How to Effectively Reduce Sales Call Reluctance by Kathryn Thornhill, Allen F. Wysocki, Riley Thompson

“… This document is intended for salespeople who must seek out potential customers, as opposed to waiting for prospects to enter a retail establishment. …”
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La préparation et le passage du recensement du Soudan 2008 by Eric Denis, Julien Dupuy

“…The census is a milestone of the peace agreement of 2005 that put an end to the civil war between the Nord and the South. The census results are extremely waited as they will determine the petrol dividend sharing, the parlement election of 2009 and the independence referendum of 2011. …”
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How to Effectively Reduce Sales Call Reluctance by Kathryn Thornhill, Allen F. Wysocki, Riley Thompson

“… This document is intended for salespeople who must seek out potential customers, as opposed to waiting for prospects to enter a retail establishment. …”
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L’écologie en milieux populaires : de la débrouillardise à l’action collective by Gaëtan Mangin, Alex Roy

“…While political measures to encourage sobriety are multiplying, the attention paid to the lifestyles of people in precarious situations is a reminder that ordinary expertise in sobriety has not waited for the crisis to develop and be shared. …”
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Cognitive network spectrum access for emergency communications by Zheng GUAN, Wen-hua QIAN, Mei-le YU

“…A wireless cognitive network opportunistic spectrum accessing scheme which provided delay guarantee for emergency communications was proposed.Primary user (PU) and secondary users (SU) shared the spectrum resources according to the discrete time two-level exhausted and limited (k=1) polling mechanism.Then,piggyback acknowledgement was used to realize the parallel scheduling between data transportation and users access,and then reducing the time consumption cause by the user switching.Finally,the mathematics functions was set up and achieved the closed form expressions for the mean waiting time theoretical analysis and simulation experiment.It is proved that the proposed scheme is both interference restraining and high throughput with the delay guaranteed.…”
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Driver Source-Based Traffic Control Approach for Mitigating Congestion in Freeway Bottlenecks by Minglun Li, Hu Yang, Bao Guo, Jianjun Dai, Pu Wang

“…On-ramp control is an effective way to mitigate traffic congestion in freeways. …”
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Modeling Anomalous Diffusion by a Subordinated Integrated Brownian Motion by Long Shi, Aiguo Xiao

“…We consider a particular type of continuous time random walk where the jump lengths between subsequent waiting times are correlated. …”
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The baby bump. Pregnancy’s new social visibility by Angela Biscaldi

“…In the last twenty years, the cultural meaning of pregnancy has been entirely upended: once a period of waiting, of suspension, almost mysterious and concealed, wrapped in prohibitions and fears, and surrounded by silence, pregnancy now seems to be something to be chronicled, savored and even exhibited by displaying the belly – painted or decorated – as if it were a trophy. …”
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A Simulation Approach to Decision Making in IT Service Strategy by Elena Orta, Mercedes Ruiz

“…We propose to use simulation modeling to support decision making in IT service strategy scope. Our main contribution is a simulation model that helps service providers analyze the consequences of changes in both the service capacity assigned to their customers and the tendency of service requests received on the fulfillment of a business rule associated with the strategic goal of customer satisfaction. …”
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Autonomous drone warfare by Martín Carbajo-Núñez OFM

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STUDY OF INLAND WATERWAY TRANSPORT ROUTING OPTIONS UNDER CONDITIONS OF UNCERTAINTY IN NAVIGATIONAL RESTRICTIONS by Velizara PENCHEVA, Asen ASENOV, Ivan GEORGIEV, Boril IVANOV, Ivelin ZANEV

“…A mathematical routing model is developed under the condition that it is not possible for a self-propelled vessel to continue its voyage due to draft limitation. Options including waiting for navigation opening, partial lightening on a barge, and a complete or partial modal shift to rail or road transport through an alternative port are considered. …”
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Research on linear solvability of network coding based cooperative recovery scheme by Jun YIN, Xueqi SHA, Lei WANG, Dengyin ZHANG, Yuwang YANG

“…The linear solvability of network coding based cooperative recovery/repair (CR) scheme was studied.Specifically, the solvability analysis model for network coding based CR scheme was established, the upper and lower bounds of the probability for any receiver to decode all original information under arbitrary order of Galois coding field were proposed and proved, and an on-line solvability judgement algorithm was designed by improvement of Gauss-Jordan algorithm.Numerical results validate the compactness of the proposed upper and lower bounds as well as the short-time decoding waiting delay of the improved Gauss-Jordan algorithm.Node deployment experiments show that the decoding complexity of the improved Gauss Jordan algorithm is reduced by 35% compared with the traditional Gauss algorithm.…”
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Global Insights from Patients, Providers, and Staff on Challenges and Solutions in Managing Neovascular Age-Related Macular Degeneration by Anat Loewenstein, Michelle Sylvanowicz, Winfried M. Amoaku, Tariq Aslam, Chui Ming Gemmy Cheung, Bora Eldem, Robert P. Finger, Richard P. Gale, Laurent Kodjikian, Adrian Koh, Jean-François Korobelnik, Xiaofeng Lin, Paul Mitchell, Moira Murphy, Mali Okada, Ian Pearce, Francisco J. Rodriguez, Jude Stern, S. James Talks, David T. Wong, Tien Yin Wong, Focke Ziemssen, Jane Barratt

“…Addressing the opportunities raised could improve patient adherence to treatment and potentially outcomes, reduce appointment burden, and increase clinic capacity.…”
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ADvAnced PhysioTherapy in MuSculosKeletal Triage: Investigating prognostic factors, healthcare utilisation and clinical outcomes (ADAPT MSK) - a cohort study protocol. [version 2;... by Louise Keating, Fiona Callan, Helen P. French, Sarah Casserley-Feeney

Subjects: “…rheumatology triage; predictors of outcome; musculoskeletal pain…”
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E-Sağlık Okuryazarlığı ve Akılcı İlaç Kullanımı Farkındalığı Arasındaki İlişkinin Belirlenmesine Yönelik Bir Araştırma by Nurperihan Tosun, Haydar Hoşgör

“…Akılcı İlaç Kullanımı Farkındalığı (AİKF), tedavi sürecinin başarısında yaşamsal bir rol oynar. …”
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Optimization Algorithm of Logistics Transportation Cost of Prefabricated Building Components for Project Management by Xiaojiang Yang

“…According to the scheduling results, through the waiting unloading time cost, transportation cost, and penalty cost, the total cost objective function is built to obtain the optimal cost. …”
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Altruistic Backoff: Collision Avoidance for Receiver-Initiated MAC Protocols for Wireless Sensor Networks by Xenofon Fafoutis, Charalampos Orfanidis, Nicola Dragoni

“…In this paper, we present altruistic backoff (AB), a novel collision avoidance mechanism that aims to avoid collisions before the transmission of a beacon. …”
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FDR coding and decoding algorithm for reliable transmission in underwater acoustic network by Lijuan WANG, Xiujuan DU, Chong LI

“…By analyzing the shortcomings of RLT coding and decoding algorithm,a filtering dimension reduction (FDR) algorithm was proposed,which eliminated the waiting time of the traditional decoding algorithm and achieves fast decoding.In addition,XOR operation between encoded packages effectively increased the number of one-degree encoded packages,and improved decoding probability while reducing transmission delay.An optimized degree distribution function for FDR decoding algorithm was proposed,which increased the proportion of two-degree,three-degree and four-degree encoded packages,further increased the probability of one-degree packet,so that speeded up the decoding progress.Simulation results with NS3 show that the decoding success probability of FDR algorithms higher than RLT algorithm.…”
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