It is argued that to achieve the required balance between objectives, a scheduling system must have the ability to relate the consequence of a decision to the satisfaction of overall objectives. The dissertation introduces the concept of a preference capacity plan (PCP) in an attempt to give automated schedulers this ability. PCP takes cognizance of both predicted demand for capacity and the in...

The Forum on Social Wealth has called our attention to something profound – the numerous informal, non-market ways in which value is created in our society, our significant dependence on this common wealth, and our need to preserve and steward it. I congratulate the Forum for sounding the alert that we might lose this invaluable wealth – wealth that enriches our lives but which we take for gran...

This paper introduces the Where Are You (WAY) system, a simple, yet effective application for assisting mobile users in the performance of a variety of routine tasks. The WAY system supports the mobile citizen in the location, tracking and rendezvousing with a variety of moving entities. The WAY system seeks to provide such support by deploying a rich collection of appropriate technologies incl...

In recent years, researchers have focused on reducing the model size and number of computations (measured as “multiply-accumulate” or MAC operations) DNNs. The energy consumption a DNN depends both operations efficiency each operation. former can be estimated at design time; however, latter intricate data reuse patterns underlying hardware architecture. Hence, estimating it time is challenging....

Drugs raise blood glucose concentrations via two broad mechanisms: By reducing insulin biosynthesis or secretion, or by reducing tissue sensitivity to insulin. Until date, there have been very few reported cases of isoniazid induced diabetes. We are presenting a case report of 6-year-old child with isoniazid induced diabetes who was misdiagnosed initially as a case of type 1 diabetes mellitus. ...

Although the proportion of elderly people in African populations is much smaller than that in developed countries, the absolute numbers of older Africans are rapidly increasing. The huge majority of Africans live in poor economic circumstances and few countries are able to offer social assistance programs. The health and wellbeing of older persons largely depend on the integral existence of inf...

Reply Part 1 We want to thank all three reviewers for their thoughtful and thorough reading of our manuscript and for their comments. We are replying to these comments below and have included the comments for convenience. Our replies are preceeded by ‘Reply:’. ∗∗∗ Anonymous Referee #1 ∗∗∗ p. 2132, l. 4-13: “If we understand correctly, all the calculations do not assume an initial presence of br...

Communication is probably the most critical component of an organization engaged in a crossborder collaboration. Today’s smart devices substantially contribute to such communication. Combined with social media, mobile communication technologies are becoming the main platform for many core functions within organizations. In this paper, we identified seven media identifiable attributes: synchroni...

In Sanskrit, avyaya i.e., the indeclinable, plays an important role in the construction of a sentence and can be used as preposition, interjection, particle, conjunction or an adverb. To understand a given sentence, a thorough cognizance of the avyaya is necessary. This paper briefly describes the avyayas, types of avyayas and role of avyayas. An avyaya analysis tool (avyaya Morphological Analy...