a common problem arising in project management is the fact that the baseline schedule is often disrupted during the project execution because of uncertain parameters. as a result, project managers are often unable to meet the deadline time of the milestones. robust project scheduling is an effective approach in case of uncertainty. upon adopting this approach, schedules are protected against po...

Introduction: Inappropriate advice interferes with the students’ achievementof educational and professional goals and they may fail to use proper resourcesfor their educational needs. The present study was carried out to compare thestudents’ satisfaction about the performance of academic advisors before andafter the advisor project in Shahrekord University of Medical Sciences.Methods: This long...

As part of a project on indexing ethno-musicological audio recordings, segmentation in singer turns automatically appeared to be essential. In this article, we present the problem of segmentation in singer turns of musical recordings and our first experiments in this direction by exploring a method based on the Bayesian Information Criterion (BIC), which are used in numerous works in audio segm...

The next generation high-speed train system, HEMU-400X, has been developed in Korea since 2007. HEMU-400X means High-speed Electric Multiple Unit – 300 experimental. Objectives of HEMU-400X project is development of next generation high-speed electric multiple unit with maximum operation speed 370km/h and maximum test speed 400km/h, energy efficiently and environment friendly. At present, the d...

a r t i c l e i n f o a b s t r a c t A shunted piezoelectric is a device to suppress vibration consisting of a piezoelectric material and a shunt circuit connecting between two electrodes of the piezoelectric material. The sensitivity of damping performances is analyzed for passive shunted piezoelectrics: a resistive, a series resonant, and a parallel resonant shunted piezoelectric. The parame...

PURPOSE Two studies involving 122 handball players were conducted to assess the reliability, usefulness, and validity of a repeated shuttle-sprint and jump ability (RSSJA) test. The test consisted of 6x(2x12.5-m) sprints departing on 25 s, with a countermovement jump performed during recovery between sprints. METHODS For the reliability and usefulness study, 14 well-trained male handball play...