... NewSletter The Journal of Aesthetics and Art Criticism Editor Search The American Society for Aesthetics is soliciting applications and nominations forthe position of editor ofThe Journal of Aesthetics ... monthly honorarium from the Society. The editor is responsible forthe content ofthe journal. The editor is a member ofthe Board of Trust-ees ofthe Society and serves on the Executive Committee ... consider the case of neuroaesthetics. This new branch of empirical aesthetics is often dened as the study ofthe neural processes underlying aesthetic experience. In other words, the job of neuroaestheticians...
... there may be several distinctderivations that generate the same parse tree. The probability of a parse tree T is thus the sum of the probabilities of its distinct derivations. Let tid be the ... item in the chart equal to the product of the inside probability ofthe item and its priorprobability. Any item with a score less than 10−5times of that ofthebest item is pruned from the chart.4 ... context-free rule rwhere the lefthand side of r corresponds to the root label of t and the righthand side of rcorresponds to the frontier labels of t. Indices link the rules to the original subtrees...
... There are many kinds of conflict, a good manager is a person who can aware what are thebest ways to resolve conflicts logically. Resolving conflict may include: listen forwhatis felt ... Staff training is an integral part ofthe overall development strategy ofthe business. Staff are not trained or not trained fit isthe main cause leading to the current state enterprises are not ... leadership is one key element in the success of a managers to manage people. 3. LEADERSHIP Each manager need to make the correct and flexibility decision for their work. They need to keep theirconfidence...
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... etc.), the academic literature on the performance analysis of dot coms is sparse at best. Yet an analysis ofthe performance of various types of dot coms can provide valuable insights into the ... regressions using the number of employees as the basis of discussion ofthe results. When conducting cross-sectional analysis, heteroskedasticity is often an issue to be addressed. Statistics suggested ... example is uBid, Inc., The Dissertation Committee for Fang Yin Certifies that this isthe approved version ofthe following dissertation: Business Value of Information Technology in the...
... cent of pupils who perform at the expected level for their age enjoyed writing very much, compared to just 5 per cent of pupils who performed below the expected level of attainment for their ... o Whatisthe profile of pupils’ performance in writing? o What do we know about pupils’ writing in schools? o What does effective teaching of writing look like? o What do we know about the ... eligible for FSM. As with reading, the evidence suggests that enjoyment of writing is related to attainment: for example, 49 per cent of pupils performing above the expected level for their age...
... price of a mousetrap?Customers no longer need to know the price of servers, software and the rest ofthe parts making up the IT service stack. This knowledge is as useful as knowing the price of ... against their cloud services costs. This isbest seen as a ‘generation one’ performance measure. This measure is no longer suitable forthe assessment of value from cloud services. It is akin ... I discuss one functional transformation that has taken placed as a result of cloud services, namely; the impact on the assessment of value. This is a timely discourse as the vast majority of...
... well as for some individual characteristics(whether the individual is foreign-born, whether there was a proxy respondent for the interview or proxy information is missing and indicators for interview-year). ... Two further changes tookplace in 1979 and 1990. We consider all three reforms for our analysis. The pivotalcohorts are 1934 (for the first reform), 1939 (for the second) and 1947 forthe reformin ... results forthe ADS model are shown on the right-hand side of Table 2, both for the ”reduced form” and forthe dynamic health equation. When we consider the former, we find that the overall effect of...
... to the poor. There is clearly a need for rigorous systematic reviews ofthe evidence ofthe impact of microfinance on the poor. Further, while many ofthe first institutions offering microfinance ... only these kinds of studies are rigorous, as will be discussed in Section 2 of this report.2. Synthesise what these studies tell us about: a. The impact of microfinance on the incomes of the ... poor b. The impact of microfinance on wider poverty/wealth ofthe poor c. The impact of microfinance on other non-financial outcomes forthe poor. The volume and nature ofthe evidence is varied...
... prevented them from trading quite as they wished, the cases on the use of goods discussed in this Article signal the end ofthe slippery slope approach of allowing any expansion ofthetypeof measures ... on freedom of movement, namely the criterion of access to the market.”80 This would be “based on the effect ofthe measure on access to the market rather than on the object ofthe rules involved.” ... PARADISE REGAINED? The first ofthe cases under discussion to come to judgment was Commission v. Portugal,99 a decision ofthe Third Chamber of the ECJ. In a model of orthodox application of...
... I include a discussion ofthe quality ofthe empirical evidence base at the end of each section.TABLE 3-1 Matrix ofthe Quality ofthe Evidence and Different Components oftheProfessional DevelopmentSystemQuality ... Intern 66 WHATISTHE INFLUENCE OFTHE NSES? THE BODY OF POTENTIAL EVIDENCE The body of potential evidence that I considered for this review was the set of papers provided to me by the NRC. These ... system, then the evidence ofthe influence ofthe NSES on the system ofprofessional development is variable. Although the NSES have unquestionably influenced in-service professional development for...
... provide information on what a clinically importantdifference isforthe SF-36 scales. They conclude that the MCID forthe SF-36 is "typically in the range of 3–5points", although they ... 4).Since the SF-6D is a continuous measure of effect we usedmeta-analytic methods to estimate the weighted grandmean ofthe MID and to test the hypothesis of homogene-ity of MID across the nine ... measures, it is simpleto determine the statistical significance of a change in HR-QoL, but placing the magnitude of these changes in a con-text that is meaningful for health professionals,...
... consisting of 3 hours for heating up, 4 hours for coat-ing and 7 hours for cooling. e thickness ofthe CVD coating5 is a function ofthe reaction concentration, this being the subject of: ... slowly, the tool will last much longer, but this is at the expense ofthe number of machined parts pro-duced per shi. If these statements are correct, what is the ‘right’ surface speed? is question ... on the chip/tool inter-face where chip curling occurs – this is some distance back and where the crater is formed. e position for this highest isothermal region can vary, depending upon the...
... prevalence estimate. However, this is the first study in this area.Our findings raise issues forthe planning of studies and ethi-cal issues related to the obligation ofthe physician-researcherto ... read the MRI scans: they arenot usually trained in musculoskeletal radiology or MRI beyond the measurements they perform. The researcher is obliged toput the health ofthe participant above the ... radiologist orother suitably trained specialist review all the images or just the baseline images in a longitudinal study. This will also addto the cost ofthe research study.Despite the increasing...
... a role in the aetiology ofthe disease itself [44].Disease stage and phase of therapyIn PSV, and especially in SVV, the therapeutic approachusually consists of an induction of remission and ... Although there is anongoing need for better definitions of risk factors, from the available data it is quite clear that prolonged high-dose GCuse isof central significance. Therefore, the reduction ... per day isthebest defined risk factor [53,54].Other immunosuppressants, especially Cyc, also increase the risk of PCP [54].Although, as for all other potential indications for AIP, thereare...