The paper examined the value system in Philippine firms against the backdrop of Eastern-Western cultural dynamics in East Asia. The Asian milieu presents co-existence of cultural stasis and unease -balance and tension between Eastern values and Western ideas. Successful Asian countries demonstrated their ability to blend conflicting cultures and highlight certain values in order to promote nati...

Threshold limit values (TLVs) are intended to protect workers from the severest effects of thermal stress and to establish the exposures to heat in working conditions. Earlier, acute heat strokes often occurred as a result of working in hot environments in Japan. However, acute heat strokes recently sometimes occurred in outdoor work environments such as industrial constructions and agriculture...

Laboratories are required to have a critical values policy as a patient safety measure. Serum sodium commonly is included in critical results lists, but a wide range of values are used. We studied all critical serum and whole blood sodium results called to clinicians during a 6-month period. Patients' electronic medical records were reviewed for clinical responses and patient outcomes. Of the 1...

Gene expression data often contain missing expression values. For the purpose of conducting an effective clustering analysis and since many algorithms for gene expression data analysis require a complete matrix of gene array values, choosing the most effective missing value estimation method is necessary. In this paper, the most commonly used imputation methods from literature are critically re...

Enumerating ramified coverings of the sphere with fixed ramification types is a well-known problem first considered by A. Hurwitz [5]. Up to now, explicit solutions have been obtained only for some families of ramified coverings, for instant, those realized by polynomials in one complex variable. In this paper we obtain an explicit answer for a large new family of coverings, namely, the coverin...

In this chapter we analyze the values used by Latent Sematic Indexing (LSI) for information retrieval. By manipulating the values in the Singular Value Decomposition (SVD) matrices, we find that a significant fraction of the values have little effect on overall performance, and can thus be removed (changed to zero). This allows us to convert the dense term by dimension and document by dimension...

The following is a modification of the first four sections of a paper with the same title published in the Anais da Academia Brasileira de Ciencias (volume 36, 245-259 (1964)), referred to herein as M [O]. The aim is to clarify the hypotheses of the original paper. The principal results are Theorems 4.1 and 4.2. Proofs of these theorems are found in §§5-10 of M [0]. Parts II and III are in M [O...

There are two types of critical values for birandom variable: the optimistic and pessimistic values. In this paper, some theoretical aspects of optimistic and pessimistic values of birandom variable are investigated. Based on the results, some properties of birandom chance-constrained programming models can be further discussed.