Touch-points

This figure shows that there are many touching points between the lower and upper excited states. The shown structures are all on the ground-state surface. At... 

Our core purpose at The Home Depot is to improve everything we touch. Retailing is a tough game, and to survive - and thrive - we must deliver on our brand promise at every touch point. In other words, what we tell our customers must be exactly what we execute, with no disconnects between what people see in our advertisements and what they experience in our stores. If we run a TV commercial about a father and son building a treehouse and picking out the lumber at The... 

The guiding principle of metric development is to have a stable system or process to collect, review, and draw conclusions. All metrics should be developed with stakeholders input taking into account the requirements and needs of the customers. This includes the touch points of the downstream quality processes. Without this input and understanding metrics may be developed within a silo and hold little value, causing both frustration at the leadership as well as the staff level. Without proper... 

Project metrics should be identified to measure the actual benefit of the change versus the expected result following the implementation. Many times, corporations implement a change and move on to the next project without fully understanding whether or not the changes achieved the desired result. A project that does not achieve the expected benefits can lead to an ineffective process, conflicts with associated touch points with other processes, or frustration from staff and customers. 

Fig. 2. Glycoside chains and the Kunitz domains. Amino acid and glycoside sequences for the two Kunitz-binding domains of Bik are shown. C-C across a chain indicates a cross-link. Predicted fragmentation points for Bik due to trypsin exposure are shown by lines with black dots. The aprotinin-matching peptides of each Kunitz domain are shown by a darkened circle. The first peptide of aprotinin is indicated as Aprol. The X-ray structure-predicted touch points between Bik and trypsin are marked. The predicted PI peptide of the active inhibitory site sequence is indicated as well.

Fig. 7 Possible geometries of the particle layer a Model 1 and b Model 2 and c elementary cell as a triangle connecting the touched points of adjacent spheres within the hexagonally packed particle layer...

You might think that something similar would apply to the stiffness (or modulus of elasticity), but this is not so. The fibres are only bonded where they touch each other. These touching points lie at a distance from each other of about ... 

Polymers may cause either attraction or repulsion between parts. A few important mechanisms are shown in Figure Cl-7. If the polymer does not adsorb on the interface, but has a high concentration in the bulk fluid, it will pull water away from points where particles touch. This gives a lower pressure (often quite negative ) near these touching points and forces the particles together. This depletion binding is important in toothpaste. 

In order to develop the criterion more quantitatively, consider the sequence of phase-space portraits shown in Figs. 5.4(a) - (d). This sequence suggests that, as the control parameter K increases, the diameter of the resonance islands at Z = 0 mod 27t grows in action. In order to predict the touching point of the resonances, we need the widths of the resonances as a function of K. The width of the resonances is derived on the basis of the Hamiltonian (5.2.1). Since the dynamics induced by H is equivalent to the chaotic mapping (5.1.6), the Hamiltonian H itself cannot be treated analytically and has to be simplified. One way is to consider only the average effect of the periodic 6 kicks in (5.2.1). The average perturbation... 

Figure 6.36 Shear rate at which the shear viscosity suddenly jumps dis-continuously upward as a function of the volume fraction of poly(vinyI chloride) (PVC) spheres of various diameters in dioctyl phthalate. Point A denotes the volume fraction at which two-dimensional hexagonal close-packed layers of spheres first touch. Point B is the volume fraction for three-dimensional simple cubic packing. (From Hoffman, reprinted from Trans. Soc. Rheol. 16 155, Copyright 1972 American Institute of Physics.)...

Figure 6.5. Conical intersection of two potential energy surfaces S, and Sg the coordinates x, and Xj define the branching space, while the touching point corresponds to an (F - 2)-dimensional hyperline. Excitation of reactant R yields R, and passage through the funnel yields products P, and P, (by permission from Klessinger, 1995).

In Type I reactions the situations depicted in Figure 8 occur. P at the touching point will be high when the molecular fragments relative velocity, v, is low [101]. The opposite is also true. This is expressed by [32a]... 

As the liquid content is increased, the pendular state will remain until the pendular bonds start to coalesce and liquid bridges form between non-touching points. This is known as the funicular state (Figure 11.20). The state depends on the degree of liquid saturation or voidage saturation, which is defined as the ratio of the liquid volume to the total volume of pores in the powder bed. Typically, a powder bed will remain in the pendular state until the liquid saturation reaches around 25 percent, and in the funicular state between 25 and 80 percent. 

The contact sites are the touch points of the oligomer s subunits (i.e., they are near each other). Neighboring partial sequences can be identified via cross-linking studies with artificially introduced cysteine residues. This requires that the cysteine residues do not change the function and conformation of the protein (Figure 8.9). 

The chapter begins with backgroimd information on the Tunisian EE system. It proceeds with a description of the research design and methods and a description of the people and questions that comprise the dataset. The study then details themes that emerge from respondents interviews, begiiuiing with their references to historical touch points, their view of the curriculum, the theme of regulation, and the theme of tension between internal and external pressures. Respondents address internationally comparative issues such as the French inheritance in Tunisia s system. 

Touch points on the fabric inner surface draw off the sweat. Sweat is wicked off the skin to the outside of the fabric, where it spreads rapidly for evaporation. 

FVA uses standard forecast performance measurements (metrics) to identify value-added or non-value-added activities in the process that contribute to the accuracy or inaccuracy of the demand forecast. The result is a mechanism that reduces non-value-added touch points, thus improving the overall accuracy. Companies that have successfully implemented FVA have experienced significant improvement in overall forecast accuracy and reduced cycle times. If an activity does not improve the accuracy of the statistical baseline forecast, it should be eliminated, or minimized (simplified), to reduce cycle time and resources. 

Implementing FVA into the demand management process requires that forecasts be recorded and saved before and after each cycle. Having the capabilities to store forecast history by a stream of activities (e.g., consensus forecast adjustments, managerial overrides, price lift calculations, etc.) is critical to measuring the value-added, or non-value-added, contribution to the overall process. Utilizing the statistical baseline forecast as the default is the key to establishing a benchmark to measure the effectiveness of all the touch points in the process. Unfortunately, few companies capture the appropriate data, or the level of detail on a historical basis, to conduct FVA. This is an opportunity. 

Fig. A.2 Case II Given the load impedance Z and the characteristic impedance Zj as points in the complex plane (troth real). The low impedance Zt is obtained by drawing the tangent from Zl to the circle z = Zt ei. Next, project the touching point A upon the real axis to obtain point B, which determines Zt. The points ZJ and Zt, = Zl complet y determine the transformation circle going through Zl. Note Only valid for the rectangular coordinate system.

Solution Draw a circle through B2 and B3 with its center on the real axis (we assume Z is real). As shown in Fig. A.4, this circle intersects the real axis at the extreme impedances Z/ and Z. Next, draw a tangent to the above circle from the origin 0. The touching point is denoted T. Finally, draw a circle with center at 0 and radius OT. It intersects the real axis at point T. OT1 is the desired characteristic impedance Zi. 

The operational, services, and customer component areas are integrally connected in the modem service value chain network. Data is pooled, shared, exchanged, and cross-concept applied (between customer servicing, operations, and business strategies) to provide new learning and new customer solutions. The component areas come together at the service encounter touch-point . The customer receives the business s demand-driven, appropriate, approximated, value-added set of services. This mix is intelligently sourced and retrieved from its networked combinations of databases. 

The business Web site offers a range of eustomer touch-points . These eustomer eneounter points have several performanee and value-efieetor blocks. These are displayed in the virtual serviee value netwoik framewoik, whieh is displayed in Figure 2. 

Efficient design of the Web site (with the use of appropriate technologies) may reduce customer cycle-time (customer Web site access time to source, retrieve, and absorb desired information) (Malcinski, Dominick, Hartrick, 2001 Cutler Sterne, 2002), reduce bottlenecks, and possibly improve Web site effectiveness. Thus touch-point information trade-rates between the customer and the business service value net-woik remain dependent variable areas that may be improved. 

The strategy ofthe business has avital connection to the virtual service encounter. If the strategy is one of low service integration, then the business will not be delivering high levels of value-added service, but rather will deliver more standard service offerings. The service value chain network virtual encounter dimensions house the Web site and its visible interface. This interface offers customer touch-points whereby the customer may interact, and may seek (or demand) services from the business. 

For a new product to have any real ehanee of success, the product and the packaging must be aligned with the brand s personality and promise. This is known as consonance and it really matters Failure to align these three key touch points creates undesirable tensions within the product (known as dissonance), which can have a really debilitating effect on new products. 

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