the present study aims to address the problem of inadequate coverage of various aspects of organizational performance by balanced scorecard (bsc) model through its developing based on the european foundation for quality management (efqm) model. to this end, a developed bsc model, encompassing variables of stakeholders, resource effectiveness, processes effectiveness, human resource management e...

Due to the heterogeneous nature of granular soils and the involvement of many effective parameters in the geotechnical behavior of soil-foundation systems, the accurate prediction of shallow foundation settlements on cohesionless soils is a complex engineering problem. In this study, three new evolutionary-based techniques, including evolutionary polynomial regression (EPR), classical genetic p...

We explain general features of the tightly bound composite Higgs models proposed in recent years; walking technicolor, strong ETC technicolor, and a top quark condensate, etc.. These models are all characterized by the large anomalous dimension due to nontrivial short distance dynamics in the gauged Nambu-Jona-Lasinio models (gauge theories plus four-fermion interactions). Work supported in par...

We provide a taxonomy of dynamical supersymmetry breaking theories, and discuss the cosmological implications of the various types of models. Models in which supersymmetry breaking is produced by chiral superfields which only have interactions of gravitational strength (e.g. string theory moduli) are inconsistent with standard big bang nucleosynthesis unless the gravitino mass is greater than O...

Abstract Coupled biogeochemical cycles drive ecosystem ecology by influencing individual-to-community scale behaviors; yet the development of process-based models that accurately capture these dynamics remains elusive. Soil organic matter (SOM) decomposition in particular is influenced resource stoichiometry dictates microbial nutrient acquisition (‘ecological stoichiometry’). Despite its basis...

Foundation models are in the process of becoming dominant deep learning technology. Pretraining a foundation model is always time-consuming due to large scale both parameter and training dataset. Besides being computing-intensive, pretraining extremely memory- communication-intensive. These challenges make it necessary apply 3D parallelism, which integrates data pipeline tensor achieve high eff...

A soil nailing system is a proven effective and economic method used to stabilize earth slopes from the external (factors increasing shear stress) internal decreasing material strength) failure causes. The laboratory models with scales of 1:10 are study behavior nailed slope different building foundation parameters. consist Perspex strips as facing steel bars increase stability slope. sand beds...

The Model Driven Architecture (MDA) represents a positive step toward a general model-based approach to software engineering. The conceptualization of the MDA is not yet mature; it is still being formed. Elements of a modeling foundation are described in this paper, including an architecture of software engineering and a multi-dimensional modeling space that provides separation of concerns and ...