As financial institutions look for ways to reduce costs, manage risk, and extract more value from exponentially increasing amounts of data, technology will emerge as both a crucial enabler and competitive advantage. Financial institutions that invest in developing and managing more flexible infrastructure for mission-critical workloads will significantly improve return on investment (ROI), decr...

It is the purpose of this study to develop an economical Robust design methodology for micro-scale secondary flow control in compact inlet diffusers. To illustrate the potential of economical Robust Design methodology, two different mission strategies were considered for the subject inlet, namely (1) Maximum Performance, and (2) Maximum HCF Life Expectancy. The Maximum Performance mission maxim...

Good clinical practice (GCP) guidelines should always be implemented and obeyed in clinical interventional studies. In this mini-review, we will address several burning questions relating to GCP in a concise 'frequently asked questions' format. While compliance to current rules and regulations is our mission, we also wish to play devil's advocate attempting to translate the rules into sizeable ...

This paper focuses on connection management for mission critical real-time applications over ATM networks. Traditional connection management generally requires Quality-of-Service (QoS) parameters to be specified as fixed values, and can only provide a QoS that is constant throughout the lifetime of an admitted connection. Such simplistic specification and consequent resource management offer no...

The Space Interferometry Mission is expected to be launched in 2004. The mission, following closely the recommendations of the Bahcall Commission, will determine positions of point sources to an accuracy of 4 as globally and to 1 as over small angles (1). The instrument, based on the OSI architecture proposed by Michael Shao, will reach 20 mag in 3 10 4 sec and has a nominal lifetime of 5 yr. A...

FEED manufacturers are often forced by circumstances to focus on short-term concerns such as: How many tons were produced this week? How many customers do I have, or how much down time did I have this week? While important, short-term problems can cause manufacturers to focus on solving problems rather than pursuing the company’s mission. Manufacturers who regularly examine their company’s miss...

introduction: nursing is among most stressful jobs and a common syndrome is job burnout in nurses caused by stress. enhancing coping capacity is an effective factor in dealing with stresses. thus it seems significant to study the effect of sense of humour on job burnout and nurses’ resiliency. objective: the present study was conducted to determie the relationship between severity of nurses’ bu...