innovations in technical organisational institutional and governance arrangements

... Milling Pasta Number of case studies 3 1 1 1 Innovations in Minimizing Waste and Wastewater Effluent From Food and Beverage Processing Operations >> Case Studies Innovations in Minimizing Waste and ... Contact Information Jay Mullin, Project Analyst OCETA 905-822-4133 ext 238 Innovations in Minimizing Waste and Wastewater Effluent from Food and Beverage Processing Operations Cheese Processing: Pine ... • Annual energy savings of 469 GJ resulting in $5888 per year in savings Annual water savings of 4687 cubic meters resulting in $2766 per year in savings Potential demand savings for power factor...

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... customer numbers In 2010, Techcombank continued reinforcing and investing in non-financial innovations, as following:  Continue building and developing technological infrastructure, business model ... accounting innovations in Techcombank 44 Figure 4.8 Levels of manager use management accounting innovations in 45 Techcombank 11 Figure 4.9 Difficulties in using management accounting innovations in ... management accounting innovations in business of the surveyed staff in making decisions  Question 12 inquiry the difficulties when applying management accounting innovations In section III, there...

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... Diffusion and Use of Genomic Innovations in Health and Medicine: Workshop Summary http://www.nap.edu/catalog/12148.html Diffusion and Use of Genomic Innovations in Health and Medicine workshop ... Diffusion and Use of Genomic Innovations in Health and Medicine: Workshop Summary http://www.nap.edu/catalog/12148.html PLANNING COMMITTEE ON DIFFUSION AND USE OF GENOMIC INNOVATIONS IN HEALTH AND ... Diffusion and Use of Genomic Innovations in Health and Medicine: Workshop Summary http://www.nap.edu/catalog/12148.html  DIFFUSION AND USE OF GENOMIC INNOVATIONS In 2007 the Institute of Medicine...

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... turning points In the evolutionary planning algorithm introduced in this chapter, chromosomes are defined as a collection of genes representing the starting point, intermediate turning points and the ... By combining information from many different sources, it would be possible to reduce the uncertainty and ambiguity inherent in making decisions based only in a single information source In several ... reading and pre-processing sensor data, depositing the resulting information in the blackboard, controlling the flow of behaviour execution or handling the communications with other robots and...

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... hereafter invented, including photocopying and recording, or in any information storage and retrieval system, without permission in writing from the publishers British Library Cataloguing in Publication ... Justice and Society viii Contributors Colin Scott is Vice Principal for Research and Innovation, University College Dublin College of Business and Law and Professor of EU Regulation and Governance, ... central policy initiatives.11 And along these lines, in those regulatory areas in which we find significant and sustained interest in developing centralized policy, such as those relating to social...

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... relevant since a draining line ends at a blowdown point Likewise, it is useful to link fin de vidange (draining end) which designates an operation and destination des purges (blow-down destination) ... extraction of terminological noun phrases In Proceedings of COLING'92, pages 977-981, Nantes, France Mark Dras 1997 Representing paraphrases using synchronous tree adjoining grammars In proceedings of ... for technical documentation accessing In Proceedings of EKA W'96, Nottingham Beno~t Habert, Elie Naulleau, and Adeline Nazarenko 1996 Symbolic word clustering for medium-size corpora In Proceedings...

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... this book we discuss innovations in public governance Public governance is about coordination and the use of various forms of institutional arrangements in the policymaking and related processes ... theorization of innovation in governance is thin in both innovation literature and governance literature (Moore & Hartley 2008), allowing us to conceptualize innovation in public governance and approach ... Anttiroiko et al / Innovations in Public Governance in the Western World 13 Analyzing innovation in public governance Innovation in public governance focuses on the public domain to solve problems...

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... turning points In the evolutionary planning algorithm introduced in this chapter, chromosomes are defined as a collection of genes representing the starting point, intermediate turning points and the ... By combining information from many different sources, it would be possible to reduce the uncertainty and ambiguity inherent in making decisions based only in a single information source In several ... reading and pre-processing sensor data, depositing the resulting information in the blackboard, controlling the flow of behaviour execution or handling the communications with other robots and...

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... turning points In the evolutionary planning algorithm introduced in this chapter, chromosomes are defined as a collection of genes representing the starting point, intermediate turning points and the ... open-ended research problems in multi-agent robotics, including uncertainty management in distributed sensing, distributed reasoning, learning, task allocation and control, and communication overhead ... fundamental principles on motion control and path-planning using ultrasonic/ laser transducers This book attempts to develop interesting models for vision-based map building in both indoor and outdoor...

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... By combining information from many different sources, it would be possible to reduce the uncertainty and ambiguity inherent in making decisions based only in a single information source In several ... reading and pre-processing sensor data, depositing the resulting information in the blackboard, controlling the flow of behaviour execution or handling the communications with other robots and ... using only a single source of sensor information Sharing information among robots increases the effective instantaneous visibility of the environment, allowing for more accurate modelling and...

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... being found, the CV agent generates a plan to rescue it, which includes contracting the physician agent, finding and getting the stretcher, putting the victim on it, and contracting the flying ... maintaining the inter-robot formation Distributing the group control tasks to individual robots must be compatible with the control and sensing capabilities of the individual robots As the inter-robot ... with inter-robot constraints, determine whether there exist robot trajectories that maintain those constrains For both directed and undirected (not necessarily rigid) formations we obtain algebraic...

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... architecture revealed an interesting performance in the dynamic multi-agent environment where it was tested, showing similar capabilities on individual decision-making, flexibility and learning as its previous ... Emotional Intelligence, Bantam Books Kaelbling, L P., (1986), “An Architecture for Intelligent Reactive Systems” In M P Georgeff and A L Lansky, editors, Reasoning about Actions and Plans – Proceedings ... memories and decision-making” In Proceedings of AAAI-98, pages 70–75 AAAI Ventura, R., Custódio, L., and Pinto-Ferreira, C., (1998a), “Artificial emotions - goodbye mr spock!”, In Proceedings of...

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... over time In general these point-based landmarks are corners, vanishing points and points with distinct colour and contrast in the environments Unlike point-based landmarks, scene-based landmarks ... virtually anything in the environment can be chosen to serve as landmarks and categorised in three distinct categories of landmarks: point, scene and shape based landmarks The point-based landmarks ... distinct points or group of points in the image that are purposely chosen to serve as landmarks The central idea is to search or track the appearance of point-based landmarks in the incoming...

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... Analysis and Machine Interlligence, vol vol.24, pp 237-267, 2002 D Kortenkamp and T Weymouth, "Topological Mapping for Mobile Robots Using a combination of Sonar and Vision Sensing," in Proc Proc ... on Intelligent Robots and Systems, pp.883-888, 2001 19 D Jung and A Zelinsky, "Integrating spatial and topological navigation in a behaviour-based multi-robot application," in Proc IEEE/RSJ International ... Attention Adaptive Resonance Theory and Object Recognition," in Studies in Fuzziness and Soft Computing, Applied Intelligent Systems, J Fulcher and L C Jain, Eds.: Springer, 2004, pp 301-320 2 Vision-Based...

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... will assist the operator in interpretation and command issue thus increasing productivity and reducing fatigue The system concept is summarised as follows One (or more) standard CCD camera(s) provides ... true underlying image, I , by some random transformation is considered to be a sample of a random field, G Disregarding occlusions and newly exposed areas, for every point in the preceding image, ... corresponding point in the following image, t t Let the 2-D projection of the straight lines connecting these pairs of points be referred to as the displacement field, U , associated with the underlying...

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... and rule confidences obtained after training Rule confidences are shown in brackets in the following order: (i) weights after off-line supervised training; (ii) weights found from on-line reinforcement ... conditions were studied: i off-line supervised learning with back-propagation training; ii on-line reinforcement learning; iii hybrid of supervised and reinforcement learning In (i), we learn ‘from scratch’ ... on-line learning proceeds Typical rule-base and rule confidences achieved after training are presented in tabular form in Table 5.1 In the table, each rule has three confidence values corresponding...

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... strategies and present experimental results in an indoor environment 7.1 Introduction We are interested in building maps of indoor environments using small robots that have limited sensing Since the ... al.: Using Visual Features for Building and Localizing within Topological Maps of Indoor Environments, Studies in Computational Intelligence (SCI) 8, 251–271 (2005) c Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg ... sensor placing (in a Voronoi-Based Outdoor Traversable Region Modelling 245 more elevated position) and the use of a non constant increment in the vertical scans, to obtain more information in the...

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... determining its most likely location given its current sensor readings and knowledge of its past explorations encoded in the topological map 7.3.2 Linear vs Torsional Springs Since the linear and ... ms for KLT and 1.25 s for the color histogram Using Visual Features for Building and Localizing within Topological Maps 263 7.4.2 Determining the Number of Features to Track Determining the number ... Wei Lin2 Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, National University of Singapore, Singapore {eletankk,elehsn}@nus.edu.sg Singapore Institute of Manufacturing, 71 Nanyang Drive Singapore...

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... produce high thrust force, are ideal for accelerating and moving large masses while maintaining stiffness during the machining and processing operations In this section, a simple approach will be developed ... property, i.e., if the process is of single-input and single-output, then the control system has at least a phase margin of 60 degree and a gain margin of infinity Under mild assumptions, the resultant ... configuration, both a dominant linear system model and a nonlinear friction model can be obtained 8.2.8 Vibration Control and Monitoring Mechanical vibration in machines and equipment can occur...

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... of Linear Actuators Incorporating Acceleration Sensing, Robotics and Computer-Integrated Manufacturing, 16: 295-305 17 Tang KZ, Tan KK, de Silva CW, Lee TH and Chin SJ (2002) Monitoring and Suppression ... design and simulation tools, including MATLAB and SIMULINK, which offer a rich set of standard and modular design functions for both classical and modern control algorithms The overall SIMULINK ... Determination and Correction of Quadrature Fringe Measurement Errors in Interferometer, Applied Optics, 20, Octoter 1981 Longman RW (1998) Designing Iterative Learning and Repetitive Controllers, In...

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