There are many reasons to evaluate the goodness of search engines. We take a quick look at some measures of goodness used today, and list requirements for an additional metric that goes beyond these. We present the Search Experience Satisfaction (SES) metric as a vital addition, filling an evaluation niche, to be used along with result-quality methods (which provide a basic goodness measure) an...

Model predictive control (MPC) is a well-known control technique, which has been applied to complex and nonlinear processes. In order to incorporate fuzzy goals and constraints in model predictive control, MPC have recently been integrated with fuzzy decision making. Conventionally, the fuzzy optimization problem in such a setting is defined as the simultaneous satisfaction of the constraints a...

This study focuses on the middle school students in the Croatian region of Dalmatia. The survey was designed to examine adolescent eating behavior as it relates to body image and psychological well-being (self-esteem, life-satisfaction and stress) in relation to body mass index; BMI. Differences among participants in food intake were examined according to demographic variables and eating behavi...

In the present study we examined associations between young women’s romantic relationships and their body image. Ninety-five heterosexual couples (women’s mean age= 22.46 and men’s mean age= 24.38) participated in this study. We examined young women’s satisfaction with their own bodies, their perceptions of their significant others’ satisfaction with their bodies, and their significant others’ ...

In order to comprehensively evaluate the employee satisfaction of mine occupational health and safety management system, an analytic method based on fuzzy analytic hierarchy process and 2tuple linguistic model was established. Firstly, based on the establishment of 5 firstgrade indicators and 20 secondgrade ones, the weight of each indicator is calculated and validated by method of FAHP and roo...

This study explored how personality and cultural variables influence subjective well-being (SWB) in two different U.S. ethnic groups: Asian Americans and European Americans. Structural equation modeling analyses supported a hypothesized culture→ personality model of SWB, in which the cultural syndromes of individualism and collectivism predict variations on personality dispositions (Big Five), ...

HYPOTHESIS Outcome following laparoscopic adjustable gastric banding (LAGB) in super morbidly obese patients is significantly worse compared with the standard laparoscopic Roux-en-Y gastric bypass (LRYGB). DESIGN Prospective case series. SETTING Community teaching hospital (490 beds). PATIENTS A prospectively maintained database identified patients who underwent operative treatment for mo...