Leading market analysts such as Gartner, Forrester Research and IDC expect again for 2012 an increase of global information technology (IT) spending between 3.7% and 6.9% compared to 2011. This trend emphasises the fact that ensuring the effectiveness and efficiency of IT or IT evaluation is a substantial task of strategic IT management. Weighing costs and benefits is already a real challenge f...

An-Nâbighâ, Zuhayr and Al-‘A?â are accepted among the leading poets in Jahiliyyah Period. These three well-known who have made a great contribution to development progress of genre eulogy-themed poetry period Jahiliyyah. They influenced interested Classical Arabic Literature even ones writing poems on neo-classical movement having occurred at beginning Literature. Three earned income by versify...

The management of IT carve-out projects is very challenging due to the strict time frame, the severe contractual penalties, the huge number of stakeholders and the various as well as unique IT tasks that have to be conducted. Up to now, there is no instrument for evaluating the readiness of the IT for a carve-out and also not for managing such a project. In order to address this, we develop a m...

Any public administration that produces translation data can be a provider of useful reusable data to meet its own translation needs and the ones of other public organizations and private companies that work with texts of the same domain. These data can also be crucial to produce domain-tuned Machine Translation systems. The organization's management of the translation process, the characterist...

This document describes the Cherenkov detector that is to be constructed for the Hall A neutron d2 experiment (E06-014). The inclusive nature of that experiment makes the addition of the Cerenkov counter for pion and proton rejection critical for the low energy bins. Monte Carlo and analysis of G E suggest particle rates of (assuming a 500MeV ee threshold on the the BigBite shower detector): • ...

This paper is based on the application of the People Capability Maturity Model (CMM) to the Foundation Bruno Kessler (FBK), a research centre located in Trento (Italy). People CMM is a framework to study the level of maturity of an organization in order to improve workforce's development and to help management to define people's capabilities in the organization. The project is an ongoing projec...

Democracy is widely praised as a great achievement of humanity. However, in recent years there has been an increasing amount concern that its functioning across the world may be eroding. In response, efforts to combat such change are emerging. Considering pervasiveness technology and capabilities, it no surprise much focus on use artificial intelligence(AI) this end. Questions how AI can best u...

P opular opinion of medical missionaries has undergone wide swings during the last 2 centuries. Individuals who traveled far from home, often into dangerous territory to spread their religious faith in conjunction with medical care, have been both praised enthusiastically for their benevolent work, and castigated as pompous, presumptuous, and overly pious. Considering the enormous effect these ...

Thank you for republishing the landmark paper by Cornfield et al., which the late George Comstock felt should be read by all epidemiologists at least once per year. Of the many innovative aspects for which this paper is praised, we would like to add here one that is rarely mentioned. Appendix B of the paper provides the algebraic proof of an important property of risk ratios described in the bo...

Kielikone MT stands for innovative machine translation R&D which has produced a theoretically and commercially successful MT product, the TranSmart® FinnishEnglish machine translation system. A prestigious jury indirectly praised also the theoretical quality of the system when it elected TranSmart the best Finnish software product of the year 1996. Hundreds of daily users in three major Finnish...