The wording and placement of instructions can help or hinder voters from successfully voting for their choices. No research has been done specifically on the language of instructions to voters, but we can draw best practices from research in several related disciplines. A recent study by the authors shows that typical ballots in the United States violate many of the best practices drawn from re...

We document, describe and interpret changes in New Zealand corporate board characteristics between 1995 and 2010, a period centred around the 2003 introduction of the NZX Corporate Governance Best Practice Code. Unsurprisingly, the representation of non-executive, independent and female directors on NZ boards rose during the period, as did real chair and director fees and the importance of boar...

This paper describes a project in progress under the auspices of EFNDT Task Group 3 on Quality in NDT. The project was conceived as a result of the EFNDT strategic planning exercise in 2005-6. The objective is to prepare guidelines on achieving quality in NDT to help develop a better understanding by users and purchasers of NDT services of the roles of the various measures available for control...

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With their information technology (IT) investments, most organizations focus on the implementation of technology not on the realization of expected business benefits. Consequently, benefits are not forthcoming despite projects being considered a technical success. This failure to realize benefits is primarily due to methods and tools that emphasize improving the supply-side of IT delivery, incl...

Spend your time even for only few minutes to read a book. Reading a book will never reduce and waste your time to be useless. Reading, for some people become a need that is to do every day such as spending time for eating. Now, what about you? Do you like to read a book? Now, we will show you a new book enPDFd interlibrary loan and document delivery best practices for operating and managing int...

This paper overviews 18 plagiarism detectors that have been developed and evaluated within PAN’10. We start with a unified retrieval process that summarizes the best practices employed this year. Then, the detectors’ performances are evaluated in detail, highlighting several important aspects of plagiarism detection, such as obfuscation, intrinsic vs. external plagiarism, and plagiarism case le...

Digital Preservation is a domain within ICT, that is mainly based on empirical knowledge. One way to introduce theoretical fundamentals is to study accumulated experience and best practices, and expose a common framework from them. In this paper, an idea of having metrics as common objective assessment of capabilities of tools, environments and processes is described. The goal is to have DP wel...

Information Technology Portfolio Management (ITPM) is a topic of intense interest in the strategic management of information technology (IT). In ITPM, IT synchronization with corporate business strategy is operationalized by the application of the principles of financial portfolio management to IT investments. This perspective is crucial to the continual alignment of business strategy and IT in...