Social hierarchies are a common feature of the Animal Kingdom and control access to resources according to the fitness of the individual. We use a similar concept to form an Adaptive Social Hierarchy amongst nodes in a heterogeneous wireless network so that they can discover their role in terms of their base attributes (such as energy or connectivity). Three different methods of forming the hie...

Eiszler, C.F. (2002). College students' evaluations of teaching and grade inflation. Research in Higher Education, 43(4), 483-501. This study examined the relationship between grades and students’ composite ratings of teaching effectiveness over a 20-year period at a comprehensive, public university in the upper Midwest. Between the spring of 1980 and the fall of 1999, students in more than 37,...

The body of information in this paper is directed to specialists in industrial health and safety, and air and water pollution, who need quantitative data on the odor thresholds of potentially hazardous chemical vapors and gases. The literature, largely unorganized, has been reviewed for 214 compounds and condensed into tables based on consistent units. Data on the volatility, solubility, ioniza...

Background: Associations were analyzed between cultural values/attitudes and psychiatric morbidity/health complaints in different cultures, drawing on data from two independent cross-cultural studies. It was assumed that cross-cultural differences in psychiatric disorders and health complaints could be related to differences in cultural values. Specifically, it was assumed that more traditional...

Recently a new method for determining the neutrino mass hierarchy by comparing the effective values of the atmospheric ∆m measured in the electron neutrino disappearance channel, ∆m(ee), with the one measured in the muon neutrino disappearance channel, ∆m(μμ), was proposed. If ∆m(ee) is larger (smaller) than ∆m(μμ) the hierarchy is of the normal (inverted) type. We re-examine this proposition i...

We present a new algorithm for terrain modeling based on Voronoi diagrams and Sibson’s interpolant. Starting with a set of scattered data sites in the plane with associated function values defining a height field, our algorithm constructs a top-down hierarchy of smooth approximations. We use the convex hull of given sites as domain for our hierarchical representation. Sibson’s interpolant is us...

In recent times, there has been considerable interest in the potential advantages of decentralised “Edge” organisations. In order to investigate the potential costs and benefits of such organisational structures for Command and Control (C2), we have combined organisational simulation with a novel tree rewiring process that creates a spectrum of organisational structures ranging from a pure hier...

We consider a flavor model based on the ${A}_{4}$ modular group to account for both lepton and quark parameters (masses mixing). The inverse seesaw mechanism is considered produce light neutrino masses. Lepton masses mixing are obtained in terms of Yukawa coupling ratios values modulus $\ensuremath{\tau}$ nearby some fixed points inverted mass hierarchy. arisen at same used hierarchy agreement ...