This article aims to examine board effectiveness through a new lens, based on human ideologies rather than traditional characteristics such as board size. We compare the self-interest and the altruist ideology to identify the process that leads to involvement in three board tasks: cooperation with other members, strategically-oriented tasks and stakeholder-oriented tasks. Our results show the s...

Intensive care medicine remains one of the most cost-driving areas within hospitals with high personnel costs. Under the scope of limited budgets and reimbursement, realistic needs are essential to justify personnel staffing. Unfortunately, all existing staffing models are top-down calculations with a high variability in results. We present a workload-oriented model, integrating quality of care...

This paper presents a high level dynamic task allocation algorithm that is inspired by the biological development process and the immune system. For a microprocessor (μP) array, a program is partitioned into a number of workload oriented tasks with data dependencies and a few internal status-oriented tasks. Each μP in the array is capable of processing one of these tasks. The algorithm assigns ...

We present the design and implementation of a task-oriented system, that dynamically binds user tasks to available devices and services within a ubiquitous environment. The system provides users with a task-based interface for interacting with the environment. This interface is re-oriented around user tasks, rather than particular functions of individual devices or services. The system has two ...

The article examines the content and structure of competence-oriented tasks (COT), which are used in process training future geography teachers higher education institutions (HEI); an own definition term COT is proposed its conceptual basis characterized.
 leading features geographical disciplines COT, their structural components, particular motivation, providing question with form, explai...

Evidence-based healthcare integrates the best research evidence with clinical expertise in order to make decisions based on practices available. In this context, task of collecting all relevant information, a recall oriented task, take right decision within reasonable time frame has become an important issue. paper, we investigate problem building effective Consumer Health Search (CHS) systems ...

This empirical research was undertaken as part of a multi method programme of research to investigate unsupported claims made of object oriented technology A series of subject based laboratory experiments including an internal replication tested the e ect of inheritance depth on the maintainability of object oriented software Subjects were timed performing identical maintenance tasks on object ...

Satellite observation scheduling plays a significant role in improving the efficiency of satellite observation systems. Although many scheduling algorithms have been proposed, emergency tasks, characterized as importance and urgency (e.g., observation tasks orienting to the earthquake area and military conflict area), have not been taken into account yet. Therefore, it is crucial to investigate...