International medical graduate (IMG) specialists in anaesthesia need education to be part of the assessment process for pre-registration college fellowship. Fellowship of the anaesthetic college is required in Australia for registration as a specialist in this field. Marked differences exist between local trainees and IMG specialists in terms of training, stakes of the exam and isolation of pra...

We analyze the disruptiveness of four operators in an evolutionary algorithm(\EA") solving a grammar induction problem. The EA in question contains mutation, crossover, inversion, and substitution operators. Grammars are encoded on genotypes in a representation which includes variable-length introns. A repeated measures analysis of variance (\ANOVA") with four factors, the four operators' rates...

With assistance from lay volunteers and using a giant stove, Tibetan monks at Longen monastery in rural Qinghai province China prepare and serve meals for several hundred of their peers during the summer retreat. In the past, rugged geography and the isolation of this monastery above 13,000 feet gave reasons for the monks to eat local meat since other foodstuffs were unavailable in an area unab...

This paper uses firm-level panel data from Taiwan’s manufacturing industries from 1987 to 2000 to investigate the impact of outward foreign direct investment (OFDI) on the technical efficiency of the OFDI firms. Propensity score matching is used to construct an appropriate group of non-OFDI firms to compare with OFDI firms, and a metafrontier framework is subsequently used to calculate comparab...

Distributed systems are subject to a variety of failures and attacks. In this paper, we consider general (Byzantine) failures [11], in which a failed node may exhibit arbitrary behavior. In particular, a failed node may corrupt its local state, send random messages, or even send specific messages aimed at subverting the system. Many security attacks can be modeled as Byzantine failures, such as...

In the present study we have used data from 276 family-owned Taiwanese manufacturing firms that invest in China in order to examine the effect of firm resources in Taiwanese firms on FDI performance in China. Hypotheses were developed and it was found that firm-specific advantages like firm size, R&D intensity, international experience, and managerial capabilities had a positive influence on bo...

Efforts to improve food security in Indonesia, especially Bali, need be supported by improvements cultivation techniques, including the management of pests and diseases. Legume crops are often attacked stem rot diseases which can cause decreased production economic losses. This disease is generally caused soil-borne pathogenic fungus Sclerotium rolfsii or Athelia rolfsii. The macroscopic micros...

Process and power plant control, along with fault detection/isolation are being addressed by significant on-going research with many theoretical developments focused on improvements for all of these major industrial applications. This report provides an overview of the current key problems, recent accomplishments and trends, as well as a forecast of anticipated developments within this very imp...