wave accountability communities and new modes of governance

... Value and Standard Deviation of the Fitness value at the 10,000 iteration for Rosenbrock function Tables 7, and present the average value and the standard deviation of the execution time and the ... speciality and generality, between algorithm simplicity and problem complexity, and between problem-specific knowledge and capability of handling black-box optimization problems Convergence analysis of ... Jacobson, S H., and Johnson, W., The theory and practice of simulated annealing, in: Handbook of Metaheuristics (Eds F Glover and G A Kochenberger), Kluwer Academic, pp 287-319 (2003) [18] Holland, J.,...

Ngày tải lên: 26/06/2014, 23:20

... of root regeneration (day 13), and on days 27 and 41 decreased with time and lifting (Fig and Tab II) Old and new C partitioning to new shoots increased with time with no significant effect of ... for C and N Contrastingly, old roots and needles of Corsican pine cooperated to provide C and N for growth of new components Old roots acted as a source of C reserves and needles as source of N ... later than new shoots, even in case of lifting, and used less C and N reserves than new shoots Fortyone days after transplanting, new roots were mainly constituted by new C and N, while new shoots...

Ngày tải lên: 08/08/2014, 01:22

... different modes consecutively The first mode consisted of increasing pressure to 0.5 MPa with a constant rate of 5–8 kPa s–1 while measuring F and P every s and was called “transient mode” by Tyree and ... MPa–1 and the correlation between the two modes was in this case almost perfect (figure 1A) The comparison of the hydraulic conductances of root systems (kr) obtained by the two modes of HPFM ... transient mode of the HPFM (negative correlation between flow and pressure) as a function of the growth substrate and the state of budbreak Budbreak index (BI) = corresponds to the emergence of first...

Ngày tải lên: 08/08/2014, 14:21

... 5% DMSO, 1.5 mM MgCl2 or 3.25 mM MgCl2 (for BM1818 and CSSM31), unit of Taq DNA polymerase, 0.2 mM of each dNTP and pmol of each primer, one of which was labelled with fluorescent dye Amplification ... of microsatellites change according to the Stepwise Mutation Model (SMM) and Two-phased model of mutations (TPM) [4] The default settings for the proportion of stepwise and larger mutations and ... in the New Tsigai The mean observed and expected heterozygosities in the Old and New Tsigai types are given in Table I 326 ´ M Cinkulov et al The exact test for non-random association of genotypes...

Ngày tải lên: 14/08/2014, 13:22

... Chairman and CEO of BorgWarner; Larry Hirsch, Chairman and CEO of Centex Corp.; Gary Hirshberg, Chairman and CEO of Stonyfield Farm; Jim Leisenring, board member of the International Accounting Standards ... right tradeoff between risks and rewards, reflecting the values, culture and risk profile of our company? CHAPTER TWO The Sources of the Problem The spirit of capitalism is alive and well in ... principles of compensation governance, ” which it applies as new concepts of compensation are introduced, and in voting proxies related to compensation and to board composition.” The State of Wisconsin...

Ngày tải lên: 21/12/2013, 01:19

... Subject of the Currency and Public Deposites (Salem, Mass., 1834), 19 53 A Citizen of New York, Remarks on that Part of the Speech of His Excellency the Governor to the Legislature of the State of New ... of the Correspondence Between the Banks in the City of New York (New York, 1805); A Citizen of New York, Remarks on that Part of the Speech of His Excellency the Governor to the Legislature of ... Wright // Governance and U.S Community Banks, 1790-2010 32 and professional men of the city” and had high praise for the institution’s president, Edmund H Leland, and its cashier, James H Coffin.174...

Ngày tải lên: 29/03/2014, 08:20

... “Global Governance Changes and Their Characteristics” (including its early form and the transition process) ii Chapter describes policy responses of ROK and Vietnam to Global and Regional Governance ... Relations and the Way Forward in the Context of Global and Regional Governance Change in the 21st Century” CHAPTER 1: GLOBAL GOVERNANCE CHANGES AND THEIR CHARACTERISTICS 1.1 Global Governance: ... strength of the United States decreased and there were changes in the distribution of economic power due to the comparative rise of some new emergent blocs and countries such as EU and China...

Ngày tải lên: 14/07/2014, 13:28

... approaches and perspectives 2.2 Mechanisms of accountability Traditionally, accounting and finance researchers have focused on a variety of corporate governance mechanisms of accountability, where accountability ... corporate governance, the authors push the frontiers of context and global reach in corporate governance research By exploring mechanisms of accountability and governance in mediaeval England, Jones ... theory and enlightened shareholder theory, corporate governance research has started to examine a broader range of mechanisms of accountability Traditional mechanisms of accountability include governance...

Ngày tải lên: 06/01/2015, 19:49

... Discussion hospitals in Australian and New Zealand Team (MET) status of 172 Flow diagram of the Medical Emergency with intensive care units hospitals in Australian and New Zealand with intensive care units ... services into various categoriesknown Uptakeof hospitals in Australia and New Zealand for which the MET stagories of hospitals in Australia and New Zealand for which the MET status is known Each ... Figure tals in Australia and New Zealand for which the MET status is hospiUptake of Medical Emergency Team (MET) services into thoseknown tals in Australia and New Zealand for which the MET status...

Ngày tải lên: 25/10/2012, 10:35

... with the definitions of adjectives and their semantic and syntactic functions of English adjectives Chapter III is a study to a new approach to semantic and syntactic functions of English adjectives ... He wore dirty, wet, old and worn shoes But, there are some fixed phrases of adjectives which are often linked by and : old and musty with, a long and winding road, hard and fast rules When the ... English and Vietnamese adjectives English and Vietnamese are two different languages and have their own features Moreover, because of different culture and communication habit, learners of English and...

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Ngày tải lên: 17/04/2013, 16:09

... Networks New Network Architecture Reduce Network Costs and Improve Quality of Service Improving Grade of Service (GOS) While Reducing RF Channels Wireless service providers are adopting new deployment ... or more of the total number of RF channels required on a multiple link transport system for a specified amount of user grade of service The percentage reduction depended on the number of radiating ... rc h i t e c t u re Additional Benefits of Simulcast Conclusions Simulcast networks also can substantially reduce required switch and handoff processing and further improve trunking efficiencies...

Ngày tải lên: 10/12/2013, 19:15

... experience of frsh food, start of socializing kindergarten: food: how does it smell and taste and where does it come from school: sport: awareness of one own needs and experience benefits of sport; ... because of blended families Security Because of “blended families”, as a fact of the changes due to the growing participation of women in the labour force, and the high incidence of divorce and remarriage ... potential quality of a widespread experience created and developed in each person lifetime It is the responsibility of every individual to take care of oneself and its health and through that...

Ngày tải lên: 14/02/2014, 07:20

... of networks” (Kim et al 2005) The participants went beyond just identifying the new governance paradigm; they made good governance a central focus of the forum and a core concept of the new governance ... such that new ways of governing must be found The new model of governance has government located at the center of a complex, collaborative structure of private, public, nonprofit, foreign, and domestic ... sectors and players in governance In the new model of governance that emerged from the forum, government was just one of the many participants involved in governance Depending on the level of government,...

Ngày tải lên: 15/02/2014, 20:20

... the government, and the government—at least in democracies—is accountable to the people Yet, because of the length of the chain of accountability and the weaknesses in each link of that chain, ... best served the interests of foreign lenders Both a culture of secrecy and vested interests served to successfully keep discussions of alternatives and trade-offs out of the public domain The ... direction and that some within the IMF are pushing The attention that this proposal has received is symptomatic of the lack of understanding of the problems of global financial markets today Lender of...

Ngày tải lên: 16/02/2014, 11:20

... theories of the transmission of light and sound; of the production of winds, and sun-spots, and of the method of development and dissemination of heat, are in point of fact, unphilosophical and incomprehensible ... the direction of other spheres These theories throw new light upon the character and extent of the atmosphere of the moon and planets, and the consequent availability of those and other spheres ... marks of electrical action in the cases cited, and since we know something of the subtlety of the agent; that it may be "amassed, condensed and rarefied," that it is not loose and wandering, and...

Ngày tải lên: 17/02/2014, 01:20

... Theory and Estimates, RAND Corporation, R-3028-AF, 1984, and the extension of the basic DRM to take into account the effect of the availability of multiyear contracts to certain classes of Air ... substituting the n th estimate of tion of step to estimate ˆi n arg max Li ( i into the (n 1)th itera- | xi , ˆ n ) i and then use the new estimates of ˆn i to generate new estimates of arg max L( ˆ n | ... leaves at time t, and 11 12 The Dynamic Retention Model for Air Force Of cers The value of leaving depends on current and expected future civilian earnings, retirement benefits, and random shocks Retirement...

Ngày tải lên: 17/02/2014, 23:20

... of the destiny of higher education,” he wrote “Traditional face-to-face higher education will become a privilege of a few, and there will be demand for global standardization of some fields of ... embrace the potential of new technologies and the pace of the demand I think one-year advanced degrees and certifications should be developed; more online and group learning and more leadership ... technology author and consultant, and writer for Wired, Discover, and other tech and science publications, said, “The key challenge of the next five years—I say ‘the’ because of the importance of education...

Ngày tải lên: 18/02/2014, 00:20