Abstract Organizational competences are one of the main assets companies. Models these would allow for systematic reasoning exploring technological innovations, enabled by combining and transposing organizational competences. Today, literature linking competencies to engineering design systems remains limited. In particular, a generic modelling approach seems be missing, although first framewor...

In one large survey project each record in the raw data set contains information from one survey form. At some point, Adenormalization@ of the data needs to be done transposing a multiple-record-per-object data set to a one-record-perobject data set that retains all raw variables from all data sources. The large dimension of the original data set requires an approach that can: a) carry out the ...

Binary morphology on large images is compute intensive, in particular for large structuring elements. Run-length encoding is a compact and space-saving technique for representing images. This paper describes how to implement binary morphology directly on run-length encoded binary images for rectangular structuring elements. In addition, it describes efficient algorithm for transposing and rotat...

Sequences of notes contain several different types of pitch cues, including both absolute and relative pitch information. What factors determine which of these cues are used when learning about tone sequences? Previous research suggests that infants tend to preferentially process absolute pitch patterns in continuous tone sequences, while other types of input elicit relative pitch use by infant...

Hypercube algorithms are developed for a variety of communication-intensive tasks such as transposing a matrix, histogramming, one node sending a (long) message to another, broadcasting a message from one node to all others, each node broadcasting a message to all others, and nodes exchanging messages via a xed permutation. The algorithm for exchanging via a xed permutation can be viewed as a d...

Thumb polydactyly is reported to be the most common congenital anomaly of the hand in Japan. The floating type is not particularly rare, accounting for 0.9 to 15% of all cases of thumb polydactyly. However, to the best of our knowledge, there has been only one case of thumb polydactyly with a floating ulnar thumb, reported by Onizuka. Herein, we report a case very similar to that reported by On...

This article presents the new Italian database of physical agents, which is available at http://www.portaleagentifisici.it. It supports in risk assessment employers who have to comply with Italy's Legislative Decree 81/2008 (transposing into law European Union Directives 2003/10/EC, 2002/44/EC, 2004/40/EC and 2006/25/EC). The database currently contains measurements and declared European Commun...

. ----------------------------------------ABSTRACT----------------------------------------This report describes an adult male cadaver with dextrocardia and situs solitus in a Nigerian cadaver. The photographic illustrations revealed a flattened heart that was flipped to the right thus, transposing the great vessels. The report showed that dextrocardia exists amongst Nigerians and possibly Afric...

The expression of the gene for variant surface glycoprotein (VSG) 118 in Trypanosoma brucei is activated by transposing a DNA segment containing the gene and 1-2 kb in front of it to an expression site elsewhere in the genome. By S1 nuclease protection and RNA blotting experiments we show here the presence of several minor transcripts in trypanosomes synthesizing VSG 118, one of which covers th...