... Control 211 Part 3: The Power ofthe Key Principles Chapter 11 The Power ofthe Collection Habit 223 225 Chapter 12 The Power ofthe Next-Action Decision Chapter 13 The Power of Outcome Focusing ... dozens of e-mails still not dealt with Many of these businesspeople are successful because the crises they solve and the opportunities they take advantage of are bigger than the problems they allow ... predetermined list of to-dos that the first telephone call or interruption from their boss won't totally undo The "Big Picture" vs the Nitty-Gritty At the other end ofthe spectrum, a huge number of business...
... components ofthe economy at Birimi, a settlement close to the northern edge ofthe West African forest in modern Ghana This was an outlier ofthe Kintampo culture whose other sites, further south in the ... while others moved more quickly up the main waterways until, at about 1000 bc, they reached the eastern edge ofthe equatorial forest in the broad area ofthe great East African lakes There they ... fatal to cattle By the first half ofthe second millennium bc, cattle were herded close to the top ofthe Niger bend and on the southern shores of Lake Chad Shortly afterwards, the first strong archaeological...
... between events in the cell were the direct result ofthe minimization of energy due to tight thermodynamic coupling, then it would make no sense to speak of their occurring on the basis of information ... 10, 2004 TheEmergenceof Biological Value 1:32 221 One ofthe most interesting lines of contemporary research that holds some promise of providing the missing piece ofthe puzzle is the investigation ... jostling of matter What makes the living cell profoundly different from ordinary inorganic matter is the way in which each reaction is coordinated with all the others for the good ofthe whole There...
... to recognise the early warning signs ofstress in their staff and review their management style and its impact on the people they manage Another approach is the direct promotion of positive health ... stress from their work, depending on the demands of their job, the conditions in which they work, and their individual susceptibility, which can be increased by problems outside ofthe workplace ... considered that the mental health of staff should be part of company policy Despite their concerns, however, less than in 10 of these companies had an official policy on mental health The aims of this...
... created the army, they began the reconquest ofthe Moorish parts of Spain in 1482 About the same time, they petitioned Pope Sixtus IV of Rome to start the Inquisition as a way of protecting themselves ... understood as in the realm of God, of religion and metaphysics On the other hand, there is the knowledge ofthe universe, of what humans can discover and comprehend through their own efforts The dialectic ... whether there is a good match between the needs ofthe enterprise and the capacities and accomplishments ofthe person being considered The success of everyone involved depends on the quality of...
... conditions in the algorithm dictated: (2) Fit it to the length ofthe sentence (3) Find the stressed word(s) in the sentence (a) If the element in the phonetic list is a phone and the value ofthe sentinel ... exceeded, then assign the present value ofthe head ofthe skeleton slope to the list being built up Then recurse down the phonetic list but net the slope, so as to assign the same value to the next ... as the marker, not the auxiliary (2) Find the length ofthe selected skeleton slope (3) Perform an integer division on the length ofthe phonetic list by the length ofthe slope (3) If, in either...
... benefited from the comments and suggestions ofthe participants ofthe workshop ‘Economic Theory and the Practice of Consumption: Evolutionary and other Approaches’, organised by the University of Cassino ... analysing the shape ofthe growth pattern ofthe quantity of cinema consumed and expenditure on cinema The time ofthe take-off will be estimated quantitatively (and its timing compared with the qualitative ... innovations, the idea of cinema preceded the invention itself It is difficult to give an exact date to theemergenceofthe idea, or concept of cinema, but the first projection of moving images...
... to recognise the early warning signs ofstress in their staff and review their management style and its impact on the people they manage Another approach is the direct promotion of positive health ... stress from their work, depending on the demands of their job, the conditions in which they work, and their individual susceptibility, which can be increased by problems outside ofthe workplace ... considered that the mental health of staff should be part of company policy Despite their concerns, however, less than in 10 of these companies had an official policy on mental health The aims of this...
... regulatory role All of these initiatives have furthered the prominence of risk discourses and the promotion of riskbased thinking in government However, theemergenceof ideas about risk in the regulatory ... theemergenceof risk based approaches, the 1990s and beyond have witnessed an environment favourable to the development of them The UK in the 1990s and onwards has witnessed a reframing ofthe ... assessments (CCA) both of which gained currency in Europe and the US during the late 1980s/ 1990s These techniques are part ofthe changes associated with the NPM and they form the basis of much risk-based...
... the differences in outcome The expertise of health professionals may vary and also the quantity and quality ofthe educational information about the condition and PFM function The impact of these ... outcome of physical therapy? What is the optimal period of treatment and number of treatments? What is the effectiveness of physical therapy in clinical practice settings and can the findings in the ... evidence for the optimal period of treatment and number of treatments? We found evidence for the efficacy of shorter treatment protocols than the 4–6 months recommended by the ICS The basis ofthe ICS...
... underlying these apparent discrepant data remain to be clarified However, the roles of PrRP in the control ofstress responses may depend upon the nature of stressful stimuli used Stressful stimuli ... determined The involvement of RFRP in the control ofstress responses has also been reported The dorsomedial hypothalamus where RFRP neurons exist plays an important role in the control ofstress ... pro-opiomelanocortin in the arcuate nucleus ofthe hypothalamus, both of which are key molecules in the control of energy balance [46] The administration of RFRPs induces Fos protein in the arcuate nucleus, which...
... outlook of two MAS user groups influenced their perception ofthe success ofthe new system The site chosen for this study is the Fibre Optics business unit (HLFO) ofthe Semiconductors Group of Siemens ... a role in the design and implementation ofthe PBTC system The next section discusses the questionnaire results and their implications for the hypotheses being tested in the light ofthe qualitative ... well-being and development of people within the organisation to stressing the well-being and development ofthe organisation itself at the other extreme Another value dimension which they advance relates...
... TheEmergenceof Cultural Studies and the Crisis ofthe Humanities STUART HALL If I address the crisis ofthe humanities in the face ofthe problem of social technology, I want to so first of ... existence there Nevertheless, Leavis saw himself committed to the project of tending the health ofthe language and the national culture, of nurturing the refined sensibilities of that small company of ... to culture - was one side oftheThe Emergenceof Cultural Studies and the Crisis ofthe Humanities 15 coin; the depth of his engagement with cultural questions was the other As his neophytes, albeit...
... in the vicinity of Mecca Frequently, too, they stem from the scholars desire to assert the primacy of either Judaism or Christianity as the form of monotheism that inuenced theemergenceof Islam ... stereotypical monotheist theme and conrms that the Koran reects the condition ofthe Hijaz at the time ofthe Prophet.9 The traã dition interprets the Koran, the Koran documents the tradition We ... also in other genres of Muslim liter ature: lives ofthe Prophet, collections of material on the life and religion ofthe jahiliyya, collections ofthe sayings ofthe Prophet (hadths), and other...
... demanded the specification ofthe probability of any hypothesis in the light ofthe available empirical evidence The honesty of na¨ve falsificationism demanded the testing ofthe falsifiable and the ... in the fortunes of religion and the increase in the fortunes of science has often encouraged the assumption that the abandonment of religion in favour of science was the inevitable outcome ofthe ... memoirs ofthe Family ofthe Wrens; viz Of Mathew Bishop of Ely, Christopher Dean of Windsor, &c but chiefly of Sir Christopher Wren, late Surveyor-General ofthe Royal Buildings, President of the...
... history in the diagnosis of patients with suspected injury ofthe pars interarticularis because it is more sensitive than radiographs for localizing the site of bone stress and because CT ofthe spine ... sequence) through the area of abnormality on SPECT, is recommended to confirm the diagnosis and stage the lesion If SPECT is negative, pars stress is unlikely to be the cause ofthe low back pain ... (MRI) Radiographs ofthe spine have limited sensitivity compared with other imaging modalities in detecting bone stress and acute spondylolysis Furthermore, radiographic defects ofthe pars interarticularis...
... family together at the home of my grandparents, Hersch and Dora Zimels; we read the Haggadah, an account ofthe escape ofthe Jews from slavery in Egypt, and then enjoyed one of my grandmothers carefully ... part ofthe so-called Aryanization (Arisierung) of property, a purportedly legal form of theft From the time of my fathers release from prison in the middle of November 1938 until he and my mother ... professor of English literature at the University of California, San Diego He served as the first head ofthe National Endowment for the Humanities, in the Nixon administration At the urging of...
... hospitals in the western (low prevalence) part ofthe city None of clindamycin-resistant MRSA were related to either USA300 or USA400 strains (Fig 3) The six hospitals with the greater prevalence of USA300 ... located in the eastern section ofthe city, while the nine remaining hospitals serve neighborhoods in the western half ofthe city (Fig 2) To determine if patients with cultures positive for the USA300 ... were representative ofthe population ofthe high prevalence neighborhoods, records of 20 patients from two medical centers within the higher prevalence region were reviewed Ofthe 20 patients,...
... regardless of whether these autoantibodies are pathogenic [25] Despite intensive work on the characterization of autoantigens, the cellular basis of their production and the strong association of certain ... in the parotid gland These results suggest an important role for VL chain gene usage in the immune activation of B cells within the parotid gland ofthe pSS patient studied A restriction ofthe ... CD5, further supporting the hypothesis of homing and activation of specific B cells in the glands B cell malignancies and Sjögren’s syndrome In contrast to the focal sialadenitis ofthe minor...