A Report on the Experiences of Implementing an MT System for Use in a Commercial Environment

Introduction

10.1093/oso/9780199673346.003.0001 ◽

2018 ◽

Author(s):

Christine Cheng

Keyword(s):

Theoretical Framework ◽

Political Authority ◽

The State ◽

Dual Nature ◽

For Profit ◽

Business Interests ◽

Local Populations ◽

Post Conflict ◽

Over Time ◽

Commercial Environment

This chapter introduces the concept of extralegal groups and a theoretical framework for analyzing them—how they emerge, develop, and become entrenched over time. It explores their dual nature as threats to the state and as local statebuilders. Formally, an extralegal group is defined as a set of individuals with a proven capacity for violence who work outside the law for profit and provide basic governance functions to sustain its business interests. This framing shows how political authority can develop as a by-product of the commercial environment, even where the state has little or no presence. In post-conflict societies, the predatory nature and historical abuses of citizens conducted in the name of the state means that government is not always more trusted or better able to look after the interests of local populations than an extralegal group. Ultimately, extralegal groups blur the lines between the formal and informal; the licit and illicit.

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The Promise and Problem of E-Assessment

The Oxford Handbook of Digital Technologies and Mental Health ◽

10.1093/oxfordhb/9780190218058.013.26 ◽

2020 ◽

pp. 299-313

Author(s):

Michael D. Franzen ◽

Matthew J. L. Page

Keyword(s):

Psychological Assessment ◽

Ecological Validity ◽

Handheld Devices ◽

Great Promise ◽

Research Environment ◽

New Methods ◽

Desktop Computers ◽

Commercial Environment

There has been an explosion in the development of electronic methods for psychological assessment. These include use of handheld devices, desktop computers, and platform-based Internet methods. This development has occurred separately in the commercial environment and in the research environment. This development of new methods presents great promise to improve the accuracy, ecological validity, and range of constructs in psychological assessment. However there are also many problems involved in the development of these electronic methods, including the need to train clinicians in their use, the need to develop safeguards for privacy, and the need to develop methods to ensure the integrity of the data collected. This chapter outlines some of the main considerations in moving forward.

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A method for reducing inbreeding with Best Linear Unbiased Prediction

Proceedings of the British Society of Animal Production (1972) ◽

10.1017/s030822960002362x ◽

1993 ◽

Vol 1993 ◽

pp. 33-33

Author(s):

B Grundy ◽

WG Hill

Keyword(s):

Best Linear Unbiased Prediction ◽

Breeding Value ◽

Best Linear Unbiased Predictor ◽

Linear Unbiased Prediction ◽

Genetic Merit ◽

Selection Decisions ◽

Best Linear Unbiased ◽

Estimated Breeding Value ◽

Commercial Environment ◽

Unbiased Prediction

An optimum way of selecting animals is through a prediction of their genetic merit (estimated breeding value, EBV), which can be achieved using a best linear unbiased predictor (BLUP) (Henderson, 1975). Selection decisions in a commercial environment, however, are rarely made solely on genetic merit but also on additional factors, an important example of which is to limit the accumulation of inbreeding. Comparison of rates of inbreeding under BLUP for a range of hentabilities highlights a trend of increasing inbreeding with decreasing heritability. It is therefore proposed that selection using a heritability which is artificially raised would yield lower rates of inbreeding than would otherwise be the case.

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Protection Afforded Infectious Bronchitis Virus-Vaccinated Sentinel Chickens Raised in a Commercial Environment

Avian Diseases ◽

10.2307/1591158 ◽

1989 ◽

Vol 33 (4) ◽

pp. 764 ◽

Cited By ~ 13

Author(s):

J. Gelb ◽

J. K. Rosenberger ◽

P. A. Fries ◽

Sandra S. Cloud ◽

E. M. Odor ◽

...

Keyword(s):

Infectious Bronchitis Virus ◽

Infectious Bronchitis ◽

Commercial Environment

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Interesting Haydn: On Attention's Materials

Journal of the American Musicological Society ◽

10.1525/jams.2018.71.3.655 ◽

2018 ◽

Vol 71 (3) ◽

pp. 655-701 ◽

Cited By ~ 2

Author(s):

Nicholas Mathew

Keyword(s):

Eighteenth Century ◽

Commercial Society ◽

Late Eighteenth Century ◽

Late Eighteenth ◽

Commercial Environment

This article examines the idea of interest and the interesting in the late eighteenth century through Haydn's London experiences of the 1790s. It argues that several of Haydn's London compositions, together with the surviving records of his English trips, bear the traces of a metropolitan mediascape and urban commercial environment in which attention and desire were newly conceivable in terms of the psychic “investments” of interest—a concept that notably oscillates between what we would nowadays consider separate economic and aesthetic meanings. Looking again at Haydn's late encounter with England's burgeoning commercial society might prompt musicologists to rethink the nature of their own scholarly interests, as well as the deeper histories of currently popular methodological paradigms that aim to resolve musicology's objects of study into networks of people and things gathered together by entangled interests and “concerns.”

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Moderating Role of Environmental Settings in Relationship Between Product Innovativeness and Its Performance During the Launch

Economics and Business ◽

10.1515/eb-2017-0017 ◽

2017 ◽

Vol 31 (1) ◽

pp. 44-54

Author(s):

Indrė Brazauskaitė ◽

Viltė Auruškevičienė

Keyword(s):

New Product ◽

Product Performance ◽

Product Innovativeness ◽

Sales Channel ◽

Channel Characteristics ◽

New Product Performance ◽

The Relationship ◽

Moderating Role ◽

Commercial Environment

AbstractThe current research depicts the relationship between new product innovativeness and its performance, which was addressed in previous studies; yet the results remain contradictive with little focus on environmental settings. The paper aims to reveal the role of commercial environment towards new product performance, which allows forecasting the performance on the basis of expected settings and exploring the link between new product innovativeness and its performance in a more detailed way. In the study, moderating environmental settings are defined as a set of marketplace characteristics on market level, company commercial characteristics, and a set of sales channel characteristics on retailer’s category level. Research contributes to the following areas: reveals the role of environment towards performance and allows forecasting new product performance on the basis of expected settings.

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