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... this area and to propose a new classification and a framework for analysing flexibility in manufacturing companies Design/methodology/approach ~ The study adopts a case study methodology approach ... phenomenon, a hybrid form of research method Contrary to of its qualitative nature, Eisenhardt (1989) noted that a case study could actually contain both quantitative and qualitative data The use of case ... Hexiihty has been heralded as a major competitive weapon for manufacturing organisations operating in increasingly uncertain environments and turbulent markets It has been argued that manufacturing

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... may fail to repair and protect health and may even exacerbate damage and abuse Health for All Children, 4th Edition, David M B Hall & David Elliman Oxford Medical Publications, 2003 page ... years Universal Programme (Healthy Child, Healthy Future) Pre School and Family Health Antenatal Care incl Health Assessment Antenatal / Family Health Assessment initiated Birth: Neonatal Assessment ... Programme • To ensure that all parents and children have access to, and understanding of all relevant health care messages that are evidence-based and shown to be beneficial • To arrange and

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... may change by adding, for instance, additional gold standards? In this paper, we introduce a probabilistic framework, QARLA, that addresses such issues. Given a set of manual summaries and another ... illustrations in Figure 1): (1) Given two automatic summaries a, a  and a similarity measure x, if a is more distant to all manual summaries than a  , then a cannot be better 281 than a  . Formally: ... evaluate automatic sum- maries (QUEEN measure), and (iii) test whether evaluating with that test-bed is reliable (JACK measure). 2 Formal constraints on any evaluation framework based on similarity

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... Trang 1PARADISE: A Framework for Evaluating Spoken Dialogue Agents Marilyn A Walker, Diane J Litman, Candace A Kamm and Alicia Abella A T & T L a b s - - R e s e a r c h 180 P a r k A v ... and has a number of advantages First, it allows us to evaluate performance at any level of a dialogue, since n and ci can be calculated for any dialogue subtask Since per- formance can be measured ... both Agent A and Agent B Based on the data in Tables 3 and 4, the mean ~ is 515 and ~r is 261, so that.M(~c) for Agent A is 71 To calculate c2 for Agent A, assume that the average number of repair

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... Pharmaceutical CGMPs Trang 3A Process Understanding Trang 4 Guidance for Industry1 PAT — A Framework for Innovative Pharmaceutical Development, Manufacturing, and Quality Assurance This guidance ... effective and efficient innovative approaches in pharmaceutical development, manufacturing and quality assurance This guidance addresses new and abbreviated new (human and veterinary) drug application ... programs operate in a coordinated and synergistic manner Regulations and manufacturing standards are applied consistently by the Agency and the manufacturer Management of the Agency's Risk-Based Approach

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... description of an analytic approach that appears to rise above the wealth of notions seeking to explain individual-level attitude change This approach may offer a general framework for plan-ning and engineering ... Afghanistan, and Iraq—the U.S military is likely to prevail in conventional major combat operations against virtually any plausible adversary or combination of adversaries in a conventional military ... diplomacy and propaganda In each case, we describe how practitioners think about their target audiences and the overall strategies, approaches, and analytic activities that they conduct to assist in achieving

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... supports organizational self-assessment and improvement and(2) provides a standard against which an external evaluation of anorganization can be conducted ITIM offers organizations a roadmap for improving ... achieved in a variety of ways For example, an organization can create aseparate improvement program, employ external assistance and support, or use it as a managerial support tool Regardless of ... softwareapplications to locate and correlate relevant data in a data warehousepermits organizations to discover unknown fiscal or physical resourcerelationships and thus provide appropriate assistance

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... standard formulae for the standard deviation for stationary means cannot be applied Fortunately, the rate of loss for most aircraft approaches an asymptotic limit As a result, the mean at any ... Effectiveness Ratio and Total Training Resources 4 Chapter III: Optimization Framework and Computational Form 5 Chapter IVA: F/A-18 Training Program and Formulation 6 Chapter [VB and Chapter [VC: Formulation ... Optimization Framework and Computational Form Chapter III describes the management framework in which complete training programs are modeled and optimized The chapter has two parts Part A formulates

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... Other drugs and substances that are legally available can cause serious harm The harmful use of inhalants, like petrol, paint and glue, can cause brain damage and death The misuse of pharmaceutical drugs can have serious ... Disadvantage and social isolation Drug use can have a significant impact on disadvantaged groups and lead to intergenerational patterns of disadvantage • There is strong evidence of an association ... coordinate and direct the then National Campaign Against Drug Abuse (1985–92) and have authority to deal with all drug-related matters It was also agreed that the National Drug Strategy would take a

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... MBA FORGET YOUR A FRAMEWORK FOR BEING A MANAGER IN A CREATOR CULTURE Marcelo Somers Media Product Manager Sabre Holdings @marcelosomers behindcompanies.com [...]... problem can be a boat anchor ... insight and imagination This not only effects individuals, but happens to companies as they age - Steve Blank (http://bit.ly/eYkItr) MAKE YOUR CUSTOMERS Insanely Happy Revenue DON’T CHASE AT THE ... ..http://thefutureofthings.com/pod/243/microsoft-surface-computing.html THE ROLE OF A Manager “ A lot of startup talk seems to say that you should simply get a lot of smart people together and let them do whatever they want until

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... Trang 2This page intentionally left blankTrang 3Clearing Services for Global MarketsClearing forms the core part of a smooth and efficiently functioning financial market infrastructure Traditionally, ... exchanges, clearing organizations and banks should be interested in this scholarly work, as should relevant national authorities and central banks.’ MARK SPANBROEK Partner of a privately held electronic ... official stance of Barclays Capital The International Capital Market Association’s sponsorship of this publication aims to promote research and the continuing development of the market ICMA did

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... asnovation, netting and risk management, as well as transaction/position man-agement, collateral management and cash management The scope of nettingand risk management services that a CCP can offer ... value-added of clearing for individual market participants(microeconomic view) and for capital markets as a whole (macroeconomicview) and according to different asset classes (cash equities and ... of traded derivatives is held at and managed by the clearing house Transactionmanagement is particularly important in this context and usually comprisesadditional value-added services related

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... clearing status of transactions and monitoring margins via a single interface. At the same time, clearing houses update and replace their software and systems periodically, typically on a replacement ... necessary system adaptation. 49 They usually charge initial one-off, fixed annual or monthly payments, as well as fees for additional services. 46 A general distinction differentiates front- and back-office ... capital a clearing member has to bear in compliance with a clearing house’s risk management requirements can be regarded as an offset for the risk assumed by the CCP for the clearing members and

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... relevance of CCP clearing; Part 2 asked for concrete cost data and concerned the transaction cost analysis of derivatives clearing; Part 3 contained closed questions related to analysing demand- and ... transaction costs of clearing as well as to derive a basis for analysing the impact that network strategies have on clearing costs Describes the underlying data Details the method of data collection ... research question and the general lack ofpublicly available studies, data and insight, a semi-structured approach waschosen to afford more flexibility as well as the ability to actively steer the

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... following paragraphs.Whereas the validation of the data on clearing house charges revealed that theabove-mentioned figure is in the right magnitude (see Appendix 7 for details),several caveats apply ... capital As outlined above, calculat-ing, analysing and understanding the true cost of capital related to clearing underesti-is difficult for various reasons When asked to assess the cost of capital, ... million for capital costs in 2005undervalues the magnitude of capital costs in that it mainly accounts forexternal financing costs As the empirical research is biased towards the view of collateral-rich

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... engage both in balance and off-balance activities Malkam¨ ki a (1999) and Schmiedel/Malkam¨ ki/Tarkka (2002) estimate translog cost functions for their studies, a relying on a broader sample ... depreciation The variables are based on publicly available information, which can be found 226 Clearing Services for Global Markets The analysis supports that decreasing average costs ... of transactions available for cross-margining Clearing members benefit from collateral management optimisation through savings in cost of capital and back -of ce costs Additionally, as more

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... initiative still qualifies as a valuable case study analysis for various reasons: first and foremost, the link involves one of Europe’s largest... What theory reveals – framework for analysis ... proportional profit impact for regionally active clearers; clearing link, M&A and Single CCP initiatives lead to a disproportionately higher profit increase for regionally-to-globally active clearing ... various clearing houses. [...]... access to the away market: Many of the Asian brokerage firms tend to be smaller; they don’t have the capital of a Morgan Stanley or a Goldman Sachs,

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... six-year amortisation period and long-term investments an amortisation period equal to or greater than seven years. Trang 9adaptations and expenses for CCorp than for ECAG,99the particularities ... clearing relationship with ECAG The implementation of Phase II would have thus required ECAG to deal with a greater number of technical, operational and legal adaptations than CCorp Although Phase ... Outsourcing agreements enable the away clearing house to act legally as central counterparty agree-to its clearing members’ transactions in the home clearing houses’ contracts, which are available for

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... usually do not have the leeway to benefit from and further leverage their installed base. r Single CCP initiatives (as a particular form of M&A initiatives) have the drawback that the majority ... can potentially aggravate the starting problem r Engage to educate other clearing houses and... provides a basic framework designed to serve as a starting point for European CCP managers ... Global Markets concentration patterns, it makes strategic sense for managers to focus on these particular lanes Lane concentration can be beneficial for clearing houses in that it allows

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... had reasonable answers to these central questions, then we would have what I am calling a framework for dealing with these issues. A framework is just a starting place. For any particular case ... variation among cases. For a given type of ethical conXict, there usually are a number of morally relevant ways in which it can vary from one case to the next, and these variations can make a ... self-conscious; have been born; and are similar in appearance to the paradigm of normal adult human beings. Although some of these characteristics have been put forward as a suYcient condition for normative...

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