When you look at library job advertisements you often come across the boilerplate requirement: " awareness of latest trends in academic librarianship. " We want to hire knowledgeable librarians who are up-to-date on issues, best practices, and the major challenges of our field. In the course of an interview, candidates will likely display their currency about academic librarian-ship by answerin...

Teleoperated robots are playing an increasingly important role in military actions and medical services. In the future, remotely operated surgical robots will likely be used in more scenarios such as battlefields and emergency response. But rapidly growing applications of teleoperated surgery raise the question; what if the computer systems for these robots are attacked, taken over and even tur...

Such virtual manipulations lack many qualities of physical manipulation of objects in the real world which users might expect or which users might unconsciously depend upon. For example, in the case of selecting a virtual object using a glove, the user must visually attend to the object (watch for it to become highlighted) before selecting it. But what if the user's attention is needed elsewher...

Researchers Meredith Fowlie (University of California, Berkeley), Stephen Holland (University of North Carolina, Greensboro) and Erin Mansur (Yale University) take a rigorous and sophisticated approach in creating a “what if” scenario within Southern California’s Regional Clean Air Initiatives Market (RECLAIM) program. In their paper, “What do Emissions Markets Deliver and to Whom? Evidence fro...

The state function of a quantum object is undetermined with respect to its phase. This indeterminacy does not matter if it is global, but what if the components of the state have unknown relative phases? Can useful computations be performed in spite of this local indeterminacy? We consider this question in relation to the problem of the rotation of a qubit and examine its broader implications f...

Abstract. We examine the issue of stability of probability in reasoning about complex systems with uncertainty in structure. Normally, propositions are viewed as probability functions on an abstract random graph where it is implicitly assumed that the nodes of the graph have stable properties. But what if some of the nodes change their characteristics? This is a situation that cannot be covered...

Each Emergency Medical Assistance Centre in France (SAMU), includes an emergency call service. It provides an adequate and immediate response to medical problems. The processing of the incoming calls can be seen as a collaborative process involving several stakeholders. The control of such a process is crucial. Indeed, the effectiveness of the response to these incoming calls strongly impacts t...

It is a widely accepted doctrine in epistemology that knowledge has greater value than mere true belief. But although epistemologists regularly pay homage to this doctrine, evidence for it is shaky. Is it based on evidence that ordinary people on the street make evaluative comparisons of knowledge and true belief, and consistently rate the former ahead of the latter? Do they reveal such a prefe...

We know how to integrate a function over a flat region in a plane, but what if the function is defined over a curved surface? To evaluate one of these so-called surface integrals, we rewrite it as a double integral over a region in a coordinate plane beneath the surface (Figure 16.38). Surface integrals are used to compute quantities such as the flow of liquid across a membrane or the upward fo...

This paper is an analytical literature review on the dilemma of error-tolerance (ET) in IC manufacturing industry. The ET has a vast definition in research but, we mainly fuscous on the result acceptability of the the chips that generate erroneous outputs to increase the yield. The source of these errors is fabrication process (process variation or defects). The idea lies behind this question, ...