Few companies have a clear strategic vision. The problem, say the authors, stems from the strategic-planning process itself, which usually involves preparing a large document, culled from a mishmash of data provided by people with conflicting agendas. That kind of process almost guarantees an unfocused strategy. Instead, companies should design the strategic-planning process by drawing a pictur...

A strong increase in the efficiency of isotope-selective infrared laser multiphoton dissociation 11 BCl 3 molecules natural mixture with 10 by radiation a pulsed CO 2 case admixture SF 6 molecules, which serve as sensitizer and simultaneously acceptors radicals, Cl atoms formed has been detected. The yield selectivity several times threshold energy density for decreases significantly their irra...

Mindful meditation is bedeviled by the tendency of meditators mind to wander away from concentrating on breath, or other focus, and wandering random subjects stimulated memories distractions. The underling goal training learn how silence incessant chatter unfocused mind, Poetically referred as monkey enable being in moment.The Cocktail Party Effect a well studied, but little understood, higher ...

Using a language game to elicit short sentences in various information structural conditions, we found that Finnish 4- to 5-year-olds already exhibit a characteristic interaction between prosody and word order in marking information structure. Providing insights into the acquisition of this complex system of interactions, the production data showed interesting parallels to adult speakers of Fin...

A commercially available CO2 laser scriber is used to perform the direct-writing ablation of polymethylmethacrylate (PMMA) substrates for microfluidic applications. The microfluidic designs are created using commercial layout software and are converted into the command signals required to drive the laser scriber in such a way as to reproduce the desired microchannel configuration on the surface...

This paper looks at the distributional pattern of NPIs under the exclusive focus particle only. Despite the commonly accepted view that only can license an NPI that appears within the unfocused part of its immediate scope, Wagner (2006) observes evidence contra this view from both DP-only and VP-only: (i) DP-only does not license an NPI that appears within the unfocused part of its left argumen...

Previous studies have suggested that focusing an element can enhance the activation of the focused element and bring about a number of processing benefits. However, whether and how this local prominence of information interacts with global discourse organization remains unclear. In the present study, we addressed this issue in two experiments. Readers were presented with four-sentence discourse...

Image fusion is one of the recent trends in image reg istration which is an essential field of image processing. The basic principle o f this paper is to fuse multi-focus images using simple statistical standard deviation. Firstly, the simple standard deviation for the k×k window inside each of the mult i-focus images was computed. The contribution in this paper came from the idea that the focu...