female heads of households are responsible for the material and spiritual needs of the families because of a deceased, missing, separated, divorced, addicted, disabled (permanent or temporary), imprisonment, ill or military deployed male head of households. survey research was employed in the study. the target population includes rural women heads of households razan city. following cochran’s f...

CONTEXT The field of public health faces multiple challenges in its efforts to recruit and retain a robust workforce. Public health departments offer salaries that are lower than the private sector, and government bureaucracy can be a deterrent for those seeking to make a difference. OBJECTIVE The objective of this research was to explore the relationship between general employee satisfaction...

In this paper, we propose a framework for real time monitoring and diagnosis of automated vehicles in an IVHS. The supervisory control methodology proposed here is concerned with fault detection, fault isolation, and control reconfiguration of the many sensors, actuators and controllers that are used in the control process. This supervisory control architecture operates at two levels of the AVC...

Cultivation of an active cognitive lifestyle, including diverse and challenging educational, occupational and cognitively-loaded leisure activities may be protective against development of dementia but the mechanisms underlying this link are not clear. We used the Lifetime Experiences Questionnaire (LEQ) to assess the structural brain correlates of cognitive lifestyle in the Sydney Memory and A...

Over the past 30 years, a great deal of research has investigated the potential usefulness of early warning models as offsite supervisory tools. Accurate offsite models allow bank supervisors to identify high-risk banks at a reasonable length of time prior to marked deterioration in their financial condition, without the use of expensive, time-consuming on-site examinations. This allows scarce ...

Lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender (LGBT) individuals in U.S. workplaces often face disadvantages in pay, promotion, and inclusion and emergent research suggests that these disadvantages may be particularly pernicious within science and engineering environments. However, no research has systematically examined whether LGBT employees indeed encounter disadvantages in science, technology, en...

In reinforcement learning (RL), rewards have been considered the most important channel for understanding an environment’s dynamics and have been very effectively used as a feedback mechanism. However, recently there have been interesting forays into other modes of understanding the environment. Using sporadic supervisory inputs is one such alternative. This brings into the learning process ric...

We have discussed technical issues regarding supervised world perception modeling and task planning of cooperative mobile robots performing tactical tasks in unstructured environment. We have introduced a hierarchy Supervisory Controller for robust cooperative task deployment of heterogeneous semiautonomous robotic vehicles. Primarily, we have described functional and modular architecture of th...

It is well known that the nonblocking supervisory control problem is NP-hard, subject in particular to state space explosion that is exponential in the number of system components. In this paper we propose to manage complexity by organizing the system as a State Tree Structure (STS). STS are an adaptation of state charts to supervisory control theory. Based on STS we present an efficient recurs...