this study deals with the social capital effects on organization?s performance improvement in municipality. evaluating the social capital amount and the level of people?s performance improvement in the concerned society and investigating the relation between social capital and organization?s performance improvement and describing their variables of theoretical basis, are the goals of this resea...

gravity acceleration data have grand pursuit for marine applications. due to environmental effects, marine gravity observations always hold a high noise level. in this paper, we propose an approach to produce marine gravity data using satellite altimetry, high-resolution geopotential models and harmonic splines. on the one hand, harmonic spline functions have great capability for local gravity ...

background: in recent years, there has been an increase in the amount and variety of data generated in the field of healthcare, (e.g., data related to the prevalence of contagious diseases in the society). various patterns of individuals’ relationships in the society make the analysis of the network a complex, highly important process in detecting and preventing the incidence of diseases. there...

Recently, underwater wireless sensor network is one of the popular research topics to scientist. There are many novel methodologies to reach the goal of the effectiveness network performance such as cluster-based structure, in-network data aggregation, etc. In this paper, we assume the network is clustered by a specific clustering scheme. Then, we suggest a new geographicaldata-aggregation meth...

Big Data aims at the efficient processing of massive amounts of data. Performance modeling is often used to optimize performance of systems under development. Based on experiences from modeling Big Data solutions, we describe some problems in applying performance modeling and discuss potential solution approaches.

Two antagonistic models are used to model the training-performance relationship during an eight week cycling training, with a prediction of the performances in the last week of training. Results indicated different qualities of the model fits for the test data for both models. Mean differences between predicted and real performances were 2.39% for the Fitness-Fatigue-Model and 4.43% for the Per...

All models in Law and Economics use punishment functions (PF) that incorporates a trade-off between probability of detection, p, and punishment, F . Suppose society wishes to minimize the total costs of enforcement and damages from crime, T (p, F ). For a given p, an optimal punishment function (OPF) determines an F that minimizes T (p, F ). A popular and tractable PF is the hyperbolic punishme...

In this paper, we focus on the synthetic understanding of documents, specifically reading comprehension (RC). A current problem with RC is the need for a method of analyzing the RC system performance to realize further development. We propose a methodology for examining RC systems from multiple viewpoints. Our methodology consists of three steps: define a set of basic skills used for RC, manual...