IT-Sourcing-Management 2011 - Status quo und Zukunft : Eine empirische Studie im deutschsprachigen Europa

StudieDas Zentrum für Wirtschaftsinformatik (ZWI) der School of Management and Law der Zürcher Hochschule für angewandte Wissenschaften (ZHAW) hat sich mit dieser empirischen Studie zur Management-Disziplin «IT-Sourcing-Management – Status quo und Zukunft» zum Ziel gesetzt, den Reife- und Diffusionsgrad sowie zeitnahe und mittelfristige Trends im deutschsprachigen Europa (DACH) zu untersuchen und aufzuzeigen. Insgesamt 112 Vertreter von über 100 Unternehmen und Institutionen, welche über IT-Sourcing-Expertise verfügen und sich täglich mit dieser Disziplin auseinandersetzen, haben an dieser Befragung teilgenommen. Die Ergebnisse zeigen interessante neue Erkenntnisse, zugleich aber auch kritisch zu interpretierende Aspekte auf, die für Organisationen, die IT-Sourcing-Strategien bereits umgesetzt haben oder dies noch in Angriff nehmen möchten, mit Blick auf die Praxis wertvoll und hilfreich sind. Strategische Auslagerungskonzepte und die Klarheit über ihre Ausgestaltung bestimmen die Qualität, den Innovationsgrad und die Produktivität von Organisationen in hohem Masse. Viele Organisationen scheinen das Potenzial jedoch noch nicht vollumfänglich zu nutzen, welches ihnen IT-Sourcing-Methoden und -Lösungen bieten. Die Studie gibt des Weiteren Auskunft zu Fragestellungen, welche sich mit den Investitionen in Outsourcing sowie auch mit Initiativen im Bereich von Cloud Computing befassen

Business Process Management 2011 - Status quo und Zukunft : Eine empirische Studie im deutschsprachigen Europa

StudieBusiness Process Management (BPM) unterstützt bei der Analyse, Modellierung, Implementierung, Ausführung und kontinuierlichen Verbesserung von Geschäftsprozessen. Viele Unternehmen und Organisationen scheinen das Potenzial, welches ihnen BPM-Methoden und -Lösungen bieten, noch nicht vollumfänglich zu nutzen, auch wenn ein generelles Bewusstsein dafür besteht. Diese empirische Studie zeigt den Reife- und Diffusionsgrad sowie zeitnahe und mittelfristige Trends im deutschsprachigen Europa auf. Insgesamt 219 Vertreter aus über 200 Unternehmen und Institutionen haben daran teilgenommen. Die Studie zeigt interessante neue Erkenntnisse wie auch kritisch zu interpretierende Aspekte. Zudem gibt sie Auskunft zu Fragestellungen, die sich mit den aktuellen und zukünftigen Investitionen in BPM sowie auch mit Initiativen im Bereich Business Process Outsourcing (BPO) befassen

Failing While Making All “A’s”

Good grades and high-test scores are universally held to be valid indicators of student success. Ironically, our obsession with earning high grades and scores has little to do with whether students are being well educated, while in fact our focus on competitive forms of assessment are contributing factors to the lack of personal meaningful learning taking place in our schools. Schools are not serving students well when they merely prepare students to make good grades and earn degrees. We should be alarmed that our schools are not adequately preparing students in perilous matters that are connected to solving real present day and future personal and global issues, grooming serious thinkers, and creating better communities for all people. Continuing to fail our students is not merely a curriculum or institutional issue, it is an ethical, moral, and spiritual issue that calls us to respond from the very best we have to offer

SEQUENCES INVOLVED IN PLANT YIELD AND METHODS OF USING

Nucleic acid sequences involved in plant yield are provided, as are methods of using such nucleic acid sequences

Cost Automata, Safe Schemes, and Downward Closures

Higher-order recursion schemes are an expressive formalism used to define languages of possibly infinite ranked trees. They extend regular and context-free grammars, and are equivalent to simply typed ?Y-calculus and collapsible pushdown automata. In this work we prove, under a syntactical constraint called safety, decidability of the model-checking problem for recursion schemes against properties defined by alternating B-automata, an extension of alternating parity automata for infinite trees with a boundedness acceptance condition. We then exploit this result to show how to compute downward closures of languages of finite trees recognized by safe recursion schemes

An Approach to Regular Separability in Vector Addition Systems

We study the problem of regular separability of languages of vector addition systems with states (VASS). It asks whether for two given VASS languages K and L, there exists a regular language R that includes K and is disjoint from L. While decidability of the problem in full generality remains an open question, there are several subclasses for which decidability has been shown: It is decidable for (i) one-dimensional VASS, (ii) VASS coverability languages, (iii) languages of integer VASS, and (iv) commutative VASS languages. We propose a general approach to deciding regular separability. We use it to decide regular separability of an arbitrary VASS language from any language in the classes (i), (ii), and (iii). This generalizes all previous results, including (iv)

Geogrid-Reinforced Soil Mat for Temporary Support of Heavy Equipment

Concrete blocks were used in a temporary storage facility to support replacement steam generators for a nuclear power plant. From the subsurface investigation, it was found that direct ground support of these concrete blocks was not feasible. In order to avoid the use of piles and associated concrete pile cap, which would be costly and take longer to build, a geogrid-reinforced soil mat foundation was adopted. The concrete blocks were put on a steel plate, which in turn rested on the geogrid-reinforced soil mat. Upon completion of the geogrid-reinforced structural fill mat, the replacement steam generators were moved into the temporary storage facility. Settlement monitoring of the concrete blocks proceeded for more than five months and disclosed settlements that were larger than those calculated. However, the measured settlements were still relatively small and the geogrid-reinforced soil mat foundation performed satisfactorily

Evaluation of constitutive iron reductase (AtFRO2) expression on mineral accumulation and distribution in soybean (Glycinemax.L)

Iron is an important micronutrient in human and plant nutrition. Adequate iron nutrition during crop production is central for assuring appropriate iron concentrations in the harvestable organs, for human food or animal feed. The whole-plant movement of iron involves several processes, including the reduction of ferric to ferrous iron at several locations throughout the plant, prior to transmembrane trafficking of ferrous iron. In this study, soybean plants that constitutively expressed the AtFRO2 iron reductase gene were analyzed for leaf iron reductase activity, as well as the effect of this transgene's expression on root, leaf, pod wall, and seed mineral concentrations. High Fe supply, in combination with the constitutive expression of AtFRO2, resulted in significantly higher concentrations of different minerals in roots (K, P, Zn, Ca, Ni, Mg, and Mo), pod walls (Fe, K, P, Cu, and Ni), leaves (Fe, P, Cu, Ca, Ni, and Mg) and seeds (Fe, Zn, Cu, and Ni). Leaf and pod wall iron concentrations increased as much as 500% in transgenic plants, while seed iron concentrations only increased by 10%, suggesting that factors other than leaf and pod wall reductase activity were limiting the translocation of iron to seeds. Protoplasts isolated from transgenic leaves had three-fold higher reductase activity than controls. Expression levels of the iron storage protein, ferritin, were higher in the transgenic leaves than in wild-type, suggesting that the excess iron may be stored as ferritin in the leaves and therefore unavailable for phloem loading and delivery to the seeds. Also, citrate and malate levels in the roots and leaves of transgenic plants were significantly higher than in wild-type, suggesting that organic acid production could be related to the increased accumulation of minerals in roots, leaves, and pod walls, but not in the seeds. All together, these results suggest a more ubiquitous role for the iron reductase in whole-plant mineral accumulation and distribution.info:eu-repo/semantics/publishedVersio

Evaluation of constitutive iron reductase (AtFRO2) expression on mineral accumulation and distribution in soybean (\u3ci\u3eGlycine max\u3c/i\u3e. L)

Iron is an important micronutrient in human and plant nutrition. Adequate iron nutrition during crop production is central for assuring appropriate iron concentrations in the harvestable organs, for human food or animal feed. The whole-plant movement of iron involves several processes, including the reduction of ferric to ferrous iron at several locations throughout the plant, prior to transmembrane trafficking of ferrous iron. In this study, soybean plants that constitutively expressed the AtFRO2 iron reductase gene were analyzed for leaf iron reductase activity, as well as the effect of this transgene\u27s expression on root, leaf, pod wall, and seed mineral concentrations. High Fe Supply, in combination with the constitutive expression of AtFRO2, resulted in significantly higher concentrations of different minerals in roots (K, P, Zn, Ca, Ni, Mg, and Mo), pod walls (Fe, K, P, Cu, and Ni), leaves (Fe, P, Cu, Ca, Ni, and Mg) and seeds (Fe, Zn, Cu, and Ni). Leaf and pod wall iron concentrations increased as much as 500% in transgenic plants, while seed iron concentrations only increased by 10%, suggesting that factors other than leaf and pod wall reductase activity were limiting the translocation of iron to seeds. Protoplasts isolated from transgenic leaves had three-fold higher reductase activity than controls. Expression levels of the iron storage protein, ferritin, were higher in the transgenic leaves than in wild-type, suggesting that the excess iron may be stored as ferritin in the leaves and therefore unavailable for phloem loading and delivery to the seeds. Also, citrate and malate levels in the roots and leaves of transgenic plants were significantly higher than in wild-type, suggesting that organic acid production could be related to the icreased accumulation of minerals in roots, leaves, and pod walls, but not in the seeds. All together, these results suggest a more ubiquitous role for the iron reductase in whole-plant mineral accumulation and distribution