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... price of a mousetrap?Customers no longer need to know the price of servers, software and the rest ofthe parts making up the IT service stack. This knowledge is as useful as knowing the price of ... I discuss one functional transformation that has taken placed as a result of cloud services, namely; the impact on the assessment of value. This is a timely discourse as the vast majority of ... mousetrap. Customers, however, must know the price ofthe equivalent services from other cloud providers. This is the crucial performance measure. It is only this performance measure that constitutes...
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... prevented them from trading quite as they wished, the cases on the use of goods discussed in this Article signal the end ofthe slippery slope approach of allowing any expansion ofthe type of measures ... EC); the requirement of an interstate element; thenatureofthe ECJ’s approach in Keck; thenatureof the case-law-based justifications for obstacles to the free movement of goods; whether the ... firm rejection of siren calls in favor ofthe importance ofthe unity of the internal market within the European Union. II. PARADISE REGAINED? The first ofthe cases under discussion to come...
... that establishes a reasonable linkbetween the NSES and the professional development system, then the evidence ofthe influence ofthe NSES on the systemof professional development is variable. ... discussion ofthe quality ofthe empirical evidence base at the end of each section.TABLE 3-1 Matrix ofthe Quality ofthe Evidence and Different Components ofthe Professional Development System Quality ... the model is a promising approach to capturing some ofthe policy and structural influences ofthe NSES on the systems that undergird the delivery of professional development. Likewise, the Eisenhower...
... PBTC: the possibility to visualise the numbers hademphasised the importance ofthe processes. The employees ofthe Technical ProductionSupport division who are in charge of plan-ning the production ... role in the design and implementation of the PBTC system. The next section discusses the questionnaire results and their implications for the hypotheses being tested in the light ofthe qualitativeinformation ... within the new MAS aligned with the organisational outlook ofthe user groups wassignificantly associated with the perceived success of the new system. The study results support those of other...
... ofthe facets of Managed Preferences, making your job as a system administrator easier. CHAPTER 2: WhatIsthe Managed Preferences System? 12 The Heart of Managed Preferences The very short ... answer to ‘ what are managed preferences’’ is this: a managed preference is XML that is applied to a user, group, or computer record that alters the default behavior ofthesystem or of an application. ... CHAPTER 2: WhatIsthe Managed Preferences System? 13 What Can You Manage? You may be thinking, ‘‘Great! There’s a managementsystem built into OS X. But what exactly can it manage?’’ The short...
... profile must be calculated before the move begins. Chapter 4 The State of Motor Control Academia 32 system. The block diagram ofthesystem to be controlled is shown in Figure 4.3. This is ... classic controls this is referred to as the problem ofthe double integrator. This problem is still present in the S-curve system; it is illustrated in Figure 3.9 by the fact that the three ... amplifier (the voltage to the motor is smooth, as in a giant audio amplifier). The contents ofthecontrol loop isthe subject ofthe remaining chapters of Part I. Chapter 2 Choosing a Motion Control...
... consider the case of neuroaesthetics. This new branch of empirical aesthetics is often dened as the study ofthe neural processes underlying aesthetic experience. In other words, the job of neuroaestheticians ... psychologist Rolf Reber recently suggested that “art theorists… dene the criterion ofwhatthe [aesthetic] experience is expected to be; scientists… provide a test of whether this criterion is fullled.”2 ... monthly honorarium from the Society. The editor is responsible for the content ofthe journal. The editor is a member ofthe Board of Trust-ees ofthe Society and serves on the Executive Committee...
... there may be several distinctderivations that generate the same parse tree. The probability of a parse tree T is thus the sum of the probabilities of its distinct derivations. Let tid be the ... in the derivation d that producestree T, then the probability of T is given byP(T) = ΣdΠi P(tid)Thus the DOP1 model considers counts of subtrees of a wide range of sizes in computing the ... t is converted into a context-free rule rwhere the lefthand side of r corresponds to the root label of t and the righthand side of rcorresponds to the frontier labels of t. Indices linkthe...
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