... OFFUTT, Program Officer SUSANNA CLARENDON, Financial Associate PANOLA GOLSON, Project Assistant ANA-MARIA IGNAT, Project Assistant SHANNA LIBERMAN, Project Assistant NAE = National Academy of Engineering ... Laboratory, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, Sandia National Laboratories, Los Alamos National Laboratory, National Renewable Energy Laboratory, Argonne National Laboratory, Oak Ridge National ... technical area is a major collaborative effort of the individual partners, the national laboratories, and a few universities The Pacific Northwest National Laboratory, Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory,...
Ngày tải lên: 06/03/2014, 15:20
... FEMA Federal Emergency Management Agency INEEL Idaho National Engineering and Environmental Laboratory NASA National Aeronautics and Space Administration NIST National Institute of Standards and ... the value of large-scale testing data (as compared to observational data) in the development and validation of computer simulations as a vehicle for (1) public education, (2) the validation of ... meteorologist for the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration's (NOAA) Hurricane Research Division (HRD), located at the Atlantic Oceanographic and Meteorological Laboratory in Miami, Florida At...
Ngày tải lên: 08/03/2014, 19:20
The Fight for a Free Sea: A Chronicle of the War of 1812 pot
... quarters before the Java was fatally damaged Her masts and yards were crashing to the deck and the slaughter among the crew was already appalling Marines and seamen gathered in the gangways and ... Dearborn might carry out his own idea of an operation against Montreal at the same time as the Niagara campaign was in progress On the shore of Lake Champlain, Dearborn was in command of the largest ... scarcity of capable seamen, for the merchant marine was an admirable training-school In those far-off days the technique of seafaring and sea fighting was comparatively simple The merchant seaman...
Ngày tải lên: 17/03/2014, 15:20
the new rules of retirement strategies for a secure future
... retirement plans so far These trends collectively can be called the Wave They also are called the Retirement Wave or the Age Wave The Wave can be summed up as: the aging of the large Baby Boom generation, ... RULES OF RETIREMENT Straining the Government The demise of Social Security and Medicare has been forecast for some time We are nearing the days of reckoning for these programs Exact dates of their ... increase This is a major change For many years, the percentage of older Americans participating in the labor force steadily declined The decline was most striking among men, because at the start of...
Ngày tải lên: 01/06/2014, 10:57
the quest for a fusion energy reactor an insiders account of the intor workshop apr 2010
... radiation and transport cooling losses that must be compensated The transport of particles and energy in tokamaks was then (and remains today) an area of active plasma physics research, and reliance ... intermediate, and similar The experimental reactor performance parameters must be a significant but realistically achievable extrapolation of the existing database toward what was needed for a future ... perhaps the leading tokamak theorist of the day and head of the principal USSR tokamak fusion program at the Kurchatov Institute of Atomic Energy in Moscow; Gunter Grieger, a plasma physicist and...
Ngày tải lên: 10/06/2014, 23:38
d. to stay --> b 114. A artist went to a beautiful part of the country for a holiday, and stayed pdf
... 266 A Suez Canal connects the Mediterranean Sea and the Gulf of Suez and separates the continents of Africa and Asia a A b connects c separates d of > a 267 Ships sailing in Europe to Asia once ... other person saying > b The salary of a bus driver is much higher a in comparison with the salary of a teacher b than a teacher c than that of a teacher d to compare as a teacher > c Professional ... one of the participants in a conversation wonders no real communication has taken place a what said the other person b what the other person said c what did the other person say d what was the...
Ngày tải lên: 18/06/2014, 17:20
Báo cáo hóa học: " Exploring the bases for a mixed reality stroke rehabilitation system, Part II: Design of Interactive Feedback for upper limb rehabilitation" doc
... such as movement of images and rhythm acceleration [13] A participant receives hour of AMRR therapy, times a week for month, for a total of 12 therapy training sessions An average of 8-12 sets of ... kinematic data is used for computational assessment and generates the interactive feedback Based on observation and the computational assessment, the clinician may adapt the system extension of the ... was classified as no feedback (NFB) For the two resulting sets of FB and NFB trials, the mean performance of all initial trials k (pk mean) was compared to the mean performance of all immediately...
Ngày tải lên: 19/06/2014, 08:20
báo cáo hóa học:" Global existence and asymptotic behavior of smooth solutions for a bipolar Euler-Poisson system in the quarter plane" doc
... equation as in initial data case For the sake of simplicity, we can assume j+ = This assumption can be removed because of the exponential decay of the momentum at x = ±∞ induced by the linear ... obtain the exponential decay rate of the electric field E by energy methods Then, we can establish the algebraical decay rate of the perturbed densities ϕ1 and ϕ2 Finally, from the estimates of ... proven Finally, the optimal convergence rates of the solutions towards the nonlinear diffusion waves are established The proofs are completed from the energy methods and Fourier analysis As far as we...
Ngày tải lên: 21/06/2014, 20:20
Báo cáo y học: "The quest for a biomarker of circulating osteoclast precursors" docx
... necrosis factor) and local (upregulation of RANKL (receptor activator for nuclear factor κB ligand)) events in patients with inflammatory arthritis dramatically alter the phenotype of circulating ... biomarkers for a number of different inflammatory disorders The quest for these markers continues and this report highlights a novel population that may further clarify characteristic features of ... demonstrate the presence of this rare proliferative subset, cells were cultured for days after labeling with CSFE The expression data on osteoclast-related genes were obtained on day 23 of culture and...
Ngày tải lên: 09/08/2014, 14:21
báo cáo khoa học: " Evaluating the effectiveness of a tailored multifaceted performance feedback intervention to improve the quality of care: protocol for a cluster randomized trial in intensive care" pps
... Department of Medical Informatics, Academic Medical Center, PO Box 22660, 1100 DD Amsterdam, the Netherlands Full list of author information is available at the end of the article © 2011 van ... team must consist of at least one intensivist and one nurse; a management representative and a data manager are suggested as additional members To target the lack of motivation to change, team ... prospective barriers analysis, it appeared that many barriers concerned the basic NICE feedback reports To target the lack of case-mix correction and lack of information to initiate QI actions, the basic...
Ngày tải lên: 10/08/2014, 11:20
báo cáo khoa học: " Non-medical use of opioids among HIV-infected opioid dependent individuals on opioid maintenance treatment: the need for a more comprehensive approach" docx
... supervision of PMC and SDC All authors read and approved the final manuscript Acknowledgments This research was supported by The French National Agency for Aids Research (ANRS, France), the charity organization ... as the acquisition of data Statistical analyses and interpretation of data were performed by PMC, JC, SDC, MG, PR and BS PR was principally involved in the drafting of the manuscript under the ... presence of opioid withdrawal symptoms was a determinant of non-medical use of opioids and may serve as a clinical indicator of inadequate dosage, medication, or type of follow-up Sustainability and...
Ngày tải lên: 11/08/2014, 18:20
Báo cáo y học: " Decreased respiratory system compliance on the sixth day of mechanical ventilation is a predictor of death in patients with established acute lung injury" ppt
... measured at day 1, day 6, and the change in value between day and Stata 9.0 (StataCorp, College Station, Texas) computer software was used for statistical analysis All interval data in tables and ... calculated for each variable (Table 3) The only variable associated with death in these analyses was a decrease in the Crs (OR 2.14, p = 0.02) between days and of mechanical ventilation for ALI ... statistical difference in daily or cumulative fluid balance Table Multivariate adjusted odds ratio of death for selected variables on day 1, day and the change in each variable between day and...
Ngày tải lên: 12/08/2014, 13:22
Báo cáo sinh học: "Polymorphism of β-casein in the Creole goat of Guadeloupe: evidence for a null allele" doc
... -casein 51 a and characterization of those of its genetic variants which are synthesized at a high level, a! l-Cn A, B and C Protein Seq Data Anal 2, 181-188 Brignon G, Mahé MF, Ribadeau-Dumas ... infrequent, the null allele #-Cn° may be widespread, since a null individual was observed in the Italian Garganica dairy breed (Dall’Olio et at, 1989), and another in the local dairy population of Corsica, ... in that they are associated with less o in milk than the normal or strong alleles, a! l-CnA!B and C i-casein s The characterization of the protein variants was carried out by Brignon et al 51...
Ngày tải lên: 14/08/2014, 19:22
a suficient condition for the existence of periodic solution for a reation diffusion equation with infinite delay
... However, for a pair of quasi-solutions hðt; xÞ and hðt; xÞ, the sector hhðt; xÞ; hðt; xÞi is an attractor of the associated initial boundary value problem Furthermore, if hðt; xÞ ¼ hðt; xÞ, then the ... the quasi-solution hðt; xÞ (or hðt; xÞ) is exactly the solution, and the asymptotic behavior of the solutions to the associated initial boundary value problem is also obtained Therefore, the sufficient ... [4] S Ahmad, A. C Lazer, Asymptotic behavior of solutions of periodic competition diffusion system, Nonlinear Anal., TMA 13 (1989) 263–284 [5] C.V Pao, Quasisolutions and global attractor of reaction...
Ngày tải lên: 29/10/2015, 14:20
The age of complicance preparing for a riskier and more regulated world
... Preparing for a riskier and more regulated world is the judgment of the people who are managing risks on a day- to -day basis The danger I see with quantification is that the one thing you can guarantee ... that you will be precisely wrong.” Problems with gaining access to accurate, high-quality data also hamper the quantification and analysis process The question of appropriate data and the analysis ... executive of cer of the Global Association of Risk Managers By aggregating risks at an enterprise level, a company has a much better understanding of potential threats that could cause serious financial...
Ngày tải lên: 06/12/2015, 23:14
Preconception Health Promotion: The Foundation for a Healthier Tomorrow ppt
... and risk of adverse perinatal outcomes: A meta-analysis Journal of the American Medical Association (JAMA), 295, 1809-1823 © 2013 March of Dimes Foundation Guidelines and References Page Preconception ... Preconception care and the risk of congenital anomalies in the offspring of women with diabetes mellitus: A meta-analysis QJM: An International Journal of Medicine, 94(8), 435-444 © 2013 March of Dimes ... Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration (SAMHSA) (2007) Results from the 2006 national survey on drug use and health: National findings NSDUH series H-32, Department of Health and...
Ngày tải lên: 05/03/2014, 15:20
Beyond the Business Cycle: The Need for a Technology-Based Growth Strategy potx
... enough to allow comparative advantages to last for extended periods The advent of technology as a major tradeable asset has radically changed the dynamics of trade among nations What the centuries’ ... centuries’ old law of comparative advantage does not take into account is the fact that the basis for trade, i.e., a set of comparative advantages, can no longer be expected to remain fixed for very ... fact that real Source: Bureau of Labor Statistics wages track MFP, not labor productivity These slower rates of growth in MFP and real labor incomes are a more accurate indicator of the rate of...
Ngày tải lên: 08/03/2014, 16:20
HOW TO BEAT THE HEAT FOR A SAFE SUMMER doc
... garments, preferably in pale colours FOR A SAFE SUMMER HOW TO BEAT THE HEAT Is there any other practical advice? Always check that water and ice are on hand for the assisted person, as well as ... vital to be aware of precautions needed to protect the health of persons at risk HOW TO BEAT THE HEAT FOR A SAFE SUMMER Am I assisting a person who has a high risk of damage from excessive heat? ... FOR A SAFE SUMMER HOW TO BEAT THE HEAT Summer is a relaxing time of the year when fine weather is usually anticipated Summer temperatures are higher when compared to other seasons of the year,...
Ngày tải lên: 28/03/2014, 20:20
Less Than Zero -The Case for a Falling Price Level in a Growing Economy (Hobart Papers) docx
... inflation rate can actually help achieve a full-information ideal for resource allocation, my argument also contradicts the claim that a variable inflation rate is the worst kind as well as the ... Levit.an and Werneke, 1984, pp 14-23) point to a downward bias inherent in available data The BLS estimates may, t.herefore, be about right after all For a comparison of alternative measurements of ... overlooks, in other words, how changes in the demand for real money balances based on innovations to 32 aggregate productivity are accommodated by falling prices automatically and well ahead of any possible...
Ngày tải lên: 29/03/2014, 12:20
Báo cáo hóa học: " Exploring the bases for a mixed reality stroke rehabilitation system, Part I: A unified approach for representing action, quantitative evaluation, and interactive feedback" ppt
... performance of the feedback (aiming for the ideal form) rather than the performance of the movement itself For example, the participant may move faster to achieve a faster musical speed because ... components and the user interacts with the movement of the abstract animated components The image that is animated may be familiar, but the user only sees the image at the beginning of the action (establishing ... multiple actions are completed Aggregate data visualizations, such as summaries of patient performance across ten reaches, can facilitate overall assessment and comparison of performance across multiple...
Ngày tải lên: 19/06/2014, 08:20