In this work, a semi-obnoxious facility must be located in the Euclidean plane to give service to a group of customers. Simultaneously, a set of populated areas, with shapes approximated via polygons, must be protected from the negative effects derived from that facility. The problem is formulated as a margin maximization model, following a strategy successfully used in Support Vector Machines....

In facility location games, one aims at designing a mechanism to decide the facility location based on the addresses reported by all agents. In the standard facility location game, each agent wants to minimize the distance from the facility, while in the obnoxious facility game, each agent prefers to be as far away from the facility as possible. In this paper we revisit the two games on a line ...

This research investigated the effects of grade consequences and music on test anxiety and performance. Eighty undergraduate participants (75% women, 25% men; mean age of 19.63 years; 51% Caucasian, 38% Hispanic, 4% African American) were instructed that their performance on a mathematics test either would or would not affect their course credit. Afterward, they listened to either calm or obnox...

environmental crisis of the planet have caused a sever anxiety among people, some blame population growth, and other new technologies for the ongoing crisis. but, it is believed that misuse of technology, greed, and obnoxious attitude of man are the main causes of environmental crisis. in this paper, the causes of the crisis are elucidated, and a remedy, is proposed, that is to encourage enviro...

This study examined the issues on the gagging of Nigerian press with obnoxious laws and it investigated the rate at which the Nigerian media had been prevented from expressing opinion freely by dictatorial leaders who enacted draconian laws to suppress facts and figures. Also, the study identified the major activities of Nigerian press in fighting authoritarianism and in upholding the philosoph...

Implicit interactions represent an important research frontier in interaction design. Whereas traditional interaction design has focused on explicit interactions, where the use of computers and interactive products rely on explicit input and output, implicit interactions occur without the behest or awareness of the user. This article outlines implicit interactions as an emerging area of applied...