... động automobile n dated or formal word for motor car in British english, but still widely used in american english: Xe hơi, ôtô automobile association = major motoring organization, speciallythe ... state indicator = battery charge indicator battery terminal n terminal on the battery either in the front ofa post ora lug with a hole; alsoused sometimes to mean the clamp on the end ofthe ... (b) to separate: Tách to break (up) a car for spares = to take a car to piece so that the part can be usedto repair other cars: Rã xe thành phận point break 50 before TDC = the contact breaker...
... sinister meaning It was used almost exclusively as cooperating with the enemy, and no one wanted to be accused of being a collaborator But that was then Today, collaboration is used more positively ... that allows you to measure and manage the value of relationship currencies Heartfelt thanks to Gordie Earle of Arrayworks for helping us understand the requirements ofthe information infrastructure ... Community are similar to those required ofa choreographer of dance Encyclopaedia Britannica describes choreography asthe gathering and organization of movement into order and pattern The choreographic...
... sinister meaning It was used almost exclusively as cooperating with the enemy, and no one wanted to be accused of being a collaborator But that was then Today, collaboration is used more positively ... that allows you to measure and manage the value of relationship currencies Heartfelt thanks to Gordie Earle of Arrayworks for helping us understand the requirements ofthe information infrastructure ... Community are similar to those required ofa choreographer of dance Encyclopaedia Britannica describes choreography asthe gathering and organization of movement into order and pattern The choreographic...
... sinister meaning It was used almost exclusively as cooperating with the enemy, and no one wanted to be accused of being a collaborator But that was then Today, collaboration is used more positively ... plummeting valuations, and soaring layoffs Others have a sense ofthe association and are trying to see their way clear Not allofthe economic malaise ofthe years 2000 to 2002 is due to these two ... distant locations just as you would if they were physically across the table in the same room For others, collaboration is aboutthe free flow of information across boundaries And for still others,...
... ensure that allofthe dancers follow the same rhythm, and encourage every dancer to work together to accomplish the same goal, the choreographer ofthe Collaborative Community assembles allofthe ... store, asa cornerstone ofthe community, has really brought the whole area to life So what is his interest in having us there? Before our machine was there, there was a gumball machine and hair care ... Our carrier contracted out the installation to an unsatisfactory and financially unhealthy partner And that partner refused to honor the terms ofthe carrier’s agreement, leaving us caught in the...
... constituents external tothe company are a major factor in the push for collaboration For example, analysts tout the benefits of “collaborative commerce,” describing it asthe marriage of enterprise ... currencies, for example, information about customers or information abouta product or service “Access to means that you give or receive access to one ofthe currencies, for example, access to customers ... because ofthe critical role it plays in supporting human collaboration Technology allows people in separate locations to work together and 62 Part One ❘ TheEraof Collaborative Business to share...
... Collaboration expenditure of more capital and labor.” Therefore, if the interactions you have with the other person—whether face -to- face or by e-mail or telephone—take place on a regular and ... Dave and Max are transforming their relationship into a collaborative one: a relationship that has a direct impact on one or more ofthe three FIGURE 5.2 ❘ ❘ Not All Relationships Are the Same ... tothe farm and more members tothe organization And similar toa transactional relationship, a relationship in the collaborative quadrant is viable because it is a win-win for both parties Thus,...
... have to turn all transactional relationships into collaborative ones Scenario D: Collaborative Opportunity A relationship that starts asa resource opportunity but has the potential to move to ... have learned from Dave and then taken Dave’s ideas to another vendor Because Dave offered his currency first, the actual path their dance took wasn’t a direct line from transactional to collaborative ... follow a straight line asthe relationship iterates toa more desirable scenario Let’s go back tothe Dave and Max example If you recall, Dave took the lead by approaching Max with his concept of...
... can reevaluate and develop new assumptions and plans based on that knowledge While the Relationship Values and Deltas provide an overall indication of value, it is also important to look at the ... and acceptance ofthe other party’s rights and interests The creation of shared goals and strategy, especially in the initial stage ofa relationship, facilitates collaboration on the level of ... each party needs to trust the other party or otherwise the information required forthe collaboration won’t be shared LEVELS OF COLLABORATION To get a better understanding ofthe importance of...
... company’s information infrastructure has certain general characteristics to support the goals of collaboration These ten characteristics are: The information infrastructure must allow you to effectively ... ofthe not -for- profit Information will need to be shared regarding who the joint customers/members are as well asthe amount of their purchases so the program can be measured and managed Another ... information exactly when needed The information infrastructure must automate the information flow forall core business processes and establish accountability at the task level A company’s information...
... subsequently asked us to write for their publication, but representatives of two other trade publications that heard us speak have also asked us to write for their online and offline magazines and are ... calling on behalf ofa client, a major collaborative commerce software vendor John said he was assembling a “panel of experts” on collaborative business and asked if we would participate on the ... scorecard for our association with the PR agency asof early January 2002 in relation to our new goal priorities forthe year As you can see, not only have we changed the weighting on each goal,...
... David Rottenberg is the editor forThe Rhythm of Business, Inc He has also worked asa freelance author and has written business profiles for Boston Magazine as well as articles for several national ... Responsible World, Inc Jan has also served on the boards of not -for- profit organizations that promote entrepreneurship asa means out of poverty for women, and she was a delegate tothe 1997 Microcredit ... everyone asa customer, that there is quantifiable and significant value in non-cash currencies, and that the intricacies ofall forms of business relationships can be objectively measured and managed...
... interpreted asa kind of average measure of connectedness for (0i,!) among all pairs of levels ofthe factor9 due tothe incidence ofthe nuisance factor fora fixed effect model (see the Appendix) ... distribution of data according groups for each factor separately No account is taken ofthe joint distribution These across sex toof data between those factors In this model, this means that the factors ... groups and coming out of different herds One may also notice that D values for combinations of factors exceed the sum of D values for single factors For instance, D is equal to 1.433 for S + A...
... WikiCategoryGraph categoryTree = WikiCategoryGraphFactory.getCategoryGraphForLanguage(Language.EN); categoryTree.getCategoryGraph().score(new PageRank()); Figure 3: Java API sample usage phrase ... source Programmatic access tothe encyclopedia makes also available in a straightforward manner the large amount of structured text in Wikipedia (e.g for building a language model), as well as its ... http://search.cpan.org/dist/WWW-Wikipedia 50 Using the API The API provides factory classes for querying Wikipedia, in order to retrieve encyclopedia entries as well as relatedness scores for word pairs...
... [42]) LASSO [34] uses an upper bound forthe l1 norm ofthe weight vector, specified by a parameter A, and formulates the l1 norm minimization problem as follows, Forthegeneral class of linear ... different LP formulations are proposed: one based on a positive class of linear functions and the other on ageneral class of linear functions The accuracy of this LP-based approach for deducing the structure ... LP-SLGNs based on thegeneral class of linear functions were estimated using the parameter A = Forthe INSILICO1 data set, the Sparsity is ~10 Forthe INSILICO2 data set, the Sparsity is ~13 For the...
... acetyltransferase subunit ofthe elongator [26] (Fig 2C) In all these cases, the GLAM ratios ofthe mutants were, at most, 50% ofthe wild-type ratios and, therefore, we consider this percentage asthe ... cultures reached an optical density at 600 nm (OD 600) of 0.8–1 Acid phosphatase activity of intact cells was assayed as described [19] The acid phosphatase activities ofthe transformants were corrected ... initiation, transcription elongation or splicing), but they are also time-consuming and not recommended asthe first assay with which to classify a mutant The best assay fora rapid evaluation of gene...
... therefore in this paper a new transformation which preserves the same advantages asthe Park transformation A Mathematical Model ofthe BDCM We suppose that the motor has the following typical features ... constants : a single-phase motor only able to provide a pulsating torque (the homopolar part) and a two-phase motor with a rotating field (the "ap" The classical Park transformation is, in fact, the ... constant ara arb , and arc the rotor fluxes induced in the stator phases are The electrical equations ofthe machine can therefore be written as follows : are the backemf (p is the number of pairs...
... and the performance ofthe organization’s offerings (see e.g Parasuraman et al., 1985 & 1988 & 1991) Another stream of research is the performance-based approach (or linear regression approach) ... service offering is divided into several measurable attributes These attributes then mathematically relate to overall satisfaction Standardized and customized surveys When implementing survey-based ... as well as provide a solution that will correct the situation, a considerable positive impact towards the satisfaction ofthe customer is possible A major drawback of using interviews for measuring...