all organizations have structure. researchers emphasized the importance of the organizational structure to achieve the goals and mission of an organization. thus performance assessment of organizing is essential for managers and decision makers to find weaknesses and eliminate them. organizations are designed by different methods and process, based on same principles and theories. in this study...

Modern work requires multitasking and the need for sustained vigilance, which result in workrelated stress and increase the possibility of human error. So methods for estimating cognitive overload and mental fatigue of the brain during work performance are needed. Cognitive load (CL) refers to the amount of mental demand imposed by a task on a person, and has been associated with the limited ca...

Most of the tools and diagnosis models of Masticatory Efficiency (ME) are not well documented or severely limited to simple image processing approaches. This study presents a novel expert system for ME assessment based on automatic recognition of mixture patterns of masticated two-coloured chewing gums using a combination of computational intelligence and image processing techniques. The hypoth...

A regional disparity is becoming increasingly important growth constraint. Policy makers need quantitative knowledge to design effective and targeted policies. In this paper, the regional efficiency of healthcare facilities in Slovakia is measured (2008-2015) using data envelopment analysis (DEA). The DEA is the dominant approach to assessing the efficiency of the healthcare system but also oth...

Pedro LOPES, Ph.DCandidate (Corresponding author) 3 Department of Civil Engineering & MARE Marine and Environmental Sciences Centre, 4 University of Coimbra, [email protected] 5 Jorge LEANDRO, Ph.D 6 Department of Civil Engineering & MARE Marine and Environmental Sciences Centre, 7 University of Coimbra, [email protected] 8 Rita F. CARVALHO, Ph.D 9 Department of Civil ...

[1] Hurricane storm surge presents a major hazard for the United States. We apply a model‐based risk assessment methodology to investigate hurricane storm surge risk for New York City (NYC). We couple a statistical/deterministic hurricane model with the hydrodynamic model SLOSH (sea, lake, and overland surges from hurricanes) to generate a large number of synthetic surge events; the SLOSH model...

The social lending market, with over a billion dollars in loans, is a two-sided matching market where borrowers specify demands and lenders specify total budgets and their desired interest rates from each acceptable borrower. Because different borrowers correspond to different risk-return profiles, lenders have preferences over acceptable borrowers; a borrower prefers lenders in order of the in...

The SIVOR project, currently being developed by ITA and Embraer, consists of designing and implementing a high fidelity flight simulator based on the use of COTS industrial robots. The aim of the project is to provide a cost-efficient and flexible platform that can be used along the design phases of the aircraft. One of the advantages of an industrial robot over the traditional Stewart platform...