phd thesis cp2 literature survey pdf

... the literature and consolidate the main results on the application of fuzzy set theory to production management The purpose of this paper is to: (i) review the literature; (ii) classify the literature ... Hwang (1994) review the literature on fuzzy sets in operations research and fuzzy multiple objective decision making respectively Maiers and Sherif (1985) review the literature on fuzzy industrial ... research and to provide a basis for future research, a literature review of fuzzy set theory in production management has been conducted While similar survey efforts have been undertaken for other topical...

Ngày tải lên: 23/03/2014, 05:22

... background, the literature, the assumptions and theories and the strengths and weaknesses of them The readers of a thesis not know what the "answer" is If the thesis is for a PhD, the university ... unknown Obviously your examiners will read the thesis They will be experts in the general field of your thesis but, on the exact topic of your thesis, you are the world expert Keep this in mind: ... be stored as pdf files on a server at your university The advantage is that your thesis can be consulted much more easily by researchers around the world (See e.g Australian digital thesis project...

Ngày tải lên: 10/09/2012, 15:25

... dental professionals, as we believe both are directed by the same needs and principles Current literature and resources will be examined, mostly focusing on publications made during the last ... causing them to persist in finishing the program (20) This is consistent with 15 DL instructors surveyed in Ohio, who stressed strongly that instructors should develop classroom interaction in ... developed in comparison to traditional teaching? In order to answer these questions, we undertook a literature review, with the intention of identifying the current state of research in medical and...

Ngày tải lên: 14/02/2014, 13:20

... semantics during the composition process (Etzioni et al 2003) Concluding Remarks We have briefly surveyed the broad range of semantic integration research in the database community The paper (and ... Navathe, S 1986 A comparative analysis of methodologies for database schema integration ACM Computing Survey 18(4):323–364 Bergamaschi, S.; Castano, S.; Vincini, M.; and Beneventano, D 2001 Semantic ... 1990 Guest editors’ introduction to the special issue on heterogeneous databases ACM Computing Survey 22(3):175–178 Embley, D.; Jackman, D.; and Xu, L 2001 Multifaceted exploitation of metadata...

Ngày tải lên: 19/02/2014, 12:20

... (Medical Outcomes Study 36-item Short-Form Health Survey) that is drawn from the Medical Outcomes Study (MOS) questionnaire published in English in 1990 The literature on this instrument is documented ... SF-36 health survey Qual Life Res 2006; 15:331-48 13 Wyss K, Wagner AK, Whiting D, Mtasiwa DM, Tanner M, Gandek B, et al Validation of the Kiswalhili version of the SF-36 Health Survey in a representative ... Chinese (HK) version of the SF-36 Health Survey J Clin Epidemiol 1998; 51:1139-47 19 Leplège A, Escosse E, Verdier A, Pernerger TV The French SF-36 Health Survey: translation, cultural adaptation...

Ngày tải lên: 05/03/2014, 21:20

... still necessary to protect the network against the internal attacks Conclusions Considering the surveyed literature, it is clear that in order to be able to secure a network against the novel attacks, ... period, the frequency and the variance of the events within that time frame As it is clear from the literature, researchers have followed different approaches to improve accuracy and performance of ... define the normal behavior and consequently anomaly in the behavior of the system In the current literature, authors have defined the normal behavior of the network with regard to their own view...

Ngày tải lên: 05/03/2014, 23:20

... Qualitative Survey ENTERPRISE ADJUSTMENT AND THE ROLE OF B ANK CREDIT IN RUSSIA: EVIDENCE FROM A 420 FIRM'S QUALITATIVE SURVEY* INTRODUCTION The largest part of the micro-economic literature on ... Credit in Russia: Evidence from a 420 Firm's Qualitative Survey SUMMARY This paper is based upon the primary data collected by the enterprise survey realised since 1992 by the Russian Economic Barometer, ... and measurement errors of the accounting data used in the literature, see Shaffer (1998, page 85) CEPII, Document de travail n° 99-06 surveys of firms In a context where the quality of the accounts...

Ngày tải lên: 06/03/2014, 08:20

... Resident Matching Program (NRMP) conducted a survey of the directors of all programs participating in the 2008 Main Residency Match The primary purpose of the survey was to shed light on the factors ... the Match The survey was fielded during the 19 days between the rank order list deadline and Match Week so that program match outcomes would not influence respondents' answers The survey solicited ... 50-74% Percent of Interview Slots Filled NRMP Program Director Survey Results, 2008 75-99% 100% Anesthesiology NRMP Program Director Survey Results, 2008 Figure AN-1 Anesthesiology Percentage of...

Ngày tải lên: 08/03/2014, 17:20

... countries, the survey provides useful results The findings of the survey should however be read with some caution as this type of survey may provide somewhat biased answers Key findings of the survey ... International Auditing and Assurance Standard Board (IAASB) The Survey The Accounting Task Force of the Basel Committee conducted a survey during 2001 and 2002 to find out how key arrangements have ... the Institute of Internal Auditors (IIA), presents a broad overview of the findings of the survey The survey covered the banking supervisors and 71 banks in the following countries represented...

Ngày tải lên: 11/03/2014, 02:20

... Qual 5:174 33 Appendix A Poultry Survey Please fill out this survey that has been given to you by your Service Person Your Service Person will pick up the completed survey at their next visit Q1) ... distribute and collect the survey from each of their producers This was done during the fall of 1994 Because of the industry cooperation, 53% (199 respondents) of the surveys sent out were returned ... personnel, a needs assessment is underway A component of that assessment was the completion of a survey of poultry producers to determine specific sizes of operations, management of litter, types...

Ngày tải lên: 17/03/2014, 10:20

... change Fold change 0.4 ** FLAG -CP2 : CP2 shRNA : 0.7 TF-luc 10 1.0 – – + ++ ++ – – + 1.0 0.5 CP2 shRNA : – + Endo CP2 FLAG -CP2 β-tubulin β-tubulin Fig Transcription factor CP2 increases the endogenous ... (100% black, 80% gray) Boxes indicate conserved CP2 sites (CP2 I, GGGGCAGTGAGGGGCGGTG; CP2 II, GGGCAAGCGGGAACCAGGT; CP2 III, ATCTGTTTATTTCTGGCCG; CP2 IV, CCCCAAACCAA) and their positions relative ... by CP2 A S.-M Jang et al TF-Luc ** B ** Fold increase Fold increase n.s TF-luc ** 1 5 10 20 20 CP2 shRNA : – – – – + Aβ1–42 (nM): 50 100 50 100 CP2 shRNA : – – – + + + WB: anti -CP2 WB : anti-CP2...

Ngày tải lên: 23/03/2014, 03:20

... http://ehs.sph.berkeley.edu/krsmith/Publications/WHO_Near_Term_Health_Benefits .pdf Smith, K.R., 1999 "Indoor Air Pollution", Pollution Management Discussion Note, Number 4, The World Bank, August 1999 http://ehs.sph.berkeley.edu/krsmith/Publications/In_Focus_4 .pdf Yang, ... little about the actual costs from poor IAQ in buildings This paper reports on the results of a literature search of buildings-related, business and legal databases, and interviews with insurance ... direct costs to the insurance industry of poor building IAQ, as well as the costs of litigation The literature search turned up little specific cost information, but indicated that there is strong...

Ngày tải lên: 23/03/2014, 04:20

... individuals who gave their time for interviews Survey Foreword Survey Foreword Richard Saunders Chief Executive This is the IMA’s tenth annual survey of the UK asset management industry Assets ... 69 79 81 83 83 84 86 89 90 90 90 95 95 96 97 99 Investment Management Association About the Survey The Survey focuses on asset management activity in the UK on behalf of domestic and overseas clients ... listed in Appendix Four and firms interviewed in Appendix Five The Survey has been designed with comparability to the previous surveys in mind However, even where firms replied in consecutive years,...

Ngày tải lên: 30/03/2014, 12:20

... knowledge and experiences in forest management as a response to climate change, based on a literature review and a survey of forest managers This is part of an FAO-led process to prepare climate change ... Forests and Climate Change Working Paper 10 Forest Management and Climate Change: a literature review Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations Rome, 2012   Cover photo: ... changing requirements related to forest production and trade Forest managers’ responses A global survey by FAO found that, although most forest managers are aware of and concerned about climate...

Ngày tải lên: 31/03/2014, 13:20

... ISBN-978-92-64-03990-2 © OECD/NRDC 2008 ENGLISH-LANGUAGE LITERATURE REVIEW – Introduction (Note: where references are made to the material surveyed in the literature review, they are printed in bold text ... English-language Literature Review Jay Derrick and Kathryn Ecclestone TEACHING, LEARNING AND ASSESSMENT FOR ADULTS: IMPROVING FOUNDATION SKILLS – ISBN-978-92-64-03990-2 © OECD/NRDC 2008 ENGLISH-LANGUAGE LITERATURE ... SKILLS – ISBN-978-92-64-03990-2 © OECD/NRDC 2008 – ENGLISH-LANGUAGE LITERATURE REVIEW main points arising from the discussion of the literature under each theme is given at the end of the relevant...

Ngày tải lên: 02/04/2014, 05:20

... into future and leading trends, Ernst and Young recently conducted a survey of Internal Audit executives worldwide In short, the survey reveals that Internal Audit is in the middle of an evolutionary ... Operations Quality The Ernst & Young Internal Audit Framework About The Survey This report highlights the findings of our survey of Internal Audit executives representing 138 predominately public ... as the practices used to execute audits and provide service Global Internal Audit Survey 2007 Governance Our survey results indicate that the number of companies where Internal Audit maintains...

Ngày tải lên: 03/04/2014, 02:20

... force for a sphere are discussed at the end of this thesis Acknowledgments I would like to thank Professor M Di Ventra for suggesting this thesis topic The continuing support and encouragement ... Finally, the introduction of this thesis is concluded with a brief review of the past developments, followed by a brief outline of the organization of this thesis and its contributions to the ... to the best of my knowledge my original development It constitutes the major part of this thesis This thesis is not about questioning the theoretical origin of the Casimir effect Instead, its...

Ngày tải lên: 24/04/2014, 17:09

... drillhole Introduction • Survey table file: this file provides all the necessary information to derive the co-ordinates of individual samples in space The combination of the survey and collar tables ... estimation properties, usability and time requirements 1.7 Thesis Overview Given below is a description of the chapters included in this thesis: • Chapter - Artificial Neural Networks Theory Gives ... Abstract Affirmation The following papers have been published based on the research presented in this thesis: Kapageridis I., Denby B Ore grade estimation with modular neural network systems – a case...

Ngày tải lên: 28/04/2014, 11:35

... 36 iii iv References 41 Author index 52 Chapter Introduction This report is a survey of the literature relevant to active machine learning in the context of natural language processing ... (1997), and Witten and Frank (2005) I would also like to point the curious reader to the survey of the literature of active learning by Settles (Settles 2009) The web version is available at ... speed up annotation/labeling work of any linguistic data?” Thus, one of the reasons to compile this survey is simply to help spread the word about the fundamentals of active learning to the practitioners...

Ngày tải lên: 02/06/2014, 09:22

... unknown, recovering the shape from ACM Computing Surveys, Vol 35, No 4, December 2003 Face Recognition: A Literature Survey 445 Fig 21 Image synthesis example Original image (a) and its quotient ... has received increased attention and has advanced ACM Computing Surveys, Vol 35, No 4, December 2003 Face Recognition: A Literature Survey technically Many commercial systems for still face recognition ... has also been studied, with the conclusion that ACM Computing Surveys, Vol 35, No 4, December 2003 Face Recognition: A Literature Survey the more attractive the faces are, the better is their...

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