This chapter reflects on ongoing research in SMEs in the manufacturing and service sectors. It contrasts different approaches to the issue of preparedness from an organisational and social perspective, in two cases where new enterprise-wide business processes were implemented and integrated in different settings. In both cases, the emergence of new systems presented a huge challenge to companie...

Laser acceleration is based on the concept to marshal collective fields that may be induced by laser. In order to exceed the material breakdown field by a large factor, we employ the broken-down matter of plasma. While the generated wakefields resemble with the fields in conventional accelerators in their structure (at least qualitatively), it is their extreme accelerating fields that distingui...

In this paper we describe the design and implementation of a C++ based Common Component Architecture (CCA) framework, XCAT-C++. It can efficiently marshal and unmarshal large data sets, and provides the necessary modules and hooks in the framework to meet the requirements of distributed scientific applications. XCAT-C++ uses a high-performance multi-protocol library so that the appropriate comm...

Humans are constantly exposed to pathogenic microbes. The first line of cellular host defense is composed of “professional” phagocytes, cells that efficiently recognize pathogens, internalize them, and then marshal an array of antimicrobial mechanisms to destroy them. Nevertheless, successful pathogens evade or survive such attack. A particularly subversive strategy is to manipulate normal phag...

Knowledge building--the creation of knowledge as a social product--is something that scientists, scholars and employees of highly innovative companies do for a living. We have demonstrated that these same activities can be integral to schooling, grades one to post graduate, and extensible to a variety of health care and workplace settings. The central purpose of CSILE (Computer Supported Intent...

The article analyses an important event in the Franco-American relations of post-WWI period, namely, visit to USA paid by Marshal F. Foch October – December 1921. This is first research on this topic Russian historiography. author explores American voyage through several interconnected problems: 1) what was French elites’ image USA; 2) how did influence Paris diplomacy; 3) efforts make ameliora...

The study was carried out to evaluate the effects of complete replacement of maize with two varieties of guinea corn and two varieties of millets on the growth performance and nutrient retention in broiler chickens. Five isonitrogenous and isocaloric diets for the broiler starter (23.5% CP; 2800 kcal/ME) and finisher (21.5% CP; 2900 kcal/ME) phases were formulated. Diet 1 consisted on a maize b...

Over the past two decades, scholars of management, finance, accounting, economics, and entrepreneurship have studied concept implications executive confidence in diverse settings. Despite sustained scholarly attention, numerous definitions, interpretations, operationalizations present a problem for understanding research informing future progress. Equally problematic is that remains scattered a...

Suitability of grape varieties grown in Belarus for freezing berries was assessed the Department storage and processing RUE “Institute Fruit Growing”. The objects research include 9 grapes (Agat Donskoy, Alfa, Bianca, Kristall, Marshal Foch, Platovsky, Plenitel, Samantha, Bluebell) Crops Breeding article presents results an organoleptic evaluation fresh frozen after defrosting terms
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Security agencies including the US Coast Guard, the Federal Air Marshal Service and the Los Angeles Airport police are several major domains that have been deploying Stackelberg security games and related algorithms to protect against a single adversary or multiple, independent adversaries strategically. However, there are a variety of real-world security domains where adversaries may benefit f...