RATIONALE, AIMS AND OBJECTIVES The management of many inherited metabolic disorders (IMDs) is dependent on nutrition intervention, but few clinical management guidelines for these uncommon disorders exist. Clinicians are forced to make nutrition treatment decisions using limited data. This results in clinical variations in both service and cost. We describe a method for establishing management ...

Organizational loafing is the phenomenon of a person exerting less effort to achieve a goal when they work in an organizational group than when they work alone.This phenomenon is a serious problem in today's organizations.The research seeks to explain factors affecting the phenomenon of organizational loafing. First, the elites’ opinion through Delphi technique about the indicators influencing ...

Cross-impact analysis is only one of the interesting paths being pursued in the exploration of the frontiers of Delphi. In this chapter we consider other significant prospects uncovered in recent research. The problem of "reduction" occurs again and again in Delphi as well as other analysis efforts. How similar are the goals, programs, and objectives? Do these items overlap? Dalkey in his artic...

In the last 30 years, the application of the Delphi technique has been increasing. With the recent availability and established popularity of Internet-based research tools, the Internet has been identified as a means for mitigating Delphi limitations, maximizing its advantages, and expanding the breadth of its application. The discourse on the application of “e-Delphi” has been speculative in n...

BACKGROUND Accurate modeling of electrostatic potential and corresponding energies becomes increasingly important for understanding properties of biological macromolecules and their complexes. However, this is not an easy task due to the irregular shape of biological entities and the presence of water and mobile ions. RESULTS Here we report a comprehensive suite for the well-known Poisson-Bol...

This paper focuses on the multiperspective requirements that influence mobile collaborative maintenance adoption and implementation in engineering asset management organizations. Mobile technologies have developed rapidly and they are viewed as business enablers, and have the potential to support asset maintenance practice. Nowadays, several specialized systems have been invested in by engineer...

As part of a wider study of the relevance of the principles and practices of the Slow Movement to the information disciplines and professions, a Delphi study was carried out with 17 researchers in information behaviour and practices. A novel variant of the Delphi technique, termed the Slow Delphi, was devised for this study. This is aimed at eliciting qualitative understanding of complex concep...

To promote the development of electric vehicles (EVs), many charging stations have been built. The construction of charging stations costs a lot, hence it’s necessary to evaluate their energy efficiency due to their main aims of energy conservation. In this paper, a fuzzy model based on the fuzzy comprehensive evaluation (FCE) and analytic hierarchy process (AHP) is presented to evaluate the en...

Recent advances in information technology management reflect the growing understanding that the most significant asset at risk is not hardware or facilities but, rather, the information that those assets service. An ongoing debate exists as to how—or whether—information can be valued. This chapter provides an overview and detailed guidance for one proven method of information valuation, the Del...

One of the largest challenges facing educators teaching object-oriented courses is deciding how to evaluate each students programming skill. This research focus on how we addressed this challenge in object oriented programming course by proposing a new assessment method to assess students’ object-oriented programming skills. The process begins by identifying generic object-oriented skills that ...