... Increasing revenues requires decreasing operational costs, and this means reducing technician errors, achieving faster service turn-up time, lowering overall maintenance expenses, and resolving ... perform maintenance, or troubleshoot problems Successful fiber management plays an increasingly important role in eliminating potential problem areas that can become both costly and time consuming ... to poor record keeping Contrary to popular belief, record keeping in our industry is often a neglected area For instance, knowing where every patchcord is routed requires routing records that are...
... in which the financial instruments the entity has invested in have relatively high estimation uncertainty These may include fair value accounting estimates for complex financial instruments in ... may influence the auditor’s risk assessment with regard to financial instruments include: Management is responsible for establishing an accounting and financial reporting process for determining ... understanding of the instruments may be developed, for example, by understanding the entity’s processes for investing in particular instruments and the information obtained by the entity in connection...
... equity funding “Investors” in social businesses are really acting as philanthropists Vikram Akula, who runs SKS, a $250 million microinance irm in India, challenges Yunus’s view in the following way: ... clean drinking water include schistosmiasis, trachoma, intestinal Helminths, Hepatitis A, and arsenic poisoning Procter & Gamble (P&G) irst researched new water-purifying technologies in 1991 In 1995, ... Examining these three cases in- depth yields several interesting insights on the key success factors for BOP initiatives The BOP literature is full of exhortations calling for a “revolution” in...
... Tetsuya Sakai 2001 Generic Summaries for Indexing in IR In Proceedings of the 24th Annual International ACM SIGIR Conference on Research and Development in Information Retrieval, pages 190–198, ... measure for assessing the relative decrease in retrieval performance when indexing summaries instead of full documents The idea behind it is similar to (Sparck-Jones and Sakai, 2001) In that experiment, ... summing over individual judges and normalizing The average interjudge precision and recall is computed by averaging over all judge pairs However, precision and recall not take chance agreement into...
... becoming a main source of Saudi insecurity by turning Iraq into an incubator of jihadis for Al Qaeda as much interested in overthrowing the House of Saud as in driving out the infidel American invaders ... choice but to continue working together as best they could because of strong mutual interests in combating Al Qaeda, maintaining stability in the oil market, and curbing the influence of Iran ... events, voter turnout increased, indicating increasing acceptance of the electoral process Significant, albeit somewhat mixed, progress was also made in reconstituting and training the Iraqi Security...
... co-ordinating infrastructure support and improving production practices, amongst other things LIMPUST’s strategy involves seeking to ‘manage business linkages between emerging and commercial farming’ ... in respect of housing Responses in the PLAAS survey indicated that some farm managements were still prepared to consider renovating or maintaining houses, and some indicated an intention to transfer ... mix of individual, focus groups and key informant interviews Interviewees included private individuals and business people, government officials (including extension officers) and members of targeted...
... are increasingly recognizing the central role that principals play in supporting and ensuring high-quality teaching in schools This realization has piqued interest in efforts to improve the principalship ... control in the evaluation Information on training programs that a principal attended and the skills and training emphasized in these programs is also lacking, complicating comparisons among principals ... principals from different training programs When evaluating a principal training program, these difficulties make it challenging to determine which aspects of principal training programs are the most...
... relationship and focuses on getting new business Inevitably, with construction projects, problems often arise due to mistakes being made during the selling stage Internally in BuildCo, conflict happens ... large engineering design consultancies have recently merged to become one of the biggest engineering design companies in the world with offices in 20 countries With any merger comes uncertainty, ... business colleagues You know that the success of your company depends entirely on attracting and retaining customers and providing them with such a remarkable experience that they turn into raving...
... vaccines for Eurasia a, o and asia -1, the way to go? 27 FMD vaccines and vaccination in India 27 FMD vaccines and vaccination in China 28 Current vaccines and their use in the design of vaccination ... Xujiaping 1,Lanzhou, Gansu, People’s Republic of China 730046 Introduction Since 1970s, Oil adjuvant vaccines against FMD in which the virus antigen producing by BHK21, and inactivating by binary ... clinical FMD But more importantly, ring vaccination is compromising the routine vaccination (taking away vaccine supply, manpower and financial means) leaving other areas uncovered Monitoring...
... neighborhood influences have been investigated by gerontologists interested in housing preferences of older adults (Lawton et al 1980); by psychologists interested in maximizing the health and well-being ... cleanliness and appearance Interviewers were also asked to describe the quality of the neighborhood by indicating distance to other homes/buildings, type of housing in the area (including vacant ... beneficiaries in 1992 He found that individuals living in the most deteriorated neighborhoods (as measured by interviewer assessment of overall condition of dwelling, condition of other buildings in the...
... explores the increasingly integrated nature of administrative procedures in EU law Composite procedures in which actors from national and European administrations interact in multi-stage proceedings ... of the actors involved in administration in the EU and their actions In short, this volume is a contribution to the developing understanding of the fast evolving area of EU administrative law ... including administrative rule-making The notion of shared administration originated from the Committee of Independent Experts investigating the alleged misconduct of the Santer Commission in 1999...
... Summary LinkedIn introduced number of enhancement to increase engagement with groups, including group polling options and the LinkedIn Today news aggregator Expect more new LinkedIn features in 2012 ... marketing investment areas: presence, frequency & processes Marketers are looking to invest heavily in social media marketing in 2012 The top quoted areas of social marketing focus include: ⁌ Increased ... SOCIAL MARKETING CHALLENGESIN 2012 STATE OF SOCIAL MEDIA MARKETING With the enthusiasm and increased investment in social marketing come some key challenges that marketers expect to tackle in 2012...
... co-ordinating infrastructure support and improving production practices, amongst other things LIMPUST’s strategy involves seeking to ‘manage business linkages between emerging and commercial farming’ ... in respect of housing Responses in the PLAAS survey indicated that some farm managements were still prepared to consider renovating or maintaining houses, and some indicated an intention to transfer ... mix of individual, focus groups and key informant interviews Interviewees included private individuals and business people, government officials (including extension officers) and members of targeted...
... criteria; analyzing, selecting, and maintaining their investment portfolios; reviewing, evaluating, and improving the performance of their portfolios; or conducting post implementation reviews In addition, ... is taking corrective actions in response Challengesin Developing and Implementing DOD’s Business Enterprise Architecture and Investment Control Processes Improving the department’s business ... training was inadequate According to DFAS personnel as of February 2012, the training they received for GFEBS and DEAMS did not fully meet their needs DFAS personnel informed us that the training...
... reduction in the number of disparate finance and accounting systems in use DFAS Organization DFAS is headquartered in Arlington, Virginia Reporting to the headquarters are five regional centers in Cleveland; ... for nonlinear pricing and against traditional DWCF expected average cost pricing In Chapter 6, we discuss the results of DFAS’s transitioning from peraccount to per-hour billing for accounting services ... book may be reproduced in any form by any electronic or mechanical means (including photocopying, recording, or information storage and retrieval) without permission in writing from RAND Published...
... triangles with integer area Since [ABC] is an integer, R = abc/4[ABC], and a/ sin A = b/ sin B = c/ sin C = 2R, it follows that sin A, sin B, and sin C are all rational From Section 1.1, integers p, ... theorem 3.3 Integer points on straight lines Rational points on curves 4.1 4.2 4.3 4.4 Integer points on a planar curve of degree two Rational points on cubic curves with a singular point Elliptic ... configurations in which various lengths are required to have integer values provides a natural and appealing link between elementary geometry and interesting problems involving Diophantine equations...
... points that are similar, in some sense, and clustering is a process of partitioning a data set into disjoint clusters In distance clustering (or d–clustering), “similarity” is interpreted in ... Identifying Critical Nodes in Protein-Protein Interaction Networks 130 130 135 140 149 150 153 V Boginski and C W Commander 7.1 Introduction 7.2 Protein-Protein Interaction ... sets arising in many important applications of diverse origin, including biology In fact, applications of clustering in biology can be traced back to Aristotle’s History of Animals, in which...
... gyrase inhibitor (ciprofloxacin) A decline in pre-rRNA was detectable within 15 in drugsusceptible bacteria but not in resistant strains Another approach used optical detection for a single cell ... demonstrated recently showing the implementation of electrokinetic-induced mixing directly on an electrochemical sensor, resulting in signal enhancement for detecting urinary tract infections (FIGURE ... treatment of catheter-associated urinary tract infection in adults: 2009 International Clinical Practice Guidelines from the Infectious Diseases Society of America Clin Infect Dis 2010;50(5):625-63...
... accounting and billing systems, especially in some incumbents’ networks Effective interconnection billing requires the following elements: call accounting, call rating, and charging/billing 25 ... Yes Incremental originating revenue from additional calls Yes No Incremental originating revenue from additional calls Yes Unlikely Incremental originating revenue from additional calls Incremental ... originating, long-distance and terminating operators; and I Cost-based charges Fixed rates, which are paid by the originating operator to the transit and terminating operator(s) The originating...
... uncertainties during the clinical decision making process, the absence of teamwork, and the insufficient intellectual content [12,17] In France, 000 training posts in general practice remained ... was based on increasing exposure to primary care experiences during the whole medical training In France, medical students now benefit from an obligatory two-month training period in general practice ... salaries during the office based training period (minimum two out of five years) is publicly financed However, in practice, the subsidy is often the trainee’s income only, which may explain that...