Browsing by Subject "Performance"
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Chronic Self-Consciousness and Its Effects on Cognitive Performance, Physiology, and Self-Reported Anxiety
(University of North Carolina Dept of Psychology, 2005)Self-focused attention, as induced in the lab, facilitates task performance in some instances and inhibits it in others. Less is know about the effects of trait self-consciousness on performance. The present study examines ...
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Classification performance of motor unit action potential features
(IEEE, 1994)The objective of this study is to examine the classification performance of the following motor unit action potential (MUAP) feature sets: i) time domain measures, ii) frequency measures, iii) autoregressive coefficients ...
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Comparative evaluation of despeckle filtering in ultrasound imaging of the carotid artery
(2005)It is well-known that speckle is a multiplicative noise that degrades the visual evaluation in ultrasound imaging. The recent advancements in ultrasound instrumentation and portable ultrasound devices necessitate the need ...
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A cost-effective approach to improving performance of big genomic data analyses in clouds
(2017)With the rapidly growing demand for DNA analysis, the need for storing and processing large-scale genome data has presented significant challenges. This paper describes how the Genome Analysis Toolkit (GATK) can be deployed ...
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Directly computable L2 and L∞ performance bounds for morse's dynamic certainty equivalence adaptive controller
(1995)In this paper we consider a model reference adaptive control scheme where the classical error augmentation and standard tuning error normalization are avoided through the use of Morse's high‐order tuner. We consider the ...
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Docetaxel and gemcitabine combination, as first-line treatment, in patients with extensive disease small-cell lung cancer. A phase II study of the Hellenic Cooperative Oncology Group
(2003)There is some evidence that taxanes and gemcitabine are effective antitumor agents against small-cell lung cancer (SCLC). A total of 20 chemotherapy-naive patients with extensive disease (ED) SCLC, were treated as a part ...
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Dynamic capabilities driving an eco-based advantage and performance in global hotel chains: The moderating effect of international strategy
(2015)Building on the dynamic capabilities theory, a model of organizational capabilities driving an eco-based competitive advantage and performance in the global hotel industry is tested. Data obtained from 102 hotel chains ...
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Effects of self-focus and evaluation anxiety on task performance
(1999)Research examining self-focus effects on task performance has indicated facilitation in some instances and inhibition in others. The present study examines the role of task type, task difficulty, method of self-focus ...
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An empirical investigation of the antecedents and performance outcomes of export innovativeness
(2017)The present study develops and empirically tests a conceptual model of the organizational, strategic, and environmental drivers of export innovativeness. The relationship between export innovativeness and export performance ...
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Fuzzy backward congestion notification (FBCN) congestion control in asynchronous transfer mode (ATM) networks
(IEEE, 1995)In this paper, we study the performance of a fuzzy control scheme as a first step to develop better control strategies for avoiding congestion and attaining high link utilisation in ATM based networks. Due to the complexity ...
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Gamma Deployment: Designing the Communication Infrastructure in Vehicular Networks Assuring Guarantees on the V2I Inter-Contact Time
(Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc., 2017)Gamma Deployment is a metric for evaluating the distribution of roadside units in vehicular networks in terms of two parameters: a) the inter-contact time between vehicles and the infrastructure, and, b) the share of ...
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GridBench: A tool for the interactive performance exploration of Grid infrastructures
(2007)As Grids rapidly expand in size and complexity, the task of benchmarking and testing, interactive or unattended, quickly becomes unmanageable. In this article we describe the difficulties of testing/benchmarking resources ...
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Hardware acceleration of n-body simulations for galactic dynamics
(Affiliation: Rutgers Univ., Piscataway, NJ, USA, United StatesCorrespondence Address: Cook, Todd A.Rutgers Univ., Piscataway, NJ, USAUnited States, 1995)N-body methods are used to simulate the evolution and interaction of galaxies. These simulations are usually run on large-scale supercomputers or on very expensive full-custom hardare. This paper presents an alternative ...
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Human resource management and performance: A neural network analysis
(2007)Abstract: This study utilizes an innovative research methodology (Kohonen’s Self-Organizing Maps) to explore a subject relatively understudied in Europe. It focuses on the connection between human resource management as a ...
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Mobile agents for World Wide Web distributed database access
(2000)The popularity of the Web as a universal access mechanism for network information has created the need for developing web-based DBMS client/server applications. However, the current commercial applet-based approaches for ...
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On optimal performance for linear time-varying systems
(2004)In this paper we consider the optimal disturbance attenuation problem and robustness for linear time-varying (LTV) systems. This problem corresponds to the standard optimal H ∞ problem for LTI systems. The problem is ...
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Paclitaxel-carboplatin combination chemotherapy in advanced breast cancer: Accumulating evidence for synergy, efficacy, and safety
(2006)Patients with metastatic breast cancer receive multiple lines of cytotoxic chemotherapy, with taxane and anthracycline-based regimens being the most active. Anthracyclines carry the risk of significant cardiotoxicity at ...
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Performance Analysis And Improvement In Model Reference Adaptive Control
(1994)Boundedness of all closed-loop signals and asymptotic convergence of the tracking error to zero or to a residual set are the criteria that have been most commonly used to characterize the performance of model reference ...