This paper presents a research work in the domains of sequential pattern mining and formal concept analysis. Using a combined method, we show how concept lattices and interestingness measures such as stability can improve the task of discovering knowledge in symbolic sequential data. We give example of a real medical application to illustrate how this approach can be useful to discover patterns...

This study examines the efficiency of 12 Taiwanese laptop manufacturers in 2002. This work demonstrates the feasibility of adopting Data Envelopment Analysis (DEA) to identify individual manufacturing firms that are less efficient than other ones. Efficiency is measured in terms of output variables relative to input variables. For those efficient laptop manufacturers lacking of productivity, th...

the infrastructures used for knowledge management in universities are important. nowadays, higher education institutions must be innovative and have appropriate capacity to change as well as adapting with constantly changing external conditions. therefore, the aim of the present study is to assess the relationship between infrastructures and organizational change capacity (occ) and study their ...

introduction: today, breast cancer is one of the most common causes of mortality and morbidty and also the leading health concern of the world. methods: this research was a descriptive study entitled knowledge, attitude and practice regarding prevention of breast cancer in working women of chaloos city. the sample size of study included 612 women working in governmental centers. the instrument ...

Background and Aim: Physical activity and nutrition are important topics in adolescent health. This study aimed to determine the predictors of nutritional knowledge, behaviors, and physical activity in fifth-grade elementary school female students Materials and Methods: This cross-sectional descriptive-analytical study was performed on 480 female students in the fifth grade of the elementary ...

First developed by Xerox in 1979, benchmarking provides measurement and comparison to improve processes and achieve higher performance. Benchmarking has proven a powerful tool for total quality management and process improvement. Successful benchmarking implementation is based on an effective benchmarking tool. To effectively implement benchmarking processes, this work proposes an integrated fr...

This paper investigates the influence of organizational knowledge resource and learning capacity on the assimilation of information technology in small business context. We propose that in small business context organizational assimilation of new technology is dependent on the top executives’ decision to adopt the technology, which in turn is affected by their attitudes toward the technology. A...

Understanding intent underlying search query recently attracted enormous research interests. Two challenging issues are worth noting: First, words within query are usually ambiguous while query in most cases is too short to disambiguate. Second, ambiguity in some cases cannot be resolved according merely to the limited query context. It is thus demanded that the ambiguity be resolved/analyzed w...