Vehicle sounds are important factors of customer satisfaction and have a decisive influence on the product automobile and its quality impression. It becomes more and more important to connect customer requirements and technical specifications to develop a vehicle sound with high quality. The turn indicator sound can be described as one sound, which gives the customer an important feedback of co...

This essay discusses the results of World Happiness Report 2022. There are no surprises in report. The happiest countries world have been same for years: rich and relatively egalitarian countries. But we must not draw hasty conclusions, nor convert subjective indicator well-being into an exclusive objective development. In fact, poor with marked social problems also show good happiness index. s...

Engineering design in mechanics is a complex activity taking into account both objective modeling processes derived from physical analysis and designers’ subjective reasoning. This paper introduces arc-elastic dominance as a suitable concept for ranking design solutions according to a combination of objective and subjective models. Objective models lead to the aggregation of information derived...

OBJECTIVE This report compares self-reported diabetes in the National Health Interview Survey (NHIS) with diabetes identified using the Medicare Chronic Condition (CC) Summary file. BACKGROUND NHIS records have been linked with Medicare data from the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services. The CC Summary file, one of several linked files derived from Medicare claims data, contains indicator...

BACKGROUND Statistical numeracy is essential for understanding health-related risks and making informed medical decisions. However, this concept has not been investigated with probabilistic national samples or compared cross-culturally. We sought (1) to investigate differences in the level of statistical numeracy between 2 countries with different educational and medical systems-the United Stat...

In this paper we present our method ValidKI for designing key indicators to monitor the fulfillment of business objectives. A set of key indicators is valid with respect to a business objective if it can be used to measure the degree to which the business or relevant part thereof complies with the business objective. ValidKI consists of three main steps each of which is divided into sub-steps. ...

Multi-objective optimization design of gear shaft, first determine the variables, shaft structure size mainly includes length and radius size, diameter as variable, equivalent force is an important indicator static performance, optimized with maximum goal.

As predictive capabilities advance and human-model fidelity increases, so must validation of such predictions and models. However, subjective validation is sufficient only as an initial indicator; thorough, systematic studies must be conducted as well. Thus, the purpose of this paper is to validate postures that are determined using single-objective optimization (SOO) and multi-objective optimi...

In this paper we present our method ValidKI for designing indicators to monitor the fulfillment of business objectives with particular focus on quality and ICT-supported monitoring of indicators. A set of indicators is valid with respect to a business objective if it measures the degree to which the business or relevant part thereof fulfills the business objective. ValidKI consists of six main ...