In the health services of the Western world, a search is under way to find effective and practical methods for assessing the performance of doctors. Regulators want to identify those doctors with unacceptable performance, educators want methods to guide their various interventions, and managers want information for monitoring and appraisal. Use of multisource feedback (sometimes called 360° fee...

Good heuristic solutions for large Multisource Weber problems can be obtained by solving related p median problems in which potential locations of the facilities are users locations and then solving Weber problems for the sets of users of each facility

There is no effective method to support IP level Internet wide multisource multicast sessions, that can be easily used from almost every ISP There are several protocols implementing the necessary functionality, but the penetration of them is really low recently. The most obvious work all-round is using SSM – Source Specific Multicasting, in which, the IP multicast session is identified by the m...

We present an intelligent system for satellite sea ice image analysis named ARKTOS (Advanced Reasoning using Knowledge for Typing Of Sea ice). The underlying methodology of ARKTOS is to perform fully automated analysis of sea ice images by mimicking the reasoning process of sea ice experts and photo-interpreters. Hence, our approach is feature-based, rule-based classification supported by multi...

The objective of this work is to analyze the economic viability a replacement energy supplied by grid during costly periods infrastructure owned consumer. study takes into account costs purchase, manage and operate structure set which option an affordable option. A statistical approach based on Monte Carlo Method distributes through 25 lifecycle period, establishing cash flow parameters for eac...

The Future Internet of things and services is not envisaged to be simply a faster way to go online. What is expected to fundamentally change the way that people use the Internet is the ability to produce, and seamlessly deliver and share their own multimedia content. In this paper, we introduce and analyse innovative architecture components to offer media scalable content delivery, increasing t...

Predictive modeling from high-dimensional genomic data is often preceded by a dimension reduction step, such as principal component analysis (PCA). However, the application of PCA is not straightforward for multisource data, wherein multiple sources of 'omics data measure different but related biological components. In this article, we use recent advances in the dimension reduction of multisour...

An understanding of jet noise source mechanisms can facilitate targeted noise reduction efforts. This understanding has been enhanced with acoustic imaging technologies, such as near-field acoustical holography (NAH). In this study, multisource statistically optimized NAH (M-SONAH) was used to image the sound field near a tethered F-35 aircraft at multiple frequencies. A linear microphone array...