■ Abstract Subjective well-being (SWB), people’s emotional and cognitive evaluations of their lives, includes what lay people call happiness, peace, fulfillment, and life satisfaction. Personality dispositions such as extraversion, neuroticism, and self-esteem can markedly influence levels of SWB. Although personality can explain a significant amount of the variability in SWB, life circumstance...

Performance evaluation plays a key role in manufacturing system design and productivity improvement. Characterizing performance objectively is the first step. Inspired by the underlying structure of tandem queues, we have derived an approximate model to characterize the system performance. The model decomposes system queue time and variability into bottleneck and non-bottleneck parts while capt...

Plain, utilitarian ceramics from prehistoric farmers and foragers in north-western Utah are used to identify whether ceramics reflect mobility. Simple methods measure the degree of investment in ceramic manufacture. Investment is treated as a general concept that subsumes other assessments of ceramic variability such as use-life and function. Investment is compared with mobility using archaeolo...

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Objective: To determine the relationship between facial heights by evaluating the soft tissues and underlying skeleton and by analyzing vertical facial proportions in the anterior region. Methods: The study used 24 lateral cephalometric x-rays and 48 photographs of the face, 24 in profile view and 24 in front view, belonging to 24 Brazilian individuals, 7 men and 17 women whose ages ranged from...

Event Detection Identifying patterns of interest in large temporal datasets Spatial Scan Statistic A method for identifying hotspots in spatial data, widely used in epidemiology and biosurveillance Scoring Function An objective function that measures the anomalousness of a subset of data LTSS Linear-time subset scanning Time to Detect Evaluation metric; time delay before detecting an event Over...

Time and spatial scales matter. Time series analyses have been proven to be useful in capturing tendencies of a country’s economical behavior. Large-scale evaluations at national scale are essential to highlight the basic parameters relevant to smaller scale case studies (regional, local, and sectors). Due to the importance and variability of those parameters or indicators over time and spatial...