Competition among scientists for funding, positions and prestige, among other things, is often seen as a salutary driving force in U.S. science. Its effects on scientists, their work and their relationships are seldom considered. Focus-group discussions with 51 mid- and early-career scientists, on which this study is based, reveal a dark side of competition in science. According to these scient...

Due to the recent proliferation of digital broadcasting, various schemes for broadcasting continuous media data have been studied. In general broadcasting systems, since data is broadcast repetitively, clients have to wait until their desired data is broadcast. These schemes reduce this waiting time by dividing the data into several segments of equal size. However, data often have appropriate d...

Many emotionally-disturbed children who have been maltreated and are legally separated from their parents or primary caregivers live in group homes and receive compulsory education. Such institutions provide various special intervention programs. Taiko-ensou, a Japanese style of group drumming, is one such program because playing drums in a group may improve children's emotional well-being. How...