This review paper presents an overview of the current state of the art in Problem Solving Environments (PSE). PSE provides integrated human-friendly innovative computational services and facilities for easy incorporation of novel solution methods to solve a target class of problems. PSE is an innovative concept to enrich our e-Science, e-Life, e-Engineering, e-Production, e-Commerce, eHome, etc...

This paper focuses on the management of the requirements engineering process and on the contributions a process supporting environment (PSE) can provide to perform this task. We use the key practices defined by the capability maturity model for software (CMM), one of the most prominent software process improvement approaches, as a requirements management scenario. For each activity proposed by ...

government, support policies with regard to egg producers and consumers were investigated for a set of four (1st to 4th) economic, social, and cultural development plans (1989 - 2008).the supports regarding egg production were estimated through producers and consumers support estimate indicators (pse & cse respectively). the results indicated, that support of producers in the first, third and f...

Objective: To analyze the long-term relationship of two groups agricultural policy instruments classifiedby OECD-Producer Support Estimator (PSE) and General Services (GSSE)-OECDclassification on Agricultural Gross Domestic Product (AGDP) in Mexico, USA, Canada, Chile Brazilduring period 1995-2020, to generate information that contributes design policies.Design/Methodology/Approach: The used th...

Network-based learning or e-Learning has been taking an important role in education as helpful education tools. However, it is difficult for teachers to retrieve education data from students or to obtain data from the student activities. Therefore, we have developed a problem solving environment (PSE) for the education and learning support: TSUNA-TASTE. The TSUNA-TASTE system collects the syste...

BACKGROUND The evidence strongly links parental self-efficacy (PSE) to parenting behaviors and child health outcomes. PURPOSE The purpose of this article is to apply the social ecological model to the exploration of contextual factors that influence PSE for parents recovering from substance use disorders (SUDs). METHODS An integrative review of the literature was conducted on PSE, parenting...

The role of the Internet is about to change again. After the hype of web portals we look forward to an Internet in which networked services dominate. Already today we can find services on the Internet in a large number of different categories: communication, on-line shopping, entertainment, enterprise services to mention only a few. However, problems with the currently prevailing infrastructure...

O objetivo do estudo é estimar os efeitos dos subsídios de apoio interno países terceiros sobre as exportações agrícolas brasileiras. contribui com a literatura existente ao aplicar conjunto dados fornecidos pela Organização para Cooperação e Desenvolvimento Econômico (OCDE) diferentes níveis desagregação governamental. modelo gravitacional aplicado fluxos agregados desagregados por produtos br...

According to sociometer theory, self-esteem is an internal monitor of positive social bonds to others. Social exclusion can break or threaten social bonds, which might be reflected by the brain structure of social exclusion regions. Thus, self-esteem might be influenced by structurally individual differences in these regions. It has been suggested that self-esteem can be divided into personal (...