Public service organizations usually produce multiple outputs, measured on different scales, giving rise to a suite of performance indicators. The traditional approach to statistical analysis of organizational performance has been to develop a separate regression model for each performance indicator. This piecemeal approach, the article argues, may discard valuable information, as it ignores po...

We present an eye tracking study to measure if and how including pictures – relevant or irrelevant to the text – affects online reading. In a betweensubjects design, 82 subjects read a story on a computer screen. The text was accompanied by either: (a) pictures related to the text, (b) pictures unrelated to the text (advertisements), or (c) no pictures. Reading statistics such as reading speed ...

The fundamental dispersion relation of transverse electro-magnetic waves in a cold collisionless plasma is formally equivalent to the two dimensional inertio-gravity rotating shallow water system, where Coriolis frequency can be identified with frequency, and gravity wave phase speed plays role light. Here we examine this formal equivalence governing linearised equations, compare between propag...

Objective. Vaccination will be instrumental in controlling the COVID-19 pandemic, and vaccination of children necessary to achieve herd immunity. Given that with chronic health conditions may at increased risk COVID-19, it is crucial understand factors influencing parental decisions about whether have their child vaccinated. The study objectives were measure intent asthma vaccinated against ide...

Nine additive allometric equations for computing above-ground, standing biomass were developed for the plant community and for each of 18 single species typical of the Tamaulipan thornscrub of north-eastern Mexico. Equations developed using additive procedures in seemingly unrelated linear regression provided statistical efficiency in total biomass estimates at the scales of both individual spe...

The integration of heterogeneous data from various domains without the need for prefiltering prepares the ground for bisociative knowledge discoveries where attempts are made to find unexpected relations across seemingly unrelated domains. Information networks, due to their flexible data structure, lend themselves perfectly to the integration of these heterogeneous data sources. This chapter pr...

abstract since about 34% of areas under rice cultivation in whole country is attributed to gilan; in this study we pay attention to some economical dimensions, especially economic values of inputs in this region. data were collected from 80 rice producers in 2007-2008. consider to importance the parametric approach in production structure and factors demand, applying seemingly unrelated regress...

Due to the prolonged COVID-19 pandemic and various restrictions, peoples’ leisure activity patterns significantly change. Thus, it is necessary understand how people’s travel behaviors have changed during pandemic. However, there still a lack of empirical evidence on individuals’ risk perception influences their destination choice behavior. This study aims confirm relationship between explore a...