Partnerships

"The word “globalisation” has a wide-ranging meaning! It includes (a) the phenomenon of the opening of the national economies upon a liberal global market resulting from progress in Communications and transport; or (b) the liberalisation of exchanges resulting from the interdependence between countries; or (c) the fact of becoming global and therefore spreading throughout the world; or (d) affecting the whole world or all peoples; or again (e) to put something into effect worldwide."(...

Dietary intakes from rural, community-based elderly as a determinant of food availability

The fact that people are living longer has heightened awareness of the elderly and many of their special needs. Due to this trend, experts have begun to more closely investigate caloric and nutrient needs of the elderly as well as factors that may alter dietary intake. Forty-two older persons in Lincoln County, West Virginia agreed to participate in research designed to explore the relationship between dietary intake and food availability among rural, community-based elderly. Participants completed a 38 item telephone questionnaire which provided information on demographics, grocery shopping habits, and dietary intakes. A second survey addressed food availability at all grocery stores that where indicated as those “most frequently shopped” by the sample. Upon completion of data collection, both surveys were coded, and data were input into the computer. Descriptive statistics and multiple regression were utilized in data analysis as determined by the main frame version of the Statistical Package for the Social Sciences. Results of the dietary intake survey indicated that the majority of the participants were Caucasian (n=42, 100.0%), female (n=29, 69.0%), and over the age of 75 (n=36, 85.7%). Most were overweight, and many reported no history of chronic disease. Overall, the sample was relatively healthy, which is atypical for the elderly population. Eight grocery stores were surveyed for food availability. One hundred percent of the stores provided fresh meats, poultry, fruits, and vegetables for purchase. Foods for a healthy diet were readily available for purchase in all grocery stores. A comparison between dietary intakes and food availability disproved the hypothesis as only two relationships of significance were found. This indicated that the dietary intake of participants was based on preference without regard to availability

Presidential Debates: Whats Behind the Numbers?

Because they attract large audiences, generate interest in the campaign, help voters understand their choices in the upcoming election, forecast governance, increase the likelihood that voters will cast a vote for the preferred candidate rather than against the opponent, moderate some of the campaigns' tendencies to exaggerate and, in a close contest, may affect an election's outcome, presidential debates have become a centerpiece of presidential general elections in the United States.BackgroundAlthough audience data have tracked trends in presidential general election debate viewership over the years, they often fail to reveal how much and how many of the debates people actually watch. More importantly, these figures don't provide insight into why people do or do not watch the debates. Using multiple research methods, this Annenberg Public Policy Center white paper draws on detailed Nielsen viewership data, a national survey, and a set of focus groups with debate viewers to answer these questions

Automatic creation of apps using images of arranged physical media

The creation of software applications, e.g., mobile apps, requires the developer to have some knowledge of coding. This can be a hurdle for people that have creative ideas for applications but lack the requisite computer skills. Per the techniques of this disclosure, user interface widgets are printed on magnets and organized into kits. A user that wishes to create an app physically arranges the magnets on a board to create a UI and takes a picture of the board. Using computer vision, the resulting image is rendered into an editable app UI that is connected to data and ready to be published

La pauvreté au Royaume-Uni

En dépit du large éventail de prestations sociales qui existe au Royaume-Uni, des millions de personnes se trouvent dans le dénuement, leurs ressources étant bien inférieures à leurs besoins essentiels. S’il existe plusieurs définitions de la « pauvreté », nous retiendrons néanmoins celle-ci : « [La pauvreté est] relative à un niveau de vie, dans une société, à un moment donné. Les gens vivent dans la pauvreté lorsqu’ils sont privés des ressources suffisantes pour leurs besoins matériels esse..

Employers' Liability - from Physical to Psychiatric Illnesses

From Introduction: "This text proposes to treat an important development which has taken place in the United Kingdom in recent years in the field of the employer’s common law duty of care. It is proposed to analyse briefly the well established concept of the employer’s common law duty of care towards his employees which, until recently, applied generally only to physical injuries and illnesses. The development of this concept in recent years into the psychiatric field is a welcome step forward and shows how labour law has progressed and is progressing in the 21st century."(...

Software engineering group work - Personality, patterns and performance

This is the author's version of the work. It is posted here for your personal use. Not for redistribution. The definitive Version of Record was published in SIGMIS-CPR '10, http://dx.doi.org/10.1145/1796900.1796921Proceedings of the 2010 Special Interest Group on Management Information System's 48th annual conference on Computer personnel research on Computer personnel research (Vancouver, BC, Canada)Software Engineering has been a fundamental part of many computing undergraduate courses for a number of years. Although many of the tools and techniques used to undertake software engineering have changed, the assessment has typically stayed the same. Students are commonly tasked with producing a number of software artefacts, for example designs using the Unified Modelling Language (UML). We recently attempted to extend the software engineering experience for a group of second year students with them participating in groups that attempt to replicate industrial practice. This paper reports our investigation into the correlation between the personality of group members, their approach with respect to using design patterns and their learning achievements