In distributed computing systems, a critical concern is to efficiently partition and schedule the tasks among available processors in such a way that the overall processing time of the submitted tasks is at a minimum. On a network of workstations, using parallel virtual machine communication library, we conducted distributed image-processing experiments following two different scheduling and pa...

The current study tested the hypothesis that attention mediates the impact of psychological disturbances (i.e. depression, loss of self-control, and bizarre thinking) on immediate memory. A hypothesized model, in which psychological disturbances indirectly impacted immediate memory via attention, was tested using structural equations modeling (EQS). The participants included heterogeneous group...

BACKGROUND Patients' satisfaction is an important indicator for quality of care. Measuring healthcare quality and improving patient satisfaction have become increasingly prevalent, especially among healthcare providers and purchasers of healthcare. This is mainly due to the fact that consumers are becoming increasingly more knowledgeable about healthcare. No studies of inpatients' satisfaction ...

A customer’s intention of reusing an e-commerce website for shopping has a great consequence for the website’s profitability; therefore, understanding the factors that influence a Web-customer’s reuse intention is of great importance to e-commerce. This study examines the influencing factors by constructing an integrated model with the Motivation Hub and the Expectancy Disconfirmation Theory, a...

The occurrence and temporal variation of selected priority substances contaminants emerging concerns, i.e., eleven perfluorinated compounds (PFCs, belonging to perfluorosulphonates, perfluorocarboxylic acids, sulphonamides) have been investigated in composite surface water samples the Danube River at upstream downstream locations from discharge point wastewater. Among analyzed compounds, six PF...

Evolving research has increasingly recognized the crucial role of workers’ well-being in contributing to organizational effectiveness and survival, also studying different factors that can influence it. This paper explores how construct living working together organizations (LWTO) face two current challenges terms well-being: 1. keeping a balance between performance quality life; 2. managing re...

Enhanced silicate weathering (ESW) by spreading finely ground rock along the coastal zone to remove atmospheric carbon dioxide (CO2) is a proposed climate change mitigation technique. The abundant and fast-dissolving mineral olivine has received most attention for this application. However, contains nickel (Ni) chromium (Cr), which may pose risk marine biota during gigaton-scale ESW Herein we d...

There has been enormous progress in the field of electromagnetic phenomena associated with earthquakes (EQs) and EQ prediction during last three decades, it is recently agreed that effects do appear prior to an EQ. A few are well recognized as being statistically correlated EQs promising candidates for short-term predictors: first ionospheric perturbation not only lower ionosphere seen by subio...