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Business Process Management - Who Is Accountable?

Accountability in business and in government is the cornerstone of good governance and ultimately, good performance. Without single point accountability for processes, organisations have no means of ensuring that what have been determined as the goals for the organisation are likely to be met. A useful tool for identifying who...

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Robust speech recognition using fusion techniques and adaptive filtering

INTRODUCTION Speech Recognition SR is a technique aimed at converting a speaker's spoken utterance into a text string or other applications. SR is still far from a solved problem. It is quoted that the best reported word-error rates on English broadcast news and conversational telephone speech are 10...

Articles 2009-02-01

Detection of DNA hypomethylation mediated floral induction in longan and spinach using the HAT-RAPD technique

INTRODUCTION Many plants in temperate zones require a low temperature stress vernalization to induce flowering and fruit production. In some plants such as Arabidopsis and Cichorium intybus the vernalization response has been linked to changes in DNA methylation (1), (2), while the seedlings of other plants like Oryzia...

Articles 2009-02-01

You can win!

YOU CAN WIN THIS FREE VEGA OVER & UNDER 12-GAUGE SHOTGUN! Hunt or target shoot in style with this over & under shotgun from ADCO Sales. Chambered for the ever versatile 12-gauge 3" cartridge and featuring a single trigger, this should be one fun gun in...

Articles 2009-02-01

A combining ability analysis of cassava manihot esculenta Crantz genotypes to anthracnose disease

INTRODUCTION The tropical root crop cassava Manihot esculenta Crantz is the third most important source of calories for human food in the tropics after rice and maize. Over 600 million people depend on cassava in Africa, Asia, and Latin America. Cassava is grown by poor farmers, many of...

Articles 2009-01-01

A new method for constructing the coefficients of pressure correction equation for colocated unstructured grids

INTRODUCTION In the last two decades, solution of Navier Stokes equations using colocated arrangement has received great interests. On the other hand, unstructured grids are popular for solution of flow field in complex geometries. Colocated arrangement has some obvious advantages over staggered grids especially in case of non-orthogonal...

Articles 2009-01-01

p-best approximation on probabilistic normed spaces

INTRODUCTION An interesting and important generalization of the notion of metric space was introduced by Menger under the name of statistical metric space, which is now called probabilistic metric space. Menger made a contribution to resolving the interpretative issue of quantum mechanics. The idea of Menger was to...

Articles 2009-01-01

Barrel break-in?

I've read articles on rifle barrel break-in procedures, but I've never seen an article on handgun barrel break-in. Is there such a thing? Daniel R. Friemoth Via e-mail Only if you're really bored. Frankly, most handguns are simply not accurate enough to have it...

Articles 2009-01-01

California home schooling

We read with great interest your legal beat article on the California home-schooling case ("Home Schoolers Strike Back," Fall 2008). After the article was published, the California Court of Appeal for the Second Appellate District reversed its earlier ruling, which said that parents must be certified teachers before they can...

Articles 2009-01-01

Higher private school share boosts test scores

Proponents of vouchers and other measures that expand access to private schooling often claim that competition from privately operated schools will spur student achievement--and, perhaps, lower costs--in public schools. Critics of such policies, in response, note that the educational benefits of competition are unproven and that student achievement in the...

Articles 2009-01-01

Government Of Canada Procures Imvamune Smallpox Vaccine

Following a Request for Proposal issued in 2007 with the intent to procure an MVA-based, third generation smallpox vaccine, Public Works and Government Services Canada, on behalf of the Canadian Department of National Defence, has awarded a contract to Bavarian Nordic for the delivery of IMVAMUNER. The Canadian...

Articles 2009-01-01

Nuggets give Karl 900th win

TORONTO -- Nene scored 21 points, Carmelo Anthony added 20 and the Denver Nuggets beat the Toronto Raptors 114-107 on Wednesday night. Chauncey Billups scored 18 points and J.R. Smith had 16 for Denver, with Kenyon Martin adding 15 points and reserves Linas Kleiza and Chris Andersen...

Articles 2009-01-01

Obituary: STEVENS, BERNICE

Bernice F. Stevens 1916 ~ 2008 Bernice F. Stevens passed away Thursday, December 25, 2008 in Salt Lake City, Utah.She was born July 29, 1916 in Hooper, Utah to Thomas Fowles and Ellen Elizabeth Cottle Fowles. She attended schools in...

Articles 2009-01-01

Obituary: DAVIES, JOHN

John R Davies Duchesne, Utah John R Davies, age 83, died Dec. 30, 2008 at home.He was born March 30, 1925 in Talmage to William and Esther Cecelia Hamblin Davies. He married Freda Beal September 25, 1948...

Articles 2009-01-01

DSM wins European patent battle with Teijin Aramid

DSM Dyneema has won a patent battle with one of its rivals Teijin Aramid formerly Teijin Twaron. In a case heard by the European Patent Office Boards of Appeal, DSM successfully defended its patent (EP 0 833 742) relating to panels incorporating its high-performance ultra-high molecular weight polyethylene...

Articles 2009-01-01

DSM sells Solutech to Lydall

DSM has reached a definitive agreement to sell its Solutech business to Lydall Inc. Financial details of the transaction will not be disclosed. Royal DSM NV is a company with global interests in materials and life sciences, with its headquarters in The Netherlands. Based in the USA, Lydall...

Articles 2009-01-01

Bring your lunch: want to save money and cut calories? Try this easy strategy

The waitress at your favorite diner may know your order by heart, but that's not good for your waistline--or your wallet. Pack your lunch instead and you can easily help both. "Making meals gives you control over fat and calories," says Kerry Neville, R.D., a Seattle spokeswoman for the American...

Articles 2009-01-01

Why being tired makes you fat

GETTING SHORTCHANGED ON SLEEP probably won't cause you to eat bigger meals, but it could prompt you to snack more, finds a recent study from the University of Chicago Medical Center. Adults who got five and a half hours of shut-eye ate 221 more calories from snack foods than those...

Articles 2009-01-01

The supermarket mistake that can make you sick

Many of us glance at the expiration date on milk before we buy it, but how often do we check other perishable items? In a recent study conducted by Consumer Reports, mystery shoppers visited 31 grocery stores to scan the shelves for foods past their prime. In a single trip,...

Articles 2009-01-01

This month's goal hit the party circuit—and still stay slim: indulge and ward of weight gain with these strategies

* Holiday soirees and dinners are always a blast, but the aftermath may leave you feeling anything but festive. Research shows that the average woman gains about 1 pound between Thanksgiving and New Year's Day--and doesn't drop it. Fortunately, there are a few easy moves you can make throughout the...

Articles 2009-01-01