... know the 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 ...
undertaking a Return on Investment (ROI) without taking into consideration the time value of money,
or where applicable, foreign currency exposure.
The title of this ebook hints at the error in this ...
articulate the value of their cloud investment.
How do you know if you are getting value from your cloud services provider?
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... smoking, drinking, ex-
ercising and the body mass index - contribute to explaining the gradient. The size
of this contribution is larger when we consider the entire history of behaviors rather
than ... behaviors inthe immediate past. Inthe former case, we find that the effects
of education on smoking, drinking, exercising and eating a proper diet account for at
most 23% to 45% ofthe entire effect of ... countries.
Defining P (D) as the probability of reporting a condition, this probability is the
product ofthe probability of undergoing screening P (S) and the probability of having
a condition...
... on what entails success inthe
microfinance industry also makes a systematic review of
the evidence ofthe impact of microfinance timely.
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aspect ofthe commercialisation ofthe microfinance
industry is its formalisation, i.e. microfinance institutions
(MFIs) transforming themselves into banks and turning...
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sentences, resulting in a total training set of 4,040k
sentences. We believe that our result is quite
promising for the future of unsupervised parsing.
In putting our best f-score in table 4 into
perspective, ... domain or the LA Times domain.
Although the effect of adding LA Times data is
weaker than adding WSJ data, it is noteworthy that
the unsupervised induction of trees from the LA
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increase in f-score on the WSJ test set if NANC
text is added to our training data in both cases,
independent of whether the sentences come from
the...
... technologies influence quality.
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We are interested in trying to quantify
the impact of each ofthe many inputs and steps used in producing wine in one ofthe
most renowned wine producing regions of ... harmony of a wine.
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consistently show that rain is needed during the winter season, while dry weather is
good during the ... is completed, the wine is macerated with the skins
during one to two weeks. The length of this period is crucial for the wine, but since
most châteaux proceed inthe same way, we included no...
... blood that there is no prostate cancer?
Doesn’t the existence of any PSA means that the body is reacting with antibodies
against cancerous cells inthe prostate.
PSA starts out inthe fluid that ... sperm. PSA is a protein normally made in
the prostate gland in ductal cells. These cells make some ofthe semen that comes
out ofthe penis during sexual climax (orgasm). PSA helps to keep the semen ... In prostate tests PSA whatisthe difference between total PSA and free PSA?
What isthe normal range? In addition, how can it be that if there is ANY prostate
specific antigen inthe blood...
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ground) with all the vertical poles diminishing
in size as they proceed along the limiting lines
of perspective towards a central vanishing point
lying ... paint inthe
sunlit side ofthe buildings that are closest
to the water, but leave the church and the
Custom House building (on the left) as the
unpainted white ofthe paper.
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shadowed faces ofthe buildings, allowing for a
toning down ofthe purple. Then with a warmer
brown tone, you can mark in some ofthe
darker windows and roofs and the front façade
of the...
... to
make the mistake of simply reproducing the Romantic myth of
the originality ofthe creative act. The point of concluding with
one ofthe most established Romantic poets is to dispel an either/
or ... establish the importance of their vision of aes-
thetic expression in terms which recuperated, even if in an
inverted form, the central points of this prior debate. They
invented none ofthe tropes ... an important part ofthe recent rise of interdisciplinary
approaches has been the exploration ofthe historical evolution of
the academic disciplines themselves, then it may be of some help
to...