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Showing 1 to 17 of 17 for “"usable information"”.
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Spatial Distribution of Best Management Practices for Stormwater Management
… impact fees, and subsidy; (3) providing readily usable information through information portal would help regulatory agents and the public focus on better planning and policy alternatives.
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Information selection in intelligence processing
… agencies, the processing of data into usable information ready for analysis poses a significant bottleneck. Typically, much more data is available than what can be processed in the limited time available for processing. We formulate the problem faced by an intelligence collection unit, …
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Extending the Information Partition Function: Modeling Interaction Effects in Highly Multivariate, Discrete Data
… new methods are required to turn data into usable information. Much of this data is categorical in nature, which makes estimation difficult in highly multivariate settings. In this thesis we review various multivariate statistical methods, discuss various statistical methods of natural …
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The Pitfalls of Powerpoint
… In education, PowerPoint slides indicate what information is important and will appear on the next test. Context is lost in favor of what content will fit on one slide. The most regrettable example of PowerPoint use resulted in the disintegration of the space shuttle Columbia in February 2003. …
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Leveraging Multi-Stage Machine Learning Pipelines for Extracting Structured Key-Value Pairs from Documents
In the rapidly growing field of information extraction, the ability to automatically and accurately extract structured data from sources has grown in importance across several industries. This need has arisen largely due to the vast quantity of data that is currently available and still being …
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Predicción de consumos eléctricos en Inglaterra, Gales y Escocia a través de datos de medidores inteligentes
… suppliers to deploy smart meters in all homes, usable information can be obtained when predicting more accurately the energy consumption in different geographical areas. Companies buy energy in the energy market, which means that energy not consumed as it can not be stored will be lost, which …
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Online Information for Caregivers of Adolescents with Autism
… by providing specific, accessible, and reliable information that is relevant to their situation. One of the most common ways of obtaining this information is online. This paper evaluates websites that caregivers of adolescents may use to find this information and examines the challenges of …
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An Empirical Study of Open Government Data and its Use by Small and Medium-Sized Enterprises in Canada
… to source, capture and extract meaningful and usable information from OGD, is one of the keys to generating potential value in terms of new products and services. Theoretically, the study suggests that, although OGD is a free resource available to all competitors, companies can create value …
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Data to information to text summaries of financial data
… auditing is becoming increasingly dependent on information technology as auditors are forced to follow the increasingly complex information processing of their clients. There exists a need for a system that can convert vast quantities of data generated by existing systems and data analytics …
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Students' Reasons for Attending or Not Attending an Available Technical High School
… the direction of the coefficients appeared to be usable information. The observations reflected a greater variety of concentration of concerns for neighborhood students than for the technical students. The technical students rated their top four concerns for school selection in the following …
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Organizational Support, Self-efficacy, and Job Satisfaction Among School Nurses
… Three hundred school nurses provided usable information for the final analysis. In this sample, school nurses did not perceive that their school districts valued their contributions and cared about their well-being. They have a higher self-efficacy score than the US adult population, …
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Effect of solid solutions and second phases on the thermal conductivity of zirconium diboride ceramics
… <p>In the end, this research provides both: (1) usable information for the design of future ultra-high temperature ceramic systems; and (2) fundamental research that lays the groundwork for future studies aimed at understanding thermal transport in diboride based materials"--Abstract, page iv.</p>
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Reconfigurable System-on-Chip Architecture for Neural Signal Processing
… translation of these signals (data) into usable information for real-time BMIs is bottlenecked due to the lack of efficient real-time algorithms and real-time hardware that can handle massively parallel channels of neural data. The research presented here addresses this issue by developing …
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Game conservation for the high school boy and girl
… with the problem of having available sufficient information on the subject. They have found an abundance of material which has been written in the field, but very little of it has been written in the language of the youth or the layman. This condition has seriously handicapped both teacher and …
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Time management operations of heads of academic departments in Libyan Universities
… data was translated from raw material into usable information to be ready for statistical analysis and the 309 received questionnaire forms were analyzed through implementation of descriptive statistics using SPSS software. The semi- structured interviews were analyzed through textual …
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Youth perceptions on business climate for the establishment and expansion of rural-based small-scale enterprises in Makhado Municipality
… respect to the perception, "lack of reliable and usable information for business owners to make decisions" (P < 0.01) was lower than that for Ward 29. The perceptions of in-school and out-of-school youth regarding all the dimensions of business climate considered in this study were the same. The …