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BACKGROUND Functional evaluation of sit-to-stand and stand-to-sit activities is often used by physiotherapists in patients with neurological and musculoskeletal disorders. The observation of the way these activities are executed is essential in identifying kinesiological problems. There are different methodologies used to describe the stand-to-sit activity and its evaluation is not yet standard...

Relating demographers' measures of various population characteristics (size, growth/decline, density, age/sex structures, migration, et cetera) to measures of well-being recently developed within the social indicators movement promises to provide new knowledge about the linkage of population and well-being that can enhance decision making about important population issues. A conceptual schema i...

This paper proposes a model that provides a structure to aid the decision making process for the migration of organisations’ IT resources to cloudbased services. It includes consideration of business intelligence as well as design phases which have been neglected by existing decision support systems. Six main steps and the tasks within the model are identified, and their interaction with a prop...

The paper argues that existing techniques for retail site evaluation ignore the useful ‘soft’ insights of retail executives. It outlines a technique for constructing a composite map of retail decision makers’ insights into the location in uences affecting store performance. It has two objectives: to show how the method can be used to construct a basic knowledge base by helping to elicit decisi...

While today’s structured knowledge bases (e.g., Freebase) contain a sizable collection of information about entities, from celebrities and locations to concepts and common objects, there is a class of knowledge that has minimal coverage: actions. A large-scale knowledge base of actions would provide an opportunity for computing devices to aid and support people’s reasoning about their own actio...

Monitoring data facilitate the basic understanding of changes taking place in nature and provide information for making management decisions, but environmental monitoring is often considered expensive. Here, we apply the concept of value of information to evaluate the value of marine monitoring in the EU Marine Strategy Framework Directive context. We estimated the costs of the Finnish marine m...

Modem organizations rely extensively on computer based mathematical models designed to solve various statistical, optimization, and decision making problems, or to enhance the quality of the decisions made by humans. These models do not exist in isolation, but form complex relationships with each other resulting in organizational model bases. Large model bases require extensive structuring and ...

As a side effect of unprecedented amount of digitization of data, classical retrieval tools found themselves unable to go further beyond the tip of the Iceberg. Data Mining in conjunction with the Formal Concept Analysis, is a clear promise to furnish adequate tools to do so and specially to be able to derive concise generic and easy understandable bases of ”hidden” knowledge, that can be relia...

It has been acknowledged that natural sciences alone cannot provide an adequate basis for the management of complex environmental problems. The scientific knowledge base has to be expanded in a more holistic direction by incorporating social and economic issues. As well, the multifaceted knowledge has to be summarized in a form that can support science-based decision making. This is, however, d...