The repertory grid test, based on personal construct psychology, was used to evaluate the effectiveness of Project P.A.T.H.S. (Positive Adolescent Training through Holistic Social Programmes) in Hong Kong. One hundred and four program participants (n = 104) were randomly invited to complete a repertory grid based on personal construct theory in order to provide both quantitative and qualitative...

The phylogenetic status of recently described isolates of hepatitis C virus (HCV) from Vietnam, Thailand and Indonesia (previously classified as types 7, 8, 9, 10 and 11) was re-analysed by the neighbour-joining method instead of the unweighted pair-group method with arithmetic mean (UPGMA) that was first used by the discoverers of these strains. The analysis of complete amino acid sequences an...

We consider distributing soft real-time tasks on a cluster of multiple homogeneous servers. The question considered here is how to assign incoming soft real-time tasks to these servers for better performance, measured by the fraction of tasks that miss their deadlines. In this paper, two architectures are taken into account-centralized and distributed. Within the distributed architecture , four...

T his study aims to demonstrate that joining in risk sharing network leads to the reduction in incomes volatility. In this respect, income variance for a group of members in an informal insurance is modelled in which income variance prior to joining risk sharing network and after joining is analyzed statistically. A Monte Carlo simulation technique is used to prove the result. To extend an...

In this paper we present a new approach to handling incomplete information and classifier complexity reduction. We describe a method, called DRJ, that performs data decomposition and decision rule joining to avoid the necessity of reasoning with missing attribute values. In the consequence more complex reasoning process is needed than in the case of known algorithms for induction of decision ru...

Stainless steel is applied in a wide range of fields as material with high heat and corrosion resistance. Welding, brazing, solid-phase bonding are the most common joining techniques for stainless steel. Conventional methods have issues such local thermal distortion area need high-temperature treatment at 800-1000°C. In this paper, we investigated new technique With aim establishing technology ...