in recent years, the advancement of information and communication technologies and particularly rapid changes of mobile technologies lead to new applications and services. furthermore, the possibility of mobile service delivery will change its current applications. therefore, it is important to identify the user’s acceptance of mobile services; thus, it is necessary to determine the effective a...

We characterize a family of proposal-refusal school choice mechanisms, including the Boston, Shanghai, and Deferred Acceptance (DA) mechanisms as special cases. Moving from one extreme member towards the other results in a systematic change in the incentive properties and nested Nash equilibria. In the laboratory, the proportion of truth-telling follows DA > Shanghai > Boston. While DA is signi...

Previous work on the Daily Car-Pooling problem includes an algorithm that consists of greedy assignment alternating with random perturbation. In this study, we examine the effect of varying the move acceptance policy, specifically Late-acceptance criteria with and without reheating. Late acceptance-based move acceptance criteria were chosen because there is strong empirical evidence in the lite...

All the ITER superconductors are tested as short length samples in the SULTAN test facility at CRPP. Eighteen TF conductor samples with small layout variations were tested since February 2007 with the aim of verification of the design and qualification of the manufacturers. The sample assembly and the measurement techniques at CRPP are discussed. Starting in 2010, another test facility for ITER...

The idea of fully accepting statements when the evidence has rendered them probable enough faces a number of difficulties. We leave the interpretation of probability largely open, but attempt to suggest a contextual ap­ proach to full belief. We show that the dif­ ficulties of probabilistic acceptance are not as severe as they are sometimes painted, and that though there are oddities associ­ at...

body image and its social acceptance, an experimental study among female students of payam noor university, tehranabstract:nowadays body is a context for the rise of identity on the one hand, and it is a mediator for the regulation of relations and establishment of social interaction on the other hand. therefore their image of body and its social acceptance and also their perception of ideal bo...

Rejection sampling is a well-known method to generate random samples from arbitrary target probability distributions. It demands the design of a suitable proposal probability density function (pdf) from which candidate samples can be drawn. These samples are either accepted or rejected depending on a test involving the ratio of the target and proposal densities. The adaptive rejection sampling ...

The study seeks to highlight the key variables affecting usage of e-government by internal users of Indian Central Excise. An e-government acceptance model is developed and empirically tested using the 163 usable questionnaire responses from internal users of the Indian Central Excise. A priority of the variables is set by calculating the “total effect” of each variable on “intention to use e-g...

the acceptance of the right project which leads to the realization of the set objectives is one of the most important issues in project-oriented companies. therefore, corporate managers prefer to work on those projects which ensures the achievement of goals such as increasing financial profits or being the top brands in their rivals market. the present  research aimed at introducing  a systemat...

the acceptance of the right project which leads to the realization of the set objectives is one of the most important issues in project-oriented companies. therefore, corporate managers prefer to work on those projects which ensures the achievement of goals such as increasing financial profits or being the top brands in their rivals market. the present  research aimed at introducing  a systemat...