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Acquiring detailed knowledge of surface treatments effectiveness is required to improve performance-based decisions for allocating resources to preserve and maintain pavements on any road network. Measurement of treatment effectiveness is a complex task that requires historical records of treatments with observations of before and after performance trends. Lack of data is often an obstacle that impedes...
Contemporary lean thinking, especially in knowledge work areas like software engineering, begins with understanding flow. Architecture plays a vital role in enabling the flow of value in software engineering teams and organizations. To date there has been little research in understanding impediments to flow in software engineering organizations. A focus on enabling flow through removing impediments...
Wildlife crossing structures – underpasses and overpasses – have been constructed around the world and are used by many species of wildlife to safely cross roads and other linear infrastructures. However, there is still much to learn about their effectiveness at contributing to the preservation of biodiversity. How many and what kinds of structures do we need to reach the goals of mitigation? Without...
Key recommendations emerging from the contributed chapters are outlined, providing suggested directions for how the field can move forwards. Recurring themes include the necessity of building a larger evidence base with which to judge effectiveness, the scope for harm through non‐treatment and the vital need to increase identification rates. Objectives of screening programs must be clearly formulated...
When utilizing metal detectors at a large venue such as a sports stadium, there are the competing objectives of accuracy of the patron screening and the speed of throughput. This research, carried out in collaboration with the security staff at MetLife Stadium in New Jersey as well as other stadiums, analyzed two patron screening methods: handheld metal detectors (“wands”) and walk-through metal detectors...
The analysis of spatial processing effectiveness for the two variants of smart-antenna is studied: multi-beam antenna array with beam switching and adaptive antenna array. Efficiency is measured by the output signal-to-noise ratio. The boundary values of efficiency for arbitrary noise conditions are set. The recommendations for practical application are formulated.
Effectiveness of eLearning has been identified as an important aspect. It determines whether the stakeholders achieve the goals of eLearning. Unlike earlier, eLearning rapidly changes with the introduction of Massive Open Online Courses (MOOC). Since many students got access to experience eLearning via MOOC, perceptions of the factors leading to an effective eLearning changed according to current...
One of the goals of much virtual reality (VR) research is to increase realism. In particular, many techniques for locomotion in VR attempt to approximate real-world walking. However, it is not yet fully understood how the design of more realistic locomotion techniques affects user task performance. We performed an experiment to compare a semi-natural locomotion technique (based on the Virtusphere...
The complexity of scheduling problems grows as the number of objectives/criteria increase. While a majority of the multi criteria scheduling problems are known to be NP-Hard; near-optimal solution methods exist for quite a number of single criterion and bicriteria scheduling problems. This has encouraged researchers to explore the possibilities of reducing multi criteria scheduling problems to equivalent...
The intention of proposed work is to provide patient authentication, information secrecy and reliability based on reversible watermark. For this intension the image is divided into groups and R-S vector is resolute from the extracted groups and compressed using lossless compression technique. The MD5 hash value is calculated from the original medical image. Then add the MD5 hash value, compressed...
A water-cooled, fully-enclosed server cabinet is one type of hybrid cooling technology used in data centers to cool high power IT equipment. These types of cabinets employ a water/air heat exchanger. External chilled water is provided to the heat exchanger and circulating air inside the cabinet is supplied to the server intakes. One advantage of this type of hybrid system is that the heat removed...
Data centers take up a significant portion of the national energy consumption in the U.S., accounting for approximately 2% of the total electricity used in 2010. Around the world that percentage is growing at a rapid rate. Within data centers, cooling systems constitute a large portion of the energy consumed, accounting for roughly 25-35% of total expenditures. Many new data center cooling technologies...
One of the goals of much virtual reality (VR) research is to increase realism. In particular, many techniques for locomotion in VR attempt to approximate real-world walking. However, it is not yet fully understood how the design of more realistic locomotion techniques affects user task performance. We performed an experiment to compare a semi-natural locomotion technique (based on the Virtusphere...
The selection of the most suitable SG with regard to a given learning objective seems to be less well addressed in the literature. This paper reports on the application a new Characterizing and Assessing Serious Games Grid (CASGG) in the higher education field with 41 graduate students to assess their learning performance according to one leaning objective using a specific SG. The tested SG was Star...
This research paper develops a new method for assessing the effectiveness of learning and teaching technologies and selecting the most suitable learning and teaching technology for development in higher education. The relevant evaluation criteria are provided as a valuable reference for higher education institutions in establishing a standardized means of selecting the most suitable learning and teaching...
This paper attempts to explain the engineering education system in India and need for Institute-Industry Collaboration. The different parameters to assess the effectiveness of Institute-Industry Collaboration have been identified. The effectiveness of various types of Institute-Industry Collaboration is assessed. A methodology to improve the effectiveness is suggested. It is concluded that for effective...
Many engineering courses are being offered in an online mode by tertiary institutions around the world and frequently questions are raised about the quality, or effectiveness, of these courses. While institutions maintain that their online courses are designed and implemented in accordance with good practice there does not appear to be a generally accepted means of measuring and comparing quality...
Objective: To evaluate the clinical efficacy and safety of cytokine-induced killer (CIK) cells immunotherapy in combination with platinum chemotherapy and Xiaoji decoction in patients with advanced stage non-small cell lung cancer (NSCLC). Methods: Patients with advanced stage NSCLC were randomly assigned to Group A (platinum chemotherapy plus xiaoji decoction) and Group B (platinum chemotherapy plus...
Robot teacher have been used in many large country, but not in Malaysia. The question is, are the applications of robot teacher suitable to be used in Malaysia, or more specific, among their technical students in university level? Therefore, the purpose of this paper is to explain the construction of an experiment that specially designed to measure the effectiveness of teaching by human and robot...
The inception of e-learning technologies has led to a tremendous increase in the use of e-learning systems to support blended learning in Universities by providing a mix of face-to-face classroom teaching, live e-learning, self-paced e-learning and distance learning. Despite the existing benefits of using e-learning, some higher education institutions have not utilized e-learning to its full potential...
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