Evidence suggests that small to medium sized enterprises (SMEs) have failed to capitalize on the Internet to facilitate the management of customer relations (e-CRM) and the creation of competitive advantage (Chen & Popovich, 2003; Geiger & Martin, 1999; McGowan et al., 2001; O’Toole, 2001). This is attributed to a lack of influence, time, finance and specialised knowledge, (Carson & Gilmore, 20...

1 2 Hybrid Voltage Sensor Imaging from Genetically Targeted Neurons in Hippocampal and 3 Spinal Cord Slices 4 5 6 Dongsheng Wang, Tiffany Poon, Shane McMahon, Samuel L. Pfaff, Lea Ziskind7 Conhaim, Baron Chanda, Meyer B. Jackson 8 9 1. Department of Physiology, University of Wisconsin, Madison, WI 53706. 10 2. Howard Hughes Medical Institute and Gene Expression Laboratory, The Salk 11 Institute...

The product sμsν of two Schur functions is one of the most famous examples of a Schur-positive function, i.e. a symmetric function which, when written as a linear combination of Schur functions, has all positive coefficients. We ask when expressions of the form sλsρ − sμsν are Schur-positive. This general question seems to be a difficult one, but a conjecture of Fomin, Fulton, Li and Poon says ...

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Model-Based Fault Detection and Identification for Power Electronics Systems by Jason Poon Master of Science in Electrical Engineering and Computer Sciences University of California, Berkeley Professor Seth R. Sanders, Chair We present the analysis, design, and experimental implementation of a model-based fault detection and identification (FDI) method for switching power converters based on a ...

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Traditional Chinese Medicine (TCM) has been used for a long time in Hong Kong and China. There are misconceptions that TCM is not harmful as natural products are involved. In addition, large variation in clinical response to a standard dose of medicine was also noted in individuals with certain genetic makeup. Dr WT Poon has provided a review of the important TCM poisonings as well as differenc...

Phase transitions in colloid–polymer mixtures have attracted a large amount of attention over the last 20 years (W. C. K. Poon, J. Phys.: Condens. Matter, 2002, 14, R859; R. Tuinier, J. Rieger and C. G. de Kruif, Adv. Colloid Interface Sci., 2003, 103, 1). By comparison, the interfacial tension between the coexisting phases has received little attention. Here, we show that the ultralow interfac...

Inflammatory pseudotumor of the liver is a rare benign lesion that can mimic a malignant liver neoplasm. A case of inflammatory pseudotumor of the liver found in association with a malignant gastrointestinal stromal tumor (GIST) of the small bowel was reported. The inflammatory pseudotumor was misdiagnosed as a metastasis from the GIST by frozen section. A correct diagnosis was made only after ...