... Greater understanding ofthe whole system and how it fits together Better understanding ofthe needs ofthe customer Improved performance measurement anduseof data to manage performance Greater ... and used inthe public service sector and that used in manufacturing In manufacturing, the emphasis is on a set of management tools and techniques that are used to standardise processes Within ... tools and techniques within the domain of Lean thinking were used and which were seen to work? What were the outcomes of Lean initiatives? Are there any lessons for the development ofthe Lean implementation...
... concerning the why ofthe universe, and everything dealing with the understanding andthe significance of individual human values and goals is outside its domain astrology's gift to mankind is its ... be aiming at a maximum of abstraction with a minimum of meaning And it is meaning that man needs; andan understanding of man's need for meaning is necessary to any psychology of health and whole' ... existence of Uranus, Neptune, and Pluto The appearanceofthese trans-saturnian planets at the mathematically-appointed time and place forms one ofthe most thrilling chapters inthe history of scientific...
... A Language of Energy Key Concepts and Deftnitions A key to the understanding of all astrology is within the reach of anyone who truly understands the meaning ofthe following definitions: The ... attitudes, but inthe individual chart they are of much less importance than the house position and aspects of these planets The aspects of these trans-saturnian planets to the personal planets reveal ... Bhagauad Gin) and also inthe philosophical basis of Indian Ayurvedic Medicine Chinese philosophy and Acupuncture are founded on the concept ofthe elements Like Tibetan and Indian expressions of their...
... Our study expands on the previous one from a planning standpoint by also including a 3D plan comparison andan analysis ofthe arytenoid dose, and taken together the conclusion of these two studies ... clinical plans, any relationship between the coverage ofthe PTV andthe level of expansion was dependent on the spatial relationship between the expanded borders ofthe PTV andthe predetermined ... pharyngectomy setting The technique involves the angling of noncoplanar beams inthe caudal direction while using 3D planning to deliver dose inferior to the standard threefield match line The authors...
... was used for formatting ofthe ligand and macromolecule, as well as for setting the grid and docking parameters Minor variations ofthe standard 362 Lamarckian genetic algorithm parameter settings ... containing a carbohydrate-binding module are routinely O-glycosylated inthe linker region between the catalytic domain andthe carbohydrate-binding module Regions 725–739 and 764–782 ofthe Cel74A ... range of proteins, including other GHs (clans E, F and J) [3] and hemopexin [20] The CD spectrum ofthe latter protein [21] is very similar to the one observed here; therefore, the unusual spectrum...
... identifying the product producer and ultimate parent company We then hand collected information regarding the financial performance of these companies from multiple sources including Thompson Financial, ... one if the brand is one ofthe higher revenue brands within the manufacturer If the coefficients on the interaction terms (β3 and β5) are negative and significantly different from zero, we can conclude ... -2 -1 Small Brand in Company Large Brand in Company 47 Large Brand in Company Figure 4: The Effect of a 20% Price Reduction on Volume and Revenues Weekly Volume/Revenue in Units Standardized to...
... WinnerRank LoserRank , where PerformanceRank is the rank of fund performance, WinnerRank is the rank of winner proportion, and LoserRank is the rank of loser proportion The theoretical range of ... (2001), Frank et al (2004), Verbeek and Wang (2010), and Brown and Schwarz (2011)), the determinants of portfolio disclosure andits effect on performance and flows (Ge and Zheng (2006)), andthe motivation ... Hsiu-Lang, Narasimhan Jegadeesh, and Russ Wermers, 2000, The value of active mutual fund management: An examination ofthe stockholdings and trades of fund managers, Journal of Financial and Quantitative...
... it, and should be seen as significant as buying a major new building The choice of VLE will be significant across all areas ofthe institution and especially inthe way in which teaching and ... teaching and learning This is an important distinction, as “Information systems can affect the critical process of knowledge construction and organization by changing the epistemic criteria used in ... knowledge management within the school’s context and this has lead to the school’s ongoing investigationof school management information systems (MISs) and VLEs Prior to embarking on the wide ranging...
... certain amount of vocabulary and grammar structures, to separate each utterance into small meaningful units, to translate it with the help of stress and intonation and keep all ofthe components in ... practicing sounds and writing systems, translating and transferring using linguistic clues and other clues paying attention and delaying speech production to focus on listening relaxation, taking a deep ... general strategies used by the participants: making useof background knowledge, predicting and selecting the relevant and ignoring irrelevant messages Using text structure and checking comprehension...
... Incompatibility and importability ofan IT infrastructure can occur as a result ofan increasing number of mergers and acquisitions of companies, and integrating the IT infrastructures of these companies can ... the industry, because business executives are recently realizing the importance of IT and IT flexibility as an enabler to business, andits critical role in changing and improving the way businesses ... (hardware and software) platforms both inside and outside the organization Achieving high degrees of standardization and IT compatibility can be used as an attractor and value-added to the business of...
... purpose of protecting the interest ofthe public andthe real estate firm, thereby minimizing liability risks Evidence ofthe lack of training appears in sheer numbers of complaints and lawsuits ... to the principal Creation of Agency The law of agency defines the rights and duties ofthe principal andthe agent In real estate transactions, contract law and real estate licensing laws, in ... represents include the increase of complexity of buying a home, consumers desire for representation, theuseof more than one broker in a single transaction, the increase ofthe variety and quality of...
... conception of some thing or class of things, involving more than one ofthe elements ofthe conclusion, and require its expression in terms ofthe other elements Again, suppose the elements retained in ... inthe processes of reasoning, signs stand inthe place and fulfil the office ofthe conceptions and operations ofthe mind; but that as those CHAPTER II SIGNS AND THEIR LAWS 19 conceptions and ... represent things, andthe connexions and relations of things, so signs represent things with their connexions and relations; and lastly, that as signs stand inthe place ofthe conceptions and operations...
... impairment in depression, but rather a specific impairment in learning An interesting finding was the change inthe patients mood throughout the course ofthe branching experiment They showed both an increase ... processes, and lacks the precision ofthe branching paradigm Importantly the WASI performance was not correlated with performance at any stage ofthe branching task making it difficult to attribute the ... severity ofthe symptoms [20,34] Therefore the lack of a deficit inthe branching, dual-task and delay conditions ofthe task cannot easily be explained by the fact that these were an atypical...
... understanding of substance useand misuse in a harm reduction framework The challenges of research in this normalizing context [48], and changing demographic profile of illicit substance use, requires ... substance users inthe mainstream, and other forms of law breaking or risk taking behavior In any case, appropriate incentives and concern for coercion of respondents must be weighed when seeking ... discreet Moreover, the logistics of requiring useof coupons, and lack of a financial need within this population, appeared to greatly hinder the success of this approach It remains a quandary for future...
... >15 High increase in concentration of fibrinogen and/ or immunoglobulin Moderate increase in concentration of fibrinogen and/ or immunoglobulin Low increase in concentration of fibrinogen and/ or immunoglobulin ... and formaldehyde tests in evaluation ofthe globulin level in bovine blood Acta Vet Scand 1975b, 16, 236-243 Liberg P: The fibrinogen concentration in blood of dairy cows anditsin uence on the ... mildly increased globulin concentration and mildly decreased albumin/globulin ratio, and horses in Group had a globulin concentration and albumin/globulin ratio within normal range If the clinical...
... membrane, IP3 diffuses to the cytosol and binds to and activates the InsP3 receptor on the membrane ofthe endoplasmic reticulum, opening a calcium channel, resulting inthe release of Ca2+ into the ... quercetin inthe practical Page 11 of 12 useofthe therapy and prevention of allergy To achieve this goal, further research insights about cell signaling and about quercetin intracellular targets and ... discussed the results and wrote the manuscript MM conducted some in vitro analysis and discussed the manuscript; AC discussed the pharmacological aspects ofthe manuscript; RO and AV managed the cytofluorimetric...
... incentives First, these findings can help managers in finding and assigning the “better suited” employees within their organizations to forecasting tasks The forecasting task may be part ofan employees’ ... using information that was semi-confidential about their teams andthe opposing teams In both parts ofthe study, thehuman subjects were supplied the results ofthe formula and then added their ... other hand, make useof both quantitative and qualitative data even though they are inefficient in dealing with large data sets, and can be subjective and inconsistent Therefore, forecasters often...
... employees as the “living brand” ofthe organization because it is the employees ofthe company which bring the brand to life by “living” the brand promise and creating the face ofthe brand for customers ... (Alvarez and Barney 2002) Entrepreneurship andthe Role ofthe Individual Initial work examining the role ofthe individual within the context ofthe organization adopted the perspective of managers ... as is the case with an insurance agent who not only handles the initial sale ofan insurance policy, but also handles the processing of any claims As such, many FLEs within a services organization...