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The State Route 520 Floating Bridge in Seattle, Washington
Cheryl L White
Apr 09, 2013
The four longest floating bridges in the world are located in Seattle, Washington on the North West Coast of the United States of America. At 2.3 km long and 35 m wide, the Evergreen Point Floating Bridge, also known as the...
Civil Engineering (ENGI 8751) (Case Study) (Civil) (Floating Bridge) (SR 520) (Concrete Pontoons) (Seattle, Washington) (Evergreen Point Bridge)
Published by: Memorial University of Newfoundland
A System Dynamics Model for Sales and Operations Planning
The use of system dynamics techniques to model the sales and operations planning (S&OP), associated with the economic and financial processes, is an innovative proposal. The objectives of this article are to model and simulate...
Published by: IGI Global
"As Seen on TV"
Maria de la luz Matus-Mendoza
Aug 01, 2013
This paper reports on the usage of the Spanish subjunctive in televised media. Silva-Corvahin (1994) and Lavandera (1983) have researched the subjunctive extensively though without consideration of the language as used on...
Published by: Atlantic Provinces Linguistic Association
Creating the Citizen
This chapter presents an approach to civic education that integrates critical literacy with the research-based promising practices of civic education and the College, Career, and Civic Life (C3) Framework for Social Studies...
Civic Engagement & Social Justice Education Curriculum Development and Instructional Design Government and Law
Published by: IGI Global
Prediction of Bike Share Demand by Machine Learning
In the fourth industrial revolution period, multinational companies and start-ups have applied a sharing economy concept to their business and have attempted to better serve customer demand by integrating demand prediction...
Published by: IGI Global
Human Capital as a Mediating Factor of Structural Capital and Value Addition
Structural capital is one of the components of intellectual capital. The measurement is essential in order to obtain the real value of intellectual capital and its influence on the profitability of the business. The measurement...
Published by: IGI Global
Features Selection Study for Breast Cancer Diagnosis Using Thermographic Images, Genetic Algorithms, and Particle Swarm Optimization
Amanda Rodrigues da Silva, Maíra Araújo de Santana, Clarisse Lins de Lima, José Silva de Andrade, Thifany Silva de Souza, Maria Jacinto de Almeida, Washington Azevedo da Silva, Rita Fernandes de Lima, Wellington Pinheiro dos Santos
Jul 01, 2021
Early detection of breast cancer is critical to improve treatment efficiency and chance of cure. Mammography is the main method for breast cancer screening; however, it has some limitations. Infrared thermography is a technique...
Published by: IGI Global
Features Selection Study for Breast Cancer Diagnosis Using Thermographic Images, Genetic Algorithms, and Particle Swarm Optimization
Amanda Rodrigues da Silva, Maíra Araújo de Santana, Clarisse Lins de Lima, José Silva de Andrade, Thifany Silva de Souza, Maria Jacinto de Almeida, Washington Azevedo da Silva, Rita Fernandes de Lima, Wellington Pinheiro dos Santos
Jul 01, 2022
Early detection of breast cancer is critical to improve treatment efficiency and chance of cure. Mammography is the main method for breast cancer screening; however, it has some limitations. Infrared thermography is a technique...
Medical, Healthcare, and Life Sciences Medical Technologies Medical Informatics Computer Science and Information Technology Science and Engineering
Published by: IGI Global
Implementing a Digital Microcredential Strategy at the University of Washington Continuum College
This chapter explores the emergence of digital microcredentials and describes how the University of Washington's Continuum College is participating in the iterative design of infrastructures and approaches to support these new...
Higher Education Education Higher Education Social Sciences and Humanities Library and Information Science
Published by: IGI Global
Towards Ensemble Learning for Tracking Food Insecurity From News Articles
The study integrates ensemble learning into a task of classifying if a news article is on food insecurity or not. Similarity algorithms were exploited to imitate human cognition, an innovation to enhance performance. Four out of...
Published by: IGI Global
Professionalism Perception and Client Satisfaction
This research aims to evaluate the degree of customer satisfaction of the nightclubs with the security guards, as well as the perception of their professionalism in performing their duties. Using survey data from 479 nightclubs...
Published by: IGI Global
The Influence of Organizational Ambidexterity on SME Speed of Internationalization
Small and medium enterprises (SMEs) require a combination of organizational and individual skills to grow more rapidly in international markets. The question is whether there is an ideal combination to compete in the present...
Published by: IGI Global
Telepsychiatry
Numerous challenges have limited access to mental health services in rural areas. Some of these barriers have included transportation, number of providers, poverty, and lack of insurance. The purpose of this review was to...
Published by: IGI Global
A Patent Analysis on Big Data Projects
Studies concerning Big Data patents have been published; however, research investigating Big Data projects is scarce. Therefore, the objective of this study was to conduct an exploratory analysis of a patent database to collect...
Published by: IGI Global
fMRI Feature Extraction Model for ADHD Classification Using Convolutional Neural Network
Sampath Jayarathna, Dulani Meedeniya, Senuri De Silva, Sanuwani Dayarathna, Gangani Ariyarathne
Jan 01, 2021
Biomedical intelligence provides a predictive mechanism for the automatic diagnosis of diseases and disorders. With the advancements of computational biology, neuroimaging techniques have been used extensively in clinical data...
Published by: IGI Global
Impacts of the Application of Virtual and Augmented Reality on Teaching-Learning Processes in Engineering Courses
Cognitive approaches to teaching generate learning through the interaction between the subject and object of study. One of the strategies to create this interaction is related to the application of virtual and augmented reality...
Published by: IGI Global
Data Mining of MR Technical Parameters
Adriana Murraças, Paula Martins, Carlos Ferreira, Tiago Godinho, Augusto Ferreira da Silva
Jan 01, 2021
Exposure to radiofrequency (RF) energy during a magnetic resonance imaging exam is a safety concern related to biological thermal effects. Estimation of the specific absorption rate (SAR) is done by manufacturer scanner...
Published by: IGI Global
Relationship Between Learning Styles and Learning Objects
Luciana Assis, Ana Rodrigues, Alessandro Vivas, Cristiano Pitangui, Cristiano Silva, Fabiano Dorça
Jan 01, 2022
The automation of learning object recommendation and learning styles detection processes has attracted the interest of many researchers. Some works consider Learning Styles to recommend Learning Objects. On the other hand, other...
Published by: IGI Global
The SARS-CoV-2 Alpha variant was associated with increased clinical severity of COVID-19 in Scotland
David J. Pascall, Elen Vink, Rachel Blacow, Naomi Bulteel, Alasdair Campbell, Robyn Campbell, Sarah Clifford, Chris Davis, Ana da Silva Filipe, Noha El Sakka, Ludmila Fjodorova, Ruth Forrest, Emily Goldstein, Rory Gunson, John Haughney, Matthew T. G. Holden, Patrick Honour, Joseph Hughes, Edward James, Tim Lewis, Samantha Lycett, Oscar MacLean, Martin McHugh, Guy Mollett, Yusuke Onishi, Ben Parcell, Surajit Ray, David L. Robertson, Sharif Shabaan, James G. Shepherd, Katherine Smollett, Kate Templeton, Elizabeth Wastnedge, Craig Wilkie, Thomas Williams, Emma C. Thomson, The COVID-19 Genomics UK (COG-UK) Consortium
Apr 13, 2023
RESEARCH ARTICLE People and places Physical sciences Biology and life sciences Medicine and Health Sciences Computer and information sciences
Published by: Public Library of Science
Overview of the DESI Milky Way Survey
Andrew P. Cooper, Sergey E. Koposov, Carlos Allende Prieto, Christopher J. Manser, Namitha Kizhuprakkat, Adam D. Myers, Arjun Dey, Boris T. Gänsicke, Ting S. Li, Constance Rockosi, Monica Valluri, Joan Najita, Alis Deason, Anand Raichoor, M.-Y. Wang, Y.-S. Ting, Bokyoung Kim, Andreia Carrillo, Wenting Wang, Leandro Beraldo e Silva, Jiwon Jesse Han, Jiani Ding, Miguel Sánchez-Conde, Jessica N. Aguilar, Steven Ahlen, Stephen Bailey, Vasily Belokurov, David Brooks, Katia Cunha, Kyle Dawson, Axel de la Macorra, Peter Doel, Daniel J. Eisenstein, Parker Fagrelius, Kevin Fanning, Andreu Font-Ribera, Jaime E. Forero-Romero, Enrique Gaztañaga, Satya Gontcho A Gontcho, Julien Guy, Klaus Honscheid, Robert Kehoe, Theodore Kisner, Anthony Kremin, Martin Landriau, Michael E. Levi, Paul Martini, Aaron M. Meisner, Ramon Miquel, John Moustakas, Jundan J. D. Nie, Nathalie Palanque-Delabrouille, Will J. Percival, Claire Poppett, Francisco Prada, Nabeel Rehemtulla, Edward Schlafly, David Schlegel, Michael Schubnell, Ray M. Sharples, Gregory Tarlé, Risa H. Wechsler, David H. Weinberg, Zhimin Zhou, Hu Zou
Apr 18, 2023
We describe the Milky Way Survey (MWS) that will be undertaken with the Dark Energy Spectroscopic Instrument (DESI) on the Mayall 4 m telescope at the Kitt Peak National Observatory. Over the next 5 yr DESI MWS will observe...
Published by: The American Astronomical Society