II I assure the single handed composition of this master's thesis only supported by declared resources. Abstract Today's enterprises are faced with an increasing rate of change in the economic environment. Underlying factors are the increased customization of products and services coupled with globalization and a more competitive market situation. Enterprises have to continuously adapt to these...

Citation: Grüss A, Drexler MD, Ainsworth CH, Babcock EA, Tarnecki JH and Love MS (2018) Producing Distribution Maps for a Spatially-Explicit Ecosystem Model Using Large Monitoring and Environmental Databases and a Combination of Interpolation and Extrapolation. Front. Mar. Sci. 5:16. doi: 10.3389/fmars.2018.00016 Producing Distribution Maps for a Spatially-Explicit Ecosystem Model Using Large M...

BACKGROUND Asthma inflammatory phenotypes are often defined by relative cell counts of airway eosinophils/neutrophils. However, the importance of neutrophilia remains unclear, as does the effect of ICS treatment on asthma phenotypes and airway neutrophil function. The purpose of this study was to assess asthma phenotype prevalence/characteristics in a community setting, and, in a nested prelimi...

Agent-based computational economics (ACE) combines elements from economics and computer science. In this paper, we focus on the relation between the evolutionary technique that is used and the economic problem that is modeled. Current economic simulations often derive parameter settings for the genetic algorithm directly from the values of the economic model parameters. In this paper we show th...

SUMMARY: NMFS has received an application from SAExploration, Inc. (SAE) for an Incidental Harassment Authorization (IHA) to take marine mammals, by harassment, incidental to a marine 3-dimensional (3D) ocean bottom node (OBN) seismic surveys program in the state and federal waters of the Beaufort Sea, Alaska, during the open-water season of 2014. Pursuant to the Marine Mammal Protection Act (M...

The fact that environmental assessment (EA) practice is executed by multiple practitioners from different stakeholder groups with varying interests means individually molded ideas of are brought into collaborative spaces, where they negotiated and reworked an practice. This research investigates the practitioner's ability to constitute change their practice, in terms how individual motivations ...

Osteoarthritis (OA) is one of the most common musculoskeletal disorders all over the world. Available anti-arthritic medications have only partial efficacy and their long-term use is associated with adverse events. Elaeagnus Angustifolia (EA) is a medicinal plant with analgesic and anti-inflammatory properties. The present study evaluated the impact of two doses of EA extract compared with ibup...

This study aims to evaluate the mediating role of sustainability in relationship between environmental-accounting (EA) disclosures and audit quality (AQ) firm performance (FP) by using GDP size as controlled variables. Data were collected from annual reports 80 manufacturing firms that listed on PSX during last 10 years (2011–2020). STATA 13 software a multiple-regression model used. The findin...

background: sickle-cell disease (scd) is an inherited hemoglobin childhood disorder, frequently complicated by pulmonary hypertension and cardiac involvement. cardiovascular events and complications are the leading cause of mortality and morbidity in patients with scd. tissue doppler imaging and the myocardial performance index (tei index), are simple indices for the assessment of the cardiac f...

Deepening our understanding of the characteristics and behaviors of population-based search algorithms remains an important ongoing challenge in Evolutionary Computation. To date however, most studies of Evolutionary Algorithms have only been able to take place within tightly restricted experimental conditions. For instance, many analytical methods can only be applied to canonical algorithmic f...