Providing an environment for electronic commerce involves complex, technical questions that need to be addressed and understood by decision making bodies. This paper studies one attempt to support electronic commerce at the national level. It looks at the Regulation of Investigatory Powers Bill in the UK and focuses on the political actions of those seeking to amend the Bill in Parliament. Afte...

In this article, we provide an overview of three humanoid soccer platforms currently in use at RoboCup: 3D simulation, the humanoid Standard Platform League (SPL), and the Webots-based simulator released with the SPL. Although these platforms trace different historical roots, today they share the same robot model, the Aldebaran Nao. Consequently, they face a similar set of challenges, primary a...

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 machine learning problem. Competing against a field of mostly handcoded coaches, the UT Austin Villa coach earned first place in the competition. In this paper, we present the multi-faceted lear...

The flurry of regulatory activity by the outgoing administration of President George W. Bush has raised, once again, the specter of midnight regulation. In contrast to the late-term action of the Clinton Administration, much of the Bush Administration‘s late-term action seems to have been more deregulatory than regulatory, but from a political and legal standpoint, that distinction may not make...

We are printing in its entirety the discussion document which sets out a code of professional conduct for nurses published by the Royal College of Nursing in November 1976 together with commentaries by the Assistant Secretary of the British Medical Association, a professor of nursing studies, student nurses and a lawyer. The image of the nurse is still that of one of Florence Nightingale's youn...

Objective: The purpose of this exploratory and descriptive study was to evaluate the student experience using Microsoft HoloLens® headsets HoloPatient application (app) perform a nursing assessment Jerry, life-sized hologram young man admitted Emergency Department following mountain bike accident.Methods: Setting: research conducted in 2019 New Zealand School Nursing. Participants were undergra...