Competence Management calls for automated knowledge-based services in order to take full advantage from the know-how of a company. This paper presents an integrated semantic-based knowledge management system providing decision support services for several activities typical of competence management, including Core Competence evaluation, human resources allocation, training programs planning. Kn...

This paper describes the results of an exploratory study of blanket concepts based on SiC/SiC structure and LiPb breeder. An assessment of the performance of these concepts for advanced power plant application i s presented, key issues are identified, and constraints relating to the SiC/SiC properties are discussed.

Public institutions, in their efforts to promote meaningful citizen engagement, are increasingly looking at the democratic potential of Information and Communication Technologies (ICTs). Previous studies suggest that such initiatives seem to be impeded by socio-technical integration barriers such as low sustainability, poor citizen acceptance, coordination difficulties, lack of understanding, a...

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The Toowoomba Veterinary Laboratory tests for antibiotic resistance through passive surveillance of bacterial pathogens from diseased, frequently intensively managed, animals. Testing is carried out on the basis of the number of animals involved, the nature and severity of the disease and the identity and significance of the bacterium, the results guiding the submitting veterinarian in implemen...

Objective: The burden of obesity is currently enormous, necessitating a novel strategy to complement the existing ones. Accordingly, genetic predisposition is suspected in many cases of the disease, which can potentially be used as therapeutic targets. However, there are differing viewpoints on the suspect genes, prompting the current review to articulate the genes and their mechanisms. Eight (...

There has been great interest in deciding whether a combinatorial structure satisfies some property, or in estimating the value of some numerical function associated with this combinatorial structure, by considering only a randomly chosen substructure of sufficiently large, but constant size. These problems are called property testing and parameter testing, where a property or parameter is said...

Dave Richards Artisan Software Tools Suite 701, Eagle Tower Montpelier Drive Cheltenham, UK, GL50 1TA [email protected] Andrew Stuart Westinghouse Rail Systems Ltd PO Box 79 Pew Hill, Langley Park Chippenham, Wiltshire, SN15 1JD, UK [email protected] Matthew Hause Artisan Software Tools Suite 701, Eagle Tower Montpelier Drive Cheltenham, UK, GL50 1TA Matthew.Hause@arti...

In this paper we show how to automatically generate test sequences that are aimed at testing the interconnections of embedded and communicating systems. Our proposal is based on the connectivity fault model proposed by [8], where faults may occur in the interface between the software and its environment rather than in the software implementation. We show that the test generation task can be car...

Parroting exercises in a foreign language are designed to make a student’s speech more native-like through imitation of specific native speech templates. In this paper we describe novel template-based methods for automatically estimating subjective scores for both intonation and rhythm in nonnative English. In terms of accuracy when automatically classifying a parroting speaker as a native or a...