While many great companies in the retail, food, consumer goods, and third party logistics segments of the market have successfully implemented labor management systems and achieved these benefits, many others have not. Given the clear economic and operational benefits of LMS, the failure to implement advanced labor management appears to be related to a number of misconceptions surrounding LMS p...

Currently, the US Bureau of Labor Statistics(BLS) sends field representatives to manually collect price quotes when constructing the Consumer Price Index(CPI). Many of the nation’s retailing outlets now have scanner check-outs that record their prices and expenditures. There is an opportunity for BLS to use these scanner records in the construction of its CPI. Some of the potential benefits fro...

A theoretical explanation for an immersed perspective flight path display is investigated in this current study. Past research suggests that the immersed perspective flight path display (" tunnel-in-the-sky ") can improve flight path tracking when compared to more conventional flight navigation instruments but at present the specific sources of this benefit have not adequately been explained. O...

Frequency domain adaptive filter has potential benefits of fast convergence and low computational load, which make it attractive in the application of active noise control. However, it has been noticed that the commonly used normalized frequency domain block LMS algorithm faces the problem of deterioration of steady-state behavior when the whole control system is noncausal or the adaptive filte...

The researchers examined responses from 862 faculty members at 38 institutions nationwide using the blackboard Learning Management System (LMS) to supplement their face-to-face instruction. The four research questions addressed the primary uses that faculty make of blackboard, perceptions that faculty have of how certain blackboard features enhance or elevate (or might enhance or elevate) their...

The central thesis of this paper is that the EPI policy of a BCG vaccination at birth or in the first year of life provides proven partial protection against leprosy and that ILEP organisations should actively encourage government health services to maintain a high coverage. A literature review identified 12 case-control studies showing a median vaccine efficacy of 63% (range 20-90%). Two prosp...

OBJECTIVE To determine the quality-of-life impact and overall efficacy of adult tonsillectomy for chronic tonsillitis. DESIGN Cross-sectional survey analysis of patients at least 1 year after undergoing adult tonsillectomy. INTERVENTIONS AND OUTCOME MEASURES The Glasgow Benefit Inventory was used to quantify the health benefit of tonsillectomy. Data were collected for demographics and antib...

atherosclerosis has serious role in coronary arteries disease,so it is important to establish effective strategies for prevention or even treatment of atherosclerosis. adiponectin, as one of the most abundant adipokines, has insulin sensitivity, anti-inflammatory and anti-atherogenic properties. disturbed adiponectin actions through its receptor, (adipor1 and adipor2) may be involved in atheros...

Atherosclerosis has serious role in coronary arteries disease,so it is important to establish effective strategies for prevention or even treatment of atherosclerosis. Adiponectin, as one of the most abundant adipokines, has insulin sensitivity, anti-inflammatory and anti-atherogenic properties. Disturbed adiponectin actions through its receptor, (AdipoR1 and AdipoR2) may be involved in atheros...

Two of the most popular image quality measures are the root mean square and signal-to-noise ratio. Unfortunately these measures are simple tallies of pixel difference and provide no information about the type of degradation present. Although simple, and consequently provide computational benefits, the RMS and SNR measures cannot meaningfully be applied to images containing text or binary images...