background: to conduct a systematic review and meta-analysis on controlled treatment trials of meta-cognitive therapy for anxiety disorders. materials and methods: studies were included if they employed controlled methodology and treated people above 18 years with anxiety disorders. case studies (with less than 4 cases) and single case designed studies were excluded. a comprehensive literature ...

Most standard MPC implementations partition the plant into several units and apply MPC individually to these units. It is known that this strategy can lead to sub-optimal plant-wide control performance, especially if the units interact strongly. This paper tackles the problem of achieving optimal control performance in plants with such an MPC structure. A modeling framework, geared for use in M...

This study presents a systematic review of psychological studies applied to futsal. A total of 23 studies were analyzed within five sections: a year overview and the name of journals, research designs, data collection, sample characteristics, and a focus category. This study found that the first psychological articles that were applied to futsal were published in 2008, and the number of publica...

Alsop and Tompsett argued in 2007 that research in educational technology was over-focused on technological design and that empirical research that was pertinent to educational change should be assessed against two distinct scales. The first considers the quality of the experimental design in validating the conclusions that are reached, whilst the second assesses the extent to which the experim...

The paper reviews the literature in the field of performance measurement and management (PMM) for small and medium enterprises (SMEs) and it proposes a framework for PMM system design. The results of the literature review carried out reveal the need for developing real integrated PMM frameworks. Based on such a structured literature review, we propose an integrated framework that rectifies the ...

This paper suggests an architecture of the robot control system that is based on the eldbus network and proposes a systematic design method on it. The main advantages of the architecture are that the cost of cabling is reduced and the maintenance e ort can be reduced. In addition, robot control system employing eldbus avoids dependency of a special vendor and it can distribute control functions...

There is a tendency to overlook or play down software issues in industrial systems design. However the very best hardware will only be as effective as the programs that control it. The search for a software solution to a problem should not stop with the discovery of the first approach that works, or appears to work. Many problems support good and bad methods of solution and determining the best...

Extended Abstract. It is a traditional way in biological, sociological, agricultural and geological studies to partition a geographical area into quadrats and then take a sample of them by a particular sampling design. We study the relevant characteristic of quadrats to estimate a parameter of the population. We suppose that the variable of interest has a positive spatial autocorrelation. Sampl...

A systematic control structure design method is applied on the concentric heatintegrated distillation column (HIDiC) separating benzene and toluene. A degrees of freedom analysis is provided for identifying potential manipulated and controlled variables. Optimal operation is mapped and active constraints are identified for constructing the supervisory control layer. The fundamental problem of o...