Search results for "Dimensional modeling"

Assessing Future Expectations and the Two-Dimensional Model of Affect in an Italian Population

2017

Future-directed thinking has been described as part of two underlying systems that integrate dimensions of affect, motivational systems, orientation to the future, and future expectations, which are initiated at the cognitive, affective, biological, behavioral, and motivational levels. The main aim of the present study is to test the two underlying frameworks model and explore future expectations in a general Italian-speaking population (N=345). Therefore, the second aim of the present paper is to confirm the factorial structure of the Subjective Probability Task (SPT; MacLeod et al., 1996), a questionnaire designed to assess specific positive and negative orientations towards the future. R…

Evolution-Oriented User-Centric Data Warehouse

2011

Data warehouses tend to evolve, because of changes in data sources and business requirements of users. All these kinds of changes must be properly handled, therefore, data warehouse development is never-ending process. In this paper we propose the evolution-oriented user-centric data warehouse design, which on the one hand allows to manage data warehouse evolution automatically or semi-automatically, and on the other hand it provides users with the understandable, easy and transparent data analysis possibilities. The proposed approach supports versions of data warehouse schemata and data semantics.

Gathering formalized information requirements of a data warehouse

2017

Los fenómenos disociativos: una revisión conceptual

2003

En el presente trabajo se lleva a cabo una revisión del concepto de disociación y de los fenómenos asociados, haciendo un recorrido desde las posturas clásicas, como la de Janet, hasta los planteamientos que actualmente se centran en el estudio de los fenómenos disociativos. Se aborda, además el planteamiento acerca de la existencia de un continuo de experiencias disociativas, o modelo dimensional, que actualmente se formula conjugado con un modelo tipológico, y se hace una breve revisión de los estudios que se han centrado en las relaciones entre la variable disociación y ciertas variables que tradicionalmente han sido asociadas a este concepto, como la hipnotizabilidad o la represión. Fin…

Static and dynamic policies with RFID for the scheduling of retrieval and storage warehouse operations

2013

Warehouses are essential components of logistics and supply chains. The performance of warehouse operations significantly affects the efficiency of the whole chain it belongs to. Radio frequency identification (RFID) is an emerging technology capable of providing real-time information about the location and properties of tagged object(s), such as people, equipment or products. The objective of this article is threefold, to propose and compare different offline and online policies for the scheduling of warehouse operations, to design a tool that allows the decision maker to compare policies and environments without putting them into practice, and to study the benefits that can be obtained if…

Novel 3D bio-macromolecular bilinear descriptors for protein science: Predicting protein structural classes

2015

In the present study, we introduce novel 3D protein descriptors based on the bilinear algebraic form in the ℝn space on the coulombic matrix. For the calculation of these descriptors, macromolecular vectors belonging to ℝn space, whose components represent certain amino acid side-chain properties, were used as weighting schemes. Generalization approaches for the calculation of inter-amino acidic residue spatial distances based on Minkowski metrics are proposed. The simple- and double-stochastic schemes were defined as approaches to normalize the coulombic matrix. The local-fragment indices for both amino acid-types and amino acid-groups are presented in order to permit characterizing fragme…

On Discovering Low Order Models in Biochemical Reaction Kinetics

2007

We develop a method by which a large number of differential equations representing biochemical reaction kinetics may be represented by a smaller number of differential equations. The basis of our technique is a conjecture that the high dimension equations of biochemical kinetics, which involve reaction terms of specific forms, are actually implementing a low dimension system whose behavior requires right hand sides that can not be biochemically implemented. For systems that satisfy this conjecture, we develop a simple approximation scheme based on multilinear algebra that extracts the low dimensional system from simulations of the high dimension system. We demonstrate this technique on a st…

Lack of long-range order in confined two-dimensional model colloidal crystals.

2006

We investigate the nature of the ordered phase for a model of colloidal particles confined within a quasi-one-dimensional (Q1D) strip between two parallel boundaries, or walls, separated a distance $D$ in two dimensions (2D). Using Monte Carlo simulations we find that at densities typical of the bulk 2D triangular solid the order in the D1D strip is determined by the nature of the boundaries. While the order is enhanced for a suitably corrugated boundary potential, for a uniformly repulsive smooth boundary potential ordering normal to the walls is enhanced (``layering''), but destroyed parallel to the wall.

Effective kink-kink interaction in a one-dimensional model mediated by phonon exchange

1994

The general 1D double-well model with anharmonic interaction is considered in the displacive limit. Expansion of the Hamiltonian around a multikink state results in a phonon-kink Hamiltonian. It is shown that at rather low temperatures and short wave lengths the phonon-kink interaction can be treated in Born approximation, leading to a decomposition of the multikink-phonon Hamiltionian. Elimination of the phonons results in an effective potential for the kink-kink interaction, which corresponds to the one-dimensional analog of the RKKY interaction. This long-range interaction is inherent only for models with anharmonic on-site potentials and not in case of a double-parabola model.

Two-dimensional model colloids and nano wires: phase transitions, effects of external potentials and quantum effects

2005

Abstract Quantum effects, structures and phase transitions in Nano-systems have been analyzed. An overview is given on the results of our computations on structural and elastic properties of model colloids, on phase transitions of model colloids in external fields, and on structural and electronic properties of stretched atomic wires.