IDEAS AT WORK By tackling the soft issues such as information quality, credibility, and trust - SB improved its ability to address the hard ones: how much and where to invest HOW SMITHKLINE BEECHAM MAKES BETTER RESOURCE-ALLOCATION DECISIONS BY PAUL SHARPE AND TOM KEELIN greatest, the demands for funding were growing. SB's executives felt an acute need to rationalize their portlifehlood of any pharmaceuticals folio of development projects. The company. Ever since the 1989 merger patent on
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COSC5315 Group Project due: November 25/26, 2014 Exploration of Grammar/Acceptor/Language Applications Task: This is a group project for which up to four people can work together. Your task is to write a report of no more than seven pages on application of Grammars or Acceptors or Languages of any type or types, 0, 1, 2, or 3. One such application is a design of a CFG for an abbreviated version of java illustrated by the following java program. Your report must be well organized with
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Assignment: Binary Search Tree + Heap = Treap October 10, 2012 Binary search tree, as shown in figure 1, is a binary tree data structure which is used to hold key-value pairs and satisfies following properties; • The left subtree of any node contains only those nodes with keys less than the node’s key. • The right subtree of any node contains only those nodes with keys greater than the node’s key. key=10 val="AU" key=8 val="BN" key=15 val="TN" key=12 val="NZ" key=17 val="DL" key=19
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Abstract Species diversity in Guam’s limestone forests is extremely limited. In order to account the number of species available in comparison to the Panama tropical rainforests, data gathered from of 20x20 plots were recorded. Throughout this study, factors for Guam’s limited species diversity may be generalized but not fully confirmed. Overall the main purpose is to get an idea of what type of species are available in the limestone forests, as well as provide data for researchers to pursue
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Modeling Theory Instructor: Philip McIntire July 27, 2013 The environment in which decisions must be made is more complex than ever before. Informed consumers, employees, and shareholders demand greater public consciousness, responsibility, and accountability from corporate and governmental decision makers. Decision analysis captures the dynamic nature of decision processes by prescribing a decision strategy that indicates what action should be chosen initially and what further actions should
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James W. Taylor February 2012 Imperial College EMBA 2012 Quantitative Methods Individual Assignment This assignment consists of two parts. Part A is worth 50% of the marks, and Part B is worth the remaining 50%. Your report for the two parts should consist of no more than 1,500 words. Part A – Blanket Systems Blanket Systems is developing and testing a new computer workstation, OB1, which it will introduce to the market in the next 6 months. OB1 will be sold under a three-year warranty covering
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subtree in a parent tree. This type of algorithms are used in web mining, data mining and network mining. For Example: In Google when we search anything and imagine if all the data in Google data base is saved as tree, so, when we search, it gives all the subtree, its relative patterns and output it. In this program, there is a parent tree and input subtree, this program will search whether the input is in the parent tree and number of occurrence of subtree in parent tree. Let, 5,3,4,5,3,4
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EN1320 Composition I | Christmas in Colorado | Module 4 Essay: Write a Memoir | | Jeff Stucker | 4/29/2014 | | Last year my family and I decided to do something different for Christmas and go to Gunnison, Colorado to go skiing for a family Christmas trip. This would include me, my brother, my mom, my dad, and my grandparents. I was so excited ever since I had heard the news in October. I had only been to Colorado in the summer before and I had never spent Christmas away from home
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religious one centered around Jesus. In society I believe that Christmas has become all about the presents: whether it be the expectation of getting them or the stress of trying to find the perfectly impressive present for a loved one. Even the Christmas tree no longer has meaning, they are commercially grown to be chopped down and last in the house for two weeks. The holiday season has become all about spending money instead of about the glory of God. The only thing that should be important on Christmas
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my mom goes out and buys plain stockings and buys a bunch decorative stuff and we make our own stocking the way we want. Another thing we do is on Christmas eve is open our presents from other family members and we get to pick one present under the tree from our parents to open early. These are very fun traditions and I enjoy them greatly these are customs and traditions I would like to pass down to my children and share it with other people to enjoy with their own
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