... to quantify the ecotoxicity level of river water from an urban area in Japan and agricultural drains when agricultural chemicals are applied In addition, analysisof agricultural chemicals by ... tests as indicators of decontamination in composting oily waste, Ecotoxicol Environ Saf., 47, 156-166 Liu R., Kameya T., Sawai A and Urano K (2007) Application ofa larval medaka assay to evaluate ... used as water quality indexes - 225 - GC/MS Analysisof Agricultural Chemicals GC/MS analysis was applied to 68 kinds of agricultural chemicals These compounds had been shown each goal value...
... exclusively to female humans and animals Eg: Lion (Noun): a large powerful animal of the cat family that hunts in group and lives in parts of Africa and southern Asia Lioness (Noun): a female lion ... morpheme may be defined as the minimal linguistics sign, a grammatical unit that is an arbitrary union ofa sound and a meaning and that cannot be further analyzed This definition may be too ... supplies for learners a large of vocabulary and grammar There are many reading texts and basing on these reading texts, learners have the chance to know about the culture, the people of many countries...
... sounds, some of which are (a) nasals in Tamil (Shanmugam, 1972) and Malayalam (Shanmugam, 1972; Ladefoged and Maddieson, 1996), (b) laterals in Albanian (Ladefoged and Maddieson, 1996), and (c) stops ... graph’s Laplacian matrix rather than the adjacency matrix It is increasingly popular these days to analyze the spectral properties of the graph’s Laplacian matrix However, for reasons explained ... separately (positive class) Such a combined feature is often termed ambiguous and its presence in a particular consonant c ofa language l indicates that the speakers of l are unable to make a...
... Pteridaceae (Polypodiophyta), Acanthaceae, Asteraceae, Avicenniaceae, Combretaceae, Euphorbiaceae, Myrsinaceae, Rhizophoraceae, Sterculiaceae and Verbenaceae (Table 2) 138 N .A. Thinh et al. / VNU Journal of Science, Earth Sciences 24 (2008) 133‐144 ... Gia Luan commune Gia Luan commune C2 C2 Bai Giai C4 C4 Bai Giai C2 C2 C2 C2 a t a t a t a t a t a t a t ba t a Cat Cai Vieng marshland 2,303,001 Cai Vieng marshland C3 C3 C2 C2 Hai village aa ... aureum L Magnoliophyta Acanthaceae Acanthus ilicifolius L Asteraceae Pluchea indica (L.) Less Avicenniaceae Avicennia marina (Forsk) Vierh Combretaceae Lumnitzera racemora Willd c) Ecological succession...
... Research Laboratory, The Olivetti & Oracle Research Laboratory Face Database of Faces, http://www.cam-orl.co.uk/facedatabase.html [18] I Koren, Computer Arithmetic Algorithms, A K Peters, Natick, ... weights data are fixed and saved to a file The weights file is saved to a memory model file for FPGA and VHDL simulation The MATLAB also provides input test data to the VHDL program and analyzes the ... Shams, M Rahmaty, et al., “An FPGA based fast face detector,” in Global Signal Processing Expo and Conference (GSPX ’04), Santa Clara, Calif, USA, September 2004 [13] Y Lee and S.-B Ko, “FPGA...
... mean AAA diameter prior to device implantation was 60 mm (standard deviation 11; range 42 to 95) The AAA diameter was smaller than 5.5 cm in 25% of all patients (N = 43) The mean age was 73 years ... design and conduct of the study; collection, management, analysis, and interpretation of the data; and preparation, review, or approval of the manuscript References Conclusion Although a meta -analysis ... 11 Abbreviations AAA: abdominal aortic aneurysm; ASA: American Society for Anesthesiology; CI: confidence interval; EVAR: endovascular abdominal aortic aneurysm repair; GFR: glomerular filtration...
... prognosis of near-fatal asthma A 6-year follow-up study of 145 asthmatic patients who underwent mechanical ventilation for a nearfatal attack of asthma Am Rev Respir Dis 1992, 146:76-81 Evans R III: ... Petheram IS, Branthwaite MA: Mechanical ventilation for pulmonary disease: a six year survey Anaesthesia 1980, 35:467-473 46 Halttunen PD, Luomanmakik K, Takkunen O, Viljanen AA: Management of severe ... length of stay for admissions to adult, general critical care units in England, Wales and Northern Ireland: the Intensive Care National Audit & Research Centre Case Mix Programme Database Crit Care...
... ICU, as a first step toward achieving the desired service goals Materials and methods Case Mix Programme Database The Case Mix Programme (CMP) is a national comparative audit of adult, general ... bradycardia, tachypnoea and hypoxia; biochemical derangement with hyponatraemia, sepsis and leucopenia; and the number of additional nonrenal organ system failures A number of the factors examined ... measures ofcase mix, outcome and activity for patients requiring chronic renal dialysis and admissions of all other patients for whom evidence was available to allow assessment of past medical...
... indicating lack of calibration Evaluation of APACHE II, SAPS II and ICNARC models in haematological malignancy admissions The SAPS II, the APACHE II score and the ICNARC physiology score were evaluated ... acidaemia, alkalaemia, oliguria, hyponatraemia, hypernatraemia, low haematocrit, and uraemia In contrast to previous studies, we did not find that leukopaenia was associated with increased hospital mortality ... other hand, in the early phase of severe sepsis, targeting a haematocrit of at least 30% is associated with improved survival [49] In patients with a haematological malignancy a low haematocrit...
... forms of assistance (rating of textual data, analysisof the data, word processing, and statistical assistance) and crucial social support during the different stages of the research and throughout ... and spreading later to other areas, sometimes described in politico-economic terms as “peripheral” areas such as Asia, Africa, and Latin America (Phillipson, 1992; Holliday, 1994; Canagarajah, 1999, ... OpokuAgyemang, then Head of the English Department, who provided access to materials for my preliminary analysis To Associate Professor L K Owusu-Ansah and Associate Professor E K Yankson, I say thanks for...
... Governance Urban is an adjective related to a particular type of human habitation: the city Generally speaking, a city is a relatively large human settlement comprised ofa non-agricultural population ... learning, such as transforming a state from a role of curative, centralized and coercive to preventative, decentralized and participatory or rather shaping alternative forms of supra-national ... from that, local spatial scales and international spatial scales are specially appreciated in this discourse Arguably, the conceptions of space are always related to the exercise of power So correspondingly,...
... New Caledonia Barro Colorado Island, Panama Barro Colorado Island, Panama Atherton Tablelands, Australia Kununurra, Australia Vicosa, Brazil Mkomazi Game Reserve, Tanzania Popondetta, Papua New ... Mojave Desert, USA Gobi Desert Mongolia Olympic Dam, Australia Heredia Province, Costa Rica Mkomazi Game Reserve, Tanzania Mkomazi Game Reserve, Tanzania Wilson's Promontory, Australia Chiricahua ... ants and the age ofa tropical rain forest Proportional abundance was defined as the ratio of number of ant individuals ofa functional group to the total individuals collected in a sample A second...
... MacDonald can be said to have a larger degree of dispersion of data around the mean than Max hamburger in those attributes Max hamburger had a larger standard deviation than MacDonald in these attributes“its ... was clear and well dressed neat and trained staffs” Therefore MacDonald can be said to have a larger degree of dispersion of data around the mean than Max hamburger in those attributes Max hamburger ... that has been used, research approach, data collection methods, sources of data, reliability and validity and the limitation of the research Chapter four presents data analysis and results Finally...
... clinical isolate of S aureus from the two groups of patients were obtained from clinical bacteriology laboratory, department of Medical Microbiology, PGIMER, Chandigarh, India A standard strain of ... (340 ATC, SLT, Austria) at 492 nm using a reference wavelength of 620 nm The results of the assay were expressed as the mean optical density at 492 nm of the duplicate values Statistical analysis ... Martin RR, Greenberg SB, Wallace RJ Staphylococcal teichoic-acid antibodies Lancet 1979;1(8118):731 Ayyagari A, Pal N Antiribitol-teichoic acid antibody (ARTA) in diagnosis of deep seated Staphylococcus...
... (Aaker, 1996) 2.7 Strategic Brand Management Brand management is above all about balancing variety of inputs Balances have to be struck between the external market and internal capabilities of ... managing and maintaining a mix of factors, both tangible and intangible to attract consumer loyalty (Stobart, 1994) BRAND BRAND Organizational Associations Brand Personality PRODUCT Country of ... of Planning and Investment, Vietnam Chamber of Commerce and Industry, from the Internet, and other sources Data analysis: Qualitative analysis was done for secondary data and primary data collected...
... business administration, management and law are favor ofa theoretical approach rather than practical problem Information about enterprise as a whole and SMEs in particular is very scattered which causes ... as all types of chairs, all types of steel cabinets and all types of tables in Vietnam market according to all the designs of products that Son Thuy learn from Thailand, Malaysia, and Singapore ... two main parts based on two main sources of data collection The first part of the research is based on secondary data for analysis In chapter 1, the rationale and objectives of the research will...
... dishwater, as well as a variety of chemicals if it comes from an industrial or commercial area It also carried microorganisms that may cause disease and organic material that can damage lakes and streams ... became a member of the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) and, thereby, of the ASEAN Free Trade Area (AFTA), and signed a memorandum of understanding for 25 commercial cooperation ... or change this asymmetry." Relations between the USA and states of NorthEast Asia - notably Korea, Japan and Taiwan - have been primarily conditioned by the American perception ofa strategic...
... modification in area ofanalysis 1.5 Limitation The unavailability of information about sales volume of each product categories, timing of sales of each product, and expenditure on activities such as ... strategic management Hill and Jones (1998) say a company has a competitive advantage when its profit rate is higher than the average for its industry and it can sustain this advantage to maintain high ... framework for analysis external and internal environment for an organization External analysis focuses on examination of relevant external elements to organization The object of this analysis is...
... Non-Farm Employment and Household Income: ACase Study of Hanoi's Peri-Urban Areas Appendix Summary statistics of explanatory variables Explanatory variables Definition Mean Std Min Max Non-farm ... of crop plants consisted of cabbages, tomatoes, water morning glory and various kinds of beans, and fruit trees including oranges, grapefruits and guavas, among others Animal husbandry was mainly ... Increasing urban population and rapid economic growth, particularly in the urban areas of Vietnam's large cities, have resulted in a great demand for urban land As a result, there has been an intensive...
... and water quality analysisof the biogas plants were conducted BACKGROUND Study area Bangladesh lies in the northeastern part of South Asia, and has an area of 147,570 km2 It is one of the most ... populated countries of the world, with a population of about 129 million in 2001(Bangladesh Bureau of Statistics, 2002) Dhaka is the capital city of Bangladesh, and Bauniabad is one of the urban ... at the stage of planning and implementation of water and sanitation options Educational intervention on water and sanitation: 1995-1997 The educational intervention on water and sanitation was...