Patient perceptions of health care quality are critical to a health care service provider's long-term success because of the significant influence that perceptions have on the outcome of the healthcare process and on patient behavioral decisions. It is a critical strategy for health care...

This article presents the train timetabling problem in the complex railway network (including single-track line, double-track line, mixed-track line and terminal) and a solution algorithm. The problem is to determine the arrival, departure or through time of each train at each station on its...

Little research exists that addresses the equivalence in collectivistic cultures of paper- versus Internet-based surveys. This study addressed this gap and examined the measurement equivalence of individual innovativeness scales between Internet surveys and paper-based surveys within a...

The rapid growth of student loan debt has led to increased public attention on college students' financial aid and financial behaviour. This study addresses the psychological process underlying effective college student financial behaviour and its determinants. A model modified based on planned...

A new lower bound of the centered L2-discrepancy for four-level U-type designs is obtained. Our new lower bound is sharper and valid for a lot of designs more than other existing lower bound, which is a useful complement to the lower bounds of discrepancies.

Discrepancy measure can be utilized as a uniformity measure for comparing factorial designs. A so-called discrete discrepancy has been used to evaluate the uniformity of factorials. In this paper we give linkages among uniformity measured by the discrete discrepancy, generalized minimum...

Based on a so-called uniformity pattern, Fang and Qin [2005. Uniformity pattern and related criteria for two-level factorials. Sci. China Ser. A 48, 1-11] proposed the minimum projection uniformity criterion to assess and compare two-level factorials. In present paper, we study applications of...

The indicator function has been used to study the properties of factorial designs. This paper shows some applications of indicator functions in doubling design and uniformity pattern. Our results further provide that the indicator function is an effective tool in studying two-level factorial...