Evaluation is critical to understanding how participatory processes work and how they can be structured to maximize the benefits of stakeholder and decision maker collaboration. This presentation provides a framework for evaluating stakeholder involvement in decision making in science and technology. Specifically, the following topics are covered: 1) the importance of incorporating program eval...

Most procedures currently used for the structural and geometric design of pavements fail to treat adequately the effects of mixed traffic on pavement life. The effects of the magpitude$ the configuration, and the number of repetitions of various wheel loads should be included as variables in any good pavement design procedure. An analysis of the axle loads observed on Texas highways is used wit...

In this paper, a missing wind speed data temporal interpolation and extrapolation method in the wind energy industry was investigated. Given that traditional methods have previously ignored part of mixed uncertainty of wind speed, a concrete granular computing method is constructed and a new Measure–Correlate–Predict (MCP) method of wind speed data temporal interpolation and extrapolation consi...

the current study aims to investigate the effective factors on brand equity with an enphasis on monetary and non-monetary promotion and corporate image among students of shahid beheshti university. evaluation of variables was conducted by means of questionnaire. after determining reliability and validity, the questionnaire was distributed among the samples  including 344 students of shahid behe...

Background: There are limited studies examining the effectiveness of Mindful Sport Performance Enhancement (MSPE) on dispositional flow enhancement in recreational population. This is first empirical evaluation an online 4-week MSPE designed to enhance Chinese runners.