Operators and domain practitioners often complain that automation is brittle, opaque, and ‘not worth the effort’ to use. This paper reviews automation problems and methods for the design of ‘cognitive automation.’ Cognitive automation is software intended to automate cognitive activities, such as situation assessment, monitoring, and fault management, that are currently performed by human opera...

The genesis of mixed layer temperature anomalies across the Indian Ocean are analysed in terms of the underlying heat budget components. Observational data, for which a seasonal budget can be computed, and a climate model output, which provides improved spatial and temporal coverage for longer time scales, are examined. The seasonal climatology of the model heat-budget is broadly consistent wit...

This descriptive cross sectional census study identified the perceptions of Extension and Outreach employees of Iowa State University in the United States about job autonomy and control after two years of a major restructuring. Employees perceived autonomy and control over expressing views and ideas about their work and spending time on the job but perceived little influence over budget allocat...

the present study was undertaken to compare the in hospital results of coronary artery bypass graft (cabg) with (on pump) or without (off pump) cardiopulmonary bypass (cpb). data were collected on all first-time isolated cabgs with saphenous vein and/or artery grafts at shahid madani hospital in tabriz-iran, between 2006 and 2009. age and clinical profile were marched between on pump and off pu...

As China moves forward in its transition toward a market economy, the budget becomes increasingly important as a policy instrument. Along with monetary policy, it is the Government’s main tool for maintaining macroeconomic stability and allocating resources to achieve policy objectives, taking over the role that used to be preformed by the Plan. As the Plan is stripped of its resource support a...

Maximizing economic earnings is the most common goal in cut-off grade optimization of open-pit mining operations. When this is the case, the price of the product has a critical effect on optimum value of cut-off grade. This paper investigates the relationship between optimum cut-off grade and price to maximize total cash flow and net percent value (NPV) of operation. In order to visualize this ...

In this study proposed is an off-set-based direct-cover near-minimum minimization method for singleoutput Boolean functions represented in a sum-of-products form. To obtain the complete set of prime implicants including given on-cube (on-minterm), the proposed method uses off-cubes (off-minterms) expanded by this On-cube. The amount of temporary results produced by this method does not exceed t...