Title of Document: UTILIZATION OF ENTERPRISE RESOURCE PLANNING TOOLS BY SMALL TO MEDIUM SIZE CONSTRUCTION ORGANIZATIONS: A DECISION-MAKING MODEL Sam Negahban, Doctor of Philosophy, 2008 Directed By: Professor Gregory B. Baecher, Ph.D. Civil & Environmental Engineering Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) utilization in the Construction Industry has been limited to a few large organizations. Signi...

Incompatibility with deferred lighting, which is used more and more in real-time rendering; High memory and processing cost, which makes its use prohibitive on some widely available platforms (such as the Sony Playstation* PS3* [Perthuis 2010]). This cost is also directly linked to the complexity of the scene rendered; Inability to smooth non-geometric edges unless used in conjunction with alph...

We show that fractional decay may be observable in experiments using quantum dots and photonic crystals with parameters that are currently achievable. We focus on the case of inverse opal photonic crystals and locate the position in the crystal where the effect is most pronounced. Furthermore, we quantify the influence of absorptive loss and show that it is a limiting but not prohibitive effect.

To reduce the prohibitive efforts associated to problem-solving ITS, a domain-independent framework can be developed. In this paper, we compare ASTUS to the MTT architecture with examples drawn from a scatter plot tutor. We show that both approaches are similar, but that an ASTUS tutor can exhibit a more sophisticated tutoring behavior thanks to its “pedagogical knowledge model”.

Training higher-order conditional random fields is prohibitive for huge tag sets. We present an approximated conditional random field using coarse-to-fine decoding and early updating. We show that our implementation yields fast and accurate morphological taggers across six languages with different morphological properties and that across languages higher-order models give significant improvemen...

The most widely cited procedures for radiolabeling antibodies with zirconium-89 for immuno-PET require multi-milligram amounts of antibody which can be cost-prohibitive, particularly during the research and development process. We therefore sought to develop a reliable (89)Zr-radiolabeling procedure that provides high radiochemical yields at the microgram scale.

Unfortunately, in the practical world of IT, the theoretical solution does not apply. Indeed the cost of resolving the difficulties raised by non-determinism rapidly become prohibitive as the number of ‘components’ which need to work together rises. This is particularly applicable to distributed systems connected by middleware, with major implications for project management, application maintai...

Optimal image mosaicing has large computational complexity, that becomes prohibitive as the number of sub-images increases. Two methods are proposed, which require less computation time by performing mosaicing in pairs of two sub-images at a time, without significant reconstruction losses, as evidenced by simulation results.