The management of distributed software development projects presents many challenges. One of them happens right at the start of the project and consists of the allocation of tasks between remote teams. When allocating a task to a site, the project manager takes into account several factors such as technical knowledge of staff and proximity to the client. The project manager usually takes this d...

We provide a simple behavioral definition of ‘subjective mixture’ of acts for a large class of (not necessarily expected-utility) preferences. Subjective mixtures enjoy the same algebraic properties as the ‘objective mixtures’ used to great advantage in the decision setting introduced by Anscombe and Aumann (1963). This makes it possible to formulate mixture-space axioms in a fully subjective s...

PURPOSE To conduct a clinical validation of a virtual reality-based experimental system that is able to assess the spherical subjective refraction simplifying the methodology of ocular refraction. METHODS For the agreement assessment, spherical refraction measurements were obtained from 104 eyes of 52 subjects using three different methods: subjectively with the experimental prototype (Subj.E...

OBJECTIVE This study was aimed at clarifying the experience of weight loss and its related factors of thin females who still wished to lose weight among junior high school students. METHODS The subjects were 1,302 males and females in the second and third grades in 17 junior high schools in A area in Wakayama Prefecture, Japan. The anonymous self-administered questionnaire included items on a...

When the weight of each attribute is determined in the multiple attribute decision making problems, calculated by the method of subjective values or objective values solely will cause the problem that weight coefficient is not reasonable. So the paper puts forward the weightingmethod which is based on maximizing deviations and normalized constraint condition. The method integrates the subjectiv...

Contagious yawning-the urge to yawn when thinking about, listening to, or viewing yawning-is a well-documented phenomenon in humans and animals. The reduced yawn contagion observed in the autistic population suggested that it might be empathy related; however, it is unknown whether such a connection applies to nonclinical populations. We examined influences from both empathy (i.e., autistic tra...

In Jøsang's subjective logic, the consensus operator will have unreasonable results when the evidence with high conflict; the base rate (a) and non-informative prior weight (C) could not change dynamically. This paper proposed a dynamic subjective logic model that expand and rich the theory of Jøsang's subjective logic. Through the establishment of a cartesian coordinate system and using line /...

We tested the hypothesis that exercise would improve subjective sleep quality and activity in depressed elders. A 10-week randomized controlled trial was utilized. Participants consisted of a volunteer sample, aged > 60 with a diagnosis of major or minor depression or dysthymia. A total of 32 subjects aged 60-84 years with a mean age of 71.3 +/- 1.2 years was used. Intervention consisted of a s...