... CEO attempts to dominate the management of the company and operations of the board Therefore, a crucial challenge for companies is striking the appropriate balance between managing the corporation ... of information to the board from senior managers would flow first through the CEO, who would then relay that information to the board This has the potential to obstruct information flow to the ... effectiveness of the board ultimately depends on the quality and timeliness of information directors have at their disposal Information going to the board should be on the strategic monitoring level, which...
Ngày tải lên: 26/01/2014, 16:20
... that for still image halftones, it has been reported that the nature of dither is most important in the at regions of the image [12] This phenomenon is due to the spatial masking effects that ... to the fact that in the modified Gotsman’s method, it is the content of the initial frame halftone that is controlled via the modified method However, since the method iteratively improves the ... standard deviation In this operation, each pixel of the image is replaced by the standard deviation of pixels in a × local window around the pixel The filtered (standard deviation) image is then normalized...
Ngày tải lên: 21/06/2014, 08:20
Báo cáo hóa học: "Research Article A Workbench for the BOWS Contest" doc
... as the sum of the arc metrics for the arcs that make up the path The Viterbi algorithm gives us an iterative procedure for finding the path with the largest path metric We are interested in the ... bows(strawberry, 2) The watermark is still there The PSNR of the image after your attack is 10.8 dB > bows(woodpath, 3) The watermark is still there The PSNR of the image after your attack is 9.84 dB The correct ... grey The PSNR of the attack is 20.76 dB higher than for the watermark SUMMARY AND CONCLUSION Table presents the results for all three images, in the first rows for the sensitivity attack We see the...
Ngày tải lên: 21/06/2014, 22:20
Tài liệu COMPUTER NUMERICAL CONTROL PROGRAMMING BASICS A Primer for the SkillsUSA/VICA Championships Steve docx
... position or location to another, performing the machining operation, and continuing this pattern until all the operations have been completed at all programmed locations Fig The path followed by ... of information Each block should contain enough information to perform one machining operation Word Address Format Every program for any part to be machined, must be put in a 17 format that the ... designed so that the operator was standing in front of the machine while operating the controls This design is no longer necessary, since in CNC the operator no longer controls the machine tool...
Ngày tải lên: 25/12/2013, 05:16
Tài liệu Practical mod_perl-CHAPTER 8:Choosing a Platform for the Best Performance docx
... implementation details behind proxy servers, but they 318 | Chapter 8: Choosing a Platform for the Best Performance This is the Title of the Book, eMatter Edition Copyright © 2004 O’Reilly & Associates, ... before it terminates; if a leak occurs on every request, the memory demands could become 314 | Chapter 8: Choosing a Platform for the Best Performance This is the Title of the Book, eMatter Edition ... feature by preloading the modules and scripts at server startup, so you will need less memory than you have calculated 320 | Chapter 8: Choosing a Platform for the Best Performance This is the...
Ngày tải lên: 26/01/2014, 07:20
Tài liệu Developing Culturally and Linguistically Competent Health Education Materials: A Guide for the State of New Jersey ppt
... in Pediatric Asthma I Context: The context addresses issues such as the what, the whys, the who, and the when It provides the ‘meaning or reason’ for the development of the educational material ... centered education is an educational process in which the client/family is at the center and controls the flow of information The educator asks questions and listens thereby allowing the client/family ... progress note form that aids the provider in selecting medication and other management methods appropriate for the patient's disease severity The Asthma Action Plan is used to provide the patient with...
Ngày tải lên: 14/02/2014, 13:20
Tài liệu BUSINESS Undergraduate courses 2013: a university for the real world pdf
... Maths A, B or C: QUT unit Data Analysis as a visiting student or QUT CPE course Mathematics Bridging ★ Maths B: QUT unit Preparatory Mathematics as a visiting student or QUT CPE course Mathematics ... Course information For in-depth information on the courses listed in this book and to explore other study options, visit www.qut.edu.au/study 40 41 CONTACT US General information QUT Information ... indicators of poor corporate governance, mismanagement, misrepresentation of financial statements and fraud The demand for forensic skills by the corporate world makes this minor a very attractive...
Ngày tải lên: 18/02/2014, 00:20
Tài liệu Energy Efficiency Pays: A Guide for the Small Business Owner doc
... temperature Air temperatures listed are for the maintenance of the product ** Minimum temperatures for frozen foods and ice cream are not critical except for energy conservation The maximum temperature ... sure that on Monday mornings the system starts up before people show up for work ENERGY STARlabeled thermostats often have a feature called “optimal start” that enables the thermostat to automatically ... when to turn the system on in order for it to be at a comfortable temperature by the time people show up for work DID YOU K N O W The Consortium for Energy Efficiency reports that up to 50 percent...
Ngày tải lên: 18/02/2014, 00:20
Tài liệu EFFECTIVE POLICIES FOR SMALL BUSINESS: A GUIDE FOR THE POLICY REVIEW PROCESS AND STRATEGIC PLANS FOR MICRO, SMALL AND MEDIUM ENTERPRISE DEVELOPMENT pptx
... countries TICA has co-operation activities both at bilateral and multilateral levels, co-operates with the public and private sector, and with international and bilateral development agencies ... proportionately higher for the small firm These costs stimulate the growth of the informal economy There are various models for monitoring Annex among others lists documents on the work of the US ... communication from the local level, as it is difficult to make the voice of the SME sector heard at the national level – this is particularly so for informal and micro enterprises Information and...
Ngày tải lên: 18/02/2014, 00:20
Tài liệu Towards a framework for the study of the neural correlates of aesthetic preference pdf
... correlates of aesthetic preference But before we attempt to sort out the cognitive operations associated with the neural correlates identified by each study, we need to address the reasons for the ... that the overlap of the activity patterns associated with emotion and attention could be a reflection of their overlap at a behavioral level, in the sense that attentional resources would automatically ... disproved On the other hand, none of these studies asserted that the areas they had identified were the exclusive neural correlates aesthetic preference In fact they all acknowledged that these areas...
Ngày tải lên: 19/02/2014, 17:20
Tài liệu Báo cáo khoa học: A role for the intersubunit disulfides of seminal RNase in the mechanism of its antitumor action docx
... concentration As shown in Fig 6, at approximately 0.25 mgặmL)1 of PM protein concentration, dimerization reached a plateau These data indicate that the cell sulfhydryls responsible for the exchange ... incubated on ice for 30 min, and centrifuged at 16 000 g for 30 The nal supernatant was assayed for protein concentration and frozen at )80 C, or processed immediately All steps were performed at ... produced (Fig 7C) The data from the experiments on plasma membranes indicate that the cell sulfhydryls responsible for the interchanges with disuldes, the reactions that reconstitute native-like BS-RNase,...
Ngày tải lên: 20/02/2014, 11:20
Executive Coaching: A Guide for the HR Professional docx
... what others have done, watching what others do, or occasionally by going to formal classes Personal coaching is also a learning alternative, one that accelerates the learning process Therefore, ... increase the priority on this change effort • Valid data Change and learning require good data, and the coach can help in that area Information is needed on what the client brings to the job, what ... on the level of the client in the organization and the culture of the organization After consideration and discussion of all relevant criteria, both you and the client must have confidence in the...
Ngày tải lên: 08/03/2014, 16:20
Healthy Child, Healthy Future: A Framework for the Universal Child Health Promotion Programme in Northern Ireland doc
... directly affect the way the brain is wired and early relationships set the ‘thermostat’ for later control of the stress response These findings underline the need for mothers and fathers to be supported ... behaviours incorporating how their health behaviour impacts on their child Non-resident fathers/partners details should also be recorded For further information on engaging father see the Fatherhood Institute ... impact on both the mother and the child Fathers/partners should be directly signposted to relevant services (rather than second-hand via the mother) and should be given information about health...
Ngày tải lên: 14/03/2014, 09:20
A cookbook for the Vim text editor ppt
... specify these options in your vimrc file they'll be set permanently ? Location of vimrc The default location of the vimrc file depends on your operating system Identify your operating system, then ... following7: The strings in pink are synonymous tags for the current entry For example, :help locates the same entry as :help help The blue label indicates that in GVim the Help menu is the ... prefixing the filename with +/pattern positions the cursor at the first occurrence of the pattern pattern For example, vim +/^References btrees.textile instructs Vim to open btrees.textile, find the...
Ngày tải lên: 14/03/2014, 15:20
Biostatistics A Methodology for the Health Sciences Second Edition pot
... arteries exposed In the sham operation, nothing further was done For the other patients, the arteries were ligated Both studies selected patients having the ligation or sham operation by random assignment ... your data The relationship clearly varies with temperature At low temperatures there is little relationship, and as the temperature increases the relationship becomes stronger Ignoring the effect ... gained The original data are already a condensation The “number of errors per line” does not give information about the location of the errors in the line or the type of error (For educational...
Ngày tải lên: 15/03/2014, 04:20
Ethics and Professionalism: A Guide for the Physician Assistant ppt
... it The ultimate goal is the patient’s understanding, not the patient’s agreement with the professional’s recommendation and not the patient’s signature on a form The consent form signed by the ... postulated that “emotionally sound infants learn to soothe themselves by treating themselves as their caretakers 13 have treated them, leaving them less vulnerable to the upheavals of the emotional ... program The authors state that civility is the foundation for professionalism, and they illustrate this with a diagram of a triangle, with civility at the base and professional behavior at the peak,...
Ngày tải lên: 16/03/2014, 04:20
Relational Cloud: A Database-as-a-Service for the Cloud potx
... the detailed design and performance of the components (That said, in later sections we present the key performance results for the main components of Relational Cloud to show that the integrated ... tuples (the tuple attributes are features), and a partition label for each tuple (the classification attribute) The system extracts a set of candidate attributes from the predicates used in the trace ... performance isolation by controlling the rate at which queries from different tenants are dispatched The front-end monitors the access patterns induced by the workloads and the load on the database servers...
Ngày tải lên: 16/03/2014, 16:20
Báo cáo khoa học: "QARLA:A Framework for the Evaluation of Text Summarization Systems" pdf
... detect that the summary is useless The issue is, therefore, how to find informative metrics, and then how to combine them into an optimal single quality estimation for automatic summaries The most ... representativity (if it is wide) But how to know whether the set of automatic summaries is representative and therefore is not penalising certain automatic summarisation strategies? Our goal is, therefore, ... for all models, because there will always exist a metric that breaks the universal quantifier condition over x We have to look, then, for an alternative formulation for K The best K should minimise...
Ngày tải lên: 17/03/2014, 05:20
Báo cáo Y học: The S100A8/A9 protein as a partner for the cytosolic factors of NADPH oxidase activation in neutrophils doc
... [20,21] We therefore propose that the set of the cytosolic phox proteins is associated with the heterodimer S100A8/A9 via p67phox, and that this association is determinant in the potentiation of ... limitation in the full expression of oxidase activation at subsaturating concentrations of the cytosolic phox proteins In other words, S100A8/A9 does not basically alter the functioning of the ... which at room temperature reaches its maximum after several minutes at 20 °C In the following experiment, we determined the effect of S100A8/A9 on the time course of oxidase activation For technical...
Ngày tải lên: 18/03/2014, 01:20