Non-human animals can acquire novel route preferences by following knowledgeable individuals. Such socially learned route preferences can be stably maintained over multiple transmission episodes, sometimes forming long-lived traditions. In humans, preferences for familiar routes or heavily used worn trails over unfamiliar ones have been described in various contexts. However, social learning of...

| The objective of this paper is to determine the minimum system dropping rate induced by variable frame TDMA schemes supporting time-constrained applications with common maximum cell delay tolerance. Expressions are derived for the induced (optimal) system dropping rate and the maximum number of users that can be admitted in the network without violating the maximum dropping rate constrain is ...

in this paper a new algorithm is presented for coherent radar detection of targets, when distribution of the interference (clutter and noise) is non-gaussian. the neyman-pearson criterion is used for optimal detection and several successive received samples from a radar range cell are used for detection in the same cell. on the basis of recent empirical evidences, the interference distribution ...

Background Few Antiretroviral Therapy (ART) adherence trials investigate the reasons for intervention success or failure among HIV-positive individuals. Objectives To conduct qualitative research to explore the reasons for effectiveness of a 6-month mHealth (mobile health) trial that improved adherence among ART patients in China. The intervention utilized Wireless Pill Containers (WPCs) to p...

Background: Health promotion among health workers requires appropriate evidence of relevant determinants. Objective: This study was conducted to investigate the relationship between mental health and its measured covariates with self-rated health (SRH) among health workers during the COVID-19 pandemic in northwest Iran. Methods: In this cross-sectional study, we recruited 569 health workers f...

We investigate the voting rules in the Council of the European Union. It is known that the current system, according to the Treaty of Nice, and the voting system proposed in the Lisbon treaty both strongly deviate from the square root law by Penrose. This is known to be the ideal voting rule under certain assumptions. In 2004 SS lomczynski and ˙ Zyczkowski designed a voting system, now known as...

We investigate the voting rules in the Council of the European Union. It is known that both the current system, according to the Treaty of Nice, and the voting system proposed in the Lisbon treaty deviate strongly from the square root law by Penrose which is known to be the ideal voting rule under certain assumptions. In 2004 S lomczynski and Życzkowski designed a voting system, now known as th...

Abstract When parties attempt to persuade their opponents of the tenability a certain standpoint using reasons, they will often find that circumstances dialogue hinder chances resolution. Power imbalances, cognitive biases, lack time or hidden interests are some need face. I label these as suboptimal settings for argumentation . According pragma-dialectical tradition, higher-order conditions cr...