Strategic Alignment ITIL Perspective

The literature suggests that organizations cannot be competitive if their business and information technology strategies are not aligned. Yet achieving strategic alignment continues to be a major concern for business executives. A number of alignment models have been offered in the literature, primary among them the Strategic Alignment model (SAM) and IT Governance (via ITIL). As there is no published research that attempts to present how effective ITIL V3 is to align business and IT in strategic level, this paper reports on determining aligning roles of ITIL by applying it to the SAM framework. In this regard, the ITIL Strategic Alignment model is proposed to describe ITIL V3 approach of strategic aligning business and IT. The primary aims of this paper are to demonstrate that ITIL has conceptual and practical competencies to strategic alignment of business and IT. It is described that ITIL uses IT as a mean to meet business strategies and goals, support business maturity and recognize new initiatives for the business

Improving ITIL Strategic Alignment Approach Using COBIT Framework

IT Governance provides a business focus to enable alignment between business and IT objectives at high level COBIT framework and focused on IT operational levels, ITIL standard. COBIT and ITIL are not mutually exclusive and can be combined to provide a powerful IT governance, control and best-practice framework in IT service management. So ITIL business-IT strategic alignment perspective could be improved using COBIT framework. Focusing on COBIT processes which support (primarily and secondarily) strategic alignment, in this paper, first, we map COBIT 4.1 to ITIL v3 to identify how ITIL cover COBIT control objectives. Furthermore, based on control objectives which are not completely addressed by ITIL processes, the opportunities to improvement in ITIL strategic alignment activities, functionalities, and relationships are identified. Consequently, appropriate and adequate practices to improve strategic alignment approach of ITIL v3 are proposed

The Analysis and the Solution of Incubation Period in a Disease Model

This study deals with the analysis and the solution of incubation period in a disease model by adopting the mathematical model with incubation period of diseases and the mathematical model without the incubation period of diseases. In the model equations, we partitioned the population into Susceptible (S), Incubated (I), Infected (D) population. We have compared the model equations without incubation period with the model equation with incubation period by solving and incorporating the system of first order linear equations into fourth order Runge-kutta method which has better error accuracy for solving first order equations. Graphical results for incubation class show that the infectious diseases were fatal if immediate attention is not given to endemic villages and communities. Keywords: SID Model, Incubation period, Runge-kutta method, numerical simulation, transmission

A narkománia és a fiatalkori bűnözés

INST: L_08

Karbi texts

This is a collection of 18 fully analyzed and glossed Karbi texts that were recorded between 2009-2012. All of the texts represent Hills Karbi varieties. The genres include less-spontaneous folk stories, but also (personal) narratives, procedural texts, as well as fully spontaneous genres, i.e. an interview/conversation as well as a stimulus-based narration of the pear story film that was told while the speaker was watching the film. The texts represent the main corpus of 'A grammar of Karbi' (Konnerth 2014)

One-Pot Cascade Synthesis of Quinazolin-4(3<i>H</i>)‑ones via Nickel-Catalyzed Dehydrogenative Coupling of <i>o</i>‑Aminobenzamides with Alcohols

In this paper, we report a general, efficient, and environmentally benign method for the one-pot cascade synthesis of quinazolin-4­(3<i>H</i>)-ones via acceptorless dehydrogenative coupling of <i>o</i>-aminobenzamide with alcohols catalyzed by a simple Ni­(II) catalyst, [Ni­(MeTAA)], featuring a tetraaza macrocyclic ligand (tetramethyltetraaza[14]­annulene (MeTAA)). A wide variety of substituted quinazolin-4­(3<i>H</i>)-ones were synthesized in high yields starting from readily available benzyl alcohols and <i>o</i>-aminobenzamides. Several controlled reactions along with deuterium labeling studies were carried out to establish the acceptorless dehydrogenative nature of the reactions

Deprotonation Induced Ligand Oxidation in a Ni-II Complex of a Redox Noninnocent N-1-(2-Aminophenyl)benzene-1,2-diamine and Its Use in Catalytic Alcohol Oxidation

Two nickel(II)-complexes, [Ni-II(H3L)(2)] (ClO4)(2) ( [1]-(ClO4)(2)) and [Ni-II(HL)(2)] (2), containing the redox-active tridentate ligand N-1-(2-aminophenyl)benzene-1,2-diamine (H3L) have been synthesized. Complex [1] (ClO4)(2) is octahedral containing two neutral H3L ligands in a facial coordination mode, whereas complex 2 is a singlet diradical species with approximately planar configuration at the tetracoordinate metal atom with two pendant NH2 side arms from each of the coordinated ligands. Both complexes are found to be chemically interconvertible; complex [1](2+) gets converted to complex 2 when exposed to base and oxygen via simultaneous deprotonation and oxidation of the coordinated ligands. Molecular and electronic structures of the isolated complexes are scrutinized thoroughly by various spectroscopic techniques, single crystal X-ray crystallography, and density functional theory. The observed dissociation of a ligand arm upon oxidation of the ligand was exploited to bring about catalytic alcohol oxidation using coordinatively saturated complex [1] (ClO4)(2) as a catalyst precursor. Both the complexes [1] (ClO4)(2) and 2 were tested for catalytic oxidation of both primary and secondary alcohols

Carbodicarbenes and striking redox transitions of their conjugate acids: influence of NHC versus CAAC as donor substituents

Herein, a new type of carbodicarbene (CDC) comprising two different classes of carbenes is reported; NHC and CAAC as donor substituents and compare the molecular structure and coordination to Au(I)Cl to those of NHC-only and CAAC-only analogues. The conjugate acids of these three CDCs exhibit notable redox properties. Their reactions with [NO][SbF6] were investigated. The reduction of the conjugate acid of CAAC-only based CDC with KC8 results in the formation of hydrogen abstracted/eliminated products, which proceed through a neutral radical intermediate, detected by EPR spectroscopy. In contrast, the reduction of conjugate acids of NHC-only and NHC/CAAC based CDCs led to intermolecular reductive (reversible) carbon–carbon sigma bond formation. The resulting relatively elongated carbon–carbon sigma bonds were found to be readily oxidized. They were, thus, demonstrated to be potent reducing agents, underlining their potential utility as organic electron donors and n-dopants in organic semiconductor molecules