accessing the first or last value from a partition

... These are your main objective in the first year (after learning all the material, of course) Instructors don’t care if you got an A+ or a C- as long as you These are also known as core examinations, ... in the first year Besides the professors, the TA’s of the courses you are taking in your first year are also an important part of the first year life Don’t hesitate to talk to them Go to their ... usually the case that more specialization in mathematics is also needed In a nutshell, we say that the more mathematics, the better; however, one should not fall into the trap of confusing an...

Ngày tải lên: 08/03/2014, 05:20

... snatches the evening paper from his armchair, and runs it over anal reads] Here it is again "Body of a man was found this morning under an archway in Glove Lane From marks about the throat grave ... with a worn, high cheek-boned face, deep-sunk blue eyes and wavy hair all ruffled a face which still has a certain beauty He moves inwards along the wall, stands still again and utters a gasping ... makes a sort of oasis before a log fire In red Turkish slippers and an old brown velvet coat, KEITH DARRANT sits asleep He has a dark, clean-cut, clean-shaven face, dark grizzling hair, dark twisting...

Ngày tải lên: 06/11/2012, 14:13

... cooler, the main parameter when designing an indirect system is the heat-exchange surface that separates the air stream from the water to be evaporated These surfaces absorb heat from the primary air ... stream and transfer it to the secondary air in the evaporative cooling process They can be made either of metal or plastic and must easily conduct heat, maintain the two streams separated and ... where air and water are in contact, water will always tend to adiabatic saturation temperature, as in the case of the adiabatic tunnel described before To clarify what has been exposed before, the...

Ngày tải lên: 05/09/2013, 16:10

... The ExecuteScalar( ) method of the Command object returns a single value from the data source rather than a table or data stream While the ExecuteScalar( ) method does not result in a performance ... performance improvement when compared to retrieving a single value using an output parameter or using a DataReader, it allows a single value to be returned with the least code and may therefore ... improve readability and maintainability If the result set returns more than one result, the first column of the first row is returned as a scalar value A null reference is returned if the result...

Ngày tải lên: 14/12/2013, 18:16

... N-benzoyl-Phe-Val-Arg-pNA D-Val-Leu-Lys-pNA D-Ile-Phe-Lys-pNA Ala-Ala-Val-Ala-pNA D-Ile-Pro-Arg-pNA Na-benzoyl-Arg-pNA D-Leu-Ser-Thr-Arg-pNA N-succinyl-Ala-Ala-Ala-pNA N-benzoyl-Val-Gly-Arg-pNA N-acetyl-Leu-Glu-His-Asp-pNA ... 5¢-TTGCCTGAGCATGTT GATTGGAGAGCGAAAG-3¢ (forward) and 5¢-GGGAT AATAAGGTAATCTAGTGATTCCAC-3¢ (reverse) PCRamplified products were purified from 1% agarose gel and ligated to the pTZ57R ⁄ T vector with the T ⁄ A cloning ... Chakraborty S, Biswas S, Chakrabarti C & Dattagupta JK (2005) Crystallization and preliminary X-ray diffraction studies of the cysteine protease ervatamin A from Ervatamia coronaria Acta Crystallogr F...

Ngày tải lên: 18/02/2014, 16:20

... meat was practically unobtainable The bread was disgusting and scarce Potatoes had to be procured by standing in queues for hours (This as a matter of fact has been the rule for the last year and ... heavily, as he always had a waiting-list and continuous work to for the prisoners As a man he was about as unfit for war as anyone could imagine, and yet they called him up eventually Being a ... thus talking we got rather a scare A man on a horse came along the road and stopped immediately opposite the patch of brambles in the midst of which we lay The horse began tearing at the leaves...

Ngày tải lên: 20/02/2014, 08:20

... taking place at several times the natural replacement rate, the amount of available arable land per person has dropped substantially and agricultural productivity has slowed At the same time an ... Brazil, Canada, China, Denmark, France, Germany, India, Ireland, Italy, Japan, Mexico, Netherlands, Russia, Singapore, South Africa, South Korea, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland, the UK and the US The ... coastal areas, displacing “tens to hundreds of millions of people” in places such as Southeast Asia, particularly Bangladesh and Vietnam, and small Caribbean and Pacific islands Some of the world’s...

Ngày tải lên: 15/03/2014, 21:20

... musics?”38 There is an argument for the view that if Shakespeare, the author of ´ ´ the Mahabharata, Gabriel Garc a Marquez, and Homer share a singular reference, so can Indian ragas, salsa, Tuvan overtone ... ambiguous or even contradictory meaning A cross-cultural exploration of these concepts reveals that they are not nearly as clear, stable, and value- free as they may appear A more dynamic interpretation ... with unabated passion for the quality and value of their work The musicians I feel most indebted to are my two Indian music gurus: Ustad Jamaluddin Bhartiya and the late Ustad Ali Akbar Khan, who,...

Ngày tải lên: 11/06/2014, 01:01

... was to review the qualitative data to characterize the functional, emotional, and interpersonal impacts of PE from the patient and partner perspective A grounded theory approach was applied for ... for the analysis [23,24] This approach means that themes that are identified need to be grounded or rooted based on examination of the data and not initially imposed on the data The research team, ... 10% 20% Gender Males Females Mean Age Males Females % Caucasian Males Females Marital Status Males Married Single Divorced Other Females Married Single Divorced Other Abbreviations: FG = focus...

Ngày tải lên: 18/06/2014, 22:20

... arm, and the last three markers mounted on a support placed on the forearm (Figure 2) The final position of the last 10 markers and the position of the cameras was the position that yielded the ... phase was completed satisfactorily, a static calibration recording was made Using the static calibration recording, we checked that each marker was visible to at least one of the scanning cameras ... of the drinking task cycle) when the movement was recorded Statistical analysis A descriptive analysis was made of the clinical and functional variables by calculating the median and interquartile...

Ngày tải lên: 19/06/2014, 08:20

... data management plan, Dr Dallolio coordinated data entry and data analysis, Dr Savoia provided assistance with data analysis and the narrative of the manuscript All authors revised the text and ... population norm data, debate on the cross adaptability of such scores has not been solved yet The absence of values based on the Italian population affects the most important characteristic of the ... is a process where the theory and the measure are assessed at the same time [22] Our approach in evaluating the EQ-5D construct validity was based on comparisons of mean value scores (for the...

Ngày tải lên: 20/06/2014, 15:20

... Russian) O A Ladyzhenskaya, On the non-stationary operator equations and its application to linear problems of Mathematical Physics, Mat Sbornik 45 (1958) 123–158 (in Russian) O A Ladyzhenskaya, ... is a linear differential operator having order less than 2m The coefficients of this operator depend on the choice of the function ϕ0 and equal to outside U0 This and the arguments analogous to the ... = Acknowledgment We would like to thank the referee for valuable comments On the Smoothness of Solutions 147 References R Dautray and J L Lions, Mathematical Analysis and Numerical Methods for...

Ngày tải lên: 06/08/2014, 05:20

... Pneumococcal and meningococcal vaccines were administered and our patient was then promptly taken to theater for laparotomy On examination of her internal organs at laparotomy, other than hemorrhage and ... represented metastases rather than wedge fracture, but there were no abnormalities or neoplastic disease affecting the intra-abdominal organs Figure Large left anterior mediastinal mass with prominent ... mmHg, heart rate of 72 beats per minute, saturations 97% on a nonrebreather mask and temperature of 36.9°C The admission examination revealed normal cardiac examination and bibasal inspiratory crepitations...

Ngày tải lên: 10/08/2014, 23:20

... interpreted patient data regarding the cardiac disease and was a major contributor in writing the manuscript PM performed the transthoracic echocardiography PM, TB and MP performed the transthoracal and ... of the thrombus 3D visualization of the thrombus demonstrated that the mass was not attached to the leads in the RA and RV but trapped between them Author details Department of Cardiology and Angiology, ... helpful for the assessment of RH cavities and intracardiac masses in patients with implanted PM or defibrillators Medical therapy might offer a safe and convincing alternative to surgical therapy...

Ngày tải lên: 11/08/2014, 02:22

... response rate The final study had greater statistical power than envisaged as the final response rate was 76% Analysis All statistical analyses were undertaken using the statistical software package ... stratified by whether or not reservists discharged their weapon in combat (data available from authors) Fair or poor assessment of health based on the SF-36 were comparable for UK and US regulars, but ... Milliken et al (2007) age; percentage for all other variables c UK data weighted to take account of sampling weights d Demographic data are not separately available for those on active duty and those...

Ngày tải lên: 11/08/2014, 17:20

... conclusion from the general discussion that antalgia was specific for discogenic pain No other disagreement was noted Analytical problem When analyzing these data, it became apparent that the summary ... chiropractic management of the acute facet syndrome The high agreement among chiropractors and between chiropractors and the literature may indicate that chiropractors have a common educational background, ... back pain The formal name for these joints is the zygapophyseal joints, as endorsed by The International Anatomical Nomenclature Committee [1] They were suggested as a source of pain as early as...

Ngày tải lên: 13/08/2014, 14:20

... Cilag The authors would also like to thank, Frances Gambling, Medicus International, for her editorial assistance Editorial assistance was funded by Janssen Cilag References CA has been a speaker ... AstraZeneca and Canton Bern TL has been an advisory board member for Janssen Cilag 10 11 12 MS has been an advisory board member for Janssen Cilag 13 JB is a consultant, advisory board memeber and a ... Pfizer and Shire and has been a speaker for ADHI, Admirall-Prodesfarma, APNADAH, AstraZeneca, ASTTA, Bristol-Myers Squibb, Eli Lilly, Esteve, GlaxoSmithKline, Janssen, Novartis and Solvay Cesar Soutullo...

Ngày tải lên: 13/08/2014, 18:21

... incremental effectiveness and incremental cost are calculated for a program targeting the appropriate age group rather than for the median program Discussion & Conclusion The marginal effects and marginal ... of Australia; 2002 ABS: Australian Bureau of Statistics (ABS) National Health Survey 2004– 05: Summary of Results (Catalogue No 4364.0) Canberra: Commonwealth of Australia; 2006 ABS: Australian ... described above fall into this category Rather, the errors described above are more appropriately characterised as 'lapses of attention' that are unlikely to bias results For this reason (and because...

Ngày tải lên: 13/08/2014, 11:22

... bowls are the most popular, and are very durable Ceramic bowls are available 23 24 Adopting a Rescue Dog in many designs and are often more attractive The drawbacks are that they are usually more ... to make sure they’re in good health before being made available for adoption The dogs are usually vaccinated, wormed and neutered In many cases, their temperament has been assessed so that staff ... take the dog while we are in South Africa That night I was on the SPCA website for Northern Virginia And there was Buddy An year-old Pomeranian mix who basically likes to watch TV on the sofa...

Ngày tải lên: 16/02/2014, 07:20