background : the purpose of this study was to determine the relationship of demographic, psychological, social and environmental factors with physical activity and to determine whether indicators of physical activity differ by gender among macedonian adolescents from albanian ethnic community from 11 to 14 yr (n = 886). methods : research were conducted in 2014 in several primary schools random...

Activity and plan recognition are well-developed research fields, where much work has been done. There has been, however, almost no effort in combining both to create intelligent software that can effectively support the decision-making process faced by human teams enacting a joint plan. In this paper, we present an architecture to integrate activity recognition and plan recognition using a tea...

In this study, we present the M-PDCA governance model that is constructed and deployed within the scope of Engineering Performance Enhancement (EPE) Project conducted at FNSS Savunma Sistemleri A.Ş. Having experienced a rapid growth in the number of concurrent projects and business volume, the major aim of the firm in undertaking the EPE project was to avoid schedule and cost overruns. In this ...

In this paper, we propose a set of speech actions to account for how conversants collaborate in building a domain plan. The actions that we propose are indexical on the current plan, which is part of the mental states of the conversants. The current plan not only includes the actions that have been proposed to solve the problem, but also beliefs about the plans validity and how each action cont...

l2 research has shown that instruction in l2 pragmatics is necessary. the current study evaluated the impact of explicit instruction on efl learner's awareness and production of three speech acts of request, apology, and complaint. it also probed whether learners’ language proficiency plays any role in incorporating pragmatic instruction into the l2 classroom. iranian undergraduate student...

In order to reduce practice variations and offer cancer patients the best treatments according to reference guidelines, therapeutic decisions have to be taken, in France, by "multidisciplinary staff meetings'' (MSMs) as patient-specific care plans which are then implemented by cancer specialists. OncoDoc2 is a CDSS implementing CancerEst guidelines, a "local reference guideline'', on breast can...

We describe an application of AI search and information visualization techniques to the problem of school redistricting, in which students are assigned to home schools within a county or school district. This is a multicriteria optimization problem in which competing objectives must be considered, such as school capacity, busing costs, and socioeconomic distribution. Because of the complexity o...

The proton driver is a key component of any accelerator based neutrino facility. Possible upgrades to either the ISIS facility at RAL or the CERN accelerator chain could be envisaged as the starting point for a proton driver shared with a neutrino facility. The current status of plans will be described.

Strategic Operations Planning has been well defined but rarely carried out in practise. A suitable planning process for busy, operationally-focused managers is considered likely to improve the extent of implementation.. A process should incorporate logistics of the whole supply chain as well as internal operations. The present process uses action research, in which an external facilitator stimu...