The dynamic nature of web and with the increase of the number of web pages, it is very difficult to search required web pages easily and quickly out of thousands of web pages retrieved by a search engine. The solution to this problem is to classify the web pages according to their genre. Automatic genre identification of web pages has become an important area in web page classification, because...

This paper analytically studies queueing performance improvement with traffic dispersion. We model sources and paths between sources and destinations as generalized binary Markov sources and discrete-time queues, respectively. We suppose that random order dispersion is employed in packet network, and we examine the effect of random order dispersion on the asymptotic tail distribution of the que...

Collecting and monitoring performance measure data are resource-intensive, requiring time and effort by a team that includes health care providers treating the patients and documenting their care, quality personnel monitoring and working to optimize performance rates, and quality abstractors, who extract information from the medical record. Recently, an additional group of people have become in...

The purpose of this study is to investigate the association between anthropometric characteristics and performance in all track and field running events and assess Body Mass Index (BMI) as a relevant performance indicator. Data of mass, height, BMI and speed were collected for the top 100 international men athletes in track events from 100 m to marathon for the 1996-2011 seasons, and analyzed b...

Improving quality and safety across an entire healthcare system in multiple clinical areas within a short time frame is challenging. We describe our experience with improving inpatient quality and safety at Kaiser Permanente Northern California. The foundations of performance improvement are a "four-wheel drive" approach and a comprehensive driver diagram linking improvement goals to focal area...

In this dissertation, we study the problem of waveform design for improvement of detection performance in radar systems. To this end, for single-input single-output (SISO) systems, we consider the effect of the signal-dependent interference at receive side (i.e., clutter) and the fact that Doppler shift of targets are often unknown at the transmit side. The raised design problems (for various s...

The wide utilization of Wireless Sensor Networks (WSNs) is obstructed by the severely limited energy constraints of the individual sensor nodes. This is the reason why a large part of the research in WSNs focuses on the development of energy efficient routing protocols. Energy conservation is one of the major important issues in wireless sensor networks. In WSN communication is based on battery...

In today’s economy more and more organisations are realizing that to acquire and maintain their competitive advantage they must explicitly manage their cognitive resources. For this reason, managers need to understand how they can identify and evaluate existing knowledge assets within the organisation and how to manage these assets in order to achieve the competitive advantage. The relevant pro...

in very recent papers asmild et al. (2003) and halved et al. (2004) based upon potential improvement efficiency index (bogetoft and hougaard,1999) have suggested an alternative nonparametric frontier approach namely multi-directional inefficiency analysis (mea) to estimate the performance efficiency. mea has many advantages over data envelopment analysis (dea) as the standard nonparametric fron...

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