... cloud services The apothegm is ‘Own the base and rent the peak’ Conclusion The customer’s overall cloud health starts with an assessment ofvalueThe assessment ofvalueof cloud services can ... another approach businesses should use when assessing cloud value AMS is the paradigm where a predefined level of demand is managed internally andthe remainder augmented with cloud services The ... environments and in the Australian IT Services community Other titles by Ernie Zibert: Discover other titles by Ernie Zibert at Smashwords.com The Science of Sourcing Governance What’s the difference...
... at the end ofthe month prior to the start ofthe maintenance period that the operation falls under Write-offs and provisions and return on assets are measured at the end ofthe year before the ... a mean of 1,144% and a standard deviation of 3,331% It is highly skewed The minimum is 86%, the median is 400%, andthe maximum is 26,997% Imbalance×nex has a mean of -208,065%2 and a standard ... cross-sectionally Section presents the panel analysis and provides the main results ofthe paper Section concludes The Appendix contains an overview ofthe structure ofthe German banking sector Reserve...
... low price prevails q is the probability ofthe high price prevailing (1-q) is the probability ofthe low price prevailing r is the rate of interest The expected valueof information is: The expected ... decrease the ffects ofthe tax rate increase on the quantity of labour supplied and he quantity of leisure demanded Estimates ofthe marginal cost of public funds: In Australia and other OECD ... result ofthe increase in tax rate; • the quantity of labour supplied falls from L0 to L1 because ofthe upward sloping supply curve The cost to households ofthe tax increase is the loss of producer...
... operation for the duration ofthe mission, andthe lines required high maintenance andthe constant supervision of an engineer unit that was in support ofthe fuel mission.9 In summary, the HRS proved ... Assault Hoseline, andthe Tactical Water Delivery System The chapter then moves on to an analysis ofthe ability of these various systems to meet the set of future requirements Inland Petroleum Distribution ... Because of these positive attributes, today the United States has the densest network of petroleum pipelines in the world Like the commercial sector, the U.S Army has had a history of investing in the...
... than they now of communicating with the market and other players about thevalueof their plans and strategies But first they need to become value managers themselves, and to understand what value ... shareholders are the owners ofthe corporation, the board of directors is their representative and elected by them, andthe objective function ofthe corporation is to maximize shareholder value In continental ... share price relative to comparable companies andthe market around the date of each acquisition In fact, when the team calculated the impact of these declines on the total valueof EG, they realized...
... expressed in epithelia of various sites The cytokeratins most often used are CK7 and CK20 [7-10] CK7 is found in the glandular epithelium and epithelial tumors of lung, ovary, endometrium and breast, ... found in GI epithelium Conversely, CK20 is expressed principally in the normal glands and epithelial tumors ofthe GI tract, 11 urothelium, and Merkel cells The cytokeratin 7/20 profile of a particular ... or other sources of false positive cytoplasmic signals; and (3) lack of association between the levels of expression of nuclear transcription factors andthe state of differentiation ofthe tumor...
... than they now of communicating with the market and other players about thevalueof their plans and strategies But first they need to become value managers themselves, and to understand what value ... shareholders are the owners ofthe corporation, the board of directors is their representative and elected by them, andthe objective function ofthe corporation is to maximize shareholder value In continental ... share price relative to comparable companies andthe market around the date of each acquisition In fact, when the team calculated the impact of these declines on the total valueof EG, they realized...
... to survey and interview senior leaders and team members of quality and safety teams across Canada, a scoping review ofthe literature was undertaken to understand the types of quality and safe ... creation of a valid, useful knowledge and evidence base for quality and safety This will require improved conceptions ofthe nature of quality and safety issues, an understanding ofthe mechanisms ... providers andthe broader health system [12] If health organizations are to improve the quality of care and enhance patient safety, it is essential that there is a more indepth understanding of how these...
... several presentations on CMV promoter research at the then annual Herpesvirus meeting held at Cold Spring Harbor Later, in 1990, a patent for the use ofthe CMV IE promoter was filed by a competitor's ... journal, and are then permanently deposited into the PubMed Central archive Retrovirology is currently accessed ~1,000 times daily If you are a meeting organizer interested in the rapid and broad ... archiving) ofthe presentations from your conference, it may be worth your while to consider publishing your meeting in Retrovirology References Abstracts from the 2005 International Meeting of The...
... values of 20S proteasome in the studied groups: a median valueof 25,125 ng/ml in the sepsis group, a median valueof 4,560 ng/ml in the nonsepsis group, and a median valueof 2,740 ng/ml in the ... in the studied groups: in the sepsis group the median value was 5.9% andthe median rank 83.1, while this was 1.7% with a median rank of 43.4 in the non-septic group, andthe median value in the ... 0.001) (Table and Figure 1) There was a significant variation ofthe median values among the studied groups regarding the percentage of apoptotic lymphocytes: the median value for the sepsis group...
... Anatomy of cerebral veins and sinous The veins ofthe brain have no muscular tissue in their thin walls and possess no valves as compared to other types of veins They emerge from the brain and lie ... risk factors of CVT To determine the sensitivity, specificity, positive predictive valueand negative predictive valueof D-dimer test in the diagnosis of CVT 2 NEW CONTRIBUTION OFTHE THESIS Our ... recognized that: at the cut off of D-dimer concentration ≥ 302 µg/L the ROC curve value was best as compared to other cut off Then, at this cut off, the sensitivity, specificity, and area under ROC...
... on those two aspects of Aristotelian philosophy: thevalueofthe labor involved andthe individual demand ofthe person who wants to purchase the good.11 Based on thevalueof labor, Albert held ... from the Scholastics He rejected the idea of market-based prices in favor ofthe idea of cost-based prices According to Smith, the exchange value is determined by the cost of labor’s “toil and ... of trust and power The Fair Price Model (see Figure 3.1) begins with the consumer’s perception ofthe personal fairness oftheprice If consumers perceive that theprice is personally fair, then...
... between the seller’s priceandthe buyer’s priceofthe asset As lower priceof assets drives out higher priceof assets, firms cannot receive the original priceof prior set-in assets when they ... input in the firm, and its numerator (market valueof common stock+ book valueof preferred stock + book valueof debt) captures thevalue created by the firm with these inputs (Lee, Makhija, and ... examining the real option valueof these firms’ investments We can test the impact of firms’ prior experiences with real options investments on thevalueof these investments during the period of the...
... losing the moral values ofthe community This is the loss ofthe country, andofthe part of humanity In the French colonial period, Hai Phong is the third largest city of Vietnam after Hanoi and ... purpose ofthe thesis research The purpose ofthe thesis is to preserve and promote the values ofthe French Quarter in Hai Phong as an integrated system between the architectural heritage and urban ... valueof urban heritage architecture ofthe French Quarter in the development of Hai Phong continuation of Hai Phong Urban Subjects and scope of research The object ofthe thesis is studying the...
... should reflect the quality ofthe query result The quality ofthe query result is affected by (1) the amount ofthe data items needed to answer the query and (2) the quality ofthe data items ... needed to answer the query (the quality of a data item is defined as its price) One strategy of pricing queries is to define thepriceof a query as the aggregation ofthe prices ofthe data items ... quality ofthe query result The quality ofthe query result is affected by (1) the amount ofthe data items needed to answer the query and (2) the quality ofthe data items needed to answer the query...
... investigated the value- relevance of brand valueand used the estimated brand valuations of Financial World as a proxy for the brand valueThe authors found that brand values are valuerelevant as there ... agency theory evolved in a formal sense; the core thesis ofthe theory has been of interest since the 1700s Smith (1776) can be seen as the grandfather of agency theory, as the author was the first ... proposition of this thesis: Proposition 2: There is a positive relationship between book valueand firm valueThe explanatory power of book value does, however, depend on the nature and state of the...
... leveraged-buyout craze ofthe 1980s, andof course the great Wall Street crash of 1929 But against the backdrop of decade after decade of consistent stock returns, the effect of any of these single events ... most weight to the idea that shareholders are the owners ofthe corporation, the board of directors is their representative and elected by them, andthe objective function ofthe corporation ... ofthe corporate form of organization In the Netherlands and Germany, the board of a large corporation has its fiduciary duties toward the corporation (e.g., in support ofthe continuity of the...
... since none of them alone is useful for the majority ofthe BC and none of them is specific for cancer or breast tissues No biomarker has been suggested to date for the early diagnosis of BC (24) ... response rather than malignancy Another study by Mathelin et al included a total of 89 patients Bc1a and Bc1b defined by the authors corresponded to the Bc1 and Bc3a and Bc3b corresponded to Bc3 of Li ... Med Sci 2011, The results ofthe present study andthe other three studies did not fully confirm each other Several hypotheses may be suggested to explain these differences First of all, Li’s...
... ofthe head, merely a furrowing of brow and smile of incredulity - not at the actions ofthe woman, but at the reaction of his son Sanjay finished his mouthful, placed his knife and fork on the ... slid through the suburban jumble, and behind apartment blocks, houses and trees, reared the steeply tiled roofs of his new school People were out there somewhere, tens of thousands of them, but ... down the stairs at the end ofthe corridor and his office is directly in front of you.’ She indicated the direction he should take ‘Oh, by the way, pupils are not allowed in the front entrance, they...