The aims of this study were (i) to compare women's water polo game-related statistics by match outcome (winning and losing teams) and phase (preliminary, classificatory, and semi-final/bronze medal/gold medal), and (ii) identify characteristics that discriminate performances for each phase. The game-related statistics of the 124 women's matches played in five International Championships (World ...

A model is presented for representing and generating piano performance. The model has far fewer parameters than the number of notes. This model explicitly addresses one of the fundamental characteristic of music performance that different areas in a performance have very different kinds of objectives or strategies that are employed. A graphical model is introduced to represent the evolution of ...

In this paper, we are investigating the security of the wireless networks. As in different mobility based technologies the security and efficiency is a concern then need to address the key issues in network. In addition of that an effective solution is also need to be design. Therefore, in this paper the five goals are established (1) selection of appropriate routing protocol for implementation...

The main objectives is to compare the existing full adders circuits and there performances and to design a Low Power Full Adder having improved result as compared to existing full adders. The various full adders are described namely BBL-PT (branch based logic and pass transistor logic based), conventional CMOS full adder and hybrid full adder. Finally comparisons between the various full adders...

One of the main objectives in meta-analysis is to estimate the overall effect size by calculating a confidence interval (CI). The usual procedure consists of assuming a standard normal distribution and a sampling variance defined as the inverse of the sum of the estimated weights of the effect sizes. But this procedure does not take into account the uncertainty due to the fact that the heteroge...

The paper is based on an on-going PhD research project, which is aimed at developing a conceptual framework for managing the performance in for facilities management services in the control of Healthcare Associated Infections (HAI). First, this paper argues the need for a performance management framework (PMF), providing a review of Scottish guidelines, which were written to probe the need of a...

More firms today are beginning to realise the importance of corporate social responsibility (CSR), and its impact on societal well being, apart from the overall governance of the supply chain processes of every organisation. Ratings are being developed to measure performances of most firms with regard to their CSR efforts besides their financial performance. This rating would then be used to me...

MCDA in general and multiple objective linear programming (MOLP) in particular can be used for planning future performances. The model structures of DEA and MOLP have much in common and research on integrating DEA and MOLP has attracted increasing attentions to support both past performance assessment and future target setting in integrated manners (Cooper, 2004). For instance, Golany (1988) de...

The need to mass produce electronic components such as computer chips in early 70’s generated demand for production facilities that were flexible to switch from one type of product to the next with relative ease. Automation played an important role in speeding the machine set ups, machine loading, and processing time. While electronic industry has epitomized the need for such automated manufact...