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Based on rich literatures, this paper develops and tests an integrative model to examine the relationships between service quality, satisfaction, and trust of rural tourists and to investigate impacts of them on loyalty. The model is tested using surveyed data from 320 rural tourists. The findings reveal that service quality has an indirect influence on loyalty mediating by satisfaction and trust,...
The aim of this paper is to incorporate reliability aspects in the transmission planning process presented in previous work. The decision maker has to consider many different aspects during the definition of transmission planning strategy, that sometimes might be contradicting. In the whole planning framework the decision is made by combining economic, environmental, and security of supply criteria...
While the importance of tourist loyalty has been recognized by academic researchers for at least four decades, adequate tourist loyalty models have not been developed or validated. This study presents a tourist loyalty model of tourism mobile commerce and explores the relationship of service quality, tourist satisfaction, tourist trust and tourist loyalty. The structural model was tested on a sample...
As Chinese managers concentrate on career success, one issue with the most concern is how their career success is prepared, realized, and evaluated. However, recent research neglects career success evaluation model of Chinese managers. Based on career theory with the theory applied in recent career success research, the paper aims at establishing a novel career success evaluation model of Chinese...
The present paper offers a geometric technique for calculating highly accurate point clouds from an image stack of two-dimensional medical computer tomography (CT). A new algorithm is presented herein to construct a point cloud from computer tomography (CT) scan image. The main device of the present method relies on a combination between full advantage of digital (CT X-ray) and computer technology...
A randomly distributed microphone array is considered in this work. In many applications exact design of the array is impractical. The performance of these arrays, characterized by a large number of microphones deployed in vast areas, cannot be analyzed by traditional deterministic methods. We therefore derive a novel statistical model for performance analysis of the MWF beamformer. We consider the...
In this paper, a multistate deteriorate system with preventive repair is studied. Assume that the system has K different failure states. The work will be interrupted and the preventive repair will be executed as soon as the system reliability reaches an undetermined constant R. Our objective is to find the optimal policy such that the long-run expected cost per unit time is minimal. By using a bivariate...
The possibility of failure occurrence on the grid resources are not negligible and should be considered. This paper proposes a dependable and efficient model for scheduling of safety-critical applications in grid systems. The other focus in this paper is to minimize resource consumption and consequently decrease the cost of requested services in the economic grid. A hybrid and dynamic fault tolerance...
Structural damage to BGA interconnects incurred during vibration testing has been monitored in the pre-failure space using resistance spectroscopy based state space vectors, rate of change of the state variable, and acceleration of the state variable. The technique is intended for condition monitoring in high reliability applications where the knowledge of impending failure is critical and the risks...
In this paper, the comparison within documents were introduced, including MP, China C&I, FSC Principle and Zhejiang Provincial C&I. Then a modeling structure for sustainable forest management criteria for a unit level was conducted. This was a case study in Kaihua state owned forest farm in south China. Considering the situation of the farm a questionnaire form was given followed the CIFOR...
To reflect the bilateral transaction's uncertain impact on the grid, the effective reserve and the reserve channel margin are defined. And reserve capacity is modeled based on stochastic simulation and bi-level programming considering the congestion risk, which the reserve services are regarded as object of study in the open power market environment. The upper optimization level is to maximize the...
This work presents the splitting of the JPEG2000 file into two parts to be stored on two different systems. One fragment, which contains the most important information, is stored in a system with a high reliability but slow transfer rate and small capacity. The other fragment is stored in a high-capacity and fast speed but lower reliability system.
Reliability is a main technical index for aircraft of long life cycle and long storage period. Periodic test is a reasonable confirmation for keep a good reliability of aircraft system. If inspection and maintenance periodically is too long or short, it may exercise an influence upon low reliability and high economy. So, the optimal testing period is the effective way for a good reliability of aircraft...
Software quality is always the target of disagreement between developers and users because of its subjective nature. The problem with software quality is the lack of formal definitions. Furthermore, quality metrics are based on empirical indices. This paper presents a method to the application of formal modeling techniques in the subject of software quality verification. We give a high-level view...
System diagnostics, also called system fault diagnostics or fault diagnostics is critical to reduce mean time to repair (MTTR), maintain the availability and keep cost of ownership down. In this paper, a model-based diagnosis approach using hybrid causal model utilizing probabilistic reasoning is introduced. This model has the advantages of being general and integrated with probabilistic reasoning...
This paper proposes a new methodology for evaluating the probabilistic reliability of a grid constrained composite power system including wind turbine generators (WTG). The proposed model can consider capacity limitations and transmission line unavailability. The importance of renewable energy sources has been growing at a rapid rate due to environmental concerns. In particular, wind energy is one...
This research examines optimal operation of microgrid systems. Microgrids are disaggregated from main transmission grid. Microgrids are able to integrate distributed renewable energy, take advantage of waste heat, provide higher power reliability, reduce electricity transmission loss, and decrease greenhouse gas emissions. The study considers solar power, wind power, biomass power, gas turbine, fuel...
Virtual test (VT) is broadly used in great systems which feature high-complexity and high-cost. Whether VT data can be accepted is determined by credibility of the models. The main approach of credibility check is test and evaluation (T&E), which is validating the consistency of models with animated entities via specific criteria. The underwater unmanned vehicle (UUV) virtual test is introduced...
There are many uncertainties during logistics operation. It's the best way for coping with influences of uncertainties and increasing the efficiency and effect of logistics system to maintain proper flexibility. Evaluation on flexibility of logistics system is precondition and key for building and holding the flexibility of logistics system. In this paper, the flexible indexes of three stages including...
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