The Traditional data warehouse did not contain data as today. Hence, it is difficult to retrieve these data and treat them. Furthermore, its content is not updated, which may lead to bad decisions. Data are typically loaded from conventional operational systems. Given that today’s decisions, in the business world, are becoming more and more in real time. Thus, the system supporting these decisi...

A terrified woman called police because her ex-boyfriend was breaking into her home. Upon arrival, police heard screams coming from the basement. They stopped halfway down the stairs and found the ex-boyfriend pointing a rifle at the floor. Officers observed a strange look on the subject’s face as he slowly raised the rifle in their direction. Both officers fired their weapons, killing the susp...

The scope of a site investigation, with an aim to accurately estimate the response of a foundation design, typically involves using the results of several geotechnical tests, located at various locations around a site. However, many of the traditional settlement relationships only use a single set of soil properties, generally varying with depth, to obtain a settlement estimate of a loaded area...

http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.anbehav.2015.08.020 0003-3472/© 2015 The Association for the Study of A Recent developments in the study of mating behaviour have emphasized the importance of strategic investment of limited reproductive resources. However, in many cases it can be difficult to interpret traits such as copula duration, because they are interacting phenotypes that ultimately depend upo...

Article history: Received 2 September 2010 Received in revised form 29 February 2012 Accepted 4 April 2012 Available online 17 April 2012

This paper seeks to provide a Caribbean Developmental State framework. It is recognised that the public sectors of many countries have undergone changes since the 1980s, as governments try to respond to the challenges of the new millennium. Recent years have seen wider-ranging reforms than any other period of the 20 century, although both the pace and extent of these reforms are greater in some...

abstract: new approaches to strategy have accepted strategic thinking as a complement or even an alternative for strategic planning. indeed, strategic thinking capability has been recognized as a characteristic of successful top managers in organizations. moreover, the extant literature emphasizes the fact that top level managers can be taught to think strategically. however, there is no compre...