BACKGROUND The Battery of Reasoning Tests 5 (BPR-5) aims to assess the reasoning ability of individuals, using sub-tests with different formats and contents that require basic processes of inductive and deductive reasoning for their resolution. The BPR has three sequential forms: BPR-5i (for children from first to fifth grade), BPR-5 - Form A (for children from sixth to eighth grade) and BPR-5 ...

Today, the development of information technology has led business process reengineering (BPR) into an age of inter-organizational BPR: rethinking and redesigning business processes at both the enterprise and supply chain level. Meanwhile, growth in BPR results in the popularity of business modeling techniques. The rapidly growing number of techniques induces the complexity in the selection of a...

Despite the widespread adoption of BPR, it has in many cases repeatedly failed to deliver its promised results. The lack of holistic implementation approach to exploiting BPR is seen as one of the important reasons amongst others, behind BPR failures. Yet, a relative void in the literature remains the scarcity of suitable models and frameworks that address the implementation issues surrounding ...

Most ofthe recent research on business process redesign (BPR) focused on people or management related issues. Completing a successful BPR project however, requires a disciplined liletliod to Inodel the target business processes effectively as well. Currently available process modeling methods fail to meet the specific BPR process characteristics (cross-functional, customer-oriented) and the ide...

BACKGROUND By-products of pickled radish (BPR) are considered food waste. Approximately 300 g/kg of the total mass of raw materials becomes BPR. Production of pickled radish has grown continuously and is presently about 40,000 metric tons annually in Korea. The objective of the present study was thus to explore the possibility of using BPR as a ruminant feed ingredient. RESULTS BPR contained ...

Business process reengineering (BPR) has been a popular business improvement strategy for the past decade. However, Holland and Kumar (Getting past the obstacles to successful reengineering, Business Horizons, 1995, p. 79) noted that 60–80% of BPR initiatives have been unsuccessful. An extensive review of the literature revealed significant gaps in research in this area of technology and innova...

Bayesian Personalized Ranking (BPR) is a representative pairwise learningmethod for optimizing recommendationmodels. It is widely known that the performance of BPR depends largely on the quality of the negative sampler. In this short paper, we make two contributions with respect to BPR. First, we find that sampling negative items from the whole space is unnecessary and may even degrade the perf...

However, despite the significant growth of the BPR concept, not all organisations embarking on BPR projects achieve their intended result. Hammer and Champy (1993) estimate that as many as 70 percent do not achieve the dramatic results they seek. Having BPR repeatedly at the top of the list of management issues in annual surveys of critical information systems reflects executives' failure to ei...

In a previous paper [5], the authors investigated extensively the Landweber-Araki Real cobordism spectrum MR ([1, 7]), and its stable summand at p = 2 called BPR. An Adams-like spectral sequence based on BPR was constructed, and homotopy groups of many spectra related to BPR were calculated. The goal of the present note is to begin investigating the question as to how BPR-theory contributes to ...

Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to compare the approaches towards implementation of business process reengineering (BPR), and to provide some evidence as to which approach offers a greater chance of success. Design/methodology/approach – A hospital case analysis is used to study where both top-down/ participative BPR and enterprise resource planning (ERP)-driven BPR were used to reengine...