This paper reports on some of the outcomes from a two-year Knowledge Transfer Programme (KTP) which included the development of an implementation process for the installation of customer relationship management (CRM) applications in small to medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) in the UK mail order sector. Soft systems methodology (SSM) was used to help appreciate the organizational structures and p...

Status of this Memo This memo provides information for the Internet community. It does not specify an Internet standard of any kind. Distribution of this memo is unlimited. Abstract The purpose of this document is to provide an overview of Source-Specific Multicast (SSM) and issues related to its deployment. It discusses how the SSM service model addresses the challenges faced in inter-domain m...

e-Government system has been developed in various countries. e-Government system can support the government's performance in serving the public. Because there are many aspects that must be considered, then the eGovernment system development process can be very complex. Soft Systems Methodology (SSM), that is based on soft system thinking, is suitable for use in the eGovernment system developmen...

In this talk we discuss an E 6 inspired supersymmetric (SUSY) model with an extra U(1) N gauge symmetry under which right-handed neutrinos have zero charge. In this exceptional supersymmetric standard model (E 6 SSM) the µ–term is generated dynamically after the elec-troweak symmetry breaking. We specify the particle content of the model and argue that the presence of a Z ′ and exotic particles...

THE JOINT Air Force and Navy Defense Meteorological Satellite Program (DMSP) has a rich heritage of flying new state-of-the art remote sensing instruments to provide timely and critical global weather intelligence to the military users and stable global radiometric observations to the earth science community. In particular, DMSP has had a string of successes flying passive microwave sensors wit...

facing the issues with structural complexity about which stakeholders have different views, has increasingly led to the use of soft systems methodology (ssm) in solving managerial problems. moreover, the flaws of this methodology in the stages of modeling and feasible, desirable changes, have provided the motivation for applying cognitive map (cm) and system dynamics in the ssm modeling. presen...

OBJECTIVES The laboratory is considered the cornerstone of tuberculosis (TB) control programme. International review of Ghana's programme in the late nineties identified the laboratory services as the weakest component. Sputum smear microscopy (SSM) being the main method of diagnosing pulmonary TB in Ghana, the training objectives were to: (i) strengthen the knowledge and skills of laboratory p...

Mapping extraction is useful in medical image analysis. Similarity coefficient mapping (SCM) replaced signal response to time course in tissue similarity mapping with signal response to TE changes in multiecho T2-star weighted magnetic resonance imaging without contrast agent. Since different tissues are with different sensitivities to reference signals, a new algorithm is proposed by adding a ...

A total of 560 day-old commercial broiler chicks were used in two experiments conducted to investigate the biotin requirement of broilers fed sunflower seed meal (SSM) based diets. Two basal biotin-deficient diets based on dehulled (Experiment 1) and non-dehulled (Experiment 2) SSM were each supplemented with graded levels of biotin so that the rations had 40, 80, 120, 160, 200, 240 and 280 mcg...

This paper presents a new approach to online adaptation of continuous density hidden Markov model (CDHMM) with a small amount of adaptation data based on speaker space model (SSM) evolution. The SSM which characterizes the a priori knowledge of the training speakers is effectively described in terms of the latent variable models such as the factor analysis or probabilistic principal component a...