Given the lack of suitable quality evaluation standards for educational serious games (designed for both entertainment and instruction), we designed a development framework for evaluation standards of educational serious games and proceeded to develop standards in accordance with our proposed procedure. Our standards were designed to evaluate the quality of both technical and non-technical elem...

this study was carried out to identify technical-agronomic factors impressible from fish farming in rice fields. this investigation carried out by descriptive survey during july-august 2009. studied cities including talesh, rezvanshahr and masal set in tavalesh region near to caspian sea, north of iran. the questionnaire validity and reliability were determined to enhance the dependability of t...

This paper reports on selected results of a survey of New Zealand information systems development processes conducted in mid 1998. The survey generated information on relative importance of different criteria in judging the success of information systems. These results are discussed in relation to broader issues of technical and social distinctions in information systems.

abstract quantitative analysis of production through evaluating the level of factor usage is a major part in agricultural management, which aims at increasing production by optimum usage of resources. this study has estimated and analyzed stochastic frontier production function and calculated technical efficiency of semi-mechanized broiler farms located in gorgan district. the survey data were ...

Using three-wave survey data for four villages of Jiangsu Province in China, the present paper examines whether and to what extent off-farm employment affects the technical efficiency of agricultural production. The level of technical efficiency is measured using a stochastic frontier production function approach. Based on estimation results from instrumental variable panel quantile regressions...

Refactoring is an increasingly practiced method in industrial software development. Stated simply, refactoring is an ongoing software improvement process that simplifies the internal structure of existing software, without changing its external behavior. The purpose is to improve the software and facilitate future maintenance and enhancement. Existing studies on refactoring mainly focus on its ...

Organizations producing products based on technical standards are interested in the factors that influence a customers’ intention to adopt that product, and accordingly that standard. In general, standards-based products are expected to be affected by factors similar to those that affect ordinary innovations, as described in Rogers’ Diffusion of Innovations with the addition of a few factors in...

This paper investigates ways to obtain consumer preferences for technology products to help designers identify the key attributes that contribute to a product’s market success. A case study of residential photovoltaic panels is performed in the context of the California, USA market within the 2007-2011 time span. First, interviews are conducted with solar panel installers to gain a better under...