The PX index fell 0.6% over the week. Fortuna gained 3.8% ahead of its ex-dividend date while NWR dropped 12.3% as its majority owner announced plans to sell shares. CEZ extended a reactor shutdown and its managers sold shares. Pegas announced a 55-60m investment in Egypt. The upcoming week may see negative sentiment continue given weak prior US jobs data and upcoming central bank meetings.
Cloud Economics in Training and SimulationNane Kratzke
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This slide presents a use case how to adopt IaaS cloud computing in higher education. It is shown that virtual labs can provide a more than 25 times cost advantage compared to classical dedicated on-premise in-house labs.
Transforming the Customer Experience in Retail Branch Banking (Credit Union C...NAFCU Services Corporation
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The pressure is on the financial industry to efficiently provide their customers with the same presence, preference and easy access to everyday services that can be experienced across other industries such as retail, travel and hospitality. How do credit unions create the right road map to incrementally improve their branch experience, all the while, delighting customers and cementing profitable long term relationships? In this 2012 Strategic Growth Conference session, check out the latest trends and how to integrate innovative technology solutions into your credit unions roadmap! More info at: www.nafcu.org/ncr
In order to deliver an exceptional member experience, one that truly drives loyalty, credit unions must understand the experiences they are delivering today. Experiences are made up of big and small moments. They happen before the member even walks into the branch and continue long after the member leaves. In this 2011 NAFCU Annual Conference session you will understand what member experience is and how it drives loyalty. Plus, learn ways to immediately improve the member experience at your credit union.
Presented by Martie Woods, Chief Experience Officer, Deluxe Corporation
More info at http://www.nafcu.org/deluxe
What's Trending in NATO Commercial Technologies and GamesJay Gendron
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The document summarizes the key findings from analyzing text from NATO workshop reports on serious games and military training over time. The analysis used topic modeling, latent semantic analysis, and clustering to identify trends. Key findings include that scenario realism improved alongside discussions of social media and human factors. New requirements took about 1.5 years to emerge as solutions. User experience topics have persisted in discussions. Assessment of training outcomes has recently emerged as a focus. Qualitative trends across technology, industry, and government are also summarized.
The document discusses how the concept of time has changed throughout history according to societal needs. In pre-industrial times, time was marked by natural rhythms like sunrise and sunset. During the Industrial Revolution, time became geared towards industry and the demands of factory production lines and streamlined work schedules. More recently, the nuclear family model and concepts of vacations and weekends have further shaped modern society's relationship with time.
Video compression reduces file sizes by removing unnecessary video data through lossy compression. It balances video quality, file size, and hardware requirements by leveraging spatial and temporal redundancy between frames. Key factors that impact compression include the data rate, frame rate, quality settings, codec used, and resolution. Test compressions showed that adjusting settings like using a higher key frame rate and medium quality produced a smaller file size of 8.6MB compared to 2MB at lower quality, without a significant drop in video quality.
The document discusses a reunion for the 33rd Battalion of Seabees held 64 years after their service. It references where they served, the ship they sailed on called the M/S Torrens, and mentions their seal and what an island looked like during a battle they were involved in.
This document summarizes a student project called NewsMine that implements a user preferences-based news filtering and case study feature. The key features are:
1) Allowing users to define their own news sources and preferences to personalize the news retrieved.
2) Tracking both explicit user ratings via a "Like" button and implicit ratings by recording reading habits.
3) Integrating social networking via Facebook and Twitter to share and comment on news.
4) Providing a case study feature that shows different sources' reporting on a news item and related social media discussions.
Retailers need to focus on providing great customer experiences to drive revenue and create advocates for their brand, as unhappy customers and bad experiences can hurt revenue. While retailers should listen to customers, many may not be tuning in to understand what drives positive experiences that keep customers returning and recommending the brand to others.
Making Sense of the U.S. Economy and Housing Market (Credit Union Webinar Han...NAFCU Services Corporation
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Genworth's economist, Nathan Struemph, discusses informative economic updates and forecasts. You get a 360 degree view on economic trends, including a deeper dive into the U.S. housing market and will walk away with the critical information you need to introduce stronger more definitive strategies at your credit union. Recording available at http://www.nafcu.org/genworth.
Zonificacion climatica aplicada a suelosCarlos Mendez
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Este documento describe un estudio para generar una zonificaci坦n clim叩tica aplicada al levantamiento de suelos mediante el uso de 鱈ndices de humedad y pisos t辿rmicos. Se realizaron c叩lculos de evapotranspiraci坦n potencial, pruebas de zonificaci坦n clim叩tica y ajustes a instructivos existentes usando datos de campo y estaciones meteorol坦gicas. Los resultados incluyen mapas de zonificaci坦n clim叩tica seg炭n los m辿todos de Caldas-Holdridge y Caldas-Lang.
Due to dissatisfaction with customer service, analysts surveys advise that over a third of global retail banking customers moved providers in 2011. Losing this segment of customers reduces the opportunity to sell more financial products at the branch, negatively impacting profitability and growth. For more details: www.nafcu.org/ncr
What's Trending in NATO Commercial Technologies and GamesJay Gendron
油
The document summarizes the key findings from analyzing text from NATO workshop reports on serious games and military training over time. The analysis used topic modeling, latent semantic analysis, and clustering to identify trends. Key findings include that scenario realism improved alongside discussions of social media and human factors. New requirements took about 1.5 years to emerge as solutions. User experience topics have persisted in discussions. Assessment of training outcomes has recently emerged as a focus. Qualitative trends across technology, industry, and government are also summarized.
The document discusses how the concept of time has changed throughout history according to societal needs. In pre-industrial times, time was marked by natural rhythms like sunrise and sunset. During the Industrial Revolution, time became geared towards industry and the demands of factory production lines and streamlined work schedules. More recently, the nuclear family model and concepts of vacations and weekends have further shaped modern society's relationship with time.
Video compression reduces file sizes by removing unnecessary video data through lossy compression. It balances video quality, file size, and hardware requirements by leveraging spatial and temporal redundancy between frames. Key factors that impact compression include the data rate, frame rate, quality settings, codec used, and resolution. Test compressions showed that adjusting settings like using a higher key frame rate and medium quality produced a smaller file size of 8.6MB compared to 2MB at lower quality, without a significant drop in video quality.
The document discusses a reunion for the 33rd Battalion of Seabees held 64 years after their service. It references where they served, the ship they sailed on called the M/S Torrens, and mentions their seal and what an island looked like during a battle they were involved in.
This document summarizes a student project called NewsMine that implements a user preferences-based news filtering and case study feature. The key features are:
1) Allowing users to define their own news sources and preferences to personalize the news retrieved.
2) Tracking both explicit user ratings via a "Like" button and implicit ratings by recording reading habits.
3) Integrating social networking via Facebook and Twitter to share and comment on news.
4) Providing a case study feature that shows different sources' reporting on a news item and related social media discussions.
Retailers need to focus on providing great customer experiences to drive revenue and create advocates for their brand, as unhappy customers and bad experiences can hurt revenue. While retailers should listen to customers, many may not be tuning in to understand what drives positive experiences that keep customers returning and recommending the brand to others.
Making Sense of the U.S. Economy and Housing Market (Credit Union Webinar Han...NAFCU Services Corporation
油
Genworth's economist, Nathan Struemph, discusses informative economic updates and forecasts. You get a 360 degree view on economic trends, including a deeper dive into the U.S. housing market and will walk away with the critical information you need to introduce stronger more definitive strategies at your credit union. Recording available at http://www.nafcu.org/genworth.
Zonificacion climatica aplicada a suelosCarlos Mendez
油
Este documento describe un estudio para generar una zonificaci坦n clim叩tica aplicada al levantamiento de suelos mediante el uso de 鱈ndices de humedad y pisos t辿rmicos. Se realizaron c叩lculos de evapotranspiraci坦n potencial, pruebas de zonificaci坦n clim叩tica y ajustes a instructivos existentes usando datos de campo y estaciones meteorol坦gicas. Los resultados incluyen mapas de zonificaci坦n clim叩tica seg炭n los m辿todos de Caldas-Holdridge y Caldas-Lang.
Due to dissatisfaction with customer service, analysts surveys advise that over a third of global retail banking customers moved providers in 2011. Losing this segment of customers reduces the opportunity to sell more financial products at the branch, negatively impacting profitability and growth. For more details: www.nafcu.org/ncr