... to have a perspective on some of the fundamental aspects of the way we make senseof marketing information So, at the risk of high vulgarisation and trivialisation of a vast topic, below we have ... the burgeoning number of business class passengers with a range of added value services The professionalism check The next check of the robustness ± or `truth' ± of a piece of information is to ... is talk of a high proportion of the workforce now being `knowledge workers', but comparatively little new thinking on how to help these knowledge workers make senseof the new sources of business...
... token-based protocol In my view the bus topology of USB is somewhat limiting One of the original intentions of USB was to reduce the amount of cabling at the back of your PC Apple people will say the idea ... resistors of 15K ohms For the purposes of power consumption, the pull down resistor at the device is in series with the 1.5K ohms pull up, making a total load of 16.5K ohms on a VTERM of typically ... by Intel which puts more of the burden on software (Microsoft) and allowing for cheaper hardware and the OHCI (Open Host Controller Interface) developed by Compaq, Microsoft and National Semiconductor...
... chairman of the FOMC is also the chairman of the Board of Governors The FOMC typically meets eight times a year in Washington, D.C At each meeting, a senior official of the Federal Reserve Bank of ... ervices ancial s ee fin ame thr -15) 10 N (pages 14 offers (page 1) 17 MakingSenseof The Federal Reserve We hope you can now make senseof the Federal Reserve So let’s see if we’ve done our ... also appoint presidents of their respective Reserve banks, with the approval of the Board of Governors MakingSenseof The Federal Reserve T h e F e d e r a l R e s e r v e s y s t e m Federal...
... University of Michigan, author of Sensemaking in Organizations; Elaine Kamarck, Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University; Daniel Byman, Georgetown University, staff member of Congressional ... range of sui generis outcomes that defy even probabilistic predictions because of some combination of the following factors – large numbers of actors, perhaps each of small size; lack of formal ... for organizations is not in decisionmaking but rather in “sensemaking” – not polishing a decision, but setting a direction for the next period of analysis Sensemaking aloud –in public – can be especially...
... these ancestors of ours offer some of the earliest evidence of the ludenic capacity of wit, makingsenseof signs with which humans infer significant things in various media of symbolic representations ... Cultures of Artifice: The Ascendance of Cultural Normality Cultures of Morbidity: The Ascendance of Cultural Loss of Life Cultures of Vivacity: The Ascendance of the Vibrant Spirit viii Table of Contents ... delight of living experience Some of this spirit of play continues throughout the long traverse of prehistory People revisited the caves for many thousands of years (the dating of the art of Grotto...
... University of Florida Sam Wu, University of Florida Cheng Zhu, Georgia Institute of Technology MAKINGSENSEOF COMPLEXITY MAKINGSENSEOF COMPLEXITY PLATE Section of the model heart through the left ... Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences 92:5042-5046 Nagy, L 1998 Changing patterns of gene regulation in the evolution of arthropod morphology, American Zoologist 38:818828 31 32 MAKINGSENSEOF ... Cdc20 Clb5 Esp1 FIGURE 2-3 Network diagram of the yeast cell cycle Figure courtesy of John Tyson 8 MAKINGSENSEOF COMPLEXITY h1 Cd +APC CKI Last Step of Computational Molecular Biology d CDK...
... University of Michigan, author of Sensemaking in Organizations; Elaine Kamarck, Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University; Daniel Byman, Georgetown University, staff member of Congressional ... range of sui generis outcomes that defy even probabilistic predictions because of some combination of the following factors – large numbers of actors, perhaps each of small size; lack of formal ... for organizations is not in decisionmaking but rather in “sensemaking” – not polishing a decision, but setting a direction for the next period of analysis Sensemaking aloud –in public – can be especially...
... of words within a window of length k words is inconsistently classified The WindowDiff metric is a variant of the Pk measure, which penalizes false positives and near misses equally For both of ... speaker-independent (SI) transcripts For all of the algorithms, the target number of segments is set to the reference number of segments boundaries along the span of the lecture and selecting random boundaries, ... specify the number of segments in the reference segmentation for both our system and the baselines Parameter Tuning We tuned the number of quantized blocks, the edge cutoff parameter of the minimum...
... bases long All of these variations, detailed in Brooks and Hurley [10] for the G-quadruplexes of cancer, lead to the formation of 3D structures with distinctive binding pockets that offer sites ... inhibition of a Sp1-induced transcription [38] Finally, inhibition of c-Myc transcription occurred preferably over VEGF and PDGF-A (unpublished results) The role of nucleolin in the inhibition of c-Myc ... pH of 6.6 [28] Formation of the G-quadruplex and i-motif structures within the Bcl-2 promoter region may play a role in the complex transcriptional regulation of this oncogene The majority of...
... begin assessing the effectiveness of those actions, leading to a continuous cycle of collection, organization, and synthesis of data in support of decision making The framework also recognizes ... with, use of, perceived usefulness of, and support received for using different types of data • Interviews and focus groups In all of the studies, researchers conducted detailed case studies of schools ... Approximately one-half of California districts and one-third of Pennsylvania districts require mathematics progress tests in some or all of their schools Another indicator of the importance of progress...
... are those of the authors and not necessarily reflect the official position or policies of the U.S Department of Justice The National Institute of Justice is a component of the Office of Justice ... also includes the Bureau of Justice Assistance; the Bureau of Justice Statistics; the Community Capacity Development Office; the Office for Victims of Crime; the Office of Juvenile Justice and ... the priorities of the Office of Justice Programs, the U.S Department of Justice, and the needs of the field The Institute actively solicits the views of criminal justice and other professionals...
... rights Makingsenseof a complex world Revenue recognition for media companies Makingsenseof a complex world Accounting for joint ventures – issues for media companies This paper explores some of ... then be offset against the royalty advance): a €1,000,000 based on sale of 100,000 books b €1,200,000 based on sale of 120,000 books c €900,000 based on sale of 90,000 books Figure 6: Impact of sales ... explores some of the main implications for media companies of the revenue recognition ED re-exposed in November 2011 MIAG Issue: Media Industry Accounting group Issue: April 2012 Makingsenseof a complex...
... difficulty of a text corpus with respect to coreference resolution by analyzing performance on different resolution classes Our goals are twofold: to measure the level of performance of state -of- the-art ... the performance of our coreference resolver As a side effect of our research, we provide a new set of much-needed benchmark results for coreference resolution under common sets of fully-specified ... of where stateof-the-art coreference resolvers perform best and worst, aside from general conclusions In this section, we analyze the behavior of our coreference resolver on different types of...
... illusion of understanding, due to its visualization of the whole chain of events, but does not result in comprehension of the functional and causal relationships involved Comprehension of an animated ... terms of in five broad types of strategy Table 7.1 provides a short description and an example of each strategy type About one fifth of the observed patterns did not correspond to any of these ... Both online and offline approaches to the collection of process data have been proposed Online methods involve the recording of indicators such as interrogation behavior, whereas offline methods...
... MakingSenseof Data MakingSenseof Data A Practical Guide to Exploratory Data Analysis and Data Mining Glenn J ... categories of web site users (on the basis of demographic information) that are more likely to purchase from the web site Categorize users of the web site on the basis of usage information MakingSense ... number of observations where Variable x has ‘‘Value 1’’, irrespective of the value of Variable y Countþ2: the number of observations where Variable x has ‘‘Value 2’’, irrespective of the value of...
... snapshot of some of the current uses of data mining in a variety of industries It also offers an overview of how data mining can be applied to topics where the primary focus is not tables of data, ... for decision -making 1.6.6 Software A software program called Traceis (available from http://www.makingsenseofdata com/) has been created for use in combination with the descriptions of the various ... A.4 A.5 MATRICES Overview of Matrices Matrix Addition Matrix Multiplication Transpose of a Matrix Inverse of a Matrix APPENDIX B SOFTWARE B.1 Software Overview B.1.1 Software Objectives B.1.2...
... perception of value Simultaneously drive down the cost of doing it 26 makingsenseof strategy These are obviously more than just marketing or branding issues They are matters of business design and of ... new “S-curves” that keep your sales and profits on an upward path, defying the gravitational pull of “more of the same” (Figure 1-2) 12 makingsenseof strategy GROWTH TIME FIGURE 1-1 Every living ... chances of staying out front In a street fight, a surgical strike may save your life but a “flurry of blows” keeps your enemy off balance and sets you up for the big hit 14 makingsenseof strategy...