Purpose – This article aims to treat contemporary economic development from a regional and European perspective. Design/methodology/approach – The article applies a French prospective (foresight) approach to the issues of employment, decentralization, and privatization as an antidote to the usual discussions of governance and globalization. Findings – The article stresses the need for simple, a...

Introduction Stress-vulnerability models of schizophrenia have long suggested that multiple confluent variables influence disease outcome, including individual vulnerability and environmental factors (Nuechterlein & Dawson 1984). In general, people with schizophrenia tend to employ poor problem-solving strategies, are more likely to adopt passive coping styles, tend to use fewer types of coping...

In this paper, a classifier based on the positive Boolean function(PBF) is proposed for the supervised pattern classification. A PBF is exactly represented as one sum-of-product form without any negative components. The PBF possesses the well-known threshold decomposition and stacking properties. The classification errors can be calculated from the summation of the absolute errors incurred at e...

Yet, the few existing models considering learning effects in scheduling concentrate on learning-by-doing (autonomous learning). But recent contributions to the literature on learning in manufacturing organizations emphasize the important impact of proactive investments in technological knowledge on the learning rate (induced learning). In the present paper, we focus on a scheduling problem wher...

This report is an overview of the medication safety studies conducted by the VISN (Veterans Integrated Service Network) 8 Patient Safety Center of Inquiry (PSCI), Tampa, FL, over the past 5 years. The Center has been developing the research capacity to conduct national Veterans Health Administration (VHA) proactive medication safety surveillance studies as part of its research focus on patient ...

Over the internet, user profiling is one of the key activity in which user is asked to provide personal as well as professional information. The user is not aware about the misuse of profiling. It has been observed that user choose password from his/her profile unintentionally which create serious problem. The password has been taken from small domain which enables hackers to crack credentials ...