations system...

Tandemly arranged paralogous genes lbe and lbl are members of the Drosophila NK homeobox family. We analyzed population samples of Drosophila melanogaster from Africa, Europe, North and South America, and single strains of D. sechellia, D. simulans, and D. yakuba within two linked regions encompassing partial sequences of lbe and lbl. The evolution of lbe and lbl is highly constrained due to th...

Scalability becomes the basic need for distributed systems. With the increase of users, load on application servers also keep increasing. This requires a critical action to balance the load on servers. Load balancing is the concept of balancing load on servers using various load balancing techniques. In this paper we discuss various load-balancing techniques that are currently available. We dis...