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Heynes, Nicole Alicia - 2008

Since 1994 government has attempted through various sets of legislation and regulations tocreate a policy environment, which is conducive and supportive of effective recruitment andselection and service delivery. The Public Service has currently embarked on restructuringin an attempt to improve...

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Novel strategies to overcome barriers to commercialisation of new technologies: a case study from the Australian biotechnology industry

Hine, Damian; Millen, Damien - 2006

The biotechnology industry is shifting its value creation emphasis from R&D to manufacturing and market. Business models need to keep pace with this evolution. This paper reports on a single-case study of a new biotechnology firm, EpiTan Limited, and the life cycle stages it has progressed...

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Nutritional & Health Claimed Products Market Development in Serbia: Exploration of Findings Obtained from In Depth Interviews

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: motivations and barriers to offer N&Hclaimed products at domestic market and perception of consumer demand toward N …

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Internal Barriers in the Transition of Enterprises from Central Plan to Market

Vlachoutsicos, Charalambos - 1999

, little is being done to understand and to address the horrendous difficulties and barriers that attend the process of … paper is to present the insights revealed by our study on the barriers obstructing the transition of enterprises from … values. Successful transition might hinge more upon overcoming internal barriers of enterprises, than upon any other single …

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A study of the engagement of SMEs in the supply chain

Schofield, Clare - 2006

opportunities and barriers to their entry. Although an existing body of research exists on the supply chain, it is recognised that …. However, SMEs face barriers to their entry in the supply chain in comparison to larger enterprises. This has a negative impact … on SME growth and inhibits market competitiveness. Moreover, SMEs face structural and bureaucratic barriers set in place …

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Matter and symbols of the artificial

Rocha, L.M. - 2009

The study of complex systems should be based on a systems-theoretic framework which requires both self-organizing and symbolic dimensions. An inclusive framework based on the notion of semiotics is advanced to build models capable of representing, as well as evolving in their environments, with...

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Bootstrap planning: Theory and application

Chen, P.C. - 2008

We identify a general framework for weak planning called bootstrap planning, which is defined as global planning using only a local planner along with some memory for learning intermediate subgoals. We present a family of algorithms for bootstrap planning, and provide some initial theory on...

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Loss-sensitive decision rules for intrusion detection and response

Wang, Jia - 2004

When large numbers of alerts are reported by intrusion detection (ID) systems in very fine granularity, it prevents system administrators from handling the alerts effectively. This in turn degrades the usability of an intrusion detection system. Aside from detection, timely responses of...

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Learning from collective preferences, behavior, and beliefs

Vaughan, Jennifer Wortman - 2009

Machine learning has become one of the most active and exciting areas of computer science research, in large part because of its wide-spread applicability to problems as diverse as natural language processing, speech recognition, spam detection, search, computer vision, gene discovery, medical...

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Privacy-Preserving Surveillance Using Selective Revelation

Sweeney, Latanya - 2005

Following the events of September 11, 2001, many in the American public falsely believe they must choose between safety and privacy. This paper proposes an approach to technology (termed “Selective Revelation”) that allows data to be shared for surveillance purposes such that shared data...

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