The Criterion Collection

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One application for spatial cognitive models is navigation. Spatial navigation models can be classified in two classes which are low-level biologically inspired models by neural machinery and high-level descriptive models based on egocentric and allocentric spatial encoding strategies (Manning et.al, 2014). However, these models all lost the prediction and explanation about the users’ navigation behavior. In 2014, Manning provided a cognitive map-based model of human wayfinding named MAGELLAN,…

Introduction. The purpose of this paper is to critically appraise a research article on the topic of the effect of nurses’ shift length and overtime working on quality of care and patient safety. The article is titled, “Nurses’ Shift Length and Overtime Working in 12 European Countries. The Association with Perceived Quality of Care and Patient Safety.” The authors are Peter Griffith, Chiara Dall’Ora, Michael Simon, Jane Ball, Rikard Lindqvist, Anne-Marie Rafferty, Lisette Schoonhoven, Carol…

In regards to ethnic groups, 70-75% of the population is Turkish, 18% is Kurdish, and the rest is part of a minority group. Most of the country, 99.8%, practices the Muslim religion, and the other small percentage is mostly Christians and Jews. Their official language is Turkish but people do speak Kurdish and other minority languages as well. Turkey is located in Southeastern Europe and Southwestern Asia, bordering the Black Seam between Bulgaria and Georgia. It also borders the Aegean Sea…

history of automated scoring (Page, 1966), and then, with information more specifically related to Weigle’s research, the history of e-rater being used on the Graduate Management Admissions Test (GMAT) and in ETS’ web-based essay evaluation service, Criterion is cited (Burstein et al., 2003, as cited in Weigle, 2010, p.336). The second paragraph, the longest in the literature review, goes into more details about e-rater and summarises some key features of the version of e-rater that was…

population comprised all students in the 18-31 age range studying at Kermanshah University of Medical Sciences during the academic year 2013-2014 (N=3730). Then a sample of 591 students was collected through the stratified random sampling. For data collection, three instruments were utilized: Toronto Alexithymia Scale (TAS-20) by Begbie et al. (1994), Perceived Stress Scale (PSS) by Cohen et al. (1983), and General Health Questionnaire…

Humans, though independent as they may seem, have various needs such as food and a tolerable environment among many others. If even one of these needs is left unmet, the quality of life of man would decline, eventual death of some is not impossible. Among the many needs of man, land is involved most of the times. Men need shelter, they put their houses in lands; men need food, they cultivates them in lands. According to Kassas (1995), land is the terrestrial system that includes soil, water,…

men and women who would be in the shuttle if something were to go wrong. NASA was also faced with achieving its research goals while still maintaining mission integrity. Had they not carried out the Challenger mission, deployment of satellites and collection of data relevant to scientific and military development may not have been achieved. NASA was however fully aware of a trend in O-ring erosions based on data collected from previous flights (Diane Vaughan, 1990, p. 235). MTI had even…

Since the 1970’s the numbers of women in the workforce have increased exponentially. According to current population reports from the Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS) Caucasian women ages 16 and older comprised 53.3 percent of the Caucasian civilian labor workforce surveyed in 2013. In the same respect, African American women comprised 52 percent of the African American workforce, Latino women 50.4 percent of the Latino workforce, and Asian women 54.3 percent of the Asian workforce surveyed…

of makespan (the maximum completion time of all jobs). However, real-life scheduling problems often require a decision maker who considers a number of criteria before taking a decision. A solution that may appear optimal with respect to one given criterion may becomea poor candidate for some other criteria, like mean flow-time, total tardiness,and others. Therefore, the trade-offs involved in considering several different criteria provide useful insights for decision makers…