... crises ofthe future – always different from past events – only if they learn from the variety of experiences they themselves and other leaders have had in other types ofcrisis 1.3 The ubiquity of ... crisis, the damage is limited; when they fail, thecrisis impact increases In extreme cases, crisismanagement makes the difference between life and death These are no easy tasks either Themanagement ... and their implementation 42 3.1 3.2 3.3 3.4 3.5 3.6 Crisismanagement and public leadership The nature ofcrisisThe ubiquity ofcrisisCrisis management: leadership perspectives Leadership in crisis: ...
... case, we asked the PWGSC contracting officer why the 10% profit invoiced bythe subcontractor had been approved when there was no mention of it in the basis of payment The contracting officer told ... that despite the fact that no mention of profit was made in the basis of payment, it was the intention ofthe contracting authority to authorize such a profit The PWGSC contracting officer told ... requested since the employees assigned to the project bythe contractor were closely supervised bythe contract manager The manager also stated that the contractor’s employees were members ofthe project...
... to themselves The names of some of these characteristics apply to both For example, the life cycle cost of a product includes the cost of creating it (a project), the cost of operating it, the ... accomplishment ofthe project as compared to the managerial emphasis in other modes of work Most projects require the investment of considerable sums of money prior to enjoyment ofthe benefits ofthe resulting ... fellow of Templeton College, Oxford, and is on the faculty ofthe University of Oxford He is also a member ofthe board ofthe International Association of Macro Engineering Societies, is on the...
... to the next depending on the size o f the city, the distance to the urban center and the type o f collection service Hanoi, capital o f Vietnam, has the highest MSW collection rate - 98% MSW there ... (dollars/Btu) [1| Global biofuels production in 2010 grew by 13.8%, or 240,000 b/d, constituting one o f the largest sources of liquids production growth in the world Growth was driven bythe US (+140,000 ... This was the largest percentage increase since 2004 but still the weakest global growth rate among fossil fuels World natural gas consumption grew by 7.4% - the most M aster Thesis Theoretical...
... period of organization and implementation ofthe project Mnagement content of this phase is themanagementof (i) the process of disbursement of loans, (ii) the use of loans, (iii) procurement of ... system of such management policy mechanisms are always getting the interest ofthe public of both the donor countries and recipient countries It is the goal of efficiency of ODA management 1.3.2 The ... three ofthe most biggest projects ofthe same kind in Vietnam The two projects have been implemented in the form of wholesale banking operation (WBO) They have introduced the concept of WBO for the...
... describes the width ofthe device that is rendering the page When dealing with web pages, the device width is the width ofthe screen that’s displaying the page rather than the width ofthe browser ... box-sizing sets the point ofthe element from which the width is calculated The default is content-box, which means the stated width ofthe element applies to the content, and the padding and ... added on as usual A value of border-box means the stated width value is the total width ofthe content, the padding, and the border—in other words, the entire box (without the margin) To illustrate...
... Table of Contents Page i Acknowledgements ii Table of contents Part I: Introduction 1.Justification ofthe Study 2.Aims ofthe Study 3.Scope ofthe Study 4.Methods ofthe Study 5.Design ofthe ... Proportions of subtypes of definite descriptions to the total By using any ofthe definite descriptions, the speaker is assumed to be committed to the existence ofthe entities named For instance, all of ... the practical adhesion to ways of life, so that the 18 speakers may find it necessary to convey them and to win their audience’s approval of them The study of presupposition concentrates on the...
... Neither could the birds; or the fish swim; or you walk As the power ofthe engine increases, the greater the momentum ofthe airplane and the greater the resistance necessary to support it The ... as the beasts ofthe field, the birds ofthe air and the fish ofthe sea are bountifully supplied For any man, no matter what his station in life, to take the stand that it is the destiny of ... Master To The Reader The following pages are the result of a series of notes collected and set down in the form of a story and a system of practice, which accounts for the style of arrangement The...
... draw rm conclusions If we ask whether the introduction of a knowledge management system improves the quality of software, only one ofthe studies, from the Software Engineering Laboratory gives ... according to the report bythe inquiry board [6] The error was caused by an internal variable related to the horizontal velocity ofthe launcher exceeding a limit which existed in the software Thus, ... Further results indicate 52.7% of projects will cost 189% of their original estimates The cost of these failures and overruns are just the tip ofthe proverbial iceberg The lost opportunity costs...
... usual crowd of sufferers waiting at the gates, the fathers found themselves shorn ofthe source ofthe miracle-working power They resolved to keep the matter quiet, hoping that by doing so they might ... bones of dead men, whether they be those of saint or sinner The people who were healed bythe doses of either the allopath or the homeopath were also really healed by thinking in a Certain Way; there ... thousands of years the wisdom of nature and the best ways to gather, prepare, and eat the foods ofthe region in perfect harmony with the seasons and cycles of Nature The perfect health of these...
... soul No one of these is better or holier than the other; all are alike desirable, and no one ofthe three - body, mind, or soul - can live fully if either ofthe others is cut short of full life ... deprived of opportunity The workers are not being "kept down" by their masters; they are not being "ground" bythe trusts and combinations of capital As a class, they are where they are because they ... the form of its thought, and moves according to the thought Holding the idea of a circling system of suns and worlds, it takes the form of these bodies, and moves them as it thinks Thinking the...
... Security IPOs in the mid 1990s trigger a rush of $$$ from venture community into security Late Golden Age You are here • The worm and the pro hacker • Everyone is online • Horrible levels of vulnerability ... It’ll get frantic over the next years as the industry wraps itself up • More big one stop shops • 50% ofthe products you know and love today will disappear in next 10 years (The good news is, it ... expensive, and the costs are borne bythe wealthy corporations” (security’s now and forevermore a regressive tax, kiss any “ROI” story goodbye!) • Legislation will only increase Regulation: The Effect...
... well as ofthe alleviation of this inhibition by another substrate ofthe enzyme, ATP, are presented [8,9] Results Solution properties ofthe N-terminal domain of PS, the C-terminal domain of PS, ... regions ofthe Ramachandran map [32,33] Comparison ofthe monomer ofthe substrate-free form of E coli PS [13] with the monomers of nPS in the pantoate-bound form at full occupancy indicates that the ... back to the position ofthe Fig Superimposition ofthe A-chain of nPS (green), the B-chain of nPS (cyan), and the substrate-free protein (1IHO.pdb; magenta) The carbon and oxygen atoms of pantoate...
... to the type of project and its phase in the project life cycle Externally, themanagementofthe organization in which the project takes place must be supportive and the environment free of obstacles ... ofthe project as a basis for project management decision making and post-project evaluation It is axiomatic that the goal of project management is to be successful, otherwise the incurring of ... affecting the product scope This principle is an extension ofthemanagement principle and is necessary for effective and efficient administration ofthe project commitment For example, the owner of the...
... were identified by purifying them and determining the substrates from which they arose bythe action of P450scc, as well as the products that they gave rise to This revealed both the major and ... [1,14] The lack of hydroxylation of vitamin D3 at position 22 now provides a clear explanation for the inability of P450scc to cleave the side chain of vitamin D3 Hydroxylation ofthe side chain of ... difference between the metabolism of vitamin D3 and cholesterol by P450scc is that the dissociation of intermediates occurs for the metabolism of vitamin D3, but not for the metabolism of cholesterol...
... corresponding to the whole sentence The main goal of this thesis is to model the characteristics of Vietnamese prosody for speech synthesis It focuses on the influences ofthe macro-prosody on the micro-prosody, ... to the amplitude at one point ofthe signal, but also dependent on the duration of a speech fragment (the loudness of which we are measuring), and relative to the loudness of other parts in the ... ofthe prosodic intent ofthe speaker The starting point of intonation research is the time series of F0 But the interpretation ofthe F0 information diverges widely among intonation models The...
... avoiding the use of highly flammable or explosive gases in the laboratory The oxygen is added either in the spray chamber or using a T-connector before the torch When oxygen is added to the plasma, the ... procedure, provided that the operator has a clear view ofthe plasma A default flow of oxygen is added to the carrier gas flow (e.g Oxygen at 5% ofthe total argon carrier flow) and the organic solvent ... ionization ofthe elements of interest can be maintained, but the potential interfering polyatomic ions can be attenuated, due to the fact that they are ionized in a different region ofthe plasma...
... in the social and political worlds within which they were developed, and they are not exempt from the rules and norms of those worlds On the other hand, the social uses ofthe Internet, in the ... underestimate the power of states to control information access Although there have been examples of effective use ofthe Internet by small groups—such as the Zapatista movement’s successful use ofthe ... communities to the face-to-face communities ofthe mythical opposite extreme, we miss the ways in which real communities of practice employ a whole ecology of media as they think together about the matters...
... and then you’ll see how the individual elements ofthe stack work together, exploring them by building a website with WebMatrix That’s one ofthe strengths of WebMatrix Although many of these ... opens the Requests management tools in your workspace Managing Site Requests You can access the Requests management part ofthe Sites workspace either by clicking the Requests section button on the ... Compact, the process is as simple as deploying a file containing your data along with the rest ofthe files in your site the database is included Click the Databases button on the left side of the...
... to h The participants were given an explanation regarding the purpose ofthe feedback, the purpose ofthe conceptual model, some background ofthe research that lead to the development ofthe ... By these definitions, and due to the importance ofthe role of project management in the success of projects, the authors consider related department collaboration on product development bythe ... (Project Management Institute, 2004), listed project management areas, summarized in Table 1, which provides a sense ofthe breadth ofthe project management task The Project Management Book of Knowledge...