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A Radial Estimation-of-Distribution Algorithm for the Job-Shop Scheduling Problem
Ricardo Pérez-Rodríguez
Jan 01, 2022
The job-shop environment has been widely studied under different approaches. It is due to its practical characteristic that makes its research interesting. Therefore, the job-shop scheduling problem continues being attracted to...
Published by: IGI Global
Recommendation System for Sightseeing Tours
This research proposes a model of a recommendation system (RS) for tourist itineraries. The RS suggests tips of what to visit in a city, based on the available time, personal preferences, current geo-location, and the user's...
Business and Management Hospitality, Travel, and Tourism Management Hospitality, Travel, & Tourism Management
Published by: IGI Global
A Physiological-Monitoring Electronic Platform for Cattle Grazing Systems
Ricardo Santos, Fabiana Alves, Patrik Bressan, Ricardo Aguiar, Wellington Santos, Rafael Costa
Jul 01, 2020
In this work, we present a non-invasive electronic platform for physiological data acquisition on cattle grazing systems. The platform can be used for dairy and beef cattle to continuously monitor physiological variables such as...
Environmental Technologies Environmental, Agricultural, and Physical Sciences Environmental Science and Technologies
Published by: IGI Global
Price Strategy, Market Orientation, and Business Performance in the Hotel Industry
This study seeks to study the relationship between market orientation and business performance and to evaluate the mediating effect of adopting a low-price strategy in this relationship in the hotel industry. A sample from the...
Published by: IGI Global
The Effect of Reciprocity on Mobile Wallet Intention
The authors build on the literature on reciprocity by exploring a prevalent social and economic phenomenon in the Philippines where individuals with positive mobile phone balances can SMS loads to acquaintances. This practice is...
Published by: IGI Global
Ingestive Behaviour Activities Based on Bioacoustic Signals in Grazing Cattle
This work focuses on the development of an autonomous, electronic platform based on bioacoustic techniques to monitor animal sounds related to ingestive activities and sub-activities in beef cattle. The authors have developed an...
Environmental Technologies Environmental, Agricultural, and Physical Sciences Environmental Science and Technologies
Published by: IGI Global
An Interoperable Framework for Computational Models of Emotion
Computational models of emotion (CMEs) are software systems designed to emulate specific aspects of the human emotions process. The underlying components of CMEs interact with cognitive components of cognitive agent...
Published by: IGI Global
Self and Peer E-Assessment
In recent years, universities and other academic institutions have been performing collaborative learning to improve the students' skills, competencies, and learning outcomes. The problem-based learning approach is a learning...
Published by: IGI Global
Profiling IT Security and Interoperability in Brazilian Health Organisations From a Business Perspective
Rui Rijo, Ricardo Martinho, Adicinéia Oliveira, Domingos Alves, Zilma Reis, Cátia Santos-Pereira, Manuel Correia, Luís Antunes, Ricardo Cruz-Correia
Apr 01, 2020
The proliferation of electronic health (e-Health) initiatives in Brazil over the last 2 decades has resulted in a considerable fragmentation within health information technology (IT), with a strong political interference. The...
Published by: IGI Global
Benchmarking Serverless Computing
With the increasing adoption of serverless computing, there is a need for a benchmark. The aim of this paper is to present such a benchmark based on performance and usability testing to better understand serverless services as...
Published by: IGI Global
Benefits Measurement of a Plan to Reduce Hypertension in a Healthcare Foundation Using the BCTool
Leandro Pereira, Vânia Patrício, António Fernandes, José Santos, Ricardo Santos, Carlos Jerónimo, Francisco Simões
Nov 01, 2021
The hypertension is a well know problem and associated with a high salt consuming is one of the commonest chronic diseases.To measure the impact of this consuming it has been applied the methodology provided by the Business Case...
Published by: IGI Global
Targeting earlier diagnosis
Colin F Munro, Ratko Yurac, Zipser Carl Moritz, Michael G Fehlings, Ricardo Rodrigues-Pinto, James Milligan, Konstantinos Margetis, Mark R N Kotter, Benjamin M Davies
Apr 17, 2023
Background
Degenerative cervical myelopathy (DCM) is a common and disabling condition. Early effective treatment is limited by late diagnosis. Conventional descriptions of DCM focus on motor and sensory limb disability...
Published by: PLOS ONE
Solving the conundrum of intra-specific variation in metabolic rate: A multidisciplinary conceptual and methodological toolkit: New technical developments are opening the door to an understanding of why metabolic rate varies among individual animals of a species
Neil B Metcalfe, Jakob Bellman, Pierre Bize, Pierre U Blier, Amélie Crespel, Neal J Dawson, Ruth E Dunn, Lewis G Halsey, Wendy R Hood, Mark Hopkins, Shaun S Killen, Darryl McLennan, Lauren E Nadler, Julie JH Nati, Matthew J Noakes, Tommy Norin, Susan E Ozanne, Malcolm Peaker, Amanda K Pettersen, Anna Przybylska-Piech, Alann Rathery, Charlotte Récapet, Enrique Rodríguez, Karine Salin, Antoine Stier, Elisa Thoral, Klaas R Westerterp, Margriet S Westerterp-Plantenga, Michał S Wojciechowski, Pat Monaghan
Apr 12, 2023
Researchers from diverse disciplines, including organismal and cellular physiology, sports science, human nutrition, evolution and ecology, have sought to understand the causes and consequences of the surprising variation in...
CEERS Key Paper. III. The Diversity of Galaxy Structure and Morphology at z = 3–9 with JWST
Jeyhan S. Kartaltepe, Caitlin Rose, Brittany N. Vanderhoof, Elizabeth J. McGrath, Luca Costantin, Isabella G. Cox, L. Y. Aaron Yung, Dale D. Kocevski, Stijn Wuyts, Henry C. Ferguson, Micaela B. Bagley, Steven L. Finkelstein, Ricardo O. Amorín, Brett H. Andrews, Pablo Arrabal Haro, Bren E. Backhaus, Peter Behroozi, Laura Bisigello, Antonello Calabrò, Caitlin M. Casey, Rosemary T. Coogan, M. C. Cooper, Darren Croton, Alexander de la Vega, Mark Dickinson, Adriano Fontana, Maximilien Franco, Andrea Grazian, Norman A. Grogin, Nimish P. Hathi, Benne W. Holwerda, Marc Huertas-Company, Kartheik G. Iyer, Shardha Jogee, Intae Jung, Lisa J. Kewley, Allison Kirkpatrick, Anton M. Koekemoer, James Liu, Jennifer M. Lotz, Ray A. Lucas, Jeffrey A. Newman, Camilla Pacifici, Viraj Pandya, Casey Papovich, Laura Pentericci, Pablo G. Pérez-González, Jayse Petersen, Nor Pirzkal, Marc Rafelski, Swara Ravindranath, Raymond C. Simons, Gregory F. Snyder, Rachel S. Somerville, Elizabeth R. Stanway, Amber N. Straughn, Sandro Tacchella, Jonathan R. Trump, Jesús Vega-Ferrero, Stephen M. Wilkins, Guang Yang, Jorge A. Zavala
Apr 14, 2023
We present a comprehensive analysis of the evolution of the morphological and structural properties of a large sample of galaxies at z = 3–9 using early James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) CEERS NIRCam observations. Our sample...
Published by: The American Astronomical Society
Bridging pre-surgical endocrine therapy for breast cancer during the COVID-19 pandemic
Rajiv V Dave, Beatrix Elsberger, Vicky P Taxiarchi, Ashu Gandhi, Cliona C Kirwan, Baek Kim, Elizabeth M Camacho, Charlotte E Coles, Ellen Copson, Alona Courtney, Kieran Horgan, Patricia Fairbrother, Chris Holcombe, Jamie J Kirkham, Daniel R Leff, Stuart A McIntosh, Rachel O'Connell, Ricardo Pardo, Shelley Potter, Tim Rattay, Nisha Sharma, Raghavan Vidya, Ramsey I Cutress, B-MaP-C study collaborative
Apr 17, 2023
PURPOSE: The B-MaP-C study investigated changes to breast cancer care that were necessitated by the COVID-19 pandemic. Here we present a follow-up analysis of those patients commenced on bridging endocrine therapy (BrET), whilst...
CEERS Key Paper. II. A First Look at the Resolved Host Properties of AGN at 3 < z < 5 with JWST
Dale D. Kocevski, Guillermo Barro, Elizabeth J. McGrath, Steven L. Finkelstein, Micaela B. Bagley, Henry C. Ferguson, Shardha Jogee, Guang Yang, Mark Dickinson, Nimish P. Hathi, Bren E. Backhaus, Eric F. Bell, Laura Bisigello, Véronique Buat, Denis Burgarella, Caitlin M. Casey, Nikko J. Cleri, M. C. Cooper, Luca Costantin, Darren Croton, Emanuele Daddi, Adriano Fontana, Seiji Fujimoto, Jonathan P. Gardner, Eric Gawiser, Mauro Giavalisco, Andrea Grazian, Norman A. Grogin, Yuchen Guo, Pablo Arrabal Haro, Michaela Hirschmann, Benne W. Holwerda, Marc Huertas-Company, Taylor A. Hutchison, Kartheik G. Iyer, Brenda Jones, Stéphanie Juneau, Jeyhan S. Kartaltepe, Lisa J. Kewley, Allison Kirkpatrick, Anton M. Koekemoer, Peter Kurczynski, Aurélien Le Bail, Arianna S. Long, Jennifer M. Lotz, Ray A. Lucas, Casey Papovich, Laura Pentericci, Pablo G. Pérez-González, Nor Pirzkal, Marc Rafelski, Swara Ravindranath, Rachel S. Somerville, Amber N. Straughn, Sandro Tacchella, Jonathan R. Trump, Stephen M. Wilkins, Stijn Wuyts, L. Y. Aaron Yung, Jorge A. Zavala
Apr 14, 2023
We report on the host properties of five X-ray-luminous active galactic nuclei (AGN) identified at 3 < z < 5 in the first epoch of imaging from the Cosmic Evolution Early Release Science Survey. Each galaxy has been imaged with...
Published by: The American Astronomical Society