Having a comprehensive evaluation model with reliable data is useful to improve performance of supply chain. In this paper, according to the nature of supply chain, a model is presented that able to evaluate the performance of the supply chain by a network data envelopment analysis model and by using the financial, intellectual capital (knowledge base), collaboration and responsiveness factors ...

Characterizing the workload is a necessary part of any system performance evaluation effort. This necessity is a consequence of the sensitivity of the performance indices of interest, be they productivity or responsiveness indices, to the nature, composition and intensity of the workload processed by the system being evaluated. No matter how we define it, performance cannot be expressed by quan...

Using the Betty’s Brain Teachable Agents learning environment, we explored a potential relationship between a student’s responsiveness to pedagogical agent feedback and the student’s learning and performance in the system. We found that both dialogue and action responsiveness metrics were significantly correlated with learning gains in preto post-tests, but only action responsiveness was signif...

BACKGROUND World Health Organization (WHO) defines three goals to assess the performance of a health system: the state of health, fairness in financial contribution and responsiveness. We assessed the responsiveness of health system for patients with diabetes in a defined population cohort in Tehran, Iran. METHODS Total responsiveness and eight domains (prompt attention, dignity, communicatio...

present research seeks to review factors affecting responsiveness of training organizations to society network evolution. data from 500 directors and deputies of secondary schools in the city of tehran using stratified random sampling gathered through a questionnaire and analyzed using structural equation modeling. reliability of this questionnaire was calculated using cronbach's alpha at ...