... Pentland (2002) advocate a “grammatical approach”7 to process specification and “As the grammar for a language describes all possible sentences, a process grammar describes all possible arrangements ... arrangements of tasks in a design process Rather than focusing on a particular process, a grammatical approach draws attention to the set of alternatives.” (Chung, Kwon, and Pentland 2002) For further background ... present a PD process modeling framework that balances activity and deliverable characteristics Browing and Ramasesh: Survey of Activity Network -based Process Models Production and Operations Management...
Ngày tải lên: 23/03/2014, 04:20
... 2005-April 4, 2006 Results are based on a non-random Web -based survey sample of 742 internet users recruited via email Since the data are based on a non-random sample, a margin of error cannot ... permanent surveillance Alaa Seif al-Islam was arrested in May 2005 for protesting the beating of women at a pro-democracy rally in Cairo Seif al-Islam is still in jail, and at least six additional ... of mountains in Afghanistan and the behavior of entrepreneurs in Africa.” Adrian Schofield, head of research for ForgeAhead, an information and communications consulting firm, and a leader with...
Ngày tải lên: 29/03/2014, 19:20
Báo cáo hóa học: " Review Article A Survey of Homomorphic Encryption for Nonspecialists" ppt
... for indistinguishability whereas CPA and CCA are acronyms for chosen plaintext attack and chosen-ciphertext attack Finally, CCA1 refers to nonadaptive attacks, and CCA2 to adaptive ones Considering ... the additively homomorphic variant of ElGamal More precisely, it is based on Damg˚ rd-Jurik’s (presented a above) and Cramer-Shoup’s [55] analyses and variants of Paillier’s scheme, and was proposed ... in case an attack breaks this structure Hence, huge international projects have been funded to ask for new proposals, with a fair evaluation to check their advantages and drawbacks, for example,...
Ngày tải lên: 22/06/2014, 06:20
Testing a model of customer-based brand equity in the Vietnamese banking servic
... are 10 factors extracted at Eigenvalues of 1.022 and total explained variance of 70.641 all factor loading are greater than the cut-off value of 0.4 The result of KMO and Bartlett's Test is also ... qualitative or quantitative approach or a combination of these two types Data can be acquired via a variety of strategies such as experiment, survey, case study, grounded theory or action research ... concepts and has been an area of interest for marketing academics and practitioners as well There are a numbers of models of brand equity in common marketing settings (Farquhar,1989; David A Aaker, 1991;...
Ngày tải lên: 06/11/2012, 15:52
A Survey of Web Technologies
... from a mainframe CICS application, current account activity from a Sybase database located on a Tandem system, and special promotions that the customer may take advantage of from an AS/400 back-office ... use a particular application on occasion The serverbased approach offers IT organizations a variety of different technologies that can be selected based on the particular needs of the application ... JSP, ASP allows the programmer to define application and session variables that are maintained across multiple pages so that session state can be maintained Unlike JSP, ASP is not based on Java...
Ngày tải lên: 24/10/2013, 07:20
Who’s Afraid of ID, A Survey of the Intelligent Design Movement
... compensatory changes in the other, coadapted parts of the system Thus in a watch, [a] ny major functional innovation, such as the addition of a new cogwheel or an increase in the diameter of an existing ... significant cadre of scientists and philosophers In 1996, an of cial organization appeared, the Center for the Renewal of Science and Culture (CRSC), operating under the umbrella of a Seattle -based ... is that naturalism cannot explain the modal qualities of particular physical objects For Koons, the problem is that naturalism cannot account for the reliability of scientists’ appeal to aesthetic...
Ngày tải lên: 01/11/2013, 08:20
Tài liệu A Survey of Li Yang Crazy English pptx
... speak flawless English Li Yang and the Western assistants all speak in a General American accent (neutral Midwest) Li often exaggerates the American accent of some words, particularly his favorite ... gentleman seen in Zhang Yuan’s documentary Crazy English), and Kim (an attractive Caucasian woman who is the leading assistant).10 While Kim can speak Mandarin Chinese, some of the other American ... that Crazy English is popular in other Asian countries, as he feels that all Asian students deal with the same fear of losing face in English language learning and the same lack of spoken practice...
Ngày tải lên: 16/01/2014, 23:20
Tài liệu A Survey of BGP Security pptx
... authenticity of the path attributes announced by an AS Altering the path attributes is another way that a malicious AS can impair or manipulate the routing infrastructure Moreover, analyses of BGP of the ... each AS on an UPDATE’s path shares a secret key with a previously indentified validator known as the destination AS The originating AS computes a MAC using a shared key over a concatenation of an ... IP address space ownership as a tree emanating from ICANN, as illustrated in Figure ASes are assigned an AS number (ASN) in a similar manner, with ICANN being the ultimate authority for delegating...
Ngày tải lên: 14/02/2014, 08:20
Tài liệu Executive coaching: Developing managerial wisdom in a world of chaos doc
... Conflict Faced by Executives Avoidanceavoidance Approachavoidance External adaptation Multiple approachavoidance Approachapproach Avoidance avoidance Approachavoidance Internal adaptation Multiple approachavoidance ... types of conflict that can arise following Hilgard and Marquis’s (cited in Kimble, 196 ) categories: approach-approach, avoidance-avoidance, approach-avoidance, and multiple approach-avoidance ... really wanted to change the nature of their organization and the ways in which their managers and staff interacted They wanted an organization that valued people, encouraged innovation and creativity,...
Ngày tải lên: 21/02/2014, 16:20
Tài liệu English Listening Courses: A Case of Pedagogy Lagging behind Technology docx
... language teachers play a part in making this happen sooner?" Language teachers are known for having heavy teaching and marking loads and therefore too busy to take up any extra work, although creative ... as a goal in itself rather than as a means to an end It seems that Cauldwell’s assumption is that citation forms are easy to learn or identify, although in reality that is not always the case ... one of analogue and tape -based format (cassette or video tape and Minidisk) to one of digital and “webified” format in teaching listening skills does not necessitate any pedagogical changes and,...
Ngày tải lên: 24/02/2014, 18:20
A SURVEY OF SURVIVING BUILDINGS OF THE KROTONA COLONY IN HOLLYWOOD pdf
... and a photograph of it in a state of near completion appeared in the May 1913 issue of the American Theosophist magazine.20 Nearly all of the working drawings bear Richard Requa’s initials, and ... California and particularly Los Angeles.48 Swain Bungalow (2176 Argyle Avenue, Los Angeles, California) Although substantially remodeled and expanded, this bungalow nevertheless gives a valuable ... Robert Stacy-Judd: Maya Architecture and the Creation of a New Style (Santa Barbara, CA: Capra Press, 1993) Copyright 1998 by Alfred Willis Material appearing in Architronic may be distributed...
Ngày tải lên: 07/03/2014, 15:20
American Negro Slavery A Survey of the Supply, Employment and Control of Negro Labor as Determined by the Plantation Regime docx
... soldiers; and each with its outlying factories had a staff of perhaps a dozen factors, as many sub-factors, twice as many assistants, and a few bookkeepers and auditors, as well as a corps of white artisans ... and reasonable A ship captain after paying for a license and buying the king's private stock of slaves at somewhat above the market price would have the news of his arrival spread afar, and at ... contemplating the hardships of the colored races But Azurara was more than a moralizing annalist He acutely observed of the first cargo of captives brought from southward of the Sahara, less than a...
Ngày tải lên: 08/03/2014, 00:20
WORKING PAPER SERIES NO 898 / MAY 2008: CENTRAL BANK COMMUNICATION AND MONETARY POLICY A SURVEY OF THEORY AND EVIDENCE doc
... recent past, the understanding of central bank transparency and communication has changed dramatically As it became increasingly clear that managing expectations is a central part of monetary policy, ... communications In fact, the Fed is more of a laggard than a leader in this regard The Reserve Bank of New Zealand and the Bank of England were early and enthusiastic converts to greater transparency, ... balance it seems fair to say that, if the central bank speaks clearly, its statements can (and apparently do) affect a variety of asset prices in non-negligible ways While financial market reactions...
Ngày tải lên: 15/03/2014, 10:20
A Constrained Space Exploration Technology Program: A Review of NASA''s Exploration Technology Development Program docx
... Star Green Flag Yellow Flag Red Flag Quality of research • Research plan • Capability of team • Non-NASA contacts All criteria under Green Flag were highly rated Technical approach and tasks described ... responsibilities have been assigned to a large number of NASA centers, and grants and cooperative agreements have been established with non-NASA and non-U.S organizations In general, a great deal of this ... National Aeronautics and Space Administration, NASA Space Flight Human Systems Standards, Volumes I and II, NASA-STD-3001, NASA, Washington, D.C., 2007 As identified in such documents, as appropriate,...
Ngày tải lên: 22/03/2014, 10:20
Health Expenditures and the Elderly: A Survey of Issues in Forecasting, Methods Used, and Relevance for Developing Countries doc
... somewhat mitigated (Ogawa and Retherford 1997; da Vanza and Chan 1994) Economic growth is typically also accompanied by urbanization and the migration of young workers to urban areas In Japan this ... the approach adopted by The Harvard Team (2000) except that these projections are made on a much broader classification of health use types and the costs per unit of care Other Variants of Actuarial ... (Ainsworth and Dayton 2001; Barnett and Blaikie 1992; Vanlandingham et al 2000, WHO (World Health Organization) 2001) In a study of Tanzania, Ainsworth and Dayton (2001) found a short-term impact on...
Ngày tải lên: 22/03/2014, 13:20
PROGRESS IN FINANCIAL SERVICES RISK MANAGEMENT: A SURVEY OF MAJOR FINANCIAL INSTITUTIONS pdf
... BNP Paribas National Bank of Abu Dhabi CaixaBank North America National Bank of Kuwait Commerzbank Bank of America National Commercial Bank Credit Suisse Bank of Montreal Qatar National Bank Danske ... Arab Bank Alpha Bank Banco de Crédito del Perú Arab Banking Corporation Banco BPI Banco Nacional de Costa Rica BankMuscat Barclays Bank Bancolombia BLOM Bank BBVA Itaú Unibanco FirstRand Bank BNP ... Royal Bank of Canada China International Capital Corporation ING Scotiabank Intesa Sanpaolo State Street Corporation CIMB Group KBC Bank Wells Fargo Commonwealth Bank of Australia Lloyds Banking...
Ngày tải lên: 22/03/2014, 21:20
Testing Costs and Testing Capacity According to the REACH Requirements – Results of a Survey of Independent and Corporate GLP Laboratories in the EU and Switzerland potx
... testing capacity in appendix The ratio of the maximum capacity to the average capacity available is about 2.5 Again, this indicates that the average capacity is a good indicator for the available testing ... large lab) The size of the small labs might be related to comparative advantage E.g the price advantages of the small labs might be due to advantages of specialization Small labs generally offer ... test packages based on 282 substances p .a EU capacity (excl an EU capacity and import share of 53%) Switzerland 77 98 11 14 1 Table 4: Estimation of the annual overall testing capacity according...
Ngày tải lên: 23/03/2014, 05:22
A SURVEY OF BEHAVIORAL FINANCE° pot
... small sample can be just as representative as a large one Six tosses of a coin resulting in three heads and three tails are as representative of a fair coin as 500 heads and 500 tails are in a ... as arbitrage One of the biggest successes of behavioral finance is a series of theoretical papers showing that in an economy where rational and irrational traders interact, irrationality can have ... tested against behavioral alternatives Empirical studies of the behavior of individual stocks have unearthed a set of facts which is altogether more frustrating for the rational paradigm Many of...
Ngày tải lên: 29/03/2014, 18:20