This perspective is an ethical brief overview and examination of “wellness” policies in the modern workplace using practical examples and a general application of utilitarianism. Many employers are implementing policies that provide incentives to employees who lead a “healthy” lifestyle. The authors address how these policies could adversely affect “non-healthy” employees. There are a wide vari...

In this paper, we address the metric learning problem utilizing a margin-based approach. Our metric learning problem is formulated as a quadratic semi-definite programming problem (QSDP) with local neighborhood constraints, which is based on the Support Vector Machine (SVM) framework. The local neighborhood constraints ensure that examples of the same class are separated from examples of differ...

Over the past 30 years many researchers in the field of evolutionary computation have put a lot of effort to introduce various approaches for solving hard problems. Most of these problems have been inspired by major industries so that solving them, by providing either optimal or near optimal solution, was of major significance. Indeed, this was a very promising trajectory as advances in these p...

One of the mathematical abilities that students must master in order to learn mathematics is ability understand concepts, since it can affect quality learning and academic accomplishment students. If student's idea understanding good, he or she will be able solve problem using procedure. As a result, goal this study determine describe students' grasp ideas linear programming material. This stud...

Irresponsible travel has the potential to harm both the traveler and the host destination. The subject of responsible travel is a major focus of the International Society of Travel Medicine, whose Responsible Travel special interest group has been very active in providing leadership for travel medicine practitioners in relation to the protection of local travel destination communities. Healthca...

This paper presents the rationale for a novel approach to providing expressive, teachable, maintainable, and cost-effective special-purpose languages: A Semantically Enhanced Library Language (a SEL language or a SELL) is a dialect created by supersetting a language using a library and then subsetting the result using a tool that “understands” the syntax and semantics of both the underlying lan...

Finding entertainment in the domain of animation is a challenging process that often forces many customers to ask others for assistance in forums or chat rooms. The manual process of recommending shows to one another based on often flimsy examples prevents many users from efficiently identifying media that suites their taste. Recommender systems, software tools and techniques for providing sugg...

Computational grids involve the intersection of different geographically distributed communities: the resourceusers and the resource-providers. Grid monitoring is required by various super-sets of these communities as everyone wants to know something about how the Grid is performing. Many grid monitoring systems have a top-down prescriptive approach. Grid monitoring is often considered separabl...