This study explores awareness and visitation of e-government websites among techno-disadvantaged citizens in the United States. Following up on on a community-based initiative, designed to stimulate computer literacy and access to information and communication technologies for residents and neighbors of an underserved public housing community, a survey of egovernment website awareness and visit...

Divorce related child visitation interference is a national problem, affecting six million children. Such interference may be acute or may represent chronic disorders, such as Parental Alienation Syndrome and Divorce Related Malicious Mother Syndrome. In certain cases, visitation interference is accompanied by vicious behaviors toward the noncustodial parent, including violence and violations o...

Path length, or search complexity, is an understudied property of trees in genetic programming. Unlike size and depth measures, path length directly measures the balancedness or skewedness of a tree. Here a close relative to path length, called visitation length, is studied. It is shown that a population undergoing standard crossover will introduce a crossover bias in the visitation length. Thi...

Abstract This article meditates on black unbelonging as the haunting impasse reached when attempting to wrest a phenomenological account of life amid perpetual death. It seeks expose calculated dislocation modes being, embodiment, and sensation from hegemonic categories experience that serve capture, surveil, leave Blacks in state “constitutive discomfort.” Rather than merely signifying non-ont...

Background In Denmark, all ambulance transports are dispatched through the Acute Medical Coordination Centre (AMK). Even though this unit is the only way to request an ambulance, it is experienced by many Emergency Technicians EMTs that the visitation based on patient illness and injury differs widely. The visitation is performed either by an AMK visitation officer (AMK-VO), or a doctor that ta...

Supervised visitation centers (SVCs) have developed rapidly across the United States. Increasingly, courts are restricting contact between abusive intimate partners and their children by ordering visitation or exchanges to occur at SVCs. This article describes some of the key lessons the authors learned over 18 months of planning and then another 18 months of implementation at a SVC developed s...

The objective of the TARGET VISITATION PROBLEM is to determine a path for an unmanned aerial vehicle that begins at a point of origin and needs to visit several targets before returning to its starting point. An optimal visitation sequence is one which minimizes the total distance traveled and maximizes the utility of the visitation order. This utility measure is defined for each pair of target...

Scientists have traditionally studied recreation in nature by conducting surveys at entrances to major attractions such as national parks. This method is expensive and provides limited spatial and temporal coverage. A new source of information is available from online social media websites such as flickr. Here, we test whether this source of "big data" can be used to approximate visitation rate...

Studies of pairwise interactions have shown that an alien plant can affect the pollination of a native plant, this effect being mediated by shared pollinators. Here we use a manipulative field experiment, to investigate the impact of the alien plant Impatiens glandulifera on an entire community of coflowering native plants. Visitation and pollen transport networks were constructed to compare re...