performance based laws require specific reports

... Performance- Based Budgeting Down to the Core: Performance Measurement Performance Measurement Is Here to Stay From Efficiency Expectations to Performance- Based Accountability ... improve the agency’s performance Performance -Based Budgeting Efforts to include performance information into the budget process and deliberation are often termed performance- based budgeting (though ... highlighted the importance of performance measurement and its centrality to performance- based management Figure 1.1 depicted performance- based management as a system in which performance measurement...

Ngày tải lên: 15/02/2014, 20:20

... consequences 4 ◆ PRINCIPLES OF PERFORMANCE IMPROVEMENT Performance improvement, like management, operates from a fundamental set of beliefs or principles that include: Performance- Based Management • Focus ... goals based on its interpretation of top management’s messages and behavior Finally, first-line managers and supervisors provide direction for their work units based on their 22 ◆ Performance- Based ... organization to be competitive and to fulfill its mandate These functions are based on a fundamental set of beliefs: Performance- Based Management • Goals should be set • Tasks can and must be planned,...

Ngày tải lên: 02/04/2014, 18:07

... Design Philosophies and Performance- Based Design Criteria 37.1 37.2 Introduction Design Philosophies No-Collapse -Based Design • Performance- Based Design 37.3 No-Collapse -Based Design Approaches ... 37.5 Sample Performance- Based Criteria This section introduces performance- based criteria as a reference guide A complete set of criteria will include consideration of postearthquake performance ... have been discussed “No-collapse” based design is usually applied to ordinary bridges, and performance- based design is used for important bridges Sample performance- based seismic design criteria...

Ngày tải lên: 08/07/2014, 12:20

... 2003 Guidelines on Performance- based Building Energy Code Introduction 1.1 Performance- based Building Energy Code (PB-BEC) Compliance In order to comply with PB-BEC, it is required that the energy ... -5- March 2003 Guidelines on Performance- based Building Energy Code Modelling Requirement Equipment performance Controls functions Description To enable equipment performance variations to be ... Guidelines on Performance- based Building Energy Code Performance- based Building Energy Code Job Ref No. Office _ Compliance Summary (cont’d) Form PB-1 C Summary of Building Energy Performance...

Ngày tải lên: 28/09/2014, 23:45

... landscapes based on ecological principles (Lovell and Johnston 2009) We suggest that a focus on multifunctionality of the landscape could help bridge this gap by offering specific design guidelines based ... stakeholders to compare the performance of different landscape futures based on ecological, cultural, and economic functions An example is the comparison of scenario -based goals that emphasize ... contributes to overall performance (total value), and when designed with multifunctionality in mind, the contribution can be increased substantially We might improve the performance and quality...

Ngày tải lên: 02/06/2015, 21:24

... Design-process Integration for Performance- based OPC (PBOPC) Framework 14  1.2.2  Device Performance- based OPC (DPB-OPC) Methodology 15  1.2.3  Library -based Device Performance- based OPC for Hierarchical ... reduction in device performance deviation 1.2.3 Library -based Device Performance- based OPC for Hierarchical Circuits The proposed performance- based OPC framework has showed promising results in achieving ... circuit performance matching Despite this, the performance gain is limited by the comparatively longer run time Due to the iterative performance evaluation of 16 every transistor, the performance- based...

Ngày tải lên: 10/09/2015, 15:53

... second performance analysis method is based on simulation, which analyzes performance by directly simulating particular PDES protocols Dickens and Reynolds develop a model to study the performance ... simulation (PDES) Next, we survey the related works on performance analysis of parallel simulation We finally present our performance study methodology based on event ordering 1.1 Parallel Discrete-Event ... and may require different amounts of memory We have developed a formal methodology to predict the event parallelism and memory requirement of parallel simulation before implementation based on...

Ngày tải lên: 26/09/2015, 10:13

... Implementation Details 31 3.4 Performance Evaluation and Comparison 35 Case Study On Performance- Based Avatar Control 40 4.1 System Overview ... virtual characters interactively In this paper we provide case studies for both physics -based and performancebased avatar control Before we move further on the topic of interactive avatar control, ... preliminary work on porting a physics -based controller framework to various simulation engines for avatar control In section 4, we explain our work on using performance- based avatar control for interactive...

Ngày tải lên: 02/10/2015, 17:15

Ngày tải lên: 21/02/2014, 21:56

... the reports of identity theft Suspected elder exploitation was described in six (9.84%) of the identity theft reports Victims informed filers of identity theft activity in 65.57% of these reports ... credit reports Employees of a credit bureau changed credit reports to fraudulently improve credit profiles by removing legitimate negative information and adding positive information These reports ... Crimes Enforcement Network Reports of suspected identity fraud and identity theft4 associated with mortgage loan fraud continued to increase for the period reviewed Reports of suspected identity...

Ngày tải lên: 06/03/2014, 19:20

... of Activity Based Costing with the financial performance Some recent researchers gained success in realizing the connection between the use of Activity Based Costing and Financial Performance ... Activity Based Costing system Impact of Activity Based Costing on Financial Performance Number of respondent choose YES Percentage of respondent choose YES The objective of implementing Activity Based ... 20 The objective Activity Based When deciding Activity Based of implementing Costing method is to apply Activity Costing data have Activity Based associated w ith the Based Costing been used for...

Ngày tải lên: 13/03/2014, 14:20

... the impact of Activity -based costing (ABC) on manufacturing performance, especially is the plant performance regarded as operational performance rather than financial performance, is directly ... on manufacturing performance through the advanced manufacturing practice implementation Based on the paper the Association between Activity -Based Costing 11 and Manufacturing Performance in the ... Manufacturing on Plant Performance 26 3.3.3 Impact of ABC on Plant Performance: A Mediation Mechanism 28 3.4 Measurement of variables 30 3.4.1 Dependent variables (Plant performance) 30 3.4.2...

Ngày tải lên: 13/03/2014, 14:20

... indicated that a simple paragraphbased algorithm that was intended as a baseline performed very poorly, and that word -based and some coherence -based algorithms showed the best performance The only commercially ... well, although one coherence -based method performed better 2.3 Coherence -based approaches The sentence ranking methods introduced in the two previous sections are solely based on layout or on properties ... (Hobbs (1985)) We adopted a sentence unit -based definition of discourse segments for the coherence -based approach that assumes non-tree graphs For the coherence -based approach that assumes trees, we...

Ngày tải lên: 17/03/2014, 06:20

... of video -based and field -based assessment tools His research interests include the performance and learning of sport skills, with particular focus on perceptual skill in expert sport performance ... the full-time Performance Enhancement Director for the New York Yankees (2001), the Performance Enhancement Consultant for the Texas Rangers (1999, 2000), as well as providing performance enhancement ... to increase performance and wellbeing in training Optimizing performance in competitions Planning Training preparation Competition preparation Applied sports psychology training is required to...

Ngày tải lên: 17/03/2014, 20:20

... lexical probabilities are computed based on the MaxEnt-extended KC Lexicon, and are then fed to the modified Baum-Welch algorithm, which is used to fit a morpheme -based tagging model over a very large ... the morpheme -based P (T → W ) lexical probabilities needed by a PCFG parser To test this hypothesis, we use it to estimate p(tKC → w) in some of our models are tagged with dictionary -based KC POS ... Layered Representation described above (Sec 2.1) We compare the performance of the two approaches, and also compare them against the performance of the original treebank without external information...

Ngày tải lên: 17/03/2014, 22:20

... chemically (Figure 1) Polyimides Based on 4-4’-Diaminotriphenylmethane (DA-TPM) Figure Synthesis of DA-TPM based PIs 6 High Performance Polymers – Polyimides Based – From Chemistry to Applications ... polycondensation ( ), and the spectrum of the polyisoimide based on DA-TPM and PMDA () 10 High Performance Polymers – Polyimides Based – From Chemistry to Applications process is accelerated ... M.J.M Abadie Preface The term “High Performance Polymers” covers a large number of organic materials Some consider the thermal stability as a criterion of high performance and consider that polymers...

Ngày tải lên: 22/03/2014, 15:20

... accuracy values assigned, and is termed Performance. ” This was chosen as an overall performance statistic as it equally weights the contribution to overall performance by each class while providing ... available, specifically that MUPTs collected from the same muscle may be considered as a set in order to produce a muscle characterization, in which each MUPT supports (or refutes) a specific characterization ... Accuracy /Performance 36 39 0.923 NSAP 14 16 0.875 Totals 38 17 0.807 Table NDDF + Bayes/10 fold cross-validation (contractions) Assigned Label True Label Normative NSAP Normative 34 Totals Accuracy/Performance...

Ngày tải lên: 19/06/2014, 08:20

... health states, which are assigned utilities based on country -specific algorithms developed by the EuroQol group The most widely used utility algorithm was based on a time trade-off (TTO) survey of ... results indicate that generic preference -based instruments may not be appropriate for comparing cancer treatments As such, a cancer -specific preference -based measure would need to be developed ... cancer -specific and generic preference -based instruments; results from such a study are beyond the scope of the current work and will be presented in a future paper In conclusion, cancer-specific...

Ngày tải lên: 20/06/2014, 15:20

... reduce the required IBO, while achieving the better BER than the conventional OFDM For example, if the required BER = 10-3, then the conventional OFDM (K = 1) cannot achieve this performance ... capacity and the spectrum splatter of OFDM/TDM, and the conventional OFDM is required To the best of our knowledge, such performance comparison between OFDM/TDM using MMSE-FDE and the conventional ... performance comparison between OFDM/TDM using MMSEFDE and the conventional OFDM A trade-off between the transmit peak-power reduction (i.e., IBO reduction), the achievable capacity, the BER performance...

Ngày tải lên: 20/06/2014, 21:20

... into threshold -based discretization [7-9,11]; equal-width quantization -based discretization [12,13]; and equalprobable quantization -based discretization [5,10,14-16] For threshold -based discretization, ... examines the performance superiority of EW + LSSC over the remaining schemes and justifies the fundamental performance resemblance with the rescaled L1 distance -based classification performance ... (24) Figure illustrates the EER and the ROC performances of equal-width based discretization and the performance resemblances of EW+LSSC discretization based on the AR face data set As depicted...

Ngày tải lên: 20/06/2014, 22:20