Every company that has employees working on irregular schedules must deal with the difficult and time consuming problem of creating feasible schedules for the employees. We introduce an algorithm that takes a partial schedule created by requests from employees and creates feasible schedule where most of the employee’s requests are unchanged, while still making sure that rules and regulations ar...

Reinforcement schedules are considered in relation to applied behavior analysis by examining several recent laboratory experiments with humans and other animals. The experiments are drawn from three areas of contemporary schedule research: behavioral history effects on schedule performance, the role of instructions in schedule performance of humans, and dynamic schedules of reinforcement. All o...

Three key research questions are identified and analyzed in this article. First is an investigation of whether Medicare already pays physicians using de facto fee schedules. Evidence from South Carolina suggests not. Second is an evaluation of the physician procedures and specialties likely to be affected by imposition of a Medicare fee schedule. Medical visits are identified as especially susc...

this study aimed at investigating the effect of blocked, incremental systematic and random contextual interferences on acquisition, retention and transfer of volleyball skills based on changes in a generalized motor program. in fact, this study was conducted to answer this question that whether regular increment of contextual interference level is more effective on learning volleyball service s...

Feedback has a strong influence on effective learning from computer-based instruction. Prior research on feedback in computer-based instruction has mainly focused on static feedback schedules that employ the same feedback schedule through an instructional session. This study examined transitional feedback schedules in computer-based multimedia instruction on procedural problem-solving in electr...

Under the new fee schedule, Medicare physician fees are 76 percent of private fees. Consistent with the intent of payment reform, Medicare physician fees more closely approximate private fees for visits (93 percent) than for surgery (51 percent) and in rural areas as compared with large metropolitan areas. Variation in private fees across the country is considerably greater than it is for Medic...

semiconducting carbon nanofibers (cnf) are prepared from three different sources, i.e., acetylene, ethanol, and cotton by the chemical vapor deposition (cvd) process. these fibers are having rich elastic, engineering and conductivity properties. fresh self-compacting concrete (scc) flows into place and around obstructions under its own weight to fill the formwork completely and self-compact, wi...

The aim of this study is to analyze the effect different schedules repeated reading practice on intentional vocabulary learning, and constitutes a partial replication extension aut...