Participation in competitive sport may impact psychological measures, such as mood and performance anxiety, which in turn may impact enjoyment, adherence, continued participation, and so on. This study assessed the feasibility - in terms of process, resources, management, and potential scientific value- of measuring the effect of varying competitive challenges upon the mood and performance anxi...

Mobile mining is about finding useful knowledge from the raw data produced by mobile users. The mobile environment consists of a set of static device and mobile device. Previous works in mobile data mining include finding frequency pattern and group pattern. Location dependency was not part of consideration in previous work but it would be meaningful. The proposed method builds a user profile b...

Network reconfiguration is an effective approach to reduce the power losses in distribution system. Recent studies have shown that the reconfiguration problem considering load profiles can give a significant improvement on the distribution network performance. This work proposes a novel method to determine the optimal daily configuration based on variable photovoltaic (PV) generation output and...

Defining Healthcare Processes Support Systems (HPSS) in a clinical context is an essential and not always easy task. It is critical to provide mechanisms to assure that the HPSS implementation matches the clinical expert definition. In this paper, we propose the use of the Model-Driven Engineering (MDE) to solve this topic. Within MDE, we have chosen to represent concepts with User Interfaces D...

Before user modeling servers can be deployed to real-world application environments with potentially millions of users, their runtime behavior must be experimentally verified under realistic workload conditions to ascertain their satisfactory performance in the target domain. This paper discusses performance experiments which systematically vary the number of profiles available in the user mode...

Recognizing that the use of spreadsheets within finance will likely not subside in the near future, this paper discusses a major barrier that is preventing more organizations from adopting enterprise spreadsheet management programs. But even without a corporate mandated effort to improve spreadsheet controls, finance functions can still take simple yet effective steps to start managing the risk...

in many statistical process control applications, the quality of a process is characterized by a profile. a profile is a function in terms of one or more explanatory variables. in profile monitoring, one is interested to monitor the performance of a process or product using this functional relationship. control charts for monitoring nonparametric profiles are useful when the relationship is too...

Introduction: Cognitive abilities are necessary for successful learning. Children with different cognitive ability levels may have diverse performances. The current study aimed at investigating the cognitive profile in children and its relationship with Academic Performance. Methods: The population of the current cross sectional study consisted of all students in Jajarm City, Iran. The subject...

Sometimes the relationship between dependent and explanatory variable(s) known as profile is monitored. Simple linear profiles among the other types of profiles have been more considered due to their applications especially in calibration. There are some studies on the monitoring them when the observations within each profile are autocorrelated. On the other hand, estimating the change point le...

A profile is a relationship between a response variable and one or more independent variables being controlled during the time. Process Capability Indices (PCI) are measured to evaluate the performance of processes in producing conforming products. Despite frequent applications of profile and a variety of available methods to monitor its different types, little researches have been carried out ...