Many online recruitment platforms suffer from the inappropriateness of Boolean search methods for matching candidates with job requirements. While such platforms have so far been a successful means for decreasing personnel advertising cost, the huge amount of electronic candidate profiles has not yet been exploited to optimize search quality. In this paper, using findings from an empirical surv...

In an investigation of search strategies, it was predicted that reflective children would have developmentally more mature problem-solving strategies than impulsive children, and the presence of these strategies would be found in both 6and 8-year-old sublects. From a sample given the Matching Familiar Figures Test half of the 20 boys and 20 girls at each age level were classified as reflective ...

Uncertainty and sensitivity analysis results obtained with random and Latin hypercube sampling are compared. The comparison uses results from a model for two-phase fluid flow obtained with three independent random samples of size 100 each and three independent Latin hypercube samples (LHSs) of size 100 each. Uncertainty and sensitivity analysis results with the two sampling procedures are simil...

CONTEXT This study presents a longitudinal simulation of disease screening at a variety of different test sensitivities. AIMS It is demonstrated that the difference between the performance of high quality tests and poor quality tests are relatively small in terms of the commonly used longitudinally measured disease detection rate. STATISTICAL ANALYSIS This simulation study is focused on the...

Although there is evidence of a growing awareness of the problem, no official policy statements or regulatory guidelines on polypharmacy have been released up to date by Italian Health Authorities. Medication review, application of appropriateness criteria and computerized prescription support systems are all possible approaches in order to improve the quality of prescribing in older persons. M...

Teaching conversation skills is a difficult task for teachers and requires careful attention when selecting the textbook that best suits learners' needs interests in addition to their different learning dispositions. This study proposes system analyzing content of English second-year undergraduate students An-Najah National University according five major rubrics: topic consistency, frequen...

The inappropriateness in use of public monies has been cited as a major distractor towards achievement development goals enshrined our constitution. It largely attributed to the procurement practices adopted. main objective this study was determine effects information technology on service delivery County governments western Kenya region. target population for entailed 228 officers who were cat...

Indirect estimation of compressive strength through non-destructive testing is key to monitoring the structural concretes used in construction and rehabilitation works. However, no models are available perform this highly Self-Compacting Concrete (SCC) with Recycled Aggregate (RCA). To fill gap, two indirect measures were tested paper, hammer rebound index Ultrasonic Pulse Velocity (UPV), predi...

A grand canonical Monte Carlo (MC) algorithm is presented for studying the lattice gas model (LGM) of multiple protein sequence alignment, which coherently combines long-range interactions and variable-length insertions. MC simulations are used for both parameter optimization of the model and production runs to explore the sequence subspace around a given protein family. In this Note, I describ...

Recent research into end of life and palliative care has focused on the development of a replacement for the quality adjusted life year (QALY) as an outcome measure. Reasons given range from the lack of anticipated survival benefit from treatment to the inappropriateness of death as an anchor for valuing health states, or the increased value of time to the individual at the end of life. The Pal...