... power begins the same way AC does, as an alternating current from a generator It is then converted to DC at the headend through the use of rectifiers Eventually DC power is fed to the primary ... elements tend to rely on DC power There is no hard-and-fast rule–operators often go with the method that they are most comfortable with or the one that delivers the best-perceived value DC power ... service is jeopardized Subscribers are quick to jump to another provider if they are dissatisfied with the quality and reliability of their current service Cable television operators are subsequently...
... only the effect of athletic success on other variables, not the effect ofthe presence of an intercollegiate athletic program itself on these variables On the other side ofthe coin, critics of ... to the average cost of providing education to the student body as a whole, and if the average cost is equal to full tuition, then the net cost of athletic aid is simply equal to the size ofthe ... excludes these subsidies from revenues The NCAA designates the remaining revenues as “generated revenues” The exclusion of subsidies paints an entirely different picture ofthe profitability of college...
... “Double BottomLine : Implications for the Future of Microfinance [CGAP 2004] The paper studied a set of institutions that have two bottom- lines – the traditionally known one ofthe profit and ... really appear on the spectrum of access The arrows down the side ofthe third column give some indication ofthe scope ofthe movement along the spectrum of access that taking account of monetary ... any other group I know For that reason I want to salute these banks and encourage them to continue in their theme of a double bottom line: to think not just of profit, but to think also of social...
... disruption of customer relations, the vacancy cost until the job is filled, costs resulting from disruption ofthe work flow, and the erosion of morale and stability of those who remain Further, there ... where they got their experience, had their success, and is what they know best [27] But management is about tomorrow, not yesterday The workplace, the ways of doing business, and the nature of work ... about themselves and their work, have a sense of purpose, and to be recognized when they their jobs well They want more than the standard pay and benefits package that formed the heart of traditional...
... to the Northern Press, to lend the mighty resonance of their own voice to the proclamation ofthe Southern plea? "Their tone has gone out through all the earth, and their words to the end ofthe ... opposite replies: "the roar ofthe lion scatters the sheep, but gathers the jackals"; the prayer of Clarence but hardens the heart ofthe first murderer, though it softens the soul ofthe second All ... before the imagination The triumphs ofthe Indo-European and Semitic races, the stories of Babylon and Nineveh, of Thebes and Memphis, of Rome and Athens and Jerusalem, of Delhi and of Bagdad, of the...
... to quantify the amount of recovered protein owing to the presence of a high molar excess of BSA remaining in the buffer Therefore, a fixed aliquot ofthe protein was incubated with the indicated ... confirmed the nature of this protein (data not shown) Moreover, the spectrum reported in the figure showed the occurrence of a series of signals that were not interpreted simply on the basis ofthe ... of 70 kDa (marked by an asterisk), recognized to the same extent also by the GT sequence Binding ofthe GT oligomer was not a result of DNA interaction with the more abundant components of the...
... studies The list of cities used for the Networked Society City Index is based on the United Nations’ list ofthe largest cities, with the addition ofthe capitals ofthe two leading nations in the ... triple -bottom- line development Few cities are found outside the typical trend lineof ICT-induced triple -bottom- line benefits The trend line clearly represents the development path towards the Networked ... analyze their cities’ ICT maturity, as well as the triple -bottom- line results of their ICT investments The index itself covers two main dimensions The first shows a city-centric view of ICT maturity...
... up, of course, the great mass ofthe race On the other hand, the best class of Negroes did not know the higher class of white people, and based their suspicion and hatred upon the acts ofthe ... blacks There could be no better visible evidence ofthe increasing separation ofthe races, and ofthe determination ofthe white man to make the Negro "keep his place," than the evolution ofthe ... causes of complaint by the Negroes of Atlanta has been ofthe rough treatment ofthe police and of unjust arrests After the riot, when the Civic League, composed ofthe foremost white citizens of...
... and the new estimator, the NLOS component ofthe covariance matrix The method exploits the Toeplitz structure ofthe covariance matrix by averaging the coefˆ ficient ofthe mth subdiagonals of ... channels The new estimator first estimates the LOS component ofthe correlation coefficient Then, the desired parameters are extracted from LUTs computed off -line The estimate ofthe LOS component of ... execution time ofthe new algorithm Besides larger steps would affect the accuracy ofthe new estimator The LUT expresses the desired parameterb as a function ofthe magnitude and phase ofthe diffuse...
... only in the proof of Step Hence, as in the proof ofthe previous Theorem 2.4, we now provide only the proof of Step 1, the rest being the same ν At the beginning ofthe proof, without loss of generality ... θ (y) = y (2:17) Then, the assertion of Theorem 2.3 follows Proof The proof is quite similar to that ofthe previous Theorem Indeed, notice that assumptions (2.2) and (2.5) of Theorem 2.3 have ... β(+∞) Proof The proof is quite similar to that of Theorem 2.3 Indeed, notice that the present statement has the same assumptions of Theorem 2.3, written for F(y) = |y|p-2y, with the exception of conditions...
... details the reader is referred to 5–10 and the references therein The BVPs on the half -line arise naturally in the study of radial solutions of nonlinear elliptic equations and models of gas pressure ... the results of existence and multiplicity of positive solutions to the BVP 1.3 by using lower and upper solutions technique Motivated by the above works, we will study the existence results of ... index theory The rest ofthe paper is organized as follows In Section 2, we give some preliminaries and lemmas In Section 3, the existence of unbounded solution is established In Section 4, the...
... for the position error is then − CRLB = Tr Jθ 2×2 , (2) where the notation indicates taking the trace ofthe upperleft corner ofthe inverse ofthe full Fisher matrix The rms position error is the ... if the unknown amplitudes affect the bound, or whether − Tr Jθ 2×2 Tr μ1 HΛHH −1 Theorem The degradation ofthe CRLB due to unknown channel amplitudes can be made arbitrarily small Proof The ... account for these as follows The RT geometry causes the factor of two that multiplies the hi vector, just as in (34) The fact that the FD signal occupies half the bandwidth accounts for the scale...
... characterizes the exponential dichotomy of (1.1) by properties ofthe operator T Theorem 3.2 Let {An }n∈N be a family of bounded linear and uniformly bounded operators on the Banach space X Then the following ... invertible p Proof We first note that the following proof is inspired by the proof of [14, Theorem 4.5] (i)⇒(ii) Let Pn , n ∈ N, be a family of projections given by the exponential dichotomy of (1.1) ... exponential dichotomy of (1.1) is equivalent to the existence and uniqueness ofthe solution of (1.2) for a given f = { fn }n∈Z , or, in other words, to the invertibility ofthe operator T on suitable...
... associated with the process of making the product Page The goal for these two approaches is to benefit your bottom line, while also benefiting the environment They aim to improve your profitability ... commended by the U.S Military for the quality of their supply support during the Gulf War The division h approximately 500 employees and annual revenues of as $25 million In February of 2000, the Defense ... money and reducing the amount of • Minimize number of levels of packaging waste that your customer must dispose of • Minimize mass of each level (thereby saving them money too) The • Returnable/...
... seriousness ofthe London bombings; the man-made intervention of a military coup and the natural destruction ofthe tsunami The common thread is the complexity of gathering the photos The groups of photographers ... for most ofthe history ofthe Mermaid Parade, most pictures were seen only by the people who took them and a few of their friends The sponsor ofthe parade didrft provide any way for the photographers ... wonder no longer: the idea of limiting communications, so that they flow only from one layer ofthe hierarchy to the next, was part ofthe very design ofthe system at the dawn of managerial culture...
... is the elementary impedance of T - equivalent circuit to the left ofthe position that lightning strikes (Ω) (Fig 5) Z th 01 is the Thevenin impedance ofthe grounding wire of transmission line ... pTD is the elementary impedance of T -circuit equivalent to the right ofthe position that lightning strikes (Ω) Z th 02 is the Thevenin impedance ofthe grounding wire of transmission line (seeing ... THEORY 2.1 Impedance From [6]-[7], in case of open-ended grounding wire line, we get the Thevenin impedance (seeing from the position that lightning strikes to the end ofthe grounding wire line) ...
... First, they are linearly related to the observations in Y Second, they are unbiased in the sense that the average value ofthe estimate (with respect to the distribution of Y) is equal to the expected ... in the area ofthe Sázava River region and for the initiation ofthe long-term breeding program in the same region The next step is the second evaluation Fig Best linear unbiased predictions of ... to the random component ofthe model REML procedure consists of a search through the entire range of parameter space and the computation ofthe log-likelihood for each parameter value across the...