The profound benefits of altruism in modern society are self-evident. However, the potential hurtful aspects of altruism have gone largely unrecognized in scientific inquiry. This is despite the fact that virtually all forms of altruism are associated with tradeoffs--some of enormous importance and sensitivity--and notwithstanding that examples of pathologies of altruism abound. Presented here ...

Large-scale data mining is often aided with graphic visualizations to facilitate a better understanding of the data and results. This is especially true for visual data and highly detailed data too complex to be easily understood in raw forms. In this work, we present several of our recent interdisciplinary works in data mining solar image repositories and discuss the over-arching need for effe...

The arching phenomenon is an emergent pattern formed by a c-sized crowd of intelligent, goal-oriented, autonomous, heterogeneous individuals moving towards a w-wide exit along a long W -wide corridor, where W > w. We collected empirical data from microsimulations to identify the combination effects of c and w to the time T of the onset of and the size S of the formation of the arch. The arch ta...

Meniscus climbing using a fixed body posture has been well documented for various aquatic and neustonic insects, but is not known from small flying insects that inadvertently become trapped on water surfaces. Here, we show that thrips (order Thysanoptera) can ascend a meniscus by arching their non-wetting bodies to translate head-first and upward along a water surface; if initially oriented bac...

This paper identifies a mechanism for specific professional registration in order to sustain a holistic community fit to practice in informatics to support the health domain. It considers risks and opportunities that have an international resonance, and comments on the areas where multi-national activity could provide additional impetus to improvement of the quality of the profession of health ...

Title of dissertation: STATISTICAL ANALYSIS OF AUTOMATIC SUMMARIZATION EVALUATION Peter A. Rankel, Doctor of Philosophy, 2016 Dissertation directed by: Professor Eric V. Slud Department of Mathematics Dr. John M. Conroy IDA/Center for Computing Sciences This dissertation applies statistical methods to the evaluation of automatic summarization using data from the Text Analysis Conferences in 200...

Considerable therapeutic advances for the treatment of vasculitis of the young have been made in the past 10 years, including the development of outcome measures that facilitate clinical trial design. Notably, these include: a recognition that some patients with Kawasaki Disease require corticosteroids as primary treatment combined with IVIG; implementation of rare disease trial design for poly...

This paper presents findings from ethnographic case study research that investigated teacher practices and student engagement in classroom music. The data collection was undertaken a primary (elementary) secondary school Australia focussed on the practice of two teachers four classes students aged 10 to 16 years. invited participate had been identified as being influenced by Musical Futures app...

The classification of soils originated from three main sources: from early empirical soil surveys, from folk soil classifications and from scientific theory of pedology. The first soil classifications reflected their origin in different extent, and still remain certain features of their initial sources. The actual situation in soil classification is discouraging, mainly due to the diversity of ...