VTS Membership Benefits

Leveraging the Benefits of Multiple-Team Membership in Virtual Teams

Multiple-team membership (MTM), defined as simultaneous involvement in multiple teams, is becoming prevalent in organizational practice and may escalate two tensions that are crucial to team performance. However, only a handful studies directly address the effect of MTM and fewer concerned the virtual context. Theories on MTM proposed that its effects would occur and countervail through various...

Long Term Benefits of Membership in Microfinance Programs*

This paper studies the benefits of membership in microfinance programs, and examines whether membership in these programs is an effective instrument in smoothing inter-seasonal consumption. We hypothesize that the benefits to participation accrue differentially over time, as more experienced participants are better equipped on their own to minimize per capita consumption fluctuations. Using an ...

Decision support for vessel traffic service (VTS): user needs for dynamic risk management in the VTS.

Vessel Traffic Service (VTS) is a shore-side service implemented by a "Competent Authority to improve the safety and efficiency of vessel traffic and to protect the environment". It is a service that operates through VTS centers, from which VTS operators monitor traffic, assist in navigational matters and provide information to all ships in a designated area. As VTS is provided by operators loc...

Efficient VTS Adaptation Using Jacobian Approximation

By exploiting a model of environmental distortion, model adaptation based on vector Taylor series (VTS) approaches have been shown to significantly improve the robustness of speech recognizers to environmental noise. However, the computational cost of VTS model adaptation (MVTS) methods hinders them from being more widely used. In this paper, we propose to reduce the computational cost of MVTS ...

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