... interesting question to investigate is to understand the top management willingness to globalization and their vision for globalization It seems several small and medium sized localization companies ... customization of Web sites to specific locales International online business strategy and marketing expertise Online branding and advertising localization International search engine optimization and ... company data base provided at the Globalization and Localization Association Web site In total the study was able to include only 53 localization vendor company Web sites in the sample, as these...
... ATS that provides a personalized learning environment to cater to individual needs, which is the integration of traditional ITS and AHS Since an ATS is not as effective as a human tutor and it ... as a benchmark and kept static to provide individualized tutoring later This is based on an assumption that learning style has temporal stability and an individual’s learning style remains relatively ... probabilistically Technically, a Bayesian network is a directed acyclic graph (DAG) that consists of nodes and links Each node represents a random variable in a domain, and each link is an arrow...
... is activity to participant forum for certain Ai 13, Role: role(Ai, journal):Ai is activity to participant journals for certain Ai 14, Role: role(Ai, survey):Ai is activity to participant survey ... learning activities This paper aims to find out the how to design adaptive learning activities rules as well as how to use IMS LD for designing an AEHS The main contribution of this paper is a method ... model It includes some techniques such as: direct guidance, adaptive sorting of links, adaptive hiding of links, adaptive annotation of links, map adaptation [1] Therefore, many adaptive applications...
... of each user is the ratio of the total transmission bits and transmission times, the unit is b/s If there are two elements in the set, one statistical value is given in the positive direction ... predefined order in each frame Based on the optimal distributed precoding andthe gradient iteration of the perturbation vector, the idea of ADP is that in each downlink transmission frame, the ... in the ADP to adjust the perturbation vector, which gives a better approximation tothe optimal precoding as the channel state varies The rest of the article is organized as follows Section II...
... [24] In this model, each UE was generated according tothe Poisson arrival process, andthe lifetime of a UE was assumed to be a random variable with the exponential distribution and with the average ... system has three phases of handover preparation, handover execution, and handover completion The handover preparation procedure is mainly made up for a handover decision stage in serving eNB and ... anda simple hard QoS-based call admission control scheme which blocks a new call into a cell when there is no available bandwidth The bandwidth allocation and usage ratio per service type are...
... publications: [3] and [4] Some of the diagrams in this thesis appear in these publications Additionally, some of the text in this thesis is an expanded version of material from these publications ... thanks to Dr Gethin Norman for kindly giving up his time to answer any questions I emailed him with –with an amazingly fast response time Special thanks to Dr Oana Andrei and Dr Iain McGinniss, ... attention to detail throughout all mini-viva hand-ins and presentations Thanks to Hamish Haridras Lending his time and support with his thorough proof reading and graph beautification skills Also thanks...
... for automatic driving light control However, if the LED for the automatic driving light control flashes while the adaptive headlight is active, this indicates that there is a fault in the adaptive ... Preconditions for the adaptive headlight To ensure its operability, the adaptive headlight must be adapted tothe vehicle specific data The vehicle-specific data are located in the footwell module and ... Know what components contribute tothe adaptive headlamp system E70 Adaptive Headlight System Introduction The adaptive headlights (AHL) is available as standard equipment This system is installed...
... rotating about the horizontal N–S axis andthe other for the joint rotating about the vertical axis were used .The daylight divided into four intervals and during each of them the solar and motors ... individual for 50 generation Initial generation involves more activities in searching for optimum value which causes a larger distance split among each individual Once the search space is narrowed down ... using the GA parameters as given in tables below, Table 1, Table and Table with the objectives to study Table I: GA simulation parameter Simulation Parameter Value Maximum Generation 50 Population,...
... decision-support to clinicians in the psycho-physiological medicine is of great significance in applying CBR and other artificial intelligence techniques in medical domain FEATURES EXTRACTION AND ... importance for the clinicians A standardization of the slope that is using negative and positive angles makes it more visualise and gives a terminology toa clinician for reasoning about stress Therefore, ... expert/clinician In this system fuzzy similarity matching is applied in CBRretrieval In addition, in extracting features from signal data we have considered step to step of the calibration phase Apart...
... method is the relative ease with which it handles multiple criteria In addition to this, AHP is easier to understand and it can effectively handle both qualitative and quantitative data Perry, Sohal, ... read the questionnaire After assigning the weights to each attribute, the evaluation team compared all ERP alternatives: X, Y and Z The matrix of paired comparisons for alternatives is given in ... according tothe vision andthe strategies of the company, managers’ opinions, literature anda questionnaire: the questionnaire was constructed based on an extensive review of the literature in the areas...
... the localization-based switching adaptive control proposed here is its rapid model falsi®cation capability In the LTI case this is manifested in the ability of the switching controller to quickly ... the inverse of the controllability/observability matrix Potential singularities of this matrix are avoided by means of an appropriate estimates modi®cation This estimates transformation is linked ... converge toa suitable stabilizing controller It is believed that the approach is applicable toa wide class of linear time invariant and time-varying systems with good transient performance The next...
... 3-540-43545-X Digital Interactive TV and Metadata Future Broadcast Multimedia A Lugmayr, S Niiranen, and S Kalli ISBN 3-387-20843-7 Adaptive Antenna Arrays Trends and Applications S Chandran (Ed.) ISBN ... function that does not exist in practice It has many possible definitions It is idealized because it has zero width and infinite amplitude An example definition is shown in figure 1-4 below It is ... detail Relationships that exist between the two models are explained andthe limitations of potentially applying each model to system identification applications are explained A historical account...
... ritonavir/lopinavir to didanosine, stavudine, and indinavir, and stop simvastatin (C) Continue all medications but stop simvastatin (D) Continue zidovudine and lamivudine, and switch ritonavir/lopinavir ... result is pending What will you while waiting for this result? (A) Switch zidovudine and lamivudine to didanosine and stavudine, and continue ritonavir (B) Switch zidovudine, lamivudine, and ritonavir/lopinavir ... ritonavir/lopinavir to efavirenz (E) Switch to didanosine, stavudine, and efavirenz, and stop simvastatin Answer: (E) Switch to didanosine, stavudine, and efavirenz, and stop simvastatin Explanation: This...
... Plan ⊃ Q@ P1 joinc2 Q1 @P1 joinc2 Q2 @P3 Q1 @P1 Q@ P4 Q2 @P4 Fig Optimizing query plans by applying algebraic equivalences and heuristics According tothe above algebraic equivalence, the algebraic ... consider two possible optimization strategies of distributed query plans, namely compile and run-time optimizations Compile-time Optimization Compile-time optimization relies on algebraic equivalences ... localization information returned by the routing algorithm The first step towards this end, is to provide an algebraic translation of the RQL query patterns annotated with data localization information...
... plan for a strategy in educational management of organizations in Vietnam and Asia [3] However, there are no DSS applications to apply a real case in the domain of an evaluation anda strategic ... quality assurance The representative of ISO for the USA is the American National Standards Institute (ANSI) andthe ISO 9000 series is administered by the American Society of Quality Control (ASQC) ... COE in higher education In this case, it is necessary to drop almost traditional educational management methods To adapt rapidly the teaching, learning methods and total quality management will...
... processing and retrieval Documentation of clinical and administrative data is varied and complex in nature With the expansion of health data and information in clinical and administrative practice, ... forgotten Significant clinical and administrative data and information frequently not find their way into the individual health record Consequently, important patient and intervention data are missing ... Organization (WHO), and technology-oriented standardization organizations, like the International Standardization Organization (ISO) andthe Comité Europeen de Normalisation (CEN), are the most important...
... In addition, the incomplete quantification of climatic and hydrologic inputs and outputs due to data limitations introduce significant uncertainty in modeled estimates of water availability and ... surface waters, infiltration, evaporation, and transpiration Extreme variation means that in years with heavy precipitation all rights may be satisfied, and in years with low precipitation only the ... 78 Information availability and scale are closely related Information availability is discussed in the next section 79 Each grid cell location may have many variables associated with it For instance,...
... spatial relationships, A overlaps B andA outside B This is impossible because it is already checked earlier in this Section ′ If Min U12 Min contains a relationship A outside A, then A outside ... Iconic Indexing, Retrieval, and Maintenance of Spatial Relationships in Image Databases, Journal of Visual Communication and Image Representation, Special Issue on Indexing, Storage, Retrieval and ... consistent if there is a picture satisfying all the relationships in F A spatial relationship r is said to be implied by a finite set of spatial relationships F if every picture satisfying all the...
... dimensions indicate an existing instance then the partial provisional instance from the sentence is incorporated into the existing real instance, otherwise a new instance is created 4) Two d i ... There is a nasal step and an arcuete scotoma in the left eye anda central island in the right eye Items prefixed w i t h a~ "K 't in figure denote constants Constants are "terminal items" having ... adjectival and prepositional qualifiers can be distinguished T h e r e is a referenclal use as in "in Left eye" in (14) and also an attributive use as in "of elevated pressure" in ( ) There is...
... Journal of Medical Informatics, pp 116 Nenadic G., Spasic Iand Ananiadou S 2002 Automatic acronym acquisition and term variation management within domain specific texts In Proc of LREC 2002, Las ... combination are learnt automatically by training this measure on an ontology by using distances between terms as an indicator of their similarity (Spasic et al., 2002) This measure is fed into a ... PSB-2002, Hawaii, pp 7:362-373 Spasic I. , Nenadic G., Manios K and Ananiadou S 2002 Supervised learning of term similarities In "Intelligent Data Engineering and Automated Learning", H Yin, N Allinson,...