the aim of this study was to survey four fundamental effective factors in sport sponsorship decision making. for this purpose, viewpoints of 30 experts and active individuals in sport sponsorship such as managers of sponsor corporations, authorities of sport federations and clubs were analyzed. the method of this research was qualitative and explorative and was performed through interviews. the...

OBJECTIVE To identify the factors influencing women's choice of maternity care providers in Canada. METHOD Using the Maternity Experience Survey and a multinomial logit model, this paper examined the influence of various socio-economic and demographic factors on the mix of maternity care providers, while controlling for maternal risk profiles. Additionally, provinces were interacted with mate...

The mix of electricity consumed in any stage in the life cycle of a product, process, or industrial sector has a significant effect on the associated inventory of emissions and environmental impacts because of large differences in the power generation method used. Fossil-fuel-fired or nuclear-centralized steam generators; large-scale and small-scale hydroelectric power; and renewable options, s...

A method for generating a mix of multi-track recordings using an auditory model has been developed. The proposed method is based on the concept that a balanced mix is one in which the loudness of all instruments are equal. A sophisticated psychoacoustic loudness model is used to measure the loudness of each track both in quiet and when mixed with any combination of the remaining tracks. Such me...

In electronic voting or whistle blowing, anonymity is necessary. Shuffling is a network security technique that makes the information sender anonymous. We use the concept of shuffling in internet-based lotteries, mental poker, E-commerce systems, and Mix-Net. However, if the shuffling is unjust, the anonymity, privacy, or fairness may be compromised. In this paper, we propose the method for con...

background: the prevalence of allergic diseases has risen in the last decades. the objective of this study was to determine the common allergens in children via the skin prick test. methods: this cross-sectional study recruited 313 allergic children (4 months to 18 years old) referred to the asthma and allergy clinic of children’s medical center in tehran. a questionnaire containing demographic...

In this paper novel selection method based on hybridization of fuzzy logic and previously elaborated mix selection is presented. Proposed method is based on fuzzy control of trade-off between exploration and exploitation properties of evolutionary algorithm. Two factors are considered in proposed selection method: the first is a number of generations of evolutionary algorithm, and second is a p...