Diversity of Soil Fauna and Ecosystem Function
Diversity of Soil Fauna and Ecosystem Function ~ Soils are natural resources of utmost. importance for a number of ecosystem andbiosphere processes such as plant production, cycling of organic matter and nutrients,storage of C and water, and release of nitrous oxides, CO2 and methane. Soildegradation, through various processes, is a matter of great concern, since [...]
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six sigma business scorecard
six sigma business scorecard ~ Reviewing the latest list of 50 largest corporations in a local newspaper recently, less than 10% wereprofitable. In recent months, the issue has been raised about CEO’s compensation. One must thinkthese two should be related, however, the direct relationship appears to be invisible. My concern is notthe CEO’s compensation, instead [...]
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What Business Can Learn from Nonprofits
What Business Can Learn from Nonprofits ~ The Girl Scouts, the Red Cross, the pastoralchurches – our nonprofit organizations are becoming America’s management leaders. Intwo areas, strategy and the effectivenessof the board, they are practicing what mostAmerican businesses only preach. And in themost crucial area the motivation and productivityof knowledge workers they are truly pioneers,working [...]
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Who Pays for Poor Surgical Quality?Building a Business Case for Quality Improvement
Who Pays for Poor Surgical Quality?Building a Business Case for Quality Improvement ~ Widespread recognition of health care quality problemscontinues to motivate efforts for measuring and improving performance.1-3 Unfortunately, the prospective data collection needed for these quality improvement effortsis often expensive.4,5 Although many would agree thatthese efforts are worthwhile, there is less agreementabout who should [...]
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Lesson Study as a Springboard for the Professional Development of Mathematics Teachers
Lesson Study as a Springboard for the Professional Development of Mathematics Teachers ~ For at least two decades researchers have called for systematic research of instructional improvement based on LS (Lewis, Perry & Murata, 2006; Puchner & Taylor, 2006; Stigler & Hibert, 1999). But despite extensive research on a variety of aspects of LS, identification [...]
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A PROPOSED SPECIFIC MINISTRY-EMBEDDED EVANGELISTIC CHALLENGE FOR THE HIGHLAND SDA CHURCH
A PROPOSED SPECIFIC MINISTRY-EMBEDDED EVANGELISTIC CHALLENGE FOR THE HIGHLAND SDA CHURCH ~ CHAPTER 1 THE EVANGELISTIC CHALLENGE Profile of the Evangelistic Target Area of Portland, TN Portland is a rural community of 10,0461 residents, located in northern middle Tennessee, just five miles south of Kentucky and 35 miles north of Nashville, the State Capitol. During [...]
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The Wedding Band Ellen G. White and the Seventh-day Adventist Church
The Wedding Band Ellen G. White and the Seventh-day Adventist Church ~ INTRODUCTION 1. Immediately upon the adjournment of the 1986 Annual Council Session of the General Conference at world headquarters in Washington, D.C., at 12 noon on Nov. 11, the “year-end meeting” of the North American Division Committee was convened (at 1:30 p.m.) to [...]
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Observing the observers: research issues in analysing design activity
Observing the observers: research issues in analysing design activity ~ It is highly opportune that the workshop on’Analysing design activity’ was recentlyconvened by a group of researchers fromthe Faculty of Industrial Design Engineering atDelft University of Technology (September1994). The papers presented at the workshop byleading researchers in the field, will stand out asa valuable reference [...]
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Computational and Design Studies on the Unavailability of Mesh-restorable Networks
Computational and Design Studies on the Unavailability of Mesh-restorable Networks ~ This paper studies theunavailability of mesh restorable networks from thestandpoint of dual span failures as the main source ofoutage in networks that are efficiently designed tofully restore any single failure. Computer emulation ofthe detailed routing behavior of three progressivelymore adaptive restoration protocols is used [...]
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Knowledge and research in art and design
Knowledge and research in art and design ~ The idea of research has tended to elicit two sorts of response from artists and designers. On the onehand, it is perceived as the antithesis of art and design activity, something to do with questionnairesand statistics, test-tubes and laboratories, at one remove from the real world with [...]
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Quaternions: From Classical Mechanics to Computer Graphics, and Beyond
Quaternions: From Classical Mechanics to Computer Graphics, and Beyond ~ The theory of quaternions was introduced in the mid nineteenth century, and it found manyapplications in classical mechanics, quantum mechanics, and the theory of relativity. Quaternionswere also later used in aerospace applications and flight simulators, particularly when inertialattitude referencing and related control schemes where employed. [...]
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Computer generated holography using parallel commodity graphics hardware
Computer generated holography using parallel commodity graphics hardware ~ This paper presents a novel method for using programmablegraphics hardware to generate fringe patterns for SLM-based holographicdisplays. The algorithm is designed to take the programming constraintsimposed by the graphics hardware pipeline model into consideration, andscales linearly with the number of object points. In contrast to previousmethods [...]
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