... xxxii Introduction PA RT I IntroducingMicrosoftVisual C# andMicrosoftVisual Studio 2012 MicrosoftVisual C# is Microsoft s powerful component-oriented language C# plays an important role in the architecture ... Introductionxxi Part I INTRODUCINGMICROSOFTVISUAL C# ANDMICROSOFTVISUAL STUDIO 2012 Chapter Welcome to C# Chapter Working with Variables, Operators, and Expressions 39 Chapter Writing Methods and ... sections: ■■ ■■ ■■ ■■ xxii Introduction Part I, "Introducing MicrosoftVisual C# andMicrosoftVisual Studio 2012," provides an introduction to the core syntax of the C# language and the Visual...
... communication In this scenario, each local scheduler can directly communicate with other schedulers for job dispatching Each scheduler has a list of remote schedulers that they can interact with, ... Figure 6.5 Hierarchical scheduling 6.2.3 Hierarchical scheduling In hierarchical scheduling, a centralized scheduler interacts with local schedulers for job submission The centralized scheduler is ... have scalability and communication bottlenecks However, compared with centralized scheduling, one advantage of hierarchical scheduling is that the global scheduler and local scheduler can have...
... Differences Between C# and C+ + Destructors C# destructors and C+ + destructors differ in several important ways, as shown in the following table Destructor Characteristics C# destructors Execute ... System.GC class of the NET Framework contains methods that can be used to control the garbage collection process ! To Force Garbage Collection void System.GC.Collect(); void System.GC.Collect(); ... circular reference occurs when a child object has a reference to a parent object, and the parent object has a reference to the child object Circular references prevent either object from being...
... blocks of code Static Nested Classes/Interfaces — Overview A nested class/interface which is declared as static acts just like any non-nested class/interface, except that its name and accessibility ... { public boolean canDeposit, canWithdraw, canClose; } // } Code outside the BankAccount class must use BankAccount.Permissions to refer to this class BankAccount.Permissions perm = acct.permissionsFor(owner); ... its enclosing class public class BankAccount { private long number; // account number private long balance; // current balance private Action lastAct; // last action performed public class Action...
... feature to create best products and determine the success of each business According to the appreciation of economic experts and scientists, the ISO standards are the key factors to create best ... quality management functions It attaches to the operations of the process and is built in accordance with the characteristics of the products and services in the organization According to ISO (International ... Viet A plastic and composite company, a company of designing, manufacturing and trading plastic and composite products, pays much attention to quality management Thus, the company has carried out...
... private int countVar; public synchronized int getCount() { return countVar; } public synchronized void incCount() { countVar+=1; } } Can you see what this is doing? It is allowing access to our ... threads can now use this class and increment the counter in a truly synchronous way However, we still could have thread incrementing the counter twice before thread has even had a chance to run We can ... improvement! Synchronized Threads I want to show you a simple example of two methods accessing the same object and how we can synchronize their access Look at the following code: class Counter { private...
... resistance to change and discuss the methods of successfully introducing change into sport and leisure organisations • Law: should cover licensing, liability and Health and Safety There are clearly ... the commercial, public and voluntary sectors This should include an evaluation of public policy affecting sports provision and its impact on the three sectors Strategic planning This topic should ... Lecture ten: Managing change This lecture should cover the factors that facilitate the introduction of change, highlight the potential for resistance to change and discuss the methods of successfully...
... related journals and conference proceedings (e.g RTSS, INFOCOM, CDC, ACC, etc.) for more recent work For basic concepts of feedback scheduling, see Chapter 1.3 Integrated Control and Computing The ... (CDC) and the American Control Conference (ACC) On the other hand, more and more researchers from the control community are interested in attending a variety of conferences in computer science ... ADVANCED TOPICS IN SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY IN CHINA ADVANCED TOPICS IN SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY IN CHINA Zhejiang University is one of the leading universities in China In Advanced Topics in Science...
... associated with higher and lower rates of productivity and how productivity relates to matches between recruiter characteristics and the characteristics of the markets (station areas) to which ... Identification Code (PUIC) for the project that produced this document is SAMRH02005 iii iv Human Resource Management and Army Recruiting For more information on RAND Arroyo Center, contact the Director ... difficulty of making mission and efficiency—in the form of maximizing expected contracts—if and only if effort functions differ across stations The strong evidence that effort functions differ (according...
... biological, ecological, cultural, and socioeconomic factors that govern the performance and sustainability of agroecosystems Only such integrated research can fill the critical gaps in scientific ... description of research location and site description; significance of research and site; problem description and research methodology; systems-based approaches to ecological and socioeconomic ... biotechnology), plant and animal physiology and improved production practices, plant and animal protection, socioeconomic and cultural factors influencing production and consumption patterns, cultural...
... national communications policies; insufficient infrastructure, connectivity access and high costs; a scarcity of skilled ICT labour; and a lack of local content creation and applications (language and ... influencing issues and actors Each of the three traditional areas is important but not sufficient to respond to the changing technological, political and economic context in which development occurs ... that incorporate such communication strategies COMMUNICATION FOR DEVELOPMENT AND SOCIAL CHANGE This recognition that «the local» is embedded in complex relationships with other actors and forces,...
... immediacy of need Indigenous communities face cultural triage: “a forced choice situation in which an ethnic group is faced with the decision to rank in importance cultural resources that could ... practical experience in researching, teaching, and applying local-level ecological knowledge in real-time contexts The research and applied contexts within which these authors have worked include ... are critical in generating local ecological knowledge McGoodwin’s chapter details the specific prospects and problems of deploying local-level knowledge by reference to his and other researchers...
... undertaking courses in environmental economics, ecological economics, and environmental and resource economics The book includes an online Instructor’s Guide with answers to all the practice problems ... Environmental Ethics: Is the Question What Can We Do, What Efficiency and Choice 15 Scrutinizing Efficiency 16 Cost-Benefit Analysis 18 Types of Efficiency 21 What Goods and Services Should Be Produced? With ... addresses the critical objectives of environmental and economic literacy with policy-oriented, application-based content delivered in a clear and concise manner Environmental economics is unique...
... (the socially constructed roles and characteristics assigned to men and women in a specific culture), class, caste, ethnicity and age are integral to understanding the social relations and decision-making ... interfaces between the natural sciences and the social sciences, between more descriptive social science research and more transformative participatory research, and between locally situated research ... ‘projects’ and wider socioeconomic and sociopolitical structures and processes What all contributors have in common is an interest in a better understanding of the societies in which we work and...
... Section two describes the characteristic features of HPWS and cites evidence regarding its economic performance Section three examines HPWS from the standpoints of mainstream organizational economics ... direct and indirect costs of employment litigation According to Huselid (Huselid 1995: 638), because of HPWS organizational structures such as cross-functional teams, job rotation, and quality circles, ... Becker and Gerhart (Becker and Gerhart 1996: 784) conclude that these different component practices are complementary resources that not produce superior performance in isolation; they only so in combination...
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... goal can contribute to the current agenda in a focus stack according to Lochbaum’s discourse interpretation algorithm (Lochbaum, 1998) The focus stack takes into account the discourse structure ... Bohus, B and Rudnicky A 2003 RavenClaw: Dialog Management Using Hierarchical Task Decomposition and an Expectation Agenda Proceedings of the European Conference on Speech, Communication and Technology, ... Proceedings of the IEEE Automatic Speech Recognition and Understanding Workshop, 538–543 Lesh, N., Rich, C. , and Sidner, C 2001 Collaborating with focused and unfocused users under imperfect communication...