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... keeping and transactions › The business application will increasingly be people-centric, not just data-centric › The application of the future will stem the tendency to the actual work outside of ... Shift in Technology Ubiquitous Data Unlimited Computing Power Machine Learning Data Science: Turns Devices into Experience How Artificial Intelligence Will Make Technology Disappear (Rand Hindi, ... pre-built, less on the custom › The SaaS majors are working on ensuring different clouds play well together Closing Thoughts › The business application as much about enabling better operational...

Ngày tải lên: 16/02/2016, 18:35

... linker containing a calmodulin domain and a calmodulin ligand peptide called M13.When Ca 2+ is present, it binds to the calmodulin domain, inducing a con‐ formational change and binding of the ... peptide sequence The M13 binding results in shortening of the linker, bringing CFP within FRET distance of YFP and changing the emission wavelength from cyan to yellow The Ca2+ binding affinity was ... chu-Ras functions by using H-Ras as the sensor domain and the Ras Binding Domain (RBD) of Raf as the ligand domain in constructing a molecular switch that in turn is sandwiched by the FRET pair CFP/YFP...

Ngày tải lên: 16/03/2014, 12:20

... ADF/cofilin, are also act as regulators in mediating actin polymerization by controling the availability of activated actin monomers, debranching and depolymerizing proteins and capping and severing ... other cells by interacting with actin filaments in migrating cells Integrins can also act as signal transducer in the “inside-out signaling” model The activation of integrins is caused by talin ... attaches to the side of existing actin filaments and induces growth of a new branch of actin filament at a unique 70 degree angle from the preexisting actin filament Proteins, such as profiling and ADF/cofilin,...

Ngày tải lên: 02/10/2015, 17:15

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Ngày tải lên: 03/05/2016, 22:51

... losses in the early nineties, from small business lending and real-estate lending in the second half of the eighties, eating these buffers up; moreover, the intensification of competition in the financial ... return that they had promised their customers in the early nineties and the rates of return that they could earn in the market after the rate decline of the mid-nineties For Sweden and Finland, see ... see the repercussions of the defensive behaviour of financial institutions for the financing of the real sector of the economy To the extent that firms in the real sector are unable to obtain financing...

Ngày tải lên: 17/02/2014, 21:20

... underlay the introduction of public slaughterhouses in the Netherlands and the increasingly important role of veterinary meat inspection; and finally, Schwabe (1978) examines early animal medicine and ... husbandry and agriculture In this chapter, I have chosen to outline some of the most influential and interesting of these theories By producing such a synthesis of recent thought on the origins of ... using these animals to indulge themselves in yet another ‘sporting pleasure’ involving other creatures, namely the hunting and killing of foxes and deer Horseriding may also be used to assist the...

Ngày tải lên: 06/03/2014, 16:20

... Academy of Sciences to secure the services of eminent members of appropriate professions in the examination of policy matters pertaining to the health of the public The Institute acts under the responsibility ... principal operating agency of both the National Academy of Sciences and the National Academy of Engineering in providing services to the government, the public, and the scientific and engineering communities ... intervention is needed to increase the rate of innovation in the housing industry and (2) this can be accomplished by identifying, understanding, and removing barriers to innovation, increasing...

Ngày tải lên: 22/03/2014, 10:20

... after the trade (including the price impact due to the information in the trade) This cost can be interpreted as the profit realised by the other side of the trade, assuming they could lay off the ... Future of Computer Trading in Financial Markets On the basis of the evidence reviewed in this Chapter, it is clear that both the pace of development of technology innovations in financial markets and ... execution costs Of course, additional studies linking HFT and institutional trading costs in other market settings would be helpful in determining the generality of this finding In summary, the evidence...

Ngày tải lên: 29/03/2014, 18:20

... Markets The 2008-2009 Recession Offshoring and Factory Migration Reconsidering Conventional Views about the Future The China Fallacy The Future of Manufacturing India and Offshoring Economic and ... there with the wheel The wealth and progress that we enjoy in the industrialized world would not have come into being without the underlying logic of capitalism Historically, technology and the ... brightly and are thus able to enter the mass market As we have said, these are the growing middle classes of China, India and other nations The number of lights in the tunnel is constantly growing...

Ngày tải lên: 20/06/2014, 20:20

... and which is certain to result in innumerable future advances in the fields of genetics, bio-engineering and medicine An especially interesting development in the field of grid computing is the ... and engineering One of the first and most notable applications of grid computing was in the Human Genome Project This inEven much of biotechnology and genetics could be considered a type of information ... finally feel the impact and also begin to lose their light The owners of the businesses in the tunnel are seeing much of their wealth gradually drain away The tunnel has become a far darker and...

Ngày tải lên: 20/06/2014, 20:20

... hit a ceiling and may actually be seeing some evidence of decline In the United States, the media is replete with a continuing parade of stories about the ongoing crisis in both primary and secondary ... declining In recent years, one of the fewpositive stories in the public health and nutrition arena has been the decline in the smoking rate While the last graph was just an estimate, here is another ... customers forgetting they still had the cylinder and simply driving away with it This type of drive-through bank has now, of course, followed in the path of the dinosaurs Today the technology seems...

Ngày tải lên: 20/06/2014, 20:20

... over the past couple of decades, but I not think it can continue indefinitely The reason is simple: machines and computers are advancing in capability and will increasingly invade the realm of the ... plugged into a computer program and the loan will either be approved or denied Clearly, the bulk of the labor associated with this process is in collecting, copying, collating and faxing information ... job loss in Brazil, India and China We cannot succumb to the temptation to assume that the rising middle classes in China and India are going to solve the demand problem Our simulation in Chapter...

Ngày tải lên: 20/06/2014, 20:20

... temporary gains these countries may have obtained from offshoring Of course, the overall wisdom of a practice like offshoring has absolutely no bearing on the actions of individual businesses Businesses ... stocks and bonds, often via 401(k) plans When these people then reach retirement age, they begin to sell those assets in order to maintain their standard of living The problem is that, for the first ... dramatically impact employment in China, while at the same time demand dwindles in the West and certainly if the catastrophic event described at the beginning of this chapter occurs—then this economic perpetual...

Ngày tải lên: 20/06/2014, 21:20

... take the distribution of incomes in the United States and then eliminate both the richest and the poorest people Then graph the average income of the remaining “typical” people (the bulk of consumers) ... advantage in terms of attracting and retaining investment India and Offshoring We’ve noted that China does not yet have an integrated, self-sustaining modern economy This is equally true of India India ... any increase in demand primarily by investing in more technology As we saw in Chapter 2, this point marks the downfall of economists’ faith in the Luddite fallacy, and it also marks the beginning...

Ngày tải lên: 20/06/2014, 21:20

... according to these incentives, they will earn the income they * Please see the Technology Paradox” in the Appendix Copyrighted Material – Paperback/Kindle available @ Amazon THE LIGHTS IN THE ... gradually increased to recapture at least a portion of this income The overall objective is to recapture just the optimal amount of income and then get it into the hands of consumers so that there ... constrain economic activity: Labor In today’s economy, human labor is required to some degree in the production of nearly everything The availability of workers, the cost of employing them and the...

Ngày tải lên: 20/06/2014, 21:20

... dark The entrepreneurs and business owners in the tunnel are responding to the rapidly increasing demand As the number of lights continues to increase, the speed with which panels are updated and ... unprecedented intensity Still, as the ever-increasing cycle of light continues to parade through the expanding tunnel, we sense strongly that it is the seemingly infinite number of green lights ... Chapter 2, advancing information technology because it enabled the creation and distribution of financial derivatives—has certainly played an important role in the severity of the current economic...

Ngày tải lên: 20/06/2014, 21:20

... effort to simulate the workings of the brain Once researchers gain an understanding of the basic operating principles of the brain, it may be possible to build an artificial intelligence based on ... researchers in the field of artificial intelligence would call narrow AI In other words, machines and software that are capable of sophisticated analysis, decision making and reasoning within a relatively ... passed the Turing Test The Turing Test is perhaps the most well-known and accepted method for measuring true machine intelligence In practice, the rules would need to be further refined, and it...

Ngày tải lên: 20/06/2014, 21:20

... competency in presenting and disclosing the information on financial instruments The quality of presentation and disclosure of financial instruments in a financial report depends on two main groups of ... of financial instruments to firm’s scale, business result and scale of the auditing firm so that the users of accounting information are more active in using the financial reports and making investment ... on the presentation and information disclosure of financial instruments) on the quality of financial reports Figuring out the link among the degree of presentation and information disclosure of...

Ngày tải lên: 25/07/2014, 20:31

... results and the obligation in providing information, the management apparatus and the capacity of the Board of Directors, the possibility in continuing operation of the client… Moreover, the information ... incurred in the investing process of fixed assets Handling and recording the expenditures used to pay for fixed assets investment Considering the disposals of fixed assets * The contents of the ... Observing and participating in checking ending inventory of fixed assets at the end of period, ensuring that the checking of inventory can be done in accordance with the procedures and the difference...

Ngày tải lên: 11/07/2016, 15:58