This study assessed the construct and criterion validity of short version Internet Skills Scale examined whether its four dimensions – Operational, Information Navigation, Social, Creative skills are influenced by a higher-order dimension general internet as one second-order factor. In 2018, face-to-face survey comprising 20-item 22 other items related to digital inclusion was conducted in samp...

The new millennium has seen significant changes in the operational environment and in the nature of the enemy. Training must likewise change to prepare our military to meet the challenges associated with this new paradigm. One of the current Department of Defense initiatives in education and training is the move to convert instructor-led courses to distributed learning. However, creating distri...

The computing infrastructure of the Department of Mathematics and Computer Science at the University of Wisconsin-Superior has evolved from a system that depended primarily on manual effort, to a system that relies heavily on automation. No single decision mandated automation; instead, automation came about as means to manage complex deployments, provide new capabilities, and utilize scarce res...

Surgical scheduling is a challenging problem faced by hospital managers. It is subject to a wide range of constraints depending upon the particular situationwithin any given hospital.We dealwith the simultaneous employment of specialised human resources, which must be assigned to surgeries according to their skills as well as the time windows of the staff. A particular feature is that they can ...

LIKE MANY PUBLIC SECTOR ORGANISATIONS, POLICE SERVICES HAVE HAD to pay increasing attention to strategic planning in recent years. This has been precipitated by community and government calls for improved accountability, and the accelerating pace of reform within police services. In responding to this need, police services are experiencing many of the problems familiar to large organisations wh...

This paper presents an approach to student modelling in the context of a simulation-based ITS (Intelligent Tutoring System) for operational skill training, the ATEEG system [1]. The student model is composed of (a) task performance measures in context and (b) cognitive skill assessment methods, based on cognitive principles for operational skill training. The structure of this model is a bi-dim...

Part and parcel of building green homes (GHs) with favorable thermal comfort (TC) is to design and build with reduced carbon footprint (CF) from embodied energy in the building envelope and reduced operational CF overall. Together, the environmental impact of GHs can be reduced significantly. Nevertheless, there is still a need to identify the base CF value for Malaysian GHs and this can be don...

BACKGROUND Promoting national health research agendas in low- and middle-income countries (LMICs) requires adequate numbers of individuals with skills to initiate and conduct research. Recently, non-governmental organizations (NGOs) have joined research capacity building efforts to increase research leadership by LMIC nationals. Partners In Health, an international NGO operating in Rwanda, impl...

the aim of this study is to investigate human resource competencies in iranian petroleum company. this study is a descriptive-analytical approach. in this research, we examined human resource competencies in six main categories including; credible activist, culture & change steward, talent manager/organizational designer, strategy architect, operational executor, business ally, as well as 21 su...

C O P Y R IG H T © 2 00 0 H A R V A R D B U S IN E S S SC H O O L P U B LI SH IN G C O R P O R A T IO N . A LL R IG H T S R E SE R V E D . The myriad activities that go into creating, producing, selling, and delivering a product or service are the basic units of competitive advantage. Operational effectiveness means performing these activities better— that is, faster, or with fewer inputs and d...