Indicators and benchmarks are key elements of evidence-based policy making and the monitoring of progress of the Lisbon process. There is a rapidly increasing interest in getting internationally comparable data at national and international levels. Recent development in education and training has increased the demand for indicators and especially in order to measure skills and competences. For ...

Based on BP neural network model, this paper aims at evaluating the performance of cold chain logistics of agriculture products. This paper analyses on the basis of the fresh business' current situation of cold chain logistics, sums up the bottleneck of China's cold chain logistics of agriculture products operation, provides competitive and practical fresh electric cold chain distribution mode ...

APRIL 2003 AMERICAN METEOROLOGICAL SOCIETY | T he use of data to evaluate models is fundamental to science. Ideally, evaluations can be controlled and optimized in the laboratory; in most cases, however, atmospheric scientists have to perform model–data intercomparisons by taking advantage of the uncontrolled opportunities that nature provides. A model-evaluation project is complicated in at le...

Future mobile networks will exploit unlicensed spectrum to boost capacity and meet growing user demands costeffectively. The 3GPP has recently defined a Licensed-Assisted Access (LAA) scheme to enable global Unlicensed LTE (U-LTE) deployment, aiming at (i) ensuring fair coexistence with incumbent WiFi networks, i.e., impacting on their performance no more than another WiFi device, and (ii) achi...

This paper describes the Smart Operation of Networked Appliances (SONA) system which realizes the autonomous and asynchronous operation of networked appliances by using mobile agents. In SONA system, the mobile agents operate networked appliances in place of user’s direct manipulation. Existing appliances operation systems such as remote controllers require users to input their demands synchron...

A partial evaluator is said to be Jones-optimal if the result of specializing a self-interpreter with respect to a source program is textually identical to the source program, modulo renaming. Jones optimality has already been obtained if the self-interpreter is untyped. If the selfinterpreter is typed, however, residual programs are cluttered with type tags. To obtain the original source progr...

A random sample of 119 young, healthy Han Chinese adults (56 men and 63 women) between the age of 18 and 25 years (mean, 22.7 y) in PR China was obtained for this study. By the guidance of standard methods, based on Farkas's anthropometric measurements in craniofacial region, 12 nasal soft tissue landmarks and 12 linear and 3 angular measurements were chosen. The linear measurements were taken ...

We study a notion of bounded stable biorder, showing that the monotone and stable functions on such biorders are sequential. We construct bounded biorder models of a range of sequential, higher-order functional calculi, including unary PCF, (typed and untyped) call-by-value and lazy λ-calculi, and non-deterministic SPCF. We prove universality and full abstraction results for these models by red...

Testing is vital for nowadays electronic systems. The related testing process consists in applying tests and verifying the obtained results. This should be performed without stopping the system under which useful applications are running. In this work, an on-line testing approach which allows tests to be applied in situ without any system perturbation is proposed. Using, optical probes fault ef...

OBJECTIVE To investigate the effect of immigration on life expectancy in Australia for the period from 1981 to 2003, and to compare life expectancy of the Australian-born population with that of other countries in the Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD). METHODS Standard life-table methods using age-specific all-cause mortality and population data from 1981 to 2003 we...