This paper provides an extension of pathloss analysis in Urban, Rural and Semi-Urban environments in Oman. A new software package has been developed that incorporates modified propagation models and the proposition of radio frequency (RF) network design output for proper and efficient planning to be used by RF engineers for pathloss studies. The root-mean square error (RMSE) was calculated betw...

In the knowledge economy, a firm’s intellectual capital represents the only sustainable source of competitive advantage. Intellectual capital manifests itself, predominantly, in the individual and collective competencies of employees in organizations. Hence, the ability to learn and to manage learning becomes critical to the success of organizations. Firm’s adopting knowledge management initiat...

This work discusses an innovative methodology for deployment of service quality characteristics. Four groups of organizational features that may influence the quality of services are identified: human resource, technology, planning, and organizational relationships. A House of Service Quality (HOSQ) matrix is built to extract the desired improvement in the service quality characteristics and to...

Quality management is very important for many manufacturing industries. Process capability analysis has been widely applied in the field of quality control to monitor the performance of industrial processes. Hence, the lifetime performance indexC L is utilized to measure the performance of product, where L is the lower specification limit. This study constructs a Bayesian estimator of C L under...

BACKGROUND Forming specific health plans can help translate good intentions into action. Mobile text reminders can further enhance the effects of planning on behavior. OBJECTIVE Our aim was to explore the combined impact of a Web-based, fully automated planning tool and mobile text reminders on intention to change saturated fat intake, self-reported saturated fat intake, and portion size chan...