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Multilayer Transcoding with format portability for multicasting of single-layered video
(IEEE, 2005)
This paper proposes a novel multilayer video transcoding approach for multicasting pre-encoded video to heterogeneous end-systems via diverse grouping of networks. Multilayer transcoding is first addressed by means of ...
Strategic Human Resource Management of International Assignments
(Elsevier, 2007)
Throughout this chapter, we have studied five topics related to international HRM. First, we have examined the four major approaches to staffing foreign operations: ethnocentric, polycentric, geocentric, and regiocentric. ...
La gestion stratégique des affectations internationales
(Éditions de Liaisons, 2008)
La structure du chapitre. Dans les parties suivantes, nous examinerons d’abord les différentes approches de gestion du personnel international, les fonctions des affectations internationales, puis les différentes catégories ...
The adjustability of the expatriate manager: proposal of an improved measurement scale
(European Institute for Advanced Studies in Management, 2005)
The adjustability of expatriate managers has a major influence on the success or failure of their mission. Yet, because of the difficulty of measuring this antecedent, it does not always receive the attention that it ...
Guidance, Control and Trajectory Tracking of Small Fixed Wing Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAV's)
(2009-04)
Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAV's) have gained increasing considerations due to their low cost and increased autonomy. A large number of applications in the military and civilian fields. The present work considers a low level ...
A Six Sigma Define Phase Methodology for Service-Level Compliance Processes
(2007-12)
The world economy has been recently experiencing the shift towards services, a phenomenon that is referred to as services-based or services-led economy. A service generally combines activities of a more intangible nature, ...
Establishing Autonomous AUS-Quadrotor
(2009-10)
Vertical takeoff and landing Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (VTOL-UAVs) are superior to their counterparts fixed wing UAVs for urban applications. The objective of this thesis is to establish a VTOL UAV platform to complement ...
Cultural Schema and Reading Comprehension: A Means to an End
(2006-08)
Studies on good readers have identified a number of reading comprehension strategies to be highly useful. These strategies range from the simple to the complex. A strategy that has been recommended by cognitive scientists ...
Morphology for Planar Hexagonal Modular Self-Reconfigurable Robotic Systems
(2009-03)
This thesis primarily covers the design and implementation of a planar hexagonal Modular Self-Reconfigurable Robotic System (MSRRS) along with the construction of its reconfiguration path planner and control algorithm. ...
Coping with Neologisms in English / Arabic Translation
(2009-04)
This thesis explores the strategies Arab translators use when dealing with English new terms (neologisms) that do not readily have apparent equivalents in Arabic. The techniques or strategies, which will be identified in ...