... uncompress thefileand ae or another text editor to view it Viewing the monitor's manufacturer's web support page Posting a question to the newsgroup comp.os.linux.setup Contacting the monitor ... as root and type the command: xf86config Figure 5.1 shows the beginning of the xf86config dialog As you can see, xf86config is a text-mode program; it does not support use of the mouse and it ... a RAMDAC Otherwise, type the number associated with the RAMDAC used by your card and press Enter Determining the correct number may pose a bit of a puzzle The descriptions given in the screen...
... special file systems such as the /proc file system, this is none The second element is the mount point, the place in the root filesystem at which thefilesystem contents appear For the root filesystem ... to display the same memory information 7.5 Drives, Mounts, andFile Systems The /proc filesystem also contains information about the disk drives present in thesystemandthefile systems mounted ... mounted from them 7.5.1 File Systems The /proc/filesystems entry displays thefilesystem types known to the kernel Note that this list isn’t very useful because it is not complete: File systems can...
... that there is a “single version of the truth” meeting and measuring these objectives differs significant- The ability to look at the data and then collaborate on opti- ly, and that is where the ... demand with the right kinds of (profitable) prospects as well as pro- • Success in the sales and marketing departments is measured differently moting the brand, and sales has the insight and ... Sales and Marketing: TheNew Power Couple executive overview y ou know the story It’s the end of the quarter tered among different databases We could not respond andthe sales numbers are below the...
... doing so, the responses of others became more predictable Although these social scientists andthe “Culture at a Distance” method they innovated were very effective, after the war the achievements ... to expanding marketing research in more eclectic ways and in a manner that acknowledges the value and legitimacy of qualitative research traditions Over the years, I have gained the help and counsel ... Nason, and George Fisk have provided both friendship and advice over the years Although these experiences set the stage for the book that follows, I still did not possess a firm grasp of the field...
... using these techniques The investigator may assume that authors are unaware of the importance of the themes with which they deal In the process of writing, however, the analyst assumes that the ... isolate and examine the artist’s perceptions of the culture and use them to better understand the marketplace Competitive intelligence professionals are skilled at analyzing documents and other ... organizations and circumstances The field and its products need to be evaluated accordingly Rigidness of Science The methods of science and quantitative methods are rigid andthe quality of the research...
... distorted, other people could still understand what was being said because the underlying structure of the language exists in the minds of both the speaker andthe listener The existence of these linguistic ... reap the benefits that are thereby provided It is inappropriate, therefore, to condemn the use of the emic/qualitative methods as long as analysts understand the implications and limitations of these ... (either overtly or covertly) when decisions are being made By recognizing these patterns, it becomes easier to predict their future responses On the other hand, there may be phenomena that the...
... profession and [they not recognize] that the information provided [by intelligence] is significant and unique These image problems andthe way they trickle through thesystem are disturbing The good news ... threats, they are attracted to perceived opportunities Firms often have criteria by which they scan the marketplace andthe competition These organizations make decisions when the evidence they gather ... familiarity with the company andthe industry, however, may apply a “sanity check” to the situation and question the true meaning of the findings Perhaps the firm has never been strong in R&D Maybe the competitive...
... customers The success of the organization, furthermore, is typically directly linked to the degree to which these customers or clients embrace the organization and/ or the products and services that the ... Management theorists have not merely woven isolated marketing concepts into the monolith of management theory and method; they have embraced the marketing concept and made it their own The general ... appropriate and effective When this is the case, competitive intelligence analysts may lack the respect of their clients and/ or their hands may be tied by clients who are unsympathetic to the qualitative...
... streams exist, the goals and strategies of ethnographic research are uniform: understanding people and their behavior by viewing them as they actually live their lives and/ or pursue their professions ... long wait (until these events occurred by chance); these long waits could make the use of the ethnographic method inefficient On the other hand, the ethnographer may control the social situation ... particular product and then dismantling them in order to better understand how they were made and/ or how they operate Having gained this technical knowledge through the dismantling process, the firm may...
... groups of people and why they think in the way they Since these The Humanities and Competitive Intelligence 149 methods use the written word as the primary empirical evidence examined, these tools ... emphasize and encourage certain personality types and patterns of response By understanding the influences that impact the culture and its members, the future responses of both the individual andthe ... community Their efforts resulted in sophisticated analyses of the cultures of both the United States and its enemies After the war, these noted scholars returned to civilian life andthe tools that they...
... to their universities andthe methods they had developed were abandoned by the intelligence community Nonetheless, post–World War II humanists folded the essence of these techniques with their ... intelligence and merging them with the concept of the corporate culture That is the current state- 188 Operationalizing the Social Sciences andthe Humanities of -the- art of competitive intelligence The ... investigators and their clients are able to focus on overarching aspects of the culture and how they can be strategically manipulated On other occasions, competitive intelligence practitioners and their...
... tailored to the current situation faced by the organization can be designed to revolve around the resources and abilities of the organization (as they currently exist) The “marketing audit” andthe “management ... is equipped to profit from state-of -the- art qualitative theories and methods and enjoy the benefits they provide 200 Operationalizing the Social Sciences andthe Humanities A key component of a ... their wings and deploy their skills in the most effective way, their product may suffer The profession must actively fight against these potentials THE QUALITATIVE AUDIT: A HOLISTIC APPROACH The...
... where they realized that their opportunities were few and not very 232 Appendix lucrative In addition, the humanist disciplines have their own elan and they often shun the private sector andthe ... and power in today’s cultural, social, and economic milieu As a result, they may feel superior, on the one hand, and distrustful and/ or resentful of the “rival” practitioner world, on the other ... work and rework ideas in order to explain how and why people act in the way they Futhermore, humanists often pit themselves and their methods against the more formal methods of science and quantitative...
... introduced over the past year, and will continue to make in the coming years, will increase your enjoyment of the journal Some of the ideas we have in mind for the future include the following: ... ‘versions’ of the journal) The website URL will remain the same (http://ccforum.com) because it is already well known; we are just removing ‘forum’ from the title of the online version We hope the changes ... articles for us over the past year to whom we should like to extend special thanks for all of their hard work, a list of whom can be found at the end of this issue of the journal and on the website (http://ccforum.com/info/about/reviewers.asp)...
... blocks and inodes for file1 and file2 , plus new data blocks and inodes for the containing directories Unix FFS requires ten non-sequential writes for thenew information (the inodes for thenew ... writes, then reads the file back sequentially, then writes 100 Mbytes randomly to the existing file, then reads 100 Mbytes randomly from the file, and finally reads the file sequentially again The bandwidth ... (i-number for the directory andthe position ferent to the users than the Unix FFS-like file system in within the directory), the contents of the directory entry Sprite The reason is that the machines...
... icon and click on the (+) sign to expand the contents of the drive If the user clicks directly on the drive, the contents of the drive will be displayed on the right side of the screen On the ... locate the “Documents and Settings” folder and click on the (+) sign next to this folder This will display the contents of the folder Now click directly on the folder itself andthe contents of the ... Navigating the Windows 2000 filesystem using Windows Explorer Right-click the My Computer icon on the desktop or right-click the Start button and select Explore from the menu Locate the “local...
... available and can be aggregated and analyzed for decision-making It is the hope of the HWAB andthe UNMC that as thesystem continues to be used and nurses and midwives regularly review and update their ... four of Uganda’s professional councils (including the Uganda Medical and Dental Practitioners Council, the Allied Health Professional Council, andthe Uganda Pharmacy Council) andthe MOH, the focus ... by thesystem should be triangulated the with other data sources such as the census The HWAB remained involved in the strategic direction and guidance of the UNMC’s HRIS from its inception The...
... translators stayed in the orphanage and shared the meals with the children and played with them in their free time Analyses All variables except one met the preconditions for the analyses The sum of depressive ... strategies The influence of thenew instructional systemandthe psychotherapeutic treatment of PTSD with KIDNET cannot be separately examined However, the decline in violence andthe non-existing ... and development of the children The decline in PTSD severity and violence experienced in the orphanage after the implementation of thenew instructional systemandthe individual trauma treatment...
... when the magnitude andthe frequency of the road input are 0.01 m and Hz Compared to the passive system, both the semi-active andthe active systems show a reduction in the magnitude of the vertical ... and a semi-active system based upon the generation method of the control force The semi-active suspension system produces the control force by changing the size of an orifice, and therefore the ... Motion The equations of motion of thenew model are now derived by the Lagrangian mechanics Let T , V and D denote the kinetic energy, the potential energy andthe damping energy of the system, ...
... applied to intact skin [22] The dose of drug delivered depends on the surface area of the patch andthe length of time that the patch is worn, which allows for tailoring the duration of medication ... impact items, and demographic questions answered by the subject's caregiver Not all items and scales were utilized in the study (refer to the Appendix 1) The AIM-C was completed by the subject's ... median, minimum, and maximum) statistics were computed Findings for the remaining secondary portions of the AIM-C, including the worry scales, behavior items, the missed-dose item, andthe economic...