This study intends to propose a modern model in the field of human resources (HR) strategic management through designing human resources&rsquo competence framework. Based on this strategic orientation of organization on human resources management system has been investigated considering the mediating role of competence approach in Central Bank of the Islamic Republic of Iran. In order to implem...

In this paper, prosody-based attitude recognition and its application to a spoken dialog system are proposed. Paralinguistic information plays a important role in the human communication. We aimed to recognize the user’s attitude by prosody, and apply it to a spoken dialog system as para-linguistic information. In order to find important features to recognize the attitude from automatically ext...

In Sociolinguistics, language attitude studies based on natural voices have provided evidence that human listeners socially assess and evaluate their communication partners according to the language variety they use. Similarly, research on intelligent agents has demonstrated that the degree an artificial entity resembles a human correlates with the likelihood that the entity will evoke social a...

Introduction: Attitude plays a principal role in guiding human behavior toward achieving goals, awareness of its consequences and effective processing of complex information about living environment. The study aim is to assess the attitude of nursing students towards nursing profession in selected nursing institutes Ambala, Haryana. Material and Methods: A non-experimental research approach and...

Human-machine networks pervade much of contemporary life. Network change is the product of structural modifications along with differences in participant behavior. If we assume that behavioural change in a human-machine network is the result of changing the attitudes of participants in the network, then the question arises whether network structure can affect participant attitude. Taking citize...

This chapter presents a Higher Order Sliding Mode (HOSM) Control for automatic docking between two space vehicles. The problem considered requires controlling the vehicles’ relative position and relative attitude. This type of problem is generally addressed using optimal control techniques that are, unfortunately, not robust. The combination of optimum control and Higher Order Sliding Mode Cont...

This paper presents ‘source’ as the distinctive feature for a twofold semantic categorization for Chinese modal expressions. Previous studies have characterized Chinese modals as words used to express the speaker’s opinion or attitude. Yet given the absence of morphological and syntactic distinctions in Chinese, there has been little consensus among different accounts as to within what limit th...