... the scene Construction overview Influential reports Recommendations from professional bodies Learning from case studies Learning from project failures 10 Relevant observation 11 Conclusion 11 Questions ... 2000) The lessons to be learned from this project are best summed up by a civil contractor: Build your delivery strategy around collaborative working, build into your forms of contract risk and ... www.tandf.co.uk/builtenvironment Alternatively our books are available from all good bookshops Construction Cost Management Learning from case studies Keith Potts First published 2008 by Taylor & Francis...
... self-evaluation to plan your development during the period in which you carry out the role of project manager Some of the information you will need might be obtained fromyour last appraisal, and ... development The broad areas might include improving your skills in managing a project, your knowledge of techniques in managing projects and your understanding of the process of managing a project ... someone who can help you to learn from what happens as the process unfolds, without having a strong personal stake in any of the project outcomes Share with your mentor your plans to use the project...
... last, therefore, I come first I now place my personal will upon the altar Your will, not my will; Your way not my way; Your time not my time and in the twinkling of an eye it is done! There ... 2007 Antonio Thornton www.antonioblog.com ThinkBanc ‘Practical Approach’ Series Chapter 1: Your Word is Your Wand Man's word is his wand filled with magic and power! Jesus Christ emphasized the ... unexpected times, His wonders to perform Power moves but is never moved Loving your neighbor means not to limit your neighbor in word, thought or deed Never argue with a hunch Christopher Columbus...
... Chapter 11 Managing fromYour Center 209 Finding a presence that is calm, stable, open, fluid, objective, and actively engaged—the foundation for continuously improving yourself, your projects and ... integrated system, set your intention to include all of your personal and nonpersonal goals, apply objectivity and subjectivity in dynamic balance, seek to perfect yourself and your performance while ... bring yourself to the present moment Become aware of your body and breath See how your breath is Is it calm and long; short; choppy, so subtle you barely feel as if you are breathing? Feel your...
... dependency path from the nearest verb to the year expression The following snippet will include the feature, ‘expected prep in pobj 2002’ http://nlp.stanford.edu/software 101 Finance Article from Jan ... must not include duplicates from the test set We adopt the intuition behind the experimental setup used in other NLP domains, like parsing, where the entire test set is from a contiguous section ... are extracted from documents by matching all tokens with exactly four digits whose integer is in the range of 1900 and 2100 In other words, the development set includes documents from July 1995,...
... query, and new class members are extracted from the retrieved text snippets We wanted the system to be as language-independent as possible, so we refrained from using any taggers or parsing tools ... BT (v) = σst s,t∈V :s=v=t where σst is the number of shortest paths from s to t, and σst (v) is the number of shortest paths from s to t that pass through vertex v PageRank (Page et al., 1998) ... Automatic acquisition of hyponyms from large text corpora In Proc of the 14th conference on Computational linguistics, pages 539–545 D Lin and P Pantel 2002 Concept discovery from text In Proc of the...
... you bought your stocks at Your stocks would still have room to move up to reach the overall market’s level of valuation When the market is falling and you have a 25% margin of safety on your stocks, ... out-of-favor nobody will touch them He stays away from the buzz-generators As a “life-long technophobe” (as he confesses on the Berkshire website), he stayed away from the high-tech companies when they ... below fair value – the level at which you bought your stocks if you had followed Graham’s and Buffett’s lead Because of the built-in discount of your stocks, chances are they didn’t drop nearly...
... Differences from Related Learning Work A-SVM [50] assumes that the target classifier f T ðxÞ is A adapted from existing auxiliary classifiers fp ðxÞs However, our proposed method A-MKL is different from ... training samples from the auxiliary domain In contrast, the prelearned classifiers used in A-MKL can be learned by using the training samples either from the auxiliary domain or from both domains ... “birthday” by leveraging the prelearned classifiers from “picnic” and “wedding.” DUAN ET AL.: VISUAL EVENT RECOGNITION IN VIDEOS BY LEARNING FROM WEB DATA The remainder of this paper is organized...
... the performance by varying value from to When =0, it means that the weight of n-ary relations is zero and only binary relations are considered As we can see from Figure 1, the performance is ... factor =1.8, we inspect the performance with the learning factor ranging from to =1 means that the ranking scores learn from the semantic network without any consideration of title phrases As ... er phrases are assigned zero Then the importance scores of the phrases are learned iteratively from the title phrases through the hyper-graph The key idea behind hyper-graph based semisupervised...
... culture pattern was transformed from pastoral and/or agricultural to a culture based on trade, commerce and finance; from rural to urban; from simple to complex; from local toward universal In ... each civilization there was an evolution of "defense" forces from voluntary to professional status, from subordinate to dominant status, from participation in public life to political supremacy over ... and/or the civilization The development from nucleus to empire and from empire to civilization creates three sets of political problems: those arising from the administration of the nucleus;...
... representation for issue reports from various trackers The fields in our record are shown in Table Below we describe the issue trackers used and the datasets we build from them As discussed above ... This is appropriate when there are many sparse features, and is especially useful in learning from text from fast evolving data The features such as unigram and bigram counts that we rely on are ... the issue reports in Launchpad range from year 2005 to 2011, the more recent ones are heavily overrepresented: 84% of the items in the development data are from 2011 Thus fast adaptation is less...
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... and bestows its power in the form of the seasons, bringing water from rain, warmth from the sunshine, wind from the seas, and soil from the earth The dragon is the ultimate representation of the ... storied pomp!” cries she, With silent lips “Give me your tired, your poor, Your huddled masses yearning to breathe free, The wretched refuse of your teeming shore; Send these, the homeless, tempest-tost ... very title of Jean Lau Chin's book—Learning from My Mother's Voice—both honors her mother, a courageous woman who immigrated to the United States from China, and indicates her mother's primary...
... of 25 clusters of news headlines collected from Google News2 , and the citations datasets have 25 clusters of citations to specific scientific papers from the ACL Anthology Network (AAN)3 Each ... probability from any gory, where most headlines cover at least factoid about the story and a random ranker performs reanode u to node v at time T Then, sonably well Table shows top headlines from rankers: ... growing interest in mining news stories and headlines because of its broad applications ranging from “meme” tracking and spike detection (Leskovec et al., 2009) to text summarization (Barzilay...
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... whenever anything went wrong in the project be responsible for your actions to be in control of yourself so that you can fairly be blamed for your bad actions: The defendant was depressed and therefore ... something Which sentences from 2.3 you agree with? of rainforests How you feel? Confused? Unsure? Bamboozled? Find your voice dictionary.cambridge.org Please order through your usual ELT bookseller ... What job would you like to …do… in the future? Have you …… any plans for your summer holidays? Who …… the shopping in your family? What is the best way to …… friends, you think? What you when...
... correspond to the Dell paperback edition Most quotations from James Clavell are from a conversation with the authors in May 1980; a few are from NBC press releases, June 1980 This book would not ... Kentish man, borne in a towne called Gillingham, two English miles from Rochester, one mile from Chattam, where the Kings ships doe lye: from the age of twelue yeares olde, I was brought vp in Limehouse ... endures but does not try to enjoy But in Jawpen no wall separates soul from body, and there is no virtue to be gained from abstaining from physical pleasures Indeed, people who are close to one another...
... amanuensis Rabbi Judah the Prince (c 135–217 AD) said, ‘Much have I learnt from my teachers, more from my colleagues and most of all from my students’ I not always name the products made on the plants ... responsible Many of these demands have come from people and publications that have shown sympathy for thieves, vandals and other lawbreakers We should Learning from Accidents understand, they say, the ... scholarly publications to draw all the conclusions possible from the facts Compare, for example, the way archaeologists draw pages of deductions from a few bits of pottery (‘we find one jar handle with...