BACKGROUND Away-from-home eating is an important dietary behavior with implications on diet quality. Thus, it is an important behavior to target to prevent and control childhood obesity and other chronic health conditions. Numerous studies have been conducted to improve children's dietary intake at home, in early care and education, and in schools; however, few studies have sought to modify the...

this study was aimed at developing a method for measuring the relationship between intellectual capital and project manager competencies. intellectual capital consist human capital, structural capital and relational capital. project manager competencies have been evaluated based on ipma competence baseline (icb) and project manager competency development framework (pmcdf) includes knowledge, sk...

BACKGROUND Electronic data capture (EDC) systems have been widely used in clinical research, but mobile device-based electronic data capture (mEDC) system has not been well evaluated. OBJECTIVE The aim of our study was to evaluate the feasibility, advantages, and challenges of mEDC in data collection, project management, and telemonitoring in a randomized controlled trial (RCT). METHODS We ...

OBJECTIVES To investigate the feasibility of recruitment, adherence and likely effectiveness of an e-learning intervention for managers to improve employees' well-being and reduce sickness absence. METHODS The GEM Study (guided e-learning for managers) was a mixed methods pilot cluster randomised trial. Employees were recruited from four mental health services prior to randomising three servi...

In the portfolio selection problem, the manager considers several objectives simultaneously such as the rate of return, the liquidity and the risk of portfolios. These objectives are conflicting and incommensurable. Moreover, the objectives can be imprecise. Generally, the portfolio manager seeks the best combination of the stocks that meets his investment objectives. The imprecise Goal Program...

due to the particular importance of projects in human life and in organizations, proper project management has been always regarded highly by researchers and practitioners. recent advances in technology and fundamental changes in most scientific areas have affected projects and made their nature and environmental circumstances much more complex than in the past. fortunately, in recent years, ma...

A principal requires a manager for production. He can use an internal manager, or contracts with an external manger. In each case, the manager obtains experience benefits from production. When the principal uses an internal manager, both parties share cost information. When the principal contracts with an external manager, only the external manager acquires cost information. The internal manage...

Metacomputing refers to the coordinated use of a pool of geographically distributed high-performance computers. The EU projects PHASE and MICA, presented in this paper, are settled in the eld of application speciic metacomputing combining high-performance computing expertise and industrial requirements.