The article discusses the experience of general and cultural competencies, which are formed, among other things, within framework social project “Igroteka” on basis Medical Pharmaceutical College Federal State Budgetary Educational Institution Higher Education “Kursk University” Ministry Health Russia. authors present a in working with children from 3 to 13 years old, purpose is increase activi...

E orts are being put in making available generic, and thus reusable, conceptual software designs for the bene t of knowledge system development. These generic conceptual designs de ne the boundaries of (alternative) solutions to a class of design problems (e.g. design of diagnostic or schedule applications). They allow the design problem to be approached as a con guration task. To increase thei...

Environmental health policy decisions are characterized by irreversibility and uncertainty of an economic, ecological and biomedical nature. For this reason decision-makers may choose to exercise when possible some discretion over the timing and scope of policy. Problems of this kind fall within the framework of the theory of irreversible investments as applied to the sunk costs and sunk bene t...

Americans drive 2,360,000,000,000 miles each year, far outstripping other nations. Every time a driver takes to the road, and with each mile she drives, she exposes herself and others to the risk of accident. Insurance premiums are only weakly linked to mileage, however, and have largely lump-sum characteristics. The result is too much driving and too many accidents. This paper begins by develo...

Despite only a fraction of all organisms having evolved extravagant secondary sexual characters, these have played an important conceptual, theoretical and empirical role in evolutionary biology (Darwin, 1871; Cronin, 1991; Andersson, 1994). Secondary sexual characters such as the antlers of deer and the train of the blue peacock Pavo cristatus are presumed to have arisen and be maintained as a...

There are a number of driving forces behind energy e$ciency. In recent times, the Kyoto Protocol has been the most prominent in bringing energy e$ciency to the fore. In some countries, the domestic sector has been highlighted as an area which has a signi"cant potential for improvement. However, prior to the implementation of large-scale energy-e$ciency programmes, it is important to evaluate wh...

We investigate how a collusive group can sustain non-Nash actions by enforcing internal discipline through costly peer punishment. We give a simple and tractable characterization of schemes that minimize discipline costs while preserving incentive compatibility. We apply the model to a public goods contribution problem. We nd that if the per-capita bene t from the public good is low, then regar...

This paper evaluates the bene t of adding a shared cache to the network interface as a means of improving the performance of networked workstations con gured as a distributed shared memory multi processor A cache on the network interface shared by all processors on each cluster o ers the potential bene ts of retaining evicted processor cache lines providing implicit prefetching when network cac...