Strategic decisions, almost by definition, are risk-based decisions under the veil of uncertainty, or even ignorance, combining both a "fuzzy" problem domain and an ill-defined payoff structure. In such cases of ill-defined problems the decision maker's underlying attitudes and propensity towards risk will influence the evaluation and subsequent selection of a solution (Shapira, 1998). Decision...

INTRODUCTION Electronic medical record system (EMRS) is a valuable system for safe access to the patient's data and increases health care quality. Manpower is one of the requirements for EMRS, among which manager is the most important person in any hospital. Taking into account manager's positive attitude and good commitments, EMRS will be implemented successfully. As such, we decided to assess...

In this study, a dynamic field theory (DFT) based cognitive model of a pilot performing pitch attitude control of a 3 degree of freedom aircraft model is presented. The cognitive model is validated by comparing the pilot model’s pitch attitude hold performance with real flight test results of a human pilot on a real aircraft. A high degree of similarity was observed between the behaviour of the...

background: in spite of the pivotal role of clinical governance in enhancing quality of services provided by hospitals across the country, a scientific framework with specific criteria for evaluating hospitals has not been developed so far. objectives: this study was conducted with the aim to identify the challenges involved in evaluating systems of clinical governance in iran. materials and me...

Human computation and crowdsourcing are increasingly gaining momentum. Many platforms already exist providing basic features for crowdsourcing different types of tasks to the Web. Service Oriented Architectures (SOA) provide the ideal technical framework to support interactions with both Human-Provided Services (HPS) and Software-Based Services (SBS). A unified service-oriented computing approa...

Background – Organizational entrepreneurship is one of the solutions used to maintain existence and sustainability an organization oriented towards community empowerment in Indonesia. Aim This study aims analyze effect human resource competence using Spencer model on organizational entrepreneurship. Design / methodology approach The research respondents were all 35 female partners at BUANA. Col...

Efficient motion estimation is central to observing and controlling dynamic legged locomotion. This paper considers a screw-theoretic (line-oriented) representation for this context and illustrates this on the attitude estimation subproblem. This is presented as part of an Extended Kalman Filter (EKF) based on inertial (gyroscopic) sensing in which each measurement axis is treated as an zeropit...

Printed books have long been an important means for people to obtain knowledge; nevertheless, educators have pointed out problems of learning from some printed books, in particular, the lack of learning supports, such as supplementary materials and learning guiding tools. In this study, a concept map-oriented ubiquitous learning approach is proposed for supporting printed science book reading a...

To competently deal with changes in the health care system, health professionals for the future must have expanded abilities and new attitudes. Education of health professionals for community-oriented health care (COHC) is being promoted as one approach to achieve this focus. This article reports on the development and testing of the Community-Oriented Health Care Competency Scale, which measur...

Received: 12 July 2000 Revised: 20 August 2001 : 30 July 2002 Accepted: 15 October 2002 Abstract This paper explores factors that influence consumer’s intentions to purchase online at an electronic commerce website. Specifically, we investigate online purchase intention using two different perspectives: a technology-oriented perspective and a trust-oriented perspective. We summarise and review ...