... Office of Housing Recovery and NYC Rapid Repairs—an innovative program linking volunteers and paid professionals to homes in need of repair and rebuilding The first program of its kind in the US, ... Katrina, Plymouth, U.K.: Rowman and Littlefield Publishers, Inc 203-215 Lipsitch, M., Riley S., Cauchemez S., Ghani A., and Ferguson N (2009) Managing and Reducing Uncertainty in an Emerging Influenza ... Katrina and Sandy is a case in point The devastation (and death toll) wrought by Hurricane Katrina in New Orleans (2005), was multiplied many times over by the failure of local officials and...
Ngày tải lên: 08/04/2016, 17:04
... http://www.journalofinequalitiesandapplications.com/content/2011/1/21 Page of 11 monotone mapping, T: K ® H be l-inverse strongly monotone mapping If g is an expanding affine continuous mapping and GVIK(A, g, ... mapping, then I - F is an inverse strongly monotone mapping, and the fixed points set of mapping F and the solution set S(I - F) are equal This means that our results contain the study of finding ... results and definitions Definition2.1 Let A: H ® H be a mapping and K ⊂ H Then, A is said to be semicontinuous at a point x in K if lim A(x + th), y = A(x), y , x + th ∈ K, y ∈ H t→0 Definition2.2...
Ngày tải lên: 21/06/2014, 01:20
Báo cáo hóa học: " Research Article A Nonlinear Inequality Arising in Geometry and Calabi-Bernstein Type Problems" docx
... hand, we have Inf f u > 0, and therefore, previous inequality indicates that gu is complete Now, the result follows from the parametric case With an analogous reasoning we obtain the following ... to inequality I is a spacelike surface and the constraint I.2 may be expressed as follows: N, ∂t < √ 1 − λ2 4.9 Journal of Inequalities and Applications Hence, the induced metric gu , given in ... result we obtain the following uniqueness results in the nonparametric case Theorems 4.8 and 4.9 Journal of Inequalities and Applications If f is not locally constant, satisfies Inf f > and f ≤ 0,...
Ngày tải lên: 21/06/2014, 07:20
The Case of the Missing Market: The Bond Market and Why It Matters for Financial Development
... The increase in the pool of savings available to finance investment and the reduction in transactions costs in linking ultimate savers and investors will lead to an increase in the quantity of investment ... firms specialize in investing in real assets financed by issuance of direct financial claims, while households specialize in saving and investing in these direct financial claims Financial claims ... investment in the fixed costs of maintaining a specialized staff of loan monitors and legal and workout experts In addition, by handling other aspects of the borrower’s financial dealings, the financial...
Ngày tải lên: 24/10/2012, 09:40
Tài liệu Business values, management and conflict handling: issues in contemporary Singapore ppt
... management in Singapore Gender Figure indicates the dominant modes of handling conflict The two predominant modes of handling conflict for both men and women were compromising and avoiding, although ... Collaborating Compromising (Continued ) Business values, management and conflict Private services 67 Competing Collaborating Compromising Avoiding Accommodating Production and engineering Competing ... Collaborating Avoiding Compromising Accommodating Female Figure Modes of handling conflict in relation to gender 10 Chinese (male) Key : Chinese (female) Competing Collaborating Indian (male) Indian...
Ngày tải lên: 13/12/2013, 20:15
Tài liệu Why Should I Stay?...or How to Engage Hearts and Minds of our People in this Chaotic Period pptx
... working this, who is he involving?) In customer teams, roles of CBD people in consumer and customer and centre of expertise teams and to a lesser extent role of marketing people in consumer and ... explicit It is working in Asda and in Boots In net, We want to have people excited about winning and delighted about what is in it for them They will then believe they should stay working for P&G because ... Have a training programme This is often why people joined P&G in the first place and this is currently perceived as missing Have a plan for each team and each function focused towards building capability...
Ngày tải lên: 25/01/2014, 00:20
Reputation Why it matters and how you can manage it
... challenging and rewarding (financially and otherwise), that too, will be reflected in their behaviours toward their colleagues and their customers – internal and external And that will be reflected in ... difference being that it is usually another company that sees an innovation opportunity attached to an existing industry rather than the originating company creating revenue and reputation expanding opportunity ... committed to upholding the highest ethical and professional standards of members and students and to maintaining public confidence in management accountancy For more information about CIMA, please visit...
Ngày tải lên: 08/02/2014, 18:11
Tài liệu Báo cáo Y học: The b-1,4-endogalactanase A gene from Aspergillus niger is specifically induced on arabinose and galacturonic acid and plays an important role in the degradation of pectic hairy regions pdf
... by introducing an NsiI site at the translation start point of galA and by then cloning a fragment, starting at this NsiI site and containing the galA gene and approximately 700 bp 3¢-flanking ... and 0.3% L-arabinose and is predominantly linear Potato arabinogalactan consists of 86% D-galactose and 6.6% L-arabinose, while soy arabinogalactan consists of 57% D-galactose and 38% L-arabinose ... [11] are indicated above the alignment (^) and are in white against a grey background was pregrown as described in Material and methods, and transferred for h to minimal medium containing carbon...
Ngày tải lên: 21/02/2014, 01:21
Báo cáo khoa học: "Why Initialization Matters for IBM Model 1: Multiple Optima and Non-Strict Convexity" pptx
... of the random trials was better than the corresponding uniform model Interestingly, the advantage of the randomly initialized models in AER does not seem to diminish with increased training data ... experimental condition, indicating the training data size (1K in the first four rows and 100K in the next four rows), the type of initialization (uniform versus random) and the number of iterations ... initialization, and report the min, max, and mean AER achieved in each setting From the table, we can draw several conclusions First, in agreement with current practice using only iterations of Model training...
Ngày tải lên: 23/03/2014, 16:20
Báo cáo khoa học: Thyroid hormone induces the expression of 4-1BB and activation of caspases in a thyroid hormone receptor-dependent manner pptx
... Sub-confluent cells in 6-cm diameter dishes were incubated in DME containing 2% FBS that had been dialyzed against saline and 40 lCi of a mixture of [35S]methionine and [35S]cysteine (1000 Ci mmol)1; ... containing 0.01 M Mes (pH 6.7), 0.1 M NaCl and 0.001% (v/v) Triton X-100, they were further incubated with biotinylated anti-streptavidin Ig and stained with streptavidin R-Phycoerythrin (Molecular ... been inserted into pTAL-luc, were transfected into HeLaTR cells; the resulting cells were cultured in the presence or absence of T3, 4-1BB-Ligand or TNFa for 48 h (T3), or 24 h (4-1BB-Ligand and...
Ngày tải lên: 23/03/2014, 18:20
ALL AMERICAN: Why I Believe in Football, God, and the War in Iraq docx
... Amanda, Delainey, Mackenzie, Brendan, Erin, Colin, Griffin, T.J., and Timmy Finally, I must thank the most incredible woman in the world She came into my life when I thought I would never find ... okay Everything’s going to be okay.” I believe that is true, because I believe we’re doing the right thing and that we are succeeding in the war against terrorism and extremism in Iraq and Afghanistan ... boy growing up in New Jersey, as an NFL linebacker, as a prosecutor in Manhattan, and as an Army officer in Iraq and Afghanistan, I have had the rare privi- Our Defining Moment ★ 29 lege and opportunity...
Ngày tải lên: 24/03/2014, 02:21
Slide 4 data and structure in java
... Delete( int element){ } } 34 and StringSet public class StringSet { private int capacity; private static int DefaultCapacity = 10; private String [] store; private int next; public IntSet(int capacity) ... void Insert(T element){ al.add(element);} public static void main(String args[]) { GenericSet s= new GenericSet(); s.Insert(new Integer(10));s.Insert(new Integer(50)); s.Insert(new ... with IntSet and StringSet – Tedious to write both versions: Copy and paste programming – Error prone to maintain both versions • Problems with ObjectSet – Elements of the set must be downcasted in...
Ngày tải lên: 11/06/2014, 08:58
Báo cáo hóa học: " PARAMETRIC GENERAL VARIATIONAL-LIKE INEQUALITY PROBLEM IN UNIFORMLY SMOOTH BANACH SPACE" pot
... variational inequalities (inclusions) with set-valued mappings It is worth mentioning that most of the results in this direction have been obtained in the setting of Hilbert space Inspired by ... works going on in this area, in this paper, we consider a parametric general variational-like inequality problem (PGVLIP) in uniformly smooth Banach space Further, using P-η-proximal mapping, we ... mapping Let φ : E → R ∪ {+∞} be a lower semicontinuous, η-subdifferentiable (may not be convex) and proper functional and let P : E → E∗ be a nonlinear mapping If for any given point u∗ ∈ E∗ and...
Ngày tải lên: 22/06/2014, 22:20
Environment and Conflict in Africa pot
... that rainfall has been declining rapidly The characterisation of rainfall in Darfur as ‘declining’, with the implication of continuing 12 Environment and Conflict in Africa reductions in rainfall, ... efforts in Africa In its initial five years, the programme concentrated efforts on developing curricula regarding key themes, producing teaching materials and organising short courses and training ... factors leading to greening could be a change in livestock density grazing or browsing in a particular area, land improvement activities and the increased CO2 in the atmosphere An increase in animal...
Ngày tải lên: 28/06/2014, 23:20
The Rise and Fall of Abacus Banking in Japan and China phần 4 ppt
... case in point Within a year after their approval, the MOF convinced banks to enter the market for individual homeowner mortgages, intensifying competition and eliminating market rents for jusen In ... exports and textile industries, earning the proceeds 54 The Rise and Fall of Abacus Banking in Japan and China for the imports of much-needed capital goods In addition, her victory in the Sino-Japanese ... Japan’s economy, including the hollowing out of domestic industries, internal and external pricing disparities, diminished entrepreneurship in pioneering new sectors, and stagnant technological...
Ngày tải lên: 06/08/2014, 20:22
Báo cáo y học: "VLA-4-dependent and -independent pathways in cell contactinduced proinflammatory cytokine production by synovial nurselike cells from rheumatoid arthritis patients" potx
... human T-cell line (Molt-17) was a kind gift from Dr J Minowada (Fujisaki Cell Center, Okayama, Japan) The B-cell and T-cell lines were maintained in RPMI 1640 medium (Gibco BRL) containing the same ... hyaluronidase (Sigma), and 0.01% DNAse (Sigma) The resultant single-cell suspension was plated onto culture dishes and maintained in DMEM (Gibco BLR, Grand Island, NY, USA) containing 10 mM HEPES, ... but that anti-integrin α4β7 was ineffective, indicating that integrin α4β1 (VLA-4) on MC/car cells mediates, at least in part, cell adhesion to RA-SNC77 cells In contrast, the mAb against CD106...
Ngày tải lên: 09/08/2014, 06:22
Báo cáo y học: "Genetic polymorphisms in PTPN22, PADI-4, and CTLA-4 and risk for rheumatoid arthritis in two longitudinal cohort studies: evidence of gene-environment interactions with heavy cigarette smoking" potx
... baseline Alcohol intake was reported at least every years and categorized in grams per day Husband's educational level was assessed in 1992 in NHS and 1999 in NHSII, and was included as a proxy ... different from ours, in that they did not find a significant interaction between the presence of the PTPN22 polymorphism and smoking in determining RA risk Their gene-smoking interaction analyses ... RF-positive RA, and that presence of this polymorphism interacts with heavy cigarette smoking in a multiplicative manner These findings contribute to the growing understanding of how genetic and environmental...
Ngày tải lên: 09/08/2014, 10:23
Matematik simulation and monte carlo with applications in finance and mcmc phần 4 pptx
... 10 000 points lying in D, and hence find a 95% confidence interval for the integral 105 Simulation and finance A derivative is a tradeable asset whose price depends upon other underlying variables ... sampling Using procedure ‘weibullstrat’ in Appendix 5.3.2 with N = 100 and K = 200 (and with the same seed as in the naive simulation), the results were = 16644 PS and ese PS = 00132 Comparing ... drf 6.3.5 Discrete hedging Of course, continuous hedging is not physically possible in practice, and in any case, the transaction costs associated with changing the position in the currency would...
Ngày tải lên: 09/08/2014, 16:21
Báo cáo y học: "Divergent expression of claudin -1, -3, -4, -5 and -7 in developing human lung" potx
... staining for claudins 1, 3, 4, and in pseudoglandular period i.e in weeks 12-16 in developing human lung 1A Epithelium of a bronchus is positive for claudin-1 (arrow) The short arrow is indicating ... positive in all epithelial cell-lining airways, but claudin-1 was positive mainly in large bronchi and its expression was usually quite weak Claudin-3, -4, -5 and -7 were positive and claudin-1 negative ... University of Oulu and Oulu University Hospital, Oulu, Finland and 4Department of Pathology and Forensic Medicine, School of Medicine, University of Eastern Finland, Kuopio, Finland Received: 14...
Ngày tải lên: 12/08/2014, 11:22
Báo cáo y học: " Phosphodiesterase type 4 expression and anti-proliferative effects in human pulmonary artery smooth muscle cells" docx
... activity in these cells; and (3) the role of PDE4 in regulating cAMP levels, DNA synthesis, proliferation, apoptosis and gelatinase activity, using selective PDE4 inhibitors alone and in combination ... X-100 After fixation in 25% isopropanol and 10% acetic acid for 10 min, gels were stained in 0.25% Coomassie blue for 1–2 h and destained in fixing/destain solution until bands of activity were ... gels were incubated in 2.5% Triton X-100 (twice for 15 min) to remove SDS, washed in water and incubated overnight at 37°C in buffer containing 50 mM Tris-HCl (pH 8.0), mM CaCl2, µM ZnCl2 and 0.1%...
Ngày tải lên: 12/08/2014, 16:20