a perspective on intrinsic efficiency

... Rodriguez-Falces, Javier Navallas, Armando Malanda, Penka A Atanassova, Nedka T Chalakova, Borislav D Dimitrov, Runer Augusto Marson, Bego a Gavilanes-Miranda, Juan J Goiriena De Gandarias, Gonzalo A Garcia, ... Phinyomark, Sirinee Thongpanja, Huosheng Hu, Pornchai Phukpattaranont, Chusak Limsakul, Saara M Rissanen, Markku Kankaanpää, Mika P Tarvainen, Pasi A Karjalainen, Chiharu Ishii, Adriano O Andrade, Alcimar ... population has been described in more detail earlier [Atanassova, 1998; Atanasova & Vukov, 1998; Atanassova, Voukov & Tchalakova, 2002; Atanassova, Chalakova & Dimitrov, 200 8a] In particular, patients...

Ngày tải lên: 23/03/2014, 14:20

... two graves - one for yourself Time you enjoyed wasting was not wasted Courage is not a lack of fear, but the ability to act while facing fear If you’re heading in the wrong direction you are allowed ... A man with one watch knows what time it is; A man with two watches is never quite sure Don’t look where you fall, but where you slipped Look at life through the wind-shield, not the rear-view ... allowed a U-turn! You’ve got to your own growing, no matter how tall your father was I never saw a wild thing sorry for itself A small bird will drop frozen dead from a bough without ever having...

Ngày tải lên: 18/05/2015, 18:00

... 29 PIRI AVERAGE PRICE CHANGE Rank Location Country/Area Nairobi Kenya Kenyan Coast Kenya Miami US Bali Indonesia Jakarta Indonesia London UK Vancouver Canada Moscow Russia Toronto Canada 10 Beijing ... nationalities now Russian Hong Kong British French American Swiss German Chinese Singaporean Canadian Nationalities growing in importance Chinese Indian Brazilian Malaysian Norwegian Kazakhstani ... Zealand 44 Washington DC US 45 Barcelona Spain 46 Paris France 47 Dubai UAE 48 Shanghai China 49 Madrid Spain 50 Singapore Singapore 51 Geneva Switzerland 52 Tuscany Italy 53 Barbados Caribbean...

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... performance Commercial real estate sectors The Asia Pacific real estate market Market performance Within-region diversification benefits Growth of Asia Pacific real estate markets 53 Alternative ... Global Asset Management (UK) Ltd nor any of the other data sources quoted will be liable for any consequences arising from the inclusion of inaccurate data Some historic data may no longer be available ... asset classes that pension funds have been considering would also appear to have many of the same attributes as equities and bonds Private equity, for example, is also a claim on future cash flows...

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... resolution of the transition state dynamics of a chemical reaction obtained using forceclamp techniques makes a novel contribution to our understanding of protein based chemical reactions Conclusions ... tris(2-carboxyethyl)phosphine (TCEP), a larger bond elongation of Dx = 0.41 Æ 0.04 Š at the transition state of the reaction was measured (Figure 10 B), in agreement with quantum mechanical calculations ... increase in the reduction rate can be explained by an elongation of the disulfide bond by DxR = 0.37 Æ 0.04 Š, at the transition state of the SN2 chemical reaction Remarkably, the measured distance...

Ngày tải lên: 22/03/2014, 18:20

... Catalog Management Service Level Management and generating SLAs and OLAs (Contracting) Capacity Management IT Service Continuity Management Availability Management IT Service Continuity Management ... Validation and Testing Change Management Evaluation Service Asset and Configuration Management Knowledge Management Service Operation Event Management Incident Management Request Fulfillment Access ... Management is to provide a point of focus and management for all availability-related issues, relating to services, components and resources, ensuring that availability targets in all areas are...

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... response to the changes, and about the process for municipal decisionmaking;  discover what provincial and local actions are taking place in response to the changes;  have a chance to say what ... Table of Contents I Background on Provincial Budget Cuts to Social Assistance …………… Cap on health and non- health related discretionary benefits.……… Community Start-Up and Maintenance Benefit ... will continue to be delivered as a mandatory benefit without change Health-related benefits are costs like basic dental services, eyeglasses, and hearing aids for adults, as well as funerals and...

Ngày tải lên: 24/03/2014, 00:20

... paper we ignore availability, aw ) In marketing two awareness constructs are measured and used in managerial decision making: unaided awareness and aided awareness Unaided awareness is a more stringent ... related to recognition Real managerial decisions, and possibly millions of dollars in brand communications, are based on the goal of achieving aided and unaided awareness For example, Proctor and ... salvage value Clearly a large advertising campaign (including web-based and social-media advertising) causes consumers to become aware, but it might also be rational for consumers to infer quality...

Ngày tải lên: 29/03/2014, 20:20

... libraries and assume physical consolidation of individual print collections into an above-the-institution aggregation This paper takes an alternative approach, based on a broader view of library ... advocating megaregions as the appropriate scale for achieving consolidation and cooperative management in practice Assuming that regions are in fact the natural unit of consolidation, the scale at which ... the publications in the North American print book collection are only available in one regional collection, or are only available in either the US or Canadian “extra-regional” collection 17 Eighty...

Ngày tải lên: 31/03/2014, 13:20

... misinterpretation of label information and exploitation Secondly, regulating authorities should strive towards mandating labelling regulations that require a simpler format for label information that consumers ... decisions (Lazarowicz, 2005) In addition, educational programmes should educate consumers on interpreting technical label terminology and layout and to practically apply it in decision making, because ... regulations and thereby to reduce misleading label information Despite this, international research indicates that many consumers not trust claims made on labels and find label information difficult...

Ngày tải lên: 08/04/2014, 18:33

... adding additional surface area to be in contact with the environment which is at lower temperature One effective way to increase the contact area is by attaching a heat sink to the heat source; ... International Conference on Electronics Packaging Technology, Shanghai, 2006, pp 574–577 [6] C.J Weng, Advanced thermal enhancement and management of LED packages, International Communications in Heat and ... capability obtained from the case with forced convection is higher than that obtained from the case with natural convection case: at the same room temperature condition and LED power supply capacity,...

Ngày tải lên: 26/05/2014, 21:29

... organizational decision making 3 Model A central idea of performance feedback theory is that decision makers use an aspiration level to evaluate organizational performance along an organizational ... of simulation studies on how aspiration-level learning contributes to organizational adaptation Finally I discuss how organizational goal variables are chosen 39 40 Organizational Learning from ... as would a decision maker who lacks the information to build an adaptive aspiration level Are there natural aspiration levels in reality? Arguably, the status quo is often a natural aspiration...

Ngày tải lên: 22/06/2014, 02:20

... respond 3.3 Aspiration levels and adaptation Is it helpful or harmful for organizations that managers use performance feedback and aspiration levels to manage change? As noted earlier, historical ... Historical aspiration levels track the actual performance of the organization, and thus may let the aspiration level lose alignment with what is actually achievable in a given 66 Organizational Learning ... performance relative to the aspiration level affects organizational search, risk taking, and change This broad impact makes performance a “master switch” that controls a range of organizational responses...

Ngày tải lên: 22/06/2014, 02:20

... problem and managerial risk tolerance, innovation generation results from organizational search only As discussed in chapter 3, organizations search habitually through institutionalized search, playfully ... Lending officers, analysts, and bond traders are individuals taking risk on behalf of the organizations, as managers are, and the risk taken by a single trader can be substantial (Shapira 2000) Thus, ... so changes in the rate of launching innovations over time can be investigated, and measures of organizational slack and search effort are also available over time Thus, 98 Organizational Learning...

Ngày tải lên: 22/06/2014, 02:20

... organizational change that many managers hesitate to make We can study the acquisition of assets by pursuing the usual idea that performance below the aspiration level causes organizational change and managerial ... that performance relative to social aspiration levels weakly affects the growth of assets, and organizational slack does not affect the growth at all Model has all variables included, and confirms ... preceding ones have shown that performance feedback affects a variety of consequential organizational behaviors Risk taking, research and development, innovations, and asset investment are all behaviors...

Ngày tải lên: 22/06/2014, 02:20

... advertising rates, targeted advertisers, and format changes Because radio broadcasting has many local markets, there is cross-sectional variation in social aspiration levels Because data are available ... estimates of historical aspiration levels Audience share estimates are a goal variable viewed as important by all radio station managers and sufficiently public that data are easy to compare across ... collect many years of performance data and one year of outcome data The potential for all organizations in a given year to be affected by third causes such as a common social aspiration level...

Ngày tải lên: 22/06/2014, 02:20

... organizations can help managers make differentiated social aspiration levels where the most similar organizations have greater weight Again, this differentiation is only helpful if managers are ... cases: a manager who is fully rational and acting in the organization’s interest, and a manager who is boundedly rational and selfish The answer is that the former case seems unproblematic, and ... the aspiration level viewed as most helpful for organizational adaptation A quick review of section 3.3 should convince the reader that the form of aspiration level matters for organizational...

Ngày tải lên: 22/06/2014, 02:20

... Prentice-Hall 1995 Institutions and Organizations Thousand Oaks, CA: Sage Scott, W Richard and John W Meyer 1983 “The organization of societal sectors.” Organizational Environments: Ritual and Rationality, ... 198 8a “Introduction: a chronicle of speculations about decision-making in organizations.” Decisions and Organizations Oxford: Blackwell 1–21 1988b “Variable risk preferences and adaptive aspirations.” ... Charles A. , III and Jennifer A Chatman 1986 “Organizational commitment and psychological attachment: the effects of compliance, identification, and internalization on prosocial behavior.” Journal...

Ngày tải lên: 22/06/2014, 02:20

... illustrations, recitation, broadcasting, reproduction on microlms or in any other physical way, and transmission or information storage and retrieval, electronic adaptation, computer software, ... disease (Dawson and Dawson 2003) and possibly aging (Balaban et al 2005) Mutations in nucleus and mitochondria encoded subunits have been associated with several neurodegenerative diseases (Sazanov ... helices contains an apparent half-channel for proton translocation: TM4-8 cytoplasmic half; TM9-13 periplasmatic half 12 R.G Efremov and L Sazanov (Efremov and Sazanov 2011b) (Fig 1. 2a, b) The half-channels...

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