This paper aimed to identify the main factors that influence homicides in state of Alagoas, Brazil. Therefore, we employed Exploratory Spatial Data Analysis (ESDA) technique and estimated spatial models order fix autocorrelation. Although several articles have explored this theme for other states Brazil, chose a small northeastern since it lead homicide ranking per 100 thousand inhabitants 2010...

background: considering the importance of entering doctoral students to universities with hard competition, in order to detect the predictive power of entrance exam grade in educational achievement in early years, we attempted to investigate the efficacy of entrance exam with basic scientific test. methods: the existing data from national organization for education testing and education center ...

In our previous study, focusing on a ranking determination, we developed two ranking models. The foundation of these ranking models is derived from either one of the two ranking methods, denoted by Ranking (I) and Ranking (II), that were proposed in our previous papers. The purpose of this paper is to analyze the mathematical structure in the process of generating Ranking (I) and Ranking (II) i...

Education is an essential component for nations preparing to take advantage of the opportunities and confront challenges 21st century. Universities, colleges, research centers must work effectively efficiently achieve maximum results. In order provide a comparable verifiable evaluation such institutions’ efforts, administrators need adopt measurement tools as those offered by multi-criteria dec...

PURPOSE/OBJECTIVES To assess end-of-life (EOL) care core competencies deemed most important with corresponding educational needs from oncology nurses and to describe the characteristics of the respondents that are associated with selection of the top-ranked core competencies. DESIGN Descriptive, cross-sectional study. SETTING Mailed and online surveys. SAMPLE 714 members of the Oncology N...

Consider the following institutions: Columbia University, Vassar College, Rutgers University, and City University of New York (CUNY) Lehman College. What do you know about the quality of the educational experience in these four institutions? When considering this question, perhaps you might think about what you have heard about these institutions from friends or the media. Reputation/prestige i...

data envelopment analysis (dea) technique now widely use for efficiency evaluation of a set of decision making units (dmus). as regards of the necessity for ranking efficient units different dea models presented each of which has advantages and rank efficient units from special aspects. note that all the existing ranking models have disadvantages, as well and there is not a model in which all t...

BACKGROUND Radiology department as a service provider organization requires realization of quality concept concerning service provisioning knowledge, satisfaction and all issues relating to the customer as well as quality assurance and improvement issues. At present, radiology departments in hospitals are regarded as income generating units and they should continuously seek performance improvem...

The traditional way of teaching a foreign language involves long-standing practice and receiving feedback under the guidance of a teacher. However, a large part of the coaching process does not necessarily require the employment of a human teacher, but rather can be automated to facilitate self-practice and to increase the scale of foreign language education by teaching a large number of studen...

Ranking fuzzy numbers plays a very important role in decision making and some other fuzzy application systems. Many different methods have been proposed to deal with ranking fuzzy numbers. Constructing ranking indexes based on the centroid of fuzzy numbers is an important case. But some weaknesses are found in these indexes. The purpose of this paper is to give a new ranking index to rank vario...