This paper presents a system designed to automate the production of webcasts, the Virtual Director. It automates simple tasks such as control of recording equipment, stream broadcasting, and camera control. It also automates content decisions, such as which camera view to broadcast. Directors can specify the content decisions using an automation specification language. The Virtual Director also...

economic cooperation organization (eco) is one of the institutions that have been established to help identify and resolve the problems faced by the region. in order to celebrate the eco day, a meeting was held at the center for graduate international studies, faculty of law and political science, university of tehran as attended by yahya maroufi, eco secretary-general, mr. taherian, eco under-...

Since 1971, federal laboratory regulations have required that directors of approved laboratories possess earned doctorates. Private accrediting agencies and some states also require doctoral directorship of accredited laboratories. No empirical studies have demonstrated that a director's earned doctorate is necessary to assure laboratory quality. Laboratories in physicians' offices (POLs) are e...

The final step is to the Student Affairs Council, chaired by Dug­ gan. The council is the highest board tha t a student proposal may reach. It will make a recom­ mendation to Duggan. “ I am confident that we can get it through the actual groundwork. The real test will come when it reaches Duggan’s desk,” Rukavina explained. “ I don’t expect to have to take this proposal to the Board of Regents ...

We study the impact of Sarbanes-Oxley Act (SOX) on the relationship between corporate governance and company performance. We consider five measures of corporate governance during the period 1998-2007. We find a negative and significant relationship between board independence and operating performance during the pre-2002 period, but a positive and significant relationship during the post-2002 pe...