Computer-linked microdensitometers: Performance, results and expectations

1985 ◽  
pp. 33-38
Author(s):  
H. T. MacGillivray
Keyword(s):  
Performance Results

The Relation Between Financial Incentives, Motivation, and Performance

2017 ◽  
Vol 16 (2) ◽  
pp. 61-76 ◽  
Author(s):  
Anaïs Thibault Landry ◽  
Marylène Gagné ◽  
Jacques Forest ◽  
Sylvie Guerrero ◽  
Michel Séguin ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Financial Incentives ◽  
Work Performance ◽  
Autonomous Motivation ◽  
Compensation Plans ◽  
Work Settings ◽  
Path Analyses ◽  
Three Samples ◽  
And Performance ◽  
Performance Results

Abstract. To this day, researchers are debating the adequacy of using financial incentives to bolster performance in work settings. Our goal was to contribute to current understanding by considering the moderating role of distributive justice in the relation between financial incentives, motivation, and performance. Based on self-determination theory, we hypothesized that when bonuses are fairly distributed, using financial incentives makes employees feel more competent and autonomous, which in turn fosters greater autonomous motivation and lower controlled motivation, and better work performance. Results from path analyses in three samples supported our hypotheses, suggesting that the effect of financial incentives is contextual, and that compensation plans using financial incentives and bonuses can be effective when properly managed.

Femtocell Selection Scheme for Reducing Unnecessary Handover and Enhancing Downlink QoS in Cognitive Femtocell Networks

2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
Hoang Nhu Dong ◽  
Hoang Nam Nguyen ◽  
Hoang Trong Minh ◽  
Takahiko Saba
Keyword(s):  
Cellular Networks ◽  
Estimation Methods ◽  
Mobility Prediction ◽  
Capacity Estimation ◽  
Femtocell Networks ◽  
Selection Scheme ◽  
Indoor Communications ◽  
Performance Results ◽  
Cognitive Femtocell

Femtocell networks have been proposed for indoor communications as the extension of cellular networks for enhancing coverage performance. Because femtocells have small coverage radius, typically from 15 to 30 meters, a femtocell user (FU) walking at low speed can still make several femtocell-to-femtocell handovers during its connection. When performing a femtocell-to-femtocell handover, femtocell selection used to select the target handover femtocell has to be able not only to reduce unnecessary handovers and but also to support FU’s quality of service (QoS). In the paper, we propose a femtocell selection scheme for femtocell-tofemtocell handover, named Mobility Prediction and Capacity Estimation based scheme (MPCE-based scheme), which has the advantages of the mobility prediction and femtocell’s available capacity estimation methods. Performance results obtained by computer simulation show that the proposed MPCE-based scheme can reduce unnecessary femtocell-tofemtocell handovers, maintain low data delay and improve the throughput of femtocell users. DOI: 10.32913/rd-ict.vol3.no14.536

Predicting the Effect of Tire Tread Pattern Design on Thick Film Wet Traction

1977 ◽  
Vol 5 (1) ◽  
pp. 6-28 ◽  
Author(s):  
A. L. Browne
Keyword(s):  
Experimental Data ◽  
Network Design ◽  
Thick Film ◽  
Digital Computer ◽  
Analytical Tool ◽  
Design Practice ◽  
Pattern Design ◽  
Performance Results ◽  
Good Agreement

Abstract An analytical tool is presented for the prediction of the effects of changes in tread pattern design on thick film wet traction performance. Results are reported for studies in which the analysis, implemented on a digital computer, was used to determine the effect of different tread geometry features, among these being the number, width, and lateral spacing of longitudinal grooves and the angle of zigzags in longitudinal grooves, on thick film wet traction. These results are shown to be in good agreement with experimental data appearing in the literature and are used to formulate guidelines for tread groove network design practice.

Model Pembelajaran Kooperatif STAD Untuk Meningkatkan Hasil Belajar Servis Atas Permainan Bolavoli

2020 ◽  
Vol 1 (2) ◽  
pp. 127-132
Author(s):  
Budiman Agung Pratama
Keyword(s):  
Learning Outcomes ◽  
Action Observation ◽  
Learning Model ◽  
Female Students ◽  
Service Performance ◽  
Male Students ◽  
Research Model ◽  
Average Ability ◽  
Performance Results ◽  
Student Team

The purpose of this study was to improve learning outcomes for volleyball service service through the STAD learning model. This research uses the Action Research model of Kemmis & McTaggart with the following stages: Planning, implementation of action, observation, repair or reflection. The subjects in this study were students of class X1 SMA Negeri 1 Kediri with a total of 24 male students and 16 female students, the instrument used in this study was the volleyball service observation sheet. Data on service performance results for volleyball cycle I and cycle II test, the results are determined based on individual completeness, classical completeness. students' average ability . The increase in the percentage of learning completeness from the first cycle to the second cycle was 46.925%. The results of this study can be concluded that the application of the cooperative learning model Student Team Achievement Division (STAD) is effective in improving learning outcomes for volleyball service in class X.1 students of SMA Negeri 1 Kediri

Replication of Quantum Computing towards an Unconventional Environment using QuIDE

2019 ◽  
Vol 8 (4) ◽  
pp. 9461-9464
Keyword(s):  
Quantum Computer ◽  
Source Code ◽  
Circuit Diagram ◽  
Quantum Computers ◽  
Coordinated Development ◽  
Development Environment ◽  
Integrated Development ◽  
Complexity Of Algorithms ◽  
Performance Results ◽  
Exponential Complexity

Current quantum computer simulation strategies are inefficient in simulation and their realizations are also failed to minimize those impacts of the exponential complexity for simulated quantum computations. We proposed a Quantum computer simulator model in this paper which is a coordinated Development Environment – QuIDE (Quantum Integrated Development Environment) to support the improvement of algorithm for future quantum computers. The development environment provides the circuit diagram of graphical building and flexibility of source code. Analyze the complexity of algorithms shows the performance results of the simulator and used for simulation as well as result of its deployment during simulation

The Influence of Client Corporate Social Responsibility Performance Information on Auditor Judgments

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
L. Emily Hickman ◽  
Jane Cote ◽  
Debra L. Sanders ◽  
T.J. Weber
Keyword(s):  
Corporate Social Responsibility ◽  
Significant Influence ◽  
Environmental Performance ◽  
Risk Assessments ◽  
Performance Information ◽  
Auditor Judgments ◽  
Different Dimensions ◽  
Client Risk ◽  
Corporate Social ◽  
Performance Results

Our experiment, with 106 practicing auditors, tests whether audit judgments are influenced by client CSR performance, individual auditors' views of CSR, and auditors' perceptions of client risk induced by CSR performance. Results indicate auditor judgments are less (more) conservative for clients with positive (negative) environmental performance. We find that client risk assessments mediate the link between environmental performance and account-level judgments. In contrast, results indicate that socially-oriented performance has no overall significant influence on audit judgments in our experiment. Overall, our results indicate that different dimensions of CSR and the salience of the CSR issue can have differential effects on audit judgments.

Design and development of a backstepping controller autopilot for fixed-wing UAVs

2021 ◽  
pp. 1-27
Author(s):  
D. Sartori ◽  
F. Quagliotti ◽  
M.J. Rutherford ◽  
K.P. Valavanis
Keyword(s):  
Real Time ◽  
Control Law ◽  
Parametric Uncertainties ◽  
Hardware In The Loop ◽  
Aircraft Control ◽  
Backstepping Approach ◽  
Small Uav ◽  
Backstepping Controller ◽  
Definition Of ◽  
Performance Results

Abstract Backstepping represents a promising control law for fixed-wing Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAVs). Its non-linearity and its adaptation capabilities guarantee adequate control performance over the whole flight envelope, even when the aircraft model is affected by parametric uncertainties. In the literature, several works apply backstepping controllers to various aspects of fixed-wing UAV flight. Unfortunately, many of them have not been implemented in a real-time controller, and only few attempt simultaneous longitudinal and lateral–directional aircraft control. In this paper, an existing backstepping approach able to control longitudinal and lateral–directional motions is adapted for the definition of a control strategy suitable for small UAV autopilots. Rapidly changing inner-loop variables are controlled with non-adaptive backstepping, while slower outer loop navigation variables are Proportional–Integral–Derivative (PID) controlled. The controller is evaluated through numerical simulations for two very diverse fixed-wing aircraft performing complex manoeuvres. The controller behaviour with model parametric uncertainties or in presence of noise is also tested. The performance results of a real-time implementation on a microcontroller are evaluated through hardware-in-the-loop simulation.

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