background and objectives: balanced scorecard is an increasingly popular tool for performance evaluation. healthcare organizations have broadly adopted this method for implementing their strategic plans. there is, however, increasing concerns on barriers to balanced scorecard implementation. built on the fundamental impacts of organizational culture on hospital performance, this study explored ...

1. Introduction Resolvable designs, though introduced in the combinatorial context, have found their utility in field experiments. The concept of resolvability is due to Bose (1942) who defined this for a balanced incomplete block (BIB) design. A BIB design is an arrangement of v treatments into b blocks such that each block contains k (< v) distinct treatments, each treatment appears in r bloc...

The balanced scorecard (BSC) has developed as a very useful managerial tool from the mid1990s, and has met with general (and often enthusiastic) acceptance in both business and academic circles. In the knowledge-networked innovation economy of the early 21 century, which is increasingly characterized by globally integrated supply and demand chains, outsourcing of traditional business competenci...

Few existing argumentation frameworks are designed to deal with probabilistic knowledge, and none are designed to represent possibilistic knowledge, making them unsuitable for many real world domains. In this paper we present a subjective logic based framework for argumentation which overcomes this limitation. Reasoning about the state of a literal in this framework can be done in polynomial ti...

Diversity content is often met with covert and overt resistance in the classroom. Utilisation of a balanced learning model may address classroom resistance. Balanced learning models require ‘backwards’ course planning, equal attention to course content and class process, and a strategic use of cyclical course design to include introduction of new materiel, experience, followed by personal refle...

The Validation of Answers has been seen recently as a classification problem able to introduce Machine Learning for improving Question Answering results. The unbalanced nature of collections has led to the use of measures based on precision and recall. However, Relative Operating Characteristic (ROC) analysis is preferred sometimes in similar classification tasks. In this article we compare bot...

Abstract: Experiments in agriculture, horticulture, and forestry often show neighbour effects, that is the response on a given plot is affected by the treatments on neighbouring plot as well as by the treatment applied to that plot. When treatments are varieties, neighbour effects may be caused by differences in height, root vigor, or germination date, especially on small plots. As a result, th...

The user-centered design of an e-health system is a complex endeavor: the conflicting interests of multiple user perspectives have to be balanced throughout the design process. Moreover, a common understanding of the interplay between technical, psychological and business aspects has to be developed among multi-disciplinary project partners. In this paper, we describe how the European ambient a...

outsourcing, as the primary tool for organizational development, competency advantages and productivity enhancer, has been in attention more than ever. considering the limited resources of every organization, either in public section or in private, outsourcing can be a superior approach to increase efficiency and to expand work in other fields. organizations might outsource their processes part...