The UT Austin Villa 2003 simulated online soccer coach was a first time entry in the RoboCup Coach Competition. In developing the coach, the main research focus was placed on treating advice-giving as a learning problem. The coach learns to predict agent behavior from past observations and automatically generates advice to improve its team’s performance. Using this approach, the UT Austin Villa...

The implementation of the policy teacher exchange rotation in compulsory education stage can provide an platform and opportunity, promote professional development teachers, balance urban rural resources. However, there are many difficulties job rotation, such as unclear powers responsibilities various administrative departments, unscientific fair selection procedures, low willingness teachers t...

Building medical research networks is an important part of eHealth. Medical research advances diagnostic and therapeutic knowledge and standards and thereby benefits the patients. On the other hand patient data and samples are among the most sensitive personal informations and must be carefully protected according to rules of ethics and professional discretion as well as national and internatio...

Inspection has been identified as one the forms of ‘governing at a distance’ associated with the rise of what has been variously defined as audit culture, audit society, performance management, the evaluative state or the competitive-evaluative nexus (see Strathern, 2000; Power, 1997; Pollitt et al, 1999; Neave, 1998 and Clarke, 2005). It takes its place alongside a battery of other technologie...

A review of patient confidentiality issues was commissioned and its findings published as the Caldicott Report in December 1997. It made 16 recommendations and formulated six principals. To help in remembering these principles the mnemonic FIONA C can be used: Formal justification of purpose; Information transferred only when absolutely necessary; Only the minimum required; Need to know access ...

Parental responsibility (PR) was a concept introduced by the Children Act (CA) 1989 which aimed to replace the outdated notion of parental rights and duties which regarded children as parental possessions. Section 3(1) CA 1989 defines PR as 'all the rights, duties, powers, responsibilities and authority which by law a parent of a child has in relation to the child'. In exercising PR, individual...