... credit history and scores from the three main credit reporting agencies so you have an idea of the type of loan you can qualify for If your credit report has errors it may be worth the effort to clear ... will be more likely to work hard for success when your personal assets are also involved 3 Key Qualities to Look for In a Lender Take the following factors into consideration when looking for the ... the loan that you will be able to get may vary by mortgage lender Therefore, you will want to preauthorize the loan prior to looking for property or equipment to purchase Making Your Final Selection
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... vice verse Therefore, with a view to gaining some insights into students’ attitudes towards reading to ascertain what reading task (top-down or bottom-up) EFL students prefer to use and find out ... need much more time and effort to measure separately the behavioral response with the two models: bottom-up and top-down In this case, the behavior is understood as “the action readiness for reading” ... their positive attitude towards both Bottom- up and Top-down reading tasks; however, they put their positive attitude to the Bottom-up tasks and preferred to do these tasks more Through the findings,
Ngày tải lên: 10/07/2015, 14:50
Project management blending bottom up and top down approaches
... Bottom-up and Top-down ApproachesTrang 2November, 2008 laid off 675 workers & postponed the new $450 million plant U.S Steel 2nd quarter of 2008 reports record profits Trang 5Bottom-up ... works in the real worldNissan’s internal social networking site "makes it easier for employees to tap into the expertise they need to do a better job " Simon Sproule, Nissan’s Corporate ... dialogue are 250% more likely to survive Teams that foster dialogue are 250% more likely to survive Trang 8Often criticized for lack of clarity & control Is bottom-up the right solution?
Ngày tải lên: 27/11/2015, 12:30
Up or out next moves for the modern expatriate
... 1Sponsored byTrang 2© The Economist Intelligence Unit Limited 2010 1 About this report Up or out: Next moves for the modern expatriate is an Economist Intelligence Unit (EIU) report sponsored ... “Fifteen to twenty years ago, they would only send out expats to manage local operations Now more local talent has developed.” According to some in-house heads of mobility interviewed for this report, ... that employees only have to look at the top tier of their company to understand how difficult it can be to get to the top without international experience “Out of our senior management cadre of
Ngày tải lên: 06/12/2015, 23:10
Understanding why cancer patients accept or turn down psycho-oncological support: A prospective observational study including patients’ and clinicians’ perspectives on communication about
... supportive care However, only a moderate proportion of distressed patients accepts referrals to or uses psycho-oncological support services Predictors and barriers to psycho-oncological support ... (“never”) to 5 (“always”) Scores are summed (range 5–25) and higher scores indicate higher levels of perceived social support Scores are dichotomized into high and low social support Low social support ... reasons for or against support service uptake In their review, Dilworth and colleagues [27] describe the primary patient-reported reason for refusing support services as, “no subjective need for psychosocial
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ISO 25780:2011 Plastics piping systems for pressure and nonpressure water supply, irrigation, drainage or sewerage — Glassreinforced thermosetting plastics (GRP) systems based on unsaturated polyester (UP) resin — Pipes with flexible joints intended to be
... (see 3.38) with elastomeric seals Flexible joints shall be tested using test-pieces conforming to 7.6.2 To prove conformity to the requirements for performance under internal or external hydrostatic ... specified, store the test-pieces for at least 0,5 h at the test temperature prior to testing In cases of dispute, condition test-pieces for 24 h at (23 ± 3) °C before testing, or subject them to a mutually ... declared by the pipe manufacturer is calculated in accordance with Annex C and does not include any safety factor to be used by the contractor to take account of the jacking method and subsequent
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100 words almost everyone mixes up or mangles
... No part of this work may be reproduced or transmitted in any form or by any means, electronic or mechanical, including photocopying and recording, or by any information storage or retrieval system ... 1 To change something for the better; improve: We took steps to amend the situation 2 To alter the wording of a legal document, for example, so as to make it more suitable or acceptable 3 To ... condemned the felons to prison 3 To judge or declare to be unfit for use or consump- tion, usually by official order: condemn an old build- ing 4 To force someone to experience, endure, or do something:
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A Study on the Optimum Backwashing Method applied to Activated Carbon Process in Waterworks
... analyzed filtered outflow water according to operation time after backwashing in order to extract factors necessary for determining the optimum backwash period as a base for efficient management of advanced ... performed at L water position Accordingly, as a method for raising backwash velocity according to increase in water temperature, water position before backwashing will be controlled downward to ... quality (4) TOC(Total organic carbon) On picking water, TOC was measured by TOC analyzer(SHIMAZU 5000A) (5) THMFP(Trihalomethane formation potential) Until free residual chlorine became
Ngày tải lên: 05/09/2013, 08:40
Tài liệu engineering geology applied to the design and operation of ungerground coal mines ppt
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Ngày tải lên: 21/02/2014, 08:20
Scenario Graphs Applied to Network Security pot
... model a network using either the tuple of inputs,S, R, S0, L, in the first algorithm (Figure 1) or the B¨ucchi automaton,M , of the second algorithm (Figure 2). To be concrete, for the remainder ... this chapter we will work in the context of the second algorithm Also, ratherthan use the full B¨ucchi automaton to model attacks on a network, for our application to network security, we use ... activity worth modeling explicitly is administrative steps taken either to hinder an attack in progress or torepair the damage after an attack has occurred The former corresponds to transitioning to
Ngày tải lên: 22/03/2014, 15:21
System dynamics applied to project management: a survey, assessment, and directions for future research potx
... contract toreview and approve design drawings, to provide information about equipmentprovided by the client or another contractor, or to provide key components ortest equipment Contractor responsible ... tasks that need to be done in order to fix the problem, or can increasethe work required because fixing the errors takes more effort than doing theoriginal work Taylor and Ford (2006) demonstrate that ... in the stock “Original Work to Do”.Progress is made by applying effort A fraction of the work being done at anypoint in time contains errors Work done correctly enters the “Work Done”stock and
Ngày tải lên: 30/03/2014, 01:20
NEUBER'S RULE APPLIED TO FATIGUE OF NOTCHED SPECIMENS
... authors have suggested theoretical or empiricalexpressions for evaluating a "fatigue stress concentration factor." Kf) which corrects for size effect In this paper we employ Kf factors ... Moore Fracture Research Laboratories of the Department of Theoretical and Applied Mechanics, University of Illinois, in cooperation with the Aeronautical Structures Laboratory of the NavE 1 Air Engineering ... Peak to peak change in the above quantities during one reversal K Theoretical stress concentration factor t Ka Stress concentration factor, Au divided by AS K E Strain concentration factor,
Ngày tải lên: 24/05/2014, 20:28
recent advances in nanotechnology applied to biosensors
... F1-ATPase motors and GNRs[28] The biosensor overcomes the defects inherent to PCR or LCR, is faster and reaches zeptomol concentrations, which is greatly superior to traditional fluorescence-based ... was increased 3-fold to close to 1 mA/cm2 for glucose sensors Similar effects were also observed when SWNTs were modified with horseradish peroxidase prior to incorporation into redox hydrogels ... within chromatophores; (9) chromatophores (b) Changes of fluorescence intensity of QD biosensors with and without viruses Curve a: The changes of fluorescence intensity of orange QD biosensors without
Ngày tải lên: 28/05/2014, 15:12
A virtual network organization business management model applied to retail banking
... combine to satisfy a common need (Fan & Goyal, 2006) Virtual networked organization (VNO): A temporary or permanent business network of independents including suppliers, customers, or even ... applicable to the retail financial services area There is a six-part information technology framework for undertaking industry–academia collaboration This framework includes a network/transport layer, ... low-cost world, thereby portraying a compelling business case for the organizations to adopt an integrated core banking system with a low-cost operation platform (Catallozzi, 2007) The need to reexamine
Ngày tải lên: 01/06/2014, 13:57
báo cáo hóa học: " Psychometric properties of the Child Health Assessment Questionnaire (CHAQ) applied to children and adolescents with cerebral palsy" ppt
... quadriplegia according to motor involvement [24] The motor function was evaluated according to the Gross Motor Function Classification System (GMFCS) and the patients were grouped into five levels ... assessment questionnaire The Journal of Rheumatology 1994, 21:2349-2352. 28 Ruperto N, Ravelli A, Pistorio A, Malattia C, Cavuto S, Gado-West L, Tortorelli A, Landgraf JM, Singh G, Martini A: Cross-cultural ... the age factor but also to the motor limitation of the patient Therefore the proportion of questionnaires with "not applicable" items for each domain was analyzed and shown to be useful
Ngày tải lên: 18/06/2014, 19:20
báo cáo hóa học: " SLAM algorithm applied to robotics assistance for navigation in unknown environments" pot
... sensor systems or manip-ulators are developed to offer autonomous or semi-autonomous navigation, suitable for severely disabled users The MOVAID, [28], project and the Nursery Robot System for ... SLAM, stores both endpoints of all segments in a global coordinates frame The secondary map is updated and corrected according to the EKF map improvement Therefore, if a new line is added to the ... choice is to command the robot with the pronation and supi-nation from the right hand (or left, according to the volunteer’s decision) These EMG signals were recorded only in biceps and pronator muscles,
Ngày tải lên: 19/06/2014, 08:20
báo cáo hóa học: " Human-machine interfaces based on EMG and EEG applied to robotic systems" pot
... with motor dysfunction and a mechanical device Furthermore, the signal level corresponding to EMG signals is higher when compared to the level corre-sponding to EEG signals, thus being easier to ... BCI to guide a mobile robot in an indoor structured environment, thus emulating a wheelchair tak-ing the operator to the rooms of a house or office, for example In the second one, the operator ... the manipulator, moving its end effector towards the desired position At the same time, the data incoming from encoders are sent back to the user's PC (the local computer) in order to update the
Ngày tải lên: 19/06/2014, 10:20
Báo cáo hóa học: " Inequalities for Green’s operator applied to the minimizers" doc
... operator and can be used to estimate the norms of other operators applied to differential forms 2000 Mathematics Subject Classification: Primary: 35J60; Secondary 31B05, 58A10, 46E35 Keywords: ... and global norm inequalities for Green’s operator proved in this paper can be used to estimate other operators applied to a k-quasi-minimizer Here, we give an example using Theorem 2.3 to estimate ... projection or sometimes the harmonic part of u and Δ is the Laplace-Beltrami operator, see [2,7-11] for more properties of Green’s operator In this paper, we alway use G to denote Green’s operator 2
Ngày tải lên: 20/06/2014, 22:20
Báo cáo hóa học: " Research Article Time-Frequency-Based Speech Regions Characterization and Eigenvalue Decomposition Applied to Speech Watermarking" pptx
... amount of attacks is time scaling up to 4%, wow up to 0.5% or 0.7%, echo 50 ms or 100 ms [5], and so forth, providing the probability of error of order 10−6 We have applied the same types of attacks, ... keys Wrong trials Figure 7: The normalized detector responses for a set of right keys and wrong trials (for the proposed approach) of normalized detector responses for right keys (red line) and wrong ... ω), the autocorrelation matrixRSMD is calculated according to (21) The eigenvalues and eigenvectors are obtained by using the eigenvalues decomposition ofRSMD The eigenvectors are equal to the signal
Ngày tải lên: 21/06/2014, 08:20
Báo cáo hóa học: " Research Article Design and Implementation of a Generic Energy-Harvesting Framework Applied to the Evaluation of a Large-Scale Electronic Shelf-Labeling Wireless Sensor Network" pdf
... semiconductor; (ii) interface connector to the main PCB; (iii) interface connectors to the 192 segment display: 4 hirose connectors; (iv) connectors for 2 solar cells, one connector for each solar ... harvesters is AC or unstable DC Since only a stabilized DC voltage is able to power our sensor nodes, an AC-DC or a DC-DC convertor is necessary to provide a constant supply voltage to the sensor node ... is shown An additional storage element makes it possible for B to power A This intermediate rechargeable battery or capacitor is needed to catch temporal fluctuations on or discrepancies between
Ngày tải lên: 21/06/2014, 11:20