... Freedom, the commander of Air Force forces (COMAFFOR) for U.S Central Command (CENTCOM), Lieutenant General Walter Buchanan, recognized the need to undertake a fundamental reexamination ofthe Theater ... Bash, Deputy DIRMOBFOR, and Director of AMD We also thank Lt Col Hans Petry and Maj Matt Lacy for guiding us through the AMD In the AFFOR /A4 , we thank Col Michael Butler, A4 , and Maj David Paynter ... Lewis et al (1999) and Niblack, Szayna, and Bordeaux (1996) Outside of RAND, theframework is in use by the Air Force, the Army, and elements ofthe Joint Staff A closed-loop process takes the output...
... Analysis approach and therefore adopts this specific modality, with the elaborated milestones pathway as the platform for future implementation and evaluation of Training and Fellowship Capacity ... Geneva Authors’ contributions AR was primarily responsible forthe formulation ofthe evaluation frameworkandfor drafting the paper MZ was primarily responsible forthe literature review and AG ... theframework enables clarity about the pathway The inclusion of indicators for verification of progress and attainment of goals provides a blue print for monitoring and evaluation andthe identification...
... architectures Rather than using the traces as input to an architecture simulator, their traces are analyzed statically In addition, a traditional hardware/software cosimulation stage is required ... for them According to the Y-chart approach, an application model—derived from a target application domain—describes the functional behavior of an application in an architecture-independent manner ... generates a trace of application events These application events represent the application tasks to be performed and are necessary for driving an architecture model Application events are generally...
... evaluation framework, which expands the traditional narrow approach ofthe identification and quantification ofthe tangible costs and benefits of an IT investment Theframework is known as the ... general information There are too many unforeseeable factors that make the estimation at the feasibility stage very inaccurate An ideal approach should have the flexibility to expect and evaluate ... identification of appropriate performance measures at the company level IT and company’s financial performance A majority of studies in this field adopt financial measures as company performance indicators...
... adaptation of national laws and institutions, the adoption of new technical standards in transport infrastructure and equipment, andacceptanceof new organizational and operational systems Analysts ... Indonesia, Malaysia, the Philippines, Thailand, and Vietnam Brunei Darussalam and Singapore have since joined as contracting parties The agreement establishes and develops a harmonized and integrated ... International Traffic Arteries (AGR) of 1975 This agreement defines the main roads linking Albania, Armenia, Azerbaijan, Belarus, Kazakhstan, the former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia, Moldova, the...
... moderates, cultural accommodation is portrayed as a social barrier for women The burka remains a magnet for criticism in the Netherlands, France, Britain, and Canada for impeding integration ... issue are central and integral to a claimant’s identity For instance, observing the Sabbath is central and integral to the way of life of observant Jews; polygamy is central and integral to the ... France Greece Guatemala Hungary Italy Japan Poland Portugal Singapore South Korea Switzerland Thailand Turkey Ukraine Vietnam Oxford is a registered trade mark of Oxford University Press in the...
... at fourth and eighth scale decompositions Then A8 is used to approximate the baseline wander ofthe pulse signal, and A4 − A8 is just the pulse signal filtered The reason that A4 − A8 and A8 are ... that the optimum scale a is equal to We choose the Mexican Hat wavelet and decompose the contaminated pulse signal to scale eight Suppose A4 and A8 are the approximations ofthe Mexican Hat wavelet ... the characteristic points P, E, and K are overlapping, andthe parameters h1 are equal to h3 [1] The above preliminary analysis has provided important information that the extraction of parameters...
... The reforms raise both the quality and quantity oftheregulatory capital base and enhance the risk coverage ofthe capital framework They are underpinned by a leverage ratio that serves as a ... calibrations for EAD and (b) the IMM capital charge based on stressed parameter calibrations for EAD ii The standardised CVA risk capital charge determined by paragraph 104 C All other banks The ... denotes the natural logarithm N(x) denotes the cumulative distribution function fora standard normal random variable (ie the probability that a normal random variable with mean zero and variance of...
... we may reduce both sides mod A to get a1 Aa2 A · · · ak AxA = xA a1 Aa2 A · · · ak A = 1A a1 a2 · · · ak ∈ A Lemma 4.2 If C = ∅ is regular, then there exists C ′ such that (i) ∅ = C ′ ⊆ C, the ... theorem we have (Q /A) (Q /A) and (Q /A) /(Q /A) ∼ Q/Q′ , an Abelian group Thus = (Q /A) ′ (Q′ /A) We now show that (Q′ /A) (Q /A) ′ Fix N /A Q /A such that (Q /A) /(N /A) is an Abelian group Again by the ... thank Michael Kinyon and Petr Vojtˇchovsk´ for their helpful conversations regarde y ing this material and Anthony Evans and Ian Wanless for sharing several articles and preprints related to the...
... generated never become available through a database and web interface because ofthe limited time researchers want to put into this effort PAZAR provides an easy way to make these data available and ... Regulatory Sequence Annotation [http://www.pazar.info] Kawaji H, Kasukawa T, Fukuda S, Katayama S, Kai C, Kawai J, Carninci P, Hayashizaki Y: CAGE Basic/Analysis Databases: the CAGE resource for comprehensive ... expand the data represented, the means to access the data andthe quality ofthe data curation tools At present, existing data collections are being added to PAZAR with the permission and collaboration...
... pluralism and fragmentation of public sector organizations that resulted in a silo mentality and often caused problems of lack of coordination andof duplication ofthe tasks covered For example, in the ... political leadership rather than the representative one; the growing relevance of forms of civic leadership as a trigger for creating public and social value andfor enhancing the resilience ofthe ... nature ofthe former, andthe multilateral perspective ofthe latter, there is a significant opportunity to establish fully place-based leadership in an analysis ofa more complex governance landscape...
... Act, the Accountability for Presidential Gifts Act, andthe Arafat Accountability Act, to the Polluter Accountability Act, the Syria Accountability Act, andthe United Nations Voting Accountability ... forum could therefore also apply a collective strategy of accountability and pick any member ofthe organisation and hold it personally accountable for 18 the conduct ofthe organisation as a ... the availability of information about former and current administrative actions forthe administrative body involved anda wider range of administrative bodies? b Does the accountability arrangement...
... theories These may be ``practical'' theories rather than abstractly formalized theories, they may have the character of ``rules of thumb'' rather than explanatory principles One particularly important ... schema Organizations, for example, can be analyzed in terms ofthe relations among a series of suborganizational units ± of ces, branches, departments ± and each of these, in turn, can be analyzed ... structureand agency is thus neither a form of structuralism that marginalizes the human agent, nor a form of voluntarism that marginalizes structural constraints The limits of social structures are...
... related with theuseof artistic vs simple visual materials in experimental aesthetics: “In the former case, there is the advantage of studying reactions to real art andthe disadvantage that any ... encompasses the region identified by Vartanian and Goel (2004), and has been related with the assessment ofthe relevance of motivational and emotional information andthe regulation of emotional ... Kawabata and Zeki (2004) found activity associated mostly with beautiful images, was most active after a reward and decreased its activity after punishment, whereas theactivity in the lateral...
... cataract surgery and eye care due to the cost of examinations, eye glasses, drops and surgery, as well as gender- and age-discrimination, anda lack of support forand information about treatment.20 ... roles, and to ensure that advocacy and educational efforts for Women, Ageing and Health: AFrameworkfor Action Fig Figure Male and female illiteracy rate at ages 60 or over and gender gap: 105 ... regions For example, in Latin America andthe Caribbean, the female prevalence of diabetes and obesity is approximately 15 to 20% higher than that for males.85 Overall in Canada, men have higher rates...
... improvement in a variety of ways For example, an organization can create a separate improvement program, employ external assistance and support, or usetheframework as a managerial support tool Regardless ... improvement Used in this way, ITIM can be a valuable tool that (1) supports organizational self-assessment and improvement and (2) provides a standard against which an evaluation of an organization can ... management, enterprise architecture (EA) management, human capital management, and software and system acquisition management In May 2000 we released an exposure draft ofthe ITIM framework for...
... and subsequently attaches all analysis and evaluations performed by a user with his profile The scraping module takes as input the URI of an article and extracts its main textual content Extraction ... a URI ofa web document that will be analyzed and optionally an identification ofthe user for recording and sharing the analysis Framework NERD is a web application plugged on top of various ... sent back to the client using the format reported in the initial request NERD database The statistic module enables to extract data patterns from the user interactions stored in the database and...