— examples of best practice from the hotel industry

... include information on the price paid, the profits attributable to the net assets being bought and the effect of the transaction on the profit and loss account and balance sheet of the purchaser Consignia’s ... outright The partnership agreement could give the public sector “step-in” rights in the event of a major failure in the delivery of services or the bankruptcy of the partner However, these should ... that the essence of the portfolio approach is that some of the projects are likely to fail, the SAI should ascertain whether the public sector partner ensures that the partnership subjects each of...

Ngày tải lên: 18/02/2014, 05:20

... One of the most appealing aspects of the Web is its interconnectivity Some of the best sites encourage visitors to bounce around from page to page within the site—or even section to section on the ... for sure the slant of the group Create a good signature The signature is the block of text at the end of a message that says something about the person who sent the message Signatures are often ... Awards Awards started off slowly There was a Cool Site of the Day, The Top 5% of All the Sites on the Web, and so forth; but Web site awards have exploded There’s a Cool Site of the Second, for crying...

Ngày tải lên: 28/06/2014, 12:20

... at the regional level the health workforce that would support the delivery of best practice care The focus of the model is on the occupations and professional groups that are responsible for the ... local The choice of condition could reflect the importance of the health problem within the region (number of persons affected, loss of quality of life/loss of life, costs of management) and the ... supportive of delivery of best practice care There are potential barriers at the practice level under the control of individual clinicians and practice teams, including factors such as practice...

Ngày tải lên: 11/08/2014, 05:21

... at the regional level the health workforce that would support the delivery of best practice care The focus of the model is on the occupations and professional groups that are responsible for the ... local The choice of condition could reflect the importance of the health problem within the region (number of persons affected, loss of quality of life/loss of life, costs of management) and the ... supportive of delivery of best practice care There are potential barriers at the practice level under the control of individual clinicians and practice teams, including factors such as practice...

Ngày tải lên: 11/08/2014, 16:21

... assessment of these domains were generated by the UK centres The toolkit was designed to be completed by the manager of the facility since we were aware, due to the complexity of their mental ... or more of the nine domains by the UK research teams Since some questions were combined for the purposes of scoring, a total of 96 question scores contributed to the rating of domains Of these, ... who participated in the research They would also like to acknowledge the contributions of the members of the International Expert Panel throughout the study and thank them for their valuable input:...

Ngày tải lên: 11/08/2014, 16:23

... Cross-validation of the toolkit ratings against service users' quality of life, autonomy and markers of recovery tests whether it can deliver a proxy-measure of the service users' experiences of care and the ... Ethical approval aspects of the institution (such as the décor and homeliness) by the interviewer A later stage of the study involves the assessment of service users' quality of life, autonomy, satisfaction ... organised to disseminate the practical implications of the toolkit We shall also discuss the findings from the study with the World Health Organisation, the Departments of Health and care standard...

Ngày tải lên: 11/08/2014, 17:20

... will profoundly affect the organization—then by definition, it takes the passion and obsession of the CEO to make it happen We saw Six Sigma—and by the way we call it Raytheon Six Sigma—as a way ... influence on the nature of global business today All of them have profound implications for the productivity and profitability Introduction ➤ xix of companies worldwide For example, of the more than ... executives— people who’ve both discovered and leveraged the benefits of Strategic Six Sigma thinking and best practices inside their own organizations In Strategic Six Sigma: Best Practices from the...

Ngày tải lên: 07/02/2013, 09:46

... into the environmental legal regulation in Vietnam and the impacts they have on the industry I.1 Research questions The thesis aims to answer the following questions, from the macro level of policy ... partially or more than fully offset the costs of complying with them (the lower part of the CLD) Such ‘innovation offsets’, as one can call them, can not only lower the net costs of meeting environmental ... situation for the environment but further research is needed The thesis is inspired by the idea of further research on the linkages that should be made on the industry specific basis rather than...

Ngày tải lên: 24/08/2013, 18:48

... water, the expansion of which provokes the formation of micro air bubbles The particles, that are likely to decant, accumulate at the bottom of the truncated part and are then evacuated towards the ... other petroleum products resold to the Ivorian Refining Company (SIR) The hydroskimming units and the DHC are the main producers of waste water Figure describes the treating process flow of the ... truncated base where they are evacuated 8) The observation tank The treated water flows through the siphoned partitions of the flotator and, under the influence of gravity, goes down in the equilibrium...

Ngày tải lên: 05/09/2013, 16:10

Ngày tải lên: 07/12/2013, 17:20

... to their positions The arrowheads depict the residues important for the structural core of the IL-10 gene The underlined amino acid residues are the signal sequences of the respective genes The ... sequence show a degree of similarity to the carp IL-10 sequence The most highly conserved stretch in the IL-10 family is at the C-terminus in the C-helix and at the Nterminus of the F-helix; a similar ... against products of b-actin The x-axis indicates the time-periods of LPS incubation and the relative expression of the carp IL-10 gene on the y-axis Controls for 0, 1, and h of incubation without...

Ngày tải lên: 20/02/2014, 02:21

... 1) Subsite mapping On the basis of the assumptions of Hiromi [30] that the intrinsic rate of hydrolysis (kint) in the productive complex is independent of the length of the substrate, Km and ... subsite order from )5 to +3 [5] As the substrate most likely binds to the nonreducing end towards the N-terminus of the enzyme 5468 Fig Schematic representation of the subsite map of exopolygalacturonase ... the substrate, thereby facilitating binding to the substrate-binding cleft It is obvious that elucidation of the 3D structure of PelB would give more insight into structural organization of the...

Ngày tải lên: 20/02/2014, 03:20

... (e.g., the height of a person), while for others it is only the center of a distribution (e.g., the weight of a coffee cup) Questions with no trusted and exact answers were eliminated From the remaining ... object During the first stage it is possible that we directly extract from the text a set of values for the requested object The bounds processing step rejects some of these values, and the comparisons ... choose the most frequent value based on the number of web snippets retrieved during the value acquisition stage If there are several values with the same frequency we select the median of these...

Ngày tải lên: 20/02/2014, 04:20

... the number of pages that contain the term on the Web We use the following notation H(x) = the number of pages that contain the term x” The number H(x) can be used as an estimated frequency of ... collected from each seed word, and then checked whether each of the target terms was included in the system output We counted the number of target terms in the following five cases The right half ... total; the average number of output terms per input is 12.2 terms We checked whether each of the 610 terms is a correct related term of the original seed term by hand The result is shown in the...

Ngày tải lên: 20/02/2014, 16:20

... air quality model to estimate the dispersion function, the accuracy of the estimated emissions will depend on the ability of the model to reproduce the dispersion of the pollutants Until now, in ... and when the wind is perpendicular to the street axis, the concentration of pollutants increases at the leeward side of the street concentrations are higher than that in the morning From pm to ... difference in the emission factors of VOCs for LDVs and HDVs The emission factors calculated in this study are generally higher compared to the results of the other studies around the world Only the emission...

Ngày tải lên: 05/03/2014, 16:20

... focused on the thermal stability, revealing that the secondary structure of the enzyme remains intact up to the upper limit of the investigated temperature range (99 °C) [1,4] To our knowledge the pressure ... in the protein In addition to pressure and temperature, the chemical composition of the protein solution (pH, salts) will also influence the stability of the enzyme In particular, the effect of ... treatment The pressure–temperature dependence of the pH of the Mes buffer (pH 6.0) was calculated in the relevant range for the enzyme inactivation experiments, using the equation of Elyanov...

Ngày tải lên: 07/03/2014, 03:20

... di-sodiated forms of the de-O-acylated LOS and the ion with m ⁄ z of 1479.6 is the anhydrous form of the de-O-acylated LOS The ion 1277.6 is the de-protonated molecular ion from de-O-acylated ... construction of the lgt3 mutant in M catarrhalis O35E Large arrows represent the direction of transcription; the site of the transposon insertion identified in the O35E is denoted as EN:TN, and the location ... consisted of Glc, Gal, GlcNAc and Kdo, whereas the carbohydrates derived from the mutant O35Elgt3 consisted exclusively of Glc and Kdo The glycosyl linkage analysis by GC-MS showed that the OSs from the...

Ngày tải lên: 07/03/2014, 05:20

... that the number of pilots hired by the major airlines is an indicator of some of the uncertainty in the civilian market and measures to some extent the health of the airline industry The number of ... YOS 20) as the difference between the log of the two expected earnings profiles.12 Whereas ideally we would like to separate the effect of ACP from the effect of other military pay on the stay-or-leave ... construct expected pay from civilian airlines Furthermore, because much of the variation of the civilian pay profile lies in the probability of being hired, the number of civilian major airline...

Ngày tải lên: 07/03/2014, 05:20

... above The fulllength cDNA of lac1 was then generated by 3¢-RACE using the primer 5¢-TCTCAACCGTCGACAGCAG TGTTCGTG-3¢ designed from the sequence of the extreme 5¢ end of lac1 The full-length cDNA of ... Although the spectral characteristics of the lac1 protein suggest the absence of a type copper site, this is not borne out by analysis of the deduced amino acid sequence of the enzyme Thus, the 10 ... positively affected the activity and stability of the enzyme [40] The effect of copper on enzyme stability may be related to the inhibitory effect of the metal on the activity of an extracellular...

Ngày tải lên: 07/03/2014, 15:20

... with the side chain of Lys10 The unusual chemical shift values of the side-chain protons of Lys10 are consistent with the vicinity of the aromatic ring Other residues giving NOE peaks to the indole ... Cys27 These data together with the calculated structures are indicative of a number of intersheet hydrogen bonds in both of the molecules The exchanging properties of the amide protons of SGCI[L30R, ... Furthermore, the results of the H±D exchange experiment suggest a signi®cant difference in the internal ¯exibility of the molecules The rigid nature of the second b strand is consistent with the...

Ngày tải lên: 08/03/2014, 10:20