Abstr act. Traditional business intelligence has focused on creating dimensional models and data warehouses, where after a high modeling and creation cost structurally similar queries are processed on a regular basis. So called "ad-hoc" queries aggregate data from one or several dimensional models, but fail to incorporate other external information that is not considered in the pre-defined data...

Performance analysis in sport is used to investigate the performance of teams and players across different sports. Research within this area, especially when focussing on the determinants of success, has grown rapidly in the last few years. During this time, the role of a new concept, 'situational variables' has emerged. This term includes the different game and situational conditions that may ...

BACKGROUND Contemporary research suggests that task and ego achievement goal orientations affect students' intrinsic motivation in physical education. This research has assessed intrinsic motivation as a unidimensional contruct, however, which is inconsistent with the more contemporary postulates of self-determination theory (Deci & Ryan, 1985, 1991) which states that intrinsic motivation is on...

The ability to rapidly find potential business partners as well as rapidly set up a collaborative business process is desirable in the face of market turbulence. Collaborative business processes are increasingly dependent on the integration of business information systems. Traditional linking of business processes has a large ad hoc character. Implementing situational enterprise services in an ...

one of the methods of preventing crimes is ‘situational prevention’ that is to design environment, change physical conditions and with controlling of environment and crime opportunities decreases the rate of crime in the society. some of these ways concentrates on environmental changes, control of criminals and supporting weak victims and taking care of crime targets. since development of civil...

Method Engineering (ME) and Situational Method Engineering (SME) aim at providing effective solutions for building and supporting evolution of software and information systems development methods. For this purpose, method components are specified and composed into general-purpose development methods or situational methods, i.e., development methods that best fit the characteristics of a given p...

The aim of the conducted research was to identify and explain the differences in basic non-standard situational efficiency indicators between winning and defeated European senior basketball teams. Discriminant analysis and Mann-Whitney U-test were used with the purpose of investigating the differences between winning and defeated teams in the domain of basic non-standard situational variables. ...

“C2 and Agility” Experiments with the Combat CAS: Unifying Net-Enabled Teams Dr. Paul J. Hiniker Senior Operations Research DISA NECC Program 5275 Leesburg Pike Falls Church, VA 22041 (703) 882 1785 [email protected] (HINIKER REVISED DRAFT 3/30/09, 14 ICCRTS PAPER #084) Abstract This paper summarizes the results of a series of controlled Human-In-The-Loop experiments with teams of distribut...

OBJECTIVE Renewed focus on public health has brought about considerable interest in workforce development among public health nutrition professionals in Canada. The present article describes a situational assessment of public health nutrition practice in Canada that will be used to guide future workforce development efforts. METHODS A situational assessment is a planning approach that conside...