As stated by Driscoll (2002), ‘blended learning means different things to different people, which illustrates its widely untapped potential’. However, the concept of blended learning as defined as the integrated combination of pedagogical approaches to produce an optimal learning outcome, coordinated with instructional technology focusing on skill-driven and intended learning, is not foreign to...

Zinc Phosphide is an inorganic chemical that is used to control rats, mice, voles, ground squirrels, prairie dogs, nutria, muskrats, feral rabbits and gophers.1 Zinc Phosphide doses of the order of 4000 to 5000 mg have been fatal. It can enter the blood stream causes pulmonary oedema and severe liver, kidney, CNS, and myocardial injury.2 Distal Renal Tubular Acidosis is an inability to maximall...

A Fair Queueing Algorithm is proposed for data services in an integrated voice/data CDMA system. We introduce short-term and long-term fairness concepts to allocate data users fairly. Using these concepts, we propose Weighted Fair Queueing with Status Control(WFQS) in the consideration of a Generalized Processor Sharing(GPS) ¤uid-¤ow model. This proposed scheme allocates resources using channel...

Supermaximum (“supermax”) security prisons have become a common feature of the corrections landscape. Despite their substantial costs, questions about their constitutionality, growing fiscal and managerial challenges confronting correctional systems, and increased demand for evidence-based practices, little systematic empirical research about their effectiveness exists. Against this backdrop an...

With growing awareness of societal impact artificial intelligence, fairness has become an important aspect machine learning algorithms. The issue is that human biases towards certain groups population, defined by sensitive features like race and gender, are introduced to the training data through collection labeling. Two directions ensuring research have focused on (i) instance weighting in ord...

Given the recent changes in the policy governing Internet content distribution, such as the institution of per listener royalties for Internet radio broadcasters, content distributors now have an incentive to under-report the size of their audience. Previous audience measurement schemes only protect against inflation of audience size. We present the first protocols for audience measurement that...

Studies have shown that the Trail Making Test (TMT) predicts real-world driving performance in individuals who have cognitive deficits. However, because this test requires knowledge of the Latin alphabet, the TMT may not be appropriate for individuals who are illiterate or for those whom English is not their primary language. Because the Color Trails Test (CTT) is not influenced by knowledge of...