practical performance in parsing

... established precooling strat-egy is superior to hyperhydration, in reducing thermo-regulatory strain and improving exercise performance Despite increasing fluid intake and reducing core body temperature, ... currently remains speculative While results of the present study may indicate that the precooling and hyperhydration interventions used are inef-fective in enhancing real life sporting performance, ... served at 4°C in the 90 min before [36] and/or during [37,38] an exercise task performed in hot and humid conditions Interestingly, we observed a sus-tained cooling effect with mean baseline rectal

Ngày tải lên: 02/11/2022, 09:22

... final inspection pass rate There are several types of inspection that are being done by focal company’s QA team They include pilot inspection, inline inspection, pre-final inspection, and final ... Analyzing an entire business process using specific indicators can be a challenging task According to Lee & Rim's definition [2], the overall performance 𝑃( ) of a business can be determined by ... method using cause and effect mapping and business key performance index (KPI) to improve business performance [13, 11] Li et al studied the bullwhip effect in an uncertain supply chain system

Ngày tải lên: 30/07/2024, 16:25

... be inefficient in explaining the relationship between CEO compensation and firm performance in the U.S scheduled passenger airline industry The business press reports that in the airline industry, ... in their approach to CEO compensation Comparisons of CEO compensation and firm performance in the U.S airline industry may aid those seeking to invest in the industry as well as forward looking ... structure of the industry causes instability Hecker (2005) argues that the inherent instability of the airline industry can be traced to the structure of the industry and its economics, including the

Ngày tải lên: 11/09/2013, 11:44

... fisheries), energy, construction, and manufacturing (including mining) Pollutants, waste, and materials dissipation stem mainly from manufacturing (including mining), energy produc-tion and consumpproduc-tion, ... the clearing and burning of tropical forests, inspiring research, and influenc-ing policy actions in several countries WRI has continued to publish the greenhouse index and to note trends in greenhouse ... to maintain environ-mental quality True, local air quality indicators or smog indices of one kind or another are in com-mon use in a number of industrial countries, but only a handful of indicators

Ngày tải lên: 15/03/2014, 16:20

... signs of improvement in providing members with information to make clinical decisions concerning preference-sensitive care, identifying gaps in care and engaging members in health improvement ... for improving, managing and maintaining workforce health by adopting and expanding the use of fi nancial incentives (32%) and taking more aggressive steps to enroll employees in account-based health ... Growing Emphasis on Financial Management 21 Changing Pharmacy Landscape 22 Building the Case for Transparency 23 Embracing Technology to Engage Employees 24 Expanding Use of Financial Incentives

Ngày tải lên: 15/03/2014, 21:20

... wage increases The coreelaton may reflect simply an increase in productivity caused by a relative increase inthe portion of skilled labor In a related vein, Tan (2000) investigates manufacturing ... (1995) Another frm performance used inthis paper is fim peoduetivity This measure has also ‘been used in numerous studies, including Baldwin and Rafiguzzaman (1995), Baldwin (1995), Bartel and ... frm increases productivity by reducing employment (Baily Bartelsman, and Haltiwanger 1996) In such an instance, productivity would indicate superior performance, while employment would suggest inferior

Ngày tải lên: 17/03/2014, 18:20

... pupils, pronouncing each word distinctly and giving such other instruction as may be needed In preparing the lesson the pupil should learn and adopt the preferred pronunciation only, using the other ... ĭn-ĕks´[+o]-rȧ-b'l * inexplicable ĭn-ĕks´plĭ-kȧ-b'l * infinitely ĭn´fĭ-nĭt-ly̆, * not ĭn-fĭn´ĭt-ly̆ interesting ĭn´tẽr-ĕst-ĭng * interpolate ĭn-tẽr´p[+o]-lāt * interstice ĭn-tẽr´stĭs ... reference and general information In the back of the book will be found a list of all the words given in this manual arranged in order corresponding to the pages and numbered accordingly for convenient

Ngày tải lên: 22/03/2014, 16:22

... thigh, and my lower leg; and three joints: my hip joint, my knee joint, my ankle joint 5 My foot is used in standing, walking, running, skating, and jumping: Trang 10[10] QUESTIONS FOR THE FORMULA ... many joints has your arm?—"Three joints: my shoulder joint, my elbow joint, my wrist joint." How many joints has your leg?—"Three joints: my hip joint, my knee joint, my ankle joint." ... joint." What are joints?—"Bending places." How many kinds of joints have you?—"Two: hinge joints, and ball-and-socket joints." What kind of a joint is the shoulder joint?—"A ball-and-socket

Ngày tải lên: 22/03/2014, 22:20

... of this book may be reprinted or reproduced or utilised in any form or by any electronic, mechanical, or other means, including photocopying and recording, or in any information storage or retrieval ... school environment, and the interest and experience of learners in the language of instruction and mathematics in both Grade 9 and Grade 11 These data were combined into nine indices (one for school ... drawn Inferences to the wider school system would be risky Nonetheless, the general finding in this study – that social and economic variables do not play an enormous role in determining performance

Ngày tải lên: 23/03/2014, 09:21

... types of institutions in the Spanish depository industry during 1986-1995. They find that mutual institutions are more non-interest cost inefficient than commercial banks, but when performing a ... Both savings and cooperative banks have a role as “dual- bottom” line institutions, combining social and financial objectives and they both have a deep local focus. What distinguishes savings banks ... their main source of funding. However, as Amess (2002) points out, mutuals make their customers members, generating a perception of being part of the organization and thus increasing member inertia.

Ngày tải lên: 29/03/2014, 09:20

... book may be reproduced in any form by any electronic or mechanical means (including photocopying, recording, or information storage and retrieval) without permission in writing from RAND. Published ... analysis in mid-2003, and so the information provided in thisdocument is generally current up to that point However, in someinstances, the authors quote or cite source material predating 2003 In those ... particularly as it pertains to security This report shouldinterest those involved in contracting, force structure, or military Trang 4operations and support planning processes Arroyo’s findings on thefirst

Ngày tải lên: 30/03/2014, 15:20

... orders incorrectly used the simple heuristic presented above in our experi-ments in this paper We explain this misestimation here because it is an interesting, subtle problem in scheduling using ... LATE in several set-tings Section 6 is a discussion Section 7 presents re-lated work Finally, we conclude in Section 8 Figure 1: A MapReduce computation Image from [8] 2 Background: Scheduling in ... not address it in this paper Tasks in MapReduce should be small, otherwise a single large task will slow down the entire job In a well-behaved MapReduce job, the separation of input into equal chunks

Ngày tải lên: 30/03/2014, 16:20

... the supply chain 4 Identifying and participating in additional supply chains 5 Establishing more frequent contact with supply chain members 6 Involving all supply chain members in your firm’s ... by resulting accurate and timely information (Cigolini et al 2004), and internal cost savings in functional areas such as warehousing, manufacturing, and accounting via the adoption of information ... organisational performance in a supply chain 275 Trang 4manufacturing firm Firms operating within highperforming supply chains exhibit high levels of logistics performance (Bowersox et al 2000) Logistics performance

Ngày tải lên: 28/05/2014, 20:34

... rewarding individual versus team efforts; reflecting process and outcome indicators; judging the right level of incentives; allowing for very different starting points and situations; designing ... accompanying measures (such as investments in training, equipment and overall resources) In OECD countries, paying for performance is gener-ally described as a tool for improving quality [4] In low ... growing interest in using pay-for-performance mechanisms in low and middle-income countries in order to improve the performance of health care providers However, at present there is a dearth of independent

Ngày tải lên: 18/06/2014, 17:20

... well in neutral talking environments [1 4]; however, such systems perform poorly in stressful talking environments [5 13] Neutral talking environments are defined as the talking envi-ronments in ... achieved in this work in each of the neutral and shouted talking environments is consistent with that obtained in [9] using a different speech database (forty speakers uttering ten isolated words in ... LTR-SPHMM1s, respectively, in the neutral talking condition using SUSAS database [10, 11] In the angry talking con-dition using the same database, Shahin achieved speaker identification performance of 79.0%

Ngày tải lên: 21/06/2014, 16:20

... RTTminupdating algorithm, in which RTTmin is multiplied by a reducing factor less than one However, since the RTTmin updating algorithm is invoked whenever a congestion event occurs, RTTmin goes ... number of backlogged segmentsN in the network It updates a three-state machine based on the changes of N Within the state machine, an increase ofN during two consecutive intervals leads to the transition ... wireless link In LL-ELSN, there is no additional transmission over the wireless link and thus it has no detection failure in uplink communication LL-ELSN also has no detection failure in downlink communication

Ngày tải lên: 21/06/2014, 20:20

... the performance in-dices In the following subsections, we present performance results of both routing protocols in small- and medium-scale testbeds 4.1 Small-scale testbed: string topology in indoor ... unidirectional links in AODV have been pro-posed in [17] However, before explaining these techniques, it is worth pointing out how AODV originally establishes valid routes exploiting unidirectional links ... ranges Instead, an asymmetric link is caused by the difference in interference conditions at the ends of the link that produces different link qualities in the two directions The main distinction

Ngày tải lên: 22/06/2014, 19:20

... variables in none of the species, but decreased pine survival Storage in gunny bags led to a desiccation in all plant components but in pine buds In pine, RGP and survival after outplanting decreased ... were determined on one individual pine needle per seedling at the end of the storage periods, in darkness 2.3 Seedling performance Ten seedlings per treatment (excepted for oak stored in bags) ... desicca-tion The results obtained here for pine, pointing to the absence of bud desiccation during desiccation (figure 1), are consistent with these findings In contrast, in oaks, buds underwent the

Ngày tải lên: 08/08/2014, 14:21

... experience performing eight activ-ities (dressing, getting out of bed, lifting a cup, walking, bathing, bending, turning faucets, and getting in and out of a car), on a scale ranging from 1 to 4 ... carrying groceries; climbing several flights of stairs; climbing one flight of stairs; bending, kneeling or stooping; walking more than a mile; walking several blocks; walking one block; and bathing ... examination A physician or research nurse, trained in joint examination techniques, assessed 48 joints in each patient for the pres-ence or abspres-ence of tenderness or pain on motion, swelling,

Ngày tải lên: 09/08/2014, 01:23

... performance in the following simulated match in wrestlers In addition, Trang 5BCAA and arginine did not provide additional insulinemic effect Keywords: high-intensity intermittent exercise; insulinemic; ... uptake in human forearm muscles in a dose-dependent manner despite the elevated plasma insulin levels [45] Infusion of amino acid mixtures containing BCAA and arginine also impaired insulin-stimulated ... restore the performance in the subsequent simulated wrestling match The effect of branched-chain amino acids and arginine on glucose disposal and performance was also investigated Nine well-trained

Ngày tải lên: 11/08/2014, 23:21