... date, the zone of gap #2 has halted a further decline in the share price of MRK. However, it is not certain as to whether or not MRK can resume its prior uptrend at this time. This is due to the ... area of gap #1 and its support zone of gap #2. A break through either one of these zones would suggest continuation in that direction. Most who were observing the recent trading activity of Merck ... For those of us who utilize candlesticks, we believe " ;the claws" ofthe market to be hidden within their message (from Nison, Beyond Candlesticks). Let us consider the case of Merck...
... interesting approach of explaining TPM to their operators, who were mostly young women. They compared TPM to a mother caring for her baby. The equipment, of course, is the baby. The mother, the operator, ... fever. The mother does a lot of TPM activities, but what if she runs out of options? Then it is time to call the doctor. The doctors are the maintenance people, the specialists. They go in ... Part of this new, high-tech maintenance operation is the training ofthe operators, which becomes important under TPM. When maintenance workers realize the benefits of transferring their routine...
... McCullough Professor of Finance at the Katz Graduate School of Business ofthe University of Pittsburgh.S. J. Liebowitz is the Ashbel Smith Professor of Economics at the University of Texas at ... THE TIMBER CRISIS 29They substituted other materials for wood when the relative price of timber rose. Under the same incentive, they were able to extend the effective life ofthe wood they ... Fellow at the Hoover Institution. He served as the Chairman of the U.S. Council of Economic Advisors from 2006 to 2009.Keith B. Leffl er is Associate Professor of Economics at the University of Washington.Kenneth...
... to the size and comparative strength ofthe accountancy profession. In addition to arguments rehearsed within the sociology ofthe professions - such as the growth of corporate capitalism, the ... neither the state-carved niche of insolvency business, nor the formation of a professional body, but the steady increase in audit work that was to be the making ofthe modern UK accountancy profession. ... and other symbols of professionalism. THE ACCOUNTANCY PROFESSION IN THE UK : FORMATION, COMPETITION AND COLONIZATION The development ofthe accountancy profession in the UK8 cannot sensibly...
... element ofthe vector usually represents a word (or a group of words) of the document collection, i.e. the size ofthe vector is defined by the number of words (orgroups of words) ofthe complete ... from the number of clusters is the silhouette coefficient SC(P) (cf. [KR90]). The main idea ofthe coef-ficient is to find out the location of a document in the space with respect to the cluster of ... StemmingIn order to reduce the size ofthe dictionary and thus the dimensionality ofthe descrip-tion of documents within the collection, the set of words describing the documents canbe reduced...
... be.Back to the taxi. The first thing a personmight do is flag down the taxi. The driverstops, gets out and opens the door. The ridersenter. Then the driver wants to know whereto? They point the ... wire-walkers, the clownsran into the Big Top and did their acts. The audience waskept busy watching their antics, while the other work wasgoing on. The moment the rigging was finished, the clowns ... through the situation to the punch line (here’s a tip ) or the gag (a sucker on the line). Lead themstraight to the gag with funny developments (falling out ofthe taxi, missing the chair the waiterpulls...
... two otherwomen in the group named Cheryl. Two of the three men named Phil. Ofthe men, only Philnamed Cheryl. In other words, in this instance, the women evaluated the contribution of anotherwoman ... in how sensitive theyare to the social dynamics of language – in otherwords, to the subtle nuances of what others say tothem. Men tend to be sensitive to thepower dy-namics of interaction, ... there is no one best way. The results of a given way of speaking will vary de-pending on the situation, the culture ofthe compa-ny, the relative rank of speakers, their linguisticstyles, and...
... toSolve the World’s Ills at a ProfitCHAPTER 2From the Infirmity ofthe Hyped Six Sigma to thePowerof UltimateSix SigmaCHAPTER 3 The Scope, Structure, and Methodology ofthePowerof Ultimate ... research extending the frontiers of product qual-ity to all areas of a company—including the quality of leadership, the quality of employees, the quality of organization, and the quality of business ... investors, and on to the panorama ofthe ultimate purpose of busi-ness—societal value the betterment of mankind, with profit at the end ofthe rainbow.This is not just Pollyanna optimism. The movement...
... but the basic structure is the same. The whole filter expression returns a list, which is assigned to the methodList variable. The first half ofthe expression is the list mapping part. The ... is the name ofthe current method. Using the getattr function, you're getting a reference to the method function in the object module. Now, printing the actual doc string ofthe ... make sure that the value of a is never false. One common way of doing this is to turn a into [a] and b into [b], then taking the first element ofthe returned list, which will be either a or b....
... objective. The findings of this studyillustrate that: (a) the KMS developed in the organization studied did not meet the claims of their creators, as the applications provided a poor approximation ofthe ... ultimately, themselves redundant. Inreaction to the probability of industrial unrest,Coillte dispensed with the services of IMS—SeanBreen, IMS’s CEO described the situation thus: The first phase ofthe ... knowledge; (b) the importance of developingself-knowledge about the essence of social phenom-ena, and not just their form; (c) the role of commit-ment in learning; and (d) the selectivity of socialKnowledge...