Couples therapy has experienced a shift in therapeutic approaches from those that focus on dysfunction and deficits to postmodern approaches that emphasize clients’ strengths and skills. Additionally, researchers have found that resources, such as self-esteem and social support, serve to enhance couples’ relationships. One therapeutic approach that emphasizes strengths and resources is solution...

The research seeks to understand how effectively Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) systems are able to meet the decision support requirements of manufacturing companies in the UK, with a particular interest in how the effectiveness of support differs based on production strategy. As a result, survey responses have been divided into Make-To-Order (MTO) and Make-To-Stock (MTS) companies. We have...

Senior managers at over 300 manufacturing firms participated in in-depth interviews. At each firm, information was obtained about the firm’s operating characteristics and the benefits obtained from several, ERP-related software applications. Benefits obtained are very different for ERP applications that process transactions as compared to applications that support decisions. The benefits derive...

This paper describes a lightweight ontology for representing annotations of declarative evidence based clinical guidelines. We present the motivation and requirements for this representation, based on an analysis of several guidelines. The ontology provides the means to connect clinical questions and associated recommendations to underlying evidence, and can capture strength and quality of reco...

In the last years, significant efforts have been made to develop unsupervised systems able to detect landmines or unexploded ordnances for both military and civilian purposes. Several solutions have been proposed based on different methodologies to face this problem in a fast and effective way [1]. In such a framework, learning-by-examples (LBE) techniques [2][3] have demonstrated to be promisi...

This paper presents ModParOpt 1 , a parallel optimizer for complex relational queries, which meets perfectly the requirements of modern database applications (e.g. decision support and data mining). The optimizers architecture was developed in a very strict modular way being therefore highly extensible. It integrates an intelligent resource allocation module coupled with a randomized search mod...

Design and implementation of a research support system for web data mining has become a challenge for researchers wishing to utilize useful information on the web. This paper proposes a framework for web data mining support systems. These systems are designed for identifying, extracting, filtering and analyzing data from web resources. They combines web retrieval and data mining techniques toge...

BACKGROUND Making data available as Linked Data using Resource Description Framework (RDF) promotes integration with other web resources. RDF documents can natively link to related data, and others can link back using Uniform Resource Identifiers (URIs). RDF makes the data machine-readable and uses extensible vocabularies for additional information, making it easier to scale up inference and da...

background disclosure of hiv is important for improving self-care behaviors, psychological well-being, commitment to the treatment, and reducing risk of transmission. one of the major benefits of disclosure is social support, which is an essential resource for effective coping with hiv infection. however, receiving any social support requires disclosing of hiv status. objectives this study aime...