a survey of firms

A Survey of Web Technologies

Ngày tải lên : 24/10/2013, 07:20

... from a mainframe CICS application, current account activity from a Sybase database located on a Tandem system, and special promotions that the customer may take advantage of from an AS/400 back-office ... imply that these are small applications, that is not necessarily the case Applets can be very small or they can be as large as regular, stand-alone applications Consider the case of a large enterprise ... and can gain access to any host they are authorized to access and to which they have a valid login and password Exhibit 2.7 illustrates an example of a user accessing an IBM mainframe using a...

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Who’s Afraid of ID, A Survey of the Intelligent Design Movement

Ngày tải lên : 01/11/2013, 08:20

... compensatory changes in the other, coadapted parts of the system Thus in a watch, [a] ny major functional innovation, such as the addition of a new cogwheel or an increase in the diameter of an existing ... is that naturalism cannot explain the modal qualities of particular physical objects For Koons, the problem is that naturalism cannot account for the reliability of scientists’ appeal to aesthetic ... Press Rea, M 2000 Naturalism and material objects In Naturalism: A Critical Analysis, ed W L Craig and J P Moreland New York: Routledge, pp 110–32 Ruse, M 2001 Can a Darwinian Be a Christian? The...

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Tài liệu A Survey of Li Yang Crazy English pptx

Ngày tải lên : 16/01/2014, 23:20

... speak flawless English Li Yang and the Western assistants all speak in a General American accent (neutral Midwest) Li often exaggerates the American accent of some words, particularly his favorite ... gentleman seen in Zhang Yuan’s documentary Crazy English), and Kim (an attractive Caucasian woman who is the leading assistant).10 While Kim can speak Mandarin Chinese, some of the other American ... that Crazy English is popular in other Asian countries, as he feels that all Asian students deal with the same fear of losing face in English language learning and the same lack of spoken practice...

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Tài liệu A Survey of BGP Security pptx

Ngày tải lên : 14/02/2014, 08:20

... authenticity of the path attributes announced by an AS Altering the path attributes is another way that a malicious AS can impair or manipulate the routing infrastructure Moreover, analyses of BGP of the ... each AS on an UPDATE’s path shares a secret key with a previously indentiﬁed validator known as the destination AS The originating AS computes a MAC using a shared key over a concatenation of an ... IP address space ownership as a tree emanating from ICANN, as illustrated in Figure ASes are assigned an AS number (ASN) in a similar manner, with ICANN being the ultimate authority for delegating...

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A SURVEY OF SURVIVING BUILDINGS OF THE KROTONA COLONY IN HOLLYWOOD pdf

Ngày tải lên : 07/03/2014, 15:20

... and a photograph of it in a state of near completion appeared in the May 1913 issue of the American Theosophist magazine.20 Nearly all of the working drawings bear Richard Requa’s initials, and ... California and particularly Los Angeles.48 Swain Bungalow (2176 Argyle Avenue, Los Angeles, California) Although substantially remodeled and expanded, this bungalow nevertheless gives a valuable ... Robert Stacy-Judd: Maya Architecture and the Creation of a New Style (Santa Barbara, CA: Capra Press, 1993) Copyright 1998 by Alfred Willis Material appearing in Architronic may be distributed...

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American Negro Slavery A Survey of the Supply, Employment and Control of Negro Labor as Determined by the Plantation Regime docx

Ngày tải lên : 08/03/2014, 00:20

... soldiers; and each with its outlying factories had a staff of perhaps a dozen factors, as many sub-factors, twice as many assistants, and a few bookkeepers and auditors, as well as a corps of white artisans ... and reasonable A ship captain after paying for a license and buying the king's private stock of slaves at somewhat above the market price would have the news of his arrival spread afar, and at ... contemplating the hardships of the colored races But Azurara was more than a moralizing annalist He acutely observed of the first cargo of captives brought from southward of the Sahara, less than a...

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WORKING PAPER SERIES NO 898 / MAY 2008: CENTRAL BANK COMMUNICATION AND MONETARY POLICY A SURVEY OF THEORY AND EVIDENCE doc

Ngày tải lên : 15/03/2014, 10:20

... recent past, the understanding of central bank transparency and communication has changed dramatically As it became increasingly clear that managing expectations is a central part of monetary policy, ... communications In fact, the Fed is more of a laggard than a leader in this regard The Reserve Bank of New Zealand and the Bank of England were early and enthusiastic converts to greater transparency, ... balance it seems fair to say that, if the central bank speaks clearly, its statements can (and apparently do) affect a variety of asset prices in non-negligible ways While financial market reactions...

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Health Expenditures and the Elderly: A Survey of Issues in Forecasting, Methods Used, and Relevance for Developing Countries doc

Ngày tải lên : 22/03/2014, 13:20

... somewhat mitigated (Ogawa and Retherford 1997; da Vanza and Chan 1994) Economic growth is typically also accompanied by urbanization and the migration of young workers to urban areas In Japan this ... the approach adopted by The Harvard Team (2000) except that these projections are made on a much broader classification of health use types and the costs per unit of care Other Variants of Actuarial ... (Ainsworth and Dayton 2001; Barnett and Blaikie 1992; Vanlandingham et al 2000, WHO (World Health Organization) 2001) In a study of Tanzania, Ainsworth and Dayton (2001) found a short-term impact on...

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PROGRESS IN FINANCIAL SERVICES RISK MANAGEMENT: A SURVEY OF MAJOR FINANCIAL INSTITUTIONS pdf

Ngày tải lên : 22/03/2014, 21:20

... BNP Paribas National Bank of Abu Dhabi CaixaBank North America National Bank of Kuwait Commerzbank Bank of America National Commercial Bank Credit Suisse Bank of Montreal Qatar National Bank Danske ... Arab Bank Alpha Bank Banco de Crédito del Perú Arab Banking Corporation Banco BPI Banco Nacional de Costa Rica BankMuscat Barclays Bank Bancolombia BLOM Bank BBVA Itaú Unibanco FirstRand Bank BNP ... Royal Bank of Canada China International Capital Corporation ING Scotiabank Intesa Sanpaolo State Street Corporation CIMB Group KBC Bank Wells Fargo Commonwealth Bank of Australia Lloyds Banking...

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A Survey of Activity Network-Based Process Models for Managing Product Development Projects doc

Ngày tải lên : 23/03/2014, 04:20

... Pentland (2002) advocate a “grammatical approach”7 to process speciﬁcation and “As the grammar for a language describes all possible sentences, a process grammar describes all possible arrangements ... arrangements of tasks in a design process Rather than focusing on a particular process, a grammatical approach draws attention to the set of alternatives.” (Chung, Kwon, and Pentland 2002) For further background ... template of typical activities and relationships—Radice et al 1985) or process handbooks (Malone et al 1999) at various levels of detail, and it may use these as a basis for project planning (e.g., Austin...

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Testing Costs and Testing Capacity According to the REACH Requirements – Results of a Survey of Independent and Corporate GLP Laboratories in the EU and Switzerland potx

Ngày tải lên : 23/03/2014, 05:22

... testing capacity in appendix The ratio of the maximum capacity to the average capacity available is about 2.5 Again, this indicates that the average capacity is a good indicator for the available testing ... large lab) The size of the small labs might be related to comparative advantage E.g the price advantages of the small labs might be due to advantages of specialization Small labs generally offer ... the available capacity for single tests At best it could give a clue to make a guess about the overall laboratory capacity in the EU The estimations of average and maximum testing capacities are...

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A SURVEY OF BEHAVIORAL FINANCE° pot

Ngày tải lên : 29/03/2014, 18:20

... small sample can be just as representative as a large one Six tosses of a coin resulting in three heads and three tails are as representative of a fair coin as 500 heads and 500 tails are in a ... as arbitrage One of the biggest successes of behavioral ﬁnance is a series of theoretical papers showing that in an economy where rational and irrational traders interact, irrationality can have ... tested against behavioral alternatives Empirical studies of the behavior of individual stocks have unearthed a set of facts which is altogether more frustrating for the rational paradigm Many of...

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A survey of technology thinkers and stakeholders shows they believe the internet will continue to spread in a “flattening” and improving world. There are many, though, who think major problems will accompany technology advances by 2020 doc

Ngày tải lên : 29/03/2014, 19:20

... permanent surveillance Alaa Seif al-Islam was arrested in May 2005 for protesting the beating of women at a pro-democracy rally in Cairo Seif al-Islam is still in jail, and at least six additional ... of mountains in Afghanistan and the behavior of entrepreneurs in Africa.” Adrian Schofield, head of research for ForgeAhead, an information and communications consulting firm, and a leader with ... policy advocate, agreed that the issue of interface construction plays a role “English has already become the mandated standard language … most keyboards around the world are the ASCII character...

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A Survey of Qatari Secondary School Seniors potx

Ngày tải lên : 29/03/2014, 20:20

... Fewer than half the females had heard of the Diploma Scholarship program, and about 23 percent of males and 16 percent of females had heard of all the scholarship and grant opportunities available ... Francisco Martorell and Vazha Nadareishvili, A Survey of Recent Qatar Secondary School Graduates: Methods and Results, Santa Monica, Calif.: RAND Corporation, TR-578-QATAR, 2008 This project was conducted ... Education Council and conducted within the RAND-Qatar Policy Institute and RAND Education, programs of the RAND Corporation Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data Constant, Louay A survey...

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A Survey of Sustainable MBA Programs (Draft) ppt

Ngày tải lên : 31/03/2014, 00:20

... management As a whole, it provides conceptual tools and practical methodologies for catalyzing organizational transformation based on a strategic, systemic and sustainable appreciation of change ... Sustainable Practice (USA) Maharishi University of Management - MBA in Sustainability and Consciousness-Based education (USA) Marlboro College - MBA in Managing for Sustainability (USA) Marylhurst ... that are ―sustainable‖ and ―traditional‖ as other MBA programs appear to be doing Instead, Presidio takes sustainability as an essential business teaching The program claims to have fundamental...

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a survey of recommender systems techniques, challenges and evaluation metrics

Ngày tải lên : 25/04/2014, 18:27

... Data Sparsity, Cold Start Problem, Fraud, Scalability, Gray sheep, Shilling attack and synonymy [6-7, 9, 15] Data Sparsity: In practice, many commercial recommender systems are used to evaluate ... knowledge about how a particular item satisfies a particular user need, and can therefore reason about the relationship between a need and possible recommendation [12] The user profile can be any knowledge ... [5] There are many ways to calculate the similarity between items Some of the most popular algorithms are cosine based similarity, correlation based similarity and adjusted-cosine similarity The...

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a survey of recommender systems techniques, challenges and evaluation metrics copy

Ngày tải lên : 25/04/2014, 18:27

... Data Sparsity, Cold Start Problem, Fraud, Scalability, Gray sheep, Shilling attack and synonymy [6-7, 9, 15] Data Sparsity: In practice, many commercial recommender systems are used to evaluate ... knowledge about how a particular item satisfies a particular user need, and can therefore reason about the relationship between a need and possible recommendation [12] The user profile can be any knowledge ... [5] There are many ways to calculate the similarity between items Some of the most popular algorithms are cosine based similarity, correlation based similarity and adjusted-cosine similarity The...

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timoshenko w. ukraine and russia. a survey of their economic relations. washington, 1919

Ngày tải lên : 04/06/2014, 00:29

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báo cáo sinh học:" Managerial competencies of hospital managers in South Africa: a survey of managers in the public and private sectors" docx

Ngày tải lên : 18/06/2014, 17:20

... that variable This allows one to treat the data as interval data measuring a latent variable, to which parametric statistical tests can be applied Reliability of scales was estimated by assessing ... delivery of health care, financial management, organizational management, and legal and ethical considerations [7] In a survey of American medical directors, competencies related specifically to health ... individuals with management potential as part of a broader career management and succession planning initiative The fact that public sector managers have rated themselves as at least "reasonably...

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báo cáo hóa học:" A survey of orthopaedic journal editors determining the criteria of manuscript selection for publication" potx

Ngày tải lên : 20/06/2014, 04:20

... Spanish, Polish, German and Italian) We anticipated that most of these journal editors would either speak English as a second language or have access to a translator Non-respondents were approached ... were ranked higher than male authors Male assessors were found to reflect no gender bias but female assessors upgraded female authors more than male authors [18] A study of grant proposals has also ... Exclusion of non-English language studies was also found to result in a high risk of bias in certain research areas such as complementary and alternative medicine [12] The questionnaire used was based...

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