from concept to practicality the hong kong experience

... of The Art Institute of New York Thanks to the National Restaurant Association and to the restaurants that allowed me to include their menus or photos, and to these restaurant companies for their ... offers its own rewards to the operator This book shows the logical progression from dream to reality, from concept to finding a market gap to operating a restaurant Along the way, it gives a comprehensive ... as a part of the theme Joe Baum, the developer of this restaurant, understood why people go to restaurants to be together and to connect with one another It is very important that the restaurant...

Ngày tải lên: 23/03/2014, 08:20

... eligible stocks listed on the Main Board of the HKEx Constituents of the HSHKCI include the HSI constituent stocks plus the largest Hong Kong companies The HSCCI and HSCEI constituent stocks are ... Current is the current ratio, D/E is the debt to equity ratio, BOUT is the number of outside directors on the board, BEXC is the number of executive directors on the board, and TOP5 is the percentage ... significantly driving the relation To perform the analyses, the overall CGI scores are replaced in the regression models with the scores from the five survey sub-indices In their study on the association...

Ngày tải lên: 02/01/2015, 17:33

... eligible stocks listed on the Main Board of the HKEx Constituents of the HSHKCI include the HSI constituent stocks plus the largest Hong Kong companies The HSCCI and HSCEI constituent stocks are ... Current is the current ratio, D/E is the debt to equity ratio, BOUT is the number of outside directors on the board, BEXC is the number of executive directors on the board, and TOP5 is the percentage ... significantly driving the relation To perform the analyses, the overall CGI scores are replaced in the regression models with the scores from the five survey sub-indices In their study on the association...

Ngày tải lên: 06/01/2015, 19:46

... confined to certain motor nuclei of the central nervous system (CNS) From the very beginning, these findings pointed to a possible neuromodulatory role for UII The aim of this review is to provide ... seems to be complete, the anatomical distribution of the precursors on the protein level still remains to be established in order to understand the interconnectivity of the UII system with other ... laboratory from rats show only diffuse URP mRNA expression in certain areas of the medulla oblongata that are not known to project to the PPT There will be a need to produce selective tools (antibodies,...

Ngày tải lên: 19/02/2014, 07:20

... need to be translated into concrete action, and interventions need to be implemented at the scale of populations The transition from the drawing board, the experiment, or the pilot project into the ... of the reality (Yin, 2003) In order to validate the findings, i.e the life history and the analysis, the draft report of the study was reviewed by the MFN YAC members as well as the AMC, and their ... challenges The case studies documented the learning from such projects on the processes of moving from a small to a large scale, the challenges encountered on the way, how they overcame the challenges,...

Ngày tải lên: 07/03/2014, 04:20

... supportive tooling, too.28 To prevent the practice from diverging from common sense, the tools need to reinforce the flow of value, reduce the waste, and make the process transparent These Agile ... out and leaving agility flat Or, they could use the metrics from the tools to understand the challenges facing the developers They could then coach and lead them to a better, more creative, and ... and improve the process The auto industry took 50 years to absorb the lessons of Lean, until customer and investor patience wore out In mid-2009, on the day General Motors emerged from bankruptcy,...

Ngày tải lên: 22/03/2014, 20:21

... through their social and intellectual biographies, the influences they have had, their inotivations and the spirit in which they undertook their xviii From Biotechnology to Genomes:A Meaning for the ... 90 92 From Biotechnologyto Genomes:A Meaning for the Double Helix x The Foundations of the Heralded Revolution 3.1 From the Frontiers of Genetics to the Birth of Molecular Biology 3.2 The Secret ... hopes to providc the public, often kept in thc dark, the opportunity to keep current on the new progress in biology and the risks linked to the new direction science is taking The only way to control...

Ngày tải lên: 08/04/2014, 12:48

... grand theoretical synthesis that he was able to embrace the whole of the universe Some historians of science also refer to Newton as the last magus, a man with one foot in the ideas of the middle ... the foundations of mathematics and decided to devote himself to proving their absolute rigor 27 28 From Certainty to Uncertainty The Power and Beauty of Mathematics The dream of structuring the ... account all the factors involved— the speed of the ball, the speed of the wheel, the precise angle at which the ball hits the wheel, and so on the laws of chance dominate the game As with life...

Ngày tải lên: 09/04/2014, 16:38

... Atoms In a simple paramagnet, the atoms not interact with each other, and the ˆ only contributions to the Hamiltonian H come from their interaction with the applied magnetic field H As the atoms ... couple together to give a total orbital angular momentum L, and the individual atomic spin angular momenta couple together to give a total spin angular momentum S Finally, L and S couple together, ... between the direction of the magnetic field H and the direction of the magnetization M of the bar magnet [11] The product pl is the magnetization M of the bar [13] The work done by the torque gives...

Ngày tải lên: 04/06/2014, 15:18

... scientists investigate the scene of a crime They have to piece together what happened from the evidence left behind We the same thing when we try to learn about the Big Bang by observing the various forms ... difficult to get the hang of it The difficulty stems not from there being lots of complicated rules to learn, but from the fact that there are so few In the field of probability it is not possible to ... opened to reveal the prize (or lack of it) The 14 From Cosmos to Chaos question is, when offered the choice, should the contestant stay where he is, swap to the other door, or does it not matter? The...

Ngày tải lên: 11/06/2014, 01:04

... Systems, Hong Kong Besides being an experienced consultant, he also teaches part time at universities. He was born in Hong Kong and received the BSc (honors) degree in computer studies from the University ... in computer studies from the University of Hong Kong in 1987 He received the MSc (1994) and the PhD (2000) degrees in computer science from the Hong Kong University of Science and Technology, ... WS-CAF) and is the editor of the OASIS ebBP specifications (v1.1 and v2.0) He enjoys spending time with his kids, Marie and Matthieu, and when he gets the chance, to travel to Corsica, to the village...

Ngày tải lên: 21/06/2014, 13:20

... goal is to generate transformation tools from the specification Nevertheless, the task in our problem domain is not a definition of simple mappings from the entities in the source to the entities ... entities of the target, but a mapping from the structure of the entities in the source model to the structure of the entities in the target model More importantly, the source and the target are ... follows From the initial page, an existing user has to log onto the system If the log-on succeeds, the authentication service is invoked Authentication can fail if the user provides the incorrect...

Ngày tải lên: 21/06/2014, 13:20

... the workforce to connect to the EIS for information relevant to their task Security is the main concern and therefore EIS agents act as guards and filters to allow only the authorized users to ... based on the data in the belief set Options in the desire set are then filtered to become the new intentions of the agent, and a corresponding plan of action can then be generated As such, the BDI ... are recorded in the enterprise case base and then forwarded to the matchmaking agents for the next phase as well as the monitor agents for monitoring Matchmaking Agent Cluster The matchmaking...

Ngày tải lên: 21/06/2014, 13:20

... cooperate to provide the required service (according to the service-definition milestone) The description of the milestones suggests a top-down design trajectory, starting from service definition to ... service primitives between the protocol entity and the lower level service, and the relationships between these primitives The protocol entities cooperate in order to provide the requested service ... components, where the latter can use the services of the former through the supported interaction patterns of the middleware This is different from the protocol-centered paradigm, where (protocol) entities...

Ngày tải lên: 21/06/2014, 13:20

... fulfills the contract This piece of information is passed to the buyer by the agent At the same time, the buyer cancels the order (we assume the buyer has priority over the supplier) Therefore, the ... Essentially, these two theorems tell us that it is possible to decide whether a local history conforms to the formal semantics of one of the schemes In addition, if a local history does not conform to the ... items The most simple replica-control protocol is the read-one-write-all (ROWA) protocol In the ROWA protocol, a transaction requests to read an item and the system fetches the value from the most...

Ngày tải lên: 21/06/2014, 13:20

... 1998) to rank the sites’ suitability in the storage context The application requiring access to a file presents its requirement to the broker in the form of ClassAds The broker then does the search, ... getting pages from one of the Akamai servers The user’s browser then requests the page from Akamai’s server, which delivers the page to the user Most of the replication strategies on the Internet ... Foster (2001) deletes the most unpopular files once the storage space of the node is exhausted The age of the file at the node is also considered to decide the unpopularity of the file Economy-Based...

Ngày tải lên: 21/06/2014, 13:20

... and xh is associated to the edge yij connecting from ni to nj, then the solution selects the edges yij∈E* and the nodes ni,nj∈N* In other words, the optimal IESC with respect to index Mq is described ... related to a digraph For example, the following condition can be imposed: “If the edge corresponding to x1 belongs to the solution digraph, then the edges corresponding to x2 or x3 belong to the ... one partner each The BOM constraints for the first case are defined as follows, and the reader can refer to Dotoli et al (2006) for the constraints of the second case The actor of the considered...

Ngày tải lên: 21/06/2014, 13:20

... through the company’s Web site, the inventory and payment are checked, and the order is filled from the warehouse and shipped using UPS, FedEx, or other carriers directly to the end customer Example ... did to compete with local retail stores Many of them used the Internet technologies as a strategy to compress the order cycle time and improve the order-fulfillment process: A customer enters the ... trying to focus on value-added activities to cut waste in the supply chain and reduce overhead cost Therefore, manufacturers are moving away from making products to stock and sell them later They...

Ngày tải lên: 21/06/2014, 13:20

... who deliver a positive experience to the customers Did the brand experience live up to the brand promise? This is why companies must orchestrate the brand experience with the brand promise Choosing ... customer questions Marketing is a larger process of systematically figuring out what to make, how to bring it to the customer’s attention and easy access, and how to keep the customer wanting to ... “God, give us grace to accept with serenity the things that cannot be changed, courage to change the things that should be changed, and the wisdom to distinguish the one from the other.” ommunication...

Ngày tải lên: 28/06/2014, 12:20

... who deliver a positive experience to the customers Did the brand experience live up to the brand promise? This is why companies must orchestrate the brand experience with the brand promise Choosing ... customer questions Marketing is a larger process of systematically figuring out what to make, how to bring it to the customer’s attention and easy access, and how to keep the customer wanting to ... “God, give us grace to accept with serenity the things that cannot be changed, courage to change the things that should be changed, and the wisdom to distinguish the one from the other.” ommunication...

Ngày tải lên: 28/06/2014, 12:20