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... competitive advantage over its rival and is on the path to high performance The key is for banks to evaluate their business model now against scenarios ranging from best case to worst case, and to act ... program initiatives1 As Figure shows, a tactical cost-cutting approach will quickly yield substantial savings which rapidly level off after the first year A bank taking a more strategic, transformational ... sufficient, and risks cutting muscle as well as fat Instead, financial institutions need to take a more strategic approach by viewing cost-cutting as part of a broader efficiency effort Balancing...

Ngày tải lên: 16/02/2014, 11:20

... investigators are Harry Thie and Margaret Harrell Comments are welcome and may be addressed to Harry Thie at harry_thie @rand.org and to Margaret Harrell at margaret_harrell@rand.org For more information ... review to ensure high standards for research quality and objectivity A Strategic Approach to Joint Officer Management Analysis and Modeling Results Margaret C Harrell, Harry J Thie, Sheila Nataraj ... Framing a Strategic Approach for Joint Officer Management.10 That work indicated that the next step in the approach to joint officer management was to implement the strategic plan, a step that...

Ngày tải lên: 06/03/2014, 21:20

... unintentionally use the initializing value when another value was intended But initializing variables at least avoids the introduction of truly garbage data, data that can be any arbitrary value Here ... memory is to initialize variables at declaration: { int a = , b = 0; a = b; } In practice it is not always possible to find reasonable values to which to initialize variables, and one can still ... why the addresses are the particular values that they are later Each cell is annotated with its associated variable and the type of that variable The type indicates how to interpret the data The...

Ngày tải lên: 19/03/2014, 14:05

... able to create meaningful data valid in large scale analyses (across herds and veterinary practices) Such veterinarians would generally want to focus on possibilities for across-herd data analyses ... scores as a 'diagnostic tool' related to each individual treatment decision rather than being part of a collaborative data collection For example, they could add rectal temperature and other parameters ... Page of 10 (page number not for citation purposes) Acta Veterinaria Scandinavica 2009, 51:36 cal analyses in the future, and they are highly motivated to use, for instance, multi-factorial analysis...

Ngày tải lên: 25/10/2012, 10:45

... correlates poorly with liver histology, the ratio of aspartate aminotransferase (AST) to alanine aminotransferase (ALT) >1 is a dependable marker for cirrhosis [28,29] Increased INR and thrombocytopenia ... HCC, and mortality In addition, HCV infection has been linked to a variety of extra-hepatic manifestations such as autoimmune diseases, lymphoma, monoclonal gammopathies and cryoglobulinemia Some ... regardless of treatment candidacy Alcohol abstinence should be recommended to all patients as this may accelerate the progression of liver disease Hepatotoxic drugs should also be avoided, as patients...

Ngày tải lên: 02/11/2012, 09:51

... years, ALT has been used as a standard surrogate for the activity of CHB Thus, ALT level in combination with HBV DNA level and histological activity has been used as a determinant for HBV treatment ... normal transaminases have historically not been considered as candidates for HBV treatment based on the assumption that these patients usually have a slow progression and evidence that these patients ... predictors of response to LAM and ADV therapies are similar to those for IFN except that baseline HBV DNA may not be very important Individualization of HBV Treatment As summarized in Table and...

Ngày tải lên: 03/11/2012, 09:41

... However, Feynman soon learned that there was a great obstacle to this delayed action-at -a- distance theory: namely, if a radiating electron, say in an atom or an antenna, were not acted upon at all by ... xn (a) and which leaves the action invariant (for example, the transformation may be a rotation) The transformation is to contain a parameter, a, and is to be a continuous function of a For a equal ... gives probably the most fundacorresponds to e mental quantum analogue for the classical Lagrangian function It is preferable for the sake of analogy to consider the classical Lagrangian as a function...

Ngày tải lên: 06/11/2012, 11:21

... up to now C .A plays an important role in learning a foreign language as a main subject at most language universals According to C James (1980;19), C .A is a form of inter-language study and a central ... should be washed everyday Nguyễn Thị Nga K 1 1A 19 Graduation paper 2.2.5 Exclamatory adjective sentence An adjective as head of an adjective phrase or as its sole realization can be an exclamation: ... time available/ in the available time.(1) We have to exploit all available potential/ all potential available in our country (2) As we know that when changing the position of adjective available...

Ngày tải lên: 10/04/2013, 14:46

... the American Nurses Association, the American Psychological Association, and Sigma Theta Tau International She is a board member of the International Council on Women's Health Issues and a charter ... Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publkation Data Thomas, Sandra P, Listening to patients : a phenomenological approach to nursing / Sandra P Thomas, Howard R Pollio p cm Includes bibliographical ... the man as a nurse and Ginger as a physician, whereas still other reactions identify the man as a nurse and Ginger as a patient You don't have to be a philosopher of language or a communications...

Ngày tải lên: 16/10/2013, 11:15

... team The database analysts and the programmers are unable to agree on the proper ways to pass information back and forth between the interface and the database, and the requirements analysts and ... software packages), hardware and software implementation (implementing new computers or software), database management and revision (ensuring proper data storage and access), hardware and software ... Project managers usually employ a Responsibility Assignment Matrix (RAM) such as the sample in Table (PMI, 2000), and OD scholars have advocated similar approaches in teambuilding and organizational...

Ngày tải lên: 24/10/2013, 08:20

... into manageable size—say to make a presentation about the Vietnam War or locate the best marketing strategy for a hypothetical business venture—consider making a quick visual map to see what ... number of audiences equals the number of students in class Write one per slip of paper and place in a hat and let each student draw an audience out of a hat Each now write a paragraph to the audience ... makes a permanent record to be reread and studied in your absence And if you want to maintain a certain tone or coolness of demeanor, this can be accomplished more easily in writing than in face-toface...

Ngày tải lên: 18/12/2013, 17:33

... the Sandia National Laboratory study on enterprise transformation serves to bring the dangers that managers and administrators face when attempting to impose a transformational change into their ... which are a strategic map, measurements that relate specifically to the change strategies, and initiatives that focus on achieving the planned strategic objective The strategic map places strategic ... the earlier actions are integrated into the organization’s culture The Sandia Laboratories management team, for example, warned that a transformation initiative should not demand more than the...

Ngày tải lên: 15/02/2014, 20:20

... contrast, the studies by Kawabata and Zeki (2004) and Skov ef al (2005) attempted to isolate those cortical structures that are actIvated more when a stimulus is evaluated as beautiful Presumably, ... network than before, again including the occipital, temporal, and the frontal lobes, but in particular bilateral orbital frontal corlex What the results of Kawabata and Zeki (2004) and Skov ef al (2005) ... neural correlates of preference and beauty, two variables that have affective and cognitive components The areas activated by Vartanian and Goel (2004b) may have highlighted those cOrlical structures...

Ngày tải lên: 19/02/2014, 17:20

... unlimited raw corpus compensates for the modest recall As a result, large quantities of NE instances are automatically acquired An automatically annotated NE corpus can then be constructed by extracting ... fourDigitNum, containsDigitAndAlpha, containsDigitAndDash, containsDigitAndSlash, containsDigitAndComma, containsDigitAndPeriod, otherNum, allCaps, capPeriod, initCap, lowerCase, other Benchmarking and Discussion ... example: IsA(man) Æ PER IsA(city) Æ LOC IsA(company) Æ ORG IsA(software) Æ PRO Automatic Construction of Annotated NE Corpus In this step, we use the parsing-based first learner to tag a raw...

Ngày tải lên: 20/02/2014, 16:20

... identify critical components that are key to success G HAZOP and FMEA approaches Hazard and Operability studies and Failure Modes Effects Analysis are quantitative technical failure analysis techniques ... drivers Some risk classification systems have strategic risk as a separate category However, the FIRM Risk Scorecard approach suggests that strategic (as well as tactical and operational) risks should ... N 17 Risk appetite, tolerance and constraints Sources of assurance available to the Board A structured approach to Enterprise Risk Management Appendix B: Implementation summar y The table below...

Ngày tải lên: 21/02/2014, 12:20

... a Natural Language Interface to Complex Data", SRI International, 1976 hltman,D.J., and Allen, J.F., "A Plan Recognation Model for Clarification Subdlalogues", Proceedings of the International ... exlsting plan may contain constant instantiatlons in place of former variaOles A term fragment still associates with such constant terms A constant fragment can only associate with terms whose semantic ... utterance Allen views the speaker's utterance as part of a plan which the speaker has constructed and is executlug to accomplish his overall task-related goals To interpret elliptical fragments, Allen...

Ngày tải lên: 21/02/2014, 20:20

... operator THE, and the operator POWER for definite plurals follows Scha [25] The operators KIND and SAMPLE follow Cad.son's analysis [10] of the semantics of bare plurals THE, as an operator, takes ... Logic: A Multilevel Semantics Approach In Research and Development in Natural Language Understanding as Part of the Strategic Computing Program, R Weischedel, D.Ayuso, A Haas, E Hinrichs, R Scha, ... Since IRACQ assumes that a large vocabulary is available for use in the training examples," a way to rapidly infer the knowledge bases for the overwhelming majority of words is an invaluable complement...

Ngày tải lên: 21/02/2014, 20:20

... function so that, for instance, in fact is labelled as a prepositio'~aT-~rase rather than as an adverbial phrase No attempt is made to show any paraphrase relationships Putative deleted or a 161 either ... word tag set The programs and data files used for automatic word tagging are being modified to reduce manual intervention and to provide more detailed subcategorizations Phrase and Clause Tagging ... the T-tag look up procedure against samples of the corpus that have been manually parsed accordiug to the rules contained in the Case Law Manual ~here alternative T-tags are assigned for any word...

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Ngày tải lên: 23/02/2014, 11:20

... Gender-Based Approach , Sexual Health Exchange 1998, no 2, pp 3–6 83 T Valdés and J Olvarríra, eds, “Masculinidades y equidad de genéro en America Latina”  21 Partnering: A New Approach To Sexual And ... Non-governmental organization PHC Primary health clinic Profamila/DR Asociatión Dominicana Pro-Bienestar de la Familia/Dominican Republic RFSU Swedish Family Planning Association SAARC South Asia Association ... Family Health International ECO Economic Co-operation Organisation FLACSO Facultad Latino Americana de Ciencias Sociales G/PHN Government/Population, Health and Nutrition HHRAA Health and Human...

Ngày tải lên: 05/03/2014, 16:20