In 2009, National Skill Development (NSD) Policy was reformed to modify the vocational education system in India. The skills development and entrepreneurship policy developed 2015 tries solve challenges of skill by inspiring early signs, development, variations. present study is based on a primary survey conducted four districts Sikkim involving 600 respondents from amongst various stakeholders...

The Western project management (PM] approach requires the use of not only PM technology but also PM values/beliefs. This research is concerned with the likely cultural barriers for Chinese enterprises to use the PM approach. The literature review reveals the four cultural barriers of the Doctrine of the Mean, Strong Hierarchy, Family Consciousness, and Boss Orientation. Then, through a question...

Few Asian-American women participate in cancer treatment trials. In a pilot study to assess barriers to participation, we mailed surveys to 132 oncologists and interviewed 19 Asian-American women with cancer from Northern California. Forty-four oncologists responded. They reported as barriers language problems, lack of culturally relevant cancer information, and complex protocols. Most stated t...

in this study the effect of month, place and different years on the preferencevalue of bromus tomentellus in semi-steppe region was studied. the preferencevalue of the bromus tomentellus was studied in two years and four months in three sites as cheshme anjir (fars), badamstan (zanjan) firuzkuh (tehran). to determine the preferencevalue of species the two methods of as preference index and timi...

BACKGROUND Parents are integral to the implementation of obesity prevention and management recommendations for children. Exploration of barriers to and facilitators of parental decisions to adopt obesity prevention recommendations will inform future efforts to reduce childhood obesity. METHODS We conducted 4 focus groups (2 English, 2 Spanish) among a total of 19 parents of overweight (BMI >o...

In this paper, we investigate group decision making problems with multiple types of linguistic preference relations. The paper has two parts with similar structures. In the first part, we transform the uncertain additive linguistic preference relations into the expected additive linguistic preference relations, and present a procedure for group decision making based on multiple types of additiv...

Computational methods for discovering the preferences of individuals are useful in many applications. In this paper, we propose a method for learning valued preference structures, using a natural extension of so-called pairwise classification. A valued preference structure can then be used in order to induce a ranking, that is a linear ordering of a given set of alternatives. This step is reali...