The two notions discussed in the paper are Life Satisfaction, under Subjective Well-Being (SWB) field; and Maslow hierarchy of human needs. Issue: Human needs satisfaction is not an all-or-nothing phenomenon. Individuals required to completely satisfy one need order for next appear hierarchy. Purpose: This aims investigate level life relation difficulty convenience achieving Approach: Mann Whit...

Ferry accidents often occur the result of ship handling difficulty which interfacing human, machine and environment. Therefore, a decision tool model as a comprehensive information system, based on the ship handling difficulty, needs to be developed through the combination of Analytic Hierarchy Process (AHP) and Fuzzy Logic System. The Fuzzy Logic System part consists of ship condition, ship ha...

OBJECTIVES We compared the sleep of infants at risk for neuromotor delays to that of infants without such risks, and examined the predictive validity of risk indicators to the development of sleep problems. METHODS Conveniently recruited infants (n = 142) were assessed for neuromotor achievements and sleep behaviors at 4-6 months and 10-12 months of age. Assessment tools were the Harris Infan...

It has been proposed that task control is functionally implemented by a distributed frontoparietal system. It has been argued that one component of this system, the lateral frontal cortex, is functionally organized through a caudal to rostral gradient. Here, we tested 2 competing models, the Information Cascade and Rule Abstraction hypotheses, which suggest different principles underlying the r...

We consider the dependability analysis of hierarchical fault tolerant computer based systems in this paper. The hierarchical nature of the system aids in fault coverage: if an undetected error escapes from one level of the system, it may be covered or tolerated at a higher level. A fault that remains uncovered through all levels of the hierarchy, and thus appears at the output, causes immediate...

This conceptual paper discusses the role of hierarchy in complex systems modeling and simulation and discusses the difficulty of subsuming a complex system into a model having a unique hierarchical decomposition. After elaborating on the potential of multiperspective modeling and simulation, a first formalization of multi-perspective models is proposed.

OBJECTIVE/BACKGROUND Our aim was to qualitatively explore the experiences of people who attended a one-day sleep workshop six years previously. PARTICIPANTS Of the 95 people who originally attended the workshop and a three-month follow-up, 14 individuals (mean age = 63.6 years) participated. METHODS Semi-structured interviews were used to explore: participants' experiences of insomnia since...

Warehouse location selection is a multi-criteria decision problem including both quantitative and qualitative criteria and has a strategic importance for many companies. The conventional methods for warehouse location selection are inadequate for dealing with the imprecise or vague nature of linguistic assessment. To overcome this difficulty, fuzzy multi-criteria decision-making methods are pro...