In formulating e-business strategies enabled by the Internet and WWW, parallels can be drawn from the viewpoint on process enabled by desktop and centralized computing in the 1990s, and that of present day. In this paper, the cornerstone of 1990s thinking on process, Hammer and Champy’s nine best practices, are analyzed to apply for e-business process management (e-process management). For inst...

A graph G = (V, E) is called a split graph if there exists a partition V = I∪K such that the subgraphs G[I] andG[K] of G induced by I andK are empty and complete graphs, respectively. In 1980, Burkard and Hammer gave a necessary condition for a split graph G with |I| < |K| to be hamiltonian. We will call a split graph G with |I| < |K| satisfying this condition a Burkard–Hammer graph. Further, a...

A new approach, based on the hierarchical soft correspondence detection, has been presented for significantly improving the speed of our previous HAMMER image registration algorithm. Currently, HAMMER takes a relative long time, e.g., up to 80 minutes, to register two regular sized images using Linux machine (with 2.40GHz CPU and 2-Gbyte memory). This is because the results of correspondence de...

The paper presents evaluation of correlations for calculation of concrete compression strength using nondestructive testing parameters for both impact and ultrasonic pulse methods, as listed in EN 13791:2007. This standard indicates procedures relating to compression strength determination in construction and building elements. These procedures relate to compression strength evaluation based ei...

The acetabular cup (AC) implant stability is determinant for the success of cementless hip arthroplasty. A method based on the analysis of the impact force applied during the press-fit insertion of the AC implant using a hammer instrumented with a force sensor was developed to assess the AC implant stability. The aim of the present study was to investigate the performance of a method using a ha...

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Four venous hemoglobin oxygen saturation monitors, two of which provide hemoglobin monitoring, were evaluated and compared to a performance standard (control) during cardiopulmonary bypass (CPB). The CDI 100 Hematocrit/Saturation Monitor, CDI 400, Cobe Hematocrit/Saturation Monitor, and the Baxter Bentley OxySat values were compared to the Radiometer Copenhagen OSM3 Hemoximeter and the Damon In...

In this paper, we study the well-known algorithm of Bentley and Saxe in the context of similarity search in metric spaces. We apply the algorithm to existing static metric index structures, obtaining dynamic ones. We show that the overhead of the Bentley-Saxe method is quite low, and because it facilitates the dynamic use of any state-of-the-art static index method, we can achieve results compa...

Forging is a manufacturing process that consists of shaping the metal using localized compression forces. The blows are delivered with a hammer (often an electric hammer) or a die. In this paper, different methods of forging (multi-directional forging, hot forging, near-beta forging, multi-axial forging, direct powder forging, warm forging and ring forging) are discussed. The main problems that...

an air force has gained command of the air, it should maintain violent, uninterrupted action against surface objectives, so that it may crush the material and moral resistance of the enemy'-Guilio Douhet, 1921.