Corresponding author Marta José Avena Napoleão de Barros street, 754, São Paulo, SP, Brazil. Zip Code: 04024-000 [email protected] Escola Paulista de Enfermagem, Universidade Federal de São Paulo, São Paulo, SP, Brazil. Conflicts of interest: no conflicts of interest to declare. Abstract Objective: To develop and validate conceptual and operational definitions for the defining characteristics of...

The paper describe the main problems concerning the creating of a client-server application using Borland Delphi environment which are used to find Quantitative Structure – Activity and Structure – Property Relationships using structure descriptors and measured activities/properties for molecules sets stored into a MySQL database server. The described application was used on a set of organic ph...

The inherent complexity in nowadays’ business environments is forcing organizations to be attentive to the dynamics in several fronts. Therefore, the management of technological innovation is continually faced with uncertainty about the future. These issues lead to a need for a systemic perspective, able to analyze the consequences of interactions between different factors. The field of technol...

Software has a far ranging nature and sometimes it is difficult to predict the cost. So, it was demanded to develop some useful models that predict the accurate cost, schedule and quality of a software product. There is a great need to accurately predict the cost by selecting the appropriate estimation method. Expert Based Judgment is quite successful. Wideband Delphi estimation comes under thi...

background: universities play an important role in training people to meet the community demands for skilled manpower. furthermore, it is a fact known that universities do most of the research projects in iran and in most countries through out the world. it is, therefore, important to know about teaching and research productivity in universities and to determine this productivity. theoretically...

Article history: Received 30 October 2010 Received in revised form 22 February 2011 Accepted 3 March 2011 Available online 31 March 2011 For meaningful scenarios, creative input concerning possible future trends is crucial. Herman Kahn, the father of modern scenario planning, underlined the importance of “thinking the unthinkable” in a significant scenario study. “Blessed with high intelligence...

The main purpose of this study was to establish an industry-based basic technological competence indicator system of electrical technology for students at a technological institute. To establish these standards, 12 people were interviewed, whose detailed comments were collected to establish the content for basic competence indicators in electrical technology industries. Then, numerous small bus...

Cross-impact analysis is a method for revising estimated probabilities of future events in terms of estimated interactions among those events. This Report presents anelementary cross-impact model where the cross-impacts are formulated as relativeprobabilities. Conditions are derived for the consistency of the matrix of relative probabilities of n events. An extension also provides a nec...

0950-5849/$ see front matter 2010 Elsevier B.V. A doi:10.1016/j.infsof.2010.12.002 ⇑ Corresponding author. E-mail address: [email protected] (J. Iden). Context: The assumption of the presented work is that the ability of system developers and IT operations personnel to cooperate effectively in system development projects has great impact on the quality of the final system solution, as well as on ...

Abstract: Modern technology provides a great amount of information. But for computer monitoring systems or computer control systems, in order to have the situation in hand, we need to reduce the number of variables to one or two parameters, which express the quality and/or security of the whole system. In this paper the authors introduce the system parameter fusion principle put forward by the ...