In this research paper, we will compute the topological indices (degree based) such as ordinary generalized geometric-arithmetic (OGA) index, first and second Gourava indices, hyper-Gourava general Randic´ index R γ G ,</mo...

The growth of the world’s economy depends on knowledge creation; an aspect that allows innovation. Universities create, store, transmit knowledge, and conduct PhD research programs which are innovative. Although most of this knowledge is well stored, it is not transmitted, developed further, and sometimes not reused. Similarly, UK SMEs are said to be the innovation champions, but most SMEs’ ide...

When states collapse. When basic state functions are no longer carried out. When people have no security. Then humanitarian crises erupt. This article will focus on the response to humanitarian crises in relation to state collapse. What are the roles and responsibilities of the media and the political decision-makers respectively? Confronting the problem of state collapse, the stronger states h...

In this reminiscence I discuss the influence of Henry Eyring and John Barker upon my life and work. Others, especially my family, have been of even greater personal influence. However, these two great and grand men were of tremendous scientific influence. Of course, others who came before Eyring and Barker, especially Boltzmann and van der Waals and later Onsager and Eyring’s contemporary, Kirk...

Most multinationals see globalization as a matter of replication--spreading a single business model as widely as possible to maximize economies of scale. From this perspective, the key strategic challenge is choosing how much of the model to keep standard and how much to grudgingly adapt to local tastes. But focusing exclusively on that choice is a mistake, for it blinds companies to the very r...

From the Division of General Internal Medicine, Brigham and Women’s Hospital and Harvard Medical School, Boston (A.K.J.); the Department of Medicine, University of California, San Francisco (K.G.S.); and the Veterans Affairs Health Services Research and Development Center of Excellence and Department of Medicine, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor (S.S.). Address reprint requests to Dr. Jha at t...

Millions of chronic mentally sick are living in this country without proper care. Human rights of most of these patients both for treatment and for leading a life of dignity have been seriously abrogated. This oration discusses the extent of the problem & reviews the won\ done in this area in India and abroad. Major emphasis is to develop a programme for destigmatization of mental illness and t...

DOI: 10.1542/peds.2016-2833 Accepted for publication Oct 28, 2016 Address correspondence to Patrick J. Pead, MSc, FIBMS, FHA, 34 Barker Close, Fishbourne, Chichester, West Sussex PO18 8BJ UK. E-mail: [email protected] PEDIATRICS (ISSN Numbers: Print, 0031-4005; Online, 10984275). Copyright © 2017 by the American Academy of Pediatrics FINANCIAL DISCLOSURE: Publishing might result in limited sal...

The teaching of compiler construction and language theory is absent from many current computing degrees, the rationale being that they are now irrelevant to modern software engineering practice. In this paper a case is made for the inclusion of at least certain aspects of compiler construction and language theory in computing degrees to support and reinforce the acquisition of software developm...