Scheduling support is very important for calendar management in order to automatize the execution of possibly complex reasoning tasks. However, an interactive approach is desirable to enable the user to steer the allocation of events, which is a rather personal and critical kind of activity. This paper proposes a mixed-initiative scheduling model supporting the user’s awareness during the explo...

This article looks at the various challenges for personal growth posed by schizophrenia and Hearing voices, as they are experienced together. It uses Maslows Hierarchy of needs a model details techniques strategies climbing pyramid whilst experiencing these problems mental illness. contends there therapeutic advantages people with symptoms which will improve their quality life.

Kanazawa Institute of Technology (KIT) has conducted educational reforms since 1995 and joined the CDIO initiative at June, 2011. In the present paper, first, an overview of the KIT engineering educational program is presented, including the 2012 curriculum which was developed after joining the CDIO initiative. Second, an active learning system based on a “Comprehensive Learning Initiative Proc...

In some situations a number of agents each have the ability to undertake an initiative that would have significant effects on the others. Suppose that each of these agents is purely motivated by an altruistic concern for the common good. We show that if each agent acts on her own personal judgment as to whether the initiative should be undertaken, then the initiative will be undertaken more oft...

This research aims to examine the relationship between initiative taking levels and problem solving skills of school administrators. The was designed as a descriptive relational survey. sample consists 282 preschool, primary, secondary high administrators working in public schools from central Black Sea Region province Turkey. Data were collected through Personal Initiative Measurement Tool for...

The American Society for Cell Biology is targeting the first week of October 2012 (the week before Nobel Prize winners are announced) to launch the We Are Research initiative. The goal of this initiative is to mobilize practicing junior and senior scientists, including graduate students, postdocs, and other lab members, to make contact with their elected officials and neighbors and explain to t...