A randomized trial involving 1,351 new Medicare enrollees was conducted to assess the efficacy of a transtheoretical model (TTM) based manual and multimedia expert system program that delivered guidance and feedback matched to individual stage of readiness to compare Medicare health plans. At 6 months post-intervention, compared to enrollees in the control group, those receiving the manual plus...

land is one of the most important effective factors in production in agricultural sector. existence of small owners units due to the lack of effective use of technology, machinery and agricultural production tools are restricting factors for profiting and yielding in agricultural sector. the purpose of this study was prioritizing the preventive factors of extension of land consolidation plan in...

Cloud-based software has many advantages. When services are divided into independent components, they easier to update. Also, during peak demand, it is scale cloud (just hire more CPUs). Hence, organizations partitioning their monolithic enterprise applications cloud-based microservices. Recently there been much work using machine learning simplify this task. Despite research, no single method ...

The importance of metric measures has been recognized in almost every scientific and engineering discipline, including software engineering where much progress in this application has been made. In this paper, metric measures are studied for their application to expert systems, for which little work has been done. The characteristics and organization of metric measures are discussed and present...