ranking the viewpoint of experts and farmers is an approach to determine the factors causing the yield gap. for this purpose, two different questionnaire types but with same questions designed for both agricultural specialists and farmers. after answering, the questionnaires of agricultural experts and farmers were analyzed through ahp and entropy techniques, respectively. both techniques deter...

With the popularity of Web 2.0, comments left by readers on web documents have drawn much attention. In this paper, we study the problem of comments-oriented document summarization, which aims to summarize a web document by considering not only its content but also the comments. Generally, most of the comments usually convey one or a few aspects of the document. Given a sentence set from both t...

The invisible hands of peer reviewers play a determining role in the eventual fate of submissions to international English-medium journals. This study builds on the assumption that non-native researchers and prospective academic authors may find the whole strive for publication, and more specifically, the tough review process, less threatening if they are aware of journal reviewers’ expectation...

control and evaluation are major secrets of an organization's survival.universities, as research and educational organizations, need to be evaluated in order to survive. the results of educational activities encompass a vast spectrum including the graduates, researchers and planners, scientific publications, as well as satisfaction of students, parents, profossors and staff (ramsden, 1996).th...

As planning technology improves, Artiicial Intelligence planners are being embedded in increasingly complicated environments: ones that are particularly challenging even for human experts. Consequently, failure is becoming both increasingly likely for these systems (due to the diicult and dynamic nature of the new environments) and increasingly important to address (due to the systems' potentia...

BACKGROUND Assessment of laypersons' Paediatric Basic Life Support (PBLS) skills is important to ensure acquisition of effective PBLS competencies. However limited evidence exists on which PBLS skills are essential for laypersons. The same challenges exist with respect to the assessment of foreign body airway obstruction management (FBAOM) skills. We aimed to establish international consensus o...

Background and aims: The ability to acquire the best evidence efficiently is important for busy healthcare professionals who have to make decision within a limited time. However, the current available assessment tools in evidence-based medicine (EBM), e.g. Berlin questionnaire and Fresno test, were not designed for examining evidence-searching capability. The objective of this study was to deve...

background: business process management systems (bpm) can automate all processes in an organization. these systems provide the possibility of identifying, modeling, deploying, implementing, function managing, integrating with other information systems, monitoring and improving an organization's business processes in a standard form. as far as the authors know, no related research has been ...

In recent years, domain-driven data mining (D3M) has received extensive attention in data mining. Unlike the traditional data-driven data mining, D3M tends to discover actionable knowledge by tightly integrating the data mining methods with the domain-specific business processes. However, in most cases, the domain specific actionable knowledge cannot be discovered without the support of domain ...