... having seen how the magician did the trick You see the handkerchief go into the hat and the rabbit come out, but you are not aware of the magician's hidden maneuvers To understand the trick, you ... competing values When authors take a position on a social controversy, they typically prefer one value over another value they What Are the Value Conflicts and Assumptions? 57 have value priorities ... someone values the health of others over the values associated with alternative uses of public funds is what pushes them in the direction of the conclusion So push yourself all the way to finding value...
Ngày tải lên: 25/10/2013, 15:20
... changes with the database Figure 5.2 illustrates some of the generic data set objects and how they relate to each other The bridge between the managed provider and generic data set objects is the DataAdapter, ... DataSet, and then push those changes to the database through a Connection object The CommandBuilder Classes There are three CommandBuilder classes: SqlCommandBuilder, OleDbCommandBuilder, and OdbcCommandBuilder ... your DataSet and the database Figure 5.2: Some of the generic data set objects The following sections outline some of the generic data classes The DataSet Class You use an object of the DataSet...
Ngày tải lên: 26/01/2014, 07:20
Tài liệu staying competitive in the global economy moving up the value chain ppt
Ngày tải lên: 24/02/2014, 04:20
Moving Up the Value Chain: Staying Competitive in the Global Economy docx
... advantages and the competitiveness of countries, forcing them to search for new activities in which they can excel and confront the competition The main drive is for countries to move up the value chain ... 27 © OECD 2007 MOVING UP THE VALUE CHAIN: STAYING COMPETITIVE IN THE GLOBAL ECONOMY – Global Value Chains and Globalisation Globalisation is not new… The rapid pace of the globalisation process ... slice up the value chain and perform activities in any location that can help reduce costs The globalisation of value chains results in the physical fragmentation of production, where the various...
Ngày tải lên: 17/03/2014, 08:20
The Reverse Logistics Process in the Supply Chain and Managing Its Implementation
... stronger understanding of the role and key factors that influence the reverse logistics process in an organization in the context of the supply chain The dissertation has five chapters and these chapters ... Using the results of the Delphi technique and comparing them with the framework of Carter and Ellram the researcher will identify agreements and shortcomings in the model as compared to the needs ... product and material returns has quickly become key and critical logistics process The volume and monetary value of product flowing in the reverse direction within the supply chain has been and continues...
Ngày tải lên: 01/06/2014, 14:04
Analysis of the supply chain design and planning issues models and algorithms
... into two sections: the review of domestic supply chain and the review of global supply chain The review of domestic supply chain includes the models and algorithms of SCNE models and competitive ... defined the SCNE conditions with random demands, which is an extension of the preceding the SCNE models with the deterministic demands They pointed out that the equilibrium state of the supply chain ... chain with random demands is one where the product flows between the two tiers of the manufacturers and the retailers coincide and the product shipments and prices satisfy the sum of the optimality...
Ngày tải lên: 12/09/2015, 08:18
Tài liệu Irish Economy Note No. 10 “The U.S. and Irish Credit Crises: Their Distinctive Differences and Common Features” ppt
... each of the two crises The US crisis was the first to emerge The slowdown in real estate prices and the consequent downturn experienced after 2006 led to uncertainty in the value of the mortgage ... interests in the two countries) The fourth is moral hazard behaviour by agents in the financial sector and (for Ireland) in the property development industry The particular mechanisms by which these ... by the subsequent occurrence of the crisis The Irish housing boom began as a rational response to increasing demand Ireland experienced net inward migration, and there also was a desire by the...
Ngày tải lên: 15/02/2014, 14:20
Tài liệu Macro-Finance Models of Interest Rates and the Economy pdf
... orthodoxy Therefore, it also seems likely that the recent financial and economic crisis the Great Panic and Recession of 2008 and 2009—will both rearrange the economic landscape and affect the focus ... solved and responses given Quarters of the term premium and the other variables of the model to economic shocks can be computed Figures and show the impulse response functions of the term premium and ... premium is the difference between these two lines The model does not match the data perfectly, so the model’s residuals the difference between the model predictions taking into account risk and the data—are...
Ngày tải lên: 17/02/2014, 03:20
Tài liệu Báo cáo khoa học: Looking for the ancestry of the heavy-chain subunits of heteromeric amino acid transporters rBAT and 4F2hc within the GH13 a-amylase family ppt
... covering the strands b2, b3, loop (near the C-terminus of domain B connecting the b3-strand and helix 3), b4, b5, b7 and b8 represent the individual CSRs of the a-amylase family [13] The positions ... rBAT and 4F2hc within the GH13 a-amylase family Fig The CSRs of the hcHAT proteins and the GH13 a-amylase family members A list of the abbreviations of proteins and enzymes can be found in Fig The ... in region II of the b4-strand; and (c) more or less the entire region VII, i.e the b8-strand The fact that rBATs exhibit more sequence similarities with the GH13 enzymes than the 4F2hc proteins...
Ngày tải lên: 18/02/2014, 13:20
Tài liệu THE GLOBAL AUTOMOTIVE INDUSTRY VALUE CHAIN: What Prospects for Upgrading by Developing Countries ppt
... 26 The Global Automotive Industry Value Chain: What Prospects for Upgrading by Developing Countries? other words, the major changes in the value chain involve the conditions of access to the value ... evident in the 1990s This section considers the global spread of vehicle sales and production, ownership in the assembly sector and the transformation of the component sector The spread of The spread ... between 1990 and 1997, and production rose by 4.2 per cent The stagnation of production and sales in the Triad regions was in marked contrast with the growth of the industry in the rest of the world...
Ngày tải lên: 19/02/2014, 04:20
Đề tài "The Lyapunov exponents of generic volume-preserving and symplectic maps " pot
... if and only if the exponents are nonzero and E is in the spectrum of the associated Schr¨dinger opo erator Compare [10] This is because E is in the complement of the spectrum if and only if the ... outline of the proof of Theorem Theorems and follow from variations of these arguments, and the other main results are fairly direct consequences 1431 LYAPUNOV EXPONENTS Suppose the Oseledets ... R|X = I and R − I < ε Then there exists τ > such that the following holds Let B be the unit ball in Y For a, b > consider the cylinder C = Ca,b = aA ⊕ bB If a > τ b and diam C < ε0 then there...
Ngày tải lên: 06/03/2014, 08:21
The Social Discount Rate, Cost of Public Funds, and the Value of Information pptx
... calculate the NPV e.g future prices Delaying the project might resolve these uncertainties To investigate the value of delaying the project we compare the NPV (at time 0) of undertaking the project ... prevails q is the probability of the high price prevailing (1-q) is the probability of the low price prevailing r is the rate of interest The expected value of information is: The expected project ... we subtract the expected NPV of undertaking the project immediately from the expected NPV if the project is delayed for one year, we get an estimate of the value of information The value of information...
Ngày tải lên: 16/03/2014, 01:20
Quality and Power in the Supply Chain: What Industry Does for the Sake of Quality pdf
... MIL-Q-5923 104 The Omnipresent Customer 105 Part IV The Age of Standardization 11 The Value of Standardization: Point Counterpoint 111 Introduction 111 The Value of Standards 112 Origins of the International ... Standardization 114 Regulations: Who Are the Interested Parties? 114 The Economics of Standardization 116 The Limits of Standardization 117 Standards and the Law: A Powerful Combination 119 Standards ... Quality and Power in the Supply Chain As companies become larger, their economic dominance and power over so-called "peripheral" firms increase and so their contractual demands or, rather, the contractual...
Ngày tải lên: 17/03/2014, 20:21
Báo cáo Y học: GPI-microdomains (membrane rafts) and signaling of the multi-chain interleukin-2 receptor in human lymphoma/leukemia T cell lines doc
... interaction with the IL-2Rb and c chains The observed difference between these and our results focuses attention on the constitutive or induced raftassociation of the IL-2R subunits and therefore the regulatory ... overexpressed a chains together with the constitutively expressed b and cc chains to common membrane microdomains via Ôraft-mediated traffickingÕ Compartmentation of the IL-2R chains by rafts in these cells ... consistently weaker than the FRET between CD25 and the HLA heavy chain marked by anti-W6/32 Ig (data not shown) In addition to this, the signaling IL-2R b and cc chains in these cells also displayed...
Ngày tải lên: 17/03/2014, 23:20
Competencies for the Specialist Paediatric and Child Health Nurse pptx
... dignity, compassion and fosters the development of these in others Competency 1.5 Respects the dignity and integrity of the child and family including their values, spiritual and cultural beliefs ... viewed within the context of the family and hence a family-centred outlook is evident in the statement of the competencies The notion of family also came under discussion and within the competencies ... on the needs of the child and their family "It is a level of care that recognises and respects the family's expertise in the care of their child and recognises that the family is the constant in...
Ngày tải lên: 22/03/2014, 09:20
The Value and Impacts of Alternative Fuel Distribution Concepts- Assessing the Army’s Future Needs for Temporary Fuel Pipelines pptx
... tanker ship to the high water line on the beach The Army system, the Inland Petroleum Distribution System (IPDS), was developed between 1983 and 1990 to transport the fuel inland from the beach.4 ... an inviting target for either enemy mischief or theft and pilferage And by their temporary nature in design and materials and due to continued exposure to the elements, they degrade over time, ... of the NEO and HA scenarios The effect would be to further reduce the potential size of a future tactical pipeline requirement Taking this thought one step further, and considering the success the...
Ngày tải lên: 23/03/2014, 02:20
Báo cáo khoa học: Kinetic hybrid models composed of mechanistic and simplified enzymatic rate laws – a promising method for speeding up the kinetic modelling of complex metabolic networks pptx
... quality for none of the reactions except the ATPase reaction On the other hand, the quality achieved with the LL rate law uctuated less from one reaction to the other than with the other simplied rate ... constants li and mi are the stoichiometric coefcients with which the i th substrate and product enter the reaction K denotes the thermodynamic equilibrium constant and k the catalytic constant of the ... subject enzyme, and v the ux of the reaction The empirical parameters and bi have different meanings in the PL, LL and MM rate laws The notation of the PL rate equation differs from the conventional...
Ngày tải lên: 23/03/2014, 06:20
PREDICTING FINANCIAL DISTRESS OF COMPANIES: REVISITING THE Z-SCORE AND ZETA® MODELS
... the Z-Score X3 and X5 are virtually unchanged The univariate F-test for the book value of X4 (25.8) is lower than the 33.3 level for the market value but the scaled vector results show that the ... popularity in the literature and their potential relevancy to the study, and there are a few “new” ratios in this analysis The Beaver study (1967) concluded that the cash flow to debt ratio was the best ... More recent models, such as the KMV approach, are essentially based on the market value of equity and its volatility The equity market value serves as a proxy for the firm's asset values X5, Sales/Total...
Ngày tải lên: 23/03/2014, 17:44