target achievement and continuous improvement

... and 1.8-Gy daily fractions The intended targeted tissues included the gross tumor and nodal disease, which were contoured based on the CT simulation scan, mesorectum, and the internal iliac and ... relatively sparse Guerrero Urbano and colleagues compared IMRT with 3DCRT in five patients, and found small bowel sparing with IMRT only at the 40-Gy level and higher [16] Tho and colleagues selected eight ... physician, and subsequently reviewed by an attending physician Delineation of the clinical target volume (CTV) included the gross tumor and involved lymph nodes, mesorectum, presacral and internal...

Ngày tải lên: 09/08/2014, 09:20

... for fuselage, and wings and navigation equipment; the growing demands of customers, fueling and being fueled by new developments; and the growth of competition targeting the same demand base As ... Swamidass, 2002; Womack and Jones, 2003) We examine the reasons and underlying mechanisms for the development of new continuous improvement (CI) programs and their subsequent entry and exit from the ... practices for conducting and coordinating ongoing process improvement and for sustaining the motivation and ability among employees to continually work toward such improvement (Benner and Tushman, 2003;...

Ngày tải lên: 02/11/2014, 00:27

... business and pleasure, you’ll get the best welcome, have chance to meet and analyse the others as they arrive • Deal with Paperwork Immediately Always keep ahead of your paperwork both important and ... or tell people at what time you’ll make a decision (and stick to it) Decision making becomes easier with practice • Study your Weaknesses and Attack them Aggressively You don’t usually don’t ... going! • Positive Thinking Only accept positive views on life, people and projects Stop reading gloomy newspapers etc, try and mix with positive go-getters Choose success • Improve your Decision...

Ngày tải lên: 18/10/2013, 00:15

... connector designs and cable assembly production processes and to ensure connectors meet requirements for both inside plant and outside plant applications The results of continuous improvement efforts ... normal handling and use Several standard mechanical tests have been developed to measure the cable assembly ability to stand up to proof test loads Tests are defined for straight pull and side ... connector performance and reliability, service providers have turned to the industry standards organizations and independent test agencies to develop improved standards and test programs that...

Ngày tải lên: 24/01/2014, 11:20

... Rotterdam, the Netherlands Organization for Health Research and Development (ZonMw), the Netherlands Organisation for Scientific Research (NWO), the Ministry of Health, Welfare and Sport, and the Ministry ... month, week (e.g., working days and weekend days), and day (e.g., morning and evening rush hour) The adjustment for temporal patterns was performed for traffic and for household emissions Traffic ... prenatal and postnatal air pollution exposure on various health outcomes in mothers and children, including reproductive outcomes, growth and development, cognitive function, respiratory function, and...

Ngày tải lên: 06/03/2014, 19:20

... homogeneity and characterized We also provide evidence that amiclenomycin and a new analogue irreversibly inactivate M tuberculosis DAPA AT Results and Discussion Cloning, expression and purication ... described above, and by varying AdoMet and KAPA concentrations The inhibition type and the inhibition constant displayed by KAPA were determined using the HanesWoolf plot Vm and KmAdoMet were ... well characterized [1317], and its 3D structure determined [18,19] We have reported the total synthesis of natural amiclenomycin [20] and some of its analogues [21] and have deciphered the mode...

Ngày tải lên: 07/03/2014, 11:20

... of the two word alignments, and then continuously add new links between backbone and hypothesis if and only if both of the two words of the new link are unaligned and this link exists in the ... parallel corpora word alignment p (ei′) and p(ei′+1 ) are probabilities of hypothesis word ei′ and ei′+1 respectively e3 N-gram posterior probabilities (Zens and Ney, 2006) The n-grams used in the ... alignments It is straightforward for GIZA++ and IHMM to generate bi-directional word alignments This is simply achieved by switching the parameters of source and target sentences Due to the nature of...

Ngày tải lên: 17/03/2014, 01:20

... dominated by two EF-hand pairs forming the C- and N-terminal lobes and a long a-helix connecting the two lobes The two EF-hand pairs share 48% sequence identity and 75% sequence homology and the peptide ... thumb and index finger of a hand: it is commonly called the EF-hand motif In almost all Ca2+-binding proteins two EF-hand motifs are in close proximity forming an EF-hand pair This consists of four ... pentraxins, annexins and in C2 domains [36–39] The C2 domains consist of about 130 amino acids forming a compact b-sandwich composed of two four-stranded antiparallel b-sheets and bind up to three...

Ngày tải lên: 17/03/2014, 09:20

... (ASAs), Auditing and Assurance Standards (AUSs), standards issued by the Information Systems Audit and Control Association (ISACA), Standards Australia and the International Standards Organisation ISO) ... internal and external audit and other relevant report recommendations Actively manages any external service providers, and  Is  subject to periodic assessment and review as part of a continuous improvement process ... management S and fraud control This can result in work areas being known by such titles as Risk Management and Assurance, Audit and Investigations, Governance and Assurance, and Assurance and Risk...

Ngày tải lên: 23/03/2014, 04:20

... Choosing a Target Journal and Using Its Instructions to Authors Barbara Gastel, MD, MPH Texas A&M University bgastel@cvm.tamu.edu Identifying a Target Journal • Decide early ... Identifying a Target Journal • Decide early (before drafting the paper) Do not write the paper and then look for a journal • Look for journals that have published work similar to yours • Consider ... reproduction Likelihood of acceptance Journals’ Instructions to Authors • Usual locations: in the journal and on the journal’s Web site • A collection of instructions from biomedical journals: http://mulford.meduohio.edu/instr/...

Ngày tải lên: 26/03/2014, 14:08

... grammars G1 and G2, whose probabilities axe P1 and P2 respectively, is represented as follows: P(A =~ a) = ~IPI(A =~ c~) +,~P2(A =~ a) < ~ j < l ( j = l , 2) and ~ , + ~ = (4) where A E V and a E ... Zast(sig.(b))), where the functions cont, f u n c and sign take a bun~etsu as their argument and return its content word sequence, its function word sequence and its punctuation respectively In addition, ... to calculate the average cross entropy for all word-class relations and select the best one So we abandoned the best solution and adopted a greedy algorithm as shown in Figure in the descending...

Ngày tải lên: 31/03/2014, 04:20

... experimental results of target tracking and recognition on both IR sequences from the SENSIAC dataset and some visibleband video sequences, and we also discuss the limitations and possible extensions ... sensor (in azimuth and elevation, Figure 8(a)), the target type, the target speed, the range and slant ranges from the sensor to the target (Figure 8(b)), the pixel location of the target centroid, ... chot sen to reflect the possible target dynamics and ground conditions For example, if the candidate pool includes highly maneuvering targets, then large values σϕ and σv2 are needed while tracking...

Ngày tải lên: 20/06/2014, 21:20

... the method of upper and lower solutions and the monotone iteration scheme to reaction-diffusion system with discontinuous coefficients and continuous delays and use these methods and the results of ... show that u1 and u1 are well defined and possess the properties 2.30 and 2.31 for m Assume, by induction, that um and um given by 2.29 are well defined and possess l the properties 2.30 and 2.31 ... , j 1, , n; and for any given k, k 1, , K, and any given Ω ⊂⊂ Ωk and t ∈ 0, T , there exists α ∈ 0, such that ulxi xj ∈ Cα ,α /2 Ω × t , T , i, j 1, , n, l 1, , N, and if ii u satisfies...

Ngày tải lên: 21/06/2014, 05:20

... between v0 and vj with constraint that its demand is smaller than its achievable rate as di < C0i , where rji = and rij = The throughputs of its own data and relay data are depicted R by θji and θji ... Propositions and proofs Considering the MR-MD scenario, five propositions and proofs are analyzed and proved below in detail, including the calculation of DyTSA ratio αji and the system throughput improvement ... receiving and transmitting at the RN in terms of variant achievable rates on different channels and the demands from destinations, has been proposed to improve the spectrum efficiency and maximize...

Ngày tải lên: 21/06/2014, 17:20

... code and 4CPFSK scheme with random interleaver size N = 1024, generator sequence (37, 21) in octal form, and overall rate 2/3 was simulated for AWGN, Rician (Rician fading parameter K = 10 dB) and ... equalizer (LE) and decision feedback equalizers (DFE) are not effective under severe channel conditions To close the performance gap between high- and lowcomplexity equalizers, DDFE is proposed and implemented ... 4,the performances of the proposed MLTC-CPFSK and MLTEQ-CPFSK schemes are presented over AWGN, Rician, Rayleigh, and Proakis B channels, respectively, and the conclusion is stated at the last section...

Ngày tải lên: 21/06/2014, 23:20

... centers and traffic control Therefore, we propose a simple target- tracking algorithm that detects and tracks moving vehicles, and alerts them when they move beyond the safety range The moving target- tracking ... predictor is shown in Figures and The flowchart of grey model construction is shown in Figure 2.2 Tracking moving target A simple algorithm that detects and tracks a moving target and alerts sensor nodes ... computation The goal is to track and predict the movement of an appropriate target and alert the sensors that are close to the predicted path of the target The target can be a moving vehicle,...

Ngày tải lên: 22/06/2014, 19:20

... time and memory by gathering phrase statistics in a single pass and subsequently selecting multiple codebook phrases Our data structure incorporates candidate phrase frequency information and ... appropriate model costs and tractable computation of model inference Hence, OSCR has been improved and optimized through additional heuristics and a streamlined architecture and renamed MDLcompress, ... gene transcript with K-box and GY box motifs underlined in blue text The K-box motif (CUGUGAUG) is a target site for miR-11 and the GY-box motif (UGUCUUCCAU) is a target site for miR-7 itself...

Ngày tải lên: 22/06/2014, 19:20

... 16: Sustainment and Product Improvement Condensed GSAM Handbook This page intentionally left blank 16-2 February 2003 Chapter 16 Sustainment and Product Improvement “My name is Ozymandias, king ... Processes are well characterized and understood, and are described in standards, procedures, tools, and methods Projects tailor organizational standards, procedures, and methods for use by the project ... completely right February 2003 16-5 Chapter 16: Sustainment and Product Improvement Condensed GSAM Handbook 16.3 Product Improvement Product improvement is the result of consistent, deliberate effort...

Ngày tải lên: 07/07/2014, 16:20