a philosophical assessment of decision theory

... probability table of the Southern Manitoba system The grid tap at Saskatoon on the HVDC system consists of valve groups each of 250 MW capacity for a total The total available capacity, capacity of 1000 ... Approximate results for the LCC values of the Saskatchewan and Alberta systems were obtained by allocating 10 units of Limestone generating station (each of 108 MW) and units of Conawapa station (each ... year from Manitoba's viewpoint is 2000 Alberta and Saskatchewan risk indices not The approach their apparent maximum level in 2000 year 1999 is a more acceptable year for both Alberta and Saskatchewan...

Ngày tải lên: 03/01/2014, 19:36

... Wada, A. , Ogo, S., Watanabe, Y., Mukai, M., Kitagawa, T., Jitsukawa, K., Masuda, H & Einaga, H (1999) Synthesis and characterization of novel alkylperoxo mononuclear iron(III) complexes with a ... dismutase or catalase, implicating the involvement of a peroxo adduct in catalysis [243] In fact, reactivity was enhanced when H2O2 was the oxidant in place of reductant and air [243], and the putative ... iron-peroxy adduct prone to fragmentation [266] A similar paradigm also appears to apply to the nal step in aromatase (CYP19)-catalyzed biotransformation of androgens to estrogens [267] As illustrated...

Ngày tải lên: 19/02/2014, 16:20

... Tenias, E Alonso, K Kambra, E Aranguez, A Gandarillas, I Galan, J M Ordonez (Spain); M A Vigotti, G Rossi, E Cadum, G Costa, L Albano, D Mirabelli, P Natale, L Bisanti, A Bellini, M Baccini, A ... Mediterranean region An earlier paper23 examined the association of particulate air pollution in all available cities and addressed the issue of heterogeneity in response That analysis did not examine ... APHEA-2 methodology.23 Because of AIR POLLUTION AND MORTALITY DISPLACEMENT 89 the substantial variability in seasonal patterns and weather between, for example, Stockholm and Tel Aviv, separate...

Ngày tải lên: 15/03/2014, 20:20

... 564 A2 1 Polarization of Electromagnetic Radiation A2 1.1 Introduction A2 1.2 States of Polarization: Monochromatic Radiation A2 1.2.1 Linear polarization A2 1.2.2 Elliptical and circular polarization ... polarization A2 1.2.3 Stokes parameters A2 1.2.4 Stokes parameters for scattered radiation A2 1.3 States of Polarization: Quasi-Monochromatic Radiation A2 1.4 Change of Polarization: Depolarization Ratios, ... rotational constant, vibrational dependence of 197–198 rotational degeneracy 172–173, 214 rotational invariants, isotropic averages and 487–498 rotational matrix, diagonalization of 406 rotational matrix...

Ngày tải lên: 17/03/2014, 14:46

... Young Adults Project.4 Given AYA’s mandate to scale up YFS in Botswana, Ghana, Tanzania, and Uganda, a standardized and easily implemented method for assessing significant numbers of facilities was ... facilities were assessed, of which four were operated by the Planned Parenthood of Ghana (PPAG) and ten by the Christian Health Association of Ghana (CHAG) In Uganda, almost A Rapid Assessment of Youth ... Keyonzo, Naomy Achimpota, Andrew Arkutu, Emmanuel Essandoh, Neo Mokgautsi, Sophia Ladha, Joy Mukaire, Lucy Asaba, and Tijuana James-Traore In addition, the authors would like to thank all the team members...

Ngày tải lên: 28/03/2014, 16:20

... Rates of Marital Dissolution in the Active Marine Corps 94 Rates of Dual-Military Marriage Across the Active Services 97 Rates of Marital Dissolution in Dual-Military Marriages and Marriages ... that military stress actually accounts for problems in military marriages has been hard to come by For example, two independent analyses of data on Vietnam veterans (Call and Teachman, 1991 and ... the military have increased markedly, rates of marital dissolution have increased only gradually Yet analyses of trends may be misleading because they not directly assess rates of marital dissolution...

Ngày tải lên: 29/03/2014, 19:20

... least of all the text translated here, the canonical Xiaojing, or Classic of Family Reverence Anyone at all skeptical of the importance of family values in classical and imperial China will quickly ... conceptual artifacts its peoples have produced At the same time, this richness and variety guarantees that many of these artifacts will have at least partial counterparts in other civilizations, ... can the texts of classical Confucianism in general, and the Classic of Family Reverence in particular, be read in the same way, especially regarding filial respect and family values For just as...

Ngày tải lên: 11/06/2014, 12:46

... exhibiting a greater abundance of RNA transcripts, and hence it might be postulated that a greater proportion of intact mRNA may exist, as a function of unregulated synthesis of a limited number of malignant ... correlation between total operating time and Table Preoperative variables, baseline demographics and operative data of 142 specimens, and comparison with remainder population Variable n1 Mean sample ... effects of various clinicopathological variables on specimen quality Materials and methods Ethical approval and patient consent An Institutional Review Board-approved research protocol was obtained...

Ngày tải lên: 18/06/2014, 22:20

... exhibiting a greater abundance of RNA transcripts, and hence it might be postulated that a greater proportion of intact mRNA may exist, as a function of unregulated synthesis of a limited number of malignant ... correlation between total operating time and Table Preoperative variables, baseline demographics and operative data of 142 specimens, and comparison with remainder population Variable n1 Mean sample ... effects of various clinicopathological variables on specimen quality Materials and methods Ethical approval and patient consent An Institutional Review Board-approved research protocol was obtained...

Ngày tải lên: 20/06/2014, 04:20

... model and experimental strain at Locations to were calculated as described earlier For the Modular hip implant data (Table 1), the average differences for Locations to at axial loads of 700 and ... quadratic tetrahedrons for cortical bone, cancellous bone, and implants, and a 20-node quadratic hexahedron for the axial force applicator Contact elements were quadratic triangular for cortical ... storage and analysis Mechanical testing Experiments were performed using an Instron 8874 (Canton, MA, USA) with a capacity of ± 25 kN, a resolution of 0.1 N, and an accuracy of ± 0.5% Hip implants...

Ngày tải lên: 20/06/2014, 04:20

... the capital city of the Republic of Ghana The methods used had been adapted to the Ghanaian agricultural and environmental conditions based on other works [18] Data on spatial orientation of crop ... the area of 25 km2 in peri-urban Accra Table Ground surface data based on GPS measurements Sample Variable number Descriptors Assignments Specification of single locations of field allotments based ... Longest nearest distance occurred at a distance of 459 m Table shows that there are up to a maximum of three field neighbours on average within a distance of 20 m, and up to a total maximum of seven...

Ngày tải lên: 21/06/2014, 05:20

... Internal drainage boards (IDBs) IDBs are independent bodies responsible for land drainage in areas of special drainage need These are mostly low-lying areas that need active management of water ... floodwater is in a property A typical example is water resistant wall plaster The cost of damage to property as a result of a flood can be great According to a report prepared for Defra, repairing ... grounds, and where local planning authorities have advised us of the final decision, fewer than four per cent of these applications have gone ahead against our advice Warning and prepardness Ensuring...

Ngày tải lên: 28/06/2014, 19:20

... in agreement with the results reported for A balsamea infected 298 A Solla et al Figure Mean annual radial growth of asymptomatic and Melampsorella caryophyllacearum symptomatic Abies alba trees ... Slope (º) 32 37 31 Abies alba density (stems ha–1) 716 584 595 A alba average height (m) 21.0 22.3 22.9 A alba basal area (m2 ha–1) 47.8 66.4 58.1 Fagus sylvatica basal area (m2 ha–1) 3.6 4.8 2.8 ... We thank Sergio Ahumada and Mabel Martín for technical help Gobierno de Navarra, and Junta General del Valle de Salazar are acknowledged to allow the study to be initiated J.J Camarero thanks...

Ngày tải lên: 08/08/2014, 00:22

... drafting of the manuscript RL and AM aided in the collection and analysis of interview data CAL participated in the design of the study and all authors read and approved the final manuscript SAS conceived ... published a document supporting NEPs, there appear to be small-scale programs operating in only six states – Baja California, Coahuila, Nuevo Leon, Oaxaca, Sinaloa, Zacatecas – with the most active ... early 1990s as Catholic bishops in the state of Chiapas threatened excommunication of lawmakers who may have approved a bill legalizing abortion [29] In this case, many individuals felt the Catholic...

Ngày tải lên: 11/08/2014, 18:20

... Respiratory Research 2009, 10:61 Background Airway hyperresponsiveness (AHR) is a functional abnormality characteristic of bronchial asthma [1] AHR in asthma is defined as an exaggerated response of ... passages during inhalation As described by Klemens J [23], the nasal challenge with histamine consisted of intranasal application of 50 μl of various concentrations of histamine (Sigma, USA) applied ... nasal were expressed as median and interquartile range (IQR) Normal-distributed data were compared using analysis of variance (ANOVA) or unpaired t test, whereas the non-parametric Kruskal-Wallis...

Ngày tải lên: 12/08/2014, 14:20

... Rodriguez de Castro F, Aspa J, Briones ML, Garcia-Saavedra A, Rajas O, Blanquer J, CaballeroHidalgo A, Marcos-Ramos JA, Hernandez-Lopez J, Rodriguez-Gallego C: Mannose-binding lectin and mannose-binding ... common variation may reveal more robust patterns of variation associated with the disease [28,47] In this sense, a (nearly) full coverage of common variation of the candidate gene in association ... gene are associated with higher mortality and lower VEGF plasma levels in patients with ARDS Thorax 2007, 62:718-722 44 Arcaroli J, Sankoff J, Liu N, Allison DB, Maloney J, Abraham E: Association...

Ngày tải lên: 13/08/2014, 11:23

... the Advia-Bayeranalyzer (ADVIA) Total bilirubin was assayed by diazoreactions methods Statistical analysis used multiple measure variance analyses and Passing-Bablok linear regression analyses ... prediction of the stage of liver fibrosis and grade of activity Standardized methods and assay calibration should be used and expression of alanine aminotransferase and γglutamyl transpeptidase in ... Haptoglobin Analyzer Method Apolipoprotein A1 Analyzer Method Total bilirubin Analyzer Method Aminotransferase Analyzer Method γ-glutamyl transpeptidase Analyzer Method LAB LAB α2-macroglobulin Analyzer...

Ngày tải lên: 13/08/2014, 13:20

... C hee, G lenda Lopez-Wui, Ireyah Basman, Miguel Lizada, Jan Wendell B atocabe, Lou Janssen Dangzalan, M ichelle A guas and Joseph Nathan Cruz, f or m aking S ingapore a “ home away f rom hom ... during the last five years I come to her once more and offer before her feet the fruits of these years of labor and toil Maraming maraming salamat sa inyong lahat! iv TABLE OF CONTENTS Declaration ... 2010 Plate 17 Devotees of the Black Nazarene in Manila Plate 18 Devotees of Black Nazarene in the Carroza Plate 19 Carroza Bearing the Perpetual Help Icon Plate 20 Procession during Feast Day of...

Ngày tải lên: 08/09/2015, 18:26

... Platymantis banahao Arboreal 14 18 Platymantis luzonensis Arboreal 11 14 Platymantis montanus Arboreal 18 26 Platymantis corrugatus Ground 0 Platymantis dorsalis Ground Platymantis naomi ... The abundance of BNFs by elevation .74 Figure 3.2 (A) A pair of bird’s nest ferns, an exposed male Platymantis luzonensis a sheltered female and male Platymantis banahao and a clutch of ... across elevation by running an Analysis of Covariance (ANCOVA) with temperature as a response variable and elevation and position (ground or canopy) as predictors A second ANCOVA was performed...

Ngày tải lên: 10/09/2015, 09:11