This paper is an initial study on the impact of positive psychology on IT project management. Prior studies have found that High Psychological Positive Capital (PsyCap) of individuals is positively correlated with their work satisfaction and higher performance. PsyCap comprises individual’s positive capacities of optimism, hope, resilience and efficacy. Drawing from Beck’s cognitive theory, the...

Managers of IT projects (PMs) tend to "gloss over" the reality in their external reports including withholding bad news ("mum effect"). Reasons that have been suggested for this bias can be classified as personal-oriented and project-oriented. This paper is an initial study on the impact of positive psychology on IT project management. Prior studies have found that High Psychological Positive C...

This report describes a rare case of conjoined female twin monster (Monocephalus Thoracopagus Tetrabrachius Tetrapus Dicaudatus) in a Holstein Friesian pluriparous crossbred cow.

Imagine a town where wealthy residents live in strong, well-built homes in the center of town, and poorer residents live in rather shabby shacks around the edge of the town. Every few nights, without warning, some sort of monster or group of terrorists from the surrounding countryside carries off one of the residents from the homes around the edge of town. The hapless resident is never heard fr...

The global k-means algorithm is an incremental approach to clustering that dynamically adds one cluster center at a time through a deterministic global search procedure from suitable initial positions, and employs k-means to minimize the sum of the intra-cluster variances. However the global k-means algorithm sometimes results singleton clusters and the initial positions sometimes are bad, afte...

The global testing problem studied in this paper is to seek a definite answer to whether a system of concurrent black-boxes has an observable behavior in a given finite (but could be huge) set Bad. We introduce a novel approach to solve the problem that does not require integration testing. Instead, in our approach, the global testing problem is reduced to testing individual black-boxes in the ...

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This talk is about hidden symmetries in eleven dimensions, but it is equally a tribute to a scientist and friend, who is eminently visible in four space-time dimensions: François Englert, in whose honor this meeting is being held. Therefore, before entering dans le vif du sujet I would like to express my gratitude for having had the opportunity and privilege to learn from him and to work with h...

Interpolation is an important component of recent methods for program verification. It provides a natural and effective means for computing separation between the sets of ‘good’ and ‘bad’ states. The existing algorithms for interpolant generation are proof-based: They require explicit construction of proofs, from which interpolants can be computed. Construction of such proofs is a difficult tas...