... awareness of the problem and to the quest in management research for reasons forsuccessand failure of new products There is no standard method forsuccess factor research and a wide range of empirical ... Mittelstandsforschung (Competence Centre for Innovation and SME Research), Berlin and holds a lectureship with the Hochschule für Technik und Wirtschaft (Applied Sciences University for Engineering and ... shows that strategiesandsuccessfactors can be guided by innovations, e.g by means of the technology portfolio, and quantified and, with the aid of value added statements, target costing and the...
... to include thousands of opportunities for defects (OFDs) in each product sold (Harry and Schroeder, 2000) Traditional three-sigma quality for each OFD was no longer acceptable For example, consider ... guideline for two reasons Since three-sigma is the minimum design standard, it would be expected that many products would surpass the three-sigma standard On the other hand, the 0.997 conformance ... the late 1910s Ohno greatly admired and studied Ford because of his accomplishments and the overall reduction of waste at early Ford assembly plants (Hopp and Spearman, 2001) The TPS is also...
... CS#604 and CS#606, are summarized in Table Partial 600MHz gradient-COSY-45 and TOCSY 2D-NMR spectra for the former are shown in Figs and 3, respectively, and a partial gradient-COSY-45 spectrum for ... AC and ABC lyases generate disaccharides and tetrasaccharides [4] and have been widely used for the analysis of CS ⁄ DS composition These studies have yielded crucial data allowing an understanding ... distinguish between sulfation at C4 for CS040# (H4, 4.649 p.p.m.; H6,6¢ at 3.783 and 3.811 p.p.m.) and at C6 for CS060# (H4, 4.173 p.p.m.; H6,6¢ at 4.205 and 4.238 p.p.m.), but other signal positions...
... necessity for new biomarker discovery approaches and the need for predictive biomarkers for mTOR inhibitors and VEGF targeted anti-angiogenic therapeutics to improve clinical outcomes and the cost-effectiveness ... agents in RCC represent landmark studies, between a third and two-thirds of patients (depending on prognostic factorsand clinical setting) have intrinsically resistant disease and not benefit from ... that has standardized operating procedures for tissue collection and processing, adhering to common European Good Clinical Practice trial guidelines and ethical principles Inter- and intra-tumor...
... Lau Quek Choon and Priya Kadam for spending their precious time polishing the English I owe a special gratitude to my parents, husband and daughter for their constant love, support and encouragement ... environmental and genetic factorsand population heterogeneity Future studies would be needed to identify the key genes for atopic phenotypes and to investigate the interactions between genetic and environmental ... polymorphisms 81 Concentration for standard curve and raw data for sCD14 86 Genotypes distribution of CD14/-159 in non-atopic and atopic subjects and HardyWeinberg equilibrium ...
... techniques Dr Cheung Wai, Dr Gong Wei Kin and Dr Tan Puay Hoon for their helpfulness and support All the friendly and nice people from Department of Paediatrics and other departments who have helped ... role of IL-13 IL-13, asthma and allergic diseases IL-13 and resistance to gastrointestinal nematodes IL-13 and tissue fibrosis IL-13 and tumor immunosurveillance IL-13 and Hodgkin lymphoma ii Click ... system 16 1.3.2 Circulating factors 1.3 10 16 Circulating factorsand MCNS Circulating factorsand FSGS 1.3.3 17 19 Bias to Th2 cytokines and involvement of IL-13 20 Genetic aspects of nephrotic...
... understand and respond to the risks facing the business, as well as anticipating and meeting changing stakeholder and regulatory demands The result is an increasingly resilient, informed and performance-oriented ... duplicated effort, complexity 60 12% 5% 12% 4% 12% 17% 5% 10% 80 100 and cost Integration is really about communication and cooperation Unum, for example, has four separate functionsfor handling ... exposure and a need to improve corporate performance There is still some way to go before companies achieve full integration of governance, risk and compliance across different functionsand regions...
... governance, risk and compliance? 20% Standardizing policies and procedures Assigning clear responsibilities and reporting lines 17% Minimizing duplication of resources 16% Sharing information and resources ... regimes and risk environments, and ensure that it embeds a risk culture among an expanding workforce Rather than take a domestic perspective on risk, it must also understand the impact of regional and ... support and representation from risk, internal audit, compliance and any other assurance functions that might be affected by the convergence process This helps to provide a forum for airing issues and...
... Layout Information and Natural Language Information In this section, we describe the process of semantic analysis for the PBF diagrams by using the integration of layout and natural language information ... PBF explanation texts Information for PBF Understanding Diagram 3.1 L a y o u t I n f o r m a t i o n For analyzing the PBF diagrams, we utilize two kinds of layout information These are: • type ... a plant part a p l a n t part species success failure success failure success failure 112 33 23 additional explanation success failure o j R u l e [Rule for types of plant parts] Words in a diagram...
... investigated and utilized in model-based algorithms and extended gradient-based algorithms Sudhir et al [13] and Clifford and Nasrabadi [14] used Markov random fields to combine the stereo and motion ... (LMS)based algorithm for recursive disparity prediction and refinement More recently, Dang et al [16] proposed using a Kalman filter for fusing optical flow and stereo disparity for object tracking ... displacements in horizontal (X) and vertical (Y ) directions Figures 3(a) and 3(b) show the horizontal displacements for the left and right images while Figures 3(c) and 3(d) show vertical displacements...
... Inequalities and Applications x − qx 1−q x:q q 1.1 cf 1–5, 22 Hence, lim q→1 x x for any x with |x|p ≤ in the present p-adic case Let d be a fixed integer and let p be a fixed prime number For any ... 1–23 Higher-order twisted Bernoulli and Euler numbers and polynomials are studied by many authors see for detail 1–21 In 14 Ozden et al constructed generating functions of higher-order twisted ... interesting identities and we construct q-Euler zeta functions which interpolate the new q-Euler numbers and polynomials at a negative integer Furthermore, we study Barnes-type q-Euler zeta functions Finally,...
... developed for different fixed DOTs, for example, the well-known fast fourier transforms (FFT), fast cosine transforms (FDCT), fast Walsh-Hadamard transform (FWHT), fast Haar transform (FHT), and so forth ... if p = 0, the sign ⊕ stands for the direct sum of matrices, and the sign a for the smallest integer larger or equal to a Obviously, the transform matrix presented in the form (3) is orthogonal ... post-performed before or after the fast Hadamard transform algorithm Therefore, only additions/subtractions will be performed during this algorithm An example of a new Hadamard-like fast transform...
... skills for the future, facilitate coordination and control functions between the parent and subsidiaries and among subsidiaries, and enhance the sharing and exchange of information throughout Ford's ... thank our families for their support and understanding We thank them for their willingness to live in such places as Japan, Finland, Switzerland, and Canada We also thank them for making international ... assignments, and cross-cultural management Linda and her husband, Greg, have married children: Angie and Joe Gittleman and Brad and Brandy Stroh They are awaiting their first grandchild in July...
... x) = 0}, and Wvu = {x ∈ V (G) | d(v, x) − d(u, x) = −1} form a partition of V (G) The following proposition follows immediately from the above comments Proposition If |Wuv | > |V (G)|/2 for an ... strongly distance-balanced property of the generalized Petersen graphs and gave a slightly weaker result that: For any integer k and n k + 4k + 1, the generalized Petersen graph GP (n, k) is not strongly ... Theorem For any integer k and n > 6k , GP (n, k) is not distance-balanced Theorem gives a positive answer to Conjecture The Proof of Theorem First we give a direct observation Proposition For any...
... designs and could not determine the influence of DW on tree growth (Lowe and Klinka, 1981; Kabzems and Klinka, 1987; Carter and Klinka, 1990; Klinka and Carter, 1990) Humus form studies in coastal forests ... DW and another without DW The pedons were examined for the differences in morphological and chemical properties of forest floor and mineral soil, and each accumulation of DW was examined for ... described in detail in Lowe (1974) and Lowe and Klinka (1981) Mineral soil samples were also analyzed for oxalate Fe and Al and dithionite Fe, Al and Si Oxalate Fe and Al were extracted using acid...
... diag(σx)2 and Cy = diag(σy)2, where the vectors σx and σy contain noise levels for each single measurement To establish the likelihood functions (6) and (7), the kinetic parameters x and the metabolic ... and enzyme concentrations and metabolic fluxes leads to a second, metabolics-based, distribution of system parameters (thermodynamic and kinetic parameters) and state parameters (metabolite and ... arbitrary choice of the standard reaction directions, we counted each reaction in both forward and Page of 11 (page number not for citation purposes) Theoretical Biology and Medical Modelling 2006,...
... Jackson and David Khemakhem for management support for this research and this paper Finally, we thank XTO Energy and ExxonMobil management for permission to publish this work References Anderson, ... primary wells (Wells and 2) was to shut-in Wells and while fracturing all of the infill wells Wells and were shut-in while Wells and were fractured For the fracturing of Wells and 6, all of the ... well placement and fracture strategy of infill wells, (2) the timing and fracture strategy for refracture candidates, or (3) the timing, well placement, and fracture strategy for new field developments...
... role of inflammatory factors 19 20 with the elasticity of blood vessels in understanding inflammatory factors CRPHS sensitive to elasticity 4.6 Impedance change index (RI) and pulse index (PI) ... disease on cardiovascular events and kidney damage Lash and his colleagues in 2009 CRIC study results confirmed the correlation between kidney function and risk factors such as hypertension, obesity ... decreased 2ml/min/year (similar normal subject) Peterson and al conclude RI and PI of renal arteries have closed relationship with another HI and GFR In Vietnam, Tran Bui (2002) evaluated HI of renal...