background in this article, we analyze one case instance of how proposals for change to the priority setting and resource allocation (psra) processes at a canadian healthcare institution reached the decision agenda of the organization’s senior leadership. we adopt key concepts from an established policy studies framework – kingdon’s multiple streams theory – to inform our analysis.   methods tw...

Management of computing infrastructure in data centers is an important and challenging problem, that needs to: i) ensure availability of services conforming to the Service Level Agreements (SLAs); and ii) reduce the Power Usage Efficiency (PUE), i.e. the ratio of total power, up to half of which is attributed to data center cooling, over the computing power to service the workloads. The cooling...

This paper studies the problem of transposition and time-scale invariant (ttsi) polyphonic music retrieval in symbolically encoded music. In the setting, music is represented by sets of points in plane. We give two new algorithms. Applying a search window of size w and given a query point set, of size m, to be searched for in a database point set, of size n, our algorithm for exact ttsi occurre...

A new variable-width window is presented and compared with several other windows, both of variable and fixed widths. The comparison focuses on sensitivity and dynamic range. The equivalent noise bandwidth or ENBW (or rather, its reciprocal) is used as a proxy for the first; maximum sidelobe level and high-frequency roll-off in the Fourier transform, for the second. The new window can access any...

Accurate binary classification of electroencephalography (EEG) signals is a challenging task for the development motor imagery (MI) brain–computer interface (BCI) systems. In this study, two sliding window techniques are proposed to enhance MI. The first one calculates longest consecutive repetition (LCR) sequence prediction all windows and named SW-LCR. second mode SW-Mode. Common spatial patt...

Despite ongoing concern about substance use during adolescence, very little is known about alcohol and drug use among teens living in affluent social settings. In this longitudinal study, cluster analysis was used to characterize patterns of substance use and change in other dimensions of psychosocial adjustment within a cohort of 292 high school students (54% girls) living in an affluent, subu...

Introduction: In today's world, having principle and targeted management is one of the progress and development factors of any organization. Effective use of time for each manager is the most important base for managing current affairs and controlling daily activities. The present study aimed to investigate and analyze the relationship between factors affecting time management ...