case example in the smart card industry

... This requires the continual determination and monitoring of the value contribution of innovations and/or innovation projects In the following sections, the individual phases of the innovation process ... below on how innovations are evaluated in the planning phase The input parameters comprise the information already recorded and analyzed in the initiation phase, with the data points growing more ... to highlight the differences The innovation to be measured in the following example is not a product innovation Rather it is an innovation with the character of infrastructure in the sense defined...

Ngày tải lên: 30/03/2014, 14:20

... processing claims in the insurance industry, evaluating loan applications at a bank, and treating patients in a hospital all involve performing activities synonymous with the lean management viewpoint ... chrome plating, where large batches are placed in plating tanks In wrench manufacturing, for example, steel forgings might move in a single-piece flow through a U-shaped machining cell, but then accumulate ... that they eventually reach a point of diminishing returns That is, after re-engineering their operating and supporting systems for improvement by solving major problems and resolving key inefficiencies,...

Ngày tải lên: 23/11/2013, 14:22

... GAG chains to generate oligosaccharides, the structures of which are determined using NMR spectroscopy [6,16] These oligosaccharides are then integrated into a chromatographic fingerprinting method ... exponential window function CS#604 has the structure: GalNAc6S(b1–4)GlcA(b1–3)GalNAc4S-ol C B A the corresponding (ring D) locations for CST0404; in the case of CS060#, all are within 0.01 p.p.m of the ... digestion [4] Other trisaccharides generated in this study are chain cap model structures; these data will aid identification of chain cap signals in large, or indeed intact, CS ⁄ DS chains In addition,...

Ngày tải lên: 16/03/2014, 14:20

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Ngày tải lên: 07/08/2014, 17:22

... resistance in RCC The rapamycin-like (rapalog) drug everolimus inhibits the serine/threonine protein kinase mTOR after forming a complex with the intracellular protein FKBP12 (FK506 binding protein-12) ... in RCC mTOR inhibition results in attenuation of VEGFR/phosphatidylinositol-3-kinase (PI3K)/AKT signaling and HIF down-regulation, further supporting a role for these small molecules in the inhibition ... over 60 years of age; as a consequence, the incidence of the disease is anticipated to increase in the future in the EU in the face of an aging population Individuals affected by RCC may present...

Ngày tải lên: 11/08/2014, 12:20

... in asthma in the Kainuu subpopulation and obtained evidence for linkage in a 20-cM region of chromosome 7p14-p15 for three phenotypes: asthma, IgE and the combination of the phenotypes (Laitinent ... Lemanske, 2001) On the other hand, the release of the inflammatory cytokines leads to the “late phase reaction”, which primarily involves the recruitment and activation of eosinophils, Th2 cells, ... (Rothenberg, 1998) Once the late phase is initiated, eosinophages become one of the major mediators of chronic inflammation in allergic asthma (Maddox and Schwartz, 2002) In addition, interleukin...

Ngày tải lên: 12/09/2015, 10:58

... proteins involved in the metabolism of cholesterol were examined in both in- vivo and in- vitro conditions The gene expression of HMG-CoA reductase, the rate limiting enzyme in the cholesterol synthetic ... et al contrasted this finding to that in atopic individuals where IL-4 was the controlling cytokine Moreover, in the nephrotic patients in his study, IL-13 binding was increased not only on B ... peroxidase IFN Interferon Ig Immunoglobulin IL Interleukin IL-4Rα Interleukin-4 receptor alpha IL-13Rα1 Interleukin-13 receptor alpha IL-13Rα2 Interleukin-13 receptor alpha JAK Janus tyrosine kinase LB...

Ngày tải lên: 14/09/2015, 11:58

... reduction is a driver – which is surprising given the growing investment in GRC Which of the following factors are influencing your organisation’s interest in the convergence of governance, risk ... agility in decision-making Increased use of outsourcing and offshoring 8% Increased technological complexity 8% Increasing risk incidents More stringent requirements from rating agencies None of the ... outcomes In other cases, GRC integration activities may be turned down on the grounds that they not meet any immediate regulatory needs Forward-thinking leaders, on the other hand, the opposite: they...

Ngày tải lên: 06/12/2015, 23:16

... evident in the financial services industry, but other sectors are also feeling the impact of this more stringent environment Corporate governance legislation, for example, is being strengthened in ... focused on where the company is going in terms of its strategy, and then optimizing the strategy as new risks emerge, it is spending time addressing the wrong things.” By co-ordinating their GRC activities ... fortunate in being based in some of the fastest-growing economies in the world Maybank, the Malaysian bank, is one financial institution that is reaping the rewards from this rapid growth Already the...

Ngày tải lên: 06/12/2015, 23:16

... understanding is the semantic interpretation of the elements in the diagram As mentioned, in the PBF diagrams, the information represented by sketches is explained by words From this, we 1375 shinpi ... the plant part Consequently, in this case, the spatial relationship between the word and the corresponding element is not important for the semantic interpretation For example, the semantic interpretation ... framework for the semantic interpretation of words in the PBF diagrams by using not only the pattern (layout) information but also the natural language information The reason is as follows: there is...

Ngày tải lên: 17/03/2014, 07:20

... epipolar line constraint, we can search the correspondence point in the same row For a seed point at position (il , j) in the left edge image and a candidate point at position (ir , j) in the right ... ], which requires knowing the longitudinal distance Z Therefore, in practice, we first calculate the third group of the variables and then use the obtained results for the other two groups of variables ... edge point (xl , y) in the left image, the correspondence point in the Figure 4: Disparity maps with fusion and no fusion with optic flows right image is the one (xmr , ym) generating the minimum...

Ngày tải lên: 21/06/2014, 22:20

... Mathematics, vol 15, pp 133–137, 2007 T Kim, “A note on p-adic invariant integral in the rings of p-adic integers,” Advanced Studies in Contemporary Mathematics, vol 13, no 1, pp 95–99, 2006 T Kim, M S Kim, ... we obtain the following 2.8 Journal of Inequalities and Applications Theorem 2.2 Let n ∈ N, k ∈ Z If n ≡ mod , then n−1 Ek,q − qn Ek,q n q −1 l ql lk 2.9 −1 l ql lk 2.10 l If n ≡ mod , then ... qn − Ek,q 2.25 Therefore, we obtain the following Theorem 2.6 For k, n ∈ N with n ≡ (mod 2), n−1 q −1 l−1 l k ql q n k−1 m l 2.26 Witt-type formulae on Zp in p-adic number field In this section,...

Ngày tải lên: 22/06/2014, 06:20

... every input is multiplied to itself The results of multiplications (squarings) are added within the adder and the sum is then inverted within the “Inv (1/x)” block Then the control signal to the ... is then scaled to contain entries between zero and one Thus, the matrix QM contains coding efficiency information obtained after the DCT-based compression of the original image Step This is the ... in such an approach since all the generating vectors, that is whole the original input image block, should also be sent to the decoder The overhead may and should be reduced by compromising the...

Ngày tải lên: 22/06/2014, 20:20

... function in a global context—formulating and implementing strategies, inventing and utilizing technologies, and creating and coordinating information International assignments are the single most ... the opposite effect The managers knew that if they could reduce costs (in some cases by eliminating certain costly services), profits would increase and so would their bonuses In this case, the ... successful business in a foreign market by remote control They cannot compromise on the quality of the people they send there or on the people they hire there They cannot compromise on the thoroughness...

Ngày tải lên: 28/06/2014, 09:20

... through the edge u0v0 first We call the cycle induced by the vertices {u0 , u1, · · · , un−1} the outer cycle of GP (n, k), and the cycles induced by the vertices {v0 , v1 , · · · , vn−1 } the inner ... distance-balanced graph was introduced by Kutnar et al in [2]) In this note, we prove the following theorem Theorem For any integer k and n > 6k , GP (n, k) is not distance-balanced Theorem gives a positive ... 2, · · · , ⌊n/2k⌋) Hence there are at least 2⌊n/2k⌋ vertices in the inner cycle satisfying d(u0 , vi ) − d(v0 , vi ) = If n 6k , then the number of the vertices x satisfying d(u0 , x) − d(v0 ,...

Ngày tải lên: 07/08/2014, 21:21

... had the highest albic index was found in the pedon beneath DW (Lignomor) in the WH stand, while all other pedons had a similar albic index (table II) One of the sampling units beneath DW in the ... confirm the findings of comparative studies either in relation to the soil nutrient status to soil development or 1) DW influences properties of the forest floor and the underlying mineral soil by inhibiting ... highest spodic index was found in the pedon beneath DW (Lignomoder) in the DF stand, while the spodic horizons in all other pedons had similar color Univariate analysis In the WH stand, the only significant...

Ngày tải lên: 08/08/2014, 19:21

... Original value Figure Posterior distributions in the threonine model Posterior distributions in the threonine model Left: prior and kinetics-based posterior in the threonine model All sysG tem kinetic ... combining both kinds of information, we can obtain a posterior distribution, which describes how plausible certain parameter sets appear, taking into account both the prior information and the ... solving the steady state equations Computing the posterior distribution Theoretically, we can obtain the posterior distribution p(θ|x*, y*) by inserting the distributions (5), (6), and (7) into...

Ngày tải lên: 13/08/2014, 16:21

... most of these spikes in gas rate with a fracturing event taking place in the close vicinity of the pad These observations suggest well-to-well connectivity during a fracturing operation when the ... respectively A 3D finite element model of a single well was developed to verify the assumption of 2D plane strain in the FEA models used in the integrated modeling approach Figure shows the 3D finite element ... during their fracturing Figure 13 highlights one of the chemical tracers injected into Wells and While not shown, similar plots were obtained for the other chemical tracers used in these wells The...

Ngày tải lên: 04/10/2014, 22:11

... the concentration of renin in 136 people in the control group (1,25mg / l) In the subgroup of patients renin concentration decreases with age have statistically significant p

Ngày tải lên: 17/11/2014, 12:06