Agent principal de rayonnement et de mobilisation stratégiques (h/f ...

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Dans ce contexte, l'agent principal de rayonnement et de mobilisation stratégiques élabore des démarches qui permettent de mobiliser les chercheurs et les principaux utilisateurs de la recherche dans les régions visées, afin de faire en sorte qu'ils aient l'occasion de participer à la définition des besoins de recherche dans ...

Recommandations stratégiques sur la décentralisation, le pouvoir ...

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22 déc. 2010 ... Le présent document fait état d'un ensemble de recommandations stratégiques définissant un programme mondial en matière de sexospécificités et de décentralisation. Il découle des analyses et des témoignages présentés lors de la conférence ainsi que du travail des chercheurs financés par le CRDI.

Gestion des risques, valorisation et stratégie : applications aux industries agro-alimentaire et de transport aérien

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Hassane Amadou, Rahila

2014-01-01

Ce travail de recherche apporte des éléments de compréhension supplémentaires sur l’impact des stratégies de gestion des risques sur la valeur et sur la stratégie des entreprises. Une première analyse examine un échantillon de 378 observations d’entreprises du secteur agroalimentaire sur 5 ans. Il ressort de cette analyse que l’intensité d’utilisation des produits dérivés pour couvrir les risques de change, taux d’intérêt et prix des matières premières n’influence pas sensiblement la valeur d...

Des stratégies de changement dans les organisations internationales : une analyse comparée du HCR et de l’OIT

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Louis, Marieke; Maertens, Lucile

2014-01-01

Partant d’une comparaison inédite entre le Haut Commissariat des Nations Unies pour les réfugiés (HCR) et l’Organisation internationale du travail (OIT), cet article suggère de revisiter la problématique du changement dans les organisations internationales en montrant, dans une perspective de sociologie des relations internationales, l’existence d’un continuum de stratégies organisationnelles mises en place par ces dernières pour légitimer leur existence et leur action, stratégies allant de l...

ÉTUDE DE CAS — mondiale : Repenser les stratégies de recherche ...

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24 déc. 2010 ... Repenser les stratégies de recherche agricole. Les agriculteurs qui disposent de peu de ressources -- des femmes, pour une large part -- produisent jusqu'à 20 % des cultures vivrières de la planète et pourraient bien détenir la clé de la croissance de la diversité biologique et culturelle. Car en luttant pour ...

Spécialiste de programme principal, rayonnement stratégique (h/f ...

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évalue le rendement de l'ensemble des bénéficiaires de l'ITT ou d'un groupe prioritaire de bénéficiaires pour ce qui est de l'influence stratégique sur les politiques et de la mobilisation du public; établit les besoins en matière de soutien technique et de formation, évalue les coûts et les priorités et fait des recommandations ...

The Ringhoffer family firm´s stratégy between continuity and change

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Hlavačka, Milan

2015-01-01

Roč. 30, č. 2 (2015), s. 201-206 ISSN 0231-7540 R&D Projects: GA ČR(CZ) GA14-19640S Institutional support: RVO:67985963 Keywords : the Ringhoffer family * firm stratégy * economic history * transformation into joint-venture company Subject RIV: AB - History OBOR OECD: History (history of science and technology to be 6.3, history of specific sciences to be under the respective headings)

Blocages et Stratégies en expression orale : le cas des chypriotes hellénophones FLE

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Christoforou Nathalie

2014-07-01

Full Text Available L’objectif de cette contribution est de présenter les résultats d'une étude sur les raisons des blocages, en expression orale, des apprenants de Français Langue Étrangère (FLE en cours de langue, ainsi que des techniques de remédiation fondées sur l’enseignement-apprentissage des stratégies communicatives. Dans la présente étude quantitative et qualitative, nous analysons les réponses à un questionnaire que nous avons fabriqué, de 60 apprenants de niveaux A1 - B2 du CECR, afin de nous rendre compte des facteurs provoquant le silence et les blocages en classe. Après avoir analysé les résultats de l’étude nous avons conçu et développé un atelier d’expression orale, dans le but de lutter contre les blocages, à travers l’enseignement-apprentissage de stratégies communicatives.

Evaluation of the VeriStrat® serum protein test in patients with advanced squamous cell carcinoma of the lung treated with second-line afatinib or erlotinib in the phase III LUX-Lung 8 study.

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Gadgeel, Shirish; Goss, Glenwood; Soria, Jean-Charles; Felip, Enriqueta; Georgoulias, Vassilis; Lu, Shun; Cobo, Manuel; Syrigos, Konstantinos; Lee, Ki Hyeong; Göker, Erdem; Guclu, Salih Z; Isla, Dolores; Morabito, Alessandro; Dupuis, Nicholas; Bühnemann, Claudia; Krämer, Nicole; Solca, Flavio; Ehrnrooth, Eva; Ardizzoni, Andrea

2017-07-01

Identification of biomarkers associated with clinical benefit may be crucial in establishing optimal treatment choice for patients with squamous cell carcinoma (SCC) of the lung after first-line chemotherapy. In this study, the ability of the VeriStrat serum protein test to predict differential clinical benefit with afatinib versus erlotinib, and the association of VeriStrat status with clinical outcomes irrespective of EGFR-TKI used, was assessed in a retrospective analysis of the phase III LUX-Lung 8 trial. Pretreatment plasma samples were analyzed using matrix-assisted laser desorption ionization time-of-flight mass spectrometry. Spectra were evaluated to assign a VeriStrat 'Good' (VS-G) or VeriStrat 'Poor' (VS-P) classification. Overall survival (OS), progression-free survival, and other endpoints were assessed with respect to pretreatment VeriStrat status; OS was the primary efficacy variable. Outcomes with other efficacy endpoints were similar. Of 795 patients randomized in LUX-Lung 8, 675 were classified (VS-G: 412; VS-P: 263). In the VS-G group, OS was significantly longer with afatinib versus erlotinib (HR 0.79 [95% CI: 0.63-0.98]). In the VS-P group, there was no significant difference in OS between afatinib and erlotinib (HR 0.90 [0.70-1.16]). However, there was no interaction between VeriStrat classification and treatment group for OS (p interaction =0.5303). OS was significantly longer in VS-G versus VS-P patients, both in the overall VeriStrat-classified population (HR 0.41 [0.35-0.49]) and afatinib-treated patients (HR 0.40 [0.31-0.51]). Multivariate analysis showed that VeriStrat was an independent predictor of OS in afatinib-treated patients, regardless of ECOG PS or best response to first-line chemotherapy. VS-G classification is strongly associated with favorable survival outcomes with either afatinib or erlotinib compared with VS-P classification. In VS-G patients, survival outcomes with afatinib are superior to those with erlotinib. VeriStrat

Internetveikala E-diplomatic mārketinga stratēģija un attīstības prognozes.

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Fedorčenko, Jeļena

2013-01-01

Darba mērķis ir izpētīt globālo Interneta tirdzniecības vidi, tās attīstības un beznodokļu tirdzniecības kā tirdzniecības specifiskā veida, attīstības iespējas Internetā; izvērtēt internetveikala E-diplomatic kopējo darbības stratēģiju un mērķus, izstrādāt atbilstošu mārketinga stratēģiju. Darbs sastāv no 3 pamatdaļām. Pirmā daļa ir darba teorētiskā bāze, tajā raksturota elektroniskās tirdzniecības mārketinga specifika un īpatnības. Otrā daļā tiek veikta pasaules elektroniskās tirdzniecīb...

Les Fédérations sportives internationales. centres de décision et stratégies du pouvoir

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Mohamed BEN LARBI

1989-06-01

Full Text Available L'analyse de la répartition spatiale des sièges et des présidences de Fédérations sportives internationales met en évidence des stratégies politiques dans l'organisation mondiale des sports.

Zīmola "Pranamat ECO" digitālā mārketinga stratēģijas analīze

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Paškovs, Deniss

2017-01-01

Šī bakalaura darba tēma ir “Zīmola Pranamat ECO digitālā mārketinga stratēģijas analīze”. Digitālā mārketinga kanāli ir viens no efektīvākajiem kanāliem kā uzrunāt potenciālos klientus un ļauj uzņēmumiem veikt interneta tirdzniecību krietni efektīvāk. Attīstot inovatīvu digitālā mārketinga stratēģiju ir iespējams sasniegt konkurences priekšrocības. Bakalaura darba mērķis ir, pamatojoties uz digitālā mārketinga teorijas atziņām un pētāmā zīmola mērķauditorijas aptaujas rezultātiem, veikt zīmo...

La formalisation de l'éthique:un outil stratégique pour l'entreprise?

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Samuel Mercier

2000-01-01

La formalisation éthique prend l'aspect d'un document de référence rédigé par l'entreprise énonçant ses valeurs, principes et croyances. L'analyse des politiques éthiques des grandes entreprises montre qu'elle devient une nouvelle dimension de la politique d'entreprise complétant la stratégie. L'étude de cette instrumentalisation sera suivie par une analyse critique.

Analyse des stratégies d’apprentissage dans une méthode d’apprentissage par problèmes : le cas d’étudiantes en soins infirmiers

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Caroline Larue

2009-09-01

Full Text Available Plusieurs institutions d’enseignement supérieur ont adopté l’apprentissage par problèmes comme méthode pédagogique, mais peu d’études, à notre connaissance, se sont intéressées à décrire les stratégies utilisées par les étudiants dans un curriculum d’apprentissage par problèmes. Le but de cette recherche est justement l’étude de ces stratégies. L’analyse des verbatims obtenus auprès de 31 étudiantes1 de soins infirmiers a permis de dégager un ensemble de stratégies et d’en évaluer la fréquence. Les résultats suggèrent que les étudiantes utilisent davantage des stratégies de traitement en surface de l’information que des stratégies de traitement en profondeur malgré des indications voulant que l’utilisation d’une approche en profondeur soit associée à une meilleure réussite au cours.Several higher education institutions have adopted problem-based learning as an educational method. But, as far as we know, very few studies try to describe the strategies which are used by students in order to succeed in a problem-based learning context. The purpose of this research is to study those strategies. The analysis of the verbatim obtained from 31 nursing students uncovered the main strategies and their respective frequency. The results suggest that the students are more likely to use strategies based on surface treatment of the information than in-depth learning strategies. This preference is maintained even though they were told that in-depth learning strategies increase their academic achievements.

La stratégie fiscale de l'entreprise : entre optimisation et fraude

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Caussade, Thomas

2017-01-01

Cette thèse a pour objet de voir en quoi la fiscalité est devenue à la fois un outil de gestion et de stratégie pour le développement des entreprises à tous les niveaux de leur existence juridique. Il s'agira de mettre cette affirmation en perspective avec les mécanismes mis en place par les Etats afin de lutter contre la fraude, l'évasion ou l'optimisation fiscale agressive, la fiscalité étant devenue un enjeu majeur de la politique économique des différents Etats notamment depuis la crise d...

Stratégie de survie et culture de jeunes dans les marchés urbains ...

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Cet article porte sur la vie quotidienne des adolescentes travailleuses dans les marchés urbains et péri-urbains de Dakar, capitale du Sénégal. Elle vise à approfondir la compréhension et la connaissance sur les stratégies de survie et la socialisation des jeunes dans les rues des villes sénégalaises et sur les logiques de ...

Stratégie sanitaire mobile pour réduire l'éclampsie ainsi que la ...

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Stratégie sanitaire mobile pour réduire l'éclampsie ainsi que la mortalité chez les mères et les nourrissons en Tanzanie (ISMEA). En Tanzanie, le taux de mortalité maternelle est de 454 décès sur 100 000 naissances vivantes, ce qui signifie que toutes les heures, une femme décède en accouchant. Bon nombre de ces ...

Learning How to Learn: A Student Success Course for At Risk Students

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Elizabeth R. Bowering

2017-12-01

Full Text Available It is well known that university students with ineffective learning strategies and low motivation are at risk for lowered grades and stress. Given the needs of these students, Mount St. Vincent University developed the Student Success Course (SSC, a 14-week intervention that offers instruction in learning strategies, selfmanagement, and motivation. The purpose of this study was to evaluate the effectiveness of the SSC for 100 undergraduates on academic probation. From pre- to post-test, participants reported a significant increase in cognitive strategies, study skills, and motivation as well as a significant decrease in test anxiety and procrastination (ps < .05. Over time, participants also demonstrated a significantly improved GPA (p < .0001. These results support the hypothesis that the SSC is an effective intervention, at least in the shortterm, for improving learning and motivational strategies in at risk students. Il est reconnu que les étudiants d’université dont les stratégies d’apprentissage sont inefficaces et qui ont une faible motivation risquent de souffrir de stress et d’obtenir de mauvaises notes. Au vu des besoins de ces étudiants, Mount St. Vincent University a mis en place un cours pour faciliter la réussite des étudiants (Student Success Course - SSC. Il s’agit d’une intervention de 14 semaines au cours de laquelle on enseigne des stratégies d’apprentissage, de gestion autonome et de motivation. L’objectif de cette étude est d’évaluer l’efficacité de ce cours dans le cas de 100 étudiants de premier cycle placés en probation. Les participants ont rapporté, avant et après le test, une augmentation significative de leurs stratégies cognitives, de leurs compétences en matière d’apprentissage et de leur motivation, ainsi qu’une baisse importante de leur anxiété face aux examens et de leur procrastination (ps < .05. Avec le temps, les participants ont également démontré une augmentation de

High-resolution hydro- and geo-stratigraphy at Atlantic Coastal Plain drillhole CR-622 (Strat 8)

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Wrege, B.M.; Isely, J.J.

2009-01-01

We interpret borehole geophysical logs in conjunction with lithology developed from continuous core to produce high-resolution hydro- and geo-stratigraphic profiles for the drillhole CR-622 (Strat 8) in the Atlantic Coastal Plain of North Carolina. The resulting hydrologic and stratigraphic columns show a generalized relation between hydrologic and geologic units. Fresh-water aquifers encountered are the surficial, Yorktown, Pungo River and Castle Hayne. Geologic units present are of the middle and upper Tertiary and Quaternary periods, these are the Castle Hayne (Eocene), Pungo River (Miocene), Yorktown (Pliocene), James City and Flanner Beach (Pleistocene), and the topsoil (Holocene). The River Bend Formation (Oligocene) is missing as a distinct unit between the Pungo River Formation and the Castle Hayne Formation. The confining unit underlying the Yorktown Aquifer corresponds to the Yorktown Geologic Unit. The remaining hydrologic units and geologic units are hydrologically transitional and non-coincident. The lower Pungo River Formation serves as the confining unit for the Castle Hayne Aquifer, rather than the River Bend Aquifer, and separates the Pungo River Aquifer from the upper Castle Hayne Aquifer. All geologic formations were bound by unconformities. All aquifers were confined by the anticipated hydrologic units. We conclude that CR-622 (Strat 8) represents a normal sequence in the Atlantic Coastal Plain.

Outils cliniques simplifiés et stratégie de formation à l'intention des ...

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Des outils simplifiés élaborés en Afrique du Sud se sont révélés aptes à améliorer les résultats obtenus au regard du VIH, de la tuberculose et des soins primaires et à accroître la satisfaction et la confiance du personnel. Une stratégie de mise en oeuvre novatrice fondée sur des données probantes est cruciale pour leur ...

"Coca─Cola" zīmola virzības stratēģijas un vēstījuma analīze

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Cekuls, Oskars

2009-01-01

Darba virsraksts – "Coca─Cola" zīmola virzības stratēģijas un vēstījuma analīze. Darbs kopumā izklāstīts uz 88 lappusēm, tajā iekļauti 2 attēli, 1 tabula. Darbā izmantoti 46 literatūras avoti un pievienoti 7 pielikumi. Bakalaura darba mērķis izpētīt zīmola vispārējos aspektus, kā arī viena konkrēta uzņēmuma “Coca–Cola” virzības stratēģijas un pozicionēšanas pieredzi tirgū un uzņēmuma zīmola komunikāciju ar sabiedrību. Bakalaura darba struktūra sastāv no ievada, 6 nodaļām ar apakšn...

Galveno veiktspējas rādītāju izmantošana uzņēmuma stratēģisko mērķu sasniegšanai

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Milčs, Olafs

2015-01-01

Bakalaura darbu „Galveno veiktspējas rādītāju izmantošana stratēģisko mērķu sasniegšanai” izstrādājis Olafs Milčs. Darba autors novērtējis SIA „Latvia Tours” darbības aspektus, kas ir kritiski uzņēmuma nākotnes attīstībai, veicis uzņēmuma apgrozījumu veidojošo aspektu analīzi un identificējis galvenos veiktspējas rādītājus, kas uzņēmuma vadībai ļaus uzraudzīt uzņēmuma stratēģijā 2014.-2019. gadam iekļauto stratēģisko mērķu progresu. Sasniedzot autora identificētos galveno veiktspējas rādītāju...

Définition et révision d'une stratégie de développement industriel

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Choffray, Jean-Marie; Wagner, Philippe

1983-01-01

L'objet de cet article est de présenter une approche nouvelle de définition et de révision de la stratégie d'une entreprise, reposant sur l'utilisation de l'Analyse des Processus Hiérarchiques. Nous présentons le modèle permettant de mesurer les priorités à établir entre les différents objectifs et actions possibles à chaque niveau de la hiérarchie. Peer reviewed

Resultats principaux & recommandations: Le renforcement des Comités de Paix Locaux - Faciliter les débats des parties prenantes sur les choix stratégiques impliqués dans la justice transitionnelle au Burundi et en RDC

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Leeuwen, M. van; Nindorera, J.; Nzweve, J.-L.; Uffelen, G.-J. van; Corbijn, C.; Boer, Sanne de

2016-01-01

Les Comités de Paix Locaux (CPLs) sont devenus une importante stratégie d’organisations de développement pour promouvoir la justice transitionnelle dans des contextes touchés par des conflits. Dans la pratique, travailler avec les CPLs implique plusieurs choix stratégiques, y compris sur (1) la

Žurnāla SHAPE pārpozicionēšanas stratēģijas problēmas un risinājumi.

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Nikodemusa, Zane

2013-01-01

Maģistra darba tēma ir „Žurnāla SHAPE pārpozicionēšanas stratēģijas problēmas un risinājumi”. Maģistra darba mērķis ir izpētīt žurnāla SHAPE pārpozicionēšanas stratēģiju, tās ieguvumus un zaudējumus no uzņēmuma skatu punkta, kā arī ietekmējošos faktorus un risinājumus turpmākai tirgus pozīcijas stiprināšanai. Darba gaitā autore izmanto dažādas informācijas apkopošanas un analīzes metodes. Teorētiskās daļas veidošanai darba autore izmantoja literatūras referatīvās analīzes metodi. Informāci...

Bevezetés a lean menedzsmentbe – a lean stratégiai alapjai = Introduction to lean management – basic strategic elements of lean

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Losonci, Dávid

2010-01-01

A lean menedzsment az értékteremtő folyamatok stratégiai és operatív szintjének meghatározó formálójává vált az elmúlt évtizedekben. Jelen tanulmány stratégiai nézőpontból tárgyalja a lean menedzsment teljes bevezetését. Részletes áttekintést ad a Womack és Jones (2003) által lefektetett lean alapelvekről. Az operatív teljesítményjavulásból származó vevői értékteremtés mellett foglalkozik a tulajdonosi értékteremtéssel, az MRP és a lean szinergikus összekapcsolásával, valamint a lean ideális ...

STRAT: an automated algorithm to retrieve the vertical structure of the atmosphere from single channel lidar data

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Morille, Yohann; Haeffelin, Martial; Drobinski, Philippe; Pelon, Jacques

2007-01-01

International audience; Today several lidar networks around the world provide large data sets that are extremely valuable for aerosol and cloud research. Retrieval of atmospheric constituent properties from lidar profiles requires detailed analysis of spatial and temporal variations of the signal. This paper presents an algorithm called STRAT (STRucture of the ATmosphere) designed to retrieve the vertical distribution of cloud and aerosol layers in the boundary layer and through the free trop...

Konkurenčná stratégia firmy Unicorn Systems, a.s.

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Tománková, Jana

2011-01-01

Predkladaná diplomová práca sa zaoberá navrhnutím konkurenčnej stratégie v konkrétnej firme pôsobiacej na trhu informačných technológií. V analytickej časti popisuje súčasný stav firmy na trhu a konkurenciu, jej vnútorné prostredie ako aj vonkajšie okolie. V teoretickej časti definuje teoretické východiská práce. Návrhová časť obsahuje návrh riešenia ako byť úspešný v konkurenčnom boji za pomoci stanovených cieľov a konkurenčnej výhody. Presented graduation theses concern proposition of co...

Jeunes et stratégies de résilience à la violence et à la criminalité en ...

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L'objectif général de ce projet est de contribuer à rompre le cycle de production de violence et de criminalité chez les jeunes à travers une meilleure compréhension des facteurs et stratégies de résilience des jeunes et de leurs communautés contre ces violences en Afrique de l'Ouest et en particulier au Burkina Faso et au ...

Stratégies agricoles développées par les ménages ruraux affectés ...

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Dans la plupart des pays africains touchés par le VIH/SIDA, l'agriculture est la principale activité et demeure essentiellement dépendante de la force humaine. Dès lors, les effets de cette pandémie sur l'agriculture ne sont plus à démontrer. Mais face au VIH/SIDA, les ménages affectés mettent en oeuvre diverses stratégies ...

Stratégies d'argumentation et de politesse dans les conversations d'affaires

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Thomsen, Christa

En analysant les communications téléphoniques d'affaires grâce aux instruments méthodologiques les plus récents, l'ouvrage analyse un type d'interactions peu étudiées jusqu'à présent et apporte ainsi une contribution originale à la structure de celles-ci. L'étude décrit pour la première fois l......'articulation de deux dimensions fondamentales des interactions verbales: les stratégies d'argumentation et de politesse. Pour ce faire, l'auteur combine différentes approches (trop souvent considérées comme mutuellement exclusives) en tant que moyen heuristique pour expliquer des phénomènes paraverbaux...

IK "HOLS" attīstības stratēģija

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Zvirgzds, Jānis

2011-01-01

Tā kā gan valsts, gan starptautiskā līmenī nepārtraukti notiek straujas un bieži vien pretrunīgas izmaiņas, tad, lai tām pielāgotos vai tās izmantotu, uzņēmumam jāanalizē šo pārmaiņu ietekme uz tā saimniecisko darbību un nepārtraukti jāattīstās. Darba mērķis: izstrādāt individuālā komersanta „Hols” attīstības stratēģiju, pamatojoties uz uzņēmējdarbības iekšējās un ārējās vides analīzi. Bakalaura darba rezultātā noskaidrots, ka pēdējos gados uzņēmējdarbības ārējā vide, ir īpaši ekonomisk...

Analyse dynamique de l'architecture de Hibernate en lien avec les stratégies de mapping

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Goman, Dmitry; Dugerdil, Philippe

2013-01-01

Ce travail de Bachelor représente une étude des différentes stratégies de mapping objet/relationnel et le fonctionnement de l’architecture interne du framework Hibernate. Mon choix s’est orienté dans cette direction suite à une envie d’apprendre d’avantage sur cet outil largement utilisé dans le monde professionnel. L’idée est venue de l’intérêt que je porte pour la couche de persistance de données. La structure de ce travail est composée de quatre éléments essentiels : - Introduction aux mon...

Progrès de l'intégration régionale, rôle et stratégie du Groupe de la

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8 déc. 2009 ... 1. Progrès de l‟Intégration Régionale,. Rôle et Stratégie du Groupe de la Banque Africaine de Développement dans la promotion de l‟intégration régionale en Afrique. Gabriel Mougani. Département NEPAD, Intégration Régionale et Commerce ...

Stratégies d'un apprenant de langue dans une formation en ligne sur une plate-forme audio-synchrone Case studies of strategies used by a language learner in a distance course supported by an audio-synchronous environment

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Laurence Jeannot

2008-11-01

Full Text Available Dans cet article, nous nous intéressons aux stratégies d'un apprenant de langue étrangère dans un dispositif de formation en ligne s'appuyant, notamment, sur une plate-forme audio-synchrone. Il s'agit d'une formation en anglais sur objectifs spécifiques dans laquelle les apprenants sont répartis en groupes suivant leur niveau en langue et travaillent sur des tâches de nature collaborative. L'apprenant pour lequel nous réalisons une étude de cas ici appartient au groupe de niveau A1-A2, au sein duquel les niveaux sont cependant encore assez hétérogènes. Il est en formation continue et n'a pas pratiqué la L2 depuis de nombreuses années. Dans une première partie théorique, nous discutons des rapports entre stratégies et conscience, des classifications distinguant, d'une part, le groupe des stratégies d'apprentissage de celui des stratégies d'usage et, d'autre part, les types de stratégies métacognitives, cognitives, sociales et affectives. Une seconde partie de l'article nous permet de développer une méthodologie originale de recherche qui s'appuie sur un questionnaire, un entretien semi-directif, une auto-confrontation et les transcriptions des interactions multimodales. À partir d'extraits de ces données croisées, nous analysons des exemples d'occurrences de stratégies, en distinguant celles mentionnées pour la phase de préparation des activités en ligne de celles intervenues en situation de compréhension et de production. Un tableau récapitulatif illustre la grande variété des stratégies mises en œuvre par cet apprenant. Il offre l'occasion de discuter du distinguo entre les deux groupes de stratégies évoqués précédemment et de la place particulière des stratégies sociales dans le dispositif étudié. Sur la question tant débattue de l'enseignement des stratégies, nous ouvrons quelques perspectives, particulièrement en ce qui concerne les stratégies à caractère social et celles faisant appel �

Élaboration d'une stratégie de lutte intégrée contre la pollution de l ...

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Élaboration d'une stratégie de lutte intégrée contre la pollution de l'eau à Yorito, au Honduras. Le Honduras connaît des problèmes chroniques de gestion des eaux usées et des déchets solides. Dans le cadre de réformes de décentralisation effectuées récemment, un projet de gestion des déchets axé sur la collectivité ...

Un système d'aide au traitement des informations de veille stratégique : concepts, méthode et résultats

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Rouibah, K.

2001-01-01

RÉSUMÉ Cette recherche s¿inscrit dans le cadre du traitement des informations fragmentaires et incertaines (IFI) de veille stratégique. Le traitement des IFI est un problème peu structuré, pour lequel il existe peu de recherches utiles aux dirigeants d¿entreprises. Devenu un axe de recherche assez

TIC & TER. Stratégie numérique et qualité de service à la SNCF

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Emangard, Pierre-Henry

2015-01-01

Le développement des techniques d’information et de communication a conduit la SNCF à développer une stratégie commerciale numérique vis-à-vis de tous ses segments de clientèle. S’appuyant sur le cas du secteur Sud Loire Océan, l’article montre que le développement des services d’information à la clientèle en temps réel a paradoxalement servi d’alibi pour laisser la qualité du service ferroviaire régional TER se dégrader, ce qui a eu pour conséquence une baisse sensible du trafic. Cet exemple...

L' approche des options stratégiques des acteurs dans i' etude des relations tu travail

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López Pino, Carmen Marina

2011-01-01

Faire une analyse de la proposition analytique développée par le MIT (Masachussetts Institute of Tecnology) inspirée du concept des options stratégiques pour I' objet de cet article. En premier lieu, les sujets traités seront la problematique des relations du travail et les découvertes fondamentales des différentes recherches de I' equipe du MIT. Après, I' étude fait une courte présentatión sur I' approche des systémes de Dunlop dont I' èquipe cherche améliorer. Ensuite, sont présentés...

Le mixed price bundling, une stratégie marketing alternative ? Le cas bancaire des « offres jeunes »

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Lambey-Checchin, Christine

2013-01-01

International audience; Pratique courante notamment chez les prestataires de service, le mixed price bundling consiste à vendre ensemble des produits ou services complémentaires à un prix spécial. La littérature a montré la supériorité de cette forme de bundling en étudiant ses effets sur les comportements des consommateurs. Le papier l'envisage comme une stratégie marketing et examine ses caractéristiques d'offre et de prix. Les résultats d'une analyse comparative des packages proposés par l...

Situer l’apprentissage intergénérationnel dans la dynamique stratégique de l’entreprise

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Shimada, Sakura; Dameron, Stéphanie

2015-01-01

L’apprentissage intergénérationnel est un sujet d’actualité pour les entreprises qui font face au renouvellement démographique de leurs salariés. Les intérêts d’une telle démarche ont été soulignés sous différents angles, ainsi que le besoin de sa mise en cohérence avec la stratégie de l’entreprise : si la stabilité des connaissances entre les générations est cruciale pour l’entreprise, certaines connaissances doivent être renouvelées. Toutefois, la conceptualisation de l’apprentissage interg...

La communication des sciences sur Internet stratégies et pratiques

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Pignard-Cheynel, Nathalie; Miège, Bernard; Pailliart, Isabelle; Picchioli, Ingrid; Salaün, Jean Michel

2004-01-01

Parmi les outils dont disposent les scientifiques pour communiquer et échanger leurs connaissances, la revue apparaît comme le média de référence, le support officiel et légitime des publications formelles. La revue scientifique cristallise, dans ses modes de conception, de production, de diffusion et de vente, des logiques opposées (logiques scientifique, symbolique et marchande). L’émergence d’Internet conduit à une redéfinition des rôles et des logiques qui prévalaient jusqu’alors. Nous avons envisagé cette évolution selon une double perspective : 1) l’offre et les stratégies des acteurs de l’édition scientifique, 2) les usages, et plus largement les pratiques des scientifiques, mis en évidence par l’analyse d’une communauté particulière, celle de la physique des particules. Les mouvements qui orientent le développement de la communication des sciences sur Internet se traduisent par une réorganisation du paysage de l’édition scientifique (à travers la consolidation de...

Aerodium „Rīga” bāzes attīstības un perspektīvas analīze un mārketinga stratēģijas noteikšana

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Verdens, Kaspars

2011-01-01

Darba mērķis ir, balstoties uz teorijas atziņām par mārketinga stratēģiju un plānu, kā arī makrovides faktoriem, izanalizēt Aerodium nākotnes iespējas un perspektīvas, izstrādāt Aerodium mārketinga stratēģiju, kā arī sniegt priekšlikumus Aerodium darbības pilnveidošanai. Pirmajā nodaļā autors veiks noteiktu mārketinga aspektu teorētisko apskatu. Otrajā nodaļā tiks sniegts uzņēmuma Aerodium darbības raksturojums un veikts tā ietekmējošo faktoru izvērtējums, tostarp veikta SVID analīze. Savu...

Les marqueurs d'une stratégie de gestion de la charge de la preuve: franchement et en fait qualifiant une thèse

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Tseronis, A.

2010-01-01

Jusqu’à présent, la plupart des études qui font le point sur l’inscription linguistique de l’argumentation s’intéressent plutôt au « potentiel indiciaire » des mots et des locutions étudiés et négligent leur effet stratégique potentiel dans le discours argumentatif. Dans cet article, je propose une

Energy Management Strategies for a Pneumatic-Hybrid Engine Based on Sliding Window Pattern Recognition Stratégies de gestion de l’énergie pour un moteur hybride pneumatique basées sur la reconnaissance du cycle de conduite

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Ivanco A.

2009-11-01

Full Text Available This paper presents energy management strategies for a new hybrid pneumatic engine concept which is specific by its configuration in that it is not the vehicle but only the engine itself which is hybridized. Different energy management strategies are proposed in this paper. The first is called Causal Strategy (CS and implements a rule-based control technique. The second strategy, called Constant Penalty Coefficient (CPC, is based on the minimization of equivalent consumption, where the use of each energy source is formulated in a comparative unit. The balance between the consumption of different energy sources (chemical or pneumatic is achieved by the introduction of an equivalence factor. The third strategy is called Variable Penalty Coefficient (VPC. In fact, it is beneficial to consider the equivalence coefficient as variable within the amount of pneumatic energy stored in the air-tank i.e. state of charge, because the choice of propulsion mode should be different if the tank is full or empty. In this case, the penalty coefficient appears as a non linear function of the air-tank state of charge. Another way to adapt the penalty coefficient is to recognize a reference pattern during the driving cycle. The coefficient value can then be changed according to an optimized value found for each of the reference cycles. This strategy is called Driving Pattern Recognition (DPR. It involves a technique of sliding window pattern recognition. The concept is to convert the whole driving cycle into smaller pieces to which the equivalence factor can be appropriately adapted. This strategy is based on the assumption that the current driving situation does not change rapidly and thus the pattern is likely to continue into the near future. The identification window size is a parameter which has to be adjusted to attain the maximum of identification success over the reference cycle. We propose to define reference patterns as statistical models. The pattern

La réciprocité comme stratégie / reciprocity as a strategy

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Alicia Guidonet

2008-10-01

Full Text Available Le texte littéraire, examiné et contextualisé historiquement, offre des voies de compréhension des stratégies mises en œuvre par une classe sociale afin de se perpétuer en période de crise. Ainsi, en considérant spécifiquement certaines des figures de la réciprocité, nous observons l’importance, non seulement des liens sociaux qui favorisent la reproduction sociale, mais aussi celle de l’alimentation comme moteur d’établissement de ces liens.Setting a literary text into its historical context leads to better understanding of the strategies developed by a social class in order to achieve social reproduction in times of crisis. Focussing on reciprocity, the author examines not only the importance of social relationships in terms of facilitating social reproduction, but also the relevance of food as an engine for the development of such relationships.

Une démarche knowledge management, de la stratégie au système d'information de l'entreprise

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Benmahamed, Djilali; Ermine, Jean-Louis

2009-01-01

International audience; Cette contribution présente des travaux sur l'exploitation des techniques d'ingénierie des connaissances en vue de l'élaboration d'une démarche pour le transfert des savoir-faire métiers au sein de l'Entreprise. Ce transfert se base sur la conception des dispositifs de partage et d'apprentissage à partir des connaissances bien identifiées. L'accent a été mis sur les aspects alignement stratégique et criticité des domaines de connaissances sur lesquels des efforts doive...

Perceptions des patients pouvant influencer l’autonomisation en lien avec l’éducation à la santé tertiaire ainsi que les stratégies potentiellement autonomisantes : analyse de synthèse interprétative critique

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Assumpta Ndengeyingoma

2014-07-01

Full Text Available Puisque la gestion d’une situation de santé serait quasi impossible sans que le patient acquière certaines compétences, ce texte explore les perceptions des patients pouvant influencer leur autonomisation en situation d’éducation tertiaire et identifie des stratégies potentiellement autonomisantes pour les adresser. L’approche synthèse interprétative critique fût utilisée. Trois perceptions des patients sont résumées : la perception d’être partenaire avec les professionnels, la perception de la compréhension de leur état et la perception de l’influence ou du contrôle de leur situation. Identification de stratégies de nature éducative et comportementale. Les perceptions des patients démontrent qu’ils ne se sentent pas aussi autonomisés que les professionnels pensent, alors il est recommandé de reconnaître les perceptions qui nuisent à l’autonomisation, ainsi que des stratégies pour les gérer. Ceci inclut la considération du niveau de littératie en santé du patient ainsi que l’utilisation accrue d’outils validés avec des méthodes qualitatives auprès de populations variées.

Start-up uzņēmuma mārketinga stratēģijas izstrādes īpatnības finanšu tehnoloģiju pakalpojumu nozarē

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Čumakovs, Andrejs

2014-01-01

Maģistra darba tēma ir „Start-up uzņēmuma mārketinga stratēģijas izstrādes īpatnības finanšu tehnoloģiju pakalpojumu nozarē”. Maģistra darba mērķis ir Pētījuma mērķis ir izpētīt start-up uzņēmumu attīstības tendences finanšu tehnoloģiju nozarē un izpētīt mārketinga stratēģijas izstrādes prioritāros etapus start-up uzņēmumiem un investoriem šajos uzņēmumos. Darba pirmajā nodaļā autors pēta pakalpojuma kā produkta būtību un īpatnības. Darba otrajā nodaļā autors pēta start-up uzņēmumu būtību...

Transits maghrébins à Istanbul. Trajectoires, profils et stratégies

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Jean-François Pérouse

2012-03-01

Full Text Available Istanbul est devenu depuis le début des années 1990 un foyer important, à la fois polarisateur et redistributeur, dans le système complexe des migrations internationales, dont les migrations de transit, des pays pauvres vers les pays riches, constituent une des dimensions les plus saillantes. Dans ce cadre, on s’efforce ici d’examiner le cas des Maghrébins qui, s’ils ne forment pas numériquement le “groupe” le plus en vue, n’en offrent pas moins une configuration intéressante, tant par les types de trajectoires qui les conduisent à Istanbul que par les stratégies de survie et de “faire communauté” dans la métropole, que par les modalités de sortie vers les horizons convoités. On insiste ici sur les diverses modalités de transit, la prégnance des identités nationales, l’efficace irremplaçable des liens familiaux, la faible insertion dans le marché du travail métropolitain et les redéfinitions des rapports de genre occasionnées.

L'OREAL PARIS zīmola veidošanas stratēģija

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Smirnova, Margarita

2012-01-01

Bakalaura darba tēma ir „L’oreal Paris zīmola veidošanas stratēģija”. Darba mērķis ir izpētīt L’oreal Paris, izvērtējot zīmola stiprās un vājās puses, pieeju attiecīgā zīmola pozicionēšanai pasaules mērogā un noskaidrot, kāda ir attiecīgā zīmola ietekme uz patērētājiem Latvijas tirgū, salīdzinājumā ar konkurentu pārstāvētajiem zīmoliem, kā arī izstrādāt priekšlikumus par to, ar kādām aktivitātēm varētu uzlabot zīmola L’oreal Paris tēlu, palielinot patērētāju apmierinātību par zīmola pārstā...

L’utilisation des strat��gies d’apprentissage d’une langue dans un environnement des TICE L’utilisation des stratégies d’apprentissage d’une langue dans un environnement des TICE

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Janet Atlan

2000-06-01

Full Text Available L'étude des différences individuelles qui caractérisent les apprenants s'intègre de plus en plus dans les travaux en didactique des langues. L'utilisation des stratégies d'apprentissage est un type de différences individuelles qui semble être assez sensible à l'environnement pédagogique. Cet article rend compte d'une étude expérimentale entreprise avec des étudiants français en IUT qui avait pour objectif de déterminer si l'utilisation des stratégies d'apprentissage par un apprenant de langues est influencée par la technologie de l'information et de la communication (TIC utilisée pour la présentation d'une tâche d'apprentissage. Le "Strategy Inventory for Language Learning" d'Oxford a été utilisé comme instrument lors de cette étude. L'étude a montré qu'il y a effectivement interaction entre la TIC utilisée et le choix de stratégies effectué par l'apprenant et les résultats permettent de tirer quelques conclusions quant à l'utilité d'un entraînement spécifique à l'utilisation des stratégies d'apprentissage en présence des technologies de l’information et de la communication pour l’enseignement (TICE.The study of the individual differences which characterize learners is becoming more and more common in language learning research, and the use of learning strategies is an instance of individual differences which seems to be rather sensitive to the pedagogical environment. This article reports on an experimental study undertaken with students in a French technical college to determine if the use of learning strategies by a foreign language student is influenced by the technology used to present a language learning task. Oxford's Strategy Inventory for Language Learning was the principal instrument used for this study. The study showed that there was indeed some interaction between the technology used and the choice of learning strategies and the results lead to some interesting considerations on the usefulness

TIC & TER. Stratégie numérique et qualité de service à la SNCF

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Pierre-Henry Emangard

2015-12-01

Full Text Available Le développement des techniques d’information et de communication a conduit la SNCF à développer une stratégie commerciale numérique vis-à-vis de tous ses segments de clientèle. S’appuyant sur le cas du secteur Sud Loire Océan, l’article montre que le développement des services d’information à la clientèle en temps réel a paradoxalement servi d’alibi pour laisser la qualité du service ferroviaire régional TER se dégrader, ce qui a eu pour conséquence une baisse sensible du trafic. Cet exemple montre que l’impact sociétal des TIC n’est pas conforme à celui escompté car il favorise l’émergence d’une culture de l’approximation et de l’improvisation.

Stratégie culturelle à Abou Dhabi et au Qatar : éléments de convergence et de singularité

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Tobelem, Jean‑Michel

2018-01-01

Si l’attention des médias internationaux s’est portée dans la période récente sur le programme de construction d’équipements culturels par l’émirat d’Abou Dhabi, avec notamment la venue du musée du Louvre, il n’en reste pas moins que le Qatar – très présent pour d’autres raisons dans l’actualité sportive, médiatique et événementielle – a également choisi de créer plusieurs institutions muséales sur son territoire. Dès lors, une comparaison entre les stratégies conduites respectivement à Abou ...

Construire les stratégies avec le Balanced Scorecard:vers une approche interactive du modèle de Kaplan et Norton

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Gérald Naro; Denis Travaillé

2010-01-01

(VF)L’objectif de cet article est de confronter le Balanced Scorecard avec le modèle des leviers de contrôle de Simons (1995) et de discuter de son rôle dans les différentes phases du processus stratégique. Nous privilégions une représentation du BSC comme outil de contrôle interactif. Notre recherche est fondée sur une méthodologie longitudinale de type recherche action à partir de l’étude de deux cas. Les résultats montrent que le BSC crée un processus de construction collective favorisant ...

Les défits de la gestion financière face aux plans stratégiques des organisations et la globalisation

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Guerrero Chaparro, Germán

2011-01-01

L´article fait une réflexion au sujet du rôle de la gestion financière dans un contexte variable et instable où le critère de la flexibilité opérationnelle devient un des éléments recteurs dans la création de valeur des entreprises. Dans ce scénario, la théorie financière fournit le cadre conceptuel de la transformation d'un modèle financier compatible avec les plans stratégiques grâce à l´emploi des possibilités réelles. Ceci implique une nouvelle orientation du savoir-faire des cadre...

L’intégration du capital humain dans un outil de pilotage de la performance : le cas du tableau de bord stratégique

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Borchani, Manel; Cheffi, Walid

2005-01-01

Cette communication examine comment un outil de contrôle de gestion, le tableau de bord stratégique (TdB), permet-il d’intégrer le capital humain dans le pilotage de la performance globale de l’entreprise ? La théorie des ressources (resource based view theory) considère que les Ressources Humaines (RH) sont des ressources internes précieuses pour l’entreprise. Cette théorie établit un lien entre elles, les compétences distinctives et l’avantage concurrentiel durable de l’entreprise. Un tel a...

A comparison of individualized treatment guided by VeriStrat with standard of care treatment strategies in patients receiving second-line treatment for advanced non-small cell lung cancer: A cost-utility analysis.

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Nelson, Richard E; Stenehjem, David; Akerley, Wallace

2013-12-01

Two therapies are appropriate as 2nd-line treatment of non-small cell lung cancer (NSCLC) patients: chemotherapy and epidermal growth factor receptor (EGFR) inhibitor therapy. VeriStrat, a serum proteomic test, can be used to guide treatment decisions for NSCLC patients. The test classifies patients as likely to benefit from either of these two treatment options. The objective of this research was to model the anticipated survival and cost-effectiveness of four different treatment strategies: chemotherapy for all patients (C-all), EGFR inhibitor for all (E-all), a performance status guided selection strategy (PS-guided), and a strategy guided by VeriStrat test results (V-guided). We developed a Markov model with the perspective of the U.S. health care system. Model inputs were taken from published literature for the base-case analysis. One-way and probabilistic sensitivity analyses were performed. The C-all treatment strategy showed the best overall survival outcome (10.1 months), followed by V-guided (9.6 months), PS-guided (9.2 months), and E-all (8.2 months) strategies. The incremental cost-effectiveness ratio (ICER) of a V-guided treatment strategy was $91,111 (vs. E-all) and $8462 (vs. PS-guided) per quality-adjusted life year (QALY). The ICER for C-all compared to V-guided was $105,616. This cost-utility analysis indicates that a treatment strategy guided by the VeriStrat test in patients receiving second-line therapy for NSCLC may experience an overall survival benefit at an incremental cost-effectiveness ratio that is reasonable when compared with other practices, including cancer treatments, generally covered in the U.S. health care system. However, treating all patients with chemotherapy yielded the greatest expected survival. Copyright © 2013. Published by Elsevier Ireland Ltd.

"Amoralle" zīmola attīstības stratēģija starptautiskajā tirgū

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Dubovska, Viktorija

2014-01-01

Maģistra darba „Amoralle zīmola attīstības stratēģija starptautiskajā tirgū” mērķis ir pētot starptautiskā mārketinga un preču virzīšanas tirgū metodes, kā arī luksusa zīmola nozīmes uzņēmumā teorētisko pamatojumu, izanalizēt „Amoralle” darbību Latvijā un izstrādāt uzņēmuma attīstības plānu starptautiskajā tirgū. Darbā tika apskatīts zīmola jēdziens, patērētāju uzvedība luksusa zīmola izvēlē, luksusa zīmols, starptautiskais zīmols un sadarbības zīmols. Autore apkopoja Latvijas uzņēmēju int...

L’influence d’innovations pédagogiques sur le profil motivationnel et le choix de stratégies d’apprentissage d’étudiantes et d’étudiants d’une faculté d’ingénierie

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Anastassis Kozanitis

2010-05-01

Full Text Available L’étude vise à dégager une typologie des caractéristiques motivationnelles ainsi que des stratégies d’apprentissage utilisées par les étudiants en fonction de trois approches pédagogiques, soit l’exposé, l’approche par projet et l’apprentissage individualisé sur le web. Un questionnaire a été rempli par 494 étudiants du premier cycle universitaire. L’analyse des correspondances et de classification montre que ce sont l’approche par projet et l’exposé magistral qui suscitent le plus la motivation, alors que l’approche de l’apprentissage individualisée sur le web est celle qui en suscite le moins. L’approche individualisée et l’exposé magistral incitent davantage le recours aux stratégies de mémorisation, de répétition et d’organisation, alors qu’on a davantage recours aux stratégies de régulation de l’effort et de gestion du temps dans les cours-projets. Une discussion tente d’expliquer les différences observées.The study’s aim is to establish a classification of motivational characteristics and learning strategies used by students within three different instructional approaches : lectures, project based-instruction, and web-based instruction. A self-report questionnaire was administered to 494 undergraduates. Results of the cluster analyses reveal that students attending project-based instruction and lecture method show higher levels of motivation than those attending web-based instruction. Students in lecture method and web-based instruction turn more often to memorisation, revision and organisation strategies, while project-based learning promotes the use of effort and time regulation strategies. A discussion seeks to explain the observed differences.

Stratégies de valorisation des savoirs locaux africains : questions et enjeux liés à l’usage du numérique au Cameroun

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Mboa Nkoudou, Thomas Hervé

2016-01-01

La question des savoirs locaux suscite de nombreux débats sur la valeur et la considération que les uns et les autres leur accordent. Au-delà des aspects les plus vulgarisés que sont l’environnement et à la pharmacopée, cet article met en évidence une conception plus holiste des savoirs locaux et montre que leur valorisation est un enjeu de justice cognitive. À cette fin, l’auteur propose une stratégie numérique en quatre points adaptée au contexte camerounais : l’acquisition de compétences n...

« Valeur ajoutée » : Graal du repositionnement stratégique de l’industrie agroalimentaire québécoise

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David Dupont

2011-11-01

Full Text Available De 2006 à 2011, se sont dessinées au Québec les grandes lignes d’une nouvelle politique « biolamentaire » que synthétise un Livre vert rendu public au printemps 2011. Des éléments du débat qui anime l’arène politique peuvent être mis en lumière en les resituant dans le contexte de l’évolution récente de l’industrie agroalimentaire. L’objectif du présent article consistera à montrer que le déploiement mondial des opérations de multinationales impliquées dans la transformation alimentaire et la centralisation des systèmes de distribution sur une base nationale, ont concouru à l’ébauche de stratégies concurrentielles axées sur la commercialisation d’aliments à valeur ajoutée, stratégies ayant mené, dans le mouvement, à un questionnement sur le fonctionnement de la mise en marché collective.From 2006 to 2011, the outline of a new “biofood” policy was drawn up in Quebec, and subsequently synthesized in the green book which was made public in 2011. Elements of this political issue can be illuminated by contextualizing it within the recent evolution of the agri-food industry. This article intends to illustrate that the global deployment of transnational food processing firms and the centralization of distribution systems on a national scale, have concomitantly contributed toward the shaping of competitive, innovation-oriented strategies on which many of Quebec’s food processing firms rely, thereby calling into question the effectiveness of the marketing board system.

Pusaudžu - hokeja spēlētāju sasniegumu stratēģijas un apmierinātības izjūta, spēlējot hokeju, saistībā ar vecāku audzināšanas stiliem.

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Stālmane, Liene

2014-01-01

Maģistra darba mērķis bija izpētīt saistības starp pusaudžu, kuri trenējas hokejā jau no agrīna vecuma, sasniegumu stratēģijām, apmierinātības izjūtu, spēlējot hokeju, un viņu vecāku audzināšanas stilus. Pētījumā tika iekļauti 53 respondenti latviešu tautības zēni, vecumā no 9 – 14 gadiem, kuri trenējas hokejā. Par pētījuma instrumentāriju izmantotas: 1)Vecāku audzināšanas stila aptauja. (Parental Authority Questionnaire (PAQ), Buri, 1991); 2) Sasniegumu stratēģiju aptauja....

Cours de français à l’université : les stratégies des lecteurs débutants

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Estela Klett

2017-09-01

Full Text Available L’article comprend deux volets. Tout d’abord, on analyse les attaches entre les cours de lecture-compréhension en langue étrangère du domaine universitaire argentin et les courants actuels de la didactique des langues. Ensuite, on présente des résultats d’une recherche sur la lecture en français réalisée à l’Université de Buenos Aires. Après avoir décrit le cadre théorique, les objectifs, le corpus et la méthodologie de la recherche, l’attention est focalisée sur les tendances observées. On décrit les stratégies que les apprenants développent dans les étapes initiales du processus de lecture. Enfin, pour clore le travail, on expose des réflexions didactiques qui découlent de la recherche envisagée.

Banku reklāmas stratēģiju un valsts ekonomiskā stāvokļa mijiedarbība

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Vernere, Elīna

2009-01-01

Darba tēma ir banku reklāmas stratēģiju un valsts ekonomiskā stāvokļa mijiedarbība. Galvenais pētījuma mērķis bija izprast, kā pašreizējā valsts ekonomiskā situācija izmainījusi sabiedrības vajadzības, pieprasījumu pēc banku pakalpojumiem un līdz ar to arī banku komunikāciju ar saviem klientiem ar vides reklāmas ziņojumu palīdzību. Galvenais pētījuma uzsvars tika likts uz reklāmas ziņojumu emocionālajiem un racionālajiem aspektiem. Papildus veiktajam pētījumam tika apskatīta arī reklāmas teor...

Stratégies de captation et de persuasion du sujet communicant Victor Hugo

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Ida Lucia Machado

2011-11-01

Full Text Available Resumo: Este artigo propõe uma abordagem discursiva de um texto ficcional, mais especificamente, de um texto literário: trata-se do poema “Souvenir de la nuit du quatre” de Victor Hugo. Partindo desse enfoque, quisemos mostrar como foram elaboradas estratégias linguareiras que visam seduzir e persuadir o leitor; entre elas destacamos os diferentes papéis e a ironia amarga que está em sua base.Palavras-chave: Literatura francesa; Victor Hugo; Souvenir de la nuit du quatre; análise do discurso; persuasão; ironia.Résumé: Cet article propose une approche discursive d’un texte de fiction, plus spécifiquement, d’un texte littéraire: il s’agit du poème “Souvenir de la nuit du quatre” de Victor Hugo. Dans cette perspective, nous avons voulu montrer comment ont été mises en place des stratégies langagières visant la captation du lecteur, parmi elles, nous soulignons les différents rôles assumés par les voix qui “parlent” dans le poème et l’ironie amère qui s’en dégage.Mots-clés: Littérature française; Victor Hugo; Souvenir de la nuit du quatre; analyse du discours; persuasion; ironie.Keywords: French literature; Victor Hugo; Souvenir de la nuit du quatre; discourse analysis; persuasion; irony.

Finteh uzņēmuma nākotnes stratēģijas varianti mikro finansējuma pakalpojumu sektorā Krievijas tirgū

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Veilands, Toms

2018-01-01

Šai maģistra darbā tiek apskatīts un analizēts finteh sektors un tā dalībnieka, mikro finanšu pakalpojumu sniedzēja esošā situācija un nākotnes stratēģijas iespējas Krievijā. Darbs sastāv no trim galvenajām daļām - teorētiskās daļas, kur autors apraksta par to, kas notiek pasaulē un Krievijā finteh sektorā, kā arī aplūko darbojošos elementus un komponentes kuras tiek izmantotas, lai veidotu mūsdienīgus finteh risinājumus. Darba otrajā daļā ir veikta finteh sektora analīze ar fokusu uz MFO dar...

Pistage informatisé des stratégies de lecture : une étude de cas en contexte pédagogique Computer tracking of reading strategies : a case study in a pedagogical context

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Dany Bréelle

2004-12-01

Full Text Available La lecture constitue une activité mentale privée dont les mécanismes sont difficiles à observer dans le contexte de la classe de langue. Pour mieux permettre à l'enseignant de jauger les capacités de lecture de ses apprenants, nous avons conçu une procédure informatisée dont le but a été d'enregistrer des données sur les conditions d'utilisation d'une sélection de stratégies de compréhension textuelle communément utilisées par les apprenants de Français Langue Étrangère (FLE. Les 16 étudiants universitaires d'une classe de FLE de niveau intermédiaire ont été soumis à la lecture de deux textes français en mode Pistage Informatisé. À l'occasion de cet exercice, les lecteurs ont dû effectuer des choix stratégiques liés aux problèmes de compréhension rencontrés pendant la lecture. Les résultats obtenus nous ont permis d'observer l'effort stratégique mis en œuvre par les lecteurs. L'objectif de cet article est de justifier ce qui nous a conduits à concevoir la procédure de Pistage Informatisé, de décrire notre méthode, de présenter les résultats et, enfin, de discuter de l'utilité pédagogique de notre approche.Reading is a private mental activity and its mechanisms are difficult to observe in the language classroom context. In order to allow instructors to better gauge the learners' reading skills, we have designed a computerized programme aiming to track data on the conditions of use of a selection of reading comprehension strategies frequently implemented by learners of French as a Foreign Language. The sixteen university students of intermediate level of proficiency who participated in the study were required to read two texts in French in Computer Tracking mode. During the exercise the readers were asked to make strategic choices relative to comprehension problems encountered while reading. The results subsequently obtained allowed us to observe the strategic effort made by the readers. The aim of

Vulnérabilité et Stratégies durables de gestion des risques : Une étude appliquée aux ménages ruraux de Madagascar

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Sophie Rousseau

2004-02-01

Full Text Available L’objet de cet article est de comprendre la façon dont les individus, évoluant dans un environnement risqué, élaborent des stratégies durables de gestion des risques. Au sens général, on définit la vulnérabilité comme la probabilité de voir sa situation ou ses conditions de vie se dégrader, quel que soit son niveau de richesse, face à un choc ou un aléa. Pour analyser la vulnérabilité, il faut non seulement identifier le risque global encouru par chaque ménage ou individu dans un lieu et à une époque donnés, mais aussi leurs capacités de réaction, c’est-à-dire l’ensemble des capabilités permettant de mettre en œuvre toutes les possibilités qui s’offrent pour résister aux effets négatifs du choc et remonter la pente. Cette résistance est l’atout dont disposent les ménages face à l’adversité. Ainsi, l’homme, en tant qu’individu responsable, élabore des stratégies destinées à se prémunir contre le risque et améliorer ses conditions de vie. L’acteur est donc un individu conscient des risques qu’il encourt et de ses possibilités d’agir sur son capital dans le cadre de stratégies préventives et offensives. Dans ce contexte, l’approche des capabilités de Sen apparaît comme la référence de base. Elle met l’accent sur la manière la plus efficiente de réduire la pauvreté en améliorant les capabilités des individus à long terme. Par ailleurs ce cadre théorique sera complété par l’analyse compréhensive des stratégies adoptées par les ménages ruraux des Hautes Terres de Madagascar. Cette étude a été menée au printemps 2003 dans le cadre du réseau des observatoires ruraux (ROR, système d’information sur les campagnes malgaches mis en place par le projet MADIO (Madagascar, Dial, INSTAT, IRD ex-ORSTOM.The goal of this article is to understand the way people living in a risky environment find durable strategies to handle these risks. Generally the definition of

Contribution des travailleurs dans l’élaboration des programmes d’entraînement à la manutention sécuritaire : identification des stratégies, évaluation biomécanique et implantation

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Micheline Gagnon

2005-05-01

Full Text Available Les travailleurs experts et novices présentent des caractéristiques différentes, particulièrement pour les éléments de placements/déplacements des pieds et de manœuvres effectuées avec les boîtes. Un examen biomécanique de ces éléments et de certaines stratégies contrastant les experts et les novices a mis en évidence leur potentiel pour une manutention plus sécuritaire. On note la réduction des chargements articulaires, surtout au dos, la réduction des asymétries du dos et les exigences moins grandes en travail mécanique. L’efficacité de stratégies d’experts et de novices fut ensuite évaluée, suite à un programme d’entraînement, par deux études indépendantes effectuées chez des travailleurs novices. On a d’abord étudié les effets de la pratique libre pour conclure qu’elle ne mène pas spontanément à un apprentissage de stratégies optimales. On a ensuite évalué un entraînement orienté sur l’observation de certaines stratégies contrastées propres à des experts et à des novices (placement/déplacement des pieds, manœuvres de boîtes et posture du dos, combinée à une pratique libre mais orientée sur une recherche de solutions optimales ; on a conclu que les novices soumis à cet entraînement adoptaient rapidement de nouvelles façons de manœuvrer les boîtes et de se placer qui apparaissent plus sécuritaires pour le travail mécanique et les efforts au dos. Il est donc recommandé d’inclure ces éléments dans les programmes d’entraînement et d’élaborer des programmes sur la base des connaissances des travailleurs et l’observation de leurs performances plutôt que sur la seule théorie.Expert and novice workers present different characteristics, particularly for aspects such as foot positioning/displacement and box maneuvers. A biomechanical investigation of these aspects and of specific strategies contrasting experts and novices revealed their potential for safer ways of

La Trypanosomose Humaine Africaine dans l’espace ivoiro-burkinabé : optimisation des stratégies de surveillance épidémiologique

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Kambiré R.

2012-11-01

Full Text Available L’objectif de cet article est de décrire les récentes données de surveillance médicale de la Trypanosomose Humaine Africaine (THA au Burkina Faso et en Côte d’Ivoire afin (i de dresser un bilan de la situation actuelle de la maladie dans ces deux pays qui entretiennent depuis plus d’un siècle des liens migratoires, économiques et épidémiologiques intimes et (ii de définir les stratégies à mettre en place dans l’objectif d’une élimination durable. Les résultats de la surveillance active et passive ont montré que les trypanosomés dépistés au Burkina-Faso ces dernières années sont tous des cas importés provenant de Côte d’Ivoire. Cependant, la réintroduction du parasite est effective et le risque d’une reprise de la transmission existe. En Côte d’Ivoire, plusieurs foyers “historiques” toujours endémiques font craindre des phénomènes de réémergence et de propagation. Dans l’objectif d’une élimination durable de la THA dans ces deux pays, les acteurs de la lutte doivent adapter leur système de surveillance en fonction des différents contextes épidémiologiques. Les prévalences actuelles ne justifient plus, excepté des cas particuliers, l’usage systématique et très onéreux du dépistage actif par prospections médicales exhaustives. Elles tendent plutôt à privilégier des systèmes intégrés aux systèmes de santé nationaux et utiliser des méthodes permettant de cibler les zones prioritaires d’intervention à partir notamment d’un échange d’informations épidémiologiques entre les deux pays. Pour accompagner le processus d’élimination durable, les acteurs de la recherche doivent étudier le rôle respectif des réservoirs humain et animal dans le maintien de la transmission, participer au suivi sur le long terme des cas traités et des suspects sérologiques, et évaluer en termes de coût/efficacité les stratégies mises en place par les Programmes Nationaux afin de les

Tourisme, écotourisme et stratégies de développement dans la Caraïbe

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Dominique Augier

2008-09-01

Full Text Available Le secteur du tourisme et des services s’est imposé comme le véritable moteur des économies insulaires de la Caraïbe depuis la fin de années 1980, décennie. Dans ces territoires confrontés à la crise des traditionnelles économies de plantations, le tourisme a pris une importance considérable (19,2  milliards de dollars US pour une croissance moyenne annuelle de 7% depuis 1990. Cependant les modalités du développement touristique actuelles ne sont pas sans poser certains problèmes d’ordre économique (faiblesses des retombées locales et environnemental (concentration des flux. Les territoires de la Caraïbe insulaire développent de nouvelles stratégies touristiques autour de l’écotourismeTourism has become the driving force of the island economies of the Caribbean   basin since the latter part of the 1980s. Within this island realm, the traditional plantation economies have gone through an economic crisis while tourism. On the other hand,  has taken on considerable importance (19.2 billion dollars and a 7% annual growth rate since 1990. Nevertheless this growth has not been without its economic problems (a low level of local linkages and environmental (concentration of tourist flows. Caribbean island tourism is now concentrating its efforts on developing new strategies based on ecotourism perspectives.Tourism, ecotourism and development strategies in the Caribbean

Le Brésil au cœur des stratégies spatiales du recrutement des clubs européens de football

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Bertrand Piraudeau

2009-10-01

Full Text Available Depuis la fin des années 1990, le nombre de footballeurs brésiliens évoluant dans les clubs professionnels internationaux augmente constamment. Les principaux championnats européens (Allemagne, Angleterre, Espagne, France, Italie et Portugal sont très courtisés par les joueurs brésiliens. L'histoire des relations entre les territoires et les stratégies spatiales du recrutement développées par les clubs de football européens font apparaître un système productif de joueurs brésiliens et des canaux migratoires très organisés entre l'Europe et le Brésil.Depuis la fin des années 1990, le nombre de footballeurs brésiliens évoluant dans les clubs professionnels internationaux augmente constamment. Les principaux championnats européens (Allemagne, Angleterre, Espagne, France, Italie et Portugal sont très courtisés par les joueurs brésiliens. L'histoire des relations entre les territoires et les stratégies spatiales du recrutement développées par les clubs de football européens font apparaître un système productif de joueurs brésiliens et des canaux migratoires très organisés entre l'Europe et le Brésil.Desde o fim dos anos 1990, o número de jogadores de futebol brasileiros que jogam nos clubes profissionais internacionais aumenta constantemente. Os principais campeonatos europeus (Alemanha, Inglaterra, Espanha, França, Itália e Portugal são  muito procurados pelos jogadores brasileiros. A história das relações entre os territórios e as estratégias espaciais de recrutamento desenvolvidas pelos clubes de futebol europeus indica um sistema produtivo de jogadores brasileiros e canais migratórios muito organizados entre a Europa e o Brasil.Since the end of the 1990s, the number of Brazilian footballers playing in the international professional clubs increases constantly. The principal European championships (Germany, England, Spain, France, Italy and Portugal are very courted by the Brazilian players. The history

Aides stratégiques dans un environnement d'apprentissage en FLE Strategic aids in a learning environment for French as a Foreign Language - FFL

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Anne-Laure Foucher

2007-11-01

Full Text Available Aider à apprendre, pour peu que l'on choisisse de se situer dans un paradigme d'apprentissage, et, qui plus est, dans une perspective constructiviste, devrait, selon nous, impliquer de prendre en compte les savoirs et les savoir-faire de l'apprenant, ses habitudes et ses manières d'apprendre tout en proposant des interventions didactiques portant, non pas tant sur les savoirs à acquérir, mais sur le processus même de l'apprentissage. Ce sont, en tout cas, ces orientations que nous retenons pour la médiatisation de notre environnement multimédia pour la compréhension orale du FLE en direction d'adultes, en proposant des interventions didactiques, que nous appelons "aides stratégiques", car elles veulent induire de nouvelles stratégies d'apprentissage.Dans cet article, nous tenterons de montrer la cohérence entre nos choix didactiques, fondés sur une vision dynamique de l'apprentissage qui met l'accent sur le processus d'apprentissage, l'individualisation et l'autonomisation de l'apprenant, et les réalisations concrètes auxquelles nous avons abouti en nous appuyant sur des phases de travail médiatisées de notre environnement.Helping to learn, if we place ourselves in a paradigm for teaching and learning within a constructivist perspective, should imply taking into account the learner's knowledge and skills, encouraging the learner to construct his own understanding through real-world experience and helping him promote learning strategies under the teacher's guidance. These are the orientations that we have adopted so as to devise our multimedia learning environment for oral comprehension of FFL with adult learners, by providing didactic interventions which we call "strategic aids" since they aim to induce new learning strategies.In the present paper, we will attempt to show how consistent our didactic choices are, based on a dynamic vision of language learning which focuses on the learning process, individualisation and learner

Les Antilles françaises : entre risque sismique et stratégies locales de prévention

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Joseph Mavoungo

2008-02-01

Full Text Available Cet article souligne la particularité des politiques locales menées récemment en Martinique et en Guadeloupe en matière de gestion du risque sismique. Ces Départements Français des Amériques, fortement exposés à la menace sismique, s’impliquent depuis peu dans une véritable dynamique préventive soutenue par l’action des Collectivités. Des stratégies locales de réduction de la vulnérabilité humaine et technique sont expérimentées au bénéfice de la population. Elles viennent renforcer ou compléter les efforts étatiques visant une plus grande implication du citoyen à son information et à sa sécurité face aux séismes.This article underlines the characteristic of the local policies followed recently in Martinique and Guadeloupe as regards seismic risk management. These French Departments of Americas, strongly exposed to the seismic threat, imply themselves recently in a true preventive dynamics supported by the action of the Communities. Local strategies of reduction of the human and technical vulnerability are tested for the benefit of the population. They come to reinforce or supplement the official efforts of French State aiming a greater implication of the citizen to his information and its safety against the earthquakes.

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Successive Tanzanian governments have recognized the importance of improving ... for community safety; promote vitamin A fortified oil to combat malnutrition ... Stratégies optimales d'efficacité énergétique en faveur d'un développement à ...

Les relations économiques sino-américaines pendant les années Bush (2001-2008 : vers une stratégie de « dissuasion économique » ? US-China Relations during the Bush Presidency, 2001-2008: Towards a Strategy of “Economic Deterrence”?

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Juliette Bourdin

2010-03-01

Full Text Available Au cours de la présidence de George W. Bush, les relations économiques sino-américaines se sont caractérisées par une interdépendance croissante, tant au niveau des enjeux commerciaux que des enjeux financiers. Si les questions du déficit de la balance commerciale et des droits de la propriété intellectuelle faisaient déjà débat pendant la présidence de Bill Clinton, en revanche les questions financières de la valeur du renminbi et des réserves chinoises de bons du Trésor sont apparues pendant les années Bush. Alors que l’administration Bush prônait initialement une stratégie de « congagement » (endiguement/ engagement et définissait la Chine comme un « concurrent stratégique », non seulement le 11-Septembre a modifié les priorités immédiates de Washington mais, du fait de l’interdépendance économique sino-américaine, il semble que la « dissuasion économique » soit désormais la seule stratégie réaliste dans les relations entre Washington et Pékin.During the presidency of George W. Bush, the main characteristic of US-China economic relations was an increasing interdependency in the field of trade as well as over financial issues. If trade imbalance and intellectual property rights were already matters for debate during the presidency of Bill Clinton, the issues of the value of the renminbi and of Chinese holdings of US Treasury bonds emerged during the Bush years. While the Bush administration had initially advocated a strategy of “congagement” (containment/ engagement and had defined China as a “strategic competitor”, not only did 9/11 change Washington’s immediate priorities, but, with the US-China economic interdependency, the only realistic strategy between Washington and Beijing seemed to consist in “economic deterrence.”

Analysis and Experimental Implementation of a Heuristic Strategy for Onboard Energy Management of a Hybrid Solar Vehicle Analyse et expérimentation d’une stratégie heuristique pour la gestion d’énergie à bord d’un véhicule hybride solaire

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Coraggio G.

2013-05-01

Full Text Available This paper focuses on the simulation analysis and the experimental implementation of a Rule-Based (RB control strategy for on-board energy management of a Hybrid Solar Vehicle (HSV, consisting in a series hybrid electric vehicle assisted by photovoltaic panels. The RB strategy consists of two tasks: one external, which determines the final battery State of Charge (SOC to be reached at the end of the driving schedule to allow full exploitation of solar energy during parking phase; the other internal, whose aim is to define the optimal Electric Generator (ICE-EG power trajectory and SOC oscillation around the final value. This control strategy has been implemented in a real time NI® cRIO control unit, thus allowing to perform experimental tests for energy management validation on a real HSV prototype developed at the University of Salerno. Ce document présente l’analyse et la mise en oeuvre d’expérimentation de règles bases RB (Rule Base de stratégie de contrôle pour la gestion d’énergie à bord d’un véhicule hybride solaire HSV (Hybrid Solar Vehicle qui est constitué d’un véhicule hybride électrique fabriqué en série et alimenté par des panneaux photovoltaïques. La stratégie RB se compose de deux tâches : l’une externe, qui détermine l’état final de charge de la batterie (SOC, State of Charge qui doit être atteint à la fin du cycle de conduite pour permettre la pleine exploitation de l’énergie solaire pendant la phase de stationnement, l’autre interne, dont le but est de définir le générateur électrique optimal (ICEEG, Internal Combustion Engine – Electric Generator, la trajectoire de la puissance et l’oscillation du SOC autour de la valeur finale. Cette stratégie de contrôle a été mise en oeuvre en temps réel dans une unité de contrôle NI®cRIO (National Instruments compact RIO, permettant ainsi d’effectuer des essais expérimentaux pour la validation de la gestion d’énergie sur un

L’utilisation de quelques outils web 2.0 et la création de tâches actionnelles comme stratégie d’accompagnement dans le processus d’enseignement/ apprentissage de FLE

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Fanny Janneth Baquero

2015-09-01

Full Text Available Cet article montre les résultats d’une étude de recherche sur l’utilisation de quelques outils web 2.0 sur une plateforme virtuelle comme stratégie d’accompagnement dans le processus d’enseignement/apprentissage du Français Langue Étrangère, désormais fle. Ce travail a pour objectif l’observation et l’analyse d’une plateforme virtuelle pour proposer des tâches actionnelles en nous servant des outils web 2.0, lesquels sont plus en accord avec un étudiant-acteur-social d’après la perspective actionnelle privilégiée par le Cadre Commun Européen de Référence pour l'Enseignement des Langues Étrangères.

Élaboration d’un cadre de référence pour l’étude des stratégies : analyse de l’activité et étude de cas multiples dans deux usines de crabe Development of a frame of reference for studying strategies: Activity analysis and the study of multiple cases in two crab plants Elaboración de un marco de referencia para el estudio de las estrategias : Análisis de la actividad y estudio de casos múltiples en dos plantas de tratamiento del cangrejo

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Nicole Vézina

2011-11-01

Full Text Available L’étude des stratégies mises en œuvre par les travailleurs-euses est partie intégrante de l’analyse de l’activité de travail en ergonomie. Cette étude propose un cadre de référence pour le recueil et l’analyse des stratégies et décrit la nature et les enjeux des stratégies développées par des travailleuses saisonnières de l’industrie de la transformation du crabe aux prises avec des troubles musculo-squelettiques. Reposant sur un devis méthodologique combinant l’approche centrée sur l’analyse de l’activité de travail et celle d’une étude de cas multiples de 16 travailleuses (8 à Terre-Neuve ; 8 au Québec suivies pendant deux années consécutives, divers entretiens et des observations de l’activité et de l’organisation du travail ont été réalisés. Les résultats permettent de constater que les travailleuses élaborent une grande variété de types de stratégies pour gérer leur douleur (19 catégories de stratégies. On constate autant les bienfaits associés à certaines stratégies que les compromis coûteux que représentent d’autres stratégies pour la santé. Le cadre de référence élaboré de manière inductive et ancré empiriquement dans les données recueillies sur le terrain constitue un outil dont pourront disposer les chercheurs et les ergonomes pour l’identification et le classement des stratégies.Study of the strategies used by workers is a central aspect of work activity analysis in ergonomics. This study proposes a conceptual framework for strategy collection and analysis, and describes the nature and issues of the strategies developed by seasonal crab plant workers with musculoskeletal disorders. Based on a methodology combining the ergonomic approach of work activity analysis and a multiple case study of 16 female workers (8 in Newfoundland, 8 in Quebec, interviews and observations of the work activity and organization were conducted for two consecutive years. While

Devenir une First World Woman : stratégies migratoires et migrations par le mariage

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Gwenola Ricordeau

2012-01-01

Full Text Available À partir d’une enquête de terrain aux Philippines auprès de femmes fiancées ou mariées à des hommes étrangers, cet article montre comment les stratégies matrimoniales et migratoires peuvent s’articuler ou se confondre. Les migrations par le mariage et les mariages « par correspondance » doivent être analysés à la lumière de l’histoire coloniale et du système économique (en particulier, la politique philippine d’exportation de la main d’œuvre, notamment féminine mais aussi de la globalisation du marché matrimonial. Du point de vue des actrices, le mariage avec des hommes étrangers permet de réaliser des attentes liées à leur positionnement de genre, de classe et de « race ».Becoming a First World Woman: migratory strategies and marriage migrationsBased on a fieldwork in the Philippines with women engaged/married with foreigner men, this article shows how the lines between matrimonial and migratory strategies are often blurred. Marriage market globalization, as well as colonial history and economic system (particularly the Philippine labor-force export policy elucidate marriage migrations and “mail-order marriages”. From women’s standpoint, expectations resulting from their gender, class and race position can be fulfilled by marrying a foreigner man.Convertirse en First World Woman. Estrategias migratorias y migraciones por medio del casamientoA partir de una encuesta realizada en Filipinas con mujeres con novios o maridos extranjeros, este artículo demuestra como las estrategias matrimoniales y migratorias pueden articularse y confundirse entre ellas. Las migraciones por el procedimiento del casamiento y los casamientos « por correspondencia » deben ser analizados a la luz de la historia colonial y del sistema económico (en particular la política filipina de exportación de mano de obra especialmente la femenina y también la globalización del mercado matrimonial. Desde el punto de vista de

Power Split Strategy for Fuel Cell Hybrid Electric System Stratégie de séparation des flux de puissance pour un système électrique hybride à pile à combustible

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Di Domenico D.

2009-11-01

Full Text Available The power management of a hybrid system composed of a fuel cell, a battery and a DC/DC power converter is developed. A decoupled control strategy is proposed, aimed at balancing the power flow between the stack and the battery and avoiding electrochemical damage due to low oxygen concentration in the fuel cell cathode. The controller is composed of two components. The first controller regulates the compressor, and as a consequence the oxygen supplied to the cathode, via a classic Proportional-Integral controller. The second controller optimally manages the current demanded by the fuel cell and battery via a linear-quadratic control strategy acting on the converter. An Extended Kalman Filter is also designed in order to estimate the battery State of Charge. The closed-loop performance was tested in simulation using a 310th-order system model. Ce papier illustre une stratégie de gestion de puissance pour un système hybride composé d’une pile à combustible, d’une batterie et d’un convertisseur DC/DC. Dans le but d’équilibrer les flux de puissance entre la pile à combustible et la batterie et d’éviter les dégâts causés par une dépression d’oxygène dans le cathode de la pile, un contrôleur découplé est proposé. Ce contrôleur se compose de deux parties. La première, un régulateur proportionnel-intégral, commande le compresseur et, par conséquent, le flux d’oxygène fourni au cathode. La deuxième, un régulateur linéaire-quadratique, gère le courant demandé par la pile à combustible et la batterie. Pour estimer l’état de charge de la batterie, un filtre de Kalman étendu a aussi été conçu. Les performances de la stratégie ont été analysées en simulation avec un modèle de batterie du 310e ordre.

Approvisionnement en aliments sains et normes nutritionnelles dans les établissements publics : synthèse des données probantes et recommandations stratégiques consensuelles

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Kim D. Raine

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Full Text Available Introduction : Les aliments malsains sont facilement accessibles dans les lieux publics au Canada, ce qui favorise les maladies chroniques liées au régime alimentaire, comme l’obésité. Cette réalité est préoccupante, car les établissements publics servent souvent une grande quantité d’aliments destinés à des groupes vulnérables, tels que les enfants et les personnes âgées. L’adoption de politiques sur l’approvisionnement en aliments sains, qui soutiennent l’achat, la distribution, la vente ou l’offre d’aliments plus sains, apparaît depuis peu comme une stratégie prometteuse pour contrer ce problème de santé publique, en rendant plus accessibles les aliments sains. De telles politiques n’ont cependant pas encore été adoptées à grande échelle au Canada, malgré les recommandations de nombreuses organisations canadiennes à vocation scientifique et du domaine de la santé. Méthodologie : Afin d’étayer la prise de mesures stratégiques qui favoriseront l’approvisionnement en aliments sains au Canada, nous avons, en premier lieu, réalisé une synthèse des données probantes en vue d’évaluer les répercussions des politiques sur l’approvisionnement en aliments du point de vue des résultats sur la santé, ainsi que des ventes, de la consommation et de l’offre d’aliments plus sains. En second lieu, nous avons tenu une conférence de consensus en septembre 2014. Cette conférence, qui a réuni des experts en recherche sur la santé publique et les politiques nutritionnelles, ainsi que des professionnels de la santé et des services alimentaires, a permis l’étude des données probantes, la mise en commun des expériences et l’élaboration d’un énoncé de consensus et de recommandations sur l’approvisionnement en aliments sains au Canada. Résultats : Cet article expose les constatations de la synthèse des données probantes et les recommandations consensuelles sur l’approvisionnement en

Membrane properties for permeability testing: Skin versus synthetic membranes.

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Haq, Anika; Dorrani, Mania; Goodyear, Benjamin; Joshi, Vivek; Michniak-Kohn, Bozena

2018-03-25

Synthetic membranes that are utilized in diffusion studies for topical and transdermal formulations are usually porous thin polymeric sheets for example cellulose acetate (CA) and polysulfones. In this study, the permeability of human skin was compared using two synthetic membranes: cellulose acetate and Strat-M® membrane and lipophilic and hydrophilic compounds either as saturated or formulated solutions as well as marketed dosage forms. Our data suggests that hydrophilic compounds have higher permeation in Strat-M membranes compared with lipophilic ones. High variation in permeability values, a typical property of biological membranes, was not observed with Strat-M. In addition, the permeability of Strat-M was closer to that of human skin than that of cellulose acetate (CA > Strat-M > Human skin). Our results suggest that Strat-M with little or no lot to lot variability can be applied in pilot studies of diffusion tests instead of human skin and is a better substitute than a cellulose acetate. Copyright © 2018 Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved.

LE CHOIX STRATEGIQUE ET L'AVANTAGE CONCURRENTIEL DE L’ENTREPRISE

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CHEMMA, Nawel

2011-01-01

Cette étude vise à montrer comment le bon choix de la stratégie permet à l’entreprise l’acquisition et le développement d’un avantage concurrentiel distinctif et durable sur l’ensemble des concurrents. Et on a expliqué que le choix de la stratégie nécessite à l’entreprise de passer sur des étapes stratégiques qui fournissent les guides principales pour faire des choix stratégiques irréversibles. Nous avons consacré la partie pratique pour une étude de cas dans une entreprise Al...

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4 févr. 2011 ... Aujourd'hui, beaucoup de gouvernements parlent de stratégies macroéconomiques ainsi que de stratégies de l'éducation et du perfectionnement des ressources humaines. Nous pensons qu'il faut tenir compte, dans l'élaboration de ces stratégies, du rôle que peuvent jouer les TIC dans l'amélioration de ...

Starptautiskas kompānijas franšīze Latvijā - ,,McDonald's"

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Bakalaura darbā tiek apskatīta stratēģiskā vadīšana un produktu diferencēšanas stratēģija, kā arī franšīze kā uzņēmējdarbības forma. Tiek analizēts uzņēmums McDonald’s un tā darbība dažādu valstu tirgos diferencēšanas stratēģijas ietvaros, veikta konkurentu analīze Latvijā, izvirzīti secinājumi un izteikti priekšlikumi. Pirmajā nodaļā tiek aprakstīta stratēģiskā vadīšana, tās būtība un līmeņi, kā arī tuvāk aplūkota diferencēšanas stratēģija. Otrajā nodaļā apskatīta franšīzes būtība un veid...

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... de développer des outils et des stratégies qui facilitent l'accès et le contrôle des femmes sur le foncier; et de formuler des recommandations stratégiques et pratiques permettant une mise en œuvre effective des politiques et des stratégies de gouvernance foncière inclusive qui reconnaissent la place et le rôle de la femme ...

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Gestion des ressources humaines du CRDI (stratégie et planification) ... mise en oeuvre des stratégies et des politiques ainsi qu'à l'amélioration continue dans .... les domaines des RH suivants : acquisition de talents (dotation et recrutement), ...

Strategy for increasing marine fish production in Goa

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Les conduites de retrait comme stratégies défensives face au harcèlement psychologique au travail Withdrawal as a defensive strategy for workplace psychological harassment

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Chantal Leclerc

2005-11-01

Full Text Available Comment expliquer le fait que plusieurs personnes choisissent de fermer les yeux face à des situations de harcèlement au travail ? Pour répondre à cette question, l’article prend appui sur les témoignages d’intervenantes et d’intervenants qui offrent des services aux personnes qui vivent du harcèlement. L’analyse proposée porte sur les stratégies croisées de retrait observables chez les personnes touchées par le harcèlement, les témoins, les gestionnaires immédiats et les officiers syndicaux. Inspiré de la psychodynamique du travail, le cadre de compréhension présenté permet d’examiner le harcèlement comme le symptôme d’une dynamique socio-organisationnelle qui fait prévaloir les discours économicistes et la dimension instrumentale du travail sur toute autre considération humaine. Il propose aussi de considérer les stratégies de retrait des sujets en tant que réponses à la peur engendrée par certaines pratiques de gestion et par certaines normes organisationnelles qui s’insinuent dans la culture et dans les collectifs de travail.How can we explain the fact that many people choose to shut their eyes to harassment in the workplace? To answer this question, the article draws on the accounts of workers who provide services to victims of harassment. The proposed analysis is based on a thematic analysis of the withdrawal strategies that can be observed among individuals affected by harassment, witnesses, immediate managers and union officers. Inspired by the psychodynamics of work, the analytical framework presented allows harassment to be examined as a symptom of a socio-organizational dynamic that gives precedence to economistic discourse and the instrumental dimension of work over any other human consideration. It also considers the subjects’ withdrawal strategies as responses to the fear produced by certain management practices and organizational standards that penetrate the work culture and communities

Ensuring a successful family business management succession

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Desbois, Joris

2016-01-01

Succession is the biggest long-term challenge that most family businesses face. Indeed, leaders ‘disposition to plan for their succession is frequently the key factor defining whether their family business subsists or stops. The research seeks to find out how to manage successfully the business management succession over main principles. This work project aims at researching the key points relevant to almost all family firms, to have a viable succession transition and positioni...

Directeur, Ressources Humaines | CRDI - Centre de recherches ...

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Diplomatie de Léopold II face aux puissances coloniales en Afrique. Contribution à l'histoire diplomatique du Congo

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Baenda Fimbo, Zacharie

2011-01-01

Cet article essaie d'analyser les stratégies diplomatiques du roi Léopold II face aux grandes puissances de l'époque lors du partage du continent africains. Ces stratégies lui ont permis de gagner la Congo au centre de l'Afrique. Peer reviewed

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Les stratégies spatiales de la population haïtienne à Miami

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Cédric Audebert

2008-02-01

Full Text Available Le schéma migratoire haïtien s’est traduit par la genèse d’un champ migratoire international entre le pays d’origine et Miami, où la population d’origine haïtienne a enregistré une croissance rapide. Dans une métropole floridienne marquée par une forte ségrégation « ethno-raciale » et socio-économique, les nouveaux venus se sont installés à l’origine dans les quartiers noirs centraux paupérisés. Les incidences de la politique migratoire fédérale sont apparues contrastées, occasionnant le repli sur soi des immigrants à Little Haiti lorsqu’elle était défavorable ou rendant possible la mobilité résidentielle dans une conjoncture d’assouplissement de la législation. Ultérieurement, la complexité croissante de l’espace de l’immigration haïtienne, caractérisé par une évolution rapide de son étendue et de ses formes, s’est manifestée par une dichotomie marquée entre l’« enclave » traditionnelle et les nouveaux espaces d’installation en banlieue. Résultat d’une dynamique d’agrégation autant choisie que contrainte, la concentration spatiale des Haïtiens à Miami s’est traduite par la genèse de secteurs d’implantation privilégiée, terrains favorables à la mise en place de processus de territorialisation complexes. L’apprentissage mental et fonctionnel de l’espace vise à faire sienne la terre d’immigration et à la doter de sens, et apparaît comme le préalable à la mise en place de stratégies collectives de territorialisation. La « prise de possession » d’une portion de l’aire métropolitaine et son affectation à des activités sociales, commerciales et de représentation politique visent à assurer la pérennité du lien communautaire haïtien en créant de la cohésion, de la solidarité et de la socialité.Haitian emigration has evolved within the growing dependency of Haiti from the United States throughout the XXth century. The Haitian migratory pattern

Stratégie transfusionnelle des hémorragies graves du post-partum: étude rétrospective à propos de 47 cas

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Khouadja, Hosni; Rouissi, Wissem; Mahjoub, Mohamed; Sakhri, Jaballah; Beletaifa, Dhafer; Jazia, Khaled Ben

2016-01-01

Introduction L’hémorragie du post-partum est la principale cause de morbi-mortalité maternelle dans le monde. La prise en charge est multidisciplinaire. La stratégie transfusionnelle est capitale jouant un rôle majeur dans le pronostic maternel. L’objectif de ce travail a été de déterminer le rapport PFC/CGR lors de la prise en charge des hémorragies graves du post-partum. Méthodes Une étude Etude rétrospective sur une période de 4 ans (2009-2012) a été réalisée dans un centre de maternité de référence de niveau III du centre-Est tunisien. Elle a inclut les parturientes admises pour une hémorragie sévère du post-partum définit par la nécessité d’une transfusion de plus de 04 CGR durant les 3 premières heures ou de plus de 10 CGR durant les 24 premières heures de prise en charge. Résultats Notre étude a inclut 47 parturientes. Le diagnostic de l’HPP a été fait devant un saignement vaginal dans 28 cas et suite à une césarienne dans 19 cas. En préopératoire le taux d’Hb a été de 6.3 g/dl. Le rapport transfusionnel (PFC/CGR) a été de 1/0.7. Conclusion Au cours de notre prise en charge, le rapport transfusionnel a été plus élevé que les recommandations récentes de la littérature stipulant une administration précoce et massive de PFC avec un ratio PFC/CGR compris entre 1/2 et 1/1. L’administration du fibrinogène (Fbg) et de l’acide tranexamique doit être précoce. L’emploi du facteur VII activé recombinant (rFVIIa) doit rester une solution ultime de prise en charge. PMID:28292131

Modelo para la selección de opciones estratégicas en el sector de textiles de uso técnico

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Detrell Domingo, Ariadna

2007-01-01

L'objet de la thèse est établir une systématique pour la détection d'opportunités stratégiques dans le secteur de textiles d'usage technique. Depuis cette perspective, on analyse des divers modèles conceptuels pour la sélection d'options stratégiques, pour définir un modèle nouveau adapté à l'idiosyncrasie du secteur industriel textile. Le modèle conceptuel à définir est éclectique car utilisera quelques-uns des outils habituellement employés pour l'analyse stratégique interne et externe. Par...

Work/Family Balancing and 24/7 Work Schedules: Network Analysis of Strategies in a Transport Company Cleaning Service: Concilier travail-famille et horaires 24/7: analyse réseau des stratégies au sein du service de nettoyage d'une compagnie de transport.

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Lefrançois, Mélanie; Saint-Charles, Johanne; Riel, Jessica

2017-11-01

Whether or not official work/family balance measures exist within an organization, scheduling accommodations often go through informal channels involving colleagues and superiors and are negotiated within interpersonal relationships. This study examines the relationship dimensions of the scheduling strategies of cleaners working atypical hours in the transport sector through the lenses of ergonomic activity, network, and gender analyses. Using semi-directed interviews, observation, and network analysis, we revealed the effect of gender on relationship dynamics and the influence of these dynamics on work/family balance strategies deployed by cleaners. One of the main contributions of this study is to demonstrate the decisive effect of relationships by revealing inequalities in access to organizational social networks. Creating spaces to discuss work/family balancing and a more equitable circulation of information could contribute to reducing inequalities associated with gender, social status, and family responsibilities and support the work/family strategies developed by workers dealing with restrictive work schedules. Résumé Les accommodements du temps de travail pour la conciliation travail-famille (CTF) passent souvent par des ententes informelles qui s'inscrivent dans les relations entre collègues ou avec des gestionnaires. Notre étude, intégrant l'ergonomie et la communication dans une perspective de genre, porte sur les dimensions relationnelles des stratégies de choix d'horaire d'agentes et agents de nettoyage devant composer avec des horaires atypiques dans le secteur des transports. À partir d'entretiens semi-dirigés, d'observations et d'analyse de réseaux, nous avons pu observer l'influence des dynamiques relationnelles, notamment de genre, sur les stratégies de CTF. Un apport central de cette étude est de montrer l'effet structurant des relations en révélant notamment des inégalités dans l'accès aux ressources facilitant le choix d

L'université en transition

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Résumé des fonctions Le conseiller principal en communications est chargé de la gestion des relations publiques de telecentre.org. Il est également responsable de l'élaboration et de la gestion des principales stratégies de communication et de mise en commun des connaissances, de même que des grandes stratégies ...

College Success Courses: Success for All

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Coleman, Sandra Lee; Skidmore, Susan Troncoso; Weller, Carol Thornton

2018-01-01

College success courses (CSCs), or orientation courses, are offered by community colleges and universities to facilitate the success of first-time-in-college students. Primarily, these courses are designed to address students' nonacademic deficiencies, such as weak study habits and poor organizational skills, and to familiarize students with…

Tracing the origins of success: implications for successful aging.

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Peterson, Nora M; Martin, Peter

2015-02-01

This paper addresses the debate about the use of the term "successful aging" from a humanistic, rather than behavioral, perspective. It attempts to uncover what success, a term frequently associated with aging, is: how can it be defined and when did it first come into use? In this paper, we draw from a number of humanistic perspectives, including the historical and linguistic, in order to explore the evolution of the term "success." We believe that words and concepts have deep implications for how concepts (such as aging) are culturally and historically perceived. We take a comparative approach, turning to the etymological roots of this term in British, French, and German literature. According to the earliest entries of the term in the Oxford English Dictionary, events can have good or bad success. Another definition marks success as outcome oriented. Often used in the context of war, religion, and medicine, the neutral, but often negative, use of "success" in literature of the Renaissance demonstrates the tensions that surround the word, and suggests that success is something to be approached carefully. Ignoring the ambiguous origins of success erases the fact that aging in earlier centuries echoes much of the same ambivalence with which many people discuss it today. Attending to the origins of success can help gerontologists understand the humanistic tradition behind their inquiry into what successful aging means today. © The Author 2014. Published by Oxford University Press on behalf of The Gerontological Society of America. All rights reserved. For permissions, please e-mail: journals.permissions@oup.com.

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Predictive Game Theory

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Wolpert, David H.

2005-01-01

Probability theory governs the outcome of a game; there is a distribution over mixed strat.'s, not a single "equilibrium". To predict a single mixed strategy must use our loss function (external to the game's players. Provides a quantification of any strategy's rationality. Prove rationality falls as cost of computation rises (for players who have not previously interacted). All extends to games with varying numbers of players.

Comprendre l'influence des facteurs contextuels sur la participation communiautaire à la santé

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Sombie, Issa; Ilboudo, Sidbewendin David Olivier; Soubeiga, André Kamba

2015-01-01

Le Burkina Faso met en œuvre depuis plusieurs années la stratégie de la participation communautaire. Des comités de gestion (CoGes) ont été mis en place dans les centres de santé de la première ligne et doivent participer aux prises de décisions. L’objectif principal de cette stratégie est de...

Educational Attainment: Success to the Successful

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Anthony, Peter; Gould, David; Smith, Gina

2013-01-01

Systems archetypes are patterns of structure found in systems that are helpful in understanding some of the dynamics within them. The intent of this study was to examine educational attainment data using the success-to-the-successful archetype as a model to see if it helps to explain the inequality observed in the data. Data covering 1990 to 2009…

Evolutions et perspectives de la strategie de Zara: en Amerique Latine

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Giovanny Fernando Benavides

2013-03-01

Full Text Available RESUMÉÉ L’objectif de cet article est double: analyser les stratégies mise en place par le groupe INDITEX lui ayant permis d’atteindre une position privilégiée en Europe et étudier son processus d’expansion et les stratégies d’internationalisation employées en Amérique latine. Nous commencerons pour cela à évaluer le positionnement global de la marque Zara (concurrence, développement, ventes, etc., les perspectives des marchés européens et d’Amérique latine pour ensuite mettre en évidence les observations réalisées lors de cette étude renforçant le potentiel de la mise en place d’une stratégie similaire pour le marché asiatique.

Published White House Internal Memos: Legal Transparency or Subtle Electoral Canvassing? La publication officielle des rapports internes de la Maison Blanche : transparence légale ou subtile stratégie électorale ?

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Mounir Triki

2009-10-01

Full Text Available Dans quelle mesure la manipulation du « genre » est-elle une stratégie utile  à des fins pragmatiques ? Les rapports internes de la Maison Blanche et les décrets officiels présentent un intérêt d’analyse stimulant : celui de « l’affiliation générique ». D’un côté, ce sont des exemples de discours officiels, d’où leur vocabulaire légal. D’autre part, le fait qu’ils sont publiés et non tenus secrets signifie que le bureau de presse de la Maison Blanche y voit une utilité politique certaine en les rendant public, d’où la présence d’une coloration propagandiste subtile des messages. Afin d’illustrer ce « jeu générique », l’étude des rapports internes de G.W. Bush sur la politique des Indiens d’Amérique est au cœur de notre réflexion. Il est intéressant de noter que la période de publications de ces écrits coïncide curieusement avec des événements politiques de grande importance, servant ainsi des ambitions plus ou moins voilées.

Information Systems Success: An empirical study on the appropriate success criteria and the real value of critical success factors

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Skovly, Jørgen

2013-01-01

Success is a complex concept, that people have been trying to understand for some time. Extensive research has been conducted in order to improve our understanding, and thus increase our chances for achieving success. However, as projects still continue to fail, the real value of this research seems unclear. This thesis emphasizes the distinction between variables that may cause success (success factors), and variables that are part of success (success criteria). Success is not a 'black and w...

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21 oct. 2011 ... Le PIEST porte sur trois activités principales : il élabore des outils et des stratégies afin de renforcer les capacités des autorités sanitaires locales et leur permettre de planifier et d'utiliser les ressources de manière plus stratégique; il appuie la recherche menée par des équipes multidisciplinaires de la ...

POPULATION ET SANTÉ DANS LES PAYS EN DÉVELOPPEMENT

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aux applications en harmonie avec les stratégies et les pratiques élaborées. ...... ainsi que de recrutement et de formation du personnel de terrain, notamment des ..... des stratégies en matière de services ou des politiques, ce qui nécessite la ..... La vérification des données est aussi entreprise dans le but de détecter les ...

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Les stratégies de lutte contre la pauvreté au Sénégal, dont la Stratégie de croissance accélérée, intègrent les nouvelles technologies d'information et de la communication (TIC) comme levier de développement économique et social. Date de début : 28 mars 2007. End Date: 7 décembre 2011. Sujet: INFORMATION ...

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31 oct. 2015 ... stratégie de lutte contre l'insécurité alimentaire saisonnière en Afrique de l'Ouest (Vall et al, 2011).Au ... stratégie de lutte basée sur l'éthologie de ces insectes nuisibles. L'absence d'information sur les ..... L'importance numérique des insectes capturés traduit l'attirance du fonio pour les insectes. En effet ...

2425-IJBCS-Article-Sibiry Albert Kabaré

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les populations locales ont tendance à adopter des stratégies d'adaptation qu'il importe d'identifier et d'en analyser la durabilité. L'objectif de cette ... même plante (Zschocke et al., 2000). Cette stratégie s'avère être une bonne approche pour .... Toutefois, l'équilibre numérique entre les sexes a été respecté dans toutes les.

Politique et stratégie énergétiques de l’Inde avant et après Copenhague 2009

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Megha Shenoy

2011-05-01

Full Text Available L’Inde est un pays démocratique d’une extraordinaire diversité. Sa croissance économique est l’une des plus rapides au monde. C’est le sixième plus grand consommateur mondial d’énergie. Ses politiques et ses stratégies énergétiques suscitent un intérêt de plus en plus important en raison de leur impact considérable sur les relations géopolitiques, sur les prix mondiaux de l’énergie et sur les changements climatiques. Actuellement, sa consommation d’énergie per capita et ses valeurs d’émissions de gaz à effet de serre sont faibles. Cependant, elles sont vouées à augmenter si le pays emprunte la même trajectoire de développement que l’Occident. Pour que l’Inde saute par-dessus ces sentiers déjà souvent battus pour en atteindre un qui garantisse un développement durable, le pays doit impérativement redéfinir son paradigme de développement de sorte à assurer une croissance inclusive. Des subventions inviables, une mise en œuvre des réformes laissant à désirer, des prix énergétiques faussés et des investissements inadaptés dans des énergies renouvelables sont quelques-unes des principales entraves que le gouvernement indien doit réexaminer afin d’améliorer la sécurité énergétique et de fournir un cadre de transition vers une économie à faible intensité de carbone. Outre des politiques énergétiques innovatrices telles que la Mission solaire nationale (National Solar Mission, la Mission nationale pour l’amélioration de l’efficacité énergétique (National Mission on Enhanced Energy Efficiency et la Mission nationale pour l’habitat durable (National Mission on Sustainable Habitat, l’Inde a besoin d’adopter un cadre de croissance découplée, que nous considérons comme une amélioration de la qualité de vie des citoyens sans pour autant intensifier les dommages à l’environnement. Depuis 2008, l’Inde démontre qu’elle prend au sérieux le changement de son modèle de

Phase II trial of sorafenib and erlotinib in advanced pancreatic cancer

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Cardin, Dana B; Goff, Laura; Li, Chung-I; Shyr, Yu; Winkler, Charles; DeVore, Russell; Schlabach, Larry; Holloway, Melanie; McClanahan, Pam; Meyer, Krista; Grigorieva, Julia; Berlin, Jordan; Chan, Emily

2014-01-01

This trial was designed to assess efficacy and safety of erlotinib with sorafenib in the treatment of patients with advanced pancreatic adenocarcinoma. An exploratory correlative study analyzing pretreatment serum samples using a multivariate protein mass spectrometry-based test (VeriStrat®), previously shown to correlate with outcomes in lung cancer patients treated with erlotinib, was performed. Patients received sorafenib 400 mg daily along with erlotinib 150 mg daily with a primary endpoint of 8-week progression free survival (PFS) rate. Pretreatment serum sample analysis by VeriStrat was done blinded to clinical and outcome data; the endpoints were PFS and overall survival (OS). Difference between groups (by VeriStrat classification) was assessed using log-rank P values; hazard ratios (HR) were obtained from Cox proportional hazards model. Thirty-six patients received study drug and were included in the survival analysis. Eight-week PFS rate of 46% (95% confidence interval (CI): 0.32–0.67) did not meet the primary endpoint of a rate ≥70%. Thirty-two patients were included in the correlative analysis, and VeriStrat “Good” patients had superior PFS (HR = 0.18, 95% CI: 0.06–0.57; P = 0.001) and OS (HR = 0.31 95% CI: 0.13–0.77, P = 0.008) compared to VeriStrat “Poor” patients. Grade 3 toxicities of this regimen included fever, anemia, diarrhea, dehydration, rash, and altered liver function. This study did not meet the primary endpoint, and this combination will not be further pursued. In this small retrospective analysis, the proteomic classification was significantly associated with clinical outcomes and is being further evaluated in ongoing studies

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Les stratégies de lutte contre la pauvreté au Sénégal, dont la Stratégie de croissance accélérée, intègrent les nouvelles technologies d'information et de la communication (TIC) comme levier de développement économique et social. Cependant, la plupart des travaux qui ont insisté sur la capacité des TIC à contribuer à la ...

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Les stratégies de lutte contre la pauvreté au Sénégal, dont la Stratégie de croissance accélérée, intègrent les nouvelles technologies d'information et de la communication (TIC) comme levier de développement économique et social. Cependant, la plupart des travaux qui ont insisté sur la capacité des TIC à contribuer à la ...

Soutien organisationnel de la phase 2 de l'ITT : Instituto de Estudios ...

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-renforcer les capacités de gestion et les capacités stratégiques du Conseil exécutif; -améliorer la planification stratégique en tant que pratique officielle et régulière; -positionner l'IEP de manière à ce que les systèmes et processus rationalisés favorisent la croissance institutionnelle; -établir un portefeuille diversifié et élargi ...

Subvention de dotation et de soutien aux programmes destinée au ...

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Il a élaboré une stratégie ambitieuse pour ses travaux futurs, à la lumière d'une évaluation externe appuyée par le CRDI (projet no 101996). Cette stratégie vise à étendre et à approfondir la portée des activités de recherche et de communication du Forum. Toutefois, pour la mettre en oeuvre, il lui faut raffermir son assise ...

Attitudes of Success.

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Pendarvis, Faye

This document investigates the attitudes of successful individuals, citing the achievement of established goals as the criteria for success. After offering various definitions of success, the paper focuses on the importance of self-esteem to success and considers ways by which the self-esteem of students can be improved. Theories of human behavior…

SUCCESSION MANAGEMENT: UPAYA HUMAN RESOURCE PLANNING MENUJU SUCCESS CORPORATE

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Rini Kuswati

2010-06-01

create a more flexible and dynamic approach for preparing future executive and have the leadership necessary ready to meet the business challenges of the remainder of the decade and beyond. Succession management allows the corporate leadership to instill a more dynamic process became easier to integrate with the firm’s strategic initiatives. It better aligns organizational thinking with the external environment where the discontinuities make it possible to anticipate the full spectrum of change that a corporation will confront. It is the leadership and succession philosophy that focuses on developing the creativity and flexibility that allows for a more rapid response to change. So succession management as one way to became the success corporate.

Success in Science, Success in Collaboration

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Johnston, Mariann R. [Los Alamos National Lab. (LANL), Los Alamos, NM (United States)

2016-08-25

This is a series of four different scientific problems which were resolved through collaborations. They are: "Better flow cytometry through novel focusing technology", "Take Off^®: Helping the Agriculture Industry Improve the Viability of Sustainable, Large-Production Crops", "The National Institutes of Health's Models of Infectious Disease Agent Study (MIDAS)", and "Expanding the capabilities of SOLVE/RESOLVE through the PHENIX Consortium." For each one, the problem is listed, the solution, advantages, bottom line, then information about the collaboration including: developing the technology, initial success, and continued success.

Building Successful Information Systems – a Key for Successful Organization

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Doina ROSCA

2010-12-01

Full Text Available Building Successful Information Systems – a Key for Successful OrganizationAbstract: An Information System (IS can have a major impact on corporate strategy and organizational success. The involvement of managers and decision makers in all aspects of information systems is a major factor for organizational success, including higher profits and lower costs. Some of the benefits business organization seek to achieve through information systems include: better safety, competitive advantage, fewer errors, greater accuracy, higher quality products, improved communications, increased efficiency and productivity, more efficient administration, superior financial and managerial decision making.

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stratégies de lutte et de contrôle de la fièvre aphteuse varient d'une région à une autre. (Gorna et al., 2014) et ... d'Afrique de l'Est, ont adopté la stratégie de zones indemnes sans vaccin pour accéder aux commerces .... d'appareil photo numérique et de l'Herbier. National du Bénin. Méthodes d'enquête. Les données ont ...

Gestion de l'énergie d'un système hybride pile à combustible/batterie basée sur la commande optimale

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M. N. SID

2015-03-01

Full Text Available Ce papier traite de l'optimisation de gestion de l'énergie électrique dans un véhicule hybride (pile à combustible/batterie, afin de minimiser autant que possible la consommation de l'hydrogène avec le maintien de l'état de charge de la batterie. Premièrement, on présente les sources d'énergies utilisées dans cette étude, la modélisation du système hybride, le choix de type des convertisseurs d'électronique de puissance utilisés et le dimensionnement de ces éléments.Deuxièmement on traite le problème d'optimisation sous contraintes basée sur le principe du minimum de Pontriaguine en introduisant la fonction Hamiltonienne de la commande optimale.Cette stratégie a été évaluée dans un environnement de simulation sous Matlab/Simulink utilisant quatre cycles de conduite standards.Une étude comparative en terme de consommation d'hydrogène a été faite avec deux autres stratégies la première dite thermostat qui est une stratégie très simple basée sur les contraintes imposées par les sources, la seconde approche consiste à utiliser un filtre passe-bas à la sortie de la puissance demandée afin de respecter les contraintes en dynamique sur la source principale. La stratégie traitée présente une bonne amélioration de la consommation d'hydrogène en adoptant une bonne stratégie de gestion de l'énergie électrique dans le système hybride.

Determining Success Criteria and Success Factors for International Construction Projects for Malaysian Contractors

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Ali Mohammed Alashwal

2017-06-01

Full Text Available The success of international construction projects is fraught with various challenges such as competitiveness, lack of resources, versatile global economy, and specific conditions in the host country. Malaysian contractors have been venturing into global construction market since early 1980s. However, their venturing was not successful all the time. The number of international projects awarded to Malaysian contractors has reduced drastically during the past decade. Taking advantage of this experience, this paper aims to identify the success criteria and success factors of international construction projects. The data was collected from 120 respondents using a questionnaire survey and analysed using principal component analysis and regression analysis. The results revealed three principal criteria of project success namely, Management Success, Functional Success, and Organisation Success. The main components of success factors include Team Power and Skills, Resource Availability, External Environment, Organisation Capability, Project Support, and Project Organisation. Further analysis emphasized the importance of strong financing capacity of contractors, project social environment, and competence of the project manager in achieving project success. The results of this paper can serve as a guideline for contractors and project managers to achieve success in this context. Future studies may provide in-depth analysis of success criteria and success factors specific for construction project type and host-country location.

Guider des stratégies de compréhension de l'oral en ALAO : le cas de l'inférence Guiding oral comprehension strategies with CALL: the case of inference

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Cécile Poussard

2003-06-01

Full Text Available L'inférence est une des stratégies à l'oeuvre dans le processus de compréhension de l'oral. Quelques exemples de tâches d'inférence extraites de la trame pédagogique que nous avons conçue pour un projet de didacticiel d'anglais, montrent comment on peut susciter l'activité interprétative de l'apprenant, en ciblant les tâches sur des passages opaques d'interviews et en guidant l'identification des obstacles (traits de l'oralité et la combinaison d'éléments facilitateurs (éléments discursifs, prosodiques... pour lui permettre de reconstruire ou compenser ce qui peut poser problème à  l'écoute. En proposant un travail conscient et systématique de l'inférence, notre objectif est que cette capacité devienne opératoire chez l'apprenant, qu'elle soit largement automatisée.Inferring is one of the strategies at work in the comprehension process. A few examples of inferring tasks, taken from the pedagogical script that we created for a future CALL (Computer Assisted Language Learning product, show how the learner interpretation can be elicited, by focusing the tasks on opaque interview extracts and by guiding the identification of obstacles (oral features and the combination of facilitating elements (discursive, prosodic..., elements in order to enable the learner to rebuild or compensate for what can be difficult to listen to. By offering conscious and systematic work on inference, our goal is to help the learner build an operating (i.e. mainly automatized capacity.

Stratégies pour un vol virtuel : exemple de paysages brésiliens Estratégias para o voo virtual: exemplo de paisagens brasileiras Strategies for a virtual flight: the example of Brazilian landscapes

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Alfredo Pereira de Queiroz Filho

2011-03-01

Full Text Available Ce travail aborde les deux principaux problèmes posés par le vol virtuel, l’orientation spatiale et la surcharge cognitive, et propose des stratégies qui facilitent la pratique de la navigation. Pour illustrer cette recherche, sont utilisés des exemples de paysages reconnus du territoire brésiliens, tels que Foz de Iguaçu (Paraná, Rio de Janeiro (État de Rio de Janeiro, Pantanal – (Mato Grosso du Sud, Salvador (Bahia, Belém (Pará, Manaus (Amazonas, et São Paulo (État de São Paulo.Este trabalho aborda os dois principais problemas do vôo virtual, a orientação espacial e a sobrecarga cognitiva, e propõe estratégias para auxiliar na sua navegação. Para ilustrar a pesquisa, são usados exemplos de consagradas paisagens do território brasileiro, como Foz do Iguaçu - PR, Rio de Janeiro - RJ, Pantanal - MS, Salvador - BA, Belém - PA, Manaus – MA e São Paulo – SP.This paper approaches the two main problems of the virtual flight, spatial orientation and cognitive overload, and proposes strategies to assist in its navigation. To illustrate the research, examples are used to dealing landscapes of the Brazilian territory, as Foz do Iguaçu - PR, Rio de Janeiro - RJ, Pantanal - MS, Salvador - BA, Belém - PA, Manaus - AM and São Paulo - SP

Redefining reproductive success in songbirds: Moving beyond the nest success paradigm

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Streby, Henry M.; Refsnider, Jeanine M.; Andersen, David E.

2014-01-01

One of the most commonly estimated parameters in studies of songbird ecology is reproductive success, as a measure of either individual fitness or population productivity. Traditionally, the “success” in reproductive success refers to whether, or how many, nestlings leave nests. Here, we advocate that “reproductive success” in songbirds be redefined as full-season productivity, or the number of young raised to independence from adult care in a breeding season. A growing body of evidence demonstrates interdependence between nest success and fledgling survival, and emphasizes that data from either life stage alone can produce misleading measures of individual fitness and population productivity. Nest success, therefore, is an insufficient measure of reproductive success, and songbird ecology needs to progress beyond this long-standing paradigm. Full-season productivity, an evolutionarily rational measure of reproductive success, provides the framework for appropriately addressing unresolved questions about the adaptive significance of many breeding behaviors and within which effective breeding-grounds conservation and management can be designed.

Les projets des jeunes ruraux : des stratégies diversifiées pour accéder au foncier et obtenir l’appui de l’Etat

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Zhour Bouzidi

2015-06-01

Full Text Available Les initiatives publiques au Maroc n’offrent que très peu d’appuis spécifiquement dédiés aux jeunes ruraux. Cependant, certains jeunes réussissent à bénéficier de financements publics, tels que l’Initiative Nationale pour le Développement Humain ou le pilier II du Plan Maroc Vert, pour réaliser leurs projets. L’objectif de cet article est de caractériser la diversité des stratégies mises en place par ces jeunes pour accéder à l’appui de l’État. Nous avons pris l’exemple de l’accès au foncier, qui constitue une des obstacles auxquels sont confrontés les jeunes ruraux. Nous avons identifié trois types de projets : i des projets sans accès au foncier ; ii des projets où les jeunes s’arrangent avec un propriétaire de terre pour accéder au foncier ; et iii des projets où les jeunes sécurisent un droit propre d’accès au foncier. Si l’accès sécurisé au foncier permet aux jeunes d’obtenir une marge de manoeuvre importante dans la conception de leurs projets, en revanche leur autonomie est réduite pour les projets avec un accès négocié à la terre. Ce faisant, les projets hors sol constituent une voie de contournement de la contrainte foncière, mais font face à un ensemble de problèmes spécifiques. Bien que l’appui de l’État ne soit accessible qu’à peu de jeunes, les projets analysés créent des opportunités d’emploi et permettent de renforcer l’attachement des jeunes au milieu rural. Enfin, cet article propose des pistes pour améliorer l’accès des jeunes aux ressources productives (terre, eau, capital et mettre en place un appui efficient et adapté à leurs ambitions et leurs projets.

Research into Success

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Bogomir Novak

1997-12-01

Full Text Available As competition is becoming ever more fierce, research into the prerequisites for success is gaining ground. By most people, success is perceived as an external phenomenon, but it is in fact the consequence of a person's readiness to perform in the world (of business. In the paper, Novak distinguishes between internal, external and group success. The essence of interna!success, which is the condition for the other two types of success, is assuming responsibility for, and exercising self-control over one's psychic phenomena. This in fact means that one needs to "reprogramme" the old patterns of behaviour and substitute them for the new, which leads to personality changes based on the understanding and acceptance of the self and others as they are. In realizing personal abilities, motives and goals, mental guiding laws must also be taken into account. Nowadays, the overall success of an organization is an important indicator of the quality of gro up work. The working patterns of individuals comply with the patterns used by his or her colleagues. When we do something for ourselves, we do it for others. In certain organizations, through accepted ways of communication all people become successful, and no body needs to be paid off. Employees wholly identify themselves with their organization, and vice versa. This three-part paradigm (I-Others-Community is the basis for various models of practical training for success, which are often idealized, but are primarily aimed at abolishing passivity and flaws in the system and its wider environment.

Successful ageing

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Bülow, Morten Hillgaard; Söderqvist, Thomas

2014-01-01

Since the late 1980s, the concept of ‘ successful ageing’ has set the frame for discourse about contemporary ageing research. Through an analysis of the reception to John W. Rowe and Robert L. Kahn's launch of the concept of ‘ successful ageing’ in 1987, this article maps out the important themes...... and discussions that have emerged from the interdisciplinary field of ageing research. These include an emphasis on interdisciplinarity; the interaction between biology, psycho-social contexts and lifestyle choices; the experiences of elderly people; life-course perspectives; optimisation and prevention...... strategies; and the importance of individual, societal and scientific conceptualisations and understandings of ageing. By presenting an account of the recent historical uses, interpretations and critiques of the concept, the article unfolds the practical and normative complexities of ‘ successful ageing’....

Plus de plaisir à table pour lutter contre la dénutrition des seniors : Dossier de presse sur inra.fr

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2014-01-01

Aupalesens, un programme pour contribuer au « bien-vieillir » de nos aînés A l’heure actuelle, la prise en charge de la dénutrition chez les seniors s’appuie essentiellement sur des stratégies « nutritionnelles » (conseils nutritionnels, utilisation de compléments nutritionnels). L’objectif du programme Aupalesens était de tester l’efficacité de stratégies « sensorielles » pour prévenir et lutter contre la dénutrition chez les seniors. Spécifiquement, ce programme a permis :[br/] - de m...

Sport et éthique: enjeux et outils pour le marketing sportif - Sport and ethics: stakes and tools for marketing of sport

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Emmanuel Bayle; Samuel Mercier

2008-01-01

(VF)Dans un contexte général d’une demande sociétale d’éthique, d’appel à la responsabilité sociale des entreprises et face aux attaques (dopage, violences, corruption…) que connaît aujourd’hui le mythe de l’éthique sportive, comment les organisations présentes dans le secteur du sport adaptent-elles leurs stratégies marketing ? Cet article propose une typologie des enjeux stratégiques de l’instrumentalisation de l’éthique sportive selon quatre types d’organisations. A partir de ce cadre conc...

The Project of Success

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Kreiner, Kristian

more complicated matter than meeting targets. While success may ultimately be justified in terms of a correspondence between aims and achievements, the understanding of both aspects is highly dependent on the project process. An example of a successful project that did not meet the original performance...... targets will serve to show that success is at matter of perspective as much as it is a matter of achievement. Other types of research, e.g. social psychology, have addressed the issue of success more explicitly. I draw on such literature to conceptualize project success anew and to reestablish...

Paving the Road to Success: A Framework for Implementing the Success Tutoring Approach

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Spark Linda

2017-12-01

Full Text Available The exponential growth of higher education enrolment in South Africa has resulted in increased diversity of the student body, leading to a proliferation of factors that affect student performance and success. Various initiatives have been adopted by tertiary institutions to mitigate the negative impact these factors may have on student success, and it is suggested that interventions that include aspects of social integration are the most successful. This paper outlines an approach called Success Tutoring (a non-academic tutorial approach used as part of a student success and support programme in the Faculty of Commerce, Law, and Management at the University of the Witwatersrand, which is underscored by empirical evidence drawn from evaluation data collected during Success Tutor symposia. The authors draw conclusions and make recommendations based on a thematic analysis of the dataset, and ultimately provide readers with a framework for implementing Success Tutoring at their tertiary institutions.

Marketingové a komunikačné stratégie firmy McDonald´s

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Antalíková, Eva

2010-01-01

How can a company achieve its goals in a particular market? How to sell its product to the consumer? How to be successful and to maintain its position as long as possible? These questions I sought answers in my work. I focused on marketing and communication tools used by McDonald's to retain the favor of their customers and to gain new customers in new markets.

Citation Success

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Vaio, Gianfranco Di; Waldenström, Daniel; Weisdorf, Jacob Louis

2012-01-01

This study examines the determinants of citation success among authors who have recently published their work in economic history journals. Besides offering clues about how to improve one's scientific impact, our citation analysis also sheds light on the state of the field of economic history...... find similar patterns when assessing the same authors' citation success in economics journals. As a novel feature, we demonstrate that the diffusion of research — publication of working papers, as well as conference and workshop presentations — has a first-order positive impact on the citation rate........ Consistent with our expectations, we find that full professors, authors appointed at economics and history departments, and authors working in Anglo-Saxon and German countries are more likely to receive citations than other scholars. Long and co-authored articles are also a factor for citation success. We...

Predictors of successful external cephalic version and assessment of success for vaginal delivery.

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Salzer, Liat; Nagar, Ran; Melamed, Nir; Wiznitzer, Arnon; Peled, Yoav; Yogev, Yariv

2015-01-01

To identify predictors of successful external cephalic version (ECV) and to compare delivery outcome between women who had a successful ECV and women with spontaneous vertex presentation. A retrospective cohort study of all women who underwent ECV in a single tertiary medical center between 2007 and 2011. Delivery outcome was compared between women who underwent a trial of vaginal delivery following successful ECV with that of a control group in a 2:1 ratio. Multivariate analysis was used to identify predictors of successful ECV. Overall 287 were eligible for the study group. Of these 130 (45.3%) had a successful ECV. Polyhydramnios was the strongest factor associated with successful ECV (OR=3.1, 95%-CI 1.4-7.2), followed by transverse lie (versus breech presentation, OR=2.6, 95%-CI 1.2-6.7) and a posterior placenta (OR=1.7, 95%-CI 1.1-3.9), while nulliparity was associated with a lower likelihood of successful ECV (OR=0.4, 95%-CI 0.2-0.6). Women who had a successful ECV and underwent a trial of labor were more likely to deliver by operative vaginal delivery (OVD) (OR=1.8, 95%-CI 1.2-3.6), mainly due to a higher rate of prolonged 2nd, but were not at an increased risk for CS (OR=0.9, 95%-CI 0.4-2.4). Counselling to women prior to ECV should address the likelihood of success based on the predicting factors described above, as well as the increased risk for OVD in the case of successful ECV.

What Does Successful Aging Mean? Lay Perception of Successful Aging Among Elderly Singaporeans.

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Feng, Qiushi; Straughan, Paulin Tay

2017-03-01

We explore the culturally specific meaning of successful aging in Singapore, an ethnically diverse city-state in Asia. We aim to investigate lay perceptions of successful aging among the elderly individuals in Singapore and further examine variations of these perceptions. We applied a mixed-method research design. Firstly, we conducted qualitative interviews with 49 elderly respondents, generating 12 main subjective components of successful aging. Next, we did a national survey with a sample of 1,540 local residents aged 50 to 69 years, in which respondents were asked to evaluate the importance of each subjective component of successful aging. We used the regression models and latent class analysis to analyze the correlatives of successful aging and to classify the elderly individuals by perception types. Among 12 components of successful aging, those related to self-sufficiency received the highest acknowledgment among the elderly individuals in Singapore. At least half of them simultaneously highlighted independence from family and dependence on family. Malays and Indians in Singapore valued more of the roles of spouse and children in successful aging, as compared with Chinese. The latent class analysis classified four groups of the elderly individuals according to their lay views on successful aging. As compared with the western model of successful aging, the elderly individuals in Singapore perceived successful aging with a strong focus on familism. These lay perceptions also significantly varied among these elderly individuals. © The Author 2016. Published by Oxford University Press on behalf of The Gerontological Society of America. All rights reserved. For permissions, please e-mail: journals.permissions@oup.com.

Studies of key success factors of product development success: A reinterpretation of results

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Plichta, Kirsten; Harmsen, Hanne

In this paper the general validity of the research area of key factors of success in product development is discussed. To be more specific we argue that validity hinges on the causal relation between success and success factrors ­ a relation that unaccounted for in the empirical studies....... The theoretical tradition of the resource-based perspective provides ­ at least to some extent ­ an account of this causality. An important point in the paper is that the key factors of success in the empi studies are not factors causally related to success, but at the most a number of valuable resources and thus......, but in the studies problems concerning implementation are not discussed. When the lists factors of success are interprested as valuable resources and capabilities, we show that some implications on the implementability might be deduced from the resource-based perspective....

Business Intelligence Success Factors

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Gaardboe, Rikke; Jonasen, Tanja Svarre

2018-01-01

Business intelligence (BI) is a strategically important practice in many organizations. Several studies have investigated the factors that contribute to BI success; however, an overview of the critical success factors (CSFs) involved is lacking in the extant literature. We have integrated...... 34 CSFs related to BI success. The distinct CSFs identified in the extant literature relate to project management skills (13 papers), management support (20 papers), and user involvement (11 papers). In the articles with operationalized BI success, we found several distinct factors: system quality...

Successful project management

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Young, Trevor L

2016-01-01

Successful Project Management, 5th edition, is an essential guide for anyone who wants to improve the success rate of their projects. It will help managers to maintain a balance between the demands of the customer, the project, the team and the organization. Covering the more technical aspects of a project from start to completion it contains practised and tested techniques, covering project conception and start-up, how to manage stake holders, effective risk management, project planning and launch and execution. Also including a brand new glossary of key terms, it provides help with evaluating your project as well as practical checklists and templates to ensure success for any ambitious project manager. With over one million copies sold, the hugely popular Creating Success series covers a wide variety of topic, with the latest editions including new chapters such as Tough Conversations and Treating People Right. This indispensable business skills collection is suited to a variety of roles, from someone look...

La licorne origami contre-attaque

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Jenkins, Henry

2015-01-01

Henry Jenkins offre une définition du transmedia storytelling en déclinant cette stratégie en sept principes, axant sa réflexion sur l’esthétique, l’économie, mais également la réception. Ces sept principes (circulation/forage ; immersion/extraction ; continuité/multiplicité ; sérialité ; construction d’un univers ; performance ; subjectivité) sont des éléments essentiels dans la création esthétique, mais aussi technique des stratégies de transmédia storytelling.

Performance… et contre-performance communicationnelles : des stratégies argumentatives pour le débat politique télévisé Communicative performance in the media: A discourse analysis of argumentative strategies for political debate on TV

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Guylaine Martel

2008-09-01

Full Text Available Selon la perspective interactionniste dans laquelle s’inscrit cette étude de la communication médiatique, la qualité de la performance communicationnelle repose en grande partie sur la capacité des locuteurs à simuler une interaction aussi naturelle que possible avec un public absent ou, dans les termes de Goffman (Forms of Talk, 1981, à le ratifier de manière à co-construire avec lui un message qui produit du sens. L’analyse des stratégies argumentatives produites par des politiciens au cours d’un débat télévisé révèle qu’en fonction de ce genre de production médiatique et des identités professionnelle et personnelle des politiciens, certains procédés rhétoriques sont particulièrement efficaces pour assurer la performance communicationnelle.This interactional approach to communication in media context suggests that the quality of the performance rests mostly on the speaker’s capacity to simulate, with an absent audience, an interaction as natural as possible or, in Goffman’s terms (Forms of Talk, 1981, to ratify the public in order to produce a message that makes sense. The analysis of some argumentative strategies used by politicians during a debate on TV reveals that, according to this type of media production and to the professional and personal identities of the politicians, some rhetorical procedures are particularly appropriate to support communicative performance.

Mergers: Success versus failure

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Carley, G. R.

1997-01-01

Successful mergers in the context of long-term value creation, as measured by return realized on investor-provided capital, were discussed. In essence, a successful merger is characterized by being motivated by a sound business reason and strategy for the merger, a reasonable price and sound execution. The acquiror's pre-merger success in managing a company is a good indicator of future success. Poorly managed companies that acquire other companies generally continue to be poorly managed with no significant increase in shareholder value. Prior to the acquisition, identification of the potential target, assessment of the people involved on both sides of the transaction, thorough knowledge of the target's potential for value creation, financial implications (debt, equity, terms and demand, tax implications, the potential effect of the proposed acquisition on the acquiror's business plan) and finally the execution of the process itself, are the important determinants of successful mergers

Human Resource Outsourcing Success

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Hasliza Abdul-Halim

2014-07-01

Full Text Available The existing literature on partnership seems to take the relationship between partnership quality and outsourcing success for granted. Therefore, this article aims at examining the role of service quality in strengthening the relationship between partnership quality and human resource (HR outsourcing success. The samples were obtained from 96 manufacturing organizations in Penang, Malaysia. The results showed that partnership quality variables such as trust, business understanding, and communication have significant positive impact on HR outsourcing success, whereas in general, service quality was found to partially moderate these relationships. Therefore, comprehending the HR outsourcing relationship in the context of service quality may assist the organizations to accomplish HR outsourcing success by identifying areas of expected benefits and improvements.

Success-Breeds-Success in Collective Political Behavior: Evidence from a Field Experiment

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Van De Rijt, Arnout; Akin, Idil; Willer, Robb; Feinberg, Matthew

2016-01-01

Scholars have proposed that the emergence of political movements is highly pathdependent, such that early mobilization successes may lead to disproportionately greater eventual success. This article replicates a unique field experiment testing for positive feedback in internet petition signing (van

Group cohesion and starting status in successful and less successful elite volleyball teams.

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Spink, K S

1992-08-01

The main purpose of this study was to examine the relationship between members' perceptions of group cohesion and starting status in elite volleyball teams. The results of the study revealed that the form of the cohesion-starting status relationship was moderated by the variable of success. The results for less successful teams revealed that differences did emerge between specific measures of cohesion endorsed by starters and non-starters. No such differences in cohesion emerged when the starters and non-starters on successful teams were compared. These results provide initial support for the suggestion that the most successful teams are the ones where the perceptions of cohesiveness by starters and non-starters are similar. A secondary purpose of the study was to determine whether those teams that were the most successful and similar in their members' perceptions of cohesiveness, were also the teams whose members have the most positive outcome expectancy. The results supported this prediction.

Stratégies éditoriales et représentations de l'homosexualité dans la bande dessinée lesbienne et gay francophone

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Samuel Minne

2010-12-01

="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Le Mariage de Roberto de Cuneo, « La Salle de bain » de Caro, et Jean-François fait de la résistance d'Hugues Barthe, le présent article étudie les stratégies éditoriales déployées, les manières dont l’homosexualité est représentée, et la mise en place d'une complicité avec les lecteurs.

Successful Enterprise System Re-Implementation

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Svejvig, Per

2017-01-01

Achieving success in enterprise systems (ES) implementations is challenging. The success rate is not high in view of the sums invested by many organizations in these companywide systems. The literature is charged with reasons for unsuccessful implementations, such as a lack of top management...... support and insufficient change management. Contrary to this research, empirical data from an ES re-implementation in a Scandinavian high-tech company shows successful implementation despite many problematic shifts in outsourcing partners. Therefore, it is natural to ask: why was the re......-implementation of the ES at SCANDI successful despite the major troubles encountered during the project? Building an analysis based on ten Critical Success Factors (CSFs) combined with an investigation into the institutional structures at play, we present several reasons for the successful implementation. The CSF analysis...

Examining Productive Failure, Productive Success, Unproductive Failure, and Unproductive Success in Learning

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Kapur, Manu

2016-01-01

Learning and performance are not always commensurable. Conditions that maximize performance in the initial learning may not maximize learning in the longer term. I exploit this incommensurability to theoretically and empirically interrogate four possibilities for design: productive success, productive failure, unproductive success, and…

Auditing Marketing Strategy Implementation Success

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Herhausen, Dennis; Egger, Thomas; Oral, Cansu

2014-01-01

What makes a marketing strategy implementation successful and how can managers measure this success? To answer these questions, we developed a two-step audit approach. First, managers should measure the implementation success regarding effectiveness, efficiency, performance outcomes, and strategic embeddedness. Second, they should explore the reasons that have led to success or failure by regarding managerial, leadership, and environmental traps. Doing so will also provide corrective action p...

Is international junior success a reliable predictor for international senior success in elite combat sports?

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Li, Pingwei; De Bosscher, Veerle; Pion, Johan; Weissensteiner, Juanita R; Vertonghen, Jikkemien

2018-05-01

Currently in the literature, there is a dearth of empirical research that confirms whether international junior success is a reliable predictor for future international senior success. Despite the uncertainty of the junior-senior relationship, federations and coaches still tend to use junior success as a predictor for long-term senior success. A range of former investigations utilising a retrospective lens has merely focused on success that athletes attained at junior level competitions. Success that was achieved at senior-level competitions but at a junior age was relatively ignored. This study explored to what extent international senior success can be predicted based on success that athletes achieved in either international junior level competitions (i.e. junior medalists) or senior competitions at a junior age (i.e. early achievers). The sample contains 4011 international male and female athletes from three combat sports (taekwondo, wrestling and boxing), who were born between 1974 and 1990 and participated in both international junior and senior-level competitions between 1990 and 2016. Gender and sport differences were compared. The results revealed that 61.4% of the junior medalists and 90.4% of the early achievers went on to win international medals at a senior age. Among the early achievers, 92.2% of the taekwondo athletes, 68.4% of the wrestling athletes and 37.9% of the boxing athletes could be reliably "predicted" to win international senior medals. The findings demonstrate that specific to the three combat sports examined, international junior success appears to be an important predictor to long-term international senior success.

Assessment of solid microneedle rollers to enhance transmembrane delivery of doxycycline and inhibition of MMP activity.

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Omolu, Abbie; Bailly, Maryse; Day, Richard M

2017-11-01

Many chronic wounds exhibit high matrix metalloproteinase (MMP) activity that impedes the normal wound healing process. Intradermal delivery (IDD) of sub-antimicrobial concentrations of doxycycline, as an MMP inhibitor, could target early stages of chronic wound development and inhibit further wound progression. To deliver doxycycline intradermally, the skin barrier must be disrupted. Microneedle rollers offer a minimally invasive technique to penetrate the skin by creating multiple microchannels that act as temporary conduits for drugs to diffuse through. In this study, an innovative and facile approach for delivery of doxycycline across Strat-M TM membrane was investigated using microneedle rollers. The quantity and rate of doxycycline diffusing through the micropores directly correlated with increasing microneedle lengths (250, 500 and 750 μm). Treatment of Strat-M TM with microneedle rollers resulted in a reduction in fibroblast-mediated collagen gel contraction and MMP activity compared with untreated Strat-M TM . Our results show that treatment of an epidermal mimetic with microneedle rollers provides sufficient permeabilization for doxycycline diffusion and inhibition of MMP activity. We conclude that microneedle rollers are a promising, clinically ready tool suitable for delivery of doxycycline intradermally to treat chronic wounds.

LES STRATEGIES D’APPRENTISSAGE DU FRANÇAIS LANGUE ÉTRANGÈRE MISES EN PRATIQUE PAR LES APPRENANTS AFIN DE PROMOUVOIR LEURS AUTONOMIES

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Yasmine ADIB

2016-01-01

Ce travail de recherche présente les stratégies d’apprentissage du français langue étrangère et examine les liens entre stratégies et acquisition d’une compétence générale. Cette étude met en relief l’apport majeur des données issues de la psychologie cognitive qui nous renseigne sur les mécanismes qui permettent à l’apprenant d’acquérir, d’intégrer et de réutiliser des connaissances. Aussi, nous expliquons comment les données de la psychologie cognitive nous éclairent sur la nature de l’appr...

Gender Equity and Public Policies in Latin America: Opportunities and Risks in the PRS Approach

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Geske Dijkstra

2011-01-01

Cet article cherche à déterminer dans quelle mesure les programmes de l’initiative de la Stratégie de Réduction de la Pauvreté ont contribué à promouvoir l’égalité des sexes dans les politiques publiques en Bolivie, au Honduras et au Nicaragua. Les processus de SRP présentent, en théorie, des opportunités pour promouvoir l’égalité entre les sexes à travers la participation de la société civile dans l’élaboration des stratégies ainsi que leur gestion et suivi, et aussi par l’intermédiaire des ...

Chapitre 2. La politique étrangère de la République islamique d’Iran

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Kian, Azadeh

2014-01-01

Résumé : Face aux soulèvements dans le monde arabe, la Russie a glissé d’une attitude de compréhension à une prise de distance avec les stratégies adoptées par la majorité des États occidentaux et arabes, d’abord dans le cas libyen mais surtout dans le dossier syrien. Dans ses choix, la diplomatie russe est aussi bien guidée par des considérations stratégiques régionales (appui à un partenaire de longue date, ventes d’armes, facilités navales à Tartous, peur d’avoir à ses frontières un « seco...

Fidélisation et personnalisation

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Bernard, Françoise; Boli, Claude; Cordelier, Benoit; Cova, Bernard; Deley, Nathalie; Desjeux, Dominique; De Crescenzo, Jean-Claude; Floris, Bernard; Gardère, Élizabeth; Hardy, Laurence; Laborde, Aurélie; Le Fournier, Viviane; Mesnil, Christian; Montety, Caroline de; Nguyen, Céline

2012-01-01

Depuis les années 1990 les entreprises sont progressivement passées de stratégies de marketing dit « transactionnel » ou « centré produit ». à des stratégies de marketing dit « relationnel » ou « orienté client » les politiques de « fidélisation clients » participent pleinement de celle évolution. Sans pour autant négliger les formes plus traditionnelles de la communication et du marketing. les entreprises misent ainsi largement sur le développement de relations pérennes et étroites avec les...

Success-slope effects on the illusion of control and on remembered success-frequency

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Anastasia Ejova

2013-07-01

Full Text Available The illusion of control refers to the inference of action-outcome contingency in situations where outcomes are in fact random. The strength of this illusion has been found to be affected by whether the frequency of successes increases or decreases over repeated trials, in what can be termed a ``success-slope'' effect. Previous studies have generated inconsistent findings regarding the nature of this effect. In this paper we present an experiment (N = 334 that overcomes several methodological limitations within this literature, employing a wider range of dependent measures (measures of two different types of illusory control, primary (by self and secondary (by luck, as well as measures of remembered success-frequency. Results indicate that different dependent measures lead to different effects. On measures of (primary, but not secondary control over the task, scores were highest when the rate of success increased over time. Meanwhile, estimates of success-frequency in the task did not vary across conditions and showed trends consistent with the broader literature on human memory.

Social-philosophical practices of success

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S. R. Karpenko

2017-01-01

Is social-philosophical experts of success represent the complicated system of various world outlook, speech, mental factors and events in life of the various professional, age and subcultural bunches producing assessments under different visual angles, from positions of various social installations and identity in what the social philosophy of success expresses. In the course of forming social an expert (both in daily, and in an institutional discourse are shaped also theoretical ideas success: instrumental, is social-philosophical, is social-psychological, world outlook, historical and cultural, etc., characterising thereby various systems of a social discourse. Examination is social-philosophical the success expert shows the real complexity and ambiguity of the given appearance. Besides the presented typology constructed as the most approximate abstract plan, in each separate case probably build-up of typological models according to a principle ad hoc. It looks quite justified, considering that circumstance that representations about success and the successful person are constantly transformed and acquire new performances. Efficiency of the further examinations of a discourse and a success expert will depend on accepting of new heuristic approaches, capable to consider multidimensionality and ambiguity of the given phenomenon.

The characteristics of successful entrepreneurs

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Pokrajčić Dragana M.

2004-01-01

Full Text Available This paper examines the economic, psychological and social-behavioral theories of the entrepreneur in order to determine the characteristics of a successful entrepreneur. The major contribution of economic theories of the entrepreneur is better understanding of the entrepreneur and his/her role in economic development. The psychological characteristic theory of entrepreneur argues that successful entrepreneurs possess certain personality traits that mark them out as special, and tries to determine and to evaluate these special traits. The social-behavioral theories stress the influence of experience, knowledge, social environment and ability to learn on the entrepreneur’s success as well as his/her personality traits. Neither of the examined theories of entrepreneur gives a satisfactory explanation of the entrepreneur’s success, but taken as a whole, they can explain key factors of entrepreneur’s success. The entrepreneur’s success comes about as a result of his/her personality traits, ability to learn from experience and ability to adjust to his/her environment.

Successful removable partial dentures.

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Lynch, Christopher D

2012-03-01

Removable partial dentures (RPDs) remain a mainstay of prosthodontic care for partially dentate patients. Appropriately designed, they can restore masticatory efficiency, improve aesthetics and speech, and help secure overall oral health. However, challenges remain in providing such treatments, including maintaining adequate plaque control, achieving adequate retention, and facilitating patient tolerance. The aim of this paper is to review the successful provision of RPDs. Removable partial dentures are a successful form of treatment for replacing missing teeth, and can be successfully provided with appropriate design and fabrication concepts in mind.

Behind the Exporters’ Success: Analysis of Successful Hungarian Exporter Companies From a Strategic Perspective

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Annamaria Kazai Onodi

2014-09-01

Full Text Available The purpose of the study is to provide an overview of export success from a strategic management perspective. The paper empirically tested the relationships between the firm’s export performance, strategic thinking, adaptation to the changing environment and companies’ capabilities. The research is based on the Hungarian Competitiveness Research database of 2013 that consists of 300 firms. Cluster analysis differentiated successful export-oriented and stagnant companies. Both of them had high export intensity (higher than 75%, but significant differences could be observed in export volume and profitability. More than 90Ťn of total export revenue belonged to the successful export-oriented cluster. Successful export oriented companies proved to be more proactive and innovative than stagnant, thus they were capable of adapting to the changing environment better. The study highlighted that appropriate strategic thinking could play a significant role in improving export success. The implication of the study is that stagnant companies need to develop their forecast abilities, flexibility to adapt to the changing environment and operational efficiency. Stagnant companies lagged behind successful exporters concerning industry forecast, production level, number of innovations, competitive prices and employee qualifications.

North Country Successes: Case Studies of Successful Entrepreneurs in the ANCA Region.

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Chugh, Ram L.; Gandhi, Prem P.

This study identifies the characteristics of both successful small businesses and their entrepreneurial owners in a 14-county area of the Adirondack North Country Association (ANCA). Of the 100 survey respondents representing successful small businesses, 50% had been in business for less than 14 years; 38% were in manufacturing; 48% employed more…

Analysis of successive data sets

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Spreeuwers, Lieuwe Jan; Breeuwer, Marcel; Haselhoff, Eltjo Hans

2008-01-01

The invention relates to the analysis of successive data sets. A local intensity variation is formed from such successive data sets, that is, from data values in successive data sets at corresponding positions in each of the data sets. A region of interest is localized in the individual data sets on

Analysis of successive data sets

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Spreeuwers, Lieuwe Jan; Breeuwer, Marcel; Haselhoff, Eltjo Hans

2002-01-01

The invention relates to the analysis of successive data sets. A local intensity variation is formed from such successive data sets, that is, from data values in successive data sets at corresponding positions in each of the data sets. A region of interest is localized in the individual data sets on

The seven S's for successful management.

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Davidhizar, R

1995-03-01

Becoming a successful manager in a health care agency is, for most new managers, an awesome goal. Successful management is more than knowledge of leadership roles and management functions that can be learned in school or educational workshops. Successful management involves effective use of both the manager's affective and cognitive domains. Mentoring and apprenticeship with a successful nurse leader is for many novice managers a highly valuable way to learn management skills since this allows for techniques with a successful nurse manager to be visualized and then modeled. "Seven S's" that provide a framework for managerial success are discussed.

Ingredients for successful partnerships

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S.M. Pfisterer (Stella)

2011-01-01

textabstractFor the development of new cross-sector partnerships it is required to know what the essence of successful partnership projects is. Which factors influence success or failure of partnerships is highly related to the specific context where partnerships operate. The literature on critical

Examining Management Success Potential.

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Quatrano, Louis A.

The derivation of a model of management success potential in hospitals or health services administration is described. A questionnaire developed to assess management success potential in health administration students was voluntarily completed by approximately 700 incoming graduate students in 35 university health services administration programs…

Successful ageing for psychiatrists.

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Peisah, Carmelle

2016-04-01

This paper aims to explore the concept and determinants of successful ageing as they apply to psychiatrists as a group, and as they can be applied specifically to individuals. Successful ageing is a heterogeneous, inclusive concept that is subjectively defined. No longer constrained by the notion of "super-ageing", successful ageing can still be achieved in the face of physical and/or mental illness. Accordingly, it remains within the reach of most of us. It can, and should be, person-specific and individually defined, specific to one's bio-psycho-social and occupational circumstances, and importantly, reserves. Successful professional ageing is predicated upon insight into signature strengths, with selection of realistic goal setting and substitution of new goals, given the dynamic nature of these constructs as we age. Other essential elements are generativity and self-care. Given that insight is key, taking a regular stock or inventory of our reserves across bio-psycho-social domains might be helpful. Importantly, for successful ageing, this needs to be suitably matched to the professional task and load. This lends itself to a renewable personal ageing plan, which should be systemically adopted with routine expectations of self-care and professional responsibility. © The Royal Australian and New Zealand College of Psychiatrists 2015.

Post-Mergers and Acquisitions: The Motives, Success Factors and Key Success Indicators

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Hatem El Zuhairy

2015-07-01

Full Text Available There is a wide body of evidence showing a significant increase in the adoption of mergers and acquisitions (M&A worldwide. Moreover, research confirms that the integration and implementation stage (post-M&A has a major impact on the success or failure of a merger or acquisition. Therefore it has become increasingly important to explore the post-M&A phase further in order to support the management teams of organizations pursuing a merger or acquisition in meeting all their desired objectives. This paper proposes a framework to help in the successful execution of M&A. The framework contains three main elements: the motives, success factors and key success indicators (KSI. A qualitative research approach using the multiple case study methodology was conducted to test the framework. Ten case studies were selected from the industrial sector in Egypt and used to validate the research. The final version of the M&A framework was provided after applying the research results. Considering the practical implications of the M&A framework, a tool was proposed for its application in light of the balanced scorecard (BSC methodology. The proposed M&A scorecard tool should be used in the strategic planning and execution of M&A. Both the proposed M&A framework and the M&A scorecard tool should be used to guide the implementation of M&A in order to increase the success rate enjoyed by organizations.

Priority setting: what constitutes success? A conceptual framework for successful priority setting.

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Sibbald, Shannon L; Singer, Peter A; Upshur, Ross; Martin, Douglas K

2009-03-05

The sustainability of healthcare systems worldwide is threatened by a growing demand for services and expensive innovative technologies. Decision makers struggle in this environment to set priorities appropriately, particularly because they lack consensus about which values should guide their decisions. One way to approach this problem is to determine what all relevant stakeholders understand successful priority setting to mean. The goal of this research was to develop a conceptual framework for successful priority setting. Three separate empirical studies were completed using qualitative data collection methods (one-on-one interviews with healthcare decision makers from across Canada; focus groups with representation of patients, caregivers and policy makers; and Delphi study including scholars and decision makers from five countries). This paper synthesizes the findings from three studies into a framework of ten separate but interconnected elements germane to successful priority setting: stakeholder understanding, shifted priorities/reallocation of resources, decision making quality, stakeholder acceptance and satisfaction, positive externalities, stakeholder engagement, use of explicit process, information management, consideration of values and context, and revision or appeals mechanism. The ten elements specify both quantitative and qualitative dimensions of priority setting and relate to both process and outcome components. To our knowledge, this is the first framework that describes successful priority setting. The ten elements identified in this research provide guidance for decision makers and a common language to discuss priority setting success and work toward improving priority setting efforts.

Une recension des écrits concernant la réalité psychoaffective des femmes ayant une vulvodynie : Difficultés rencontrées et stratégies développées

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Cantin-Drouin, Maude; Damant, Dominique; Turcotte, Daniel

2008-01-01

HISTORIQUE : Au cours des trois dernières décennies, une attention grandissante a été portée à l’étude du syndrome de vulvodynie, soit un inconfort vulvaire chronique inexpliqué, éprouvé en l’absence de pathologie précisée. En plus d’avoir des répercussions physiques, l’expérience de la vulvodynie comporte une dimension psychosociale. OBJECTIF : Cet article vise à faire une recension des écrits sur la réalité psychoaffective des femmes qui éprouvent une vulvodynie. MÉTHODE : Une recherche documentaire basée sur une exploration systématique de textes présentant des résultats de recherche et recensés dans les principales banques de données en sciences sociales, dont Dissertation Abstracts, Current Contents et PsycINFO, a été réalisée. RÉSULTATS : Cette recension des écrits révèle, malgré la présence de certains résultats divergents, que les femmes ayant une vulvodynie affrontent souvent des difficultés identitaires et psychologiques, qui sont influencées notamment par les normes sociales de sexualité et de féminité. Pour composer avec ces difficultés, les femmes développent différentes stratégies visant à diminuer le stress occasionné par la douleur et à améliorer leur bien-être psychologique. CONCLUSION : Les difficultés relationnelles et psychologiques vécues par les femmes ayant une vulvodynie ne découlent pas seulement de la douleur physique, mais aussi du sens qu’elles lui accordent, souvent influencé par les discours sociaux sur l’hétérosexualité et la féminité. Il importe donc d’intervenir auprès des femmes en tenant compte de l’influence du contexte social tout en poursuivant le développement des connaissances sur les aspects psychosociaux de cette expérience. PMID:18592063

Biosphere reserves: Attributes for success.

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Van Cuong, Chu; Dart, Peter; Hockings, Marc

2017-03-01

Biosphere reserves established under the UNESCO Man and the Biosphere Program aim to harmonise biodiversity conservation and sustainable development. Concerns over the extent to which the reserve network was living up to this ideal led to the development of a new strategy in 1995 (the Seville Strategy) to enhance the operation of the network of reserves. An evaluation of effectiveness of management of the biosphere reserve network was called for as part of this strategy. Expert opinion was assembled through a Delphi Process to identify successful and less successful reserves and investigate common factors influencing success or failure. Ninety biosphere reserves including sixty successful and thirty less successful reserves in 42 countries across all five Man and the Biosphere Program regions were identified. Most successful sites are the post-Seville generation while the majority of unsuccessful sites are pre-Seville that are managed as national parks and have not been amended to conform to the characteristics that are meant to define a biosphere reserve. Stakeholder participation and collaboration, governance, finance and resources, management, and awareness and communication are the most influential factors in the success or failure of the biosphere reserves. For success, the biosphere reserve concept needs to be clearly understood and applied through landscape zoning. Designated reserves then need a management system with inclusive good governance, strong participation and collaboration, adequate finance and human resource allocation and stable and responsible management and implementation. All rather obvious but it is difficult to achieve without commitment to the biosphere reserve concept by the governance authorities. Copyright © 2016 Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved.

High-Impact Succession Management. Executive Summary

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Lamoureux, Kim; Campbell, Michael; Smith, Roland

2009-01-01

Most companies have an opportunity to improve their succession management programs. The number one challenge for succession management (as identified by both HR leaders and executives) is developing a succession planning strategy. This comprehensive industry study sets out to determine how succession management (when done well) helps improve…

Strategic Success Of SRI Lankan Government Against LTTE Remains Tentative Despite Military Success

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2016-02-13

approach. While the SLG achieved a military success it has had difficulty translating the triumph into a strategic success through the application of...2004, based upon the tragedy and impact of a tsunami, the Indonesian government and insurgent forces negotiated a peace settlement for the greater

The International Successful School Principalship Project: Success Sustained?

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Moos, Lejf; Johansson, Olof

2009-01-01

Purpose: The purpose of this paper is to synthesize the findings of the follow-up studies of successful school principals in six countries: Australia, Denmark, England, Norway, Sweden, and the USA. Design/methodology/approach: Data were categorized according to stakeholder expectations, the concept and practice of leadership, and the…

Human Resource Outsourcing Success

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Hasliza Abdul-Halim; Elaine Ee; T. Ramayah; Noor Hazlina Ahmad

2014-01-01

The existing literature on partnership seems to take the relationship between partnership quality and outsourcing success for granted. Therefore, this article aims at examining the role of service quality in strengthening the relationship between partnership quality and human resource (HR) outsourcing success. The samples were obtained from 96 manufacturing organizations in Penang, Malaysia. The results showed that par...

Planning for College Success

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2009-01-01

"Planning for College Success" (PCS) is a curriculum model designed by Sharon Downs, M.S., for a course intended to assist deaf and hard of hearing students during their initial introduction to college life. This program allows students to work one-on-one with a counselor to plan for their college success. The program includes short-term goals and…

Stratégies littéraires dans la littérature féminine israélienne Literary Strategies in Women’s Israeli Literature: Orly Castel-Bloom אסטרטגיות ספרותית בכתיבת נשים ישראלית

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Élisa Carandina

2011-11-01

Full Text Available Quelles sont les stratégies littéraires dans la littérature féminine israélienne ? Cet article traite de l'utilisation du mythe dans le roman Dolly City écrit par Orly Castel-Bloom. Plus précisément, il vise à approfondir la manière dont ce roman est construit sur l'idée de « répétition ». Cet élément est facilement identifiable dans l'allusion au mythe de Pygmalion redéfini par Orly Castel-Bloom comme mythe de l'art, par la répétition au lieu de la représentation. Par ailleurs, l'utilisation maternelle du mythe de Pygmalion permet à Orly Castel-Bloom d'aborder le thème de la création et la procréation par le clonage, comme le personnage du Fils en forme de Golem pourrait le suggérer. Enfin, cette utilisation du mythe doit être comprise en comparaison avec la définition de « la création de mythes » révisionnistes » avancée par Alicia Ostriker.This article deals with the use of myth in the novel Dolly City written by Orly Castel-Bloom. More specifically it aims to deepen how this novel is built on the idea of «repetition». This element is easily identifiable in the allusion to the Pygmalion myth redefined by Orly Castel-Bloom as myth of art as repetition instead of representation. Moreover the maternal use of Pygmalion myth allows Orly Castel-Bloom to approach the theme of creation and procreation as cloning, as the golem-shaped character of Son could suggest. Finally, this use of the myth is to be understood in comparison with the definition of «revisionist mythmaking» advanced by Alicia Ostriker.מאמר זה עוסק בשאלת המיתוס ברומן "דולי סיטי" לאורלי קסטל בלום, וליתר דיוק, הוא בודק את אפקט החזרה. קסטל בלום עצמה מאפיינת את המיתוס של פיגמליון כמיתוס של חזרה ולא של רפרזנטציה. הבחנה זו מאפשרת להתייחס למית

Leadership succession patterns in the apostolic church as a template for critique of contemporary charismatic leadership succession patterns

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Cephas Tushima

2016-06-01

Full Text Available The pattern of leadership succession observed globally in most contemporary Pentecostal movements and churches can be characterised as dynastic succession. Yet historic modern Pentecostalism (in the Azusa tradition prided itself on being biblical. This article explores the biblical sources, examining first the leadership structure and then the leadership succession patterns in the apostolic church as well as the extra-biblical sources of the apostolic patristic era. Our findings from this New Testament (and patristic sources survey of leadership succession in the apostolic church and post-apostolic churches furnish a template for critical evaluation of the prevalent succession approaches of contemporary Pentecostal groups. Critical elements of apostolic and leadership structure and succession patterns are highlighted, and needed inferences are drawn for the re-shaping of leadership and its succession in contemporary Christian ministries and churches. Keywords: Azusa; Apostolic Leadership; Leadership Succession; Pentecostalism; Evangelicals; Leadership Patterns

Self-Presentation Strategies, Fear of Success and Anticipation of Future Success among University and High School Students

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Kosakowska-Berezecka, Natasza; Jurek, Paweł; Besta, Tomasz; Badowska, Sylwia

2017-01-01

The backlash avoidance model (BAM) suggests women insufficiently self-promote because they fear backlash for behavior which is incongruent with traditional gender roles. Avoiding self-promoting behavior is also potentially related to associating success with negative consequences. In two studies we tested whether self-promotion and fear of success will be predictors of lower salaries and anticipation of lower chances of success in an exam. In study 1, prior to the exam they were about to take, we asked 234 students about their predictions concerning exam results and their future earnings. They also filled scales measuring their associations with success (fear of success) and tendency for self-promotion. The tested model proved that in comparison to men, women expect lower salaries in the future, anticipate lower test performance and associate success with more negative consequences. Both tendency for self-promotion and fear of success are related to anticipation of success in test performance and expectations concerning future earnings. In study 2 we repeated the procedure on a sample of younger female and male high school pupils (N = 100) to verify whether associating success with negative consequences and differences in self-promotion strategies are observable in a younger demographic. Our results show that girls and boys in high school do not differ with regard to fear of success, self-promotion or agency levels. Girls and boys anticipated to obtain similar results in math exam results, but girls expected to have higher results in language exams. Nevertheless, school pupils also differed regarding their future earnings but only in the short term. Fear of success and agency self-ratings were significant predictors of expectations concerning future earnings, but only among high school boys and with regard to earnings expected just after graduation. PMID:29163271

Self-Presentation Strategies, Fear of Success and Anticipation of Future Success among University and High School Students.

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Kosakowska-Berezecka, Natasza; Jurek, Paweł; Besta, Tomasz; Badowska, Sylwia

2017-01-01

The backlash avoidance model (BAM) suggests women insufficiently self-promote because they fear backlash for behavior which is incongruent with traditional gender roles. Avoiding self-promoting behavior is also potentially related to associating success with negative consequences. In two studies we tested whether self-promotion and fear of success will be predictors of lower salaries and anticipation of lower chances of success in an exam. In study 1, prior to the exam they were about to take, we asked 234 students about their predictions concerning exam results and their future earnings. They also filled scales measuring their associations with success (fear of success) and tendency for self-promotion. The tested model proved that in comparison to men, women expect lower salaries in the future, anticipate lower test performance and associate success with more negative consequences. Both tendency for self-promotion and fear of success are related to anticipation of success in test performance and expectations concerning future earnings. In study 2 we repeated the procedure on a sample of younger female and male high school pupils ( N = 100) to verify whether associating success with negative consequences and differences in self-promotion strategies are observable in a younger demographic. Our results show that girls and boys in high school do not differ with regard to fear of success, self-promotion or agency levels. Girls and boys anticipated to obtain similar results in math exam results, but girls expected to have higher results in language exams. Nevertheless, school pupils also differed regarding their future earnings but only in the short term. Fear of success and agency self-ratings were significant predictors of expectations concerning future earnings, but only among high school boys and with regard to earnings expected just after graduation.

Self-Presentation Strategies, Fear of Success and Anticipation of Future Success among University and High School Students

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Natasza Kosakowska-Berezecka

2017-10-01

Full Text Available The backlash avoidance model (BAM suggests women insufficiently self-promote because they fear backlash for behavior which is incongruent with traditional gender roles. Avoiding self-promoting behavior is also potentially related to associating success with negative consequences. In two studies we tested whether self-promotion and fear of success will be predictors of lower salaries and anticipation of lower chances of success in an exam. In study 1, prior to the exam they were about to take, we asked 234 students about their predictions concerning exam results and their future earnings. They also filled scales measuring their associations with success (fear of success and tendency for self-promotion. The tested model proved that in comparison to men, women expect lower salaries in the future, anticipate lower test performance and associate success with more negative consequences. Both tendency for self-promotion and fear of success are related to anticipation of success in test performance and expectations concerning future earnings. In study 2 we repeated the procedure on a sample of younger female and male high school pupils (N = 100 to verify whether associating success with negative consequences and differences in self-promotion strategies are observable in a younger demographic. Our results show that girls and boys in high school do not differ with regard to fear of success, self-promotion or agency levels. Girls and boys anticipated to obtain similar results in math exam results, but girls expected to have higher results in language exams. Nevertheless, school pupils also differed regarding their future earnings but only in the short term. Fear of success and agency self-ratings were significant predictors of expectations concerning future earnings, but only among high school boys and with regard to earnings expected just after graduation.

Healthcare succession planning: an integrative review.

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Carriere, Brian K; Muise, Melanie; Cummings, Greta; Newburn-Cook, Chris

2009-12-01

Succession planning is a business strategy that has recently gained attention in the healthcare literature, primarily because of nursing shortage concerns and the demand for retaining knowledgeable personnel to meet organizational needs. Little research has been conducted in healthcare settings that clearly defines best practices for succession planning frameworks. To effectively carry out such organizational strategies during these challenging times, an integrative review of succession planning in healthcare was performed to identify consistencies in theoretical approaches and strategies for chief nursing officers and healthcare managers to initiate. Selected articles were compared with business succession planning to determine whether healthcare strategies were similar to best practices already established in business contexts. The results of this integrative review will aid leaders and managers to use succession planning as a tool in their recruitment, retention, mentoring, and administration activities and also provide insights for future development of healthcare succession planning frameworks.

Critical success factors of Indian Entrepreneurs

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Alex Antonites

2013-12-01

Full Text Available This research seeks to explore the critical success factors that influence the success of Indian small business owners in the largest metropolitan area in South Africa. To achieve this, the objective of the study was to confirm whether there are significant differences between a successful and less successful group of business owners in terms of general management skills, personal characteristics, and entrepreneurial orientation and financing of the business. Through analysing secondary evidence and empirical results it was possible to facilitate a better understanding of how Indian entrepreneurs operating in small and medium enterprises sustain success, thus contributing to the body of knowledge relating to entrepreneurship development in the domain of entrepreneurship. From the literature it became clear that cultural dimensions have an impact on the entrepreneurial process. The arrival of Indians in South Africa has contributed to a unique Indian culture. The characteristics that describe ethnic entrepreneurs and success factors attributed to their success are described. Small and medium enterprises (SMEs are crucial for the development of any country as they offer benefits of economic growth and employment generation. The success factors to sustain SMEs are also described. The findings of the study indicate that there are no significant differences between the comparable groups in relation to management skills and finance factors. There are, however, significant differences relating to personal factors, such as the level of education, family support and experience. Finally, an important learning is that the Indian entrepreneurs in this study are similar to ethnic entrepreneurs reviewed in literature. The study was conducted in Tshwane, the largest metropolitan area in South Africa, and amongst the largest in the world. Keywords: Culture, ethnic entrepreneurship, Indian entrepreneurship, critical success factors, small and medium enterprises

Critical success factors in ERP implementation

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Blerta Abazi Chaushi

2016-11-01

Full Text Available This study conducts state of the art literature review of critical success factors for enterprise resource planning systems implementation success. Since research on critical success factors for ERP implementation success is very rare and fragmented, this study provides a more comprehensive list of ten factors that companies that have adopted and struggle with the implementation, as well as companies who are in the process of considering implementation of ERP system can easily adopt and follow. The main contribution of this paper is that these ten new critical success factors are identifi ed through a thorough analysis of 22 selected research papers and is more comprehensive and straightforwardly employable for use.

Bangladesh becomes "success story".

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1999-01-01

The State Minister for Health and Family of Bangladesh, Dr. Mohammed Amanullah, highlighted some of the successes being achieved by his country in lowering fertility and improving the lives of the people since the 1994 International Conference on Population and Development. Some of these successes include practical measures to eliminate violence against women; introduction of a quota for women in public sector employment; and launching of the Health and Population Sector Program to provide a one-stop, full range of essential reproductive health, family planning and child health services through an integrated delivery mechanism. Moreover, the Minister informed the Forum participants that their success is attributable to many factors which include support from the government, from non-governmental organizations, civil society, mass media, religious and other community leaders, intersectoral collaboration, microcredit and income-generation activities.

Citation Success

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Di Vaio, Gianfranco; Waldenström, Daniel; Weisdorf, Jacob Louis

affects citations. In regard to author-specific characteristics, male authors, full professors and authors working economics or history departments, and authors employed in Anglo-Saxon countries, are more likely to get cited than others. As a ‘shortcut' to citation success, we find that research diffusion...

Successful ageing

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Kusumastuti, Sasmita; Derks, Marloes G. M.; Tellier, Siri

2016-01-01

BACKGROUND: Ageing is accompanied by an increased risk of disease and a loss of functioning on several bodily and mental domains and some argue that maintaining health and functioning is essential for a successful old age. Paradoxically, studies have shown that overall wellbeing follows a curvili...

Successful modeling?

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Lomnitz, Cinna

Tichelaar and Ruff [1989] propose to “estimate model variance in complicated geophysical problems,” including the determination of focal depth in earthquakes, by means of unconventional statistical methods such as bootstrapping. They are successful insofar as they are able to duplicate the results from more conventional procedures.

Human capital and career success

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Frederiksen, Anders; Kato, Takao

capital formally through schooling for career success, as well as the gender gap in career success rates. Second, broadening the scope of human capital by experiencing various occupations (becoming a generalist) is found to be advantageous for career success. Third, initial human capital earned through......Denmark’s registry data provide accurate and complete career history data along with detailed personal characteristics (e.g., education, gender, work experience, tenure and others) for the population of Danish workers longitudinally. By using such data from 1992 to 2002, we provide rigorous...... formal schooling and subsequent human capital obtained informally on the job are found to be complements in the production of career success. Fourth, though there is a large body of the literature on the relationship between firm-specific human capital and wages, the relative value of firm-specific human...

A Model of Successful School Leadership from the International Successful School Principalship Project

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David Gurr

2015-03-01

Full Text Available The International Successful School Principalship Project (ISSPP has been actively conducting research about the work of successful principals since 2001. Findings from four project books and eight models derived from this project are synthesised into a model of successful school leadership. Building on Gurr, Drysdale and Mulford’s earlier model, the work of school leaders is described as engaging within the school context to influence student and school outcomes through interventions in teaching and learning, school capacity building, and the wider context. The qualities a leader brings to their role, a portfolio approach to using leadership ideas, constructing networks, collaborations and partnerships, and utilising accountability and evaluation for evidence-informed improvement, are important additional elements. The model is applicable to all in leadership roles in schools.

Successful aging: considering non-biomedical constructs

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Carver LF

2016-11-01

Full Text Available Lisa F Carver,1 Diane Buchanan2 1Department of Sociology, Queen’s University Kingston, ON, Canada; 2School of Nursing, Queen’s University Kingston, ON, Canada Objectives: Successful aging continues to be applied in a variety of contexts and is defined using a number of different constructs. Although previous reviews highlight the multidimensionality of successful aging, a few have focused exclusively on non-biomedical factors, as was done here. Methods: This scoping review searched Ovid Medline database for peer-reviewed English-language articles published between 2006 and 2015, offering a model of successful aging and involving research with older adults. Results: Seventy-two articles were reviewed. Thirty-five articles met the inclusion criteria. Common non-biomedical constructs associated with successful aging included engagement, optimism and/or positive attitude, resilience, spirituality and/or religiosity, self-efficacy and/or self-esteem, and gerotranscendence. Discussion: Successful aging is a complex process best described using a multidimensional model. Given that the majority of elders will experience illness and/or disease during the life course, public health initiatives that promote successful aging need to employ non-biomedical constructs, facilitating the inclusion of elders living with disease and/or disability. Keywords: successful aging, resilience, gerotranscendence, engagement, optimism

Success tree method of resources evaluation

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Chen Qinglan; Sun Wenpeng

1994-01-01

By applying the reliability theory in system engineering, the success tree method is used to transfer the expert's recognition on metallogenetic regularities into the form of the success tree. The aim of resources evaluation is achieved by means of calculating the metallogenetic probability or favorability of the top event of the success tree. This article introduces in detail, the source, principle of the success tree method and three kinds of calculation methods, expounds concretely how to establish the success tree of comprehensive uranium metallogenesis as well as the procedure from which the resources evaluation is performed. Because this method has not restrictions on the number of known deposits and calculated area, it is applicable to resources evaluation for different mineral species, types and scales and possesses good prospects of development

Success and Women's Career Adjustment.

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Russell, Joyce E. A.; Burgess, Jennifer R. D.

1998-01-01

Women still face barriers to career success and satisfaction: stereotypes, assumptions, organizational culture, human resource practices, and lack of opportunities. Despite individual and organizational strategies, many women leave to become entrepreneurs. There is a need to investigate how women define career success. (SK)

Four malaria success stories: how malaria burden was successfully reduced in Brazil, Eritrea, India, and Vietnam.

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Barat, Lawrence M

2006-01-01

While many countries struggle to control malaria, four countries, Brazil, Eritrea, India, and Vietnam, have successfully reduced malaria burden. To determine what led these countries to achieve impact, published and unpublished reports were reviewed and selected program and partner staff were interviewed to identify common factors that contributed to these successes. Common success factors included conducive country conditions, a targeted technical approach using a package of effective tools, data-driven decision-making, active leadership at all levels of government, involvement of communities, decentralized implementation and control of finances, skilled technical and managerial capacity at national and sub-national levels, hands-on technical and programmatic support from partner agencies, and sufficient and flexible financing. All these factors were essential in achieving success. If the goals of Roll Back Malaria are to be achieved, governments and their partners must take the lessons learned from these program successes and apply them in other affected countries.

MODEL OF TRAINING OF SUCCESS IN LIFE

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Екатерина Александровна Лежнева

2014-04-01

Full Text Available The article explains the importance of the development of motive to succeed in adolescence. It is determined the value of the motive to achieve success in the further development of the teenager: a motive to achieve effective internal forces mobilized for the implementation of successful operation ensures the active involvement of teenagers in social and interpersonal relationships. As the primary means of motive development success is considered training. The author provides a definition of "training for success in life," creates a model of training for success in life, and describes its units (targeted, informative, technological, productive, reveals the successful development of the technology life strategy used during the training (self-presentation, targets, incentives, subject-orientation. The author pays attention to the need for a future psychologist to develop teenagers’ motive to achieve success through the mastery of competence in constructing a model of training for success in life, and its implementation in the course of professional activities. The main means of training students of psychology to the use of training success in life identified the additional educational programs and psychological section.DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.12731/2218-7405-2013-9-77

Organizational Climate for Successful Aging

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Zacher, Hannes; Yang, Jie

2016-01-01

Research on successful aging at work has neglected contextual resources such as organizational climate, which refers to employees’ shared perceptions of their work environment. We introduce the construct of organizational climate for successful aging (OCSA) and examine it as a buffer of the negative relationship between employee age and focus on opportunities (i.e., beliefs about future goals and possibilities at work). Moreover, we expected that focus on opportunities, in turn, positively predicts job satisfaction, organizational commitment, and motivation to continue working after official retirement age. Data came from 649 employees working in 120 companies (Mage = 44 years, SD = 13). We controlled for organizational tenure, psychological climate for successful aging (i.e., individuals’ perceptions), and psychological and organizational age discrimination climate. Results of multilevel analyses supported our hypotheses. Overall, our findings suggest that OCSA is an important contextual resource for successful aging at work. PMID:27458405

Organizational Climate for Successful Aging.

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Zacher, Hannes; Yang, Jie

2016-01-01

Research on successful aging at work has neglected contextual resources such as organizational climate, which refers to employees' shared perceptions of their work environment. We introduce the construct of organizational climate for successful aging (OCSA) and examine it as a buffer of the negative relationship between employee age and focus on opportunities (i.e., beliefs about future goals and possibilities at work). Moreover, we expected that focus on opportunities, in turn, positively predicts job satisfaction, organizational commitment, and motivation to continue working after official retirement age. Data came from 649 employees working in 120 companies (M age = 44 years, SD = 13). We controlled for organizational tenure, psychological climate for successful aging (i.e., individuals' perceptions), and psychological and organizational age discrimination climate. Results of multilevel analyses supported our hypotheses. Overall, our findings suggest that OCSA is an important contextual resource for successful aging at work.

Nurse manager succession planning: a concept analysis.

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Titzer, Jennifer L; Shirey, Maria R

2013-01-01

The current nursing leadership pipeline is inadequate and demands strategic succession planning methods. This article provides concept clarification regarding nurse manager succession planning. Attributes common to succession planning include organizational commitment and resource allocation, proactive and visionary leadership approach, and a mentoring and coaching environment. Strategic planning, current and future leadership analysis, high-potential identification, and leadership development are succession planning antecedents. Consequences of succession planning are improved leadership and organizational culture continuity, and increased leadership bench strength. Health care has failed to strategically plan for future leadership. Developing a strong nursing leadership pipeline requires deliberate and strategic succession planning. © 2013 Wiley Periodicals, Inc.

Status and Mating Success Amongst Visual Artists

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Clegg, Helen; Nettle, Daniel; Miell, Dorothy

2011-01-01

Geoffrey Miller has hypothesized that producing artwork functions as a mating display. Here we investigate the relationship between mating success and artistic success in a sample of 236 visual artists. Initially, we derived a measure of artistic success that covered a broad range of artistic behaviors and beliefs. As predicted by Miller’s evolutionary theory, more successful male artists had more sexual partners than less successful artists but this did not hold for female artists. Also, male artists with greater artistic success had a mating strategy based on longer term relationships. Overall the results provide partial support for the sexual selection hypothesis for the function of visual art. PMID:22059085

Endoscopic Third Ventriculostomy: Success and Failure.

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Deopujari, Chandrashekhar E; Karmarkar, Vikram S; Shaikh, Salman T

2017-05-01

Endoscopic third ventriculostomy (ETV) has now become an accepted mode of hydrocephalus treatment in children. Varying degrees of success for the procedure have been reported depending on the type and etiology of hydrocephalus, age of the patient and certain technical parameters. Review of these factors for predictability of success, complications and validation of success score is presented.

How people learn in an asynchronous online learning environment: The relationships between graduate students’ learning strategies and learning satisfaction | Comment apprennent les gens dans un environnement d’apprentissage en ligne asynchrone

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Beomkyu Choi

2016-04-01

Full Text Available The purpose of this study was to examine the relationships between learners’ learning strategies and learning satisfaction in an asynchronous online learning environment, in an attempt to shed some light on how people learn in an online learning environment. One hundred and sixteen graduate students who were taking online learning courses participated in this study. The result revealed that ‘metacognitive strategy’ and ‘time and study environment’ had positive correlations with learners’ satisfaction, while ‘help seeking’ had a negative correlation. The findings of a multiple regression analysis showed that ‘metacognitive strategy’ and ‘peer learning’ led to learners’ satisfaction in an online learning environment. The findings of this study contribute to a better understanding of how successful learning occurs in an online learning environment, and provide recommendations on designing an effective online learning. L’objet de cette étude était d’examiner les relations entre les stratégies d’apprentissage des apprenants et la satisfaction liée à l’apprentissage dans un environnement asynchrone d’apprentissage en ligne, dans le but de faire la lumière sur les façons dont les gens apprennent dans un environnement d’apprentissage en ligne. Cent seize étudiants aux cycles supérieurs qui suivaient des cours en ligne ont pris part à cette étude. Les résultats ont révélé que la « stratégie métacognitive » et « le moment et l’environnement pour l’étude » avaient des corrélations positives avec la satisfaction des apprenants, alors que « demander de l’aide » avait une corrélation négative. Les conclusions d’une analyse de régression multiple ont démontré que la « stratégie métacognitive » et « l’apprentissage entre pairs » avaient des corrélations positives avec la satisfaction des apprenants dans un environnement d’apprentissage en ligne. Les conclusions de cette �

Succession Planning in Australian Farming

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John Hicks

2012-11-01

Full Text Available The theme of this paper is that succession planning in Australian farming is under-developed.It may be linked to economic and social change which suggests that farmers need to adapt togenerational change but this is being resisted or ignored. The implications of this are the slowdecline of family farming, a poor transfer of skills and knowledge to subsequent generationsof farmers in some parts of the agricultural sector and the potential for an extension of thefinancial services industry to develop a more effective raft of succession planning measuresto mitigate the effects of a traditional approach to succession in agriculture.

Qualitative Characteristic of Sociability in Groups of Successful and Less Successful Learners of Foreign Languages

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G V Zarembo

2011-06-01

Full Text Available The article deals with a qualitative characteristic of sociability for successful and less successful learners of foreign languages. The statistical estimate showing the differences between average figures on sociability and effectiveness in the second language learning is also given.

Investigating critical success factors in tile industry

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Davood Salmani

2014-04-01

Full Text Available This paper presents an empirical investigation to determine critical success factors influencing the success of tile industry in Iran. The study designs a questionnaire in Likert scale, distributes it among some experts in tile industry. Using Pearson correlation test, the study has detected that there was a positive and meaningful relationship between marketing planning and the success of tile industry (r = 0.312 Sig. = 0.001. However, there is not any meaningful relationship between low cost production and success of tile industry (r = 0.13 Sig. = 0.12 and, there is a positive and meaningful relationship between organizational capabilities and success of tile industry (r = 0.635 Sig. = 0.000. Finally, our investigation states that technology and distributing systems also influence on the success of tile industry, positively. The study has also used five regression analyses where the success of tile industry was the dependent variable and marketing planning, low cost production and organizational capabilities are independent variables and the results have confirmed some positive and meaningful relationship between the successes of tile industry with all independent variables.

Succession Planning for Library Instruction

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Sobel, Karen; Drewry, Josiah

2015-01-01

Detailed succession planning helps libraries pass information from one employee to the next. This is crucial in preparing for hiring, turnover, retirements, training of graduate teaching assistants in academic libraries, and other common situations. The authors of this article discuss succession planning for instruction programs in academic…

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Higher survival drives the success of nitrogen-fixing trees through succession in Costa Rican rainforests.

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Menge, Duncan N L; Chazdon, Robin L

2016-02-01

Trees capable of symbiotic nitrogen (N) fixation ('N fixers') are abundant in many tropical forests. In temperate forests, it is well known that N fixers specialize in early-successional niches, but in tropical forests, successional trends of N-fixing species are poorly understood. We used a long-term census study (1997-2013) of regenerating lowland wet tropical forests in Costa Rica to document successional patterns of N fixers vs non-fixers, and used an individual-based model to determine the demographic drivers of these trends. N fixers increased in relative basal area during succession. In the youngest forests, N fixers grew 2.5 times faster, recruited at a similar rate and were 15 times less likely to die as non-fixers. As succession proceeded, the growth and survival disparities decreased, whereas N fixer recruitment decreased relative to non-fixers. According to our individual-based model, high survival was the dominant driver of the increase in basal area of N fixers. Our data suggest that N fixers are successful throughout secondary succession in tropical rainforests of north-east Costa Rica, and that attempts to understand this success should focus on tree survival. © 2015 The Authors. New Phytologist © 2015 New Phytologist Trust.

Diagnostic reasoning strategies and diagnostic success.

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Coderre, S; Mandin, H; Harasym, P H; Fick, G H

2003-08-01

Cognitive psychology research supports the notion that experts use mental frameworks or "schemes", both to organize knowledge in memory and to solve clinical problems. The central purpose of this study was to determine the relationship between problem-solving strategies and the likelihood of diagnostic success. Think-aloud protocols were collected to determine the diagnostic reasoning used by experts and non-experts when attempting to diagnose clinical presentations in gastroenterology. Using logistic regression analysis, the study found that there is a relationship between diagnostic reasoning strategy and the likelihood of diagnostic success. Compared to hypothetico-deductive reasoning, the odds of diagnostic success were significantly greater when subjects used the diagnostic strategies of pattern recognition and scheme-inductive reasoning. Two other factors emerged as independent determinants of diagnostic success: expertise and clinical presentation. Not surprisingly, experts outperformed novices, while the content area of the clinical cases in each of the four clinical presentations demonstrated varying degrees of difficulty and thus diagnostic success. These findings have significant implications for medical educators. It supports the introduction of "schemes" as a means of enhancing memory organization and improving diagnostic success.

Biofilm community succession: a neutral perspective.

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Woodcock, Stephen; Sloan, William T

2017-05-22

Although biofilms represent one of the dominant forms of life in aqueous environments, our understanding of the assembly and development of their microbial communities remains relatively poor. In recent years, several studies have addressed this and have extended the concepts of succession theory in classical ecology into microbial systems. From these datasets, niche-based conceptual models have been developed explaining observed biodiversity patterns and their dynamics. These models have not, however, been formulated mathematically and so remain untested. Here, we further develop spatially resolved neutral community models and demonstrate that these can also explain these patterns and offer alternative explanations of microbial succession. The success of neutral models suggests that stochastic effects alone may have a much greater influence on microbial community succession than previously acknowledged. Furthermore, such models are much more readily parameterised and can be used as the foundation of more complex and realistic models of microbial community succession.

Comparative evaluation of rivastigmine permeation from a transdermal system in the Franz cell using synthetic membranes and pig ear skin with in vivo-in vitro correlation.

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Simon, Alice; Amaro, Maria Inês; Healy, Anne Marie; Cabral, Lucio Mendes; de Sousa, Valeria Pereira

2016-10-15

In the present study, in vitro permeation experiments in a Franz diffusion cell were performed using different synthetic polymeric membranes and pig ear skin to evaluate a rivastigmine (RV) transdermal drug delivery system. In vitro-in vivo correlations (IVIVC) were examined to determine the best model membrane. In vitro permeation studies across different synthetic membranes and skin were performed for the Exelon(®) Patch (which contains RV), and the results were compared. Deconvolution of bioavailability data using the Wagner-Nelson method enabled the fraction of RV absorbed to be determined and a point-to-point IVIVC to be established. The synthetic membrane, Strat-M™, showed a RV permeation profile similar to that obtained with pig ear skin (R(2)=0.920). Studies with Strat-M™ resulted in a good and linear IVIVC (R(2)=0.991) when compared with other synthetic membranes that showed R(2) values less than 0.90. The R(2) for pig ear skin was 0.982. Strat-M™ membrane was the only synthetic membrane that adequately simulated skin barrier performance and therefore it can be considered to be a suitable alternative to human or animal skin in evaluating transdermal drug transport, potentially reducing the number of studies requiring human or animal samples. Copyright © 2016 Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved.

Does Happiness Promote Career Success?

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Boehm, Julia K.; Lyubomirsky, Sonja

2008-01-01

Past research has demonstrated a relationship between happiness and workplace success. For example, compared with their less happy peers, happy people earn more money, display superior performance, and perform more helpful acts. Researchers have often assumed that an employee is happy and satisfied because he or she is successful. In this article,…

Medical abortion. defining success and categorizing failures

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Rørbye, Christina; Nørgaard, Mogens; Vestermark, Vibeke

2003-01-01

. The difference in short- and long-term success rates increased with increasing gestational age. The majority of failures (76%) were diagnosed more than 2 weeks after initiation of the abortion. At a 2-week follow-up visit, the women who turned out to be failures had a larger endometrial width, higher beta......-hCG values and smaller reductions of beta-hCG than those treated successfully. To optimize comparison of success rates after different medical abortion regimens, we suggest that the criteria for success are stated clearly, that the success rates are stratified according to gestational age...

Key Success Factors in Business Intelligence

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Szymon Adamala

2011-12-01

Full Text Available Business Intelligence can bring critical capabilities to an organization, but the implementation of such capabilities is often plagued with problems. Why is it that certain projects fail, while others succeed? The aim of this article is to identify the factors that are present in successful Business Intelligence projects and to organize them into a framework of critical success factors. A survey was conducted during the spring of 2011 to collect primary data on Business Intelligence projects. Findings confirm that Business Intelligence projects are wrestling with both technological and non-technological problems, but the non-technological problems are found to be harder to solve as well as more time consuming than their counterparts. The study also shows that critical success factors for Business Intelligence projects are different from success factors for Information Systems projects in general. Business Intelligences projects have critical success factors that are unique to the subject matter. Major differences can be found primarily among non-technological factors, such as the presence of a specific business need and a clear vision to guide the project. Success depends on types of project funding, the business value provided by each iteration in the project and the alignment of the project to a strategic vision for Business Intelligence at large. Furthermore, the study provides a framework for critical success factors that, explains sixty-one percent of variability of success for projects. Areas which should be given special attention include making sure that the Business Intelligence solution is built with the end users in mind, that the Business Intelligence solution is closely tied to the company’s strategic vision and that the project is properly scoped and prioritized to concentrate on the best opportunities first.

A statistical analysis of individual success after successful completion of Defense Language Institute Foreign Language Center Training

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Hinson, William B.

2005-01-01

"The Defense Language Institute Foreign Language Center (DLIFLC) trains students in various foreign languages and dialects for the Department of Defense (DOD). The majority of students are firstterm enlistees in the basic program. This study uses classification trees and logistic regression to understand the military, academic and personal characteristics that influence first-term success after successfully completing DLIFLC training. Success was defined as completing a firstterm enlistme...

Styles of success

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Dahlgaard, Jens Jørn; Nørgaard, Anders; Jakobsen, Søren

1997-01-01

Corporate success stories tend to emphasize the "great men" theory of history. But now a European research project established the managerial attributes that can turn an ordinary leader into one ideal for the pursuit of business excellence. The emergence of five leadership styles as crucial drivers...... of business excellence points to a clear agenda for success. Setting clear strategic goals and the ability to take a long-term view of an organization's direction, combined with other leadership attributes such as creativity, teambuilding and learning, are principal keys to creating an excellent organization....... Leaders seeking to achive business excellence must view the high-level attainment of these sets of leadership competencies as their paramount objective. In striving for business excellence, European leaders may encounter resistance among their employees. Crucially, European employees place a markedly...

CELULE FOTOVOLTAICE CU HOMOJONCŢIUNE DIN InP: REZULTATE ŞI COMPARĂRI

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Vasile BOTNARIUC

2016-12-01

Full Text Available Au fost obţinute homojoncţiuni n-pInP cu strat intermediar p-InP crescut repetat prin metoda HVPE cu sau fără strat frontal nCdS şi au fost cercetate proprietăţile electrice şi fotoelectrice ale acestora. S-a constatat că depunerea stratului intermediar măreşte fotosensibilitatea homostructurilor cu 15…20%. Eficienţa energetică a CF cu structura n+CdS-n+InP-p-InP-p+InP constituie 13,5% pentru fluxul luminos incident de 100 mW×cm-2. Eficienţa CF cu heterostructura nCdS-pInP şi cu strat intermediar similar creşte cu 27%, în comparaţie cu CF cu homostructura n-p--pInP şi cu strat frontal nCdS, având valoarea de 17,3%. Se conturează posibilitatea reală de mărire a eficienţei CF de acest tip.FOTOVOLTAIC CELLS WITH HOMOJUNCTIONS IN InP: REZULTS AND COMPARISONSElectrical and photoelectrical properties of InP p-n homojunctions with an intermediate p-InP layer repeatedly grown by HVPE method, with and without frontal nCdS layer were produced and studied. It was found that the deposition of this intermediate p-InP layer increases the cells photosensitivity by 15 ... 20%. The solar energy conversion efficiency of photovoltaic cell (PC with n+CdS-n+InP-p-InP-p+InP structure is 13.5% at the illumination of 100 mW.cm-2. The efficiency of the PC based on nCdS-pInP heterostructure and an analogic intermediate layer increases to 27% compared with the PC based on n-p--pInP homostructure having a frontal nCdS layer has an efficiency of 17.3%. The possibility of increasing of the efficiency of this PC type is formulated.

On the Optimal Thermal Management of Hybrid-Electric Vehicles with Heat Recovery Systems Sur le thermo-management optimal d’un véhicule électrique hybride avec un système de récupération de chaleur

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Merz F.

2012-09-01

Full Text Available A general framework to combine optimal energy management (powertrain supervisory control and thermal management in Hybrid Electric Vehicles (HEV is presented. A HEV system with engine exhaust aftertreatment and exhaust heat recovery system is simulated under various scenarios, including warm and cold start. Optimal strategies are derived from Pontryagin Minimum Principle (PMP. The concept of fuel equivalent of thermal energy variations – similar to the equivalence factors for battery energy of standard Equivalent Consumption Minimization Strategy (ECMS – is introduced. The PMP-based strategies are compared with a heuristic, rule-based strategy. The benefits in fuel economy and reduction of pollutant emissions that are obtained for several scenarios are very promising. Une approche généralisée pour combiner la gestion de l’énergie (supervision du groupe motopropulseur et le thermo-management dans les véhicules hybrides électriques est proposée. Un système hybride incluant le post-traitement des polluants et un système de récupération de la chaleur à l’échappement du moteur thermique est simulé pour plusieurs scénarii, y compris le cas de départ à froid. Des stratégies de gestion de l’énergie optimales sont dérivées à partir du Principe de Minimum de Pontriaguine (PMP. Inspirée par les facteurs d’équivalence pour la consommation électrique que l’on retrouve dans la stratégie ECMS, la notion d’équivalent en carburant des flux d’énergie thermique est introduite. Les stratégies dérivées du PMP sont comparées avec une stratégie heuristique basée sur des règles. Les bénéfices en termes d’économies de carburant et réduction des émissions polluantes que l’on trouve pour différents scénarii sont encourageantes.

Success of Chemotherapy in Soft Matter

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Trifonova, I.; Kurteva, G.; Stefanov, S. Z.

2014-01-01

The success of chemotharapy in soft matter as a survival is found in the paper. Therefore, it is found the analogous tumor stretching force in soft matter; ultrasonography is performed for this tumor; restoration in soft matter with such a tumor is found; Bayes estimate of the probability of chemotherapy success is derived from the transferred chemical energy and from soft matter entropy; survival probability is juxtaposed to this probability of success.

Research and development strategic plan : FY2013-FY2017.

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2013-05-01

This plan describes the strategy through which the Federal Railroad Administrations (FRAs) research and development (R&D) program will support the Department of Transportations (DOTs) mission and goals. Safety is the DOTs primary strat...

Behind the Exporters’ Success: Analysis of Successful Hungarian Exporter Companies From a Strategic Perspective

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Annamaria Kazai Onodi; Krisztina Pecze

2014-01-01

The purpose of the study is to provide an overview of export success from a strategic management perspective. The paper empirically tested the relationships between the firm’s export performance, strategic thinking, adaptation to the changing environment and companies’ capabilities. The research is based on the Hungarian Competitiveness Research database of 2013 that consists of 300 firms. Cluster analysis differentiated successful export-oriented and stagnant companies. Both of them had high...

Navy Contracting Analyzing Critical Success Factors and Perceived Impact on Success within an Organization

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Hill, Josh R.; McGraw, Kevin L.

2012-01-01

MBA Professional Report Approved for public release, distribution unlimited Critical Success Factors (CSF) are essential ingredients within an organization that are necessary to meet critical mission objectives. Identifying those factors can be a vital asset and assist leadership in achieving successful outcomes in contract management. This report will focus on three major contracting commands within the United States Navy Naval Supply Systems Command, Global Logistics Support (NAVSUP-G...

Project Success in IT Project Management

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Siddiqui, Farhan Ahmed

2010-01-01

The rate of failed and challenged Information Technology (IT) projects is too high according to the CHAOS Studies by the Standish Group and the literature on project management (Standish Group, 2008). The CHAOS Studies define project success as meeting the triple constraints of scope, time, and cost. The criteria for project success need to be agreed by all parties before the start of the project and constantly reviewed as the project progresses. Assessing critical success factors is another ...

Critical success factors for managing purchasing groups

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Schotanus, Fredo; Telgen, Jan; de Boer, L.

2010-01-01

In this article, we identify critical success factors for managing small and intensive purchasing groups by comparing successful and unsuccessful purchasing groups in a large-scale survey. The analysis of our data set suggests the following success factors: no enforced participation, sufficient

Key performance indicators for successful simulation projects

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Jahangirian, M; Taylor, SJE; Young, T; Robinson, S

2016-01-01

There are many factors that may contribute to the successful delivery of a simulation project. To provide a structured approach to assessing the impact various factors have on project success, we propose a top-down framework whereby 15 Key Performance Indicators (KPI) are developed that represent the level of successfulness of simulation projects from various perspectives. They are linked to a set of Critical Success Factors (CSF) as reported in the simulation literature. A single measure cal...

Harcèlement moral et sexuel. Stratégies d’adaptation et conséquences sur la santé des travailleurs et des travailleuses

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Ada Garcia

2005-11-01

Full Text Available Ces dernières années, une attention toute particulière a été portée au phénomène de la violence au travail, comme en témoignent les récents travaux sur le harcèlement moral. En Belgique, les résultats de l’enquête nationale « Violences au travail, harcèlement moral et sexuel, conséquences pour les travailleurs masculins et féminins », ont démontré que le harcèlement moral et sexuel est un véritable phénomène de société, tant par son ampleur, que par ses effets dévastateurs sur la santé physique et mentale des travailleurs féminins et masculins. Le présent article résume les principales conséquences que les victimes ont subies dans leur vie quotidienne et les souffrances qu’elles ont eu à endurer. Il met particulièrement en avant les stratégies individuelles adoptées par les femmes et les hommes victimes de la violence au travail, et souligne l’importance de la compréhension du phénomène au regard d’une perspective de genre.Over the last few years, attention has been focused on the issue of workplace violence, as witnessed by the recently published work on moral harassment. In Belgium, the results of a national survey "Violence in the Workplace. Moral and Sexual Harassment : Consequences for Female and Male Workers" showed that moral and sexual harassment is a veritable societal problem, not only due to its extent, but also its devastating negative impact on the physical and mental health of male and female workers. The aim of this article is to summarize the main negative consequences and suffering endured by victims in their daily lives. The article also highlights the individual strategies adopted by female and male victims of violence in the workplace and underscores the importance of understanding the phenomenon from a gender standpoint.En estos últimos años, los trabajos sobre el acoso moral testimonian de la particular atención acordada al fenónemo de la violencia en el trabajo. En B�

Defining successful aging: a tangible or elusive concept?

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Martin, Peter; Kelly, Norene; Kahana, Boaz; Kahana, Eva; Willcox, Bradley J; Willcox, D Craig; Poon, Leonard W

2015-02-01

Everyone wants to age successfully; however, the definition and criteria of successful aging remain vague for laypersons, researchers, and policymakers in spite of decades of research on the topic. This paper highlights work of scholars who made significant theoretical contributions to the topic. A thorough review and evaluation of the literature on successful aging was undertaken. Our review includes early gerontological definitions of successful aging and related concepts. Historical perspectives reach back to philosophical and religious texts, and more recent approaches have focused on both process- and outcome-oriented models of successful aging. We elaborate on Baltes and Baltes' theory of selective optimization with compensation [Baltes, P. B., & Baltes, M. M. (1990a). Psychological perspectives on successful aging: The model of selective optimization with compensation. In P. B. Baltes & M. M. Baltes (Eds.), Successful aging: Perspectives from the behavioral sciences (pp. 1-34). United Kingdom: Cambridge University Press], Kahana and Kahana's preventive and corrective proactivity model [Kahana, E., & Kahana, B. (1996). Conceptual and empirical advances in understanding aging well through proactive adaptation. In V. Bengtson (Ed.), Adulthood and aging: Research on continuities and discontinuities (pp. 18-40). New York: Springer], and Rowe and Kahn's model of successful aging [Rowe, J. W., & Kahn, R. L. (1998). Successful aging. New York: Pantheon Books], outlining their commonalities and differences. Additional views on successful aging emphasize subjective versus objective perceptions of successful aging and relate successful aging to studies on healthy and exceptional longevity. Additional theoretical work is needed to better understand successful aging, including the way it can encompass disability and death and dying. The extent of rapid social and technological change influencing views on successful aging also deserves more consideration. © The Author

A retrospective analysis of VeriStrat status on outcome of a randomized phase II trial of first-line therapy with gemcitabine, erlotinib, or the combination in elderly patients (age 70 years or older) with stage IIIB/IV non-small-cell lung cancer.

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Stinchcombe, Thomas E; Roder, Joanna; Peterman, Amy H; Grigorieva, Julia; Lee, Carrie B; Moore, Dominic T; Socinski, Mark A

2013-04-01

In a multicenter randomized phase II trial of gemcitabine (arm A), erlotinib (arm B), and gemcitabine and erlotinib (arm C), similar progression-free survival (PFS) and overall survival (OS) were observed in all arms. We performed an exploratory, blinded, retrospective analysis of plasma or serum samples collected as part of the trial to investigate the ability of VeriStrat (VS) to predict treatment outcomes. Ninety-eight patients were assessable, and the majority had stage IV disease (81%), adenocarcinoma histology (63%), reported current or previous tobacco use (84%), and 26% had a performance status (PS) of 2. In arm A, patients with VS Good (n = 20) compared with VS Poor status (n = 8) had similar PFS (hazard ratio [HR]: 1.21; p = 0.67) and OS (HR: 0.82; p = 0.64). In arm B, patients with VS Good (n = 26) compared with VS Poor (n = 12) had a statistically significantly superior PFS (HR: 0.33; p = 0.002) and OS (HR: 0.40; p = 0.014). In arm C, patients with VS Good (n = 17) compared with Poor (n = 1 5) had a superior PFS (HR: 0.42; p = 0.027) and a trend toward superior OS (HR: 0.48; p = 0.051). In the multivariate analysis for PFS, VS status was statistically significant (p = 0.011); for OS, VS status (p = 0.017) and PS (p = 0.005) were statistically significant. A statistically significant VS and treatment interaction (gemcitabine versus erlotinib) was observed for PFS and OS. Gemcitabine is the superior treatment for elderly patients with VS Poor status. First-line erlotinib for elderly patients with VS Good status may warrant further investigation.

Marketingová stratégia vybranej firmy

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Feťková, Jana

2011-01-01

The bachelor thesis "Marketing strategy of the selected company" concern about Slovak real estate agency F.O.K., Ltd. Prešov. The aim of this bachelor thesis is projection of marketing strategy and communication mix with possible proposal and recommendation to improve for estate agency F.O.K. Ltd. Prešov. This recommendation is based on own questionnaire. Theoretical part describes principle of marketing, marketing strategy and marketing mix. The author of thesis also describes marketing spec...

Marketingová stratégia vybranej firmy

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Laca, Tomáš

2015-01-01

The goal of this diploma thesis was to create a new marketing strategy for the chosen company. The company is seated in Prague and has been in the coffee industry business since 2003. The thesis was written to fulfill academic standards and to be a practical guide for the company itself. The first part of the thesis is the theoretical part containing theoretical principals of company strategy, situational analysis and marketing mix. In the second part we applied theory, real data, internal co...

Marketingová stratégia vybranej firmy

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Vertaľová, Barbora

2013-01-01

The bachelor thesis deals with marketing strategy of selected company, namely French bakery PAUL. This thesis is divided into three parts. The first chapter deals with the theoretical knowledge of marketing, SWOT analysis as well as segmentation, targeting and positioning. The second chapter describes marketing mix and its components. The third chapter focuses on the French bakery PAUL, using theoretical knowledge from the first two chapters.

Marketingová stratégia firiem Streetmarket

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Kováč, Róbert

2010-01-01

This thesis explores the possibilities of marketing strategy implementation for Streetmarket companies and it's brand. To support the objectives, based findings from theory of marketing and marketing strategy are included. Findings from positional analysis and other instruments of marketing strategy are also mentioned. Thesis continues by description of instruments of internet marketing and its specifics. Practical part includes marketing strategy of Streetmarket companies and brand of Street...

Crop succession requirements in agricultural production planning

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Klein Haneveld, W.K.; Stegeman, A.

2005-01-01

A method is proposed to write crop succession requirements as linear constraints in an LP-based model for agricultural production planning. Crop succession information is given in the form of a set of inadmissible successions of crops. The decision variables represent the areas where a certain

[Effects of climate change on forest succession].

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Wang, Jijun; Pei, Tiefan

2004-10-01

Forest regeneration is an important process driven by forest ecological dynamic resources. More and more concern has been given to forest succession issues since the development of forest succession theory during the early twentieth century. Scientific management of forest ecosystem entails the regulations and research models of forest succession. It is of great practical and theoretical significance to restore and reconstruct forest vegetation and to protect natural forest. Disturbances are important factors affecting regeneration structure and ecological processes. They result in temporal and spatial variations of forest ecosystem, and change the efficiencies of resources. In this paper, some concepts about forest succession and disturbances were introduced, and the difficulties of forest succession were proposed. Four classes of models were reviewed: Markov model, GAP model, process-based equilibrium terrestrial biosphere models (BIOME series models), and non-linear model. Subsequently, the effects of climate change on forest succession caused by human activity were discussed. At last, the existing problem and future research directions were proposed.

Successful international negotiations

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Gerry, G.

1997-01-01

These remarks on successful international trade negotiations deal with the following topics: culture and differences in psychology; building friendly relationships and letting both sides appear to win; well written proposals; security of negotiating information; the complexity and length of nuclear negotiations

Measuring strategic success.

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Gish, Ryan

2002-08-01

Strategic triggers and metrics help healthcare providers achieve financial success. Metrics help assess progress toward long-term goals. Triggers signal market changes requiring a change in strategy. All metrics may not move in concert. Organizations need to identify indicators, monitor performance.

Incumbent Decisions about Succession Transitions in Family Firms

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Boyd, Britta; Botero, Isabel C.; Fediuk, Tomasz A.

2014-01-01

in (i.e., intra-family succession, out of family succession, or no succession). Building on the theory of planned behavior and the socioemotional wealth framework (SEW), this manuscript presents a conceptual framework to understand the factors that influence succession transitions and the role...... that contextual factors can play in this decision-making process. We present theory driven propositions and discuss the implications for understanding and evaluation of the succession process....

Fear of success among business students.

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Rothman, M

1996-06-01

The concept of "Fear of Success" was measured with 352 male and female business students using the prompt, After first term finals, Ann(John) finds her(him)self at the top of her(his) Medical/Nursing school class. Analysis indicated a greater frequency of fear-of-success imagery among men than women and in particular to the John in Medical school and Ann in Nursing school cues. In addition, the Ann cue and the Medical school cue generated more fear-of-success responses among men than women.

Successfully combating prejudice

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Sir Jagdish Chandra Bose, and fascinated by his work that showed that plants were ... U.S., in 1972, I was invited to take up a faculty position at the newly established ... success because of their different social commitments. Today when I look ...

Project Success in Agile Development Software Projects

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Farlik, John T.

2016-01-01

Project success has multiple definitions in the scholarly literature. Research has shown that some scholars and practitioners define project success as the completion of a project within schedule and within budget. Others consider a successful project as one in which the customer is satisfied with the product. This quantitative study was conducted…

Reframing Success and Failure of Information Systems

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Cecez-Kecmanovic, Dubravka; Kautz, Karlheinz; Abrahall, Rebecca

2014-01-01

-networks of developers, managers, technologies, project documents, methodologies, and other actors. Drawing from a controversial case of a highly innovative information system in an insurance company-considered a success and failure at the same time- the paper reveals the inherent indeterminacy of IS success and failure......he paper questions common assumptions in the dominant representational framings of information systems success and failure and proposes a performative perspective that conceives IS success and failure as relational effects performed by sociomaterial practices of IS project actor...... that performed both different IS realities and competing IS assessments. The analysis shows that the IS project and the implemented system as objects of assessment are not given and fixed, but are performed by the agencies of assessment together with the assessment outcomes of success and failure. The paper...

The characteristics of successful entrepreneurs

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Pokrajčić Dragana M.

2004-01-01

This paper examines the economic, psychological and social-behavioral theories of the entrepreneur in order to determine the characteristics of a successful entrepreneur. The major contribution of economic theories of the entrepreneur is better understanding of the entrepreneur and his/her role in economic development. The psychological characteristic theory of entrepreneur argues that successful entrepreneurs possess certain personality traits that mark them out as special, and tries to dete...

Fast Success and Slow Failure

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Mors, Louise; Waguespack, David

Full Abstract: Do the benefits of cross boundary collaborations outweigh the costs? We seek to answer this question by examining 5079 collaborations in the Internet Engineering Task Force (IETF). Our findings suggest that crossing formal boundaries is positively related to success and efficiency ...... of success, suggesting that firms are better off investing in nondiverse projects. This finding has important implications for how we think about the benefits of seeking novelty....

Population dynamics along a primary succession gradient: do alpine species fit into demographic succession theory?

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Marcante, Silvia; Winkler, Eckart; Erschbamer, Brigitta

2009-05-01

Understanding processes and mechanisms governing changes in plant species along primary successions has been of major importance in ecology. However, to date hardly any studies have focused on the complete life cycle of species along a successional gradient, comparing pioneer, early and late-successional species. In this study it is hypothesized that pioneer species should initially have a population growth rate, lambda, greater than one with high fecundity rates, and declining growth rates when they are replaced by late-successional species. Populations of late-successional species should also start, at the mid-successional stage (when pioneer species are declining), with growth rates greater than one and arrive at rates equal to one at the late successional stage, mainly due to higher survival rates that allow these species to persist for a long time. The demography of pioneer- (Saxifraga aizoides), early (Artemisia genipi) and late-successional species (Anthyllis vulneraria ssp. alpicola) was investigated together with that of a ubiquitous species (Poa alpina) along the Rotmoos glacier foreland (2300-2400 m a.s.l., Central Alps, Austria) over 3 years. A matrix modelling approach was used to compare the main demographic parameters. Elasticity values were plotted in a demographic triangle using fecundity, individual growth and survival as vital rates contributing to the population growth rates. The results largely confirmed the predictions for population growth rates during succession. However, high survival rates of larger adults characterized all species, regardless of where they were growing along the succession. At the pioneer site, high mortality rates of seedlings, plantlets and young individuals were recorded. Fecundity was found to be of minor relevance everywhere, but it was nevertheless sufficient to increase or maintain the population sizes. Demographically, all the species over all sites behaved like late-successional or climax species in secondary

Success in Entrepreneurship

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Iversen, Jens; Malchow-Møller, Nikolaj; Sørensen, Anders

2016-01-01

What makes a successful entrepreneur? Using Danish register data, we find strong support for the hypothesis that theoretical skills from schooling and practical skills acquired through wage-work are complementary inputs in the human capital earnings function of entrepreneurs. In fact, we find tha...

International Student Success

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Smith, Clayton

2016-01-01

This article, with a focus on North American postsecondary education, identifies international students as a strategic enrollment management institutional priority; presents themes in the international student retention, satisfaction, and success research literature; and describes related best practices. It also presents the findings from an…

PTSD: National Center for PTSD

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A Framework for successful new product development

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Nadia Bhuiyan

2011-12-01

Full Text Available Purpose: The purpose of this paper is to propose a framework of critical success factors, metrics, and tools and techniques for implementing metrics for each stage of the new product development (NPD process.Design/methodology/approach: To achieve this objective, a literature review was undertaken to investigate decades of studies on NPD success and how it can be achieved. These studies were scanned for common factors for firms that enjoyed success of new products on the market.Findings: The paper summarizes NPD success factors, suggests metrics that should be used to measure these factors, and proposes tools and techniques to make use of these metrics. This was done for each stage of the NPD process, and brought together in a framework that the authors propose should be followed for complex NPD projects.Research limitations/implications: Several different research directions could provide additional useful information both to firms finding critical success factors (CSF and measuring product development success as well as to academics performing research in this area. The main research opportunity exists in implementing or testing the proposed framework.Practical implications: The framework can be followed by managers of complex NPD projects to ensure success.Originality/value: While many studies have been conducted on critical success factors for NPD, these studies tend to be fragmented and focus on one or a few phases of the NPD process. To the authors’ knowledge, this is the first time a framework that synthesizes these studies into a single framework.

Exploring Career-Life Success and Family Social Support of Successful Women in Canada, Argentina and Mexico

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Lirio, Pamela; Lituchy, Terri R.; Monserrat, Silvia Ines; Olivas-Lujan, Miguel R.; Duffy, Jo Ann; Fox, Suzy; Gregory, Ann; Punnett, B. J.; Santos, Neusa

2007-01-01

Purpose: The purpose of this paper is to examine career-life issues of successful women in the Americas. Design/methodology/approach: A total of 30 interviews were conducted with successful women in Canada, Argentina and Mexico. Themes were pulled from the interview transcripts for each country, analyzed and then compared across countries, looking…

Success factors in technology development

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Preston, John T.

1995-01-01

Universities in the U.S. have a significant impact on business through the transfer of technology. This paper describes goals and philosophy of the Technology Licensing Office at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. This paper also relates the critical factors for susscessful technology transfer, particularly relating to new business formation. These critical factors include the quality of the technology, the quality of the management, the quality of the investor, the passion for success, and the image of the company. Descriptions of three different levels of investment are also given and the most successful level of investment for starting a new company is reviewed. Licensing to large companies is also briefly reviewed, as this type of licensing requires some different strategies than that of licensing to start-up companies. High quality critical factors and intelligent investment create rewards for the parties and successful ventures.

What a successful grasp tells about the success chances of grasps in its vicinity

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Bodenhagen, Leon; Detry, Renaud; Piater, Justus

2011-01-01

Infants gradually improve their grasping competences, both in terms of motor abilities as well as in terms of the internal shape grasp representations. Grasp densities provide a statistical model of such an internal learning process. In the concept of grasp densities, kernel density estimation...... probabilities representing grasp success in the neighborhood of a successful grasp. The anisotropy has been determined utilizing a simulation environment that allowed for evaluation of large scale experiments. The anisotropic kernel has been fitted to the conditional probabilities obtained from the experiments...

Structural Validity of the Fear of Success Scale

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Metzler, Jonathan N.; Conroy, David E.

2004-01-01

Fear of success is a dispositional form of anxiety that can have harmful effects on athletes' motivation and performance; however, empirical research on fear of success in sport has been limited. Zuckerman and Allison's (1976) Fear of Success Scale (FOSS) has been the most popular fear of success measure used in sport, yet it is laden with…

Nurse manager succession planning: A cost-benefit analysis.

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Phillips, Tracy; Evans, Jennifer L; Tooley, Stephanie; Shirey, Maria R

2018-03-01

This commentary presents a cost-benefit analysis to advocate for the use of succession planning to mitigate the problems ensuing from nurse manager turnover. An estimated 75% of nurse managers will leave the workforce by 2020. Many benefits are associated with proactively identifying and developing internal candidates. Fewer than 7% of health care organisations have implemented formal leadership succession planning programmes. A cost-benefit analysis of a formal succession-planning programme from one hospital illustrates the benefits of the programme in their organisation and can be replicated easily. Assumptions of nursing manager succession planning cost-benefit analysis are identified and discussed. The succession planning exemplar demonstrates the integration of cost-benefit analysis principles. Comparing the costs of a formal nurse manager succession planning strategy with the status quo results in a positive cost-benefit ratio. The implementation of a formal nurse manager succession planning programme effectively reduces replacement costs and time to transition into the new role. This programme provides an internal pipeline of future leaders who will be more successful than external candidates. Using an actual cost-benefit analysis equips nurse managers with valuable evidence depicting succession planning as a viable business strategy. © 2017 John Wiley & Sons Ltd.

Predictors of procedural success and improvement of left ventricular ejection fraction after successful recanalization of coronary chronic total occlusion (CTO

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Ahmed Magdy

2017-04-01

Conclusion: PCI for CTO lesions has achieved a better chance for success especially with modern facilities, but we should revise criteria of success and failure as this success has a considerable effect on LV function and patient outcome.

The Extended Family and Children's Educational Success

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Jæger, Mads Meier

2012-01-01

Research on family background and educational success focuses almost exclusively on two generations and on parents and children. This paper argues that the extended family makes up a significant part of the total effect of family background on educational success. Empirical results based...... on the Wisconsin Longitudinal Study show that, net of family factors shared by siblings from the same immediate family, factors shared by first cousins from the same extended family account for a nontrivial part of the total variance in children’s educational success. Results also show that while socioeconomic...... characteristics of grandparents and aunts and uncles have few direct effects on educational success, resources in the extended family compensate lacking resources in low-SES families, which in turn promote children’s educational success. The main conclusion is that the total effect of family background...

Tacit acceptance of the succession

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Ioana NICOLAE

2012-01-01

Full Text Available This paper examines some essential and contradictory aspects regarding the issue of tacit acceptance of succession in terms of distinction between documents valuing tacit acceptance of succession and other acts that would not justify such a solution. The documents expressly indicated by the legislator as having tacit acceptance value as well as those which do not have such value are presented and their most important legal effects are examined and discussed.

Critical success factors in infrastructure projects

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Zakaria, Siti Fairus; Zin, Rosli Mohamad; Mohamad, Ismail; Balubaid, Saeed; Mydin, Shaik Hussein; Mohd Rahim, E. M. Roodienyanto

2017-11-01

Construction of infrastructure project is different from buildings. The main difference is term of project site where infrastructure project need to command a long stretch while building mostly confine to a limited area. As such factors that are critical to infrastructure project may not be that significant to building project and vice versa. Flood mitigation can be classified under infrastructure projects under which their developments are planned by the government with the specific objective to reduce or avoid the negative effects of flood to the environment and livelihood. One of the indicators in project success is delay. The impact of project delay in construction industry is significant that it decelerates the projects implementation, specifically the government projects. This study attempted to identify and compare the success factors between infrastructure and building projects, as such comparison rarely found in the current literature. A model of flood mitigation projects' success factors was developed by merging the experts' views and reports from the existing literature. The experts' views were obtained from the responses to open-ended questions on the required fundamentals to achieve successful completion of flood mitigation projects. An affinity analysis was applied to these responses to develop the model. The developed model was then compared to the established success factors found in building project, extracted from the previous studies to identify the similarities and differences between the two models. This study would assist the government and construction players to become more effective in constructing successful flood mitigation projects for the future practice in a flood-prone country like Malaysia.

Small(pox) success?

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Birn, Anne-Emanuelle

2011-02-01

The 30th anniversary of the World Health Organization's (WHO) official certification of smallpox eradication was marked by a slew of events hailing the campaign's dramatic tale of technological and organizational triumph against an ancient scourge. Yet commemorations also serve as moments of critical reflection. This article questions the acclaim showered upon smallpox eradication as the single greatest public health success in history. It examines how and why smallpox eradication and WHO's concurrent social justice-oriented primary health care approach (following from the Declaration of Alma-Ata) became competing paradigms. It synthesizes critiques of eradication's shortcomings and debunks some of the myths surrounding the global eradication campaign as a public health priority and necessity, and as a Cold War victory of cooperation. The article concludes with thoughts on integrating technical and social-political aspects of health within the context of welfare states as the means to achieving widespread and enduring global public health success.

Small(pox success?

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Full Text Available The 30th anniversary of the World Health Organization's (WHO official certification of smallpox eradication was marked by a slew of events hailing the campaign's dramatic tale of technological and organizational triumph against an ancient scourge. Yet commemorations also serve as moments of critical reflection. This article questions the acclaim showered upon smallpox eradication as the single greatest public health success in history. It examines how and why smallpox eradication and WHO's concurrent social justice-oriented primary health care approach (following from the Declaration of Alma-Ata became competing paradigms. It synthesizes critiques of eradication's shortcomings and debunks some of the myths surrounding the global eradication campaign as a public health priority and necessity, and as a Cold War victory of cooperation. The article concludes with thoughts on integrating technical and social-political aspects of health within the context of welfare states as the means to achieving widespread and enduring global public health success.

5 CFR 412.201 - Management succession.

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2010-01-01

... programs must be supported by employee training and development programs. The focus of the program should... learning experiences throughout an employee's career, such as details, mentoring, coaching, learning groups..., MANAGEMENT, AND EXECUTIVE DEVELOPMENT Succession Planning § 412.201 Management succession. The head of each...

ACTUALITATI ŞI PERSPECTIVE IN NORMALIZAREA CONTABILA INTERNATIONALA

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2008-05-01

Full Text Available La normalisation comptable internationale est un processus évolutif et indépendant desphénomènes de mondialisation des échanges économiques entre les nations ou entre groupes de pays.Quand même, en dépit de tous les efforts de normalisation comptable à niveau international, il n’y a pasde règles (normes internationales de comptabilité. On assiste à un phénomène d’exportabilité à niveau mondial,directe ou indirecte, de la doctrine comptable anglo-saxonne.En Roumanie, la réforme de la comptabilité des sociétés après l’année 1990 a été fortementconditionnée de l’extérieur et celle-ci ne s’est pas toujours trouvée sur la trajectoire de la stratégie d’adhérationà l’UE, même si elle n’a pas été en désaccord avec cette stratégie; la réforme a été en fait une sorted’adaptation à la stratégie d’adhération à l’UE, une adaptation d’un processus d’implémentation des normesIAS/IFRS, commencé antérieurement sous le conseil des experts anglais et sous la pression des organismesfinanciers internationaux (La Banque Mondiale et le Fonds Monétaire International.

Minnesota urban partnership agreement national evaluation : safety data test plan.

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2009-11-17

This report provides the safety data test plan for the Minnesota Urban Partnership Agreement (UPA) under the United States Department of Transportation (U.S. DOT) UPA Program. The Minnesota UPA projects focus on reducing congestion by employing strat...

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America's Success Syndrome

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Duplisea, Eric A.

1974-01-01

America's earliest schools taught career awareness and job skills, but for 200 years it was a speciality curriculum--cultivating a classical heritage predominated. Recently the hard sell message is that schooling and credentialism ensure entry into the "successful life". Vocational educators must become leaders, explode this myth, and redefine…

Leading to Success

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Koballa, Thomas R., Jr.; Bradbury, Leslie U.

2009-01-01

Teacher mentoring has its unique challenges that are often associated with the teachers' content specialties. For this reason, the involvement and support of school leaders is essential to teachers' mentoring success. Regardless of content specialty, all teachers face challenges that should be considered when organizing and implementing mentoring.…

Establishing a Successful Smart Card Program.

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Wiens, Janet

2001-01-01

Discusses how to run a successful smart card program through a comprehensive approach that includes a detailed plan for the present and future, high level support from school administration, and extensive user input. Florida State University is used to illustrate a successfully implemented smart card program. (GR)

Success and Motivation among College Students

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Schweinle, Amy; Helming, Luralyn M.

2011-01-01

The present research explores college students' explanations of their success and failure in challenging activities and how it relates to students' efficacy, value, and engagement. The results suggest most students hold one primary reason for success during the challenging activity, including grade/extrinsic, mastery/intrinsic,…

Uz nestriktas loģikas balstīta lēmumu pieņemšanas sistēma biznesa spēlēs

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Vitkovska, Diāna

2015-01-01

Darbs ir veltīts uz nestriktās loģikas balstītas lēmumu pieľemšanas sistēmas pielietojumam stratēģiju izvēlei biznesa spēlēs. Darbā tika aplūkotas divu personu spēles kā matemātiskais modelis divu uzľēmumu konkurences analīzei. Tika aprakstīta stratēģiju izvēles metode, kas balstās uz nestriktās secinājumu sistēmas, izmanto sistēmas nestrikto ieejas un izejas mainīgo lingvistiskās vērtības un lēmumu pieľemšanas kārtulas un tiek īstenota programmatūras Matlab vidē. Šādas metodes efektivitāte i...

Pašprezentāciju saistība ar individuālismu-kolektīvismu

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Vardanjana, Ilze

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Šī pētījuma ¬mērķis bija noskaidrot pašprezentāciju saistību ar individuālismu-kolektīvismu. Pētījuma ietvaros tika izvirzītas divas hipotēzes: 1) Jo izteiktāks individuālisms (idiocentrisms), jo izteiktāka būs pārliecinošo pašprezentāciju stratēģiju pielietošana. 2) Jo vairāk izteikts kolektīvisms (allocentrisms), jo raksturīgāka aizsargājošo pašprezentāciju stratēģiju izmantošana. Pētījumā piedalījās 83 respondenti vecumā no 19 līdz 27 gadiem. Izlases vidējais vecums M...

Critical success factors for renewable energy projects

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This project highlighted best practice in the planning and assessment of proposals with the aim of: encouraging more successful renewable energy projects and proposals; lowering financial and other barriers; and stimulating a climate for success. Based on the analysis of a number of case studies, data was collected through a series of extensive interviews to identify why certain schemes were considered successful, what might have been done differently and which factors were considered important when entering a market. The Critical Success Factors can be broken down into five groups: Universal CSFs; CSFs for funding bodies; CSFs for managing agencies; CSFs for niche markets; CSFs for individual technologies. (author)

Duplicating Research Success at Xerox

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Hays, Dan A.

2003-03-01

The genesis of Xerox is rooted in the invention of xerography by physicist Chester Carlson in 1938. The initial research by Carlson can be viewed as the first of four successful xerographic research eras that have contributed to the growth of Xerox. The second era began in 1944 when Carlson established a working relationship with Battelle Memorial Institute in Columbus, OH. Due to many research advances at Battelle, the Haloid Corporation in Rochester, NY acquired a license to the xerographic process in 1947. The name of the company was changed to Xerox Corporation in 1961 following the wide market acceptance of the legendary Xerox 914 copier. Rapid revenue growth of Xerox in the mid-'60s provided the foundation for a third successful research era in the '70s and '80s. A research center was established in Webster, NY for the purpose of improving the design of xerographic subsystems and materials. These research efforts contributed to the commercial success of the DocuTech family of digital production printers. The fourth successful research era was initiated in the '90s with the objective of identifying a high-speed color xerographic printing process. A number of research advances contributed to the design of a 100 page per minute printer recently introduced as the Xerox DocuColor iGen3 Digital Production Press. To illustrate the role of research in enabling these waves of successful xerographic products, the physics of photoreceptors, light exposure and development subsystems will be discussed. Since the annual worldwide revenue of the xerographic industry exceeds 100 billion dollars, the economic return on Carlson's initial research investment in the mid-'30s is astronomical. The future for xerography remains promising since the technology enables high-speed digital printing of high-quality color documents with variable information.

Ending the CEO succession crisis.

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Charan, Ram

2005-02-01

The CEO succession process is broken. Many companies have no meaningful succession plans, and few of the ones that do are happy with them. CEO tenure is shrinking; in fact, two out of five CEOs fail in their first 18 months. It isn't just that more CEOs are being replaced; it's that they're being replaced badly. The problems extend to every aspect of CEO succession: internal development programs, board supervision, and outside recruitment. While many organizations do a decent job of nurturing middle managers, few have set up the comprehensive programs needed to find the half-dozen true CEO candidates out of the thousands of leaders in their midst. Even more damaging is the failure of boards to devote enough attention to succession. Search committee members often have no experience hiring CEOs; lacking guidance, they supply either the narrowest or the most general of requirements and then fail to vet eitherthe candidates or the recruiters. The result is that too often new CEOs are plucked from the well-worn Rolodexes of a remarkably small number of recruiters. These candidates may be strong in charisma but may lack critical skills or otherwise be a bad fit with the company. The resulting high turnover is particularly damaging, since outside CEOs often bring in their own teams, can cause the company to lose focus, and are especially costly to be rid of. Drawing on over 35 years of experience with CEO succession, the author explains how companies can create a deep pool of internal candidates, how boards can consistently align strategy and leadership development, and how directors can get their money's worth from recruiters. Choosing a CEO should be not one decision but an amalgam ofthousands of decisions made by many people every day over years.

Orchiopexy for intra-abdominal testes: factors predicting success.

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Stec, Andrew A; Tanaka, Stacy T; Adams, Mark C; Pope, John C; Thomas, John C; Brock, John W

2009-10-01

Intra-abdominal testes can be treated with several surgical procedures. We evaluated factors influencing the outcome of orchiopexy for intra-abdominal testis. We retrospectively reviewed 156 consecutive orchiopexies performed for intra-abdominal testis, defined as a nonpalpable testis on examination and located in the abdomen at surgery. All surgical approaches were included in the study. Primary outcome was the overall success rate and secondary outcomes were success based on surgical approach, age and a patent processus vaginalis. Success was considered a testis with normal texture and size compared to the contralateral testis at followup. Multivariate analysis was performed to determine factors predictive of success. The overall success rate of all orchiopexies was 79.5%. Median patient age at orchiopexy was 12 months and mean followup was 16 months. Of the patients 117 had a patent processus vaginalis at surgery. One-stage abdominal orchiopexy was performed in 92 testes with 89.1% success. Of these cases 32 were performed laparoscopically with 96.9% success. One-stage Fowler-Stephens orchiopexy was performed in 27 testes and 2-stage Fowler-Stephens orchiopexy was performed in 37 with success in 63.0% and 67.6%, respectively. Multivariate analysis revealed that 1-stage orchiopexy without vessel division had more successful outcomes than 1 and 2-stage Fowler-Stephens orchiopexy (OR 0.24, p = 0.007 and 0.29, p = 0.19, respectively). Neither age at surgery nor an open internal ring was significant (p = 0.49 and 0.12, respectively). The overall success of orchiopexy for intra-abdominal testis is 79.5%. While patient selection remains a critical factor, 1-stage orchiopexy without vessel division was significantly more successful and a laparoscopic approach was associated with the fewest failures for intra-abdominal testes.

Adjusting Curricular Design to

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Ryan Egan

2011-12-01

Full Text Available Developing learners’ ability to self-regulate their own learning has been an ideal sought after by researchers and practitioners alike. Over the past 40 years a plethora of educational psychology research on self-regulated learning (SRL has flooded the literature. In this article I attempt to consolidate key theories from this literature base and propose a 6-point strategy to CREATE a culture of SRL. I will argue that instructors must communicate proximal and long-term goals that have been negotiated by a community of learners, substantially reward all positive aspects of the learning process, judge and reward the learning process by assigning elaborative learning assessments, realistically attribute success and failure to appropriate processes, and tune ineffective strategies and goals to allow the curriculum to evolve in accordance with learner difficulty and success.Enseigner aux apprenants la capacité d’autoréguler leur propre apprentissage est un idéal que poursuivent les chercheurs et les praticiens. Au cours des quarante dernières années, il y a eu surabondance d’études sur l’autorégulation de l’apprentissage dans la littérature sur la psychologie de l’éducation. Dans cet article, l’auteur tente de regrouper les principales théories tirées de cette documentation et de proposer une stratégie composée de six éléments contribuant à la création d’une culture de l’autorégulation. Il soutient que les enseignants doivent communiquer les objectifs à court et à long terme convenus par les apprenants, reconnaître de façon marquée tous aspects positifs du processus d’apprentissage, évaluer et reconnaître ce processus en donnant des travaux élaborés afin de mesurer l’apprentissage, attribuer de façon réaliste les succès et les échecs aux processus appropriés et adapter les stratégies et buts inefficaces afin de permettre l’évolution du curriculum en tenant compte des difficultés et des r

The Entrepreneurial Subjectivity of Successful Researchers

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Sinclair, Jennifer; Cuthbert, Denise; Barnacle, Robyn

2014-01-01

This article begins the work of examining what kind of doctoral experiences positively influence researcher development, and what other attributes may contribute to a successful research career. It reports preliminary findings from the analysis of survey responses by a sample of successful mid-career researchers. Positive doctoral experiences and…

Un Nouveau Monde du Savoir

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Succession Planning Demystified. IES Report 372.

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Hirsh, W.

This book, which is designed for human resource (HR) practitioners, details the principles and applications of succession planning, shows how succession planning is conducted, and explains its place in relation to other HR processes and business priorities. The introduction describes the book's intended audience and provides a brief overview of…

A framework for successful hotel developments

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Chris E Cloete

2013-04-01

Various critical success factors for hotel development are identified in this article, and incorporated into a hotel property development framework, establishing a practical ‘road map’ for successful hotel developments. The validity of the proposed hotel property development framework has been assessed by intensive direct interviews with hotel development professionals.

Enterprise architecture for business success

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2014-01-01

Enterprise Architecture (EA) has evolved to become a prominent presence in today's information systems and technology landscape. The EA discipline is rich in frameworks, methodologies, and the like. However, the question of 'value' for business ;professionals remains largely unanswered - that is, how best can Enterprise Architecture and Enterprise Architects deliver value to the enterprise? Enterprise Architecture for Business Success answers this question. Enterprise Architecture for Business Success is primarily intended for IT professionals working in the area of Enterprise Architectu

Focus on Success

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Frey, Susan

2011-01-01

Successful middle schools do not happen by accident--they happen through leadership. Principals promote a shared vision that empowers school staffs to set high standards and continuously improve student achievement. And these middle grade educators also try to help their adolescent students see the connection between their work in school and their…

Narrative intelligence and pedagogical success in english

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Pishghadam, Reza

2011-01-01

Full Text Available The present study intends to investigate the relationship between English as a Foreign Language (EFL teachers’ narrative intelligence and their pedagogical success. Eighty EFL teachers along with 673 EFL learners participated in this study. Narrative Intelligence Scale (NIS and the Characteristics of the Successful Teachers Questionnaire (CSTQ were utilized to gather data in this study. The results revealed that there exists a significant association between EFL teachers’ pedagogical success and their narrative intelligence. Moreover, Genre-ation, among the subscales of narrative intelligence, was found to be the best predictor of teacher success. Finally, the results were discussed and pedagogical implications were provided in the context of language learning and teaching

Chemistry and dynamics of the lower troposphere over North America and the North Atlantic Ocean in fall 1997 observed using an airborne UV DIAL system

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Grant, William B.; Butler, Carolyn F.; Fenn, Marta A.; Kooi, Susan A.; Browell, Edward V.; Fuelberg, Henry

1998-01-01

The NASA Langley Research Center's airborne UV Differential Absorption Lidar (DIAL) system participated in the Subsonic Assessment, Ozone and Nitrogen Oxide Experiment (SONEX) mission from October 13 to November 12, 1997. The purpose of the mission was to study the upper troposphere/lower stratosphere in and near the North Atlantic flight corridor to better understand this region of the atmosphere and how civilian air travel in the corridor might be affecting the atmospheric chemistry. Bases of operations included NASA Ames, California (37.4 deg N, 122.1 deg W); Bangor, Maine (44.8 deg N, 68.8 deg W); Shannon, Ireland (52.7 deg N, 8.9 deg W); and Lajes, Terceira Island, Azores (38.8 deg N, 27.1 deg W). Since the UV DIAL system observes in the nadir as well as the zenith, aerosol and ozone data were obtained from near the Earth's surface to the lower stratosphere. A number of interesting features were noted relating to both chemistry and dynamics of the troposphere, which are reported here.

Successful Climate Science Communication Strategies

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Sinclair, P.

2016-12-01

In the past decade, efforts to communicate the facts of global change have not successfully moved political leaders and the general public to action. In response, a number of collaborative efforts between scientists and professional communicators, writers, journalists, bloggers, filmmakers, artists and others have arisen seeking to bridge that gap. As a result, a new cadre of science-literate communicators, and media-savvy scientists have made themselves visible across diverse mainstream, traditional, and social media outlets. Because of these collaborations, in recent years, misinformation, and disinformation have been successfully met with accurate and credible rebuttals within a single news cycle.Examples of these efforts is the Dark Snow Project, a science/communication collaboration focusing initially on accelerated arctic melt and sea level rise, and the Climate Science Rapid Response team, which matches professional journalists with appropriate science experts in order to respond within a single news cycle to misinformation or misunderstandings about climate science.The session will discuss successful examples and suggest creative approaches for the future.

Estimating raptor nesting success: old and new approaches

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Brown, Jessi L.; Steenhof, Karen; Kochert, Michael N.; Bond, Laura

2013-01-01

Studies of nesting success can be valuable in assessing the status of raptor populations, but differing monitoring protocols can present unique challenges when comparing populations of different species across time or geographic areas. We used large datasets from long-term studies of 3 raptor species to compare estimates of apparent nest success (ANS, the ratio of successful to total number of nesting attempts), Mayfield nesting success, and the logistic-exposure model of nest survival. Golden eagles (Aquila chrysaetos), prairie falcons (Falco mexicanus), and American kestrels (F. sparverius) differ in their breeding biology and the methods often used to monitor their reproduction. Mayfield and logistic-exposure models generated similar estimates of nesting success with similar levels of precision. Apparent nest success overestimated nesting success and was particularly sensitive to inclusion of nesting attempts discovered late in the nesting season. Thus, the ANS estimator is inappropriate when exact point estimates are required, especially when most raptor pairs cannot be located before or soon after laying eggs. However, ANS may be sufficient to assess long-term trends of species in which nesting attempts are highly detectable.

Impact of Stakeholder Psychological Empowerment on Project Success

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Herry Pintardi Chandra

2011-05-01

Full Text Available The relationship between psychological empowerment of stakeholders and project success is an important thing that must be known by project manager. This research developed and tested the model to predict how well the impact of stakeholder psychological empowerment on project success. Stakeholder psychological empowerment was defined to have five indicator variables covering intrinsic motivation, opportunity to perform, ability to perform, task behaviors, and contextual behaviors. Meanwhile, project success can be measured by cost performance, time performance, quality performance, profitability, and customer satisfaction. In this study, it was hypothesized that stakeholder psychological empowerment influenced project success. Based on the data obtained from a questionnaire survey carried out to 204 respondents, structural equation modeling (SEM was used for predicting the performance of project success. It was found that stakeholder psychological empowerment influenced project success, especially on the ability to perform of stakeholders.

Modeling Student Success in Engineering Education

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Jin, Qu

2013-01-01

In order for the United States to maintain its global competitiveness, the long-term success of our engineering students in specific courses, programs, and colleges is now, more than ever, an extremely high priority. Numerous studies have focused on factors that impact student success, namely academic performance, retention, and/or graduation.…

Telling Successes of Japanese Foreign Aid

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Stakeholders of two success story events negotiated an idea of development as individual entrepreneurship. The sixty-five-year-old Japanese Foreign Aid history includes stories of successes told by professionals from developing countries throughout the world. Their stories reflect the cultural...... sector training programs partly financed by Japanese Official development Assistance (ODA)....

[Succession of chitinolytic microorganisms in chernozem soil].

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Manucharova, N A; Belova, E V; Vorob'ev, A V; Polianskaia, L M; Stepanov, A L

2005-01-01

The chitinolytic prokaryotic and eukaryotic microbial complex of chernozem soil has been investigated in the course of a succession initiated by the introduction of chitin and humidification. The dynamics of the cell numbers of chitinolytic microorganisms and of their biomass was assessed by fluorescent microscopy and by inoculation of selective media. Emission of carbon dioxide and nitrous oxide, as well as dinitrogen fixation, was assessed by gas chromatography. It was found that, when the succession was initiated by the introduction of both chitin and humidification, it resulted in greater cell numbers and biomass of chitinolytic microorganisms and higher levels of CO2 and N2O emission and of nitrogen fixation than when the succession was initiated by humidification alone. As compared to the control samples, a significant (twofold) increase in the prokaryote cell number and biomass was found on the fourth day of the succession initiated by humidification and introduction of chitin. One week after the initiation of succession, the fungal biomass and length of mycelium were twice as high as those in the control samples. These results led to the conclusion that chitin utilization in chernozem soil starts during the initial stages of succession and is performed by both prokaryotic and eukaryotic microorganisms.

Promoting Industrialisation in Mauritius, South Africa and Botswana ...

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Institut international de recherche sur les politiques alimentaires ( IFPRI ), É.-U. ...... Par conséquent, la meilleure stratégie pour les populations autochtones et leurs ...... de recruter contre leur gré des Autochtones dans leurs forces armées, ...

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Modules de formation en durabilité et mobilisation des ressources

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Dynamics of Poverty and Land Degradation in the Sahel (West Africa)

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The Comparison of Early Maladaptive Schema’s Domains Between Successful And Non-Successful Opiate Addicts and Non-Clinical Persons

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Bahram Sahand

2009-10-01

Full Text Available Introduction: The current research was done in order to compare the early maladaptive schema’s domains between successful and non-successful opiate addicts and non-clinical persons in Tehran. Method: The research design was causal effect method. In this purpose 90 men (include successful and non-successful opiate addicts, and non-clinical persons (30 for each group, were selected by the available sampling method. Young Schema Questionnaire (YSQ-RE2R, General Health Questionnaire (GHQ, and Personal Characteristic Questionnaire were administered among selected sample. The results were analyzed by ANOVA, chi square, MANOVA, and tukey test. Results: The findings of this research indicated that there was a significant difference on “Early Maladaptive Schema’s domains” between these three groups. Conclusion: The results have important clinical interpretations. It is assumed that medical interference with the aim of modifying and correcting the “Early Maladaptive Schema’s domains” can be effective on the level of success for opiate addicts to give up their addiction.

Reading Strategy Use and Comprehension Performance of More Successful and Less Successful Readers: A Think-Aloud Study

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Wang, Yen-Hui

2016-01-01

This study explores the differences between more successful and less successful EFL readers in their comprehension performance and abilities to use reading strategies in interaction with English texts through thinking aloud while reading in pairs. Ten freshman high school students participated in pairs in four think-aloud reading tasks to think…

Passport to Success

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Tomlinson, Nigel

2002-01-01

Looks at the "Passport to Success" scheme introduced by the Sheffield Chamber of Commerce in a bid to address the employability skills problem among young people. States that the scheme was launched in September 2001 in partnership with a local comprehensive school with the intention of helping pupils make the transition from school into…

A Partial Theory of Executive Succession.

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Thiemann, Francis C.

This study has two purposes: (1) To construct a partial theory of succession, and (2) to utilize a method of theory construction which combines some of the concepts of Hans Zetterberg with the principles of formal symbolic logic. A bibliography on succession in complex organizations with entries on descriptive and empirical studies from various…

Succession planning: a call to action for nurse executives.

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Trepanier, Sylvain; Crenshaw, Jeannette T

2013-10-01

To discuss the organisational benefits of strategic succession planning in acute care hospital settings as a responsibility of chief nurse executives. A formal succession planning process is crucial to the financial and operational viability and sustainability of acute care hospitals. A succession plan is an essential business strategy that promotes effective leadership transition and continuity while maintaining productivity. Nursing and business literature were reviewed; reports contrasting institutions with and without succession plans were examined; and, operational implications were considered. It is imperative that chief nurse executives respond to the business benefits of an effective succession planning programme, identify common barriers and solutions, and implement best practices for a successful strategic succession planning programme. A strategic succession planning programme may offer many benefits to an acute care hospital, including improved retention rates, increased staff engagement and enhanced financial performance. Considering the ageing nursing workforce and the potential increase in demand for nursing services in the near future, nurse executives and other nurse leaders must actively engage in a formal succession planning process. A formal succession planning programme will help to provide strategic leadership continuity, operational effectiveness and improved quality of care. © 2013 John Wiley & Sons Ltd.

The Value of Successful MBSE Adoption

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Parrott, Edith

2016-01-01

The value of successful adoption of Model Based System Engineering (MBSE) practices is hard to quantify. Most engineers and project managers look at the success in terms of cost. But there are other ways to quantify the value of MBSE and the steps necessary to achieve adoption. The Glenn Research Center (GRC) has been doing Model-Based Engineering (design, structural, etc.) for years, but the system engineering side has not. Since 2010, GRC has been moving from documents centric to MBSE/SysML. Project adoption of MBSE has been slow, but is steadily increasing in both MBSE usage and complexity of generated products. Sharing of knowledge of lessons learned in the implementation of MBSE/SysML is key for others who want to be successful. Along with GRC's implementation, NASA is working hard to increase the successful implementation of MBSE across all the other centers by developing guidelines, templates and libraries for projects to utilize. This presentation will provide insight into recent GRC and NASA adoption efforts, lessons learned and best practices.

Understanding the Entrepreneur: An Index of Entrepreneurial Success

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Fried, Harold O.; Tauer, Loren W.

2009-01-01

A measure of entrepreneur success is important to identify current and future successful ventures, to further our understanding of the entrepreneurial process and to guide public policies to improve the success rate of start-ups. In this paper we propose an index of entrepreneur success that accommodates multiple inputs and outputs, that is predicated on inputs and that mitigates the impact of outliers. We relate the index to characteristics of the entrepreneur and the venture: age, experienc...

A Multidimensional Approach to Succession in Family Firms

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Boyd, Britta; Fediuk, Tomasz A.; Botero, Isabel C.

In family firms succession is often defined as the transition of leadership and ownership between a family member and the next generation. Traditionally research on succession in family firms has focused on the family member as they enter the leadership role (i.e., how family firms successfully...... transition to the next generation). From our point of view this is a one-dimensional perspective of succession with a focus on the family or the non-family member that will take over the leadership role. However, we found evidence in Danish family business research that such an approach is restrictive...... in a way that concern for the family is not the only consideration for organizational development in the succession process. Building on conflict management literature, we examine the succession process from a multi-dimensional approach where concern for the family is one dimension, and a second dimension...

Attributions to Success and Failure in English Language Learning: The Effects of Gender, Age and Perceived Success

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Genç, Gülten

2016-01-01

The main purpose of this study is to analyze Turkish tertiary level EFL learners' attributions to success and failure and the effects of gender, age, and perceived success on their attributions. The results indicated that EFL learners respectively attributed interest, ability, task difficulty, effort, luck and the influence of teacher and school…

The phylogenetics of succession can guide restoration

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Shooner, Stephanie; Chisholm, Chelsea Lee; Davies, T. Jonathan

2015-01-01

Phylogenetic tools have increasingly been used in community ecology to describe the evolutionary relationships among co-occurring species. In studies of succession, such tools may allow us to identify the evolutionary lineages most suited for particular stages of succession and habitat...... rehabilitation. However, to date, these two applications have been largely separate. Here, we suggest that information on phylogenetic community structure might help to inform community restoration strategies following major disturbance. Our study examined phylogenetic patterns of succession based...... for species sorting along abiotic gradients (slope and aspect) on the mine sites that had been abandoned for the longest. Synthesis and applications. Understanding the trajectory of succession is critical for restoration efforts. Our results suggest that early colonizers represent a phylogenetically random...

ORGANIZATIONAL CULTURE IN THE SUCCESSFUL GLOBAL BUSINESS

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Eliyana, Anis

2009-01-01

A successful business becomes the goal of each individual who is involved in anorganizational business. The capability of business organization to enter and compete inthe global market is one of those ways often used by businessmen to both maintain andachieve a successful organization. With respect to the said issue, the writer would like toanswer the following subject matter: How to understand the organizational culture inorder to be success in global business? And does the organizational cu...

A Conceptual Exploration of Succession Intent in Family Firms

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Boyd, Britta; Botero, Isabel; Fediuk, Tomasz

Succession has been the most studied topic in family firms. The reason for this is that many family firms fail during the transition of leadership and ownership between the current owner/manager and the next generation. Traditionally research on succession has focused on the family member...... as they enter the leadership role (i.e., how a family firm successfully transition to the next generation) or on the different issues that affect the succession process. In this approach there seems to be an underlying assumption that family business owners have the intent to engage in succession efforts. We...... believe that this is not always the case. Thus, we suggest that to better understand the succession process in family firms we first need to understand succession intent and the factors that influence an owner’s intent to pass on the business. This manuscript defines succession intent and provides...

Goodbye Career, Hello Success.

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Komisar, Randy

2000-01-01

Success in today's economy means throwing out the old career rules. The "noncareer" career is driven by passion for the work and has the fluidity and flexibility needed in the contemporary workplace. (JOW)

Nurse manager succession planning: synthesis of the evidence.

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Titzer, Jennifer; Phillips, Tracy; Tooley, Stephanie; Hall, Norma; Shirey, Maria

2013-10-01

The literature supporting nurse manager succession planning is reviewed and synthesised to discover best practice for identifying and developing future nurse managers. Healthcare succession planning practices are lacking. Nurse managers are historically selected based on clinical skills and lack formal leadership preparation. A systematic literature search appraises and summarises the current literature supporting nurse manager succession planning. Multiple reviewers were used to increase the reliability and validity of article selection and analysis. New nurse managers require months to adapt to their positions. Deliberate nurse manager succession planning should be integrated in the organisation's strategic plan and provide a proactive method for identifying and developing potential leaders. Organisations that identify and develop internal human capital can improve role transition, reduce nurse manager turnover rates and decrease replacement costs. Despite the clear benefits of succession planning, studies show that resource allocation for proactive, deliberate development of current and future nurse leaders is lacking. Additionally, systematic evaluation of succession planning is limited. Deliberate succession planning efforts and appropriate resource allocation require strategic planning and evaluation methods. Detailed evaluation methods demonstrating a positive return on investment utilising a cost-benefit analysis and empirical outcomes are necessary. © 2013 John Wiley & Sons Ltd.

Performance success from self-assessments

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Hughes, G.

1996-01-01

This paper provides information on and successes of self-assessments completed at the Callaway plant. It stresses the vital needs and substantial benefits from these continual self-improvement efforts. The Callaway plant staff use a variety of methods and techniques to do self-assessments with the focus on performance outcomes. Self-assessments help Callaway focus on the priority issues and direct resources properly. Callaway's success has been due to this learning culture. The Callaway plant is a Westinghouse four-loop plant in the state of Missouri and has been operational since 1984

The Strategic Value of Succession Planning for Department Chairs.

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Rayburn, William; Grigsby, Kevin; Brubaker, Linda

2016-04-01

Most faculty who aspire to be department chairs are unaware of succession processes at their institution. This Commentary highlights the importance of succession planning, emphasizing the general need for transparency. Succession planning provides institutional leaders the opportunity to optimize, renew, and revitalize their organization by ensuring successful leadership transitions. In contrast to leadership pathways in the military, corporate business, and hospital administration, planned succession of medical school department chairs has received little attention. Different approaches to succession planning are essential for emergency and planned transitions. Emergency succession plans should be in place at all times, regularly revisited, and modified as needed. Department chairs should begin considering their planned succession between one and five years after their initial appointment. The succession discussion between a chair and medical school dean requires cautious, thoughtful, and open discussions. Intradepartmental annual faculty performance evaluations permit the chair to mentor potential successors in acquiring future-oriented, institution-based leadership qualities necessary to be considered for a future department chair position. If health and time permit, the successful chair should remain in his or her current position until a successor is named or, preferably, is in place. Appointment of an interim chair as part of succession planning can be useful for on-the-job training of an internal candidate, yet awkwardness might ensue if there is more than one internal candidate.Succession development offers the great advantage of maintaining smooth organizational performance while optimizing talent management and exploring opportunities for transitioning individuals into leadership roles.

Successful aging and the epidemiology of HIV

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Vance DE

2011-06-01

Full Text Available David E Vance1, Teena McGuinness1, Karen Musgrove3, Nancy Ann Orel4, Pariya L Fazeli21School of Nursing, 2Department of Psychology and Center for Research in Applied Gerontology, University of Alabama at Birmingham, 3Birmingham AIDS Outreach, Birmingham, AL, USA; 4Gerontology Program, Bowling Green State University, Bowling Green, OH, USAAbstract: By 2015, it is estimated that nearly half of those living with HIV in the US will be 50 years of age and older. This dramatic change in the demographics of this clinical population represents unique challenges for patients, health care providers, and society-at-large. Fortunately, because of highly active antiretroviral therapy (HAART and healthy lifestyle choices, it is now possible for many infected with HIV to age successfully with this disease; however, this depends upon one’s definition of successful aging. It is proposed that successful aging is composed of eight factors: length of life, biological health, cognitive efficiency, mental health, social competence, productivity, personal control, and life satisfaction. Unfortunately, HIV and medication side effects can compromise these factors, thus diminishing one’s capacity to age successfully with this disease. This article explores how HIV, medication side effects from HAART, and lifestyle choices can compromise the factors necessary to age successfully. Implications for practice and research are posited.Keywords: HIV, AIDS, successful aging, spirituality, depression, hardiness

Fertility Clinic Success Rates

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Leadership and Project Success in Development Sector

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Saghir Ahmed

2017-10-01

Full Text Available Aim/purpose - The study aims to investigate the relationship among the leadership, operational efficiency and project success in general and the impact of transformational leadership and operational efficiency on project success in particular. Design/methodology/approach - Mean comparison from descriptive statistics and multiple linear regression from inferential statistics was used to determine the association between variables and further impact of the transformational leadership and operational efficiency on project success in the development sector. The paper presents the results of a survey conducted among 200 employees from the top, middle & lower management levels of various national & international development organizations working in Pakistan like Microfinance Banks and other Rural Support Programs. Statistical Package for Social Sciences (SPSS was used to process data. Findings - The result shows positive association among transformational leadership, operational efficiency and project success. In addition, it was found that transformational leadership and operational efficiency have a positive and statistically significant impact on the project success. It is concluded that both transformational leadership and operational efficiency are vital to achieving the optimum level of success in any project, especially in the development sector. Research implications/limitations - The integral limitation of the study was the respondents because most of the development organizations have their operations in rural areas where access was difficult because of limited time and resources. In addition, such organizations are always reluctant to provide survey feedback. Originality/value/contribution - The paper contribution is in the theoretical and practical knowledge of the project success factors in the development sector which is still a somehow unexplored area. Regulators of the development sector may be benefited from this study.

Strategic Intent, Confucian Harmony and Firm Success

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Edward J. Romar

2009-01-01

This paper argues that by using the Confucian concept of harmony as its strategicintent a firm can be both ethical and successful. Using the work of Peter F. Drucker,Michael Porter, and Gary Hamel and C. K. Prahalad the paper discusses the role ofstrategic intent as a contributing factor to firm success. The paper then discusses how theConfucian concept of harmony fulfills the concept of strategic intent and how harmony cancontribute to the development of a successful and ethical organization...

The Influence of Quality on E-Commerce Success: An Empirical Application of the Delone and Mclean IS Success Model

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Ultan Sharkey; Murray Scott; Thomas Acton

2010-01-01

This research addresses difficulties in measuring e-commerce success by implementing the DeLone and McLean (D&M) model of IS success (1992, 2003) in an e-commerce environment. This research considers the influence of quality on e-commerce success by measuring the information quality and system quality attributes of an e-commerce system and the intention to use, user satisfaction and intention to transact from a sample of respondents. This research provides an empirical e-commerce application ...

Examining the Planning and Management of Principal Succession

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Zepeda, Sally J.; Bengtson, Ed; Parylo, Oksana

2012-01-01

Purpose: The purpose of this study is to examine principal succession planning and management by analyzing current practices of handling school leader succession in four Georgia school systems. Design/methodology/approach: Looking through the lens of organizational leadership succession theory, the practices of school systems as they experienced…

"STEMulating" success factors: An investigation of the academic talents of successful Black male college graduates from STEM programs

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Hendricks, Jill T.

This phenomenological research study explored the contributing factors experienced by Black males that epitomized their academic success in a STEM (Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics) area of study. During this investigative project, eleven Black male students were interviewed to determine how they were able to successfully navigate and complete a STEM degree. The data was collected through a qualitative inquiry, which involved interviewing students and collecting the data and organizing their perspectives into common themes. The principal findings in this study suggest that Black males can excel when primary influential people establish high expectations and believe and encourage Black males to succeed by providing the essential educational support models requisite to warrant success; the Black male maintains and affirms a self-assured self-worth in himself; the Black male is exposed to these fields and professions early on in their educational quest to enable them to witness first hand powerful and productive opportunities and pathways to academic success; exposure to other Black successful male role models who can mentor and show positive proof that with effort, these fields can become a reality; increase in academic motivation and recommendations from educators and counselors who direct and guide students into and away from these rigorous career fields. An analysis of the students' individual stories gave a revealing look into the pathways of their consciousness, emotional growth, and perspectives about being a successful STEM major. This kind of insight can be a constructive diagnostic tool for students, educators, counselors, and administrators who want to motivate and influence future students to major in STEM fields of study.

Le groupe de recherches transfusionnelles d’Afrique francophone: bilan des cinq premières années

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Tagny, Claude Tayou; Murphy, Edward L.; Lefrère, Jean-Jacques

2016-01-01

Les travaux de recherches sur la sécurité transfusionnelle en Afrique sub-saharienne sont peu nombreux, souvent limités à des initiatives locales avec des conclusions difficilement représentatives de cette région. Le Groupe de recherches transfusionnelles en Afrique sub-saharienne francophone a été créé en mai 2007 avec pour objectif de développer des stratégies globales d’amélioration de la sécurité transfusionnelle mais adaptables à la situation de chaque pays. Les activités du Groupe à ce jour ont porté essentiellement sur l’obtention de données épidémiologiques et de laboratoire sur la transfusion sanguine et à proposer des stratégies de sécurité transfusionnelle dans le domaine des infections transmissibles par la transfusion. Pour mener à bien ces activités de recherche, le Groupe travaille en étroite collaboration avec les Centres nationaux de transfusion sanguine (CNTS), les Centres régionaux de transfusion sanguine (CRTS), les banques de sang hospitalières (BSH) et les postes de collecte de sang. Pour les 5 premières années, quatre priorités de recherche ont été identifiées: (i) des études descriptives sur les caractéristiques des donneurs de sang et des centres de transfusion; (ii) une estimation du risque résiduel post-transfusionnel des principales infections virales transmissibles par la transfusion; (iii) une analyse des stratégies de sélection médicale des donneurs de sang; et (iv) une description des stratégies de dépistage des ITT et une description du système d’assurance qualité externe existant. Durant cette période, sept projets ont été mis en œuvre au niveau national et publiés et cinq études multicentriques ont été réalisées et publiées. La présente étude rapporte les principales observations et recommandations de ces études. PMID:24360798

The value of success: acquiring gains, avoiding losses, and simply being successful.

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Samantha M Mowrer

Full Text Available A large network of spatially contiguous, yet anatomically distinct regions in medial frontal cortex is involved in reward processing. Although it is clear these regions play a role in critical aspects of reward-related learning and decision-making, the individual contributions of each component remains unclear. We explored dissociations in reward processing throughout several key regions in the reward system and aimed to clarify the nature of previously observed outcome-related activity in a portion of anterior medial orbitofrontal cortex (mOFC. Specifically, we tested whether activity in anterior mOFC was related to processing successful actions, such that this region would respond similarly to rewards with and without tangible benefits, or whether this region instead encoded only quantifiable outcome values (e.g., money. Participants performed a task where they encountered monetary gains and losses (and non-gains and non-losses during fMRI scanning. Critically, in addition to the outcomes with monetary consequences, the task included trials that provided outcomes without tangible benefits (participants were simply told that they were correct or incorrect. We found that anterior mOFC responded to all successful outcomes regardless of whether they carried tangible benefits (monetary gains and non-losses or not (controls. These results support the hypothesis that anterior mOFC processes rewards in terms of a common currency and is capable of providing reward-based signals for everything we value, whether it be primary or secondary rewards or simply a successful experience without objectively quantifiable benefits.

Successful and unsuccessful psychopaths: a neurobiological model.

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Gao, Yu; Raine, Adrian

2010-01-01

Despite increasing interest in psychopathy research, surprisingly little is known about the etiology of non-incarcerated, successful psychopaths. This review provides an analysis of current knowledge on the similarities and differences between successful and unsuccessful psychopaths derived from five population sources: community samples, individuals from employment agencies, college students, industrial psychopaths, and serial killers. An initial neurobiological model of successful and unsuccessful psychopathy is outlined. It is hypothesized that successful psychopaths have intact or enhanced neurobiological functioning that underlies their normal or even superior cognitive functioning, which in turn helps them to achieve their goals using more covert and nonviolent methods. In contrast, in unsuccessful, caught psychopaths, brain structural and functional impairments together with autonomic nervous system dysfunction are hypothesized to underlie cognitive and emotional deficits and more overt violent offending.

Succession planning for technical experts

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Kirk, Bernadette Lugue; Cain, Ronald A.; Dewji, Shaheen A.; Agreda, Carla L.

2017-01-01

This report describes a methodology for identifying, evaluating, and mitigating the loss of key technical skills at nuclear operations facilities. The methodology can be adapted for application within regulatory authorities and research and development organizations, and can be directly applied by international engagement partners of the Department of Energy’s National Nuclear Security Administration (NNSA). The resultant product will be of direct benefit to two types of NNSA missions: (1) domestic human capital development programs tasked to provide focused technical expertise to succeed an aging nuclear operations workforce, and (2) international safeguards programs charged with maintaining operational safeguards for developing/existing nuclear power program in nations where minimal available resources must be used effectively. This report considers succession planning and the critical skills necessary to meet an institution’s goals and mission. Closely tied to succession planning are knowledge management and mentorship. In considering succession planning, critical skill sets are identified and are greatly dependent on the subject matter expert in question. This report also provides examples of critical skills that are job specific.

Succession planning for technical experts

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Kirk, Bernadette Lugue [Oak Ridge National Lab. (ORNL), Oak Ridge, TN (United States); Cain, Ronald A. [Oak Ridge National Lab. (ORNL), Oak Ridge, TN (United States); Dewji, Shaheen A. [Oak Ridge National Lab. (ORNL), Oak Ridge, TN (United States); Agreda, Carla L. [Oak Ridge National Lab. (ORNL), Oak Ridge, TN (United States)

2017-07-01

This report describes a methodology for identifying, evaluating, and mitigating the loss of key technical skills at nuclear operations facilities. The methodology can be adapted for application within regulatory authorities and research and development organizations, and can be directly applied by international engagement partners of the Department of Energy’s National Nuclear Security Administration (NNSA). The resultant product will be of direct benefit to two types of NNSA missions: (1) domestic human capital development programs tasked to provide focused technical expertise to succeed an aging nuclear operations workforce, and (2) international safeguards programs charged with maintaining operational safeguards for developing/existing nuclear power program in nations where minimal available resources must be used effectively. This report considers succession planning and the critical skills necessary to meet an institution’s goals and mission. Closely tied to succession planning are knowledge management and mentorship. In considering succession planning, critical skill sets are identified and are greatly dependent on the subject matter expert in question. This report also provides examples of critical skills that are job specific.

Success According to Professionals in the Fashion Industry

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Gerber, Tara; Saiki, Diana

2010-01-01

The purpose of this study was to examine career success perceived by professionals in the fashion industry. Two sets of open-ended interviews were conducted with 33 fashion industry professionals. The interviews were analyzed for success themes using a grounded approach methodology. External definitions of success mentioned were salary,…

Profile of success

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Dahlgaard, Jens Jørn; Nørgaard, Anders; Jakobsen, Søren

1998-01-01

What management skills must Europe's business leaders improve to achieve business excellence? Which country's leaders are best placed for success? Does the next generation have what it takes to compete? In the second half of their study of the leadership styles that drive business excellence, Jens...... Dahlgaard, Anders Nørgaard and Søren Jakobsen describe an excellent leadership profile that provides the answers....

Designing for success

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Altounyan, P.; Hurt, K.; Bigby, D. [Rock Mechanics Technology, Stanhope Bretby (United Kingdom)

1999-07-01

Successful underground coal mining is dependent on a number of key factors, particularly geotechnical suitability. The impact of rock mechanics on underground mine design and mining methods is discussed in this article. Methods on minimising stress effects in room and pillar mining, and longwall mining are outlined. The use of computer numerical modelling in mine design is mentioned. 8 figs.

Urinary Tract Infection In Young Healthy Women Following ...

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It is influenced by a number of host biological and behavioural factors and virulence of ... a pre-requisite for bladder infection may be facilitated by sexual intercourse, ... l'orientation des approches thérapeutiques et les stratégies de prévention.

Chef de programme (h/f) | CRDI - Centre de recherches pour le ...

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Se charger de l'orientation stratégique globale de l'IP;; Préparer le prospectus de ... Se charger du recrutement et du perfectionnement professionnel des ... projet;; Négocier avec des chercheurs et des responsables de politiques pour qu'ils ...

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de recommander aux gouvernements nationaux des politiques en matière de ...... à donner suite aux politiques exigeant le recrutement de professionnelles en ...... Le nouveau rapport, intitulé Sauver la planète — Stratégie pour l'avenir de la ...

L'accès au savoir en Afrique : le rôle du droit d'auteur

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Les lois et politiques relatives au droit d'auteur couvrent de nombreuses questions ...... Le premier aspect de la stratégie relative aux dynamiques de genre du projet ...... Les responsables du centre ont finalement décidé de recruter des ...

29 le processus entrepreneurial en algerie une adaptation

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PME, mais qui sont loin de refléter les grandes ambitions politiques puisque le secteur ... moins en partie être imputable à son noyau stratégique, l'entrepreneur. .... Algérienne, qui montre que le recrutement se fait exclusivement à travers des.

De bul faale à Y'en a marre : continuités et dissonances dans les ...

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21 juin 2007 ... figures de contestation politique et d'affirmation citoyenne chez les jeunes ..... ses bases de recrutement de leur mouvement et de décliner la « nouvelle ... non abouties (tentatives de corruption), par la stratégie de l' ...

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Asia Research News 2015 présente des projets financés par le CRDI

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amélioration des soins de santé pour les femmes au Vietnam, de stratégies pour désamorcer la violence dans les villes pakistanaises ou d'apprentissage de nouvelles compétences pour obtenir de meilleurs emplois au ...

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31 août 2015 ... plantain : une stratégie de gestion des nématodes ... production. Keeping the orchard for several ratoons without any control measures of plant-parasitic nematodes ..... végétatif des bananiers : La dynamique des populations ...

Whether or Not to Prepare for Offshoring

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Møller Larsen, Marcus; Geisler Asmussen, Christian; Pedersen, Torben

2012-01-01

A consequence of offshoring is increased coordination costs. To counter this, firms can strive to identify a cost reducing organizational configuration either ex ante or ex post to the offshoring implementation. In this paper, we investigate the performance implications of these contrasting strat...

Capacité de la biopsie de la prostate à prédire le score réel du cancer de la prostate?

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Y. Dehayni

2016-12-01

Conclusion: Le score de Gleason ne reflète qu’imparfaitement celui de la pièce opératoire, ainsi ces limites de stadification doivent être bien comprises lors de la détermination des stratégies thérapeutiques.

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The Effect of Prior Task Success on Older Adults' Memory Performance: Examining the Influence of Different Types of Task Success.

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Geraci, Lisa; Hughes, Matthew L; Miller, Tyler M; De Forrest, Ross L

2016-01-01

Negative aging stereotypes can lead older adults to perform poorly on memory tests. Yet, memory performance can be improved if older adults have a single successful experience on a cognitive test prior to participating in a memory experiment (Geraci & Miller, 2013, Psychology and Aging, 28, 340-345). The current study examined the effects of different types of prior task experience on subsequent memory performance. Before participating in a verbal free recall experiment, older adults in Experiment 1 successfully completed either a verbal or a visual cognitive task or no task. In Experiment 2, they successfully completed either a motor task or no task before participating in the free recall experiment. Results from Experiment 1 showed that relative to control (no prior task), participants who had prior success, either on a verbal or a visual task, had better subsequent recall performance. Experiment 2 showed that prior success on a motor task, however, did not lead to a later memory advantage relative to control. These findings demonstrate that older adults' memory can be improved by a successful prior task experience so long as that experience is in a cognitive domain.

Success and anomy of the corporal

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Larisa Viktorovna Efimova

2015-11-01

Full Text Available The success and its anomichny manifestation in modern society becomes object of research of article. The success represents material prosperity and high position of the person in society, but ways of its achievement connected with knowledge, professionalism, working capacity, ability to make decisions and creativity are held back, negatively affecting interpretative practicians of a phenomenon mass consciousness. In the most Russian society the anomichnost of a state in which the dialectic interrelation of its social and individual modes is highlighted is found today. The anomy acts as an indicator of a mismatch of the purposes and standards of life, causing violations traditional, standard правовового, axiological. And individual acts as the most indicative illustration of an anomichnost of the social corporal as a component of modern success. The corporality is located in a discourse sexual today that involves artificial transformations of a body and as a result brings to a body/corporality razjyatiya from the owner. The success anomichnost situation by means of corporal transformations demands revival reflexive, traditional, moral and legal, restrictions manipulative the practician of mass media.

Social Success and Happiness in Korean Higher Education

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Lee, Jeong-Kyu

2017-01-01

This paper discusses the relevance between social success and happiness in Korea from the perspective of Korean higher education. To review this study systematically, three research questions are stated. First of all, what is social success? Second, is social success able to provide happiness for us? Last, what is the relevance between social…

Elementary Schoolchildren's Self- and Social Perceptions of Success

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Määttä, Elina; Mykkänen, Arttu; Järvelä, Sanna

2016-01-01

The purpose of this study was to investigate children's self- and social perceptions of success to identify how success could be promoted in a classroom context. Using a participatory approach, this study explored children's subjective experiences with success in 41 learning situations selected by researchers (Phase 1: self-perceptions) and 48…

Successive Standardization of Rectangular Arrays

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Richard A. Olshen

2012-02-01

Full Text Available In this note we illustrate and develop further with mathematics and examples, the work on successive standardization (or normalization that is studied earlier by the same authors in [1] and [2]. Thus, we deal with successive iterations applied to rectangular arrays of numbers, where to avoid technical difficulties an array has at least three rows and at least three columns. Without loss, an iteration begins with operations on columns: first subtract the mean of each column; then divide by its standard deviation. The iteration continues with the same two operations done successively for rows. These four operations applied in sequence completes one iteration. One then iterates again, and again, and again, ... In [1] it was argued that if arrays are made up of real numbers, then the set for which convergence of these successive iterations fails has Lebesgue measure 0. The limiting array has row and column means 0, row and column standard deviations 1. A basic result on convergence given in [1] is true, though the argument in [1] is faulty. The result is stated in the form of a theorem here, and the argument for the theorem is correct. Moreover, many graphics given in [1] suggest that except for a set of entries of any array with Lebesgue measure 0, convergence is very rapid, eventually exponentially fast in the number of iterations. Because we learned this set of rules from Bradley Efron, we call it “Efron’s algorithm”. More importantly, the rapidity of convergence is illustrated by numerical examples.

ACTS – SUCCESS STORY

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First page Back Continue Last page Overview Graphics. ACTS – SUCCESS STORY. Totally 103 experiments were conducted and the programme succeeded in the areas. Medicine; Education; Defence; Emergency Response; Maritime and Aeronautical Mobile Communications; Science and Astronomy.

Succession planning : phase II.

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2008-06-01

Succession planning is an organizational investment in the future. Institutional : knowledge is a critical ingredient in the culture of an organization, and its intangible : value becomes significant when an organization is faced with the need to pas...

Dietary patterns as predictors of successful ageing.

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Hodge, A M; O'Dea, K; English, D R; Giles, G G; Flicker, L

2014-03-01

To examine associations between dietary patterns identified by factor analysis, and successful ageing. Prospective cohort study with diet measured in 1990-4, and successful ageing in 2003-7. Ordered logistic regression with outcome determined as dead/usual ageing/successful ageing was used to examine associations with quintile groups of dietary factor scores. Men and women (n=6308), without history of major illness at baseline, and aged >70 years at follow-up, or who had died before follow-up but would have been aged >70 at the commencement of follow-up, from the Melbourne Collaborative Cohort Study. Frequencies of intake of 121 foods at baseline were collected in a food frequency questionnaire. Anthropometry and other health and lifestyle data were collected. At follow-up, questionnaire data relating to mental health, physical function and medical history were used to define successful ageing. Four dietary factors were identified, characterized by higher loadings for (1) vegetables; (2) fruit, (3) feta, legumes, salad, olive oil, and inverse loadings for tea, margarine, cake, sweet biscuits and puddings; (4) meat, white bread, savoury pastry dishes and fried foods. In models excluding body size, the second factor 'Fruit' was positively associated with successful ageing (OR in top 20% vs lowest 20% of score 1.31, 95%CI (1.05-1.63), p trend across quintile groups 0.001); while the fourth factor 'Meat/fatty foods' was inversely associated (OR in top 20% vs lowest 20% of score 0.69, 95%CI (0.55-0.86), p trend across quintile groups 0.001). Factors 1 and 3 did not show significant associations with successful ageing. The association for 'Fruit' was little altered after adjustment for body size, while for 'Meat/fatty foods' the association was somewhat attenuated. A dietary pattern including plenty of fruit while limiting meat and fried foods may improve the likelihood of ageing successfully.

Giant Bilateral Renal Angiomyolipomas and Lymphangioleiomyomatosis Presenting after Two Successive Pregnancies Successfully Treated with Surgery and Rapamycin

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Ramón Peces

2011-01-01

Full Text Available We report the case of a 25-year-old woman who presented with abdominal and flank pain with two successive pregnancies and was diagnosed of giant bilateral renal AMLs and pulmonary LAM associated with TSC in the post-partum of her second pregnancy. This case illustrates that in women with TSC rapid growth from renal AMLs and development of LAM may occur with successive pregnancies. It also stresses the potential for preservation of renal function despite successive bilateral renal surgery of giant AMLs. Moreover, the treatment with a low-dose rapamycin may be an option for LAM treatment. Finally, a low-dose rapamycin may be considered as an adjuvant treatment together to kidney-sparing conservative surgery for renal AMLs.

Health information systems: failure, success and improvisation.

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Heeks, Richard

2006-02-01

The generalised assumption of health information systems (HIS) success is questioned by a few commentators in the medical informatics field. They point to widespread HIS failure. The purpose of this paper was therefore to develop a better conceptual foundation for, and practical guidance on, health information systems failure (and success). Literature and case analysis plus pilot testing of developed model. Defining HIS failure and success is complex, and the current evidence base on HIS success and failure rates was found to be weak. Nonetheless, the best current estimate is that HIS failure is an important problem. The paper therefore derives and explains the "design-reality gap" conceptual model. This is shown to be robust in explaining multiple cases of HIS success and failure, yet provides a contingency that encompasses the differences which exist in different HIS contexts. The design-reality gap model is piloted to demonstrate its value as a tool for risk assessment and mitigation on HIS projects. It also throws into question traditional, structured development methodologies, highlighting the importance of emergent change and improvisation in HIS. The design-reality gap model can be used to address the problem of HIS failure, both as a post hoc evaluative tool and as a pre hoc risk assessment and mitigation tool. It also validates a set of methods, techniques, roles and competencies needed to support the dynamic improvisations that are found to underpin cases of HIS success.

RELATION CONATIVE CHARACSTERISTICS AND SUCCESS IN GYMNASTICS

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Katarina Herodek

2013-07-01

Full Text Available The young gymnasts from seven cities in the Republic of Serbia at the age of 8-12 years was covered with programmed gymnastic training 3-4 times a week for 90 minutes and the system of competition within the "C" program GSS. The case studies are examined relationships conative characteristics modified by Catel 16PF questionnaire with success in gymnastics, which is estimated to success in the competition in the "C" program of the Gymnastics Federation of Serbia. Using canonical correlation analysis of the data show that in the space of conative characteristics examined were found to be factors I-sensitivity-sharp temper, H- fearlessness and Q1- openness to change. Success in gymnastics was defined positive relations with disciplines Rings (.77, Pommel horse and Bar (.73 and Vault (.63. The hypothesis that says "conative characteristics have a positive relationship with success in gymnastics" can not be accepted because there is a statistically positive relationship that is explained with 83%. Young gymnasts who show a sharp temper and willingness to learn new cause the contents with strong courage, can successfully realizes "C" program GS Serbia in gymnastics.

Critical success factors in information technology projects

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Ayesha

2017-02-01

Full Text Available The purpose of this study is to determine the critical success factors (CSF of IT projects in Pa-kistan. The identified factors cannot only be functional to exact type IT projects but also to all types of IT projects, their success directly affects the achievement of whole organization. The proposed study of this paper has determined 15 factors influencing the most on the success of IT projects through multiple regression analysis. The survey has disclosed that many CSFs were found related to IT projects but these 15 factors are also the backbone of IT projects. The re-search results obtained clearly indicated that the Leadership Qualities played a significant role in obtaining Top Management support in order to access to resources however, the Leadership Qualities did not play any role on the trained and capable Project Team Members. Besides, it is undoubtedly defined effective communication of the project was established to be influential on the conclusion and contributing factor towards the Success of IT projects in Pakistan. Top Man-agement Support as a whole was not found to play a key role in the IT Project Success.

Evaluating the Success of Peace Operations | Garb | Scientia ...

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Questioning and investigating the success of peace operations is not a new research activity. However, there are still many open questions, because the surveys do not show the same results. One of the crucial points in the analysis of the success of peace operations is a definition of such success. In this article, firstly, ...

Soil invertebrate fauna enhances grassland succession and diversity.

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De Deyn, Gerlinde B; Raaijmakers, Ciska E; Zoomer, H Rik; Berg, Matty P; de Ruiter, Peter C; Verhoef, Herman A; Bezemer, T Martijn; van der Putten, Wim H

2003-04-17

One of the most important areas in ecology is to elucidate the factors that drive succession in ecosystems and thus influence the diversity of species in natural vegetation. Significant mechanisms in this process are known to be resource limitation and the effects of aboveground vertebrate herbivores. More recently, symbiotic and pathogenic soil microbes have been shown to exert a profound effect on the composition of vegetation and changes therein. However, the influence of invertebrate soil fauna on succession has so far received little attention. Here we report that invertebrate soil fauna might enhance both secondary succession and local plant species diversity. Soil fauna from a series of secondary grassland succession stages selectively suppress early successional dominant plant species, thereby enhancing the relative abundance of subordinate species and also that of species from later succession stages. Soil fauna from the mid-succession stage had the strongest effect. Our results clearly show that soil fauna strongly affects the composition of natural vegetation and we suggest that this knowledge might improve the restoration and conservation of plant species diversity.

Investigation on the Success of Peasant Entrepreneurs

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Li, Guohao; Wu, Bing; Bai, Guanglin

Peasant entrepreneurs are one important force to promote the development of new rural construction, so it has practical significance to study success factors of peasant entrepreneurs. 40 cases involving peasant entrepreneurs are studied through content analysis method and the results show that: (1) Making good use of existing resources in rural areas is a key factor for peasant entrepreneurs; (2) hard work, strong willness, tactics and courage, social responsibility are four most important success factors; (3) 23 items of success factor can be summarized into three categorized, personality traits, abilities, and behavior characteristics.

Succession status on mountain farms in Slovenia

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Boštjan Kerbler-Kefo

2008-12-01

Full Text Available This paper is based on the hypothesis that the offi cial statistical data does not refl ect actual succession status on mountain farms in Slovenia and also on Slovene farms in general, since the census criteria defi ning succession are still incomplete. With the purpose of confi rming our assumption, we formulated more accurate criteria and also determined as to what is the real status of succession on mountain farms in Slovenia. It has proved to be more favourable, than it is presented by the offi cial statistics.

Successes and Challenges of Emerging Economy Multinationals

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Successes and Challenges of Emerging Economy Multinationals investigates a broad variety of cases presenting clear evidence of fast successful internationalization of emerging economy multinationals originating not only from big economic players such as China, India and Russia but also from other...... successfully internationalizing emerging countries, namely South Africa and Poland. In terms of size, the firms vary from huge multinational firms such as Huawei, Tata and Gazprom, to really small high technology firms. The in-depth analysis conducted in this book leads to the indication of numerous novel...

Knowledge Transfer in Family Business Successions

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Boyd, Britta; Royer, Susanne; Pei, Rong

Knowledge often is the fundament for strategic competitive advantage. Thus, it is highly relevant to understand better how knowledge is transferred from one generation to the next in family businesses. Building on the contingency model of family business succession (Royer, Simons, Boyd & Rafferty......, 2008) knowledge transfer in different cultures is investigated in this paper. From a resource-oriented perspective two family businesses with a similar industry background from China and Europe are compared regarding education processes and knowledge transfer in the context of family firm succession...... taking into account the respective transaction atmosphere. For the European family business from the Danish-German border region twelve successions were investigated in a former study: Access to experiential knowledge was found to be a driver of competitive advantage with a shift towards the relevance...

Modeling student success in engineering education

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Jin, Qu

In order for the United States to maintain its global competitiveness, the long-term success of our engineering students in specific courses, programs, and colleges is now, more than ever, an extremely high priority. Numerous studies have focused on factors that impact student success, namely academic performance, retention, and/or graduation. However, there are only a limited number of works that have systematically developed models to investigate important factors and to predict student success in engineering. Therefore, this research presents three separate but highly connected investigations to address this gap. The first investigation involves explaining and predicting engineering students' success in Calculus I courses using statistical models. The participants were more than 4000 first-year engineering students (cohort years 2004 - 2008) who enrolled in Calculus I courses during the first semester in a large Midwestern university. Predictions from statistical models were proposed to be used to place engineering students into calculus courses. The success rates were improved by 12% in Calculus IA using predictions from models developed over traditional placement method. The results showed that these statistical models provided a more accurate calculus placement method than traditional placement methods and help improve success rates in those courses. In the second investigation, multi-outcome and single-outcome neural network models were designed to understand and to predict first-year retention and first-year GPA of engineering students. The participants were more than 3000 first year engineering students (cohort years 2004 - 2005) enrolled in a large Midwestern university. The independent variables include both high school academic performance factors and affective factors measured prior to entry. The prediction performances of the multi-outcome and single-outcome models were comparable. The ability to predict cumulative GPA at the end of an engineering

Definition of successful defibrillation

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Koster, Rudolph W.; Walker, Robert G.; van Alem, Anouk P.

2006-01-01

OBJECTIVES: The definition of defibrillation shock "success" endorsed by the International Liaison Committee on Resuscitation since the publication of Guidelines 2000 for Cardiopulmonary Resuscitation and Emergency Cardiac Care has been removal of ventricular fibrillation at 5 secs after shock

Model of key success factors for Business Intelligence implementation

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Peter Mesaros

2016-07-01

Full Text Available New progressive technologies recorded growth in every area. Information-communication technologies facilitate the exchange of information and it facilitates management of everyday activities in enterprises. Specific modules (such as Business Intelligence facilitate decision-making. Several studies have demonstrated the positive impact of Business Intelligence to decision-making. The first step is to put in place the enterprise. The implementation process is influenced by many factors. This article discusses the issue of key success factors affecting to successful implementation of Business Intelligence. The article describes the key success factors for successful implementation and use of Business Intelligence based on multiple studies. The main objective of this study is to verify the effects and dependence of selected factors and proposes a model of key success factors for successful implementation of Business Intelligence. Key success factors and the proposed model are studied in Slovak enterprises.

Successful online learning the five Ps

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Jim FLOOD

2004-01-01

Successful online learning the five Ps Jim FLOOD E-learning Consultant-UK Key learning points An important aspect of design for online learning is visual ergonomics. Learning theories offer poor predictive power in terms of how learners work and learn. Success at learning is closely related to emotional engagementand learning designers tend to ignore this aspect. Online learning poses a challenging experience for learnersand they need support t...

Creating a culture for information systems success

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Belkhamza, Zakariya

2015-01-01

It has been widely reported that issues related to organizational context appear frequently in discussions of information systems success. The statement that the information system did not fit the behavioral context in an organization is often part of the explanation of why particular information system encountered unanticipated resistance and never met expectation. While this context has been intensively studied, we still lack evidence on how this organizational context is affecting the success of information system from a managerial action perspective. This type of managerial involvement is often neglected to the extent that it became an essential obstacle to organizational performance. The objective of Creating a Culture for Information Systems Success is to assist CIOs and IT managers on how to use their managerial actions to create a suitable cultural environment in the organization, which leads to a successful implementation of information systems. This  book will also provide guidelines fo...

Prerequisites for successful nuclear generation in southern Africa

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Semark, P.

1990-01-01

The prerequisites and the requisites for successful nuclear powered electricity generation in southern Africa are explored. There are four elements essential to success, namely, the mission or vision; the appropriate means; the right and sufficient time, and the skilled, committed executor. The ongoing success of nuclear powered electricity generation in South Africa is discussed in the light of these four elements. 2 ills

The relationship between negotiations success and leadership style

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2011-01-01

D.Phil. Both leadership and negotiations constitute key success factors for organisations. Previous studies on leadership suggest that leadership effectiveness differentiates successful organisations from others. Equally, negotiations success constitutes a key distinguishing factor separating developed countries from the developing and the under-developed ones. A perusal of available literature and previous research on leadership and negotiations reveals a historical tendency by writers an...

Galectin-3, osteopontin and successful aging.

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Sanchis-Gomar, Fabian; Santos-Lozano, Alejandro; Pareja-Galeano, Helios; Garatachea, Nuria; Alis, Rafael; Fiuza-Luces, Carmen; Morán, María; Emanuele, Enzo; Lucia, Alejandro

2016-05-01

Individuals who reach exceptional longevity (100+ years of age) free of common chronic age diseases (i.e. 'dodgers') arguably represent the paradigm of successful aging in humans. As such, identification of potential biomarkers associated with this phenomenon is of medical interest. We measured serum levels of galectin-3 and osteopontin, both of which have been shown to be linked with major chronic or aging-related disorders in younger populations, in centenarian 'dodgers' (n=81; 40 men; 100-104 years) and healthy controls (n=41; 24 men, 70-80 years). Both biomarkers showed significantly lower values (p<0.001) in the former (galectin-3: 2.4±1.7 vs. 4.8±2.8 ng/mL; osteopontin: 38.1±27.7 vs. 72.6±33.1 μg/mL). Logistic regression analysis identified the combination of these two biomarkers as a significant predictor variable associated with successful aging regardless of sex (p<0.001). The area under the curve (AUC) classified the ability of galectin-3 and osteopontin to predict the likelihood of successful aging as 'fair' (AUC=0.75) and 'good' (AUC=0.80), respectively. Particularly, the combination of the two biomarkers showed good discriminatory power for successful aging (AUC=0.86), with sensitivity=83% and specificity=74%. Lower levels of both galectin-3 and osteopontin are associated with successful aging, representing potential biomarkers of this condition. Our cross-sectional data must be however approached with caution. Further research is necessary to replicate the present preliminary results in other cohorts and to identify the potential use of galectin-3 and osteopontin as potential targets (or at least predictors) in future personalized anti-aging therapies.

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24 juin 2015 ... dans le cadre de la politique de recrutement de main-d'œuvre initiée .... dans les entreprises de construction qui tentent de promouvoir la culture ...... Le Gabon peut apparaître dans les stratégies migratoires burkinabè comme.

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Alors ? méthode de français fondée sur l'approche des compétences : niveau B1 : CD et DVD inclus

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Di Giura, Marcella

2008-01-01

Une nouvelle méthode qui propose des stratégies spécifiques pour l'acquisition des compétences communicatives, linguistiques et culturelles. Alors ? respecte les échelles de compétences des niveaux A1, A2 et B1 du CECRL.

Analyse complète et systématique des protéines mutantes p53 dans ...

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Une fois l'identification terminée, l'objectif ultime est de cribler des composés qui perturbent ces interactions afin de trouver de nouvelles stratégies thérapeutiques pour traiter les patients qui présentent ces mutations ... Sinai Health System.

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7 mars 2016 ... d'interpeler le personnel soignant sur ses dangers. Il s'est agi .... connaissances sur leurs droits dans la relation médecin malade. Ces patients ... soignant et soigné à travers une bonne stratégie de communication avec les ...

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Expertise technique dans le domaine juridique, en particulier dans l'analyse et la ... devront appuyer des processus de planification stratégique et fonctionnelle et formuler ... l'infrastructure de TI, l'intégration et l'interopérabilité des systèmes, ...

Analysis

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Hvelplund, Frede; Østergaard, Poul; Möller, Bernd

2014-01-01

This chapter introduces the concept of smart energy systems. As opposed to the smart grid concept, which takes focuses solely on the electricity sector, smart energy systems includes the entire energy system in its approach to identifying suitable energy infrastructure designs and operating strat...

Planck 2013 results. VII. HFI time response and beams

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Planck Collaboration,; Ade, P. A. R.; Aghanim, N.

2013-01-01

This paper characterizes the effective beams, the effective beam window functions (EBWF) and the associated errors for the Planck High Frequency Instrument (HFI) detectors. The effective beam is the angular response including the effect of the optics, detectors, data processing and the scan strat...

Cyber Professionals in the Military and Industry-Partnering in Defense of the Nation: A Conversation between Maj Gen Suzanne Vautrinot, Commander, Twenty-Fourth Air Force, and Mr. Charles Beard, Chief Information Officer, Science Applications International Corporation

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2013-01-01

what truly had to be protected and where we would establish trust. The results of that exercise materially changed our defense-in-depth strategy...vice president for Global Transportation and Industrial Markets at KPMG Consulting (later BearingPoint), leading the company’s strat- egy and

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Surgical treatment for obesity: ensuring success.

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Andris, Deborah A

2005-01-01

In the United States, obesity has reached epidemic proportions. Serious medical complications, impaired quality of life, and premature mortality are all associated with obesity. Medical conditions such as type 2 diabetes mellitus, hypertension, hyperlipidemia, or sleep apnea can improve or be cured with weight loss. Medical treatment programs focused on diet, behavior modification, and/or pharmacologic intervention have met with limited long-term success. Although surgical treatments for obesity have become popular in recent years, they should only be used as a last resort for weight loss. Not all patients can be considered appropriate candidates for surgery; therefore, guidelines based on criteria from the National Institutes of Health should be used preoperatively to help identify suitable persons. Most individuals who opt for weight-loss surgery have usually struggled for many years with losing weight and keeping it off, but surgery alone will not ensure successful weight loss. Patient education is imperative for long-term success. Moreover, any such educational regimen should include information on diet, vitamin and mineral supplementation, and lifestyle changes, as well as expected weight-loss results and improvements in comorbid conditions. Patients must be willing to commit to a long-term follow-up program intended to promote successful weight loss and weight maintenance and to prevent metabolic and nutritional complications.

Potential success factors in brand development

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Esbjerg, Lars; Grunert, Klaus G.; Poulsen, Carsten Stig

2005-01-01

to the marketing of the brand." The branding literature mentions many important aspects, factors, issues, brand requirements, steps, building blocks or guidelines for building strong brands. However, these are all quite general and abstract. Given the substantial body of literature on branding, surprisingly few......? This is the question we want to answer. More specifically, we want to identify potential success factors in building strong brands, understood as brands with high consumer-based brand equity. Keller (1993, p. 2) defined customer-based brand equity as "the differential effect of brand knowledge on consumer response...... of this paper is to identify potential success factors in developing strong brands and to test whether these factors can be used to discriminate between strong and weak brands. It does so through a review of the literature for potential success factors. Furthermore, to ensure that important factors have...

Factors favorable to public participation success

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Peelle, E.; Schweitzer, M.; Munro, J.; Carnes, S.; Wolfe, A.

1996-01-01

Categories of factors linked to successful public participation (PP) program outcomes include PP process, organizational context, sociopolitical context, strategic considerations and unique (special circumstances) factors. We re-order the long list factors according to how essential, important, and unique they are and discuss their significance and interrelationships. It is argued that bureacratic structure and operational modes are basically in conflict with features of successful PP programs (openness, two-way education, communication with nonexpert outsiders). If this is so, then it is not surprising that the factors essential for PP success in bureacracies involve extraordinary management efforts by agencies to bypass, compensate for, or overcome structural constraints. We conclude by speculating about the long-term viability of PP practices in the agency setting as well as the consequences for agencies that attempt the problematic task of introducing PP into their complex, mission-oriented organizations

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Peelle, E.; Schweitzer, M.; Munro, J.; Carnes, S.; Wolfe, A.

1996-05-01

Categories of factors linked to successful public participation (PP) program outcomes include PP process, organizational context, sociopolitical context, strategic considerations and unique (special circumstances) factors. We re-order the long list factors according to how essential, important, and unique they are and discuss their significance and interrelationships. It is argued that bureacratic structure and operational modes are basically in conflict with features of successful PP programs (openness, two-way education, communication with nonexpert outsiders). If this is so, then it is not surprising that the factors essential for PP success in bureacracies involve extraordinary management efforts by agencies to bypass, compensate for, or overcome structural constraints. We conclude by speculating about the long-term viability of PP practices in the agency setting as well as the consequences for agencies that attempt the problematic task of introducing PP into their complex, mission-oriented organizations.

Functional roles affect diversity-succession relationships for boreal beetles.

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Full Text Available Species diversity commonly increases with succession and this relationship is an important justification for conserving large areas of old-growth habitats. However, species with different ecological roles respond differently to succession. We examined the relationship between a range of diversity measures and time since disturbance for boreal forest beetles collected over a 285 year forest chronosequence. We compared responses of "functional" groups related to threat status, dependence on dead wood habitats, diet and the type of trap in which they were collected (indicative of the breadth of ecologies of species. We examined fits of commonly used rank-abundance models for each age class and traditional and derived diversity indices. Rank abundance distributions were closest to the Zipf-Mandelbrot distribution, suggesting little role for competition in structuring most assemblages. Diversity measures for most functional groups increased with succession, but differences in slopes were common. Evenness declined with succession; more so for red-listed species than common species. Saproxylic species increased in diversity with succession while non-saproxylic species did not. Slopes for fungivores were steeper than other diet groups, while detritivores were not strongly affected by succession. Species trapped using emergence traps (log specialists responded more weakly to succession than those trapped using flight intercept traps (representing a broader set of ecologies. Species associated with microhabitats that accumulate with succession (fungi and dead wood thus showed the strongest diversity responses to succession. These clear differences between functional group responses to forest succession should be considered in planning landscapes for optimum conservation value, particularly functional resilience.

Strategies for successful software development risk management

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Marija Boban

2003-01-01

Full Text Available Nowadays, software is becoming a major part of enterprise business. Software development is activity connected with advanced technology and high level of knowledge. Risks on software development projects must be successfully mitigated to produce successful software systems. Lack of a defined approach to risk management is one of the common causes for project failures. To improve project chances for success, this work investigates common risk impact areas to perceive a foundation that can be used to define a common approach to software risk management. Based on typical risk impact areas on software development projects, we propose three risk management strategies suitable for a broad area of enterprises and software development projects with different amounts of connected risks. Proposed strategies define activities that should be performed for successful risk management, the one that will enable software development projects to perceive risks as soon as possible and to solve problems connected with risk materialization. We also propose a risk-based approach to software development planning and risk management as attempts to address and retire the highest impact risks as early as possible in the development process. Proposed strategies should improve risk management on software development projects and help create a successful software solution.

Five Strategies of Successful Part-Time Work.

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Corwin, Vivien; Lawrence, Thomas B.; Frost, Peter J.

2001-01-01

Identifies commonalities in the approaches of successful part-time professionals. Discusses five strategies for success: (1) communicating work-life priorities and schedules to the organization; (2) making the business case for part-time arrangements; (3) establishing time management routines; (4) cultivating advocates in senior management; and…

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... while local vegetation structure determines the abundance of locally established populations. The abundance of trees affects nest site availability and breeding success, based on observations at two oases. Blackbird nests were usually situated on pomegranate trees and olive trees. The Common Blackbird is a successful ...

CRITICAL SUCCESS FACTORS FOR INFRASTRUCTURE EUROPEAN FUNDED PROJECTS

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Sebastian-Ion Ceptureanu

2016-07-01

Full Text Available Absorption of European funds is on top of Romania’s public agenda for the last years although the first programming period has ended and the necessary lessons were learned so far. To have a high degree of absorption of funds provided by the EU must be of quality projects and their implementation to be successful. Through this work we aimed to investigate the success factors of infrastructure projects with European funding in Romania, Bulgaria, Moldova, Ukraine, Serbia and Kosovo, and identify critical success factors of these projects through a research surveying the teams of consultants and support personnel from the countries in an international consulting company. The research results are therefore constitute the empirical evidence of what constitutes critical success factors of infrastructure projects financed by the European Union and can be used as a starting point for scientific studies of the management of European projects or other actions that investigates measures that can be taken to improve the success rate of projects implemented in the area mentioned above.One of the contributions of this paper is to identify the critical success factors of success factors present in literature. With more so as they are critical success factors of infrastructure projects with European funding still required field studies and analysis performed in the present context. In addition, the critical factors were operationalized in a conceptual framework. Moreover, this framework includes leadership style of project manager as critical success factor has been identified in the research as the most important in the context in which it was conducted. As such, this paper demonstrates, with the necessary limitations, the importance of management style of project managers in the context of specific European funded infrastructure projects. And this is happening even though there are sophisticated project management tools availabe and relevant knowledge exists

Understory succession in post-agricultural oak plantations

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Brunet, Jörg; Valtinat, Karin; Mayr, Marian Lajos

2011-01-01

The herbaceous understory forms the richest stratum in temperate broadleaved forests in terms of plant diversity. Understanding the process of understory succession is thus of critical importance for the development of management guidelines for biodiversity restoration in post-agricultural planta......The herbaceous understory forms the richest stratum in temperate broadleaved forests in terms of plant diversity. Understanding the process of understory succession is thus of critical importance for the development of management guidelines for biodiversity restoration in post...... forested stands, which maintained differences in species composition. The development of a shrub layer seemed to imply a competitive advantage for forest specialists compared to generalist species. For successful recovery of a rich understory, we suggest that post-arable plantations should be established......, and woody species. The group of forest specialists may approach the richness of continuously forested sites after 60-80 years in non-fragmented plantations, but many forest species were sensitive to habitat fragmentation. Open-land species richness decreased during succession, while the richness of woody...

Mechanisms of herbaceous vegetation restoration successions

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Pankratova, Lubov

2017-04-01

The vegetation dynamics study is an important sector of research in phytocenology. The changing vegetation mechanisms' studying with the purpose of forecasting and management processes is an urgent theoretical and practical task. We consider succession as successive series of composition changes and phytocenoses structure caused by internal reasons and external ones. In this case, we are dealing with natural, secondary and progressive successions. The rapid sequential change of associations aimed at restoring coenotic environment and not resulting in ecogenesis stage changes is called demattia. Fully restored coenotic environment corresponds to vegetation sublimation. The way to this most stable state goes via a number of derived associations, each of them can be seen as long phytocenotic sustainable phenomenon, but different in time. The ability of living beings to reproduce in one way or another, their spreading, filling the space and confrontation to adverse conditions presents an important preservation mechanism and biodiversity increase, as well as its sustainability. The bio-diversity indicator is very significant for stability maintainment and phytocenosis estimation. Succession mechanisms classification provides three categories of relationships between organisms in the successional series: model relief or stimulation corresponds to the phase of endoecological succession which means that early settlers in their activities change the environment, making it available for the next wave of colonists. The model of tolerance manifests itself in the form of competitive relationships, resulting in selection of more competitive species with a pronounced feature S. According to the inhibition model, all types of community are able to colonize open spaces, they are resistant to competitors invasion, but the later species are able to inhabit and increase their number only after the loss of any of the predecessors. The predecessors change environment settings making it

Institutionalisation de la géographie et rapports sociaux de genre : stratégies féminines et masculines dans l’université espagnole Institutionalisation of geography and gender relations : strategies of women and men in Spanish universities

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Maria Dolors Garcia Ramon

2012-12-01

Full Text Available Des processus de néo-libéralisation s’installent au sein du monde universitaire avec la présence grandissante de logiques compétitives et de marché, de procédures d’audits et des requis de responsabilité/imputabilité et avec le remplacement de fonds publics par des fonds privés. Ces processus ont un impact important sur les perceptions et pratiques relatives à la carrière professionnelle des femmes géographes au sein des départements espagnols de géographie, un espace de plus en plus compétitif et masculin. L’article prête une attention particulière aux stratégies et pratiques des femmes en ce qui concerne la conciliation vie professionnelle/vie familiale, ainsi qu’à l’accès aux promotions et au pouvoir. Néanmoins, nous nous intéressons aussi au vécu des hommes dans le monde académique pour ébaucher une comparaison entre les carrières professionnelles masculines et féminines. La recherche est basée sur l’analyse qualitative, notamment des interviews en profondeur.The ongoing processes of neoliberalisation in universities entail an increase of competition based on the logic of markets, the introduction of managerial procedures of assessment and requirements of accountability alongside with the substitution of private for public funding. These processes have a deep impact on the perceptions and practices related to the professional career of women geographers in Geography departments in Spain, an increasingly competitive and masculine space. The article pays particular attention to the strategies and practices of women with regard to the conciliation of professional and family life as well as to their promotion and to access to power positions. Attention is also paid to the experience of men in the same context in order to sketch a comparison of men and women’s careers. The research is based on a qualitative analysis mainly of in-depth interviews.

Predicting Commissary Store Success

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2014-12-01

stores or if it is possible to predict that success. Multiple studies of private commercial grocery consumer preferences , habits and demographics have...appropriate number of competitors due to the nature of international cultures and consumer preferences . 2. Missing Data Four of the remaining stores

Beyond Success and Failure

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Etalle, Sandro; Jaffar, Joxan; van Raamsdonk, Femke

We study a new programming framework based on logic programming where success and failure are replaced by predicates for adequacy and inadequacy. Adequacy allows to extract a result from a partial computation, and inadequacy allows to flexibly constrain the search space. In this parameterized

Characteristics of Successful Entrepreneurs.

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McClelland, David C.

1987-01-01

Comparison of characteristics of 12 average and 12 superior small business people in three developing nations (India, Malawi, and Ecuador) found proactive qualities such as initiative and assertiveness, achievement orientation, and commitment to others characteristic of successful entrepreneurs. Other expected qualities (self-confidence,…

Intubation Success in Critical Care Transport: A Multicenter Study.

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Reichert, Ryan J; Gothard, Megan; Gothard, M David; Schwartz, Hamilton P; Bigham, Michael T

2018-02-21

Tracheal intubation (TI) is a lifesaving critical care skill. Failed TI attempts, however, can harm patients. Critical care transport (CCT) teams function as the first point of critical care contact for patients being transported to tertiary medical centers for specialized surgical, medical, and trauma care. The Ground and Air Medical qUality in Transport (GAMUT) Quality Improvement Collaborative uses a quality metric database to track CCT quality metric performance, including TI. We sought to describe TI among GAMUT participants with the hypothesis that CCT would perform better than other prehospital TI reports and similarly to hospital TI success. The GAMUT Database is a global, voluntary database for tracking consensus quality metric performance among CCT programs performing neonatal, pediatric, and adult transports. The TI-specific quality metrics are "first attempt TI success" and "definitive airway sans hypoxia/hypotension on first attempt (DASH-1A)." The 2015 GAMUT Database was queried and analysis included patient age, program type, and intubation success rate. Analysis included simple statistics and Pearson chi-square with Bonferroni-adjusted post hoc z tests (significance = p success was lowest in neonates (59.3%, 617 attempts), better in pediatrics (81.7%, 519 attempts), and best in adults (87%, 2900 attempts), p success versus pediatric- and neonatal-focused teams (86.9% vs. 63.5%, p success (86.5% vs. 75.3%, p success are higher in adult patients and adult-focused CCT teams. TI success rates are higher in CCT than other prehospital settings, but lower than in-hospital success TI rates. Identifying factors influencing TI success among high performers should influence best practice strategies for TI.

Subintimal angioplasty: predictors of long-term success.

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Keeling, Aoife N

2009-08-01

To determine the clinical outcomes and success rates after percutaneous subintimal angioplasty (SIA) in patients with lower-limb occlusive lesions causing intermittent claudication (IC) or critical limb ischemia (CLI) at midterm to long-term follow-up. The secondary aim was to elicit factors predictive of a successful outcome.

Factors predicting labor induction success: a critical analysis.

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Crane, Joan M G

2006-09-01

Because of the risk of failed induction of labor, a variety of maternal and fetal factors as well as screening tests have been suggested to predict labor induction success. Certain characteristics of the woman (including parity, age, weight, height and body mass index), and of the fetus (including birth weight and gestational age) are associated with the success of labor induction; with parous, young women who are taller and lower weight having a higher rate of induction success. Fetuses with a lower birth weight or increased gestational age are also associated with increased induction success. The condition of the cervix at the start of induction is an important predictor, with the modified Bishop score being a widely used scoring system. The most important element of the Bishop score is dilatation. Other predictors, including transvaginal ultrasound (TVUS) and biochemical markers [including fetal fibronectin (fFN)] have been suggested. Meta-analyses of studies identified from MEDLINE, PubMed, and EMBASE and published from 1990 to October 2005 were performed evaluating the use of TVUS and fFN in predicting labor induction success in women at term with singleton gestations. Both TVUS and Bishop score predicted successful induction [likelihood ratio (LR)=1.82, 95% confidence interval (CI)=1.51-2.20 and LR=2.10, 95%CI=1.67-2.64, respectively]. As well, fFN and Bishop score predicted successful induction (LR=1.49, 95%CI=1.20-1.85, and LR=2.62, 95%CI=1.88-3.64, respectively). Although TVUS and fFN predicted successful labor induction, neither has been shown to be superior to Bishop score. Further research is needed to evaluate these potential predictors and insulin-like growth factor binding protein-1 (IGFBP-1), another potential biochemical marker.

Demystifying the institutional repository for success

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Buehler, Marianne

2013-01-01

Institutional repositories remain key to data storage on campus, fulfilling the academic needs of various stakeholders. Demystifying the Institutional Repository for Success is a practical guide to creating and sustaining an institutional repository through marketing, partnering, and understanding the academic needs of all stakeholders on campus. This title is divided into seven chapters, covering: traditional scholarly communication and open access publishing; the academic shift towards open access; what the successful institutional repository looks like; institutional repository collaboratio

Distribution épidémiologique de l'infection à VIH chez les femmes enceintes dans les dix régions du Cameroun et implications stratégiques pour les programmes de prévention

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Billong, Serge-Clotaire; Fokam, Joseph; Billong, Edson-Joan; Nguefack-Tsague, Georges; Essi, Marie-Josée; Fodjo, Raoul; Sosso, Samuel-Martin; Gomba, Armelle; Mosoko-Jembia, Joseph; Loni-Ekali, Gabriel; Colizzi, Vittorio; Bissek, Anne-Cécile Zoung-Kani; Monebenimp, Francisca; Nfetam, Jean-Bosco Elat

2015-01-01

Introduction Le Cameroun se situe dans un contexte d’épidémie généralisée du VIH. La sous-population des femmes enceintes, facilement accessible au sein de la population générale, représente une cible probante pour mener la surveillance du VIH et estimer l’évolution épidémiologique. L'objectif de notre étude était d’évaluer la distribution épidémiologique du VIH chez les femmes enceintes. Méthodes Étude transversale menée en 2012 chez 6521 femmes enceintes (49,3% âgées de 15-24 ans) en première consultation prénatale (CPN1) dans 60 sites des 10 régions Camerounaises. L'algorithme en série a été utilisé pour le sérodiagnostic du VIH. Résultats La prévalence du VIH était de 7,8% (508/6521), avec une différence non significative (p = 0,297) entre milieu rural (7,4%) et milieu urbain (8,1%). En zone rurale, cette prévalence variait de 0,7% à l'Extrême-Nord à 11,8% au Sud. Cependant, en zone urbaine elle variait de 4% à l'Ouest à 11,1% au Sud-Ouest. Suivant l’âge, la prévalence était plus élevée (11,3%) chez les femmes de 35-39 ans. Suivant le niveau de scolarisation, la prévalence du VIH était plus faible (4,4%) chez celles non-scolarisées, et plus élevée (9,3%) chez celles ayant un niveau primaire. Selon la profession, l'infection était plus élevée chez les coiffeuses (15,5%), secrétaires (14,8%), commerçantes (12,9%) et institutrices/enseignantes (10,8%). Conclusion La prévalence du VIH reste élevée chez les femmes enceintes au Cameroun, sans distinction entre milieux rural et urbain. Les stratégies de prévention devraient s'orienter préférentiellement chez les femmes enceintes âgées, celles du niveau d'instruction primaire, et celles du secteur des petites et moyennes entreprises. PMID:26090037

Keys to the success of the CB Conquero

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C. Fernández-Espínola

2016-12-01

Full Text Available When a team gets sport successes to level profesional, generates the topics that will be investigated such as the key factors of the succes. The main aim of this study is to analyze the influencie of different factors like the sports context, the social context and training aspects in the success of the Club Baloncesto Conquero through direct perception of thirteen informants associated with the team and the basketball in Huelva. An interview was carried out, related with those factors and the keys to success. The results revealed that workforce planning along the great work of coaching staff, medical staff and physical trainer have been key to the team gets sport successes.

SUPERCOLLIDER: String test success

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Anon.

1992-01-01

On 14 August at the Superconducting Supercollider (SSC) Laboratory in Ellis County, Texas, the Accelerator Systems String Test (ASST) successfully met its objective by operating a half-cell of five collider dipole magnets, one quadrupole magnet, and two spool pieces at the design current of 6500 amperes

Circuit with a successive approximation analog to digital converter

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Louwsma, S.M.; Vertregt, Maarten

2011-01-01

During successive approximation analog to digital conversion a series of successive digital reference values is selected that converges towards a digital representation of an analog input signal. An analog reference signal is generated dependent on the successive digital reference values and

Circuit with a successive approximation analog to digital converter

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Louwsma, S.M.; Vertregt, Maarten

2010-01-01

During successive approximation analog to digital conversion a series of successive digital reference values is selected that converges towards a digital representation of an analog input signal. An analog reference signal is generated dependent on the successive digital reference values and

Association of postoperative nausea/vomiting and pain with breastfeeding success

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Ramon Abola

2017-11-01

Full Text Available Abstract Background Successful breastfeeding is a goal set forth by the World Health Organization to improve neonatal care. Increasingly, patients express the desire to breastfeed, and clinicians should facilitate successful breastfeeding. The primary aim of this study is to determine if postoperative nausea and vomiting (PONV or postoperative pain are associated with decreased breastfeeding success after cesarean delivery. Methods This is a historical cohort study using the Stony Brook Elective Cesarean Delivery Database. Self-reported breastfeeding success at 4 weeks postoperative was analyzed for associations with postoperative antiemetic use and postoperative pain scores. Breastfeeding success was also analyzed for associations with patient factors and anesthetic medications. Results Overall, 86% of patients (n = 81 who intended on breastfeeding reported breastfeeding success. Breastfeeding success was not associated with postoperative nausea or vomiting as measured by post anesthesia care unit antiemetic use (15% use in successful vs. 18% use in unsuccessful, p = 0.67 or 48-h antiemetic use (28% use in successful group vs 36% use in unsuccessful group, p = 0.732. Pain visual analog scale scores at 6, 12 and 24 h postoperatively were not significantly different between patients with or without breastfeeding success. Breastfeeding success was associated with having had at least 1 previous child (86% vs 36%, p < 0.001. Patients with asthma were less likely to have breastfeeding success (45% vs 4%, p = 0.002. Conclusions Efforts to improve PONV and pain after cesarean delivery may not be effective in improving breastfeeding success. To possibly improve breastfeeding rates, resources should be directed toward patients with no previous children and patients with asthma.

Marketingová stratégia firmy 7Camicie

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Gerliciová, Lucia

2015-01-01

The aim of this bachelor thesis is to determine an actual strategic situation of an Italian franchise 7Camicie in Czech Republic, using SWOT analysis and marketing and communication strategy analysis of the company consecutively. By the complex analysis of a typical target customer and a sales analysis of chosen stores 7Camicie in Prague formulate suggestions to adjust an actual marketing and communication strategy, and so create projections for better achievement retail results and fulfillin...

Taxes et tabac : une stratégie gagnante

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Les deux tiers des dépenses totales du gouvernement jamaïcain sont donc consacrés au service de la dette étrangère. Aussi voulait-il être bien sûr que la hausse des taxes sur le tabac n'allait pas nuire davantage à l'économie. L'idée : une recherche rigoureuse est le meilleur fondement de politiques publiques efficaces.

MethylMeter(®): bisulfite-free quantitative and sensitive DNA methylation profiling and mutation detection in FFPE samples.

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McCarthy, David; Pulverer, Walter; Weinhaeusel, Andreas; Diago, Oscar R; Hogan, Daniel J; Ostertag, Derek; Hanna, Michelle M

2016-06-01

Development of a sensitive method for DNA methylation profiling and associated mutation detection in clinical samples. Formalin-fixed and paraffin-embedded tumors received by clinical laboratories often contain insufficient DNA for analysis with bisulfite or methylation sensitive restriction enzymes-based methods. To increase sensitivity, methyl-CpG DNA capture and Coupled Abscription PCR Signaling detection were combined in a new assay, MethylMeter(®). Gliomas were analyzed for MGMT methylation, glioma CpG island methylator phenotype and IDH1 R132H. MethylMeter had 100% assay success rate measuring all five biomarkers in formalin-fixed and paraffin-embedded tissue. MGMT methylation results were supported by survival and mRNA expression data. MethylMeter is a sensitive and quantitative method for multitarget DNA methylation profiling and associated mutation detection. The MethylMeter-based GliomaSTRAT assay measures methylation of four targets and one mutation to simultaneously grade gliomas and predict their response to temozolomide. This information is clinically valuable in management of gliomas.

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Les opérations de croissance externe ayant une portée stratégique sont celles qui s'inscrivent dans une .... localisées dans des lieux différents, la politique de rationalisation est souvent ..... (recrutement de personnel, achat d'une machine, etc.) ...

Le Développement face à la Pauvreté: Réseau analyse économique ...

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Les difficultés à promouvoir cette nouvelle et ambitieuse politique ne sont pas minces. La stratégie va incontestablement dans le sens d'un dépassement du ...... Les ONGse chargent du recrutement à la fois des bénéficiaires et des formateurs;.

Fonctionnement et gestion de la médecine scolaire au Cameroun ...

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1 mars 2006 ... d'analyser l'évolution de la politique de santé en milieu scolaire au Cameroun .... Le recrutement se faisait exclusivement par le gouvernement .... de 1978, basée sur la stratégie des soins de santé primaires, la déclaration.

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9 juil. 2015 ... stratégique de la gestion des ressources hospitalières. Hermès ... soins et les décideurs politiques s'aperçoivent que les objectifs du millénium pour le ..... un mauvais recrutement des syndicalistes, la faible collaboration du.

Depuis les résultats obtenus sur le terrain jusqu'à l'amélioration ...

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Au cours des dernières années, le contexte politique et économique dans lequel ... accru de la part de leur personnel et le recrutement de personnes possédant de ... de susciter des changements sociaux positifs de manière plus stratégique.

Analyse des variables cachées influant sur les difficultés et ...

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1 mars 2012 ... il peut s'agir aussi d'une politique organisationnelle qui incite les employés et les .... une importance stratégique face aux aspirations à long terme des .... le plus important pour assurer la réussite d'un PPP consiste à recruter.

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aussi une stratégie pour rendre spécifique et compétitive la formation et l' ... universitaire africain est consommateur des résultats de recherches entreprises ailleurs. Ceci ... assurés si l'université ne dispose pas d'une politique de recrutement ...

Efficacité des néonicotinoïdes et des pyréthrinoïdes utilisés contre le ...

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Efficacité des néonicotinoïdes et des pyréthrinoïdes utilisés contre le foreur des tiges du cacaoyer ( Eulophonotus myrmeleon Felder : Lepidoptera, Cossidae). Implications dans la stratégie de protection de la cacaoculture en Côte d'Ivoire.

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6 juin 2016 ... reconstructif essentiel pour relever le défi du suivi des avancées stratégiques de préservation ... 2.1 L'évaluation des incidences environnementales .... énergies renouvelables (hydroélectrique, nucléaire, éolienne) (fig. 7-9).

En quoi l'excellence en recherche importe-t-elle ? | CRDI - Centre ...

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30 nov. 2016 ... En encourageant le questionnement et le débat, en procurant aux citoyens de ... stratégique visant à examiner et à mettre en application des outils et des ... Instrument (PDF en anglais, 494 Ko) | Lire le résumé (PDF, 371 Ko).

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4 nov. 2010 ... A global vision for small business in Egypt. Once overlooked and undervalued, small-scale businesses are now front and centre as Egypt takes bold steps to transform its economy, with the strat. View moreA global vision for small business in Egypt ...

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Méthémoglobinémie, Stratégies d'adaptation, Mayo Tsanaga. Wilson Y. Fantong1*, Alain F. Takounjou1, Emilia Bi. Fantong2, Hycinth S. Banseka3, Cletus D. Gwanfogbe4, Samuel. N. Ayonghe5, and Gregory .Z. Tanyileke1. 1 Institute of Geological ...

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Inde en matière de santé de 2015 au India International Centre, à New Delhi. ... Il a affirmé que la méthode stratégique « que savons-nous ? que ne savons-nous pas ? que pouvons-nous faire pour changer la situation ?

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Organisation. Mondiale de la Santé (OMS), 30% de la population mondiale (1,5 milliard d'individus) étaient exposés à un risque de carence en iode. (Delange, 2001). L'OMS a donc recommandé l'iodation universelle du sel comme stratégie.

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Résultats de recherche | Page 47 | CRDI - Centre de recherches ...

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Promotion de la recherche de développement : les orientations stratégiques du CRDI. Published date. 1 janvier 2006. Études. -. Usage et état de la recherche sur les TICE au Maroc : état des lieux et perspectives. Published date. 1 janvier 2006. Études.

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Shifting Cultivation : Promoting Innovative Policy and Development Options in the Eastern Himalayas. Shifting ... pressure and market forces. The idea is to share good policies and practices related to shifting cultivation and alternative options through regional exchange. ... Les chaînes de valeur comme leviers stratégiques.

Rock Sparrow Song Reflects Male Age and Reproductive Success

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Nemeth, Erwin; Kempenaers, Bart; Matessi, Giuliano

2012-01-01

The evolution of mating signals is closely linked to sexual selection. Acoustic ornaments are often used as secondary sexual traits that signal the quality of the signaller. Here we show that song performance reflects age and reproductive success in the rock sparrow (Petronia petronia...... nests. Older males could be distinguished from yearlings by singing at lower rate and higher amplitudes. Our findings suggest that song rate may be used as a signal of age and together with song pitch as a signal of reproductive success in this species. Alternatively, younger and less successful males...... success. Males with higher breeding success sang at a lower rate and with a higher maximum frequency. We found also that older males gained more extra-pair young and had a higher overall breeding success, although they also differed almost significantly by having a higher loss of paternity in their own...

Practitioner and scientist perceptions of successful amphibian conservation.

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Meredith, Helen M R; St John, Freya A V; Collen, Ben; Black, Simon A; Griffiths, Richard A

2018-04-01

Conservation requires successful outcomes. However, success is perceived in many different ways depending on the desired outcome. Through a questionnaire survey, we examined perceptions of success among 355 scientists and practitioners working on amphibian conservation from over 150 organizations in more than 50 countries. We also sought to identify how different types of conservation actions and respondent experience and background influenced perceptions. Respondents identified 4 types of success: species and habitat improvements (84% of respondents); effective program management (36%); outreach initiatives such as education and public engagement (25%); and the application of science-based conservation (15%). The most significant factor influencing overall perceived success was reducing threats. Capacity building was rated least important. Perceptions were influenced by experience, professional affiliation, involvement in conservation practice, and country of residence. More experienced practitioners associated success with improvements to species and habitats and less so with education and engagement initiatives. Although science-based conservation was rated as important, this factor declined in importance as the number of programs a respondent participated in increased, particularly among those from less economically developed countries. The ultimate measure of conservation success-population recovery-may be difficult to measure in many amphibians; difficult to relate to the conservation actions intended to drive it; and difficult to achieve within conventional funding time frames. The relaunched Amphibian Conservation Action Plan provides a framework for capturing lower level processes and outcomes, identifying gaps, and measuring progress. © 2017 The Authors. Conservation Biology published by Wiley Periodicals, Inc. on behalf of Society for Conservation Biology.

Build an Early Foundation for Algebra Success

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Knuth, Eric; Stephens, Ana; Blanton, Maria; Gardiner, Angela

2016-01-01

Research tells us that success in algebra is a factor in many other important student outcomes. Emerging research also suggests that students who are started on an algebra curriculum in the earlier grades may have greater success in the subject in secondary school. What's needed is a consistent, algebra-infused mathematics curriculum all…

The Professional Success of Higher Education Graduates

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Schomburg, Harald

2007-01-01

Measures of professional success provided by surveys on higher education graduates can be divided into objective (e.g. income or professional position) and subjective (e.g. job satisfaction, reported use of knowledge and skills, work autonomy) indicators. In this article a broad range of measures of professional success is used to describe aspects…

Critical Success Factors in Online Language Learning

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2011-01-01

With the proliferation of online courses nowadays, it is necessary to ask what defines the success of teaching and learning in these new learning environments exactly. This paper identifies and critically discusses a number of factors for successful implementation of online delivery, particularly as far as online language learning is concerned.…

Information technology boosts contractor's economic success

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1995-01-01

This article will discuss the advantages of Information Technology (IT) and how one drilling contractor, Global Marine, has applied this technology. The company has applied it in an efficient manner which has provided business benefits and cost reductions that have helped its operations be more successful. The following are the different aspects of information technology that led to the contractor's success: cost reduction measures; migration to a client/server IT infrastructure; IT business benefits; and keys to obtaining business benefits from IT

Mindfulness and Student Success

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Leland, Matt

2015-01-01

Mindfulness has long been practiced in Eastern spiritual traditions for personal improvement, and educators and educational institutions have recently begun to explore its usefulness in schools. Mindfulness training can be valuable for helping students be more successful learners and more connected members of an educational community. To determine…

DETERMINATION OF SOCIAL ECONOMIC AND ENVIRONMENTAL SUCCESS OF PRODUCTS:

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2013-06-01

Full Text Available An Empirical Investigation on the Turkish Food Industry Altough there are studies which evaulate and explain the importance of environmental, social and economic success of a product, it is important to evaluate the considerable success of these three variables together. This paper aims to evaluate economic, social and environmental success of a product all together (but not seperatly by conducting a research.  In this paper for some sample firms operating in the Turkish Food Industry, the variables, which effect the products’ economic, social and enviromental successes, are defined theoretically and the research results are explained investigating if there is a relationship between enviromental, social, economic success criteria and firm size, export, import use of intermediary.

Effects of Risk Management Practices on IT Project Success

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Pimchangthong Daranee

2017-03-01

Full Text Available Successful management of an information technology (IT project is the most desirable for all organisations and stakeholders. Many researchers elaborated that risk management is a key part of project management for any project size. Risk management is so critical because it provides project managers with a forward-looking view of both threats and opportunities to improve the project success. The objectives of this research are to explore organisational factors affecting IT project success and risk management practices influencing IT project success. Risk management practices include risk identification, risk analysis, risk response planning, and risk monitoring and control. The IT project success is measured by process performance and product performance. Data are collected from 200 project managers, IT managers, and IT analysts in IT firms through questionnaires and analysed using Independent Sample t-test, One-way ANOVA, and Multiple Linear Regression at the statistical significance level of 0.05. The results show that the differences in organisational types affect IT project success in all aspects, while the differences on organisational sizes affect IT project success in the aspect of product performance and total aspects. Risk identification and risk response planning influence the process performance and the total aspects of IT project success. Risk identification has the highest positive influence on product performance, followed closely by risk response, while risk analysis negatively influences product performance.

Is There Successful Aging for Nonagenarians? The Vitality 90+ Study

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Lily Nosraty

2012-01-01

Full Text Available Objectives. This study was designed (1 to estimate the prevalence of successful aging among nonagenarians based on six different models and (2 to investigate whether successful aging is associated with socio-demographic factors. Methods. A mailed survey was conducted with people aged 90+ in Tampere in 2010. Responses were received from 1283 people. The prevalence of successful aging was measured by six multidimensional models including physical, social, and psychological components. Age, sex, marital status, level of education, and place of living were studied as factors associated with successful aging. Results. The prevalence of successful aging varied from 1.6% to 18.3% depending on the model applied. Successful aging was more prevalent in men, and also more prevalent among community-living people. In most models, successful aging was also associated with younger age, being married, and a higher level of education. Discussion. Models which emphasize the absence of disease and activity as criteria for successful aging may not be the most relevant and applicable in oldest old. Instead, preference should be given to models that focus more on autonomy, adaptation and sense of purpose. Age-sensitive approaches would help us better understand the potential of successful aging among individuals who already have success in longevity.

Institutionalization and Organizational Long-term Success

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2007-05-01

Full Text Available Institutionalization processes have an ambivalent effect on organizational long-term success. Even though they foster organizational stability and permanence, they also bring about rigidity and resistance to change. As a result, successful organizations are likely to lose their competitive advantage over time. The paper addresses this issue through the investigation of the institutionalization processes of two long-lived companies: General Electric, a firm that has been a long-term success and its rival, Westinghouse, which was broken up after eleven decades of existence. The longitudinal, multilevel analysis of firms and industry has identified two different modes of organizational institutionalization. The reactive mode gives rise to rigidity and change resistance, much like institutional theory predicts; the proactive mode, on the other hand, neutralizes those negative effects of institutionalization processes. In the reactive mode, structure predominates. In the proactive mode, agency plays a major role in organizational institutionalization, and in managing the organization’s relations with the environment, clearly contributing to environmental institutionalization.

COMMUNICATING SUCCESSFULLY WHEN MANAGING MULTICULTURAL TEAMS

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Alexandra IOANID

2014-11-01

Full Text Available Day by day globalization covers new areas of life and calls for continuous learning and adjusting to new cultural dimensions. Managers are expected to display adaptation to new ways of working, cultural sensitivity, cultural intelligence and to posses multicultural competencies communication skills. Understanding the impact of cultural diversity on the communication within the organization is essential for the success of a company. Especially in multinational companies, when departments working on the same projects are located in different countries, the managers rely more and more on cultural- specific country characteristics in order to chose the best negotiation and communication techniques. The aim of this paper is to show how the country specific cultural characteristics impact on the success or failure of a business and the organizations’ challenge with preparing managers for success in international business environment. The paper is based on literature review and on authors’ experience in managing multicultural project teams, in international environment.

Love Influences Reproductive Success in Humans

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Sorokowski, Piotr; Sorokowska, Agnieszka; Butovskaya, Marina; Karwowski, Maciej; Groyecka, Agata; Wojciszke, Bogdan; Pawłowski, Bogusław

2017-01-01

As love seems to be universal, researchers have attempted to find its biological basis. However, no studies till date have shown its direct association with reproductive success, which is broadly known to be a good measure of fitness. Here, we show links between love, as defined by the Sternberg Triangular Theory of Love, and reproductive success among the Hadza—traditional hunter-gatherer population. We found that commitment and reproductive success were positively and consistently related in both sexes, with number of children showing negative and positive associations with intimacy and passion, respectively, only among women. Our study may shed new light on the meaning of love in humans' evolutionary past, especially in traditional hunter-gatherer societies in which individuals, not their parents, were responsible for partner choice. We suggest that passion and commitment may be the key factors that increase fitness, and therefore, that selection promoted love in human evolution. However, further studies in this area are recommended. PMID:29209243

Pathways to Success for Michigan's Opportunity Youth

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2015-01-01

Each young person must navigate his/her own pathway into and through postsecondary education and the workforce to long-term success personalized to his/her own unique needs and desires. The pathway to long-term success is often articulated as a straight road through K-12 education into postsecondary education (either academic or technical…

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... DEPARTMENT OF HOUSING AND URBAN DEVELOPMENT [FR-5550-D-10] Order of Succession for HUD Region VII... Offices (Region VII). This Order of Succession supersedes all previous Orders of Succession for HUD Region...). This publication supersedes all previous Orders of Succession for Region VII. Accordingly, the...

An investigation of the impact of succession planning on the success of small and medium-sized family businesses / Hilton Edwin Nell

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Nell, Hilton Edwin

2014-01-01

The objective of this study is to assess the role that succession planning plays in family businesses in the Sedibeng region of the Gauteng province in South Africa. According to Netsiande (2008:1) family businesses should anticipate, recognise, understand and work pro-actively on issues, learn from other businesses and find their own unique solution.to ensure sustainability. Management succession and succession planning is very important and it has a significant impact on family member...

Successfully Adapting to Change.

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Baird, James R.

1989-01-01

Describes methods used to successfully adapt to reductions in budget allocations in the University of Utah's Instructional Media Services Department. Three main areas of concern are addressed: morale and staff development; adapting to change in the areas of funding, control, media priorities, and technology; and planning for the future. (LRW)

Successful introduction of innovation

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Schoots, K.; Jeeninga, H.

2008-01-01

The introduction of new technology sometimes proceeds sluggishly due to discontinuity in incentive schemes. Estimating in advance which means are required, what a realistic time span is for the incentive scheme and continuing this scheme until the technology is marketable can significantly increase the success of innovation trajectories. [mk] [nl

Succession Planning and Financial Performance: Does Competition Matter?

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Patidar, Nitish; Gupta, Shivani; Azbik, Ginger; Weech-Maldonado, Robert

2016-01-01

Succession planning has been defined as the process by which one or more successors are identified for key positions, development activities are planned for identified successors, or both. Limited research exists pertaining to the relationship between hospital succession planning and financial performance, particularly in the context of market competition. We used the resource-based view framework to analyze the differential effect of succession planning on hospitals' financial performance based on market competition. According to RBV, organizations can achieve higher performance by using their superior resources and capabilities. We used a panel design consisting of a national sample of hospitals in the United States for 2006-2010. We analyzed data using multivariate linear regression with facility random effects and year and state fixed effects. The sample included 22,717 hospital-year observations; more than one half of the hospitals (55.4%) had a succession planning program. The study found a positive relationship between the presence of succession planning and financial performance (β = 1.41, p planning programs on the basis of competition in their market.

Perspectives on projects, project success and team work

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Thompson, Karen

2015-01-01

This paper brings together perspectives on projects, project success and team work as a background to two graphical tools for considering project success and individual capabilities for working in a project team.

Radiographic examination for successful dental implant

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Lee, Sam Sun; Choi, Soon Chul

2005-01-01

Recently implant has become an important field in dental clinic. Radiographic examination of pre- and post-operation is essential for successful treatment. Clinicians should have knowledge about the purpose of the radiographic examination, suitable imaging modality for the cases, anatomic landmarks of tooth and jaw bone, advantage and limitation of panoramic radiographic examination for implant, principle and interpretation of cross-sectional imaging, bone mineral density, post-operative radiographic examination. This paper will be helpful to get above information for dentists who want to do dental implant successfully.

European Success Stories in Industrial Mathematics

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Esteban, Maria J; Lery, Thibaut; Maday, Yvon

2011-01-01

This unique book presents real world success stories of collaboration between mathematicians and industrial partners, showcasing first-hand case studies, and lessons learned from the experiences, technologies, and business challenges that led to the successful development of industrial solutions based on mathematics. It shows the crucial contribution of mathematics to innovation and to the industrial creation of value, and the key position of mathematics in the handling of complex systems, amplifying innovation. Each story describes the challenge that led to the industrial cooperation, how the

Assessing eGovernment Systems Success: A Validation of the DeLone and McLean Model of Information Systems Success

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Wang, Yi-Shun; Liao, Yi-Wen

2008-01-01

With the proliferation of the Internet and World Wide Web applications, people are increasingly interacting with government to citizen (G2C) eGovernment systems. It is therefore important to measure the success of G2C eGovernment systems from the citizen's perspective. While general information systems (IS) success models have received much…

Factors Driving Learner Success in Online Professional Development

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Phu Vu

2014-07-01

Full Text Available This study examined factors that contributed to the success of online learners in an online professional development course. Research instruments included an online survey and learners’ activity logs in an online professional development course for 512 in-service teachers. The findings showed that there were several factors affecting online learners’ success in online professional development. In addition, there were also significant differences between successful and unsuccessful online learners in terms of course login frequency and learning activities viewed.