... Theoretical and practical considerations In analyzing microvascular images there are trade-offs to be made, and several theoretical and practical considerations may influence these choices The subtler ... small capillaries, especially when red blood cells are separated by plasma gaps Software with time averaging of sequential frames and better imaging modalities may improve the accuracy of these ... delineated according to their diameter and a cutoff value of 20 μm is used to differentiate capillaries from venules However, the size of capillaries and venules can be affected by various factors,...
... being manipulated, you can call the other side on their tactics and counter with an appropriate strategy This will lead toa more effective way of achieving the goals of all negotiating parties ... criteria, as well as a methodology that positively engages the emotions ofthe negotiators The result ofa successful negotiation is that all parties should believe they got a good deal The Six Laws of ... feelings, and actions Once they have made a stand, they tend to stick to it and behave in ways that justify their earlier decisions, even if they are erroneous If you make a commitment toa cause...
... being manipulated, you can call the other side on their tactics and counter with an appropriate strategy This will lead toa more effective way of achieving the goals of all negotiating parties ... criteria, as well as a methodology that positively engages the emotions ofthe negotiators The result ofa successful negotiation is that all parties should believe they got a good deal The Six Laws of ... feelings, and actions Once they have made a stand, they tend to stick to it and behave in ways that justify their earlier decisions, even if they are erroneous If you make a commitment toa cause...
... you to beat them up or to tell them howto their jobs but rather should be pegged to their agenda—what they want to talk about, factors that affect their ability to assigned tasks or grow into ... but rather that when problems occur they already have a cohesive team and an approach that enables them to weather the storm TACTILE Management is a people-based project management system What ... Healthcare, and Alan Sockwell at AMD v American Management Association • www.amanet.org vi ACKNOWLEDGMENTS Tothe National Instrument crew: Mark Finger, Raj Purushothaman, Hilary Marchbanks, and,...
... have been completed without the support and advice of Claire Milligan, Jane Machira, Susan Wangai, Margaret Muthui, Juliana Masila, Ezekiel Ndondou and the many SLA facilitators and mentors participating ... Annual total Actual Unpaid annual volunteer estimate of daily wage value at daily payments in total (KES) – wage financial additional cost of report volunteer labour time (days) SLA facilitators ... Nigeria, Uganda, Kenya and Zambia Christian Aid then collabourated with a small number of lead non-governmental organizations (NGOs) in each country to implement the overall programmes In Kenya, the...
... but rather that when problems occur they already have a cohesive team and an approach that enables them to weather the storm TACTILE Management is a people-based project management system What ... discover the key toa balanced life at home, as well American Management Association • www.amanet.org PART I: The Project Management Jungle American Management Association • www.amanet.org This page ... Healthcare, and Alan Sockwell at AMD v American Management Association • www.amanet.org vi ACKNOWLEDGMENTS Tothe National Instrument crew: Mark Finger, Raj Purushothaman, Hilary Marchbanks, and,...
... you to beat them up or to tell them howto their jobs but rather should be pegged to their agenda—what they want to talk about, factors that affect their ability to assigned tasks or grow into ... owns the updating of this information? Decide which of these areas you want to change first (I suggest the overall team goal as a unifying theme), and integrate that change into an approach that ... effective—has to extend to everyone on a team You as proj- American Management Association • www.amanet.org 30 THE FOUNDATION OF TACTILE MANAGEMENT ect leader are accountable, but so are the team members...
... talked off and on for several days, then went tothe team leaders with an idea to work with them to analyze the open scope items and to create a milestone schedule with enough detail (a milestone ... acted as if I were a technical expert I only asked what the impact of doing that task would be: tothe nearest milestone, to other team leader’s tasks, or, occasionally, tothe end date I asked the ... such a way as to stimulate discussion among the team leaders As a result, most ofthe required new tasks went away, and, if the new task really had to be done, we generally developed a way to work...
... assignment during the Indian Wars ofthe late 1800s His project was to clean out a group of Indian warriors who had gathered at what the Indians called Greasy Grass Creek This general, one ofthe most ... started, we’ll work all that out later.” To combat Take the Hill (At Any Cost) Management: > > Don’t give in tothe panic and fear of failure that causes much of this type of management behavior ... awareness (SA) means ensuring that the necessary information to make a decision is available and understood by the decision maker The ISAT is meant to give you situational awareness on a key decision:...
... is to give your key managers a chance to express any anxiety they have about the approach and for you to incorporate what they say into the all-hands agenda This also gives you an opportunity to ... part ofthe presentation and to clarify with them what each of them will say at the all-hands meeting American Management Association • www.amanet.org 180 AVOIDING PITFALLS IN THE FIVE KEY PHASES ... your car?” They share a smile Sheila looks down briefly, then back up at Mark “I am still on track I’ve talked to some ofthe staff already; will get tothe rest of American Management Association...
... reporting as a separate entry because how and what you report is at least as important as the data you collect and the actions you take to control your project Frankly, there is often an overly analytical, ... a burst of speed at the end ofthe race that will carry her to victory > A football coach, along with his staff, creates a complicated game plan before the contest One standard game plan is to ... meeting tothe topic and develop a team approach that works American Management Association • www.amanet.org 202 AVOIDING PITFALLS IN THE FIVE KEY PHASES OFA PROJECT > Also have the team member’s...
... senior managers via phone call and e-mail I had a good track record—as you may have—but management tends to worry in the absence of data or American Management Association • www.amanet.org 226 AVOIDING ... management to have an attitude of helping rather than using the data for faultfinding Work that early to have the best chance for success American Management Association • www.amanet.org MONITORING, ... central, control is the way to go The central planning way is to have an army of people gather data, create metrics, and tell people what to on the basis of conclusions drawn by you and that army...
... Daniel Goleman, and James O’Toole Transparency: How Leaders Create a Culture of Candor With Patricia Ward Biederman San Francisco: Jossey-Bass, 2008 Bossidy, Larry, and Ram Charan Execution: The Discipline ... the room “We cannot let anyone go to Beta Grande, except for a few ofthe poorest performers, and they won’t want them.” They all nod in satisfaction Later that day… Ravi Talks with Sharon Narvon, ... projects that would have driven you to distraction had you done them the same old way TACTILE Management is not a new process in the fashion of Agile or Lean Sadly, business too often today seems to...
... when q is an integer Our contribution is to investigate this rateofgrowth as a function ofthe generating slope, to transfer the setting tothe natural arrayal of Pascal’s triangle, and, in Section ... 3, to prove Theorem 1.1 In Section 2, we review classical facts and correlate them tothe natural arrayal of Pascal’s triangle The Left-Justified Arrayal It is sometimes easier to consider the ... 3/3, since therateofgrowthofthe sequence of every other Fibonacci number is the square oftherateofgrowthofthe Fibonacci sequence.) Generalized Fibonacci numbers arising as line sums...
... an adaptation ofthe treated volume [22,23] Also, the adaptation ofthe PTV according tothe dynamic MRI, to account for the potential shift ofthe target volume due to respiration, has led to ... movement ofthe upper abdominal organs: a pitfall for the three-dimensional conformal radiation treatment of pancreatic cancer Radiother Oncol 2003, 68:69-74 Blackstock AW, Bernard SA, Richards F, Eagle ... manuscript TB analysed the patient data and drafted the manuscript KH participated in the study design and the patient evaluation and study enrolment and helped to draft the manuscript EVC participated...
... experiences as both a practicing project manager and a teacher have led me to conclude that what information age project professionals want and need is a practical and flexible approach to managing their ... ORGANIZATIONS The people being evaluated often have a number of questions that they fear to raise: Who chose the evaluators? Are they competent? What are their marching orders? Are they familiar ... project management became a hot management approach As the U.S economy entered a postindustrial phase, American managers discovered that many ofthe management guidelines established for a manufacturing...
... (grammar parsing) at least as accurately as the HMM This is assignment is a task that HHMMs are generally not well suited to Table shows the F1 -measures of identified semantic roles for each ... parent state P ∗ moving it tothe same level as state N ∗ , where the states of P ∗ and N ∗ now share the same parent, state S (9) where x and y are words adjacent to each other in the training ... discusses the use of HHMMs for the text chunking task and the grammar parser The evaluation results ofthe HMM, the plain HHMM and the merged and partially flattened HHMM are presented in Section Finally,...
... primers (forward, 5¢-TAATACGACTCACTATAGGTACTATG TATCGCATGCCAAT-3¢; reverse, 5¢-TAATACGACTC ACTATAGGTACTTTAAAGTCCCGGGTTGA-3¢) For PCR, the reaction mix consisted of · Taq buffer containing 1.5 mm ... ofthe eyestalk (open bar) and thoracic ganglia (diagonally shaded bars) of females The percentage indicates the GSI ofthe females M (B) indicates the expression pattern of MIH-B in the same ... hepatopancreas and ovary to increase therateof vitellogenin gene expression, indicating that both the hepatopancreas and ovary are the targets of MeMIH-B This result will provide the basis for...