Analysis of population health data is crucial for the success of population health. Secondary analysis of data contained in publicly available clinical, administrative, and national health survey databases is a cost-effective and scientific method for generating data to support population health. There are several issues associated with secondary analysis of population health data that must be ...

Current discussions within the standardization process of Learning Technology are mainly focused on economical opportunities and technical aspects of so called learning objects. Surprisingly little discussion is about instructional or didactical issues. The purpose of this paper is to conceptualize a didactical taxonomy of learning objects and a didactical metadata approach for the facilitation...

This paper presents a dynamic multi-objective model for distribution network expansion, considering the distributed generations as non-wire solutions. The proposed model simultaneously optimizes two objectives namely, total costs and technical constraint satisfaction by finding the optimal schemes of sizing, placement and specially the dynamics (i.e., timing) of investments on DG units and/or n...

building construction challenge, in recent years, is the reduction of social, economical and environmentalimpacts along with economical nature and increasing life quality, as here sustainable construction is important. pre-fabrication and industrialization are referred as a solution of sustainable construction due to some of its main characteristics consisting of many sustainability aspects. du...

Cloud Computing is being adopted by many companies because of its capacity to use computing and storage resources on a metered basis thereby reducing the investments in infrastructure. With all its benefits, cloud computing also brings along concerns about the security, privacy and jurisdiction because of its size, structure, and geographical dispersion. This paper tries to explore these concer...

According to the ‘mating intelligence’ theory by evolutionary psychologist Geoffrey Miller, human morality is a system of sexually selected traits which serve as costly signals to the other sex about one’s fitness and readiness to take care for possible offspring. Starting from the standard prediction of evolutionary psychology that sexual selection produces psychological sex differences in hum...