... UK and their partners at the TimeBank campaign, and the idea has been hailed as a vital tool for rebuilding trust and social capital Community time banks are widely regarded as a neat idea, but ... deep-seated social problems That is why policy-makers in Japan and China have adopted time banks so enthusiastically as a way of providing mutual support for their rapidly ageing populations, and ... banks, and contribute to ambitious activities in their after school club People in Maryland and California pay for legal advice in time credits, paid off sometimes by taking part in demonstrations...
Ngày tải lên: 06/03/2014, 10:20
... implications: “If what we have said is correct, it is not possible to preserve in a State or National Park, a complete replica on a small scale of the flora and fauna of a much larger area.” You cannot ... relatively small areas in which they actually work As an example of how things have already changed, consider the idea called the Buƒalo Commons In late 1987, two academic land-use planners at ... Services Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data Adams, Jonathan S The future of the wild : radical conservation for a crowded world / Jonathan S Adams p cm Includes bibliographical references...
Ngày tải lên: 17/02/2014, 17:20
Báo cáo hóa học: "The Catchment Feature Model: A Device for Multimodal Fusion and a Bridge between Signal and Sense" potx
... describes a research whose goal is to “understand and encapsulate gestural interaction in such a way that gesticulation can be treated as a datatype—like graphics and speech—and incorporated into any ... ability to learn semaphore vocabularies from examples An HMM may be applied in any situation in which one has a stream of input observations formulated as a sequence of feature vectors and a finite ... speech audio, time-tagged speech transcription, and derived signal data [106, 107, 108] To demonstrate the efficacy of the catchment feature concept, both as a device for language access and as a bridge...
Ngày tải lên: 23/06/2014, 01:20
Báo cáo khoa học: "A new experimental device for rapid measurement of the trunk equivalent modulus of elasticity on standing trees" potx
... routinely allow MOE determinations of standing tree with an accuracy reaching at least 95% as long as its trunk shape is presumed circular 3.1.2 Standing trees In a second approach based on a few sample ... Mokuzai Gakkaishi 36, (1990) 98-102 [17] Koizumi A. , Takada K., Ueda K., Radial growth and wood quality of plus trees of Japanese larch II Diameters at breast heights and trunk moduli of elasticity ... reproducible data in a short time The unit appears reliable to measure trunk deformations even in the case of lowquality surfaces related to bark shape High pressures can 358 J Launay et al be developed...
Ngày tải lên: 08/08/2014, 14:22
Báo cáo khoa hoc:" Retroperitoneoscopic radical nephrectomy with a small incision for renal cell carcinoma: Comparison with the conventional method" docx
... incision Page of 13 Tanaka M, Tokuda N, Koga H, Yokomizo A, Sakamoto N, Naito S: Hand assisted laparoscopic radical nephrectomy for renal carcinoma using a new abdominal wall sealing device J ... in cases In the latter, pathological tumor stage was T 1a in 25 cases, T1b in cases and larger T2 in cases Histological data and nuclear grade was available In the A method, 84.3% had clear cell ... T1N0M0 renal cell carcinoma That’s because we thought that laparoscopic approach caused peritoneal adhesion more than retroperitoneoscopic approach In T2-T3aN0M0 renal cell carcinoma as well as in...
Ngày tải lên: 11/08/2014, 07:21
báo cáo khoa học: " A radiographic analysis of tooth morphology following the use of a novel cyclical force device in orthodontics Chung H Kau" pps
... generated from a pulsed scan and required for image generation Image manipulation was carried out using the manufacturer’s software, Galaxis To increase the accuracy of the assessment, all three ... planes (sagittal, axial, and coronal) were utilized CBCT images were taken at two time frames; once at the start of treatment (T1) and again after six months of treatment (T2) Measurements of all ... surrounding bony areas facilitating a variable response to tooth movement [5] In another study, it has been reported that low magnitude mechanical signals are “anabolic” to bone when applied at a high...
Ngày tải lên: 11/08/2014, 20:21
Báo cáo khoa học: " A new resorbable device for ligation of blood vessels - A pilot study" pps
... the Animal Laboratory at Clinical Physiology, Department of Medical Sciences, Uppsala University, Uppsala, Sweden for invaluable assistance and access to the laboratory We also thank Lena Holm at ... device Höglund et al Acta Veterinaria Scandinavica 2011, 53:47 http://www.actavetscand.com/content/53/1/47 Page of Figure Haemostasis and tissue grip of renal artery The renal artery of an anaesthetised ... perforated band (B) when the band (A) was pulled through the channel (D) and a reverse-motion brake was formed A protrusion (F) and a matching receiver (G) were arranged at the channel entrance and...
Ngày tải lên: 12/08/2014, 18:22
IMAGE PROCESSING AND SUPER RESOLUTION METHODS FOR A LINEAR 3D RANGE IMAGE SCANNING DEVICE FOR FORENSIC IMAGING
... image along the scan direction 3.1 Imaging Device The imaging device consists of a linear actuator and a high definition (HD) camera, and two line lasers The camera is mounted on a under carriage ... the assumption of a global translation motion model and the space invariant degradation models It also has limited ability for inclusion of knowledge of spatial domain properties for regularization ... Using Eq (5) and Eq (6) we can get the values of α and θ We can now get image into an ideal image plane by applying affine transform Using affine transform, all input images are corrected for distortions...
Ngày tải lên: 24/08/2014, 10:38
a modified ring shear test device for determining the hydro-mechanical behaviour of unsaturated soils
Ngày tải lên: 14/11/2014, 13:22
A thermally driven two phase cooling device for CPU cooling
... REQUIREMENT FOR SINGLE CHIP PACKAGES (SIA, 2005) TABLE 3.1 SURFACE AREA AND BOILING HEAT TRANSFER PERFORMANCE OF VARIOUS FIN DESIGN TABLE 3.2 SURFACE AREA AND SURFACE AVERAGED BOILING HEAT TRANSFER PERFORMANCE ... chamber is a rectangular flattened heat pipe and mainly used for spreading heat from a small heater source to a larger area for heat rejection It replaces the thermally conductive base material ... bulk and by providing increased surface area for evaporation mass transfer Air-cooled Condenser Base plate (Evaporator) Figure 2.4 Commercially available miniature heat pipe coolers Zalman CPS-9500...
Ngày tải lên: 15/09/2015, 21:05
Development of a therapeutic trans sclera illuminated laser delivery device for retinal pathologies
... photocoagulator Rotate Clockwise – Translate downward Rotate Anti-clockwise – Translate upward Translate left Translate backward Translate forward Translate right Figure 1.10d: Current method – Translational ... develop an Observatory device for real-time global view of a stabilized retina and an Optomechanical system to perform laser scanning for treatment of diabetic retinopathy The Observatory device ... directed towards a non contact, small field of view and a piece meal approach to the delivery of laser to the retina This approach has its limited practical application as it assumes patients to...
Ngày tải lên: 04/10/2015, 15:52
AN0569 hardware and software resolution for a pointing device
... contribute to a loss of granularity, especially if a fixed scalar is applied Variable scalars (often referred to as ballistic gain) that apply a multiplier based on the number of incoming counts can supply ... it only requires a small amount of additional code, which executes on the host system Users also gain access to a wider variety of fractional gain and scaling factors than can be cost-effectively ... some examples of software fractional gain and scaling effects on the hardware resolution of different pointing devices These scaling factors are sometimes mistakenly interpreted as having the ability...
Ngày tải lên: 11/01/2016, 11:51
CGrand Challenges: A Strategic Plan for Bridge Engineering
... of statistical databases for LRFD calibration, e.g maintenance, operations and geotechnical databases Development of performance standards for security Completion and adoption state-of-the-art ... professional training (including practices, materials and policies) Development of educational materials (materials appropriate to undergraduate education as opposed to available professional education ... be warranted Additionally, there are areas of the specification that are currently undergoing major revision A new conditional evaluation manual including the load and resistance factor rating...
Ngày tải lên: 06/09/2012, 14:24
How to create a Raid Device using Madadm
... partitions of sda5,sda6,sda7 This is how we can create a Raid device with level ***RAID 1*** #mdadm create /dev/md0 level=1 raid-devices=2 /dev/sda{5,6} This is how we can create a Raid device ... distributed in all If one hard disk fails, data on that can be regenerated by the data and parity information in the other two hard disks ###RAID### Raid :need disks Raid :need disks Raid :need disks ... thus increasing the read performance But can be utilize only 50% of the total size Level 5: It is a combination of striping and parity Need at least three hard disks Both parity and data are distributed...
Ngày tải lên: 19/09/2012, 09:21
Báo cáo y học: "High-Resolution Flow Cytometry: a Suitable Tool for Monitoring Aneuploid Prostate Cancer Cells after TMZ and TMZ-BioShuttle Treatment"
... Ishihara M, Kamiya N, Komiya A, Shimbo M, Suyama T, Sakamoto S, and Ichikawa T Bisphosphonate and low-dose dexamethasone treatment for patients with hormone-refractory prostate cancer Hinyokika ... (brachytherapy) [7] iv) The standard initial systemic therapy for locally advanced or metastatic disease is hormonal or androgen deprivation therapy (ADT) that may be performed by bilateral orchiectomy ... 84-90 Stathopoulos GP, Koutantos J, Vaslamatzis MM, Athanasiadis A, Papadopoulos G, Labrodimou G, Stathopoulos J, and Rigatos S Survival after cytotoxic chemotherapy in patients with advanced hormone-resistant...
Ngày tải lên: 26/10/2012, 09:48
Báo cáo y học: "Rasburicase represents a new tool for hyperuricemia in tumor lysis syndrome and in gout Lisa Cammalleri and Mariano Malaguarnera"
... hyperuricemia [21-24] Contemporary use of alkalinization, hydration and rasburicase at 0.10 mg/kg for 3-5 days maintains the same efficacy [25] Anyway, we may have favourable issues by changing the ... prevent and treat hyperuricemia include allopurinol and alkalinization, associated with an aggressive hydration Rasburicase presents various features that give it a more favourable profile than standard ... because each metabolic derangement is associated with remarkable clinical manifestations Hyperuricemia and hyperphosphatemia severely worsen renal functionality; hyperkalemia and hypocalcemia...
Ngày tải lên: 31/10/2012, 14:59
Some studies on a probabilistic framework for finding object-oriented information in unstructured data
... chapter: Generative and Discriminative classifiers McGraw-Hill, New York www.cs.cmu.edu/tom/newchapters.html [22] T S Jayram, Rajasekar Krishna-murthy, Sriram Raghavan, Shivakumar Vaithyanathan, ... challenges about scalability and adaptability of the previous approaches We have then adapted the probabilistic framework to a Vietnamese domain - real estate In practical, the results increased of ... to obtain the desired information in an efficient and direct manner Currently, there is a lot of information available in structured format on the web For example, an apartment on real estate website...
Ngày tải lên: 23/11/2012, 15:04
academic-writing-a-practical-guide-for-students
... extract is an example of academic register, used, for instance, in dissertations and academic journals This typically uses cautious language like apparent and often, as well as academic vocabulary ... ‘There are so many strains of malaria parasite,’ said one scientist, ‘and each is able to alter its chemical surface and trick its way past the body’s defences We’d need a remarkable vaccine ... topics are examined and compared, one after another c) For and against – the advantages and disadvantages of two systems are discussed Complete the plan for the title in (1) using ideas from (1) a) ...
Ngày tải lên: 18/03/2013, 01:44
A WEB APPLICANTION FOR THE TOURISM INDUSTRY IN HANOI by Dinh Huu Son
... transmission of payment transaction data, and associated remittance advice data, from a payee to their bank, for onforwarding (via banks and/or value-added network operators) to the payee's bank ... can spare or days, you are advised to visit Vientiane, Laos capital with legendary pagodas such as Srisakhet Hortakeo, Thatluang From Hanoi, many interesting tours are available because they are ... professional editor for creating and managing Web sites and pages Because it incorporates all of Dreamweaver's page design and site management tools, UltraDev makes it easy to create, manage, and edit...
Ngày tải lên: 07/04/2013, 23:51
a decentralized approach for implementing identity management in cloud computing
... a hybrid misuse-anomaly detection approach to take advantage of anomaly detection’s ability to detect new attacks, but without the approach’s accompanying high rate of false positives There are ... anomaly behavior or not As demonstrated in [11], a basic assumption of anomaly detection is that attacks differ from normal behavior But the definition of what’s normal and what’s abnormal is ambiguous ... bottleneck of the performance of the cloud III Virtualization as an indispensable ingredient for almost every cloud realizes the abstraction that all the applications appear to the users as if they were...
Ngày tải lên: 31/07/2013, 09:43