Coaches, fans and the media identify successful football performance as finishing as high in the league as possible. Recently, research has indicated that possession, shots at goal, and goals scored are key performance indicators for successful football teams. There is however, a lack of understanding of other potential attacking and defensive performance variables that may contribute to succes...

Discrete event simulation has traditionally been defined by items (or entities). This modeling paradigm has served the simulation industry well, but falls far short for many industries in which the parts / pieces mindset simply does not accurately portray their particular processes. For the last ten years Simulation Dynamics has been working with industries where the item paradigm falls short a...

Le Médecin de famille canadien | Vol 59: march • mars 2013 The physical examination is facing extinction in modern medicine. The Top Ten Forgotten Diagnostic Procedures series was developed as a teaching tool for residents in family medicine to reaffirm the most important examinationbased diagnostic procedures, once commonly used in everyday practice. For a complete pdF of the Top Ten Forgotten...

Le Médecin de famille canadien | Vol 58: NoVEMbEr • NoVEMbrE 2012 The physical examination is facing extinction in modern medicine. The Top Ten Forgotten Diagnostic Procedures series was developed as a teaching tool for residents in family medicine to reaffirm the most important examinationbased diagnostic procedures, once commonly used in everyday practice. For a complete pdF of the Top Ten Fo...

The objective of this study was to characterize the changes in the rankings of the top-n results of major search engines over time and to compare the rankings between these engines. We considered only the top-ten results, since users usually inspect only the first page returned by the search engine, which normally contains ten results. In particular, we compare rankings of the top ten results o...

Beginning in 1998, all students in the state of Texas who graduated in the top ten percent of their high school classes were guaranteed admission to any in-state public higher education institution, including the flagships. While the goal of this policy is to improve college access for disadvantaged and minority students, the use of a school-specific standard to determine eligibility could have...