a historical overview of the development of clean air regulations

... Comparison of London Fog and Los Angeles Smog Refereances Chapter 2.1 2.2 Clean Air Act History of the Clean Air Act 2.1.1 1970 Clean Air Act Amendments 2.1.1.1 National Ambient Air Quality Standards ... money, but it wasn’t until the advent of the Clean Air Act of 1963 that there was a national awakening to the value of our air environment During World War II a new type of air pollution had been discovered ... (NAAQS) b Standards of performance for new stationary sources c National emission standards for hazardous pollutants The Clean Air Act of 1970 and the Clean Air Act Amendments of 1977 are discussed...

Ngày tải lên: 11/08/2014, 06:22

... Serodiagnosis of Human Brucellosis Clinical And Diagnostic Laboratory Immunology 2003;4:612-5 Ordun A, Almaraz A, Prado A, Purıfıcacıo M, Gutıerrez N, Garc a- Pascual A, Duen A, Cuervo M, Abad R, ... negative predictive and positive predictive values for ELISA and immuncapture test are given in Table The compatibility of the results of the three tests was analyzed on the basis of evaluation ... Brucella ELISA IgG and IgM in bacteremic and non-bacteremic patients with brucellosis J Chemother 2001 Apr;13:54-9 15 Araj GF, Kattar MM, Fattouh LG, Bajakian KO, Kobeissi SA Evaluation of The PANBIO...

Ngày tải lên: 25/10/2012, 10:56

... independent of tax rules RR's first standard, on group accounts takes advantage of the fact that the consolidated accounts of a group of companies not represent a taxable legal entity, so that the tax accounting ... Mexico, the Netherlands, Nordic Federation, South Africa, the UK, and the USA There are two co-opted organisations, the International Coordinating Committee of Financial Analysts Associations and the ... and therefore apply to all companies Another important difference between 'GRS' in Sweden and 'GAAP' in the USA is that Sweden has a substantial body of accounting and tax law, all of which ranks...

Ngày tải lên: 06/03/2014, 21:20

... in abstracts with the language used in the full-text of a document We compared the abstract and non-abstract terms in each of the three language models Not all of the documents distinguished the ... provide another perspective of the alternative spaces, we calculated the parameters of Zipf’s Law, K and θ for each event space and journal using the binning method proposed in (Adamic 2000) By accounting ... and vocabulary Understanding the relationship among document, sentence and term spaces also has practical importance The size and nature of text corpora has changed dramatically since the first...

Ngày tải lên: 17/03/2014, 04:20

... performed by relational head acceptors, a particular type of finite state a u t o m a t a associated with each word in the language A relational head acceptor writes (or accepts) a pair of symbol sequences, ... "Grammatical Trigrams: A Probabilistic Model of Link Grammar" In Proceedings of the 1992 AAAI Fall Symposium on Probabilistic Approaches to Natural Language, 89-97 References Alshawi, H and A. L ... Selection of a word and acceptor to start an entire derivation Monolingual Relational Models We can characterize the language models used for analysis and generation in the transfer system as quantitative...

Ngày tải lên: 24/03/2014, 03:21

... contributions JAK participated in the data analysis and drafted the manuscript, WJR participated in the study design, data analysis, and helped to draft the manuscript, APM participated in the study ... individuals) and rotated through the exercises stations Participants in the power training group trained at a separate time than the strength training group Although the focus of the intervention was the ... measures of quality of life and selfefficacy in older adults The data indicate that the mode of training resulted in a differential pattern of change Whereas the PT condition resulted in increases in...

Ngày tải lên: 18/06/2014, 19:20

... study, the aim was to accurately align the femoral component, matching the patient’s own anatomy The other two hip replacements, large head metal-on-metal and small head THRs showed a significant ... study data and wrote up the paper AH collected a set of data for comparison JM helped with the statistical analysis SS conceived the study and performed the operations All authors read and approved ... Prior to each surgical case the patients radiograph was templated using traumaCAD with the aim of accurately restoring both leg length and femoral offset with respect to the contralateral hip Inclusion...

Ngày tải lên: 20/06/2014, 07:20

... contributed to the limitation of A The maximal rate of net CO assimilation at high C (A was first af) i max fected According to von Caemmerer and Farquhar (1981) and Farquhar and Sharkey (1982), ... on the same (A, C graph ) i The initial slope of the (A, C response curve ) i (dA /d Cwas calculated as an estimate of car) i boxylation efficiency Apparent quantum yield of photosynthesis (a) ... and the apparent non-stomatal inhibition of photosynthesis would be an artefact Using another method, Kaiser (1987) and Comic et al (1989) showed that apparent quantum yield and maximal rate of...

Ngày tải lên: 09/08/2014, 03:24

... was tested with the help of a multi-variant analysis (MANOVA) Post hoc comparisons were statistically confirmed using a t-test The description of mean values was completed using standard deviations ... 203 haematomas were noticed in 36 (75%) patients after the 8-gauge biopsy and 57 (76%) patients after 11-gauge biopsy The mean persistence of the haematomas in the 8gauge group was 13 (2–43) days ... persistence in days Infections requiring antibiotic treatment as well as cutaneous scar formation in the incision area were also evaluated In order to evaluate patient acceptance, all patients were...

Ngày tải lên: 09/08/2014, 07:21

... that at only one lane of RNA-Seq data, the specificity was 0.5 for SNVs with a read depth of 3, which was far better than the value of 0.28 found when using all eight lanes of data Again, the ... protocol: randomly fragment the DNA by nebulization, end repair, add a single A base, adaptor ligation, run a gel to isolate 300-bp fragments, and PCR amplification The total RNA was prepared according ... end of the read 1, the paired cDNA reads were not able to be matched to each other and read was only 68 bp long while read was 75 bp The reads are available in the NCBI Sequence Read Archive...

Ngày tải lên: 09/08/2014, 20:22

... São Paulo, Brazil 3Hospital Ana Neri da Faculdade de Medicina da Universidade Federal da Bahia (HAN-UFBA), Salvador, Bahia, Brazil 4Faculdade de Medicina da Universidade Federal da Bahia, Salvador, ... “Hospital Ana Nery - UFBA” for the opportunity of data collection Author details Faculdade Social, Salvador, Bahia, Brazil 2Instituto Coração Hospital das Clínicas da Faculdade de Medicina da USP ... statistics was applied to analyze demographic and clinical data, continuous variable information were assessed as measures of central tendency and dispersion and expressed as averages and standard...

Ngày tải lên: 10/08/2014, 09:21

... Elema AB, Solna, Sweden) The following variables were measured: PIP, mean airway pressure, PaO , PaCO , pH and mean arterial pressure (MAP) The number of days on the ventilator, failure of the assigned ... blood gas analyser (ABL 2; Radiometer, Copenhagen, Denmark) Statistical analysis For categorical data, Fisher’s exact test was used For numerical data, non-parametric tests were used: the Wilcoxon ... consisting of few patients Author details Department of Anaesthesia and Intensive Care, Hvidovre University Hospital, DK-2650 Hvidovre, Denmark 2Department of Anaesthesia and Intensive Care, Slagelse...

Ngày tải lên: 12/08/2014, 18:20

... for the purposes of this analysis, it was assumed that these patients were neuroleptic naïve As a consequence of this conservative approach, any dyskinesias in patients at the beginning of the ... symptoms at baseline (all seven ESRS dyskinesia items equal or 1) ESRS score assignments of mild as a rating of or and moderate as a rating of on the physician's examination for dyskinesia subscale ... event at discontinuation (case 1, dyksinesia; case dyskinesia and tardive dyskinesia, case 3, tardive dyskinesia; case 4, extrapyramidal disorder, hypertonia, hypokinesia; case 5, extrapyramidal...

Ngày tải lên: 13/08/2014, 18:21

... Treaty Articles 85 and 86 became Articles 81 and 82 of the EC Treaty and used to be called as Article 81EC, Article 82EC The Treaty was further amended by the Treaty of Amsterdam and the Treaty ... is largely regarded as the birth of monopoly control laws is the year 1890 with the passage of the Sherman Act in the US After the Sherman Act, the US enacted in turn the Clayton Act (1914), the ... to the VCA in May 2010, and the VCA has made an official investigation In the meantime there are many other practices which have attracted arguments from enterprises, state agencies, researchers,...

Ngày tải lên: 15/08/2014, 15:49

... Tran, Hoang Nga List of Abbreviations ASEAN Associations of South East Asian Nations AAC Average avoidable cost ATC Average total cost AVC Average variable cost CCHC Competition Case Handling ... Vietnam – EU Cooperation Agreement was signed Then, Vietnam officially became a member of the Association of South East Asian Nations (ASEAN) on July 25, 1995; ASEAN Free Trade Area (AFTA) on January ... some of them have abused their financial strength to unfairly acquire market share For example, between 1995-1998 there was a “race” of rebate campaigns between The Coca-Cola Company43 44 and...

Ngày tải lên: 22/08/2014, 18:45

... majority Sinhalese speaks Sinhala and the Tamils (both Sri Lankan and Indian Tamils) and majority of the Moors speak Tamil, and the westernized elites speak English In Malaysia, Malays speak Malay; most ... boundaries created and maintained between the various ethnic groups, and what are the causes of ethnic conflicts in Sri Lanka and Malaysia? What are the origins of EPPs in Sri Lanka and Malaysia? ... while Malaysia has managed to so? And what are the experiences that Sri Lanka can learn from Malaysia to maintain political stability and economic development? A comparative study of the two...

Ngày tải lên: 12/09/2015, 10:57

... equivalence classes of stable states, and it then automatically categorizes the state (and hence, the equivalence class) of each part as the part exits the gate Experimental Results All of the results ... Jayaraman Krishnasamy, Mark J Jakiela, and Daniel E Whitney Mechanics of vibration-assisted entrapment with application to design In International Conference on Robotics and Automation IEEE, April ... gates, that are located at various points along the bowl’s helical track The different sections of track preceding and following the gates have varying positive and negative values of pitch Additionally,...

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Ngày tải lên: 19/02/2014, 03:20

... farms adopting the organic approach because of access to high quality pastures and the ability to manage pasture as a dairy feed source These areas also have a long history of small dairy operations ... study addresses these limitations, taking advantage of a unique nationwide data set of organic and conventional dairies Data Data used in this study come from the 2005 Agricultural Resource Management ... operator, farm, and regional characteristics If the latent variable is positive, then the variable indicating organic production Oi equals one, and equals zero otherwise A measure of the impact of...

Ngày tải lên: 22/02/2014, 05:20

... The grammatical level operates at the stage of the sentence-pattern and the level of organization of utterance operates at the stage of the utterance This is very similar to the model of Mathesius ... precise and accurate methods of analytical procedure but failed to appreciate the structural character of language and therefore concentrated in atomistic fashion on the diachronic aspect of language ... thought and are to appear in an adequate kind of perspective The conditions of the act of communication are determined by the general character and regularities of the linear materialization and...

Ngày tải lên: 24/02/2014, 18:20