‘Asset-Light’— Managing or leasing?

Adult’s Learning Strategies for Receptive Skill Self-managing or Teacher-managing

Receptive language skill refers to answering appropriately to another person's spoken language. A lot of teachers try to develop receptive language skills in their language learners. When receptive language skills are not appropriately acquired, learners may miss significant learning opportunities resulting in delays in the development and acquisition of spoken language. The goals of this paper...

Reverse Logistics and Environmental Considerations in Equipment Leasing and Asset Management

Blood transfusion practices: leasing life or injecting death?

J Pak Med Assoc Madam, Blood transfusions have emerged as an important medical therapy in the current century. From elective surgery to trauma patients, from patients with haemoglobinopathies to thalassaemics, blood transfusions are benefiting patients in a wide spectrum of clinical settings. However, like the two sides of a mirror, blood transfusions are fraught with serious risks that must be...

Asynchronous Leasing

Leasing is a very effective way to improve the performance of distributed algorithms without hampering their fault-tolerance. The notion of lease has traditionally been defined using a global notion of real time and was hence strongly tied to synchronous system models. This paper introduces a notion of lease object devised for an asynchronous system model. We give precise properties of our leas...

Asset Transfer in a Unified Framework Managing Broadcasting Systems

File transfer acts an increasing role in digital TV studios and especially for their interconnections. Using adequate file formats to exchange data presents several advantages: low transfer cost and efficient handling of both essence and metadata. Many new file formats have been introduced to cope with system and user requirements. Meanwhile new user requirements for file transfer have also evo...