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Christiaan Scheepers and Andries Engelbrecht
In spite of being introduced over twenty-five years ago, Fonseca and Fleming?s attainment surfaces have not been widely used. This article investigates some of the shortcomings that may have led to the lack of adoption of this performance measure. The qu...
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Liang Ma, Jennifer Dill
Do people perceive the built environment the same as we objectively measure it? If not, what are the relative roles of the objective versus the perceived environment on bicycling behavior? This study, based on data from Portland Oregon, explored the matc...
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Farshid Shadram and Jani Mukkavaara
Building developers are continuously seeking solutions to increase saleable/rentable floor area and thus the profitability of investments, especially in large/dense cities where the real estate/rental values are high and shortage of available land result...
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Gyuseok Park, Woohyeong Cho, Kyu-Sung Kim and Sangmin Lee
Hearing aids are small electronic devices designed to improve hearing for persons with impaired hearing, using sophisticated audio signal processing algorithms and technologies. In general, the speech enhancement algorithms in hearing aids remove the env...
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Naomi Simumba, Suguru Okami, Akira Kodaka and Naohiko Kohtake
Feature selection is crucial to the credit-scoring process, allowing for the removal of irrelevant variables with low predictive power. Conventional credit-scoring techniques treat this as a separate process wherein features are selected based on improvi...
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María Navarro-Cáceres, Javier Félix Merchán Sánchez-Jara, Valderi Reis Quietinho Leithardt and Raúl García-Ovejero
In Western tonal music, tension in chord progressions plays an important role in defining the path that a musical composition should follow. The creation of chord progressions that reflects such tension profiles can be challenging for novice composers, a...
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Yuchuang Wang, Guoyou Shi and Katsutoshi Hirayama
The container ship stowage planning problem (CSPP) is a very complex and challenging issue concerning the interests of shipping companies and ports. This article has developed a many-objective CSPP solution that optimizes ship stability and reduces the n...
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Alba Maria Priego de la Cruz, Montserrat Manzaneque Lizano, Elena Merino Madrid
This investigation verifies the impact of corporate governance measure on the likelihood of financial distress on the Spanish Stock Exchange for the time period from 2007 to 2012. The authors applied an empirical study with panel data and conducted regre...
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Bruce Q. Budd
This is an investigation into website analytics and the traffic source effect on goal conversions.The primary objective is to measure its web page analytics and improve its commercial marketing strategy.Crucial benchmarks of website efficacy for improved...
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Su-Jin Choi, Hongjae Kang, Keejoo Lee and Sejin Kwon
The Korean National Space Council recently released ?Mars Exploration 2045? as part of its future strategic plan. The operations for a Mars explorer can be defined based on domestically available capabilities, such as ground operations, launch, in-space ...
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Noé Tits, Kevin El Haddad and Thierry Dutoit
In this paper, we study the controllability of an Expressive TTS system trained on a dataset for a continuous control. The dataset is the Blizzard 2013 dataset based on audiobooks read by a female speaker containing a great variability in styles and expr...
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Chimezie Amadi, Umaru Mustapha Zubairu, Olalekan Busra Sakariyan, Isah Imam Paiko
Pág. 64 - 78
The objective of this paper is to investigate the effects ICT has on the sustainability of Digital Entrepreneurship in Nigeria. Furthermore, this paper seeks to determine if the utilization of ICT can forecast the rate of start-ups in the Digital E...
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Antonio Collazo Garcia,Sandra Casas
Pág. pp. 126 - 139
Context: Quality of Experience (QoE) enables the description of user perceptions about the performance of a particular application or service. In the mobile computing context, it is an important measure for service providers and users, since QoE makes it...
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Jeong-Bin Yim, Deuk-Jin Park and Ik-Hyun Youn
In order to prevent ship collisions, it is important to understand the behavior of navigators that leads to these collisions. The main cause of marine accidents in the Republic of Korea is attributed to navigator error, particularly in collisions. Hence,...
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Jafar Yazdi, Young Hwan Choi, Joong Hoon Kim
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We developed a hybrid algorithm for multi-objective design of water distribution networks (WDNs) in the present study. The proposed algorithm combines the global search schemes of differential evolution (DE) with the local search capabilities of harmony ...
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Jafar Yazdi, Young Hwan Choi and Joong Hoon Kim
We developed a hybrid algorithm for multi-objective design of water distribution networks (WDNs) in the present study. The proposed algorithm combines the global search schemes of differential evolution (DE) with the local search capabilities of harmony ...
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Donghwi Jung and Joong Hoon Kim
A meter network is a set of meters installed throughout a water distribution system to measure system variables, such as the pipe flow rate and pressure. In the current hyper-connected world, meter networks are being exposed to meter failure conditions, ...
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Zorana Kostic,Vinko Lepojevic,Vesna Jankovic-Milic
Pág. 145 - 159
This paper presents a framework for the practical modeling of inflation, as one of the key economic indicators. Empirical research of monthly inflation trends in the Republic of Serbia was done covering the period from January 2007 to December 2015. The ...
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Andi Ina Yustina,Gudono Gudono
Pág. 393 - 404
This study aimed not only to examine the effect of the objective measure and controllability on subjective performance evaluation but also to prove empirically the halo effect phenomenon which is present in the evaluation process when evaluators are face...
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Khaled Rabieh, Rasha Samir and Marianne A. Azer
Rapid advances in technology and shifting tastes among motorists have reworked the contemporary automobile production sector. Driving is now much safer and more convenient than ever before thanks to a plethora of new technology and apps. Millions of peop...
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