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... Singapore The Straits of Malacca The Straits of Singapore The Straits of Singapore The Straits of Malacca The South China Sea The South China Sea The Straits of Singapore The Straits of Malacca The ... the Earth (Sahabat Alam Malaysia), World Wildlife Fund for Nature (Malaysia), Malaysian Institute of Marine Affairs (MIMA), Malaysian Nature Society, Malaysian Fisheries Society, Environmental ... the Straits of Malacca and the adjacent waters of the Andaman Sea and the Indian Ocean In the process, an attempt is made to identify, examine, and rank those threats that have transboundary effects...

Ngày tải lên: 06/03/2014, 15:21

... customized, market interest rate assumptions can readily be made as appropriate Information about the old bond and the new bond Specifically, for both bonds: the face value; the term to maturity; the ... only) For the purposes of the model, some assumptions or forecasts have to be made about the future behavior of the market interest rate Examples are (a) a worst case scenario (where the market ... issue would have to be evaluated on a case by case basis to calculate the exact costs or savings produced by the various interacting variables Consequently, there is a need for an interactive computer...

Ngày tải lên: 15/02/2014, 13:20

... complex than the classical definition) The set of rules in a grammar forms a formal grammar, ie it defines a language, in fact two languages, one of strings and the other of trees At the moment, there ... more formal definitions of the properties In the passage from the Static Grammar to the STCG, the form as well as some other characteristics have undergone certain changes, and hence the change ... Relatively large scale Static Grammars have been written for French in the French national machine translation project [Boitet 86] translating French intoEnglis~ and for Malay in the Malaysian...

Ngày tải lên: 22/02/2014, 10:20

... Guidelines for the National Action Plan Addressing and achieving the National Action Plan’s goals and objectives require a multifaceted approach that is both ambitious and feasible The National Action ... services The culmination of these efforts is A National Action Plan for Cancer Survivorship: Advancing Public Health Strategies This National Action Plan provides a vision and a framework for addressing ... clinical trials, if appropriate Pain and Symptom Management An important part of cancer treatment is the management of pain and other symptoms associated with both disease and treatment The goal...

Ngày tải lên: 22/03/2014, 16:21

... the Qualia of car The constant 'high' can be replaced by a more accurate representation, e.g 'above average', but the problem of evaluating a functionality remains open More generally, the introduction ... denotes the set of predicates associated with the telic role of the noun N Let Y the variable associated with N and let us assume that T is a list of predicates of the form Fi(_,-) Then the LCS-based ... conceptual 'behaviors', while taking also into account the constraints on linguistic realizations as in the lexicographic approach The principle that we a t t e m p t at validating is to define a 'deep'...

Ngày tải lên: 23/03/2014, 19:20

... associated data symbols that can not be canceled by the feedback taps For the special case of K = M, it can be seen that if the data fed back is perfect, the ISI caused by the feedforward equalizer ... plotted as a reference The performance of the PEF + DFE is seen to be approximately the same as the performance of the DFE when both structures are operating in steady state This validates the analysis ... (17) The autocorrelation matrix seen in (17) is partitioned into submatrices The matrices on the diagonal are the autocorrelation matrix of the received input to the equalizer and the Note that the...

Ngày tải lên: 22/06/2014, 19:20

... modifies a graph into another, we denote by GI the initial graph and by GF the final graph Similarly, if AI and AF are the adjacency matrices of the graphs GI and GF on n vertices, we say that AF is ... eigenvalues in the complex plane The spectral radius is the maximum of the modulus of its eigenvalues If the matrix is the adjacency matrix of a graph, we call it the index of the graph A symmetric ... Algebra, (eds R Brualdi, A Greenbaum and R Mathias), Chapman & Hall/CRC, Boca Raton, FL, 2007 [8] Ch Maas, Perturbation results for the adjacency spectrum of a graph, Z Angew Math Mech 67 (1987),...

Ngày tải lên: 08/08/2014, 14:23

... is regulated often by a small number of other genes [3,4] so a reasonable representation of a network is a sparse graph A sparse graph is a graph  parametrized by a sparse matrix W, a matrix with ... statistically using gold standard data and evaluation metrics from the Dialogue for Reverse Engineering Assessments and Methods (DREAM) initiative [36] The LP-based approach compares favourably with algorithms ... the class of linear models, the abundance value of a gene is treated as a weighted sum of the abundance values of other genes A high-dimensional transcript profile is a vector of abundance values...

Ngày tải lên: 12/08/2014, 17:20

... methodological quality Nevertheless, polymyxin B hemoperfusion appears to have favorable effects on survival and hemodynamics and the authors argue for the need for further rigorous study of this therapy ... Critical Care Vol 11 No Kellum when used for hemoperfusion can effectively bind endotoxin both in vitro and in vivo [14] This therapy has been available in Japan for more than a decade and thousands ... increase, vasopressor decrease, and mean partial pressure of oxygen in arterial blood/forced inspiratory pressure of oxygen ratio increase were also highly significant However, the trials assessed...

Ngày tải lên: 13/08/2014, 03:21

... simplicity, the two-port admittance matrix of the melamine foam plug is analytically calculated It is assumed that the foam behaves like an equivalent fluid and its transfer matrix is given by Eq (A1 ), ... layers upstream and downstream the acoustical elements are added so that evanescent waves vanish An alternative to find the transfer matrix of a complex unit is proposed by Craggs [4] First, the ... extra fluid lengths equal to D are added upstream and downstream each acoustical element This allows evanescent waves to vanish 2.2 Governing equation in the fluid domain The field variable in the...

Ngày tải lên: 03/12/2014, 23:41

... by a clear national strategy Canadian Medical Education: a Global Leader Despite the complexities of its health care system, Canada is a global leader in medical education innovation Examples abound, ... discuss and validate the recommendations and formulate next steps Each of the 17 Canadian Faculties of Medicine was consulted, as was the broader academic medicine community at two national forums The ... leadership in faculty and students, including how to manage, navigate, and help transform medical practice and the health care system in collaboration with others Rationale In Canada, the health care system...

Ngày tải lên: 14/03/2014, 20:20

... amongst Canadian family practitioners, who manage the bulk of care for these patients [2] Unfortunately, there remains a large gap between ideal and actual care provided to such patients, making them ... that data quality from EMRs are uncertain [70] While we have validated algorithms for identifying patients who have diabetes and/or IHD in this database, the automated chart audits that are the ... capitation plays a large role in compensation for patient care To earn the capitation fees, physicians and patients must co-sign an agreement that officially adds the patient to the physician’s...

Ngày tải lên: 10/08/2014, 10:23

... a Leviathan (Carr 1946; Morgenthau 1948) According to realists, the primary reason for conflict (and war) is anarchy in the international arena Anarchy – absence of a central authority with a ... collaboration with other international organisations The member countries include Argentina, Australia, Brazil, Canada, China, France, Germany, India, Indonesia, Italy, Japan, Republic of Korea, ... understandings of 18 The usual disclaimer applies as all taxonomies are problematic 38 what are the most important explanatory variables The main explanatory variables include power, interests, and...

Ngày tải lên: 09/09/2015, 08:17

... performance and fairness cannot be adequately captured with a limited mathematical framework, such as the one proposed by Fan et al 1.1 Our Approach Therefore, we propose a new taxonomy-based approach ... reciprocation In other words, the BitTyrant client seeks to maximize the total data download rate by actively managing the data uploaded to each peer Carra et al subsequently showed that the performance ... fundamental trade-off between performance and fairness However, they only investigated performance and fairness from a theoretical perspective, and the actual algorithm for various BT-variants are not...

Ngày tải lên: 26/09/2015, 10:44

... total isolation and that there is interdependence among participants This argument inspires the thesis to adopt a network perspective to analyze collective action Therefore, at the methodological ... just the more privileged strata or social elites, can have a fairer chance to spread their ideas in any shape or form and create shared meaning, thus greatly expanding the possibilities for the ... action, the observed preference for qualitative analysis could be attributable to the fact that the model by Flanagin et al (2006) does not give specific guidance for quantitative analysis, as...

Ngày tải lên: 13/10/2015, 16:41

... reduce the need Want Kotler (1997) also defined Human wants are the form taken by human needs as they are shaped by culture and individual personality A hungry person in Bahrain may want a vegetable ... supply and demand chains and available markets for many different companies as well 8.2 Economic: A market boom, recession, or growing inflation problem can all change the way an organization plans ... fields Capacity Utilization: Governments and private industry alike in all parts of Canada have recognized additional opportunities for other regions of Canada to increase their participation in the...

Ngày tải lên: 22/10/2015, 13:23

... separate works which are planning, research, implementation, control and evaluation The characteristics of candidates who apply for team have to meet the characteristic of these works Firstly, the ... members are empowered, they work alone which without the control of manager, they can show their creativeness, apply their ways to launch the product into the market It means they can make success for ... immediately Because they are employees inside the company, other regulations, such as application form, CV and cover letter, medical examination, etc., are not necessary The last thing is ethical...

Ngày tải lên: 03/04/2013, 12:11

... 2005 A Landsat Thematic Mapper (TM) image (obtained on 09/03/1990, path 41 row 36) was used as our satellite image We used all seven TM spectral bands and geospatial ancillary data, the coordinate ... identifying the areas that discharge high pollutant loading into receiving waters METHODS Our area of interest was Marina del Rey and its vicinity in the Santa Monica Bay Watershed Santa Monica Bay is ... with official land used data obtained from SCAG land use data The pollutant loading maps of all water quality parameters show that the low pollutant emitting areas correspond to open land use due...

Ngày tải lên: 05/09/2013, 09:08

... characterization and ranking of the wetlands in the MD and the South East region Today, each MD wetland forest managing board finished the wetland situation analysis report as part of the action ... wetland, and the type and incidence of human threat [2] They are used as basis for the formulation of conservation priorities, the drafting of planning and management measures and regulations, and a ... Minh, Dat Mui, Lung Ngoc Hoang and others were surveyed Parallel and for the account of the Vietnamese Government the available literature on forest wetlands was reviewed, and a summary made of...

Ngày tải lên: 09/12/2013, 22:15