... depending on how the data are acquired For example, if the data source is an existing database that has been created by someone else and is regularly maintained, and that database has been examined ... most basic data extraction and manipulation functions, such as filtering against simple criteria and calculation of common statistics, such as averages The Analysis Process 36 and standard deviations ... queried for welldefined subsets of the data; and † Data manipulation To clean up data sets, quantify measures, and facilitate understanding of the variations in values of quantifiers under different...
... (2002) Balabanis and Katsikea (2003) O'Cass and Julian (2003) Cadogan, Cui, and Li (2003) Dhanaraj and Beamish (2003) Akyol and Akehurst (2003) Morgan, Kaleka, and Katsikeas (2004) Lages and Lages ... marketing and international business, including Journal of Marketing, Journal of International Marketing, Journal of International Business Studies, Journal of Business Research, Management International ... INTRODUCTION The area of export performance is attracting both academic and managerial attention at an increasing pace The fact that globalization has become an undisputed reality has led an increasing number...
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... works in Windows 95 and above NorthStar is an integrated and practical tool to assist QI researchers, healthcare professionals, and managers responsible for developing, delivering and evaluating ... what and how of measuring baseline performance defined as the measurementof actual clinical practice and its comparison to desired clinical practice (Measuring Baseline Performance) NorthStar ... Critically appraise clinical guidelines Measure baseline performance (defined as the measurementof actual clinical practice and its comparison to desired clinical practice) Identify determinants of...
... implementation, CSR reporting of CSR ina multinational company operating in Vietnam by asking respondents‟ understanding and opinion From conducting research, it can show the understanding and awareness ... can thereby have an inclusive financial, commercial and social approach, leading to a long term and strategy minimizing risks linked to uncertainly 1.1.3 CSR in multinational companies operating ... overarching context is…sustainability: both sustainability of the 26 organization itself (the interrelation of the social, the environmental, the cultural and the financial) and sustainability of...
... performing basic translations, but also for establishing and maintaining social relationships In addition, Chaney (1998:13) indicates that speaking is the process of building 16 and sharing meaning ... attitude of students and teachers toward English teaching and learning in general anda speaking lesson in particular To get more information about the situation of teaching speaking skill in 9th ... attractive than the others because it attracts a lot of participants ina class and makes a class more interesting” a student said Playing games gives students relaxing times and way to understand...
... Developing a natural language interface to complex data ACM Tr(uts on D=t~bsse ~l/stsrrts, (1978), 2, pp 105-147 I BaUard, B A "Domain Class" approach to transportable natural language processing ... language question answering system for a large relational database Cowzm A C M 21 (1978), 7, pp 526-539 22 Woods, W Semantics and quantification in natural language question answering In Advances ... phrase-structured grammatical formalism for transportable natural language processing, llm~r J Cow~p~t~zt~na~ L~n~ist~cs, to appear 24 Ginsparg, J A robust portable natural language data b a s...
... hypovolemia, sepsis, cardiac pump dysfunction, and anaphylaxis Shock is a common cause of morbidity and mortality Septic shock, for instance, is the 10th leading cause of death in the United States, and ... experience, and skills of care providers operating ina system that was not necessarily designed with speed in mind In the current study, Sebat and colleagues investigated whether a systems-based team approach ... health care providers completed a standardized teaching package that included a 1-hour slide presentation and subsequent interactive classes Upon implementation, a dedicated ICU bed was kept available...
... based on log values, to reduce the dynamic range of the observations This version of the Naef model contains 77 parameters (2 scaling parameters aand b, and affinities for A, C and G for each ... specific binding signal and correcting for chemical saturation, which require additional large-scale datasets in which the concentration of every transcript is known Materials and methods Mapping of ... A single C and S sample was generated and an aliquot from each sample was used to create each replicate, and technical variation in the methods to generate each hybridization could result in...
... 14-16], and some attempts have applied aerobic granular sludge in practical wastewater treatment for treating pollutants in domestic wastewater [17], municipal wastewater [7], and industrial wastewater ... wastewater was measured in terms of removal efficiency of COD, nitrogen, and phosphorus Table Characterization of raw tapioca-processing wastewater Parameters Unit Values Vietnamese standard of ... KHOKHLACHEV N., KALENOV S., ZANINA O., TYUPA D., BAURINA M., KUZNETSOV A The role of stress agents as operating factors in formation and functioning of granular aerobic activated sludge at model...
... forced and scheduled outages are take into account Name of the line Dokan-asluja Tasluja-Rizgari Dokan-Azadi Dokan-N.E Azadi-N.E Tasluja-Azmer Azmer-Rizgari Derbandikhan-Rizgar i Derbandikhan-Azmer ... 0.991093988 Name of the line Dokan-asluja Tasluja-Rizgari Dokan-Azadi Dokan-N.E Azadi-N.E Tasluja-Azmer Azmer-Rizgari Derbandikhan-Rizgari Derbandikhan-Azmer Table Continue Calculated Reliability index ... Laws: a) a + a = b) a × a = 5-Idempotent Laws: a) a + a = a b) a × a = a 6-Boundedness Laws: a) a + = b) a × = 7-Absorption Laws: a) a + ( a × b ) = a b) a × ( a + b ) = a 8-Associative Laws:...
... trustworthiness of strangers we meet • Propagated Reputation: Ina Multi-agent System, an agent might be a stranger to the evaluating agent, and the evaluating agent can attempt to estimate the stranger’s ... can be classified into categories [Suryanarayana, et al., 2004], which are credential and policy-based trust management, reputation-based trust management and social network-based trust management ... credentials pertaining to a specific party [Donovan and Yolanda, 2006] have pointed out that a credential may be as simple as a signature uniquely identifying an entity, or as complex and non-specific...
... et al / Energy 109 (2016) 751e764 753 Table Summary of the main advantages and challenges of the different gasifying principles Gaisfying agent Air Steam Carbon dioxide Main advantages Main technical ... gasifier and it is cleaned using a set of high temperature gas cleaning devices Clean biosyngas is fed to the SOFC which operates at an average temperature of 950 C, and part of the anode and ... temperature at the anode and cathode of the SOFC unit was fixed at 1000 C Part of the anode and cathode streams is recirculated Later on, a part of the anode off gas was supplied to the gasifier as...
... Monitoring & Evaluation MPI Ministry of Planning and Investment MOF Ministry of Finance MBA Master of Business Administration VLAP Viet Nam Land Administration Project WB World Bank Sustainable ... mechanism M&E frame Information demand and indicators Project starting Requirements on baseline data Data recording and aggreagting Aggregated in database or worksheet M&E implementation Analysis ... can understand and use” (1,p7) Information are “data that have been shaped into a form that is meaningful and useful to human being” (1,p7) An Information system can be defined as a set of interrelated...
... nontoxic materials (amino acids) into a microstructure that contains a continuous network of members in tension (amorphous strains) anda discontinuous set of members in compression (the β-pleated ... generalized coordinates and an independent set of the tendon and rod vectors forming l All remaining tendon vectors may be written as a linear combination of l This relation will now be established The ... equilibria is ina separate paper.27 Damping strategies for controlled tensegrity structures are a subject of further research The example case given in Appendix 18.D was coded in Matlab and simulated...
... mentioned gearing (spur and helical) is applied if the input and output rotation have parallel axes If the axes are not parallel, then bevel gearing may be applied An example of bevel gearing ina robot ... weight and often introduces backlash So-called zero-backlash models are rather expensive Note that buying a motor anda gearbox already attached to it and considering this assembly as one unit are ... kinds of leakage, internal and external, as shown in Figure 21.11 If the coefficient of internal leakage is ci and that of the external is ce, and if the coefficient of total leakage is defined as...
... provide a simple and effective solution that permits fast and easy interfacing of mechanical parts in spite of initial positioning errors The main advantage is that a simple positional controller can ... (rate linearization) during contact, and assuming the gravitational effect to be ideally compensated for, we obtain a linearized model around a nominal trajectory in Cartesian space x in the ... workpiece (Figure 23.5) A crucial feature of the RCC is that it consists of translational and rotational parts; this combination allows lateral and angular errors to be accommodated independently RCC...
... advanced robot control loops as learning and compensation elements using nonlinear mapping, learning, parallel processing, self-organizing, and generalization Usually, learning and control in ... list of path nodes Each of path nodes, apart from the pointer to the next node, consists of x and y coordinates of an intermediate knot point along the path, anda Boolean variable b indicating ... example is application of GA to PD local gain tuning and determination of nominal trajectory for dynamic biped walking Designs to achieve different goals, such as being able to walk on an inclined...