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Showing 1 to 20 of 64 for “"Functional Areas"”.
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Cortical Cartography: Mapping Functional Areas Across the Human Brain with Resting State Functional Connectivity MRI
… systems of multiple interconnected “functional areas”. Each functional area possesses a unique combination of inputs, outputs, and internal structure, and is thought to make a distinct contribution to information processing. Thus, the study of each area's normal function, …
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Reintermediation or disintermediation? : the impact of e-commerce on commercial real estate brokerage
… is to evaluate the impact of e-commerce on the functional areas of commercial real estate (CRE) brokerage. Our selected functional areas include: database, search engine (sort/match), tour guide, analysis, negotiation, and documentation & closing. The Introduction and Chapter 1 provide an …
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Middening in the Outer Hebrides : an ethnoarchaeological investigation.
… interview, and surviving farmers can identify functional areas on abandoned farmsteads. Interviews and published sources emphasise the importance of recycling in maintaining the fertility of cultivated blacklands and peatlands and in enhancing the fertility, stability and water-retentiveness of …
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The Effects of Pricing on the Sales Force and the Firm: A Strategic View
<p>Previous research has examined the dysfunctional relationships often encountered between marketing and sales, and the importance of cooperation and coordination between these two functional areas. But no prior studies have investigated the consequences of misaligned pricing and sales force …
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The adoption of electronic data interchange among small to medium enterprise suppliers to a large distribution center in South Africa
… technology has been instrumental in integrating functional areas within and outside firms. This research used empirical evidence to evaluate the state of EDI in the in the willingness of SME's to connect electronically to a large distribution centre in South Africa. Furthermore, it investigated …
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Quantitative comparison of functional MRI and electro-cortical stimulation for function mapping
Mappinlg functional areas of the brain is of vital importance for plallnning tumor resectiol. A accurate mapping provides information to leurosurgeons about which areas of the brain are eloquent, and should be avoided while removinlg the tumor. With the recent increase in the use of functional MRI …
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Operations Strategy for Evolving Customer Profiles
… ResMed’s current stage of development across functional areas that will contribute to this success, and then propose methods to close gaps going forward. ResMed’s two guiding goals are to ensure that customers can start therapy in a timely manner, and that patients adhere to their treatment …
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Using network management systems to detect Distributed Denial of Service Attacks
… and manage their networks. One of the major functional areas of a NMS is Security Management. This thesis examines how the Network Management Systems could aid in the detection of the DDoS attacks so that the losses from these could be minimized. The thesis details the SNMP MIB variables of …
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Classroom Teachers' Perceptions Of Seventh-Day Adventist Academy Principal's Effectiveness In The Lake Union Conference
… an SDA academy principal's effectiveness in five functional areas of administration. The data were first analyzed descriptively. Then four hypotheses were tested for statistical significance by independent t-test and one-way analysis of variance for repeated measures.</p> <p>Conclusions</p> <p>(1) …
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A learning integrated framework for group problem-solving in distributed AI systems
… trend towards specialization of skills in narrow functional areas and increased complexity of problems which transcend functional boundaries. Coordination of this group problem solving (GPS) activity so that it is effective and coherent requires an understanding of several GPS related issues such …
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Exploring the role of resilience and perceived organizational support in the secondary trauma experience of Canadian post-secondary student affairs professionals
… for several demographic identities and functional areas within the profession. Additionally, resilience and perceived organizational support were found to be negatively correlated with secondary trauma. A multiple linear regression found a weak predictive relationship between the …
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A pattern of light : a new library for Newton and an analysis of the building type
… the organization of buildings by distinguishing areas of occupation with varying quantities and qualities of illumination. Libraries are good to study in this regard because of their varying requirements for light: reading areas must be brightly lit, while bookstacks should have little light for …
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Dynamic Neural Correlates of Mental Attention Capacity
… Here, a novel implementation of dynamic functional connectivity (dFC) analysis of resting-state functional MRI data with parcellation of individual brains into a common set of functional areas (Group Prior Individual Parcellation, GPIP) was used to determine whether dFC is 1) related to …
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Modelo de córtex artificial baseado em multirredes neurais cooperativas para aplicação em decisões complexas: aplicação em sistema tutor Inteligente baseado em Jogos Digitais
… of the functioning of the brain as a set of functional areas that operate in the process of cognition and subsequently use the acquired knowledge in decision-making and execution of complex actions. To experiment, observe and analyze the efficiency of the Cortex is decided by the application …
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A study on deep convolutional neural networks for computer vision applications
… of the functioning of the brain as a set of functional areas that operate in the process of cognition and subsequently use the acquired knowledge in decision-making and execution of complex actions. To experiment, observe and analyze the efficiency of the Cortex is decided by the application …
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Mergers and acquisitions process improvement in a matrix organization
… There are corporate experts in the different functional areas of due diligence that bring consistency regardless of the division doing the acquisition. However, since manufacturing is not centralized and is managed by each division, there is no corporate expert neither for manufacturing due …
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Managing preventative maintenance activities at Intel Corporation
… evaluates the benefits of coordinating PMs among functional areas and the effectiveness of existing PM practices at a 24 hours per day, 7 days per week facility. Using a WIP model, I show that wait times can be significantly reduced by scheduling PMs on sequential tools at the same time, so WIP …
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Applying enterprise architecting to the business acquisition process
… to understand the interactions of various functional areas and avoid such implementation difficulties. Enterprise Architecting (EA) is one such framework that has shown promise in analyzing complex enterprises. Results: The thesis shows that all currently analyzed aspects of a potential …
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Confirmation of Emx2 Protein Binding Partners
… types of functions is localized within discrete areas of the neocortex, which are separated by sharp borders. Proper development of these functional areas is regulated during embryogenesis by several transcription factors that are expressed in distinct gradients across the progenitor layer of the …
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Self-organization and management of wireless sensor networks
… networking technology consisting of multifunctional sensor nodes that are small in size and communicate over short distances. These sensor nodes are mainly in large numbers and are densely deployed either inside the phenomenon or very close to it. They can be used for various application …
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