Various data scandals have raised people’s risk perceptions all around the world. Due to the sensitivity of location information, these concerns are particularly significant in the context of mobile location-based services (LBS) and are generally considered a major inhibiting factor for their usage. The aim of this study is to investigate different risk facets that encompass a special type of L...

The quality of teachers has influence on the quality of educational services. Nurturing theteachers is actually a preoccupation for the educational organizations. The aim of our educationsystem is to produce successful, well-prepared citizens; therefore, careful examination ofindividuals who teach at all levels is a critical step in meeting that goal. The current studyin...

Background: Whether dysfunctional breathing (DB) subtype classification is useful remains undetermined. The hyperventilation provocation test (HVPT) used to diagnose DB. This begins with a 3-min phase of during which fractional end-tidal CO 2 (FETCO ) decreases that could be an assessment plant gain, relies on stores. Our aim was assess 1) whether the children suffering from different subtypes ...

We present a Logic Programming prototype implementation working as proof-of-concept for a unified strategy proposed in our past research to solve several non-standard reasoning problems in Description Logics (DLs), denoted by Constructive Reasoning. In order to proof both the problem-independence and the logic-independence of the adopted approach, the prototype is focused on the solution of thr...

At the very end of the Transcendental Analytic Kant argues that the two concepts something/possible and nothing/impossible, which constitute the starting point of traditional ontology, are not in fact the highest concepts. Instead, these two opposed concepts stand under a higher concept, namely the concept of an object in general, and result from that concept’s division. Both the concept of so...

the aim of this paper is to use the concept of the metafrontier function to study the determination of efficiency differentials and technological gap ratio (tgr) on wheat production in khorasan razavi province. in this study, we used the metafrontier function and group frontier based on the concept of stochastic nonparametric envelopment of data analysis (stoned). the data used in this study co...

background: in recent years, the concept of health security has received an international dimension. however, despite evident links between health and security the concept of health security is not used in either academic or political discourse in serbia. it comes as no surprise then that even though the issue of security challenges is present in serbian legislation, it has not been incorporate...

soil, a 3-dimensional component of the landscape, or simply a natural body in a soilscape with a given geopedological setting, was modeled by jenny as s = f (climate, organism, relief, parent material, time). to map such a complex body, the concept ‗pedon’ –the smallest volume that can be recognized as a soil had to be defined. classically, soil is known to function as provider, controller, reg...