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Organisational slack, corporate reputation and financial performance
No full textThis discussion paper aims to fill the gap left by the latest research on organisational slack that has been focused on emerging economies or on a single company or on a single industry. Senior executives’ perceptions that contribute to a measure of corporate reputation are tested as a proxy measure of unabsorbed slack. Disaggregating the components that make up reputation enables the perceptions of a company’s ‘ability to innovate’ and how efficiently they ‘use their corporate assets’ to also be tested as measures of unabsorbed, perceptual or discretionary slack. The impact of these variables is considered in terms of company performance
Towards minimizing the energy of slack variables for binary classification
No full text20.09.13 KB. Ok to add to spiral, author says conference already available online.This paper presents a binary classification algorithm that is based on the minimization of the energy of slack variables, called the Mean Squared Slack (MSS). A novel kernel extension is proposed which includes the withholding of just a subset of input patterns that are misclassified during training. The later leads to a time and memory efficient system that converges in a few iterations. Two datasets are exploited for performance evaluation, namely the adult and the vertebral column dataset. Experimental results demonstrate the effectiveness of the proposed algorithm with respect to computation time and scalability. Accuracy is also high. In specific, it equals 84.951% for the adult dataset and 91.935%, for the vertebral column dataset, outperforming state-of-the-art methods. © 2012 EURASIP
slack
No full textslack vI must say that himself and Maurice Crotty Were the only slack men in the crew.PRINTED ITEM W. J. KIRWIN AUG 1970JH AUG 1970Used I and SupNot usedWithdrawnslacken (off), slack offChecked by Raji Sreeni on Fri 21 Aug 201
Home Sweet Home
No full text80.7568.504 – “Home Sweet Home”: Slack, J. H.: S. T. Gordon: New York: Minstrel, Ballad, Domestic: 1854: Solo Piano
Global Slack and Domestic Inflation Rates: A Structural Investigation for G-7 Countries
No full textRecent papers have argued that one implication of globalization is that domestic inflation rates may have now become more a function of ``global", rather than domestic, economic conditions, as postulated by closed-economy Phillips curves. This paper aims to assess the empirical importance of global output in determining domestic inflation rates by estimating a structural model for a sample of G-7 economies. The model can capture the potential effects of global output fluctuations on both the aggregate supply and the aggregate demand relations in the economy and it is estimated using full-information Bayesian methods. The empirical results reveal a significant effect of global output on aggregate demand in most countries. Through this channel, global economic conditions can indirectly affect inflation. The results, instead, do not seem to provide evidence in favor of altering domestic Phillips curves to include global slack as an additional driving variable for inflation.Globalization; Global Slack; Inflation Dynamics; Phillips Curve; Bayesian Estimation
Edward P. Young renderings
No full textA set of drawings of various buildings (mostly in Salt Lake City, but one from Tooele) from a folder labeled, "Edward P. Young renderings." Edward Partridge Young was a son of architect Joseph Don Carlos Young and brother of architect George Cannon Young. Some of these drawings were done for the architect Slack W. Winburn. Those drawings with dates are from the 1930sPublix Theater; Fireplace; Tooele Civic Center; Gates; Walker Building; Memory Grove gates; Proposed air port terminal; Vico garage and gas station; Two renderings of a pair of unidentified residences; Hepworth Carthey building [161 S. Main Street, Salt Lake], by W. E. Ware, Architect; series of unidentified buildings by Slack W. Winbur
Non-coding RNA networks in cancer
No full textThousands of unique non-coding RNA (ncRNA) sequences exist within cells. Work from the past decade has altered our perception of ncRNAs from 'junk' transcriptional products to functional regulatory molecules that mediate cellular processes including chromatin remodelling, transcription, post-transcriptional modifications and signal transduction. The networks in which ncRNAs engage can influence numerous molecular targets to drive specific cell biological responses and fates. Consequently, ncRNAs act as key regulators of physiological programmes in developmental and disease contexts. Particularly relevant in cancer, ncRNAs have been identified as oncogenic drivers and tumour suppressors in every major cancer type. Thus, a deeper understanding of the complex networks of interactions that ncRNAs coordinate would provide a unique opportunity to design better therapeutic interventions
Dominant genes for colorectal cancer are not rare
No full textThe genetic basis for colorectal cancer was investigated by complex segregation analysis of a published series of consecutive pedigrees ascertained through patients undergoing treatment for colorectal cancer. Analysis favoured a dominant gene or genes with a frequency of 0·006 with a lifetime penetrance of 0·63. These genes account for 81% of colorectal cancer in patients under 35, however, by 65 about 85% are phenocopies
Mary J. Bringhurst
No full textTypescript of two biographical sketches of Mary (Stapley) Bringhurst. She was born in Toquerville, Utah, to English immigrants who came via Australia and California to Utah in 1857. They lived at Cedar City and Toquerville, and Mary remained there all her life. First sketch from an Interview by Louise Slack in 1935 and typed by Louise P. Mathews in 1937; second sketch from a memoir transmitted by son Charles Bringhurst to Donald K. Walker in 194
On the slack phenomena and snap force in tethers of submerged floating tunnels under wave conditions
No full textUnder severe sea wave conditions, the mooring tethers of submerged floating tunnel (SFT) might go slack. It may cause the structure failure during the service lifetime of SFT. The paper investigated SFT dynamics when going through tether slacking and the related snap force under wave conditions. Besides the nonlinearity of fluid drag and of structural geometry for a relative large structure displacement, the problem is characterized by the nonlinearity due to the discontinuity in axial stiffness of the tethers. To include these nonlinearities, the method of Lagrange energy is used to build the governing equations of SFT motion, and a bilinear oscillator is introduced to simulate the mooring tether operating in an alternating slack-taut state. The sensitivities of the occurrence of tether slacking to wave height and wave period are investigated. Results show that at a large wave height SFT tether will go slack and snap force occurs. SFT responses are categorized into three types of state according to the dynamic response characteristics of tether tension. Effects of two fundamental structure parameters, buoyancy-weight ratio (BWR) and inclined mooring angle (IMA), on the dynamic responses of SFT are analyzed. A slack-taut map of SFT tethers is built. It intuitively describes the occurrences of slack and snap force with different combinations of the two parameters. An analytical approach for slack prediction by deriving the slack criterion is provided to reveal the mechanism of the presented slack-taut map. By present research, the authors tried to make their effort to provide an alternative philosophy for SFT structural design on concerning preventing the occurrence of tether slacking and snap force. (C) 2011 Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved
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