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... 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 price of ... I discuss one functional transformation that has taken placed as a result of cloud services, namely; the impact on the assessment of value. This is a timely discourse as the vast majority of ... mousetrap. Customers, however, must know the price ofthe equivalent services from other cloud providers. This is the crucial performance measure. It is only this performance measure that constitutes...
... only these kinds of studies are rigorous, as will be discussed in Section 2 of this report.2. Synthesise what these studies tell us about: a. The impact of microfinance on the incomes of the ... brings together all these studies, and assesses the nature ofthe evidence ofthe impact of microfinance on the poor in SSA.Given this paucity, the particular nature of MFIs in SSA, and the policy ... poor b. The impact of microfinance on wider poverty/wealth ofthe poor c. The impact of microfinance on other non-financial outcomes for the poor. The volume and nature ofthe evidence is varied...
... prevented them from trading quite as they wished, the cases on the use of goods discussed in this Article signal the end ofthe slippery slope approach of allowing any expansion ofthe type of measures ... on freedom of movement, namely the criterion of access to the market.”80 This would be “based on the effect ofthe measure on access to the market rather than on the object ofthe rules involved.” ... firm rejection of siren calls in favor ofthe importance ofthe unity of the internal market within the European Union. II. PARADISE REGAINED? The first ofthe cases under discussion to come...
... that establishes a reasonable linkbetween the NSES and the professional development system, then the evidence ofthe influence ofthe NSES on the systemof professional development is variable. ... the model is a promising approach to capturing some ofthe policy and structural influences ofthe NSES on the systems that undergird the delivery of professional development. Likewise, the Eisenhower ... discussion ofthe quality ofthe empirical evidence base at the end of each section.TABLE 3-1 Matrix ofthe Quality ofthe Evidence and Different Components ofthe Professional Development System Quality...
... PBTC: the possibility to visualise the numbers hademphasised the importance ofthe processes. The employees ofthe Technical ProductionSupport division who are in charge of plan-ning the production ... hadplayed a role in the design and implementation of the PBTC system. The next section discusses the questionnaire results and their implications for the hypotheses being tested in the light ofthe qualitative information ... initiative. The study results are in two parts. First they report on the manner in which the organisational pro-gramme of culture change affected the cultural premise ofthe new system. Second, they...
... reducing the number of tooling suppliers for particular types of tools and inserts. is initial rationalisation policy has the twin benets of minimising tooling sup-pliers with their distinct ... depths of cut more ef-fectively, for the desired production objectives. By op-timisation here ofthe machining parameters, this al-lows full utilisation ofthe capital equipment, with the result ... boosted by optimisation ofthe cutting insert grades. For example, in turning operations, the depth of cut can probably maximised and, as a result, the number of passes along, or across the part...
... ofthe facets of Managed Preferences, making your job as a system administrator easier. CHAPTER 2: WhatIsthe Managed Preferences System? 12 The Heart of Managed Preferences The very short ... answer to ‘ what are managed preferences’’ is this: a managed preference is XML that is applied to a user, group, or computer record that alters the default behavior ofthesystem or of an application. ... CHAPTER 2: WhatIsthe Managed Preferences System? 13 What Can You Manage? You may be thinking, ‘‘Great! There’s a managementsystem built into OS X. But what exactly can it manage?’’ The short...