a personal overview of the formative years

So, you want to go to grad school in Economics? A practical guide of the first years (for outsiders) from insiders pptx

So, you want to go to grad school in Economics? A practical guide of the first years (for outsiders) from insiders pptx

... other programs Both cooperation and camaraderie is the key Form a study group with students who are at the same level as you are In this way you can work together and learn the material together, ... incorruptible as an artist, yet sometimes as near to earth as a politician.” Aware that we may converge to the preface of any advanced economics book, from our experience, at the very least you should have ... have a competitive knowledge of calculus and linear algebra Familiarity with statistics is also welcome The ideal is to have knowledge of real analysis and some concepts of measure theory The...

Ngày tải lên: 08/03/2014, 05:20

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Báo cáo khoa học: A structural overview of the PDI family of proteins docx

Báo cáo khoa học: A structural overview of the PDI family of proteins docx

... ERp57 and the tip of the calreticulin P-domain Proc Natl Acad Sci USA 99, 1954–1959 Satoh M, Shimada A, Keino H, Kashiwai A, Nagai N, Saga S & Hosokawa M (2005) Functional characterization of thioredoxin ... orientation of the bb¢ domains and significant differences in orientation of their a and a domains The catalytic cysteines (orange) of the °C yeast PDI structure face each other (B) The b and b¢ ... cloverleaf A long C-terminal tail folds back and makes contacts with the a and b¢ domains [10] This capping function of the C-terminal tail may have assisted the successful crystallization and structure...

Ngày tải lên: 15/03/2014, 23:20

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LIBOR Manipulation: A Brief Overview of the Debate pot

LIBOR Manipulation: A Brief Overview of the Debate pot

... perform the analysis Any defence against an accusation of having manipulated the LIBOR fixing will therefore depend heavily on being able to analyse the strengths and flaws of each method used The ... maturity, the BBA ranks the 16 rates from highest to lowest and then drops the highest and the lowest The remaining rates are averaged, and this average is reported as the LIBOR rate for that ... This overview of the debate about whether LIBOR was manipulated at the height of the crisis has, of necessity, been brief and has not been able to go into any of the studies in great detail There...

Ngày tải lên: 22/03/2014, 17:20

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carl sagan - the varieties of scientific experience--a personal view of the search for god

carl sagan - the varieties of scientific experience--a personal view of the search for god

... ecliptic plane, also called the zodiacal plane (because the constellations of the zodiac are arrayed around this plane) And that’s why the planets and the Sun and the Moon apparently move through the ... goes around in another way All of the planets go around in the same sense And, as far as he knew then, they all rotated in the same sense The planets had something astonishingly regular about them ... natural world without the interposition of any capital-W Watchmaker That was natural selection The ideas behind natural selection were that there was such a thing as a hereditary material, that...

Ngày tải lên: 06/07/2014, 01:46

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Báo cáo y học: "To keep the catch – that is the question: a personal account of the 3rd Annual EULAR Congress, Stockholm" potx

Báo cáo y học: "To keep the catch – that is the question: a personal account of the 3rd Annual EULAR Congress, Stockholm" potx

... over 300 and there was a global spread of speakers, rather than a European spread I think this is exactly the right policy, although probably to some extent controversial The chairman of the scientific ... the official EULAR journal This now has an impact factor of over and is next only to the ACR journal Arthritis and Rheumatism in its field The submission rate to the Annals is increasing substantially ... state -of- the- art/update line of sessions Having fewer invited speakers would certainly incur some disappointment among the rank and file congress speakers, and their absence would attenuate the...

Ngày tải lên: 09/08/2014, 06:22

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Tài liệu University Oars Being a Critical Enquiry Into the After Health of the Men Who Rowed in the Oxford and Cambridge Boat-Race, from the Year 1829 to 1869, Based on the Personal Experience of the Rowers Themselves pdf

Tài liệu University Oars Being a Critical Enquiry Into the After Health of the Men Who Rowed in the Oxford and Cambridge Boat-Race, from the Year 1829 to 1869, Based on the Personal Experience of the Rowers Themselves pdf

... 168 years, and these 168 expected years added to the 232 actual years gives 400, or to each man a mean after life of 50 instead of 40 years The worst lived crew in the table is the first 1849 Cambridge ... 291 years which they had together attained to in 1869, gives to 22 UNIVERSITY OARS the eight Oars an after life of 389 instead of 320 years, and to each man 48*6 instead of 40 years The Table ... thought that the part he took in the race injured a small vessel at the heart: previous to that he had been a particularly strong muscular man Eleven years after the Boat-Race he was suddenly taken...

Ngày tải lên: 14/02/2014, 21:20

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báo cáo sinh học:" Thirty years after Alma-Ata: a systematic review of the impact of community health workers delivering curative interventions against malaria, pneumonia and diarrhoea on child mortality and morbidity in sub-Saharan Africa" docx

báo cáo sinh học:" Thirty years after Alma-Ata: a systematic review of the impact of community health workers delivering curative interventions against malaria, pneumonia and diarrhoea on child mortality and morbidity in sub-Saharan Africa" docx

... research Malaria, diarrhoea and pneumonia are of huge public health importance in sub-Saharan Africa and if ITNs, Page of 11 antimalarials, antibiotics, oral rehydration solution and other simple ... subject of the 2008 WHO World Health Report, has the endorsement of WHO Director-General Margaret Chan [5], and was the topic of a themed issue of the Lancet [6] Sub-Saharan Africa has only 3% of the ... with advice from DR and SL The data were extracted by JC and AL JC wrote the first draft of the paper, and all authors contributed to the analysis and interpretation of the data and reviewed and...

Ngày tải lên: 18/06/2014, 17:20

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FINANCIAL STATEMENTS AND SUPPLEMENTAL INFORMATION New York City Industrial Development Agency (A Component Unit of The City of New York) Years Ended June 30, 2010 and 2009 With Report of Independent Auditors _part1 potx

FINANCIAL STATEMENTS AND SUPPLEMENTAL INFORMATION New York City Industrial Development Agency (A Component Unit of The City of New York) Years Ended June 30, 2010 and 2009 With Report of Independent Auditors _part1 potx

... purposes of additional analysis and is not a required part of the basic financial statements Such information has been subjected to the auditing procedures applied in our audit of the basic financial ... on these financial statements based on our audits We conducted our audits in accordance with auditing standards generally accepted in the United States and the standards applicable to financial ... in the financial statements, assessing the accounting principles used and significant estimates made by management, and evaluating the overall financial statement presentation We believe that...

Ngày tải lên: 19/06/2014, 21:20

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FINANCIAL STATEMENTS AND SUPPLEMENTAL INFORMATION New York City Industrial Development Agency (A Component Unit of The City of New York) Years Ended June 30, 2010 and 2009 With Report of Independent Auditors _part2 pptx

FINANCIAL STATEMENTS AND SUPPLEMENTAL INFORMATION New York City Industrial Development Agency (A Component Unit of The City of New York) Years Ended June 30, 2010 and 2009 With Report of Independent Auditors _part2 pptx

... obligations of the United States of America or in obligations guaranteed by agencies of the United States of America where the payment of principal and interest are guaranteed by the United States ... contemplated), the Agency has, in effect, none of the risks and rewards of the Financing Lease and related IDB financing Accordingly, with the exception of certain fees generated as a result of the ... instruments The Agency adopted GAS 53 as of July 1, 2009 The adoption of GAS No 53 did not have a significant impact on the Agency’s financial results as discussed further in Note Cash Equivalents The Agency...

Ngày tải lên: 19/06/2014, 21:20

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FINANCIAL STATEMENTS AND SUPPLEMENTAL INFORMATION New York City Industrial Development Agency (A Component Unit of The City of New York) Years Ended June 30, 2010 and 2009 With Report of Independent Auditors _part3 doc

FINANCIAL STATEMENTS AND SUPPLEMENTAL INFORMATION New York City Industrial Development Agency (A Component Unit of The City of New York) Years Ended June 30, 2010 and 2009 With Report of Independent Auditors _part3 doc

... Goldman Sachs Capital Markets, LP Goldman Sachs Capital Markets, LP Goldman Sachs Capital Markets, LP Goldman Sachs Capital Markets, LP A1 / A / A+ A1 / A / A+ A1 / A / A+ A1 / A / A+ A1 / A / A+ ... Goldman Sachs Capital Markets, LP Goldman Sachs Capital Markets, LP Goldman Sachs Capital Markets, LP Goldman Sachs Capital Markets, LP Goldman Sachs Capital Markets, LP Goldman Sachs Capital Markets, ... at the time of termination the swap has a negative fair value, the Agency would be liable to the counterparty to the extent PILOTs are available, for a payment equal to the swap’s fair value Capital...

Ngày tải lên: 19/06/2014, 21:20

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Báo cáo khoa học: " Intraoperative radiotherapy (IORT) combined with external beam radiotherapy (EBRT) for soft-tissue sarcomas – a retrospective evaluation of the Homburg experience in the years 1995–2007" pdf

Báo cáo khoa học: " Intraoperative radiotherapy (IORT) combined with external beam radiotherapy (EBRT) for soft-tissue sarcomas – a retrospective evaluation of the Homburg experience in the years 1995–2007" pdf

... facilitate planning of EBRT later X-rays were taken normally in anterior and lateral direction The patient was transferred to the radiotherapy room under anaesthesia, and radiotherapy was performed there ... to the literature data, having achieved a local control rate of 63%/5 years and an overall survival of 57%/5 years with a late complication rate of 42% comprising delayed wound healing and late ... for soft-tissue sarcoma 29/ 38 patients were treated for primary sarcomas, in the remaining nine the disease had recurred The mean age at the beginning of treatment was 56 years, the mean Karnofsky...

Ngày tải lên: 09/08/2014, 10:20

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Báo cáo y học: "Through the rear view mirror: a content evaluation of the journal of Chiropractic & Osteopathy for the years 2005–2008" pps

Báo cáo y học: "Through the rear view mirror: a content evaluation of the journal of Chiropractic & Osteopathy for the years 2005–2008" pps

... objective An International journal Originally the journal was to be an Australasian journal This was later changed to an international journal with an international editorial board In terms of the ... in Australasia is problematic The lack of any paper from New Zealand, Oceania including islands of the Pacific Ocean, and Asia would also seem to imply that the journal is not meeting at least ... country of origin the papers published fall into the following categories: USA 40, Australia 22, Canada 9, and Europe (including UK) Of the 83 articles about articles involved the collaboration of the...

Ngày tải lên: 13/08/2014, 14:20

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Báo cáo y học: "Development and implementation of a performance improvement project in adult intensive care units: overview of the Improving Medicine Through Pathway Assessment of Critical Therapy in Hospital-Acquired Pneumonia (IMPACT-HAP) study" doc

Báo cáo y học: "Development and implementation of a performance improvement project in adult intensive care units: overview of the Improving Medicine Through Pathway Assessment of Critical Therapy in Hospital-Acquired Pneumonia (IMPACT-HAP) study" doc

... pneumonia (HAP), healthcareassociated pneumonia (HCAP) and ventilator-associated pneumonia (VAP) at medical centers: the IMPACT-HAP Project (abstract) 48th Annual ICAAC/IDSA 46th Annual Meeting Washington, ... repository Validation of data quality was also performed at the IMPACT-HAP study center Initial empiric therapy was classified as appropriate if the isolated pathogen was susceptible to at least one ... for HAP should be implemented The goal of the ATS/IDSA guidelines is to provide an organizational framework for initial evaluation and management of adults with bacterial HAP, VAP, or HCAP; however,...

Ngày tải lên: 14/08/2014, 07:21

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A case study of the community college baccalaureate, what happened in ten years

A case study of the community college baccalaureate, what happened in ten years

... baccalaureate degrees; baccalaureate/associate colleges are for associate degree-granting colleges that award as many as 10% of their degrees at the bachelor‘s level The National Center for Education ... Garmon, 1995) Making the baccalaureate available to groups that would not otherwise attain it is a way of democratizing the degree and making higher education available to many students (Baily & Morest, ... Last, state officials see this as a potential solution to a major work-force shortage in areas such as nursing and teaching Projection of the shortages in these areas may leave states in a catastrophic...

Ngày tải lên: 30/09/2015, 13:41

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DEVELOPING A COMPETITIVE STRATEGY: A CASE STUDY OF THE THANGLONG GARMENT COMPANY IN HANOI, VIETNAM

DEVELOPING A COMPETITIVE STRATEGY: A CASE STUDY OF THE THANGLONG GARMENT COMPANY IN HANOI, VIETNAM

... sustain this advantage to maintain high profit rate over a number of years This definition uses profit rate as a measurement to rate the competitive advantage In other view, we can say that a product ... examining the costing plan for a two-layer jacket (Appendix 5, Table 2) After calculating manufacturing cost, 10% of profit rate is added then 10% of VAT (value-added tax) and another 10% retail ... production capacity and company address Company participates frequently in trade fairs, which are organized frequently over the course of a year, especially in fashion fair and new year fair Thaloga also...

Ngày tải lên: 23/04/2013, 10:29

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An overview of the EU Member States support schemes for the promotion of renewable energy sources

An overview of the EU Member States support schemes for the promotion of renewable energy sources

... capacity An example of this case is Italy where the conventional capacity amounted to 71% of the total installed capacity, with a RES-E capacity of 29%, which is 30GW out of 103GW of the total ... numerical solution of partial differential equations, the mathematical analysis of fluid flows, the hydraulic design of turbomachines, the nuclear power safety, the electric load forecasting and the ... Member State may count towards the national overall target of another participating Member State As part of the national policies and measures for the promotion of RES, according to the EU RES policy,...

Ngày tải lên: 05/09/2013, 16:10

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Potential biogas production from sewage sludge: A case study of the sewage treatment plant at Kwame Nkrumah university of science and technology, Ghana

Potential biogas production from sewage sludge: A case study of the sewage treatment plant at Kwame Nkrumah university of science and technology, Ghana

... on vacation indicating low population hence the variation in the monthly sludge generation The estimation of the biogas potential of the sludge the quality of the sludge was analysed and the ... 2007 [7] Barelli D., Csambalik L., Mestas C and Santos D Economical and Environmental Analysis of a Biogas Plant within the Context of a Real Farm The Royal Veterinary and Agricultural University, ... and technology (KNUST) generates a colossal amount of waste (solid and liquid) The solid waste is dumped at a site far away from the inhabited part of campus and the liquid waste is sent to a...

Ngày tải lên: 05/09/2013, 16:11

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Overview of the PSTN and Comparisons to voice over IP

Overview of the PSTN and Comparisons to voice over IP

... cards—Pre-paid and post-paid calling cards You dial a number, enter a password, and then call your destination 800/888/877 numbers The calling party is not charged for the call; Rather, the party called ... use the United States as an example of how competition affects the telecommunications marketplace by taking a look at the breakup of the utility in the early 1980s American Telephone and Telegraph ... which are local calling areas These RBOCs were also known as LECs If these LECs wanted to pass traffic between LATAs, they had to use an IXC As a result, many IXCs (AT&T, MCI, Sprint, and others)...

Ngày tải lên: 30/09/2013, 05:20

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A Quick Tour of the C++CLI Language Features

A Quick Tour of the C++CLI Language Features

... create the array, specifying the type and the number of elements in the constructor argument instead of using square brackets in the declaration The managed array is a reference type, so the array ... demonstrated the declaration and use of managed aggregate types, including ref classes, value classes, managed arrays, enum classes, and interface classes In the next section, you’ll learn about features ... seed) { array^ atoms = gcnew array(num_atoms); // Initialize the array // We cannot use a for each statement here because the for each // statement is not allowed...

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