Internet stock message boards provide individual investors with a new information medium that could have several effects on stock activity. Message boards may provide investors with a new information source on small cap stocks. Message boards may affect the trading and volatility of certain stocks by influencing investors. The impact of message board information may vary according to characteri...

Dropout in later years of the nursing degree programme involves lost investment and is a particular problem for both students educators. Reasons late dropout seem to be related work learning environment clinical placement. The aim this study was investigate associations between psychosocial characteristics distress intention leave education among third-year students. A prospective cohort study....

Recently we developed supervisor localization, a top-down approach to distributed control of discreteevent systems (DES) with finite behavior. Its essence is the allocation of monolithic (global) control action among the local control strategies of individual agents. In this report, we extend supervisor localization to study the distributed control of DES with infinite behavior. Specifically, w...

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