The purpose of this work is to investigate the impact participation in cross-organisational Communities Practice (CoPs) on higher education learners studying Design, and specifically ways which CoPs can affect their creative outcomes perceived epistemic cognition. are social groups that share common interests goals a particular field, interact build relevant knowledge expertise. Cross-organisat...

the first motive for the determination and evaluation of an energy productionsystem is the need to change. such system is dynamic in nature and is influenced bymany factors such as age and physiological status of individual sheep or goat, quantityand quality of available feed and environment including the management systems.traditional pastoral resource assessments do not always account for the...

BACKGROUND Since being identified as a concept for understanding knowledge sharing, management, and creation, communities of practice (CoPs) have become increasingly popular within the health sector. The CoP concept has been used in the business sector for over 20 years, but the use of CoPs in the health sector has been limited in comparison. OBJECTIVES First, we examined how CoPs were define...

The cop throttling number $th_c(G)$ of a graph $G$ for the game Cops and Robbers is minimum $k + capt_k(G)$, where $k$ cops $capt_k(G)$ rounds needed to capture robber on over all possible games in which both players play optimally. In this paper, we construct family graphs having $th_c(G)= \Omega(n^{2/3})$, establish sublinear upper bound number, show that chordal $O(\sqrt{n})$. We also introd...

Dynamic service level negotiation is necessary to flexibly allocate resources according to QoS demands of a host or a domain. We have designed COPS-SLS as a service level negotiation protocol for IP-based networks. In this paper, we analyse a COPS-SLS-based negotiation system from the protocol design and system’s scalability perspectives. This analysis is useful not only to the improvement of t...

We theoretically analyze the Cops and Robber Game for the first time in a multidimensional grid. It is shown that for an ndimensional grid, at least n cops are necessary to ensure capture of the robber. We also present a set of cop strategies for which n cops are provably sufficient to catch the robber. Further, for two-dimensional grid, we provide an efficient cop strategy for which the robber...