This article explores the conceptual, policy and practical links between poverty and community-oriented social work (COSW). It argues that social workers should be directly involved in the relief of poverty and that the approach most likely to prove successful in…

In this paper, we analyze the relation between the surface curvature of an isolated charged conductor and resultant electrostatic potential. The study will be performed for a long conductor with uniform cross section. It will be demonstrated by geometric arguments…

This is an electronic version of an article published in the Journal of Mental Health, 16(3), pp.375-387. Journal of Mental Health is available online at: http://informahealthcare.com/journal/jmh., Aims: This study evaluates real world employment support for people with severe mental health…

The PII proteins are found in all three domains of life as key integrators of signals reflecting the balance of nitrogen and carbon. Genetic inactivation of PII proteins is typically associated with severe growth defects or death. However, the molecular…

The authors organised a successful international conference in April 2008 on global leadership where over 50 delegates assisted them to hone the ideas presented in this paper., This paper focuses on businesses and the leaders who guide them. These businesses…

We have shown that treatment with desmopressin has a very effective hemodilution effect in healthy humans. These results led us to suggest the possible role of desmopressin to mask blood doping in sports. Based on our results, the World Anti-Doping…

The work carried out in the thesis describes efficient virtual environments management. One of the main contributions is a middleware scheduling optimization based on Grid environments. Being the overall goal to get an optimal resource selection plus a coordinate task…

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For centuries, experimentation has been at the center of all successful scientific studies. Experimental explorations can offer new perceptions, weed out unproductive approaches and validate theories and practices. Computer Science (CS), as a discipline, has a poor record when it…

In this Ph. D thesis, the main significant contributions are: formulation of a new non-linear membership function using fuzzy approach to capture and describe vagueness in the technological coefficients of constraints in the industrial production planning problems [1-3]. This non-linear…