12  monitoring the performance of your instance

... from the solar radiation, the tank wall heats a thin vertical layer of water along the tank wall Part of this heat is then transferred by diffusion towards the core of the tank The water of the ... August and the theoretical results of [1] in June Figure 10 The time variation of solar radiation and stored energy of the present experimental study in August and the theoretical results of [1] ... difference of around 3% for the most of the day In both comparisons, the experimental study gives lower values for most hours of the day, which may be attributed to different kind of thermal losses...

Ngày tải lên: 05/09/2013, 15:28

... depth) The objective of this work is to investigate the effect of brine depth on the productivity and efficiency of solar still under laboratory conditions Table shows a summary of some of the studies ... that of greater thickness, but the productivity diminishes rapidly after turning the heaters off On the other hand, the still with the higher brine depth has a larger production during the period ... as nocturnal production in the outdoor tests) These values are the initial value of the production line in the figures This may be due to the large thermal capacity of water, which is directly...

Ngày tải lên: 05/09/2013, 16:10

... twist on the creation of value functional value for money, they “bundle” together a number of products and services and offer them to the customer at a price that is lower than the sum of their ... you don’t like the level of maturity of your CRM processes, then work to improve it Once the changes have occurred, then upgrade your CRM systems to match your new level of process performance Make ... value strategies are focused on the reduction of costs though the closing of physical facilities, the laying off of employees, and the wholesale embracing of technology The goal is to operate more...

Ngày tải lên: 23/01/2014, 23:20

... variations in the fiber core can affect the angle and speed that a light pulse can travel This effect is the refractive index profile of the material, which is calculated as the ratio of the speed of light ... to Make the Most of Your Investment Unfortunately, the use of VCSELs can cause differential mode delay (DMD), an effect that happens when the laser beam launched into a small area of the fiber's ... fiber making up much of the installed base, the IEEE is exploring ways to run 10 Gigabit Ethernet over 300 meters of 62.5µm fiber with the use of a singlemode laser source The proposed standard,...

Ngày tải lên: 24/01/2014, 11:20

... volunteer of the Host Organization; or a professional service provider contracted by the Host Organization If the Primary Contact is not the same as the Chief Officer of the Host Organization, the ... payment of all fees and costs assessed by the City of San Diego even if the Chief Officer of the Host Organization authorizes the City of San Diego to send invoices to the Primary Contact or other ... generated at your event  Determine the number and types of vendors or service providers who will be involved in the management of your event and the types of materials they will generate, either during...

Ngày tải lên: 19/02/2014, 03:20

... support the charities of the 14 companies‟ ranked bottom of the list less than 0.01% of the profits Looking at the other side of the coin, according to the research center on the management of Ashridge, ... indirectly, by the actions of the firm In the traditional view of the firm, the shareholders view, the shareholders or stockholders are the owners of the company, and the firm only addresses the needs ... out the survey, I also interviewed the director and chief accountant of the company on the CSR of the company The question is to play a close look at the financial situation of the company and the...

Ngày tải lên: 13/03/2014, 14:20

... focused on the cost performance index (CPI) in DoD programmes.1 The CPI is the ratio of the budgeted cost to the actual cost of the work performed The trends and stability of this metric over ... areas or zones of the ship These metrics are generally used towards the end of production Other metrics are those we gathered that did not fit into the categories above Examples of such metrics ... metric they used during the various phases of production—that is, their main method of assessing progress Figure 2.1 shows the amount of shipyards that reported using a metric from one of the six...

Ngày tải lên: 15/03/2014, 16:20

... Along the lines of the previous researches, they reported the negative influence of fund size on manager performance While digging deeper towards the origin of these diseconomies of scale, the ... and performance Then, when the significance of the relationship or the error limit was tested to accept or reject the hypothesis, the value was far higher than the minimum limit of 5% Thus; the ... checked the determinants of mutual fund performance using four factor models for the funds from 19 countries The major finding of the study explained that size of the funds did matter and the performance...

Ngày tải lên: 16/03/2014, 17:20

... product of its inputs The experiments measure the effect of varying the selectivity of the scans on the inputs to the join as follows (1) Varying the selectivity of the outer collection (v1) The ... Cardinality of the left input Cardinality of the right input Length of the predicate Type of the object Number of objects Extent of the database (e.g AtomicParts) Number of pages Size of a bucket ... varied here is the selectivities of the scans of the collections being joined, not the join selectivity itself, which is ratio of the number of tuples returned by a join to the size of the Cartesian...

Ngày tải lên: 17/03/2014, 00:20

... advantage of the prior probabilities of the senses, so they would be at a disadvantage relative to the baseline if one of the senses had a very high prior, as is the case for the test word issue 10 The ... when there is an unusual trade-off between the cost of a Type I error and the cost of a Type II error Nevertheless, the proposed baseline does seem to provide a usable rough estimate of the lower ... for the judges If the task is too hard (as Jorgensen's classification task may he), then there will be almost no room between the limits of the measurement and the baseline In other words, there...

Ngày tải lên: 17/03/2014, 08:20

... align the goals of both the city and its customers The transportation industry has made great strides in recent years in distributing traffic information to the public through a variety of means The ... optimize parking programs and help take the pain out of parking We want to help our clients get the most out of their parking programs, whether on-street or off-street We know effectively managing ... Management Meeting your needs and making parking painless in the process “Parking” is not just the time it takes to park, but the time it takes to deal with the process We believe in making the process...

Ngày tải lên: 17/03/2014, 20:20

... than the length of the lactometer) Let the lactometer sink slowly into the milk Take the lactometer reading just above the surface of the milk If the temperature of the milk is different from the ... (sample) of the milk is used For the result of the test to give a true picture of the state of the milk, it is important to mix milk before obtaining the sample or testing You can ensure that the ... you to increase your profits The guide has been put together with the participation of a pilot group of small-scale raw milk traders in various parts of Kenya to ensure that the material and...

Ngày tải lên: 18/03/2014, 00:20

... to the quantiles of the standard normal distribution The quality of the approximation depends on the values of the parameters N Y,, the number of rated entities with the same rating grade at the ... distribution The mean of this distribution, the probability of default of the benchmark, is estimated at ˆ ෈[0.0%, 0.1%] p (with an average of 0.04%) The other binomial parameter is the number of trials ... should therefore combine the variance of the ex-ante estimated probability of default of the rating source and that of the benchmark in one measure in order to conduct the backtesting The difference...

Ngày tải lên: 22/03/2014, 20:20

... of the time series Provided this is less than 5%, the final decision taken during the last Santorini Workshop was to replace these days by using the average of the value of the pollutant of the ... network Timeliness The delays in the different steps of the production of the information depend on the availability of the required data in each centre and in the European agencies These delays have ... possible: the use of screening techniques for the experimental assessment of the pollutant distribution, or the use of mathematical models The Guidance Document on Preliminary Assessment9 of the EC...

Ngày tải lên: 23/03/2014, 00:20

... on the PSSA It therefore has an ASA of 80 The school with the lowest level of student achievement across all tests has an average of 13% of its students achieving proficiency on the PSSA It therefore ... interpreted as measures of the performance of schools Achievement levels are a product not only of school performance, but also of a wide range of other forces that are outside the control of schools, including ... school performance This section describes the analyses RAND conducted with the aim of identifying the school’s contribution to student achievement, thereby measuring the performance of the school...

Ngày tải lên: 23/03/2014, 05:24

Ngày tải lên: 23/03/2014, 10:21

... cases where the query is composed of two or more sentences, we compute the similarity between the document sentence (s) and each of the query-sentences (qi ) then we take the average of the scores ... although the two STs of Figure share most of the subtrees rooted in the ST node, the kernel defined above computes no match The critical aspect of the TK function is that the productions of two evaluated ... v)) The denominators in both terms are for normalization C is the set of all sentences in the collection The value of the parameter d which we call “bias”, is a trade-off between two terms in the...

Ngày tải lên: 23/03/2014, 17:20

... bonds and the one-month risk-free rate of the previous month The proxy of the default risk is the difference between the return of corporate 12 The Corporate Composite bond index and the Euro ... tested, K is the number of risk factors in the asset pricing model, µ is a column vector of mean returns of the risk factors, Ω is the unbiased estimate of the covariance matrix of the risk factors ... due to the high degree of excess kurtosis in the majority of 11 time-series, the Jarque-Bera test rejects the null hypothesis of a normal distribution for five out of seven risk factors The correlation...

Ngày tải lên: 29/03/2014, 06:21

... focused on the cost performance index (CPI) in DoD programmes.1 The CPI is the ratio of the budgeted cost to the actual cost of the work performed The trends and stability of this metric over ... areas or zones of the ship These metrics are generally used towards the end of production Other metrics are those we gathered that did not fit into the categories above Examples of such metrics ... metric they used during the various phases of production—that is, their main method of assessing progress Figure 2.1 shows the amount of shipyards that reported using a metric from one of the six...

Ngày tải lên: 29/03/2014, 20:20

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