Many workers are exposed to noise in their industrial environment. Excessive noise exposure can cause health problems and therefore it is important that the worker's noise exposure is assessed. This may require measurement by an equipment manufacturer or the employer. Human exposure to noise may be measured using microphones; however, weighting filters are required to correlate the physical noi...

According to the Guide to the Expression of Uncertainty in Measurement (GUM), a result of measurement consists of a measured value together with its associated standard uncertainty. The measured value and the standard uncertainty are interpreted as the expected value and the standard deviation of a state-of-knowledge probability distribution attributed to the measurand. We discuss the term metr...

Many teachers still use in-class multiple choice exams in their classes, the primary goal of which is to see how much the students have already learned. The assessment strategies we will examine in this paper change the focus from assessing whether students have learned anything to creating assessments which double as learning experiences themselves. Assessments do not have to merely measure wh...

Justice research has evolved by elucidating the factors that affect justice evaluations, as well as their consequences. Unfortunately, few researchers have paid attention to the pattern of rewards over time as a predictor of justice evaluations. There are two main objectives of this research. First, it aims to test the effect of reward stability on justice evaluations. Based on justice theory a...

BOLIVAR problem solving environment (PSE) is the multi-functional computational software for the researches and engineers who explore the extreme environmental conditions to design and build offshore structures and floating objects. It contains a set of computational modules of various methods for extreme analysis, and a set of modules for the stochastic and hydrodynamic simulation of metocean ...

This research examines how communication patterns within or between teams support problem solving in design and engineering projects. We compare four different perspectives for their effectiveness on performance: the heavyweight project manager perspective, the internal communication perspective, the external communication perspective and the gatekeeper perspective. We also propose that project...

Problem solving has received broad public interest as an important competency in modern societies. In educational large-scale assessments paper-pencil based analytical problem solving was included first (e.g., Programme for International Student Assessment, PISA 2003). With growing interest in more complex situations, the focus has shifted to interactive problem solving (e.g., PISA 2012) requir...

We propose to use the combinatorial assignment problem to model the issue of associating ground-truth and declared edge pixels in the objective empirical performance evaluation of edge detectors. The assignment problem is adapted to the maximal assignment problem to incorporate the need for tolerating certain amount of localization error for the detected ground-truth pixels. The solution to thi...

The Hough transform is a well-established scheme for detecting digital line components in a binary edge image. A key to its success in practice is the notion of voting on an accumulator array in the parameter plane. This paper discusses computational limitation of such voting-based schema under the constraint that all possible line components in a given image must be reported. Various improveme...