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... ‘‘at once a European nation and a colony,’’⁹ then Hall points us toward another way of understanding the postcolonial, as an analytic tool for rethinking the meanings of national, imperial, and ... structure, and to the kind of stories that get told and retold about the Irish, so as to reveal both the regularity of English colonial discourse on Ireland and the Irish and the mutations to which that ... could say they became the poor and the rich The losers and winners The artists and scientists If they were countries, they’d be Ireland and England Carolyn See, Dreaming: Good Luck and Hard Times...

Ngày tải lên: 21/09/2012, 10:39

... membership and total loans significantly related to their decision variables and state characteristics A charter number is assigned to each credit union on formation If these are regressed on the age ... transformed data matrices yi is 20x1 and Wi 20x7 (three macroeconomic variables, a dummy to distinguish which half of the year the observation was made in and three decision variables) The residuals from ... simultaneously equal to zero and thus loans and membership fluctuated randomly about a constant mean in each half of the year H was rejected for 608 out of the 666 unions; in order to determine the...

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... Qi and y ∈ a n Qj Since a n Qi , a n Qj belong ˜ ˜ to A and x, y are assumed to belong to the same atom with respect to A, it follows that i = j as claimed 554 MANFRED EINSIEDLER, ANATOLE KATOK, ... (1) The conditional measures µab and µba are trivial a. e x x (2) The conditional measures µab and µba are Haar and µ is invariant under x x left multiplication with elements of Hab = Uab , Uba ... and a ∈ A, a( U x) = U ax, so that the foliation of X into U orbits is invariant under the action of A We will say that a ∈ A expands U if all eigenvalues of Ad (a) restricted to the Lie algebra...

Ngày tải lên: 15/03/2014, 09:20

... and the others are waging a war against A. I run rampant, the creators of that AI were their own ancestors Star Wars is decidedly less complex, and doesn't bother to give us much back-story; the ... They are unaware of the outside world and that there is a better place for them than inside the cave A few escape and come in to the light When they do, they realize how much they have missed and ... needs to "wake up" to the real world and lose his illusions This idea is very similar in nature to Plato's allegory The Cave In this allegory humans are trapped in a cave and can see no light They...

Ngày tải lên: 21/03/2014, 22:51

... Informal Sectors in LAC Labor Markets SSE formal salaried USE informal salaried Argentina Bolivia Brazil Chile Costa Rica Dominican Republic Ecuador El Salvador Guatemala Mexico Nicaragua Panama Paraguay ... Susan Parker, Jose Luis Salas, Manuel Salazar, John Scott, Veronica Silva, Maria Concepcion Steta, Sarah Thomson, Elio Valladares, Manuela Villar, Alejandro Yepes, and Eduardo Zylberstajn The ... supervision of Augusto de la Torre and Helena Ribe Andrew Mason was the initial task team leader, and David Robalino became the task team leader until completion Chapter authors for the main study...

Ngày tải lên: 22/03/2014, 16:21

... our MBA students and alumni tell us that a company has to make a dollar offer in the ballpark, but it’s a giant ballpark Repeatedly, they tell us that more important to them are the intangibles— ... and manage highly sought-after MBAs to the MBAs themselves—was that compensation may have won out in the past, but nowadays it takes a whole lot more to attract and keep top talent Companies are ... • San Francisco Shanghai • Tokyo • Toronto • Washington, D.C Special discounts on bulk quantities of AMACOM books are available to corporations, professional associations, and other organizations...

Ngày tải lên: 09/04/2014, 17:40

... and Assembly Area, the Rework Area, and the Shipping and Receiving Docks Do you notice the functional orientation of the tour? I’ve been led on well over a thousand imaginary and real tours They ... policies to market and sell only to the United States government and its defense contractors and subcontractors Clearly, they had the capacity as well as a wealth of capabilities that could have been ... the teaching and application of these tools and is a soughtafter public speaker on TOC and its applications, systems thinking, and organizational improvement Lisa is a founding member of the APICS...

Ngày tải lên: 21/06/2014, 12:20

... 9:28 AM 38 Thinking for a Change And- Connector The and- connector is an ellipse that groups entities to represent “logical and. ” Each entity at the base of an arrow that is captured by an andconnector ... several schools and read their reports and ratings We found a house to rent in a very nice neighborhood The area was beautiful, and the schools were rated among the top in that part of the state ... provide an approach to articulating, examining, and learning from our thoughts, observations, and communication in a way that deepens learning, while at the same time picking up the pace of learning...

Ngày tải lên: 21/06/2014, 12:20

... additional cause exists Let’s use Johnny’s case as an example Johnny failed his algebra course, and his parents want to understand why A conference took place between Johnny, his teacher, and his parents ... that you are not ready to show your diagram to anybody else until you have applied the clarity reservation to it When you are ready to share a diagram with others, add whatever is necessary to ... of analyzing the problem, the purchasing manager said that a cause for the material shortages was late deliveries of purchased components by their vendors We encouraged the purchasing manager to...

Ngày tải lên: 21/06/2014, 12:20

... allocating costs that are not totally variable to the unit of sale is considered at best a waste of time, and at worst a major obstacle to the continued financial health of organizations.* * The ... once again to the manufacturing example, you are asking yourself to describe what the raw material has turned into as a result of the first step in the manufacturing process Write that effect as an ... the tree’s creators their permission to assign actions to them • When you actually sit down to the transition tree, you may already have at least a partial plan in mind You might already be thinking,...

Ngày tải lên: 21/06/2014, 12:20

... when they deploy their sales skills and plans A manager is afraid to enforce a required new behavior in his plant, because he fears the workers will retaliate A child is afraid to raise her hand ... When a government wants to add, change, or remove a law, and the possibility exists that the law could have effects on other aspects of the community • When a team wants to put together a cohesive, ... with an entity or relationship, make the changes that are necessary for the relationships to be valid What assumptions must I have made, that perhaps aren’t articulated? What assumptions are you...

Ngày tải lên: 21/06/2014, 12:20

... Retrievers, named Max and Goldie We gave Max and Goldie to our friend JR, who had a great back yard and two young boys to play with them Within a month after our move, JR called us to say that there was ... that your analysis will reflect the realities of the organization as a whole A few years ago, I used the current reality tree to try to understand what was causing an organization’s problems The ... Display Manufacturing A small manufacturer of metal display racks (we will call Display Manufacturing) needed to increase sales They wanted to this in a way that increased their customers’ perception...

Ngày tải lên: 21/06/2014, 12:20

... want and can’t If this is a “can’t,” then see my advice above If this is a case where you simply don’t want to touch that entity, check to see if there are any additional entities that meet the ... answer to the questions that the tree is meant to provide, then I would agree that you wasted your time On the other hand, ask yourself the following: Do you have a clearer understanding of the ... something with that learning Learning doesn’t happen until behavior has changed.* Ask yourself in what ways this learning has and will change you and how you act in and outside of the system Ask yourself...

Ngày tải lên: 21/06/2014, 12:20

... again the name evaporating cloud I also hope that this book will encourage other consultants and teachers to the same The Case of the Equipment Manufacturer: Purchasing vs Manufacturing vs Sales ... reassess where they are relative to achieving their lofty goal, adjust the milestones, and leap forward once again The goal is always in mind The prerequisite tree is a tool that can make that elite ... what’s the conflict?” The answer to that was easy enough — it was to call the tool a cloud or not, and I articulated this as illustrated The next question I asked myself was, “What need does calling...

Ngày tải lên: 21/06/2014, 12:20

... learning more about this superb approach are Critical Chain * by Dr Eliyahu Goldratt, and Project Management in the Fast Lane: Applying the Theory of Constraints* by Rob Newbold * Finally, as ... managers that were responsible for growing the market share and profitability of a business unit of a large multinational corporation A current reality tree, evaporating cloud, and future reality ... solutions that really address the constraints of the system Some ways in which the full analysis is utilized are to create strategic plans, operations plans, market strategies, and general improvement...

Ngày tải lên: 21/06/2014, 12:20

... it to cause [B] and [C] • Establish the [D] and [D′] entities in the same manner • Discuss the fact that [D] and [D′] are at odds — they are unable to coexist in the system Invite your colleague ... was reminded of many of the thinking process classes that I teach In general, the participants want to get on with the process, rather than read through a large example They want just enough to ... cient cause diagram to the curr ent r eality tr ee The [D] entity on the evaporating cloud is the same as the core problem, so simply connect it at the same place the core problem is shown on the...

Ngày tải lên: 21/06/2014, 12:20

... have appropriate professional skills, experiences, capacities, and reputation for proposing reasonable and acceptable recommendations to the both complainant and complained as well as the other ... comprehensive theoretical and practical grounds in order to utilize fully advantages as well as to minize disadvantages of each measure of resolving administrative complaint and adjudicating lawsuit ... capacity of public administration organs have affected negatively to the psychological and legal awareness of both the complainant and the competent person in process of administrative complaint...

Ngày tải lên: 17/07/2014, 11:06

... components in the same pathway or in the same molecular machine There is also the issue of merging databases We are working on ways to navigate efficiently between RNAi information and databases of ... also has the advantage of Journal of Biology 2003, 2:23 permitting valuable functional comparisons across many studies and the creation of an information database with a standardized format The ... 2003, 2:23 the assays that we design You can be as imaginative as you want We need to more and more screens and to compile databases of annotated information so that we can build correlations between...

Ngày tải lên: 06/08/2014, 18:20

... [6-!4Cjglucose) Statistical analysis Data presented as means of or replianalysis or mean comparison performed on the logarithm of the perare cates Variance was centages or ratios Theoretical The approach used ... non-mycorrhizal exploratory roots, 38% of the carbohydrate oxidation was via the pentose phosphate pathway and 62% was via glycolysis On the other hand, 50% of the glucose metabolism from mycorrhizal roots ... (Ap Rees, 1980) The following set of equations enables the contribution of the pentose phosphate pathway (PPP) to be calculated Results and Discussion phate pathway and/ or mannitol cycle (Martin...

Ngày tải lên: 09/08/2014, 04:20

... expression of eotaxin and CCR3 mRNA and protein in atopic asthma Association with airway hyperresponsiveness and predominant co-localization of eotaxin mRNA to bronchial epithelial and endothelial cells ... E, Nakagawa S, Saito A, Takeda T, Imabeppu S, Kato Y, Hanai N, Anazawa H, Kuga T, Nishi T: A novel human CC chemokine, eotaxin-3, which is expressed in IL-4-stimulated vascular endothelial cells, ... factors nuclear factor-κB and AP-1, which are known to be important in regulating inflammatory reactions Respiratory Research Vol No Conroy and Williams an important role in host defence against...

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