BACKGROUND To determine how trail characteristics may influence use, reliable and valid audit tools are needed. METHODS The Path Environment Audit Tool (PEAT) was developed with design, amenity, and aesthetics/maintenance items. Two observers independently audited 185 trail segments at 6 Massachusetts facilities. GPS-derived items were used as a "gold standard." Kappa (k) statistics, observed...

This research aims to validate and factor-analyze the Fan Based Brand Equity (FBBE) questionnaire of football in Iranian supreme league clubs. The present research is of descriptive-analysis type and has been done by survey method. The statistic population included football clubs fans of the Iran’s 13th supreme football league, and the sample society was 880 people chosen from seven clubs fans ...

the aim of this research was to explain the relationship betweenpersonality big five factors and job burnout in employees of ministry ofsport and youth of iran. 162 employees completed the maslach burnoutinventory (mbi) and big five inventory (bfi). mbi with 22 items assessedthree dimensions of job burnout and bfi with 44 items assessed the fivedimensions of personality. cronbach's alpha c...

We present a general planning strategy to plan the motions of an agent having to explore a continuous state space in order to reach one or several goals. We propose a practical method to implement this technique based on a genetic algorithm and we illustrate the approach on the problem of controlling a mobile robot moving in a maze and looking for several items. Finally, we show that this plann...

This lecture is about different techniques used for video streaming to improve performance and Quality of Experience (QoE). Specifically, we learned about ”neural adaptive video streaming with Pensieve” [1]. Pensieve adaptively selects bitrates (ABR) for future video chunks based on observations collected by client video players. It automatically learns ABR algorithms that adapt to a wide range...

A prospective study of the long-term validity of student assessment of paediatric teaching began during the period 1968--70. The students gave scores to the different parts of the course in a standard questionnaire. Between 6 and 8 years later the same students were given the same questionnaire to complete. 76 of the original 92 students responded. By this time most of them were either princip...

1.0 Preferential Subject 1 (Planning and Operation) The theme for Preferential Subject 1 is “Planning and operation of Distribution networks incorporating Dispersed Energy Resources (DER) and Renewables Energy Sources (RES)”. The items which will be touched upon are:  Effect of large scale integration on reliability.  Provision of ancillary services by DER/RES.  Regulatory schemes to support...

An inventory model for deteriorating items over a fuzzy random planning horizon incorporating inflation and time value of money is studied. It is assumed that planning horizon follows exponential distribution with imprecise parameter. The model is formulated using cost minimization principle. As the fuzzy cost cannot be minimized directly, the possibilistic mean value of the fuzzy cost is found...