data envelopment analysis (dea) is a wide range of mathematical models that used for measuring the relative efficiency of a set of harmonic units whit similar inputs and outputs. this model calculates some different weight for input and output variables in each decision making model. this variation in similar weights caused some critiques to this method. from 1991 some linear and nonlinear mode...

Cognitive Work Analysis (CWA) is a conceptual framework that makes it possible to analyze the forces that shape human-information interaction. This analysis can then be directly transformed to design requirements for information systems. Its approach is work-centered, rather than usercentered, and it analyzes the constraints and goals that shape information behavior in the work place, regardles...

PURPOSE Performance analysis (PA) in football is considered to be an integral component of understanding the requirements for optimal performance. Despite vast amounts of research in this area key gaps remain, including what comprises PA in football, and methods to minimise research-practitioner gaps. The aim of this study was to develop a model of the football match system in order to better d...

A Bag-based Data Model with Global Conditions for Incomplete Information Akinari YAMAGUCHI†, Shougo SHIMIZU††, Yasunori ISHIHARA†, and Toru FUJIWARA† † Graduate School of Information Science and Technology, Osaka University 1–5 Yamadaoka, Suita, Osaka, 565–0871 Japan †† Department of Computer and Media Technologies, Hiroshima City University 3–4–1 Ozuka-higashi, Asaminami-ku, Hiroshima, 731–319...

Moore's autoepistemic logic AEL proved to be a very successful approach to formalizing non-monotonic reasoning and logic programming. However, AEL also has some important drawbacks, e.g., quite \reasonable" theories are often inconsistent in AEL, it does not always lead to the expected, intended semantics and it cannot be eeectively computed even for very simple classes of theories. In this pap...

Direct experimentation with chemical warfare agents (CWA) to study important problems such as their permeation across protective barrier materials, decontamination of equipment and facilities, or the environmental transport and fate of CWAs is not feasible because of the obvious toxicity of the CWAs and associated restrictions on their laboratory use. The common practice is to use "simulants," ...

Cognitive Work Analysis (CWA) is a methodology for analyzing complex socio-technical systems. It aims to structure system information in a manner that is meaningful for human control and interaction. The Abstraction Decomposition Space (ADS) in an important tool used during the first phase of CWA to describe the work domain. In this paper we create an ADS for a Semiconductor Fabrication Plant (...

Ami is an autolytic amidase from Listeria monocytogenes that is targeted to the bacterial surface via its C-terminal cell wall anchoring (CWA) domain. We recently showed that the CWA domain from Ami of L. monocytogenes EGD (serovar 1/2a) (Ami 1/2a) mediated bacterial binding to mammalian cells. Here we studied the sequence and binding properties of Ami from CHUT 82337 (serovar 4b) (Ami 4b). The...

The respiratory protection against chemical warfare agents (CWA) has become a worldwide security concern in light of the many recent international threats utilising CWA. Till date the carbon filtration was adequate to protect the soldiers from the threats of CWA. With the advent of further advancements in the CWA a new threat is looming large that is known as the carbon breakers. pressure swing...