... absorb the management philosophy than SMEs Efforts have been made by many scholars in exploring the opportunities of implementing information management (Love and Irani, 2004), knowledge management ... is global, and therefore, there is an urgent need for new management ideas and methods to improve the industry’s performance Inspired by the manufacturing sector, a significant number of studies ... the philosophy model, the process model, the people and partners model, and the problem-solving model Most importantly, it has addressed the technical and social aspects of the lean concept In...
... using composite indicators does not imply replacing the measurement of individual metrics of quality Rather, composites merely summarize the information contained in the individual metrics and make ... Figure models a patient’s path through the healthcare system and highlights opportunities and challenges for measurement Themodel emphasizes innate and external modifiers of health that determine ... on methods Metrics with different units and scales cannot be aggregated before being transformed to a common scale (normalization) Of the many existing choices for normalization, ranking and...
... using composite indicators does not imply replacing the measurement of individual metrics of quality Rather, composites merely summarize the information contained in the individual metrics and make ... Figure models a patient’s path through the healthcare system and highlights opportunities and challenges for measurement Themodel emphasizes innate and external modifiers of health that determine ... on methods Metrics with different units and scales cannot be aggregated before being transformed to a common scale (normalization) Of the many existing choices for normalization, ranking and...
... isolation for formulating the unifying mechanism Mechanism is the reconciliation of mechanisms of 1-3 There are many observations (numerous species of fishes) which support mechanisms & 5, making either ... transported from the anode to the cathode through the external circuit and the proton exchange membrane respectively The e- arriving at the cathode then combines with the oxygen there to form ... time, dQ/dt; Q is the charge (C); t is time (s); n is the number of moles of reactant and dn/dt is the moles of reactant converted per time; mcat is the mass of metal catalyst (mg); GEA is the...
... any set in F1 Therefore, the path P2 will remain in the graph if all the edges in F1 are removed Therefore, F1 is not an s-t cut either From the proof of Theorem 1, once we find a partition for ... likelihood, the objective would be to minimize the total weight of the common failures Equivalently, we can reformulate the partitioning problem to achieve the same objective Assuming each edge-set in the ... and the broken logical links The paper is organized as follows In Section 2, we describe theframework and formulate the disjoint path problem as a graph problem Section discusses some of the most...
... dealing arrangements of all kinds, if they can lead to the foreclosure of another firm from a market While other commitment effects have a marginal impact on price level, the elimination of a competitor ... Besides the image of the product, the manufacturer wants to achieve the optimal “match” between customer and product One aspect of this problem is that the manufacturer will want to ensure that the ... monitor forthe manufacturer (and even more so foran outside court) Regular training can reduce the sales staff’s cost of providing effort, but forthe staff to actually make the effort and apply the...
... application continuously samples a sensor at 10 Hz, calculates the maximum, the minimum, and the mean over 10 samples, and sends them to another node (As such, the test application implements a typical ... implementation compared to other systemsThe space reserved for dynamic and packet memory RAM can be tailored to the needs of the application and the resources on the node The service number and ... does not have an own dynamic memory management 3.2.4 Packet Memory The Packet Memory module stores the packets used by the services to communicate with each other The packets are organized in FIFO...
... might miss important connections For example, if the words “purr” and “meow” are never used as labels forthe same sound, the retrieval system cannot modelthe information that these sounds may ... computed from either the windowed time series data, or the short-time Fourier Transform (STFT) magnitude spectrum of 40 ms Hamming windowed frames hopped every 20 ms (i.e., 50% overlapping frames) ... similarity helps to ameliorate retrieval performance To demonstrate that retrieval performance is most likely considerably better than the reported precision, recall, MAP, and MAROC performance...
... 4.2.2) transferring data at a constant rate and with a given set up time Assuming the EDMA has the same performance from the L2 internal memory to the L2 internal memory as the EDMA3 of the TMS320TCI6482 ... entering the scheduling phase, the algorithm goes through three transformation steps: the hierarchy flattening transformation, the HSDF transformation, and the DAG transformation (see Section 3.3.2) These ... (SDF) model used in the SDF4J library and PREESM is not available in DIF SDF3 is an open-source tool implementing some data flow models and providing analysis, transformation, visualization, and manual...
... expressions for each of the mobility metrics, using a Markov chain model (Using a Markov chain model allows for random mobility models for which no closed-form expression may be found forthe PDF of the ... have the joint PDF fΨ,Vi ,V j ψ, vi , v j = X APPLICATION USING RANDOM-WALK MOBILITY MODELThe random-walk mobility model (RWMM) is probably the most mathematically tractable mobility model ... these mobility metrics forthe random-walk mobility modelthe magnitude of X, similarly for Vi and V j The acute angle Ψ between Vi and V j is uniformly distributed in [0, π), and Ψ, Vi and V...
... of the Affymetrix platform, and QuantiSNP is designed for data obtained from the Illumina platform Therefore, Birdseye, PennCNV, and ÇOKGEN's superior performance compared to dChip and QuantiSNP ... implemented the ÇOKGEN framework and collected the results for analysis GY, MK and TL developed methodology for in silico analysis of the results and GY analyzed the results MG did the MLPA validation ... copy number; CNP: copy number polymorphism; CNV: copy number variant; ÇOKGEN (chok-gen): amalgamation of the Turkish words ÇOK = multiple and GEN = gene; HMM: hidden Markov model; MLPA: multiplex...
... Mill’s liberal theory, public health ethics frameworks, and human rights These highlight some important considerations to be carried into the ethical framework of this thesis: the importance of distinguishing ... (when the nature of autonomy in addiction remains undetermined), and what the relevant roles of individuals, the community, and the state are Research problems To summarize, there are a number ... Abbreviations 247 B Definitions 249 C Summary of the ethical framework 251 D Diagram of the ethical framework 253 vii Summary This thesis considers an ethical frameworkfor tobacco control policy This...
... runtime execution modules: Semantic QoS Specification (SQS) for knowledge modeling, Middleware QoS Manager (QMan) for runtime management and Dynamic Protocol Framework (DPF) for middleware level ... This thesis proposes an adaptive QCMF frameworkfor QoS management in end-toend multimedia transmission The solution embraces existing and new QoS mechanisms at three entity levels: networks, middleware ... treat each of the QoS subsystems as a meta-component and design an end-to-end framework and methods for accommodating and supporting interactions and dynamic adaptations among them In this context,...
... is simpler in shape and smaller in size than the whole mesh Component organization is an important technique in the modeling community An artist usually constructs a complicated model by composing ... acknowledge my gratitude to A/P Teh Hung Chuan and Dr Huang Zhiyong for giving me much encouragement and many suggestions I am deeply grateful forthe assistance of Mr Ong Hong Yang, Mr Xiao Yongguan and ... correspondence for every component) to semi-automated (the user specifies only important correspondences and theframework computes the others) to fully-automated (the framework computes all correspondences...
... connect to the broker Subsequent messages from the users will be routed to the assigned navigation system The broker communicates with the navigation systems via a communication platform thereby ... broadband connection The navigation system and other server modules will run on a remote server Acknowledgments The research has received funding from the European Community’s Seventh Framework ... system We also plan to add an additional input channel that can stream user speech to the navigation system in the future tions) • ‘In-situ’ or incremental route instruction systems: these systems...
... Section The Analytic FrameworkThe authors have modified the Analytic Framework used by Jimison et al (2008) in their landmark study on Consumer Health Information Technologies used by the elderly, ... controller forthe feet Seniors could use the Wii Fit to play Yoga and other games to improve their balance and strengthen knees and ankles A simple Wiimote that resembles a TV remote with which most ... other applications 444 Improving Health Outcomes forthe Elderly like ReMoteCare to connect to this port The serial forwarder transmits the queries of the ReMoteCare application to the base mote...
... outside themodelThe user communicates with the moving company and defines the schedule as to when to make the move, where to move, and when the move should be finished 5.7.1.2 The Moving Company ... SABM frame from the MS, it forwards that information as an EST_IND message toward the BSC, The OSI ReferenceModel 47 wrapped into an I-frame The EST_IND message, clearly Layer information, can ... 6, and Let us assume, forthe purpose of this analogy, that the moving company has local branches all over the world that are governed by the same business rules The moving company has many employees:...
... interventions forthe management of major childhood illnesses and malnutrition They include the Partnership for Maternal, Neonatal and Child Health (PMNCH), the Expanded Programme on Immunization (EPI), and ... system provides information on aspects such as efficiency and equity of thehealth system NHA information is also an important component of the WHO frameworkforthe assessment of health system ... Goals MICS Multiple Indicator Cluster Survey MK Malawi Kwacha MOD Ministry of Defense MOE Ministry of Education MOF Ministry of Finance MOFED Ministry of Finance and Economic Development MOH Ministry...