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Does Lost Time Cost You Money and Create High Risk?
The aim of the case study is to express the delayed repair time impact on the revenues and profit in numbers with the example of the outage of power plant units.
Main steps of risk assessment:
âą creating project plan suitable for risk assessment
âą identification of the risk factors for each project activities
âą scenario-analysis based evaluation of risk factors
âą selection of the critical risk factors based on the results of quantitative risk analysis
âą formulating risk response actions for the critical risks
âą running Monte-Carlo simulation [1] using the results of scenario-analysis
âą building up a macro which creates the connection among the results of the risk assessment, the production plan and the business plan
Hungarian GyerekestĂŒl versus Gyerekkel (âwith [the] kidâ)
The paper analyzes the various uses of the Hungarian -stUl (âtogether withâ, âalong
withâ) sociative (associative) suffix (later in the paper referred to simply as âsociativeâ), as in
the example gyerekestĂŒl. As opposed to its comitative-instrumental suffix -vAl (âwithâ), the -
stUl suffix cannot express instrumentality. The paper aims to demonstrate the difference in
use between the comitative-instrumental -vAl and the -stUl suffix in contemporary Hungarian,
and to illuminate the historical emergence of the suffix as well as its grammatical status. It is
argued on the basis of Antal (1960) and Kiefer (2003) that -stUl cannot be analyzed as an
inflectional case suffix (such as the -vAl suffix, or -ed, -ing, or the plural in English), but
should rather be categorized as a derivational suffix (such as English dis-, re-, in-, -ance, -
able, -ish, -like, etc.). The paper also tries to shed light on the hypothetical cognitive
psychological distinction between the comitative and the sociative. It is suggested that the
sociative is based on the amalgam image schema which is derived from the LINK schema of
the comitative. The ironical reading of the sociative is an implicature in the sense of Grice
(1989) and Sperber and Wilson (1987). Psycholinguistic experimentation is proposed to
follow up on the mental representation of the sociative
Numerical methods for determining local motions of human knee joint
The Biomechanical Team of the Szent IstvĂĄn University has been carrying on a comprehensive project of the human knee joint. The conception is oriented to the local motions and the phenomenon (and its influence) of wear. By establishing different experimental models, in order to verify and universalize the results, numerical models must be devel-oped and applied. This paper presents our numerical method on biomechanical- and simple engineering application
PREPARATION OF BECOMING TEACHERS OF AGRICULTURE FOR FILLING THE PART OF AN ADULT EDUCATOR
All becoming teachers would need knowledge on adult education in order to better understand his own lifelong learning. If adult education were integrated into university education of BSc or MSc level, extension courses for practicing teachers would not loose their importance, but on the contrary, those would be arranged at an upper level. Adult education should be changed to competence based education, as the competent andragogical knowledge can hide the possibility of some extra profit. Teachers and trainers in vocational education, who are engineers and economists etc. at the same time, would mean potentially the best qualified adult educators, whose teaching competences should only be completed with andragogical competences. They are appropriate and can be let in one the task, but they are not used up.adult education, andragogy, adult educator, teacher training, vocational trainer, Community/Rural/Urban Development, Labor and Human Capital,
Matchmaking Framework for B2B E-Marketplaces
In the recent years trading on the Internet become more popular. Online businesses gradually replace more and more from the conventional business. Much commercial information is exchanged on the internet, especially using the e-marketplaces. The demand and supply matching process becomes complex and difficult on last twenty years since the e-marketplaces play an important role in business management. Companies can achieve significant cost reduction by using e-marketplaces in their trade activities and by using matchmaking systems on finding the corresponding supply for their demand and vice versa. In the literature were proposed many approaches for matchmaking. In this paper we present a conceptual framework of matchmaking in B2B e-marketplaces environment.B2B Electronic Marketplaces, Conceptual Framework, Matchmaking, Multi- Objective Genetic Algorithm, Pareto Optimal
Polygon Exploration with Time-Discrete Vision
With the advent of autonomous robots with two- and three-dimensional scanning
capabilities, classical visibility-based exploration methods from computational
geometry have gained in practical importance. However, real-life laser scanning
of useful accuracy does not allow the robot to scan continuously while in
motion; instead, it has to stop each time it surveys its environment. This
requirement was studied by Fekete, Klein and Nuechter for the subproblem of
looking around a corner, but until now has not been considered in an online
setting for whole polygonal regions.
We give the first algorithmic results for this important algorithmic problem
that combines stationary art gallery-type aspects with watchman-type issues in
an online scenario: We demonstrate that even for orthoconvex polygons, a
competitive strategy can be achieved only for limited aspect ratio A (the ratio
of the maximum and minimum edge length of the polygon), i.e., for a given lower
bound on the size of an edge; we give a matching upper bound by providing an
O(log A)-competitive strategy for simple rectilinear polygons, using the
assumption that each edge of the polygon has to be fully visible from some scan
point.Comment: 28 pages, 17 figures, 2 photographs, 3 tables, Latex. Updated some
details (title, figures and text) for final journal revision, including
explicit assumption of full edge visibilit
Progressive Analytics: A Computation Paradigm for Exploratory Data Analysis
Exploring data requires a fast feedback loop from the analyst to the system,
with a latency below about 10 seconds because of human cognitive limitations.
When data becomes large or analysis becomes complex, sequential computations
can no longer be completed in a few seconds and data exploration is severely
hampered. This article describes a novel computation paradigm called
Progressive Computation for Data Analysis or more concisely Progressive
Analytics, that brings at the programming language level a low-latency
guarantee by performing computations in a progressive fashion. Moving this
progressive computation at the language level relieves the programmer of
exploratory data analysis systems from implementing the whole analytics
pipeline in a progressive way from scratch, streamlining the implementation of
scalable exploratory data analysis systems. This article describes the new
paradigm through a prototype implementation called ProgressiVis, and explains
the requirements it implies through examples.Comment: 10 page
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