... can be mappedacross the entire organization. Accenture’s approach to efficiency contains a portfolioof tools and assets—the Accenture HighPerformance Bank Framework—that can help a bank achieve ... investmentcapital to tackle structural costreduction initiatives that have a longer payback• Absolute executive buy-in ofclear financial objectives andoperating model• An incontestable fact base andcost ... simplification,standardization and improvement. Withapproximately 4 million procurement trans-actions spread across nearly 200 differentbusiness areas each year, the bank wanted to gain greater...
... of variation and bias inrelation to monitoring of animal disease incidence onherd and national level, causal analysis on national level,as well as estimation of validated treatment criteria.Monitoring ... into potential errors (bias andrandom error) related to data based on clinical examina-Acta Veterinaria Scandinavica 2009, 51:36 http://www.actavetscand.com/content/51/1/36Page 8 of 10(page ... andwould treat based on certain criteria which vary littlebetween cows and herds, so as to be able to create mean-ingful data valid in large scale analyses (across herds andveterinary practices)....
... Hepatocellular carcinoma (HCC). Evaluating for potential treatment candidacy is an important initial step in the management of chronic HCV infection as not all individuals may need or qualify ... HCC, and mortality. In addition, HCV infection has been linked toa variety of extra-hepatic manifestations such as autoimmune diseases, lymphoma, monoclonal gammopathies and cryoglobulinemia. ... International Publisher. All rights reserved Review A Practical Approachto Managing Patients with HCV Infection Richard H. Huang, and Ke-Qin Hu Division of Gastroenterology and Hepatology,...
... quantitation and three approved drugs for HBV treatment, and presents an updated and practical clinical approachto managing CHB. Highly sensitive PCR-based quantitation of HBV DNA makes it ... transaminases are the most important parameters in determining indication, regimen, and duration of HBV treatment. Although interferon alfa-2b, lamivudine, and adefovir are all approved as ... HBsAg clearance and the response to LAM is less durable than that to IFN (Table 1). It is well known that LAM treatment is associated with YMDD mutation in the region of HBV DNA polymerase that...
... Feyn-man soon learned that there was a great obstacle to this delayedaction-at -a- distance theory: namely, if a radiating electron, say inan atom or an antenna, were not acted upon at all by ... isdetermined by saying her whole space-time path has a certaincharacter. For the action [with advanced and retarded terms]the equations are no longer at all easy to get back into Hamil-tonian form. ... example, the transformation may be a rotation). The trans-formation is to contain a parameter, a, and is to be a continuousfunction of a. Fora equal to zero, the transformation should reduce to the...
... Nga – K 1 1A 30Graduation paperDeclarationTitle: A new approachto semantic and syntactic functions of English adjectives A contrastive– analysis with their Vietnamese equivalents (Graduation ... subject at most language universals.According to C. James (1980;19), C .A is a form of inter-language study and a central concern of applied linguistic. As a matter of fact, C .A has had much to ... only to practical language but also to translation theory, the description of particular language, language typology and the study of language universals. In relation to bilingualism, C .A is...
... the team. The database analysts and theprogrammers are unable to agree on the proper ways to pass informationback and forth between the interface and the database, and the require-ments analysts ... packages),• hardware and software implementation (implementing new computers orsoftware),• database management and revision (ensuring proper data storage andaccess),• hardware and software upgrades ... by this approach. It willalso be useful to track organizations using this approach over a period of years,and to compare their performance to those with different approaches. Orga-nizations...
... change initiatives, and they serve as approaches to framing the planned change to fit into the technical and human aspects of the change.The Social and Behavioral Perspective in Transformationis ... McNabb entered a second career in academia. He advanced to the rank of professor on the faculty at Pacific Lutheran University. He has a BA from California State College at Fullerton, an MA from ... managers or staff to accept change is often rooted in a culture of inertia and bureaucratic thinking. Failure or inability of an agen-cy’s management or staff to adapt to changed conditions can...
... 2003,p.56).Infact, the model seems to include a decision phase only as an approach to laboratory settings, where participants are usually asked to state theirpreferences or make decisions about a certain ... orderly444ChapterTwentyOnepresented atthe11'hannual meetingofHuman Brain Mapping, Toronto,ON, Canada.Vartanian,0.,& Gael,V.(200 4a) . Emotion pathwaysinthe brain mediateaesthetic preference.Bulletin ... than before,again including the occipital, temporal, and the frontal lobes, butinparticularbilateral orbital frontal corlex.Whatdothe resultsofKawabata and Zeki (2004) and Skovefal....
... modest recall. As a result, large quantities of NE instances are automatically acquired. An automatically annotated NE corpus can then be constructed by extracting the tagged instances plus ... recall. Then, these rules are applied toa large raw corpus to automatically generate a tagged corpus. Finally, an HMM-based NE tagger is trained using this corpus. There is no iterative learning ... containsDigitAndAlpha, containsDigitAndDash, containsDigitAndSlash, containsDigitAndComma, containsDigitAndPeriod, otherNum, allCaps, capPeriod, initCap, lowerCase, other. 6 Benchmarking and...
... components that are key to success ● HAZOP and FMEA approaches Hazard and Operability studies and Failure Modes EffectsAnalysis are quantitative technical failure analysis techniques ● SWOT and PESTLE ... assurance available to theBoard and the audit committee. An evaluation ofthe level of assurance that has been obtained isalso necessary. Often, a major source of riskassurance for the Board ... risk indicators◆ Critical controls and control weaknesses ◆ Sources of assurance available to the Board 17 A structured approachto Enterprise Risk Management Appendix A: Risk management checklist...
... Obtaln-Informatlon on the discourse stack activates the rule DG-Obtaln-In/'o. Pl an- analy sl s is activated to associate the elliptical fragment with an aspect of I$'s task- related ... underlying a speaker's utterance. Allen views the speaker's utterance as part of a plan which the speaker has constructed and is executlug to accomplish his overall task-related goals. To ... in IS's fragment for the terms with which they are associated in IS's plan. 191 A PRAGMATIC~BASED APPROACHTO UNDERSTANDING INTERS~NTENTIAL ~LIPSI~ Sandra Car berry Department...
... should have intensions as arguments are unfor- tunately specified separately. Examples that have arisen in our applications involve changes in a reading on a scale, e.g., USS Stark's readiness ... specification of descriptive constants and axioms relating them. Remarkably, 99.9% of 7,000 vocabulary items in our natural language ap- plications could be adequately axiomatlzed in the taxonomic ... Semantics of the JANUS Semantic Inter- pretation Language. In Research and Development in Natural Language Understanding as Part of the Strategic Computing Program, Annual Technical Report December...
... for instance, in fact is labelled as a prepositio'~aT-~rase rather than as an adverbial phrase. No attempt is made to show any paraphrase relationships. Putative deleted or transposed ... previously opened adjective phrase and continue an already opened noun phrase or 161 A PROBABILISTIC APPROACHTO GRAMMATICAL ANALYSIS OF WRITT!N ENGLISH BY COMPUTER. Andrew David Beale, Unit for ... prel~minary stage in developing computer programs and data files for providing a grammatical analysis of -n~estricted English text. From 1981-83, a suite of PASCAL programs was devised to automatically...