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... of variation and bias inrelation to monitoring of animal disease incidence onherd and national level, causal analysis on national level,as well as estimation of validated treatment criteria.Monitoring ... into potential errors (bias andrandom error) related to data based on clinical examina-Acta Veterinaria Scandinavica 2009, 51:36 http://www.actavetscand.com/content/51/1/36Page 8 of 10(page ... metritis' that relate to the quality of thedata that are produced. We analyse and build &apos ;a model ofunderstanding' based on DBL's observations and the indi-vidual veterinarians'...
... Feyn-man soon learned that there was a great obstacle to this delayedaction-at -a- distance theory: namely, if a radiating electron, say inan atom or an antenna, were not acted upon at all by ... isdetermined by saying her whole space-time path has a certaincharacter. For the action [with advanced and retarded terms]the equations are no longer at all easy to get back into Hamil-tonian form. ... example, the transformation may be a rotation). The trans-formation is to contain a parameter, a, and is to be a continuousfunction of a. Fora equal to zero, the transformation should reduce to the...
... Nga – K 1 1A 30Graduation paperDeclarationTitle: A new approachto semantic and syntactic functions of English adjectives A contrastive– analysis with their Vietnamese equivalents (Graduation ... only topractical language but also to translation theory, the description of particular language, language typology and the study of language universals. In relation to bilingualism, C .A is ... subject at most language universals.According to C. James (1980;19), C .A is a form of inter-language study and a central concern of applied linguistic. As a matter of fact, C .A has had much to...
... the team. The database analysts and theprogrammers are unable to agree on the proper ways to pass informationback and forth between the interface and the database, and the require-ments analysts ... packages),• hardware and software implementation (implementing new computers orsoftware),• database management and revision (ensuring proper data storage andaccess),• hardware and software upgrades ... by this approach. It willalso be useful to track organizations using this approach over a period of years,and to compare their performance to those with different approaches. Orga-nizations...
... Soon after Waugh was appointed in January 1998, JohnInverarity, a former captain of the West Australian cricket team and aninternational player, gave a talk on leadership toa group of my MBAsin ... a more practicalapproachto understanding leadership is to think aboutthe behaviours and functions of real-life leaders and understand whatleaders actually do, rather than what they are in some ... insome capacity, as managers.I obey a manager because I have to. I follow a leader because I want to. (Steve Carey, former advisor to Bill Clinton, 1999)Are leaders ‘born’ or ‘made’?This is a question...
... ports enables OTDRtrace development upstream to the central office and downstream to the access terminal. Also, the connector ports available at the distri-Chapter 3 — Advantage of Centralized ... optical fiber deployments is still fairlyhigh and may require a proven return on a particular business case. A phase-by-phase approach is an alternative where the optical fiber accessstarts ... first PON standard was APON, which uses ATM encapsulation oftransported data and is aimed primarily at small business applications.Over time, APON was followed by BPON.BPON (Broadband PON)Currently...
... that managers and administrators face when attempting to impose a transformational change into their organizations (Slavin and Woodard 2006, 23):We close with a caution and a challenge. Transformation ... change initiatives, and they serve as approaches to framing the planned change to fit into the technical and human aspects of the change.The Social and Behavioral Perspective in Transformationis ... transformation actions.e literature of organizational change clearly reveals that transformation ini-tiatives are not always successful. When administrators fail to involve the entire organization...
... can be mappedacross the entire organization. Accenture’s approach to efficiency contains a portfolioof tools and assets—the Accenture HighPerformance Bank Framework—that can help a bank achieve ... investmentcapital to tackle structural costreduction initiatives that have a longer payback• Absolute executive buy-in ofclear financial objectives andoperating model• An incontestable fact base andcost ... simplification,standardization and improvement. Withapproximately 4 million procurement trans-actions spread across nearly 200 differentbusiness areas each year, the bank wanted to gain greater...