This is a follow-up study of the 20 junior students admitted into an occupational therapy educational program under a selection process described in a previous article in AJOT in 1974. It reports the outcome resulting from the use of the selection process and t test findings between the upper ten ranked students and the remaining lower ranked students. Academic achievements and employment patte...

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Current methods to avoid overrtting are either data-oriented (using separate data for validation) or representation-oriented (penalizing complexity in the model). This paper proposes process-oriented evaluation, where a model's expected generalization error is computed as a function of the search process that led to it. The paper develops the necessary theoretical framework, and applies it to o...

This paper describes an expert system that helps designers select a manufacturing process in the early stage of product design. First, the paper focuses on net-shape manufacturing processes and identifies the major factors that affect the selection of an appropriate process. Examples of these factors include shape, production volume, and material. A versatile methodology should consider all the...

Abstract. The ancestral selection graph in population genetics introduced by Krone and Neuhauser (1997) is an analogue to the coalescent genealogy. The number of ancestral particles, backward in time, of a sample of genes is an ancestral process, which is a birth and death process with quadratic death and linear birth rate. In this paper an explicit form of the number of ancestral particle is o...

Vendor selection decisions are complicated by the fact that various conflicting multi-objective factors must be considered in the decision making process. The problem of vendor selection becomes still more compli-cated with the inclusion of incremental discount pricing schedule. Such hard combinatorial problems when solved using meta heuristics produce near optimal solutions. This paper propose...

A decision making process requires the values of conflicting objectives for alternatives and the selection of the best alternative according to the needs of decision makers. Multi-objective optimization methods may provide solution for this selection. In this paper it is aimed to present the laptop selection problem based on MOORA plus full multiplicative form (MULTIMOORA) and multi-objective o...

the accuracy of stereolithography (sl) product is very essential for meeting the intended functional applications. the parameters like layer thickness, hatch spacing, hatch overcure contribute significantly to the accuracy of the sl parts. in this paper an attempt has been made to identify the process parameters that influences on the accuracy of the parts made with ciba tool 5530 and optimize ...