... expectations for continual improvement; and, the timeline for implementation. Such meetings are also good forums for senior level managers to receive training in the philosophy and methodology of continual ... determine the necessary and sufficient conditions for the practice or new idea to ‘take root’ and flourish. For performance problems, it is essential to understand the true causes of the problem to ... performance; • Improved stakeholder satisfaction; • Reduced outage cost and duration; and, • Increased number of project teams and higher degree of staff involvement. ⎯ Establish a charter for...
... person and environment and determines both sources of stress and appraisals of stress. For example, sources and percep-tions of competitive stress and coping processes may be quite different for ... Benefits of Physical Activity for Girls and Women Literature Review and Recommendations for Future Research and PolicyBEYOND SHAPE AND SIZE: THE HEALTH BENEFITS OF PHYSICAL ACTIVITY FOR GIRLS AND ... BEYOND SHAPE AND SIZE: THE HEALTH BENEFITS OF PHYSICAL ACTIVITY FOR GIRLS AND WOMENBritish Columbia Centre of Excellence for Women’s Health43control, stages of change) and the inclusion of social...
... in presence of 30 and 40%dimethylsulfoxide and in the absence of ligands, pyruvatekinase exhibited the active conformation. Moreover, in thepresence of dimethylsulfoxide and ligands, pyruvate ... enrichment of enzymes with the sameconformation.ConclusionsThe results of this study explain the high discrimination of pyruvate kinase for Na+ and K+.K+ and Mg2+exhibit high selectivity for ... the DG°t and DG°bare )3.0 and )14.56 kJÆmol)1 for Na+ and )2.01 and )22.6 kJÆmol)1 for K+). We found that in presence of dimethylsulfoxide,the factor that determines the affinity and selectivity...
... $Cognitive and Computing Sciences, University of Sussex Falmer, Brighton BN1 9QH, UK *Center for the Study of Language and Information, Stanford University Ventura Hall, Stanford, CA 94305-4115, ... Ivan A. Sag. 1987. Information-Based Syntax and Seman- tics. Vol. I: Fundamentals. CSLI Lecture Notes, Number 13. Center for the Study of Language and Information, Stanford. Stuart M. Shieber. ... surprising, and in many cases do not fit in with the intuitions of the grammar-writers. In particular, some of the paths are very long (of length ten or more). Optimal sets of paths for grammars of...
... Standards and Quality Control, Of ce of Compliance and Biologics Quality, Center for Biologics Evaluation and Research,Food and Drug Administration, Rockville, MD1.1 INTRODUCTIONIonic methods of ... work, what types of analytes are suitable for separation by ion-exchange and ion-exclusion chromatographies, and the effect of different factors ontheir performance.DEFICIENCIES OF THE CURRENT ... zones of lower concentrationin the analyte band (i.e. those near the edges of the analyte band) become moredissociated, and are therefore more highly repelled by the Donnan membrane, and thus...
... providers and makers of public policy, including the Centers for DiseaseControl and Prevention, the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality, the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services,the Office ... communication of information between providers of healthcare for mental and substance-use conditions and between thoseproviders and providers of general care.Recommendation 5-3. To ensure the health of ... consumers of M/SUhealth care services, the secretaries of DHHS and the Department of Veterans Affairs should charge the Office of the National Coordinator of Health Information Technology and the...
... topic. The type of information can take different forms and should be the object of explicit data collection plans. There are wide variety of documents for example, letters memoranda and other communiqués ... focuses on acquiring profound knowledge and understanding of the studied object or objects. And to further add or investigate, interpret, and understand the phenomena by the means of an inside perspective. ... implies the search for knowledge that will measure, describe, and explain the phenomena of our reality. It is often formalised and well structured and data is quantitative and is usually associated...
... from Dec. 2003to Nov. 2009, and consisted of a total of 111 patients.Data collectionA retrospective review of clinical charts and consultation records was performed, and the datacollected included ... review of the medical charts and consultation records of obstetric and gynecological patients referred for psychiatric consultationfrom Dec. 2003 to Nov. 2009 was performed.Results: One hundred and ... for referral, and intervention recom-mended were analyzed using the Statistical Package for Social Science (SPSS) for Windows, Version10.0.RESULTSUtilization of the service One hundred and...
... writes for the Observer, Guardian and a range of professional magazines. His current professional work is largely with regard to business recovery. About the Association for Accountancy and ... definition of turnover used for related party reporting purposes in this standard is new and inconsistent with the definition used both in this standard for third party reporting purposes and in ... the reporting of the true nature and extent of their entities and the nature of the transactions between the A Proposed International Accounting Standard - Reporting Turnover and Tax by Location...
... in CE and ATR) because it hasbeen shown to be the best-performing statistics-only measure for CE (cf. Evert and Krenn (2001) and Krenn and Evert (2001)) and also for ATR (seeWermter and Hahn ... widely usedmeasure for multi-word ATR. Recently, more lin-guistically informed algorithms have been intro-duced both for CE (Wermter and Hahn, 2004) and for ATR (Wermter and Hahn, 2005), which ... employed in the literature for grading thetermhood / collocativity of collected candidates.Among the most widespread ones, both for ATR and CE, are statistical and information-theoreticmeasures,...
... polarity of antonyms. The work reported in this paper helps clarify which types of data and tests are useful for such a method and which are not. The need for an automatic corpus-based method for ... presented a quantitative analysis of the per- formance of measurable linguistic testsfor the selec- tion of the semantically unmarked term out of a pair of antonymous adjectives. The analysis ... frequency, outperforms more com- plicated tests, and also dominates them in terms of information content. Some of the tests that have been proposed in the linguistics literature, notably tests that...
... self-reporting. Prior to 1972, data are for people 21 years of age and over with the exception of those aged 18 and over in Georgia and Kentucky, 19 and over in Alaska, and 20 and over in Hawaii.Source: ... It has a high rate of return for students from all racial/ethnic groups, for men andfor women, for those from all family backgrounds. It also has a high rate of return for society. We all ... demands on social support programs, the lower rates of incarceration, and the greater levels of civic participation of college-educated adults. Once these individual and societal benefi ts of...
... spacesthat are asymptotically dense. For instance, for the above pair of norms and h-version families of H1()-conforming finite element spaces onquasi-uniform and shape regular meshes the con-stant ... range of composition of such a system by UV/VISspectrophotometric or NMR measurements of the degree of hydronation (protonation or Lewisadduct formation) for the members of a series of structurally ... CRC Press LLC base for a topology A collection B of opensets of a topological space T is a base for thetopology of T if each open set of T is the union of some members of B.base space Let...
... sides. 3.2 Enterprise Information System and Information Integration Another theoretical foundation of this work is the Enterprise Information System (EIS) and Industrial Information Integration ... above, the information offered by an IoT system is the main carrier of business values. So, effective and efficient information integration is the foundation for the success of an IoT solution. ... nature of EISs. 16 and the software and hardware architecture of IHHS. These specifications are so concrete that they can be the guidance of electronic engineers. 3. The effectiveness of...