OBJECTIVE To identify, with the assistance of computational techniques, rules concerning the conditions of the physical environment for the classification of risk micro-areas. METHODS Exploratory research carried out in Curitiba, Southern Brazil, in 2007. It was divided into three phases: the identification of attributes to classify a micro-area; the construction of a database; and the proces...

Student selection for Undergraduate Medical Education Programmes (UGME) is a highly selective process globally. Health care practice requires many attributes like communication skills, professionalism, critical thinking and problem solving in addition to cognitive abilities. This study reports the development and administration of Multiple Mini Interviews (MMI), the descriptive and psychometric...

The development of efficient mass transit systems that provide quality of service is a major challenge for modern societies. To meet this challenge, it is essential to understand user demand. This article proposes using new time-dependent attributes to represent demand, attributes that differ from those that have traditionally been used in the design and planning of this type of transit system....

The group of attributes (characteristics, requirements) related to green software is essential part of software quality model. It consists of the two main attributes as a resources (energy) saving and sustainability. Evolution of software quality models is analyzed in context of green and reliability. In particular, well known software quality models beginning from on the first McCall’s model (...

In this paper, we introduce the concept of oblivious transfer with threshold access control. Namely, for each message in a database, the server associates an attribute set τ with it such that the message can only be available, on request, to the users who possess at least t attributes out of τ. Meanwhile, after the server and users execute the protocol, the server will not learn anything about ...

Recent theory and experimental work in metapopulations and metacommunities demonstrates that long-term persistence is maximized when the rate at which individuals disperse among patches within the system is intermediate; if too low, local extinctions are more frequent than recolonizations, increasing the chance of regional-scale extinctions, and if too high, dynamics exhibit region-wide synchro...

The purpose of this study is to examine the relationship between local government services and the overall satisfaction of users with the e–recruitment website (e–job website) in Taiwan. A two–dimensional mean value matrix (TDMVM) technique was used to explore the identification, classification, and application of website service quality. The results show that the asymmetrical relationship betw...

Attribute based encryption (ABE) is a good way to achieve flexible and secure access control to data, and attribute revocation is the extension of the attribute-based encryption, and the keyword search is an indispensable part for cloud storage. The combination of both has an important application in the cloud storage. In this paper, we construct a searchable attribute-based encryption scheme w...

avo analysis is a technique which is widely used in industry and is applied on seismic prestack data. results from changes in seismic wave reflection amplitude versus offset can be used in extracting elastic properties and hence lithology and reservoirs pore fluid identification. before performing avo analysis studies, processing steps should be ensured that changes in reflection amplitude are ...