the aim of this study was to determine the relationship between entrepreneurial personality characteristics and small and medium-sized sport enterprises start-up (smses). the methodology of this study was descriptive-correlation. population consisted of small and medium-sized sport enterprises (n=1500) and their owners and/or managers were randomly selected as the sample (n=258). for data colle...

OBJECTIVE To estimate the time elapsed between the onset of symptoms and the initiation of treatment of pulmonary tuberculosis among treatment-naïve patients with positive results in sputum smear microscopy, and to evaluate the variables associated with delays in diagnosis and in treatment initiation. METHODS This was a descriptive exploratory study involving 199 treatment-naïve tuberculosis ...

Due to vast variations of extrinsic and intrinsic imaging conditions, face recognition remained to be a challenging computer vision problem even today. This is particularly true when the passive imaging approach is considered for robust applications. To advance existing recognition systems for face, numerous techniques and methods have been proposed to overcome the almost inevitable performance...

1 The work described in this paper was coordinated by the Consortium for Electric Reliability Technology Solutions on behalf of the Department of Energy. Abstract We examine the design of bid selection protocols and settlement rules in ancillary service markets. Such markets are typically operated by an independent system operator (ISO) for competitive procurement of reserves that are needed to...