BACKGROUND Nurses often complain about overwork and underpay. It seems that the association between "quality of working life" (QWL) and the degree of nurses' involvement in their carrier is the critical factor in achieving a higher level of quality of care. This study aimed to assess the quality of working life and its association with "job performance" of the nurses in educational hospitals af...

Keeping planning problems as small as possible is a must in order to cope with complex tasks and environments. Earlier, we have described a method for cascading Description Logic (dl) representation and reasoning on the one hand, and Hierarchical Task Network (htn) action planning on the other. The planning domain description as well as the fundamental htn planning concepts are represented in d...

Adapting plans to changes in the environment by finding alternatives and taking advantage of opportunities is a common human behavior. The need for such behavior is often rooted in the uncertainty produced by our incomplete knowledge of the environment. While several existing planning approaches deal with such issues, artificial agents still lack the robustness that humans display in accomplish...

Archival documents are difficult to recognize because they are often damaged. Moreover, variations between documents are important even for documents having a priori the same structure. A recognition system to overcome these difficulties needs an external knowledge. Therefore we present a recognition system using an user description. To use table descriptions in analyzing the image, our system ...

this paper presents a rational haar wavelet operational method for solving the inverse laplace transform problemand improves inherent errors from irrational haar wavelet. the approach is thus straightforward, rather simple andsuitable for computer programming. we define that $p$ is the operational matrix for integration of the orthogonalhaar wavelet. simultaneously, simplify the formulaes of li...

During September 10-14, 2003, WTO members met in Cancún for a mid-term review of the Doha Round of trade negotiations, launched in November 2001. Trade ministers entered the 5 WTO Ministerial divided on agricultural and non-agricultural negotiating modalities, on whether to launch negotiations on the so-called Singapore issues and their possible scope, on the approach to take towards strengthen...

The present collection of articles in this special issue on selfdetermination theory (SDT) reflects the quality and creativity of the research conducted by Canadian motivation researchers. In this concluding article, we make some general comments that underscore common elements in these articles. Furthermore, we highlight some issues that may not have attracted researchers’ attention but would ...