... page Further Reading The Harvard Business Review Paperback Series Here are the landmark ideas—both contemporary and classic—that have established Harvard Business Review as required reading for ... context, staying aware of danger signals, and avoiding inappropriate reactions, managers can lead effectively in a variety of situations THE CONTEXT’S CHARACTERISTICS SIMPLE Repeating patterns and consistent ... contexts page A Leader’s FrameworkforDecisionMaking new cell phone might emphasize feature A over feature B, but an alternative plan—emphasizing feature C—might be equally valuable Another example...
... disease anda mean LLI of 12 mm The follow-up time was an average of 35 years (range 28–47) They found that most of the patients had no back pain, and concluded that back pain was not a significant ... studies, care was taken to classify and examine only those with far end-range amounts of asymmetry as having LLI; in all studies that amount was over 10 mm In a study of LLI and analysis of gait, ... Venn et al 1983 Cleveland et al 1988 Hoikka et al 1989 Beattie et al 1990 Population Male marathon runners, age 24– 49 Randomly chosen patients Low back pain patients Chronic low back pain patients...
... strain off the sacroiliac and associated joints and ligaments and decrease potentially painful muscular bracing Thus, lifts can work to decrease back pain in people with what seem to be clinically ... instrument to measure functional "short leg" and whether LLAA findings are contaminated by anatomic LLI Anatomic LLI is caused by a natural developmental asymmetry or a variety of other factors, including ... Childs A, Liebenson C: Endurance times for low back stabilization exercises: clinical targets for testing and training from a normal database Arch Phys Med Rehabil 1999, 80:941-944 Andersson EA,...
... chiropractic care of CTS (Table 1), and only Mariano et al [38] claimed a patient to have had a case of DCS Diagnosis of cervical radiculopathy was based on pain in the neck and upper back, pain radiating ... Even so, a band at a single site caused a decrease in action potential amplitudes and conduction velocity, and an additional site caused significantly greater decrease in both Dellon and Mackinnon ... (three patients) satisfied their stringent anatomical and pathophysiological criteria for DCS Richardson et al [34] analyzed cases of C6, C7, and C8 cervical radiculopathy and "exploited" the fact...
... parameter 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 ... from Argentina, Australia, Belgium, Brazil, Canada, China, France, Germany, Hong Kong SAR, India, Indonesia, Italy, Japan, Korea, Luxembourg, Mexico, the Netherlands, Russia, Saudi Arabia, Singapore, ... 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...
... 10.3 A valid advance refusal of treatment has the same legal authority as a contemporaneous refusal and legal action could be taken against a doctor who provides treatment in the face of a valid ... specialty and to base their decisions on a reasonable assessment of the facts available There will, however, always remain some areas of uncertainty and empirical judgments are necessarily based ... communicate decisions and not have a valid advance directive and decisions involving children and young people PART 3A Decisions involving adults 13 Capacity and incapacity 13.1 There is a legal presumption...
... illustrates that protium and deuterium not ascend the potential energy barrier and that vibrationally assisted quantum tunneling is the mechanism for H- and D-transfer for all three substrates Additionally, ... dynamics and tunneling [29] and in at least one case tunneling has been invoked in the reappraisal of the catalytic mechanism of the aspartate proteinase family of enzymes [30] Our own work, and ... study Aromatic amine dehydrogenase (AADH), like MADH, is a TTQ-dependent amine oxidase AADH transfers electrons, derived from the deamination of primary amines (aromatic amines are generally preferred...
... – data – can be conveyed, and possibly manipulated, for clarity or impact), and pertinent facts (accurate data with clear, decisive relevance to the matter in hand, and which may be used as the ... the data, and the table additionally shows the rate and frequency of additional events The calculations used a mortality rate of 10% for gastrointestinal bleeding and 30% for cardiovascular events ... J, Saperas E, Santolaria S, Rodrigo L, Balanzo J, Bajador E, Almela P, Navarro JM, Carballo F, Castro M, Quintero E, Investigators of the Asociacion Espanola de Gastroenterologia (AEG): A nationwide...
... data Brad A Friedman1,2,3* and Tom Maniatis4 Abstract RNA-Seq and microarray platforms have emerged as important tools for detecting changes in gene expression and RNA processing in biological ... of the Barres Lab (Stanford), Myers Lab (HudsonAlpha Institute), Ravits Lab (Benaroya Institute) and Maniatis Lab (Harvard/Columbia) for providing data and/ or user feedback This work was supported ... [http://www.ebi.ac.uk/ena/ data/view/ERP000619] 28 Affymetrix - Sample Data, Exon 1.0 ST Array Dataset [http://www affymetrix.com/support/technical/sample_data/exon_array_data.affx] 29 Akira S, Takeda K:...
... Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change: Potential costs and benefits of adaptation options: areview of existing literature 2009 21 Markandya A, Chiabai A: Valuing climate change impacts ... financial flows to address climate change 2008 26 Ebi K: In Adaptation costs for climate change-related cases of diarrhoeal disease, malnutrition, and malaria in 2030 Volume Globalization and ... only a small range of diseases, usually temperature-related and malaria, and omit other climatesensitive health impacts, such as extreme weather events, waterborne diseases, air pollution and airborne...
... and FIPAACL KQML (Knowledge Query and Manipulation Language) is a language anda protocol for exchanging information and knowledge [80] It is the result of DARPA’s knowledge sharing efforts aimed ... anticipating information needs Not suitable for dynamic and complex decision- making Not focused on accurate anticipation of information needs Not designed for anticipating information needs and information ... static knowledge about the team organization, roles, capabilities, goal, plan, and policies and 2) dynamic information about workload, situation, current task assignments, status of tasks, and...
... Evolution • Example of DecisionMaking Planning /Decision Making • Choosing goals, predicting results under various alternatives, making the decision • Examples: – Product Management: Add a new product, ... general purpose reports • Managerial Accounting – Used by managers - internal to firm – Focuses on the internal needs of managers (planning /decision making, performance evaluation) Design - Foundation ... the action • Evaluating the performance of personnel and operations • Goal: To ensure that the organization operates in the intended manner Objectives of Managerial Accounting • To provide information...
... Functional departments and their managers are subjected to a battery of financial indicators and budgetary controls [and] a subordination of operational to financial decision- makinganda major ... ž ž ž value-based management; non-financial performance measurement systems; quality management approaches; activity-based management; and strategic management accounting Value-based management ... managers and is the underlying reason that non-financial managers need a better understanding of accounting information and how that information can be used in decision- makingA critical perspective Although...
... salvaged blood into a 58-year-old woman operated for ovarian adenocarcinoma and 170 ml of salvaged blood into a 49-year-old female operated on fora large pelvic mass, which proved to be a gastrointestinal ... Potential risks accompanying the method are fat and air embolism and infection [4] Aminocaproic acid, desmopressin acetate, aprotinin, tranexamic acid, phytonadione and vasopressin are hemostatic ... same preoperative method of arterial embolisation was used by Nagarsheth et al before operating on a 52-year-old woman fora pelvic mass of 40 cm [31] Bilateral uterine artery embolisation was...
... Using ABC, determine the amount of manufacturing overhead cost that could be allocated to each standard briefcase and each specialty briefcase: St B: Standard Briefcases Sp B: Specialty Briefcases ... is variable cost) Plant manager salaries Gross profit Selling expenses Packaging Shipping Sales salary (fixed annual amount) General and administrative expense Advertising Salaries Entertainment ... is variable cost) - Plant manager salaries Gross profit Selling expenses: - Packaging - Shipping - Sales salary (fixed annual amount) General and administrative expenses: - Advertising - Salaries...
... to many natural language processing (NLP) tasks, such as automatic speech recognition (Goel and Byrne, 2000), statistical machine translation (Kumar and Byrne, 2004) and statistical information ... Linguistics annual meeting: 169 - 176 Aleksander Kolcz, Vidya Prabakarmurthi and Jugal Kalita 2001 Summarization as feature selection for text categorization In Proc of Conference on Information and ... Erkan and Dragomir R Radev 2004 LexRank: graph-based lexical centrality as salience in text summarization Journal or Artificial Intelligence Research, 22: 457 - 479 Mohamed Abdel Fattah and Fuji...
... biconditionals that assures that x and y agree on the appropriate features and the other predicates are are standard GB notions that are definable in L K,P" Antecedent-government, in Rizzi's and Manzini's ... between formal language theory and natural languages may well have more to with the unnaturalness of the traditional diagnostics than a lack of relevance of the underlying structural properties Finally, ... and, anticipating all of these, Johnson and Postal (1980).) This approach abandons the notions of grammar mechanism and derivation in favor of defining languages as classes of more or less ordinary...