Title of Dissertation: A PREDICTIVE MODEL OF NUCLEAR POWER PLANT CREW DECISION-MAKING AND PERFORMANCE IN A DYNAMIC SIMULATION ENVIRONMENT Kevin A. Coyne, Doctor of Philosophy, 2009 Dissertation directed by: Professor Ali Mosleh, Department of Mechanical Engineering The safe operation of complex systems such as nuclear power plants requires close coordination between the human operators and plan...

The study presented in this paper is based on two basic premises: first, that successful CI is dependent on shop floor level involvement and participant in improvement efforts; and secondly, that the term self-assessment clearly implies that those whose performance is being measured are involved in conducting the assessment process. Excerpts from a longitudinal case study in a Danish manufactur...

with regard to the importance of technological developments, senior enterprise managers should be aware of their organization's technological capabilities, changes and developments in the world, and also have information from their rivals' efforts in achieving new technologies, to be in line of their organization's technology developments. therefore a technological needs assessment model, is de...

This paper considers the Bayesian counterparts of the classical tests for goodness of t and their use in judging the t of a single Bayesian model to the observed data. We focus on posterior predictive assessment, in a framework that also includes conditioning on ancillary statistics. The Bayesian formulation facilitates the construction and calculation of a meaningful reference distribution not...

many patients fear about neurological disorders because of mistrust to their judgments. reality is that neurological system is one of the simplest systems, but unfortunately we discuss about it in a form that induce fear to people. suppose that an old person hospitalized for cerebro-vascular accident (cva) and increased intracranial pressure (icp). results of your assessment can increase patien...

introduction: hospital portals, as the first virtual entry, play an important role in connecting people with hospital and also presenting hospital virtual services. the main purpose of this article was to suggest a conceptual model to improve tehran private hospital portals. the suggested model can be used by all the health portals that are in the same circumstances and all the health portals w...