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... governance and performance, Journal of Financial Economics, 94(2), 291-309 Agrawal, A and Knoeber, C (1996) Firm performance and mechanisms to control agency problems between managers and shareholders, ... director is also an executive director of another company and if not Share of IE directors is the ratio of non-executive directors on the board that are also executive directors of other firms to ... Jez Maiden and Sandy Dobbie to the Yule Catto Board They bring a wealth of business and chemical industry experience to our boardroom and we look forward to them playing an important part in...

Ngày tải lên: 21/02/2014, 17:20

... experience and deep knowledge of storage management to help customers create more efficient storage management operations Prior to EMC, Joel held technology management and consultant positions ... critical success factor and should be defined according to your role: storage managers, for example, will likely want to monitor more frequently, perhaps to publish a quarterly or annual report for ... peaks and lows? This information will help you quantify any costs avoidance and savings so you can demonstrate what you brought back into the business You will now have more time -based data to evaluate...

Ngày tải lên: 26/10/2013, 22:15

... experimental results, we can conclude that word -based prediction is an effective approach and has advantages over the POS -based ones It confirms that the syllable number of a word has substantial impact ... word format and some POS -based ones on the same training set and test set Overall, HMMpath-I can achieve high accuracy by about 10% Conclusions/Discussions We described an approach to automatic prosodic ... phrasing for Mandarin TTS synthesis based on word format and HMM and its variants We also evaluated these methods through experiments and demonstrated promising results According to the experimental...

Ngày tải lên: 17/03/2014, 04:20

... Stanfill and David Waltz 1986 Toward memorybased reasoning Communications of the ACM, 29(12):1213-1228 Yorick Wilks, Dan Fass, Cheng-Ming Guo, James E McDonald, Tony Plate, and Brian M Slator ... that humans need a narrow window of only a few words to perform WSD (Choueka and Lusignan, 1985) The processing speed of LEXAS is satisfactory Running on an SGI Unix workstation, LEXAS can process ... Geoffrey Towell, and Ellen Voorhees 1993 Corpus -based statistical sense resolution In Proceedings of the ARPA Human Acknowledgements We would like to thank: Dr Paul Wu for sharing the Brown Corpus and...

Ngày tải lên: 23/03/2014, 20:21

... Titu Andreescu Dorin Andrica Ion Cucurezeanu An Introduction E to Diophantine Equations A Problem -Based Approach Titu Andreescu School of Natural Sciences and Mathematics University ... solutions to (1) T Andreescu et al., An Introduction to Diophantine Equations: A Problem -Based Approach, DOI 10.1007/978-0-8176-4549-6_1, © Springer Science+Business Media, LLC 2010 Part I Diophantine ... mathematician also from Alexandria, quoted the work of Diophantus in 350 ce Most historians believe that Diophantus did most of his work around 250 ce The greatest amount of information about Diophantus’s...

Ngày tải lên: 05/06/2014, 18:59

... salinity and cold [9-12] Transcriptome analysis using microarrays have proven to be a powerful tool for discovery of many stressed-induced genes involved in stress response and tolerance Macro and ... uptake and regulate Na2+ uptake, which can be an important determinant of salinity tolerance [12,106] Moreover, carrier proteins, waterchannel proteins and sugar transporters are thought to function ... sunflower to low temperatures has been focused at primary responses of young plants to a 24 hs treatment at 10°C with the aim to detect regulatory mechanisms induced at this early stage Tolerance to...

Ngày tải lên: 12/08/2014, 05:20

... research is to develop and evaluate coherence metrics on manually annotated corpora For instance, Miltsakaki and Kukich (2000) annotate a corpus of student essays with transition information, and show ... object), and to be referred to with anaphoric expressions A great deal of research has attempted to translate principles of Centering Theory into a robust coherence metric (Miltsakaki and Kukich, ... grant IIS-0448168 and grant IIS-0415865) and EPSRC (Lapata; grant GR/T04540/01) We are grateful to Claire Cardie and Vincent Ng for providing us the results of their system on our data Thanks to...

Ngày tải lên: 20/02/2014, 15:20

... most specific category to traverse the ViO ontology from C1 & C2 to find the nearest common ancestor node (C’) Calculate the distance between C1 and C’ (h1), distance C2 and C’ (h2) if h1 > h2 ... provides means to retrieve parent and child categories as well as siblings and all recursively collected descendants REDIRECT PAGE A redirect page typically contains only a reference to an entry ... associated with an anchor text that denotes an ambiguous name or is an alternative name, instead of a canonical name CATEGORY Category objects represent Wikipedia categories and allow access to the articles...

Ngày tải lên: 08/03/2014, 01:20

... ability to deal with conflict and to renew creativity Individuals and teams need not only to see and feel the desire to change, they need to actually know how to change Many organizations try to reduce ... because of its potential to change people and organizations To achieve personal fulfilment and organizational effectiveness, people and teams o�en need to change existing behaviours and take on new ones ... hypnotic language pa�erns modelled by Bandler and Grinder32 on the work of Milton Erickson and known as Miltonmodel language With Milton-model language the coach uses artfully vague language that can...

Ngày tải lên: 17/03/2014, 17:20

... into parts of Arabic and Latin cultures in the western Mediterranean region During the Newtonian era of the eighteenth century, the emphasis was on an objective approach to observations of any ... could support any of his claims German physician Samuel Hahnemann tested many common herbal and medicinal substances to establish what medical symptoms they might produce in humans He experimented ... greater use than “quality of life,” which is difficult to define, understand, and accurately measure.62 Multivariate analysis is a tool that can be used to understand CAM methodology Importantly, more...

Ngày tải lên: 29/03/2014, 07:20

... of Mulla [5,6] and Peters [7] and their groups Following documentation of the advantages of using ECMO to manage neonatal respiratory insufficiency in terms of both mortality and morbidity, the ... general, there is an increase in distribution volume, which is most prominent in water soluble drugs, and a decrease in drug clearance Whether to initiate any treatment is a decision balanced by a cost-benefit ... should become a second step toward a more evidence -based approach to these patients Competing interests The authors declare that they have no competing interests References Van der Vorst MM, Wildschut...

Ngày tải lên: 13/08/2014, 03:20

... responding to question They are: direct and indirect responses, refusals to answer, challenges to the presupposition of question, responses to implicit meaning of the question and some special responses: ... English elderly informants (over 45) declare their answer to their manager blatantly and directly For example, to the question 2, an English male gives his answer directly to his manager by using refusal ... English and Vietnamese males and females like to use the evasive and refusal strategy more than the ignorance However, the English males and females use less ignorance devices to avoid answering than...

Ngày tải lên: 07/11/2012, 14:54

... Framework U.Sankar * Working Paper 46/2009 Causality Between Foreign Direct Investment and Tourism: Empirical Evidence from India Saroja Selvanathan, E.A Selvanathan and Brinda Viswanathan * Working ... Enumerators were monitored by a field supervisor who accompanied each enumerator to at least three interviews In each interview, the enumerators explained the attributes, levels they take and the ... deposited in the Ganga The most noteworthy of these is the Ganga Action Plan (GAP) Initiated in 1984 by the Indian Government, and supported by the Netherlands, UK and voluntary organizations, the...

Ngày tải lên: 18/02/2014, 01:20

... organization’s management This definition of adaptation would probably be appropriate for more ‘ecological’ approaches to organizations and strategy (e g Hannan and Freeman 1977; Iansiti and ... which managers build about changes in the environment can have an effect on organizational responses (Staw et al 1981; Dutton and Jackson 1987) Failure to change belief systems following changes ... crisis in Austrian and Slovene companies 7.4 Feasibility and urgency perception of the financial and economic crisis in Austrian and Slovene companies 7.5 Extent of political behavior and conflict...

Ngày tải lên: 23/03/2014, 14:20

... Figure Net photosynthesis (Anet ) and stomatal conductance to water vapor (gs ) of well watered ( ) and water-stressed (•) glasshouse American chestnut seedlings and control ( ) and drought stressed ... gas exchange results also support performance rank results found by Lathan [26], where he found that American chestnut seedlings ranked higher than Carya tomentosa, Quercus rubra, Fagus grandifolia, ... a total of 20 randomly selected plants, chosen for repeated sampling of gas exchange, light absorption, height, leaf number, stem caliper, and canopy width Of the 20 plants, 10 plants were randomly...

Ngày tải lên: 07/08/2014, 16:20

... 1939–1998 The range of variation of mean temperature (shaded area) is shown T: mean annual temperature, P: mean annual precipitation The variation of total annual precipitation and mean annual temperature, ... a mean annual temperature of 13.9 ºC (Fig 1) Total annual rainfall and mean annual temperatures, from 1940 to 1998, are shown in Figure 2.2 Field and laboratory procedures All old-growth and ... important first step in understanding and anticipating the responses of old-growth pollarded woodlands to future climatic changes in Europe Acknowledgements: The author thanks Juan Luis Menéndez and...

Ngày tải lên: 08/08/2014, 00:21

... Oak stands in Western and Central conidia, but were unable to detect any foliar symptoms after this inoculation They never- frequently reported Europe to present severe dieback symptoms In France, ... of Indian ink We then submitted the saplings to water stress by withholding irrigation and followed the total hydraulic conductance from soil to leaves, and the onset of embolism in twigs and petioles ... (1983), Granier and Colin (1990) and Reich and Hinckley (1989) as: : L g specific soil -to- leaf hydraulic conductance -2 -1 -1 t (mmol m s MPa E maximal transpiration ); : (mmol sLA: leaf area (m and...

Ngày tải lên: 08/08/2014, 19:21

... visits to field sites, and provided assistance with interpretation, conducting interviews and focus groups, and arranging entry to the field The assistant also functioned as an 'expert informant' ... 1987 Turner T, Graham LR, Fluehr-Lobban C, Cowan JK: Do anthropologists have an ethical obligation to promote human rights? An open exchange In Human Rights: An Anthropological Reader Edited by: ... consent form which was translated into Twi As many participants were unable to read Twi the forms were read to the participants and a verbal explanation of the research aims and methods provided...

Ngày tải lên: 11/08/2014, 14:21

... eosinophils and mast cells release immune mediators that can modulate the immune response Eosinophils can also degranulate to release an array of cytotoxic granule proteins that can kill bacteria and ... by the transcription factors retinoic acid receptor-related orphan receptor γt (RORγt) In mice, transforming growth factor-β (TGF-β) and the cytokines IL-6, IL-21 and IL-23 are important for TH17 ... receptor FcεR1 and cross-linking of 28     CHAPTER  1:  INTRODUCTION       these receptor by antigen binding to the IgE can induce degranulation and release of various inflammatory mediators...

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