ABSTRACT Introduction It is estimated that sailors who are assigned to surface ships and submarines deployed for more than 1 year across their careers they spend 15% 23% of time away from home. Research suggests shipboard experience rates behavioral health issues similar those with ground combat experiences. Despite the rigorous operational tempo unique environment experienced by these service ...

The paper focuses on the use of Fuzzy Cognitive Mapping (FCM) in Balanced Scorecard (BSC) performance measurement framework. We present a state art areas and BSC. highlight limitations BSC frameworks drawbacks identified strategic maps. then FCM algorithm its decision making as solution to drawbacks. elaborate an methodology supporting software application called Modeler for development hierarc...

This article reports on first results of the KONWIHR-II project OMI4papps at the Leibniz Supercomputing Centre (LRZ). The first part describes Apex-MAP, a tunable synthetic benchmark designed to simulate the performance of typical scientific applications. Apex-MAP mimics common memory access patterns and different computational intensity of scientific codes. An approach for modelling LRZ’s appl...

Map/Reduce approach has been popular in order to compute huge volumes of data since Google implemented its platform on Google Distributed File Systems (GFS) and then Amazon Web Service (AWS) provides its services with Apache Hadoop platform. Map/Reduce motivates to redesign and convert the existing sequential algorithms to Map/Reduce algorithms for big data so that the paper presents Market Bas...

The medication administration process (MAP) is one of the most high-risk processes in health care. MAP workflow redesign can precipitate both unanticipated and unintended consequences that can lead to new medication safety risks and workflow inefficiencies. Thus, it is necessary to have a tool to evaluate the impact of redesign approaches in advance of their clinical implementation. This paper ...

nowadays we know effective supply chain management a key to business success. therefore, supply chain managers use many practices for scm effectiveness and many tools as their enablers. nevertheless, literature about causal relations between sc enablers and scm practices and performance is scarce. this study reports a cognitive mapping of causal relationships between scm practices, sc enablers ...

This work aims to extract the mineralogical constituents of the Lahroud Hyperion scene situated in the NW of Iran. Like the other push-broom sensors, Hyperion images suffer from spectral distortions, namely the smile effect. The corresponding spectral curvature is defined as an across-track wavelength shift from the nominal central wavelength, and alters the pixel spectra. The common “column me...

We present an analysis of how the genotype-phenotype map in Grammatical Evolution (GE) can effect performance on the Max Problem. Earlier studies have demonstrated a performance decrease for Position Independent Grammatical Evolution (πGE ) in this problem domain. In πGE the genotype-phenotype map is changed so that the evolutionary algorithm controls not only what the next expansion will be bu...

A class of pseudo-random compound error-correcting codes, called Generalized Low-Density (GLD) Parity-Check codes, has been proposed recently. As a generalization of Gallager’s Low-Density ParityCheck (LDPC) codes, GLD codes are also asymptotically good in the sense of minimum distance criterion and can be effectively decoded based on iterative soft-input soft-output (SISO) decoding of individu...