... of mountains in Afghanistan and the behavior of entrepreneurs in Africa.” Adrian Schofield, head of research for ForgeAhead, an information and communications consulting firm, anda leader with ... through example and generalization MEMS, agents and bots are the reality today In the near future, as computing and data storage become more advanced and nanotechnology and artificial intelligence ... projects and databases online Broadband allows the use of richly detailed audio and video files on such sites – allowing depth of detail in pronunciation and in facial and other physical movements associated...
... μPAN ) σb + μb , (1) σPAN where μPAN and μb are the mean of the PAN and MS image band b, respectively, and s PAN and s b are the standard deviation of the PAN and MS image band b, respectively This ... Haydn et al.[30] to merge Landsat MSS with Return Beam Vidicon (RBV) data and Landsat MSS with Heat Capacity Mapping Mission data In 1988, Chavez et al.[31] used SPOT panchromatic data to “sharpen” ... SDM and CBD models, is calculated on bandpass details instead of approximations RWM models the MS details as a space and spectral-varying linear combination of the PAN image coefficients Another...
... 14 a, Use of Grammar 14 a1 Modality 14 a2 Use of Active / Passive voices 14 a3 Sentence order 15 a4 Length of sentences 15 a5 Kinds of sentences 16 b Use of vocabulary 17 b1 Archaic words and ... Purposes and typical legal characteristics of the International 10 Declaration on Human Rights 3.2.1 Purposes 10 3.2.2 Typical legal characteristics 10 3.3 A study of the discourse structure and some ... Convention and its realization 23 4.3.2.2 Remarks 26 a, Use of Grammar 26 a1 Modality 26 a2 Use of Active/ Passive voices 27 a3 Sentence order 27 a4 Length of sentences 27 a5 Kinds of sentences...
... language learning, and is therefore of great importance to language teachers Traditionally, language teaching has concentrated on pronunciation, grammar, and vocabulary, and while these remain ... Modality A modal form is a provision of syntax that indicates the predication of an action, attitude, condition, or state other than that ofa simple declaration of fact The modality ofa grammatical ... shall be prohibited in all their forms (Article of Universal Declaration of Human Rights) b Use of vocabulary b1 Archaic words and phrases Few archaic words and phrases are found in Declarations...
... spiritual and moral well-being and physical and mental health To this end, States Parties shall: (a) Encourage the mass media to disseminate information and material of social and cultural benefit ... financial assistance in case of need; (c) Make higher education accessible to all on the basis of capacity by every appropriate means; (d) Make educational and vocational information and guidance ... performances and materials Article 35 States Parties shall take all appropriate national, bilateral and multilateral measures to prevent the abduction of, the sale of or traffic in children for any...
... soldiers; and each with its outlying factories had a staff of perhaps a dozen factors, as many sub-factors, twice as many assistants, anda few bookkeepers and auditors, as well as a corps of white artisans ... and reasonable A ship captain after paying for a license and buying the king's private stock of slaves at somewhat above the market price would have the news of his arrival spread afar, and at ... artisans and an abundance of native interpreters, boatmen, carriers and domestic servants The Dutch and English stations alternated in a series east and west, often standing no further than a cannon-shot...
... recent past, the understanding of central bank transparency and communication has changed dramatically As it became increasingly clear that managing expectations is a central part of monetary policy, ... communications In fact, the Fed is more ofa laggard than a leader in this regard The Reserve Bank of New Zealand and the Bank of England were early and enthusiastic converts to greater transparency, ... De Haan, Jakob, Fabian Amtenbrink, and Sandra Waller 2004 “The Transparency and Credibility of the European Central Bank.” Journal of Common Market Studies, 42(4): 775-94 Demiralp, Selma, and...
... initial stages of contact and reached a maximum in the range of 35–60 for soil minerals such as hematite and feldspar Carbonell Barrachina et al (1996) observed that 80% of the total amount of As(III) ... potential groundwater and surface water contamination by these contaminants Arsenic can exist in inorganic form, organic form, and gaseous state The oxidation states of As in the natural systems are ... soil was very acidic with pH values of about 4.5 for a soil:water ratio of 1:1 and about 4.7 for a soil:water ratio of 1:20 The parent material, weathering processes, and absence of carbonate content...
... somewhat mitigated (Ogawa and Retherford 1997; da Vanza and Chan 1994) Economic growth is typically also accompanied by urbanization and the migration of young workers to urban areas In Japan this ... reliable, comparable and comprehensive measures of population health and comparative assessments of the burden of diseases, injuries and risk factors; and to investigate the costs, efficacy and ... (Ainsworth and Dayton 2001; Barnett and Blaikie 1992; Vanlandingham et al 2000, WHO (World Health Organization) 2001) In a study of Tanzania, Ainsworth and Dayton (2001) found a short-term impact on...
... testing capacity in appendix The ratio of the maximum capacity to the average capacity available is about 2.5 Again, this indicates that the average capacity is a good indicator for the available testing ... large lab) The size of the small labs might be related to comparative advantage E.g the price advantages of the small labs might be due to advantages of specialization Small labs generally offer ... test packages based on 282 substances p .a EU capacity (excl an EU capacity and import share of 53%) Switzerland 77 98 11 14 1 Table 4: Estimation of the annual overall testing capacity according...
... inquiring about this realm of activity have not been standardized or validated, and this study did not use measures that had been evaluated or validated in other research and, thus, may be flawed by as ... American Medical Association, 285(23), 3011-3014 National Public Radio & The Henry J Kaiser Family Foundation (2000) National surveyof American adults on technology and national surveyof American ... non-Hispanic White (73%) with 10% Black or African American and 8% from other races including American Indian, Alaska Native, Asian, and Hispanic White Twenty percent of youth lived in a single-parent...
... knowledge about how a particular item satisfies a particular user need, and can therefore reason about the relationship between a need and possible recommendation [12] The user profile can be any knowledge ... Data Sparsity, Cold Start Problem, Fraud, Scalability, Gray sheep, Shilling attack and synonymy [6-7, 9, 15] Data Sparsity: In practice, many commercial recommender systems are used to evaluate ... [5] There are many ways to calculate the similarity between items Some of the most popular algorithms are cosine based similarity, correlation based similarity and adjusted-cosine similarity The...
... knowledge about how a particular item satisfies a particular user need, and can therefore reason about the relationship between a need and possible recommendation [12] The user profile can be any knowledge ... Data Sparsity, Cold Start Problem, Fraud, Scalability, Gray sheep, Shilling attack and synonymy [6-7, 9, 15] Data Sparsity: In practice, many commercial recommender systems are used to evaluate ... [5] There are many ways to calculate the similarity between items Some of the most popular algorithms are cosine based similarity, correlation based similarity and adjusted-cosine similarity The...
... delivery of health care, financial management, organizational management, and legal and ethical considerations [7] In asurveyof American medical directors, competencies related specifically to health ... design and delivery of appropriate and relevant programs aimed at enhancing management and leadership capacity in the health sector in South Africa Methods Data for this study come from asurveyof ... that variable This allows one to treat the data as interval data measuring a latent variable, to which parametric statistical tests can be applied Reliability of scales was estimated by assessing...
... Asurveyof American neurologists about brain death: understanding the conceptual basis and diagnostic tests for brain death Ari R Joffe*1,2, Natalie R Anton1, Jonathan P Duff1 and Allan deCaen1 ... ari.joffe@albertahealthservices.ca NRA: Natalie.anton@albertahealthservices.ca JPD: Jon.duff@albertahealthservices.ca AdC: allan.decaen@albertahealthservices.ca Abstract Background: Neurologists often ... is because it is a standard: an accepted medical standard (46, 24%; 18–30%), an accepted legal standard (24, 13%; 8–18%), and/ or “the diagnosis of brain death was taught to me during my training”...
... treatability of childhood autism and sociodemographic variables of the healthcare workers Sociodemographic variables Level of association (p value) Age groups (years) Gender Marital status Area ... communication and language development and contains one question Domain assesses areas of obsessive and compulsive patterns of behavior found in children with ASD and contains four questions Domain addresses ... treatability and preventability of childhood autism A significant association was found between the opinions of healthcare workers on explanation of the etiology and treatability of childhood autism,...
... fractured surface of articular cartilage after trauma or transplantation The objective of this study was to investigate the initiation of immediate bondingof articular cartilage blocks by means of combining ... strength of kPa Determination of glycosaminoglycan and collagen content To assess the effects of the surface degradation treatment, the extracellular matrix content of cartilage blocks was analysed after ... partial apposition, creating a defined overlap area of mm × 2.5 mm for bonding The precise assembly was guaranteed by a custom-made chamber and an additional fixation stamp (Figure 1d) [5] After...