AIMS There is a growing recognition of the ways in which culture and sport can contribute to wellbeing. A strong evidence base is needed to support innovative service development and a 3-year research programme is being undertaken to capture best evidence of wellbeing impacts and outcomes of cultural and sporting activities in order to inform UK policy and practice. This article provides an ove...

This paper presents the test results of running BBN's HARC spoken language system and DELPHI natural language understanding system on the ATIS benchmarks. We give a brief system overview, and review the major changes that have been made in Delphi since the last DARPA SLS workshop. We will briefly discuss the development and training process, and then present our test results and an analysis of ...

Much research has been devoted to the Delphi technique. However, very little substantive work has been done on the subject of Delphi accuracy. The purpose of this effort was to test the accuracy of Delphi vs the conference method in making long-range forecasts. College students were used to form Delphi and conference groups that predicted the point spreads of college football games far in advan...

Education needs assessment is one of the essential components of curriculum development. In this study, we aimed to assess the educational needs of general physicians for medical ethics. We conducted a three‐stage Delphi study of general physicians’ views on important ethical issues in their practice. In the item generation stage we retrieved 45 important educational items ...

Service Oriented Architecture (SOA) has become flavor du jour for many businesses. Seemingly, almost every company has implemented, is in the midst of implementing or is seriously considering a SOA project. A critical question many organizations are facing now is – what are the critical success factors for SOA implementations? This research aims to identify a list of factors relating to SOA imp...

Within the context of flux tube models, heavy quark fragmentation takes place through the breaking of flux tubes with the production of a (di)quarkanti(di)quark pair. It is found that the (di)quark produced are more likely to be found in an Lz = 0 state. This naturally leads to an supression of the polarization distribution parameters w3/2 and w̃1 for (D1,D ∗ 2) and (Λc1,Λ ∗ c1) production respe...

The characteristics of current society and the interest about citizenship education in the context of lifelong learning are essential for a study that aims to describe and understand the development of social and civic competence in the educational field. A Delphi study can make a proposal in which the social and civic competence is composed of 89 items organised into five areas: knowledge, ski...

The Internet changed from a pure information media to a distribution channel, challenging companies in measuring the performance of their online distribution channels. Multi-channel retailers are particularly concerned since they need to coordinate their efforts with traditional, offline retailing activities. The paper at hand presents a corresponding metrics system derived from literature and ...