Based on the need to update the language and tools used to teach Procedural Programming during the first year of computer science careers, a cross descriptive research was conducted by assessing different programming languages.
The analysis involved a total of…

The present paper aims to determine the level of implementation of innovations in Spanish local government as well as to identify which types of innovations are most common. The paper also considers the link between innovative behavior and organizational size.…

The problem of finding the consensus (most probable string) for a distribution generated by a weighted finite automaton or a probabilistic grammar is related to a number of important questions: computing the distance between two distributions or finding the best…

This study analyzed and compared the exercise intensity in Zumba fitness and Tae-bo aerobics. Object of the research was monitoring of the heart rate and energy consumption in kcal during exercise unit, by using Heart Rate Monitor Suunto Memory Belt.…

Notational analysis quantifies the technical and tactical playing aspects of a game through game-related statistics based mainly on frequencies and effectiveness percentages (Lozovina et al., 2004). Several studies applied the notational analysis technique to water polo (Argudo et al., 2007;…

With more than 64,500 members, the Bangladeshi community in London is one of the largest in the UK. Originating from a wave of immigration during the 1970s, a considerable part of the community now consists of a second, UK-born generation.…

The South American genus Paralycambes Kormilev (Coreidae: Meropachydinae: Spathophorini) is redescribed, and one new species P. pronotalis from Venezuela and Brazil is described. New records for P. misionensis are given. Dorsal habitus illustrations and drawings of antennae, head, pronotum, scutellum,…

The genus Empedocles Stal is redescribed, and one new species collected in Brazil and Argentina is described; new distributional data for E. tenuicornis (Westwood) is included; dorsal view illustrations, and drawings of antennal segments, pronotum, hind leg, and male and…

Mixed methods research, with the combination of qualitative and quantitative data, seems a logical mirror to the type of clinical information being collected and used in contemporary health care. For centuries health practitioners have used multiple sources of evidence to…

Four new species of Stenomacra Stal from Costa Pica, Ecuador, and Brazil are described and illustrated. Stenomacra cliens (Stal), Stenomacra gracilis Schmidt, and Stenomacra marginella var. mexicana Schmidt are synonymized under Stenomacra marginella (Herrich-Schaeffer); Theraneis ferruginea Mayr is transferred to…