... curve before they can truly utilize social media Many companies reported they are still searching to find the best way to demonstrate the impact of social media and the contribution tothe bottom ... channel, and have yet to capitalize on the ability to not only listen to, but analyze, consumer conversations and turn the information into insights that impact the bottom line For instance: ππ ... still have a way to go to get there.” But clearly there is growing interest in this form of analytics Thirty-six percent of the companies in the survey said they plan to conduct customer sentiment...
... But to benefit fully from these trends, learners must have affordable, easy access tothe computing power necessary to bring these resources tothe desktop, the laptop, or the appropriate Internet-enabled ... upon the federal government, states, localities, and the private sector to expand funding initiatives and to develop new models to bring these policies to reality The Commission believes these ... to deal in information, the basic currency of the knowledge economy They not know how to find information, how to handle it, how to trade in it, how to invest it for their futures These individuals,...
... usage and phones them if they forget a pill, automatically orders refills from their pharmacy and updates their doctor on their adherence tothe prescription The business model succeeds by benefitting ... not only to optimise driving routes, but also to provide live package tracking information for customers Rise of the machines The market will be THIS big Growth forecasts for machine -to- machine ... potential to enable automated remote monitoring of patients, for example, challenges can be hard to overcome Take incentives: many doctors are reimbursed by the patients they see, not the ones they...
... understanding the inner workings of IP FromIdeasto Assets attempts to answer the question: “What and how much I need to know about IP to be effective?” FromIdeasto Assets is organized into four ... property For serious investors, and who among us is not in some manner an investor, FromIdeasto Assets provides the background and context necessary to put today’s innovation into tomorrow’s ... exclusivity to inventors The country issuing the patent actually grants a legal monopoly tothe patent owner for a limited amount of time This allows the patent owner to prevent others from making,...
... were discussed in the module? Tostan facilitators were instructed not to be judgmental when posing these questions tothe women and to ask the women if they wanted to discuss the issue with health ... Both the participants and the project team benefited from increased understanding of the terms that women used to refer to their physiology and health problems From these interactions, they were ... diversity of ideas contributed by these individuals The authors would like to both acknowledge and thank the contributors listed below forthe careful thought and attention that they gave tothe creation...
... provided tothe baby and/or the mother (perception) • Women believe they will be abused if they reveal their positive HIV status to a partner • Information on the availability and how to access ... mother They indicated that the mother has the final say because the husband is likely to make the decision based on cost rather than gravity of his spouse’s condition A mother is more apt to ... not to be judgmental when posing these questions tothe women and to ask the women if they wanted to discuss the issue with health agents, religious leaders, and community leaders The information...
... at the population level Frank was the founding Director of Research at the Institute for Work & Health in Toronto and is currently a senior scientist with the institute About the Contributors ... outliers on the societal distribution curve forthe risk factors The best we can do, clinically, is therapeutically truncate the high end of the risk curve by risk factor modification To substantially ... even if all the winds of the world were to come and blow against them, they would be unable to move them —R’Elazar ben Azariah This page intentionally left blank To Cecile Brault, Tom Robinson,...
... a forum forthe exchange and discussion of new information, ideas and hypothesis We welcome contributions from all those participating in this field; clinicians, scientists, and engineers from ... tissue engineering make the rapid and widespread exchange of information essential The goal the JTM Cell and Gene Therapy Section is to advance this field by reporting the results of translational ... cell therapy forthe treatment of patients with metastatic melanoma Curr Opin Immunol 2009, 21:233-240 Aiuti A, Roncarolo MG: Ten years of gene therapy for primary immune deficiencies Hematology...
... everything from “getting it to work the way it was really supposed to in the first place” to “adding features that the customer forgot to mention” tothe more traditional “fixing the bugs that ... meaningful tothe other programmers in the company when they get their turn to learn C++ Modelfrom Success Seek out examples of good object-oriented design before starting from scratch There’s ... which (among other things) allows you to read from files and the keyboard, and to write to files and the display You’ll also see the very handy string class and the vector container fromthe Standard...
... in an effort to better adapt the TIB to health professional behaviour, another dimension was added tothe personal normative beliefs – the professional norm This variable is related tothe integration ... each hospital as thelocal collaborators The principal investigator contacted them by telephone to describe the study and solicit their participation After receiving consent from all contacted ... due to problems related tothe implementation of the intervention [52] surgery Borrowing a concept fromthe diffusion of innovation theory,[54] ophthalmologists who had the intention to use the...
... if the methods of the protocol are called Here is the prototype of conformsToProtocol: -(BOOL) conformsToProtocol:(Protocol*)protocol //a Protocol object is returned by a call to @protocol(protocol ... method-by-method, the conformance to a protocol, but is based on the explicit declaration fromthe developer However, the negative answer to conformsToProtocol: does not prevent the program from behaving ... be to split a formal protocol into multiple ones, and then make the class conform to a subset of these protocols This is not very handy Cocoa brings a solution in the notion of informal protocols...
... environment is required to understand the dynamics of rural-urban transitions at the country level Chapter therefore takes the analysis tothe national scale as we try to uncover the sources of rural-urban ... starting point for our complementary studies of the rural-urban transformation WDR 2008, From Farm to Firm Agriculture for Development, studies the structural transformation of the economy from a rural ... or from places Moving on fromthe national-level analysis, we address the rural-urban transformation fromthe perspective of intraurban and intraregional differences After the discussion of the...
... etalons into measured results with the standard etalon is the synchronizing of the rulers and the clocks as the synchronizing of clocks in the special theory of relativity Firstly, we seek the relation ... the vector modelfor gravitational field we have obtained the metric tensor of the space-time (29) This metric tensor leads tothe Schwarzschild metric tensor in a weak gravitational field, therefore ... TOTHE METRIC TENSOR OF SPACE-TIME WITH THE PRESENT OF THE GRAVITATIONAL FIELD In this section, we introduce an approach tothe Schwarzschild metric tensor, it is similar to an approach from the...
... are some of the challenges the thesis will attempt to address in exploring alternatives to improved interaction with citizens Theoretical perspectives In order to achieve democracy forthe people ... access to information, as well as the ability to network electronically with other citizens.15 e-Democracy focuses on what citizens actually with the access they have and whether they are able to ... where they use technology to improve the way in which they work It is only at the third stage that the full potential of the technology is revealed, when people completely transform the way they...
... efficient coders for “still” images, as EZW, or mixed coding [7–10] Another method predicts the blocks transform of one image fromthe matching blocks transform of the other [11] The subspace projection ... image compression because the target image (Right) can be predicted fromthe reference (Left) along with the disparity vectors Then, the difference of the prediction fromthe original image (disparity ... the operations for updating the occlusion field have to be added, as mentioned in the previous subsection The update of the disparity field is performed by the first two terms of (21), whereas the...
... the basic model that appropriates tothe hospital having the space forbuildingthemodel of storey treatment ward In the one of Ha Dong City, the organization for private treatment ward in the ... departments… therefore, the proposals forbuildingthe specialised areas for prisoners is highly appreciated In addition, the responsibility for ensuring thethe specialization in the treatment ... modes due tothe diseases and the regulations to these modes is very low in comparison tothe real demands and market prices (despite the support tothe imprisoned from detention camps and their...
... r1 , under the influence of the force pulling into the center and the force pushing out fromthe center at the same time with approximate magnitude, the surface of body will vibrates The equation ... = rrource (18) rS = is the Schwarzschild radius and is the radius of the source rreceiver → ∞ (19) is the distance from source to observer In this model, the formula of the gravitational red shift ... In this modelthe surface defined by r = r2 is called the event horizon with r2 = 0.985rS When the particle falling into the while hole, the domain III and IV r : r1 → 0, we have also the result...
... grand theoretical synthesis that he was able to embrace the whole of the universe Some historians of science also refer to Newton as the last magus, a man with one foot in theideas of the middle ... sound, for example, the shorter the wavelength the distance between one crest and the next the higher the pitch, or frequency, of the sound because the shorter the distance between wave crests, the ... different for different observers, the theory of relativity allows scientists to translate, or transform, one phenomenon into another and thus to return to an objective account of the world Hence, for...
... sought to explore.1 These were not a rigid frame to be imposed on the contributors to this book, who were invited to focus on those questions most pertinent tothe cases which they addressed Their ... his country, he told the NATO Council: I am happy to have this opportunity to tell from this rostrum today the truth: the North Atlantic Alliance has been, and remains pursuant tothe will of democratically ... change These are not limited to attempts to appeal tothe adversary They can involve pressure and coercion by increasing the costs tothe adversary of pursuing particular policies, weakening the...
... willing to share their experiences in hopes to improve the program They are the first to know, for example, if there is a "bad" batch of drugs on the street, if there is a new hotspot for used ... program to commence until the VCH committed to re-designing the services available to IDUs at the street corner in question Further, they demanded a written plan describing the longer-term vision for ... deployed in the community), the PHS moved to fill this gap utilizing the existing infrastructure and capacity of the WND The program had the capacity to provide the service immediately so that there...