To describe the response of engineering complex systems to various damage mechanics, engineers have traditionally use number-valued utilities to describe the results of diierent possible outcomes, and (number-valued) probabilities (often, subjective probabilities) to describe the relative frequency of diierent outcomes. This description is based on the assumption that experts can always make a ...

WORKSHOP/CONSULTANCY PROPOSAL RATIONALE In the face of globalization, changing economic realities, demographic shifts, and religious pluralization, increasing awareness regarding religion in the workplace is proving to be vital in creating a harmonious professional environment. This field of study and diversity training is attracting growing interest from academics, management scholars, human r...

We examine the notion of "unrelatedness" in a probabilistic framework. Three formulations are presented. In the first formulation, two variables a and b are totally independent with respect to a set of variables U if they are independent given any value of the variables in U. In the second formu­ lation, two variables are totally uncoupled if U can be partitioned into two marginally independent...

models of distance and online learning from an international perspective and from the point of view of planning, costing, management, and decision making. Chapters are written by different experts working in the field. For those not familiar with costing and distance education it provides a valuable introduction to the different facets of handling the economic aspects of distance education and ...

In the greenhouse environment, application of complex event processing (CEP) technology can effectively tackle problem recognition patterns that appeared in conditions. existing research, few scholars have proposed a scheme to integrate complicated scenes within environment with high efficiency, convenience, and low coupling. Therefore, order solve hard fusion based on characteristics greenhous...

Critical cultural awareness as a component of intercultural competence (Byram, 1997, 2012) has received the extensive attention of scholars in the fields of language teaching, cultural studies, ethnic studies, gender studies, communication studies, etc. in the recent decades. However, no instrument has ever been developed to assess this construct among Iranian EFL teachers. To fill this gap, in...