wants to thank the ESI for the financial and administrative support during his tenure at the institute. 2 ABSTRACT Measurement theory is a branch of applied mathematics that clarifies how quantitative concepts can be defined and what their mathematical properties are. In this contribution ideas from measurement theory are applied to the fitness concept. It is shown that fitness can be quantifie...

Estimation (Forecasting) of industrial production costs is one of the most important factor affecting decisions in the highly competitive markets. Thus, accuracy of the estimation is highly desirable. Hibrid Regression Neural Network is an approach proposed in this paper to obtain better fitness in comparison with Regression Analysis and the Neural Network methods. Comparing the estimated resul...

Automatic text summarisation has long been studied and used. The growth in the amount of information on the web results in more demands for automatic methods for text summarisation. Designing a system to produce human-quality summaries is difficult and therefore, many researchers have focused on sentence or paragraph extraction, which is a kind of summarisation. In this paper, we introduce a ne...

the puppose of this research is identification of the impact of organizational culture factors and organizational structure factors on whistle-blowing. we used mixed method. at first stage, we used qualitative method; so, we used delphi technic and finally, by reaching consensus comments, we found 21 items with 0/441 coefficient of agreement. then, in the second stage, we use quantitative appro...

the purpose of the present study was to examine the psychometric features (construct reliability and validity) of baker’s  (2008) 13 - item work  related fondness questionnaire. so  260  employees of  iran air craft construction company were selected to respond to the questionnaire through multiple clustered random sampling. the exploring factor structure via varimax   rotation  in work  relate...

Despite the fundamental importance of mutation to the evolutionary process, we have little knowledge of the direct consequences of specific spontaneous mutations to the fitness of the organism. Combining results of whole-genome sequencing with repeated field assays of survival and reproduction, we quantify the combined effects on fitness of spontaneous mutations identified in Arabidopsis thalia...

Abstract The objective of this study was to adapt and investigate validity evidence for the Team Psychological Safety Survey Brazil test its feasibility emerge at team level. A sample 8,310 female workers answered scale. Initial analyses indicated single-factor solution fitness, with Cronbach’s alpha = 0.84. Confirmatory factor analysis model obtained good fitness coefficients, CFI 0.995, RMSEA...

Background—The prevalence of cardiovascular disease (CVD) is partly attributable to an inactive and/or overweight population. However, the independent association of body fatness and aerobic fitness with CVD risk factors is uncertain. We sought to determine whether fatness or fitness better predicted traditional CVD risk factors in men with broad fatness, aerobic fitness, and age ranges using 3...

BACKGROUND The prevalence of cardiovascular disease (CVD) is partly attributable to an inactive and/or overweight population. However, the independent association of body fatness and aerobic fitness with CVD risk factors is uncertain. We sought to determine whether fatness or fitness better predicted traditional CVD risk factors in men with broad fatness, aerobic fitness, and age ranges using 3...