Misalignment of educational and career goals (i.e., educational aspirations expressed are inadequate for attaining one's desired occupation) is associated with lower educational attainment and a lack of college readiness, and may contribute to persistent educational and employment disparities. Drawing on data from 249 sixth graders in low-income schools, this research examines misalignment betw...

The main goal of this work is to propose a method to evaluate user interfaces using task models and logs generated from a user test of an application. The method can be incorporated into an automatic tool which gives the designer information useful to evaluate and improve the user interface. These results include an analysis of the tasks which have been accomplished, those which failed and thos...

to preserve wildlife habitats and populations, it is normal practice to select representative natural areas. the aim of this research is prioritization of candidate sites for environmental protection in mazandaran province. for this purpose, 26 forest cover types, habitats of 8 mammal species and important distribution areas for 4 groups of birds were used as input criteria. simulated annealing...

Decision support systems (DSSs) are increasingly common in forest and wildfire planning management the United States. Recent policy direction frameworks call for collaborative assessment of risk to inform fuels treatment prioritization using best available science. There numerous DSSs applicable planning, which can timely relevant information decision making, but use adoption these is inconsist...

In the last 30 years, China has achieved high economic growth and successfully transformed its economy from a planned economy to a market-based system. The country, to a large extent, has attained success through the recommendations proposed by standard economic theory. However, the role of political economy has been omitted from the literature: how did China adopt the right economic policies a...

each year many large scale national projects face execution problems. in this regard, riskmanagement can play a significant role in identifying and taking proper measures. in this research,using project management body of knowledge (pmbok), a risk management procedure has beendesigned and implemented in transmission and high distribution power lines of khorasan regionalelectric company. first, ...

The dominant American social movement scholarship has become detached from the concerns of actual social movements. But the dramatic growth of social movement activity in recent years, especially the global justice movement, is creating the conditions for an emerging new direction in social movement scholarship which prioritizes the relevance of such work to the movements themselves. A problem ...

Software development now relies heavily on agile methods, which call for the efficient administration and prioritization of change requests. In order to improve requirement using Analytic Hierarchy Process (AHP) in Agile this study article presents a new framework classifying software requirements into Small Change Requests (SCRs) Large (LCRs). The paper examines difficulties associated with ca...

Background Networks have been proven effective representations for the analysis of biological data. As such, there exist multiple methods to extract knowledge from biological networks. However, these approaches usually limit their scope to a single biological entity type of interest or they lack the flexibility to analyze user-defined data. Results We developed ProphTools, a flexible open-sou...

The pan-Canadian Oncology Drug Review (pCODR) makes recommendations to Canada's provinces and territories (except Quebec) to guide their cancer drug funding decisions. The objective of this paper is to explore, using an economic perspective and the pCODR as an example, the challenges associated with striving to simultaneously achieve the goals of maximizing health benefits with available resour...