Through 1980s, management accounting researchers described the increasing irrelevance of traditional control and performance measurement systems. The Balanced Scorecard (BSC) is a critical business tool for a lot of organizations. It is a performance measurement system which translates mission and strategy into objectives. Strategy map approach is a development variant of BSC in which some nece...

An important assumption underlying virtually all approaches to multi-robot exploration is prior knowledge about their relative locations. This is due to the fact that robots need to merge their maps so as to coordinate their exploration strategies. The key step in map merging is to estimate the relative locations of the individual robots. This paper presents a novel approach to multi-robot map ...

Forward genetic screens in vertebrates are powerful tools to generate models relevant to human diseases, including neuropsychiatric disorders. Variability in phenotypic penetrance and expressivity is common in these disorders and behavioral mutant models, making their molecular-genetic mapping a formidable task. Using a 'phenotyping by segregation' strategy, we molecularly map the hypersensitiv...

A company depends on the definition and implementation of a set of projects aligned with the vision established by its senior management to accomplish its strategies. To this set of projects is given the name of portfolio. This paper implements a collaborative tool to support the construction and selection of a project portfolio aligned with the corporate strategy. The tool is capable of modeli...

Next-generation sequencing enables genome-wide genotyping of a large population and further facilitates the construction of a genetic linkage map. Low-coverage whole-genome sequencing has been employed for genetic linkage map construction in several species. However, this strategy generally requires available high-quality reference genomes and/or designed inbred pedigree lines, which restrict t...

from applied linguistic point of view, the fundamental question facing the language teachers, methodologists and course designers is which procedure is more effective in fl/sl: learning to use or using to learn? definitely, in order to be a competent language user, knowledge of language system is necessary, but it is not sufficient to be a successful language user. that is why there was a gradu...

An experiment and eye movement study investigated the strategies people use to orientate themselves in urban settings using a streetmap. Previous studies have suggested that the preferred strategy involves choosing salient landmarks to match between the scene and the map. We presented stimuli for which single-landmark matching was not the optimal strategy; the only unambiguous information avail...

A receiver with no a priori knowledge about its own states is dropped in an unknown environment comprising multiple signals of opportunity (SOPs) transmitters. Assuming that the receiver could control its maneuvers in the form of acceleration commands, two problems are considered. First, the minimal conditions under which such environment is completely observable are established. It is shown th...

Advances in next-generation sequencing technology have facilitated the discovery of single nucleotide polymorphisms (SNPs). Sequenom-based SNP-typing assays were developed for 1359 maize SNPs identified via comparative next-generation transcriptomic sequencing. Approximately 75% of these SNPs were successfully converted into genetic markers that can be scored reliably and used to generate a SNP...