assessment of tunnel face stability in unsaturated media based on limit analysis method mohammad amin nozari; mohammad maleki; behnam yousefi             analysis of the causes of contractor’s claims in the db contracts of underground projects in iran hadi talkhabi; majid parchami jalal; mahmood golabchi                         quality assessment of segmental lining installation in mechanized e...

Non-orthogonal multiple access (NOMA) makes multiple mobile users share the same frequency band. In a conventional NOMA scheme, a user pair that can be assigned to the same frequency resource is limited, which reduces the amount of capacity improvement possible. This is because a far user demodulates a signal without canceling an underlaid signal for a near user. In addition, semi-orthogonalmul...

─ Fair scheduling algorithms have been proposed to tackle the problem of bursty and location-dependent errors in wireless packet networks. Most of those algorithms ensure the fairness property and guarantee the QoS of all sessions in a large-scale cellular network such as GSM or GPRS.In this paper, we propose the Weighted-Sacrificing Fair Queueing (WSFQ) scheduling algorithm for small-area and ...

leprosy. 110 patients who underwent claw hand correction between 2002 and 2006 were followed up and studied. Brand’s criteria for objective assessment and a visual analog scale for subjective assessment were used. The factors studied were age, sex, clinical, duration of paralysis, long flexor tightness, degree of contracture and type of surgery. Objective assessment showed Excellent or Good res...

The assessment of scholarship assumes a central role in the evaluation of individual faculty, educational programs and academic fields. Because the production and assessment of scholarship is so central to the faculty role, it is incumbent upon decision makers to strive to make assessments of scholarship fair and equitable. This paper will focus on an approach to the assessment of the quantity ...

all societies face the need to make judgments about what interventions (both public health and personal medical) to provide to their populations under reasonable resource constraints. their decisions should be informed by good evidence and arguments from health technology assessment (hta). but if hta restricts itself to evaluations of safety, efficacy, and cost-effectiveness, it risks being vie...

Assessing numerous models from students in written exams or homework is an exhausting task. We present an approach for a fair and transparent assessment of the completeness of models according to a natural language domain description. The assessment is based on checklists generated by the tool Sumoχ. Sumoχ directly works on an annotated version of the original exam text, so no ‘gold standard’ i...

CONTEXT The Palliative Care Outcome Scale (POS) is an easy-to-use assessment tool to evaluate the effectiveness of palliative care. There is no published literature on the use of POS as an assessment tool in Malaysia. AIM To define the concordance in the assessment of quality of life between patients with advanced cancers and their palliative care nurses using a Malay version of the POS. SE...

We show that infinitesimal probabilities are much too small for modeling the individual outcome of a countably infinite fair lottery.