Businesses are increasingly harnessing social media's marketing potentials. This paper explains the major faux pas of social networking to avoid if one is to fully reap its benefits. The final analogy is that a social network site is like a cafe. Like-minded people congregate, and rules are defined partially by...
A good analogy does not just invoke some chance resemblance between the thing being explained and the thing introduced to explain it. It capitalizes on a deep similarity between the principles that govern the two things...A good analogy helps you think: the more you ponder it, the...
When people forecast, they often use analogies, but in an unstructured manner. This paper proposes a structured judgmental procedure that involves asking experts to list as many analogies as they can, rate how similar the analogies are to the target situation, and match the outcomes of the analogies with possible...
Maintaining the health of a construction project can help to achieve the desired outcomes of the project. An analogy is drawn to the medical process of a human health check where it is possible to broadly diagnose health in terms of a number of key areas such as blood pressure...
This paper reviews trends in the use of international outsourcing in the Information Technology IT industry and explores implications for the U.S. workforce. Workforce employment projections and the trend for globalization in the IT industry are analyzed. An analogy is developed between current trends in IT workforce and the globalization...
The paper reveals that the structure and operation of human organizations, such as corporations, offer useful insights to designers of self-systems (a.k.a. self-managing or autonomic). Examples include worker/supervisor hierarchies, avoidance of micro-management, and complaint-based tuning. This paper explores the analogy, and describes the design of a self-storage system that borrows...
The absorption of water in a single-fiber reinforced epoxy-matrix composite system has been modelled successfully using the Finite Element method. The modelling was achieved by considering an analogy between mass diffusion and heat-flow. The model also assumed that polymer swelling due to water absorption was linear and analogous to thermal...
This paper looks at how a particular social analogy could be used to help the design of the environment provided by an agent support system. The paper makes use of an example of a Hotel in illustrating the social analogy. It discusses some of the implementation issues and problems that...
An analogy is the production of advertisements (campaigns, programs). Apparently many award-winning advertisements are not effective (i.e. they don't sell the product or service), while many ghastly advertisements are very effective. It's noticeable that management gurus speak of organisations being like biological organisms with a life of their own with...
INTRODUCTION Topological indices of nanotubes are numerical descriptors that are derived from graph of chemical compounds. Such indices based on the distances in graph are widely used for establishing relationships between the structure of nanotubes and their physicochemical properties. Usage of topological indices in biology and chemistry began...
Pixim Inc., a leading provider of imagesensors and processors for enterprise security cameras, announced thatresearch performed by an independent test lab has validated significantcompression advantages -- along with associated cost, storage and filetransfer benefits -- of Pixim's Digital Pixel System® technology. The tests, conducted by dBeech Associates, Ltd.( www.dBeech-Associates.com ),...
NEWPORT BEACH, Calif. -- Jazz Semiconductor, Inc., a Tower Group Company (NASDAQ:TSEM) (TASE:TSEM), and a leader in Analog-Intensive Mixed-Signal AIMS foundry solutions, announced today that Fujitsu Microelectronics Limited has licensed Jazz's high-precision RF models and design kits for RF and very high digital content System-on-Chip SoC products. This license agreement...
New Competitively Priced Single- and Dual-Digit Displays are Ideal for Height Constrained Applications and Easy to Install MUNICH, Germany -- Avago Technologies, a leading supplier of analog interface components for communications, industrial and consumer applications, today announced a full series of single- and dual-digit seven segment surface mount...
SACRAMENTO, Calif. -- The following statement can be attributed to the Executive Committee of the California Catholic Conference in the wake of continuing controversy following voter approval of Proposition 8: "The recent vote on Proposition 8 and the reaction by some of those who opposed it make it...
Supertex, Inc. (NASDAQ: SUPX), a recognizedleader in high voltage analog and mixed signal integrated circuits ICs,today announced that it will be presenting at the UBS Global Technology andServices Conference, to be held at the Grand Hyatt Hotel, New York, NY, onNovember 18-20, 2008. President and CEO, Dr. Henry C. Pao,...
BELMONT, Calif. -- Jameco Electronics reduced prices by 10 to 40 percent on more than 80,000 electronic components today, further extending the company's position as the industry's low-price leader. Jameco's price reductions are on top of its tiered pricing strategy, which offers customers three distinct pricing options: one...
ELECTRONICA - Intersil Corporation (NASDAQ: ISIL), a world leader in the design and manufacture of high-performanceanalog semiconductors, today announced the development of the ISL8201M, ahighly integrated Power Conversion Module that saves space, reduces cost,and simplifies design. The ISL8201M is a high efficiency, low noise, highly integrated DC/DC powersolution...
BUFFALO GROVE, Ill., Nov. 11 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- Eagle Test Systems, Inc. , a provider of automated test equipment solutions for high-performance analog, mixed-signal and radio frequency RF semiconductors, announced today that it has received early termination of the waiting period under the Hart-Scott-Rodino Antitrust Improvements Act of 1976, as...
SAN JOSE, Calif., Nov. 11 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- Micrel Inc., , an industry leader in analog, high bandwidth communications and Ethernet IC solutions, today announced the election of Mr. Daniel Heneghan to Micrel's Board of Directors. Mr. Heneghan represents the fifth independent director on the Company's six-person board. ...
Use of External MOSFETs Supports Both Synchronous and Non-Synchronous Designs SANTA CLARA, Calif., Nov. 11 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- Advanced Analogic Technologies, Inc. (AnalogicTechTM) , a developer of power management integrated circuits, announced today the AAT1185, a single output, step-down controller capable of providing high efficiency power conversion for...
