I examined samples from a number of companys’ user publications using several automated reading measures and a graphics/text ratio. The goal was to answer two questions: Were there reliable differences in writing style among the competitors? If so, were these differences related to their rank position in published surveys of user satisfaction with documentation? Of the measures included in the ...

A companys ability to flexibly adapt to changing business requirements is one key factor to remain competitive. The required flexibility in people driven processes is usually achieved through ad-hoc workflows which are naturally highly unstructured. Effective guidance in ad-hoc workflows therefore requires a simultaneous consideration of multiple goals: support of individual work habits, classi...

Efficient consumer response (ECR) is a U.S. supply chain management strategy which attempts to address the inefficiencies which have led to excessive inventory and unnecessary costs at all levels within the grocery industry supply chain. This paper discusses the traditional grocery store format, the supermarket, and the ways in which inefficient business practices developed in the U.S. grocery ...

Amaç: Çalışmada, sanayideki dijital dönüşüm süreçleri ile Türkiye’de bakım yönetim ve kestirimci bilişim sistemleri kullanımlarının firmaya özgü durumlar karşısındaki olası farklılıklarının incelenmesi amaçlanmıştır. Yöntem: Ampirik yöntemin benimsendiği çalışmada, 641 sektör profesyoneline uygulanan anket elde edilen veriler sistem bütüncül yaklaşımlar ışığında parametrik olmayan Kruskall Wall...

Regulators in Australia have gotten the message. Rather than relying solely on the traditional approach to attorney regulation that relies heavily on complaints-driven systems of prosecuting alleged misconduct after it occurs, they have instituted a regulatory regime to help lawyers develop an “ethical infrastructure” enabling their practices to address the type of conduct that often leads to c...

There is much concern about the extent to which risk assessment tools designed to predict recidivism are equally valid for both Aboriginal and non-Aboriginal offenders. The current study compared Aboriginal and non-Aboriginal male sex offenders on items and total scores of the original and revised Static-99 and Static-2002 scales. The study included five independent Canadian samples with Static...

A system for selecting sentences from an imaged document for presentation as part of a document summary is presented. The extracts are identified without the use of optical character recognition. The sentences are selected based on a set of discrete features characterizing the words within a sentence and the location of the sentence within the imaged document. Each sentence is scored based on t...

Learning objects are under discussion in the context of electronic and in particular Web-based learning. Intuitively, they represent reusable units of learning content that can be consumed or studied within a single learning session, and that can be sequenced into larger units such as classes and courses if necessary or desired. To achieve these goals, making learning objects amenable to the te...

Structure and evolutionary history of a large family of NLR 1 proteins in the zebrafish 2 3 4 Kerstin Howe, Philipp H. Schiffer, Julia Zielinski, Thomas Wiehe, Gavin K. Laird, 5 John C. Marioni, Onuralp Soylemez, Fyodor Kondrashov, Maria Leptin 6 7 1 Wellcome Trust Sanger Institute, Cambridge, United Kingdom 8 2 Institut für Genetik, Universität zu Köln, Köln, Deutschland 9 3 The European Molec...