Mindfulness is increasingly recognized as a phenomenon with functional import for outcomes as diverse as physical health, psychological well-being, work and sport performance, and relationships. Paralleling this recognition is an increased interest in naturally occurring variations in mindfulness and how interventions and practices that facilitate mindfulness actually work. As this research adv...

Initial results of an ongoing research in the field of reactive mobile autonomy are presented. The aim is to create a reactive obstacle avoidance method for mobile agent operating in dynamic, unstructured, and unpredictable environment. The method is inspired by the stimulus-response behavior of simple animals. An obstacle avoidance controller is developed that uses raw visual information of th...

review the literature of conservatism in financial reporting indicates the importance of conservatism in accounting profession. researchers have always tried to determine the degree and ways of conservatism in financial reporting and accounting, although this is not done easily, because there is not a direct measure of conservatism. however, conservatism has been one of the key principles in ac...

Information fused by multi-sensors is an important factor for obtaining reliable contextual information in smart spaces which use the pervasive and ubiquitous computing techniques. Adaptive fusion improves robust operational system performances then makes a reliable decision by reducing uncertain information. However, these fusion techniques suffer from problems regarding the accuracy of estima...

This paper gives important features of CMOS and BiCMOS four-diodes direct coupled tuneable resistance. Circuit performances of three resistance topologies are explored and compared with the traditional CMOS tuneable transresistance designed from a one-stage operational transconductance amplifier (OTA). Simulations results have been realised using nominal parameters of the AMS 0.8μm CMOS and BiC...

This paper provides new evidence for the relationship between the nature of banking relationships, managerial ownership and operational performance in supporting reciprocal effects between these variables in the context of small and medium enterprises (SMEs). A simultaneous equations model was applied to a sample of 4,163 Portuguese SMEs and to cross-section data. Evidence was found that these ...

In this study, a stochastic model is developed to analyze performance measures of a manufacturing cell, which is allowed to operate under degraded mode. The model is used to determine reliability and productivity of the cell, as well as the utilization of its components, under various operational conditions, including equipment failures and fault-tolerant states. The model and the results can b...