... (Williams and Sandler, 2001) In Finland, for example, work-related factors accounted for 24% of lung cancer mortality in adults, but for only 8% of all cancer fatalities in adults (Nurminen and ... pollution from solid fuel use alone — account for 4.6% of all deaths and 3.1% of all DALYs in children aged 0-4 (Valent et al., 2004) Adding the effects of indoor and outdoor air pollution and ... Epidemiological Association as: "All that which is external to the human host Can be divided into physical, biological, social, cultural, etc., any or all of which can influence health status of populations...
Ngày tải lên: 12/02/2014, 12:20
... connection Finally, files are uploaded only when and if another individual decides to download the file on offer – an element of uncertainty not present with cyberlockers All in all, these differences ... file via a video streaming site is usually significantly less than when downloading a film or television episode from bittorrent The file size is usually much smaller (and hence the final quality ... users at any one time since the closure of the company behind the LimeWire client at the end of 2010 Sandvine estimates Gnutella usage at 1.9% globally and the network is particularly popular in...
Ngày tải lên: 29/03/2014, 19:20
Báo cáo khoa học: "An Estimate of Referent of Noun Phrases in Japanese Sentences" docx
... member of the class of the noun phrase For example, "INU(dog)" in the following sentence is an indefinite noun phrase OJIISAN TO OBAASAN-GA SUNDEITA (an old man) (and) (an old woman) (lived) ... it will be able to judge that the second "OJIISAN (old man)" refers to the entity denoted by the first "OJIISAN (old man) The referential property plays an important role in clarifying the anaphoric ... a semantic mark,er HUM (human) or a semantic marker AN I (animal) For example, we examine two instances of "HOO (cheek)" in the following sentences, which have a semantic marker PAR, OJIISAN-NIWA...
Ngày tải lên: 31/03/2014, 04:20
Tài liệu THE VALUE OF IMPROVED PUBLIC SERVICES: AN APPLICATION OF THE CHOICE EXPERIMENT METHOD TO ESTIMATE THE VALUE OF IMPROVED WASTEWATER TREATMENT INFRASTRUCTURE IN INDIA docx
... accumulates large amounts of human pollutants (e.g Schistosoma mansoni and faecal coliforms) as it flows through highly populous areas These pollutants carry significant health risks for humans, ... 2005; Hanley et al., 2005; Hasler et al., 2005; Willis et al., 2005; Hanley et al., 2006a,b; Alvarez-Farizo et al., 2007; Fischhendler, 2007; Birol et al., 2009b), and the economic value of improved ... Empirical Evidence from India Saroja Selvanathan, E.A Selvanathan and Brinda Viswanathan * Working Paper 47/2009 Ecology, Environment and Sustainable Development in Indian Fiscal Federalism U.Sankar...
Ngày tải lên: 18/02/2014, 01:20
Báo cáo lâm nghiệp: "Carbon accumulation in Finland’s forests 1922–2004 – an estimate obtained by combination of forest inventory data with modelling of biomass, litter and soil" potx
... study, we calculated the annual estimates using growth indices and modelling of litter and soil We found high annual variation in the carbon balance of both biomass and litter and soil This indicates ... stock of litter and soil and its annual changes in Finland’s forests between 1922 and 2004 The black lines show these variables when the transfers of carbon in litter and soil between forests and ... origin, and the transfers of carbon in litter and soil between forests and other land uses in Finland’s forests between 1922 and 2004 Figure Annual changes in the carbon stock of litter and soil in...
Ngày tải lên: 07/08/2014, 16:20
AN ESTIMATE FOR THE GAUSSIAN CURVATURE OF MINIMAL SURFACES WITH RAMIFICATION
... auxililary results of minimal surfaces and geometric orbifold which will be used later We first recall the classical results of the Nevanlinna theory Theorem ( [5, Cartan-Nochka’s theorem]) Let ... hyperbolically (reps classically hyperbolically) imbedded in X iff there is a positive constant c such that f ∗ ω ≤ c · hP for all AN ESTIMATE FOR THE GAUSSIAN CURVATURE OF MINIMAL orbifold (reps classically ... X), the set of all holomorphic of D into X The proof of Theorems 3.1 The proof of Theorem 10 PHAM DUC THOAN Proof We need the following Lemma of A Ros [6, Lemma 6]: Lemma 14 ([6]) Let x(v) :...
Ngày tải lên: 12/10/2015, 16:28
Intelligent Software Agents on the Internet: an inventory of currently offered functionality in the information society & a prediction of (near-)future developments
... will handle standard tasks and all those tasks that a computer program (i.e an agent) can faster or better than a human can Human intermediaries will handle the (very) complicated problems, and ... e-mail needs only very small amounts 35 organisational function rather than by person Intelligent agents can facilitate all these functions by allowing mail handling rules to be specified ahead of ... stated and chosen Ultimately, users of agents and agentenabled programs will be the principal determinant of how agents will look, what they will be, and what things they should and should not...
Ngày tải lên: 08/10/2012, 15:22
Báo cáo y học: "Pre-hospital intubation by anaesthesiologists in patients with severe trauma: an audit of a Norwegian helicopter emergency medical service"
... hospital and had a median GCS of (3 - 3) and RTS of 0.0 (0.0 - 0.0) Additionally, 47 patients (16% of all intubated patients) were intubated immediately upon arrival in the ED Page of (Table 3), all ... than the one available in the anaesthesiology department under which it is organised McCoy laryngoscope [2] and trans-tracheal kits were the only back Page of up available in cases of difficult ... Published: 14 June 2010 References Advanced trauma life support for doctors ATLS: manuals for coordinators and faculty Chicago IL: American College of Surgeons, Eight 2008 Smith CE, Walls RM, Lockey...
Ngày tải lên: 25/10/2012, 09:56
An analysis of key changes under ucp 600 compared to ucp 500 and recommendations for better ucp 600 application.doc
... Transferable letter of credit “Transferable’, ‘transmissible” and “assignable” convey the same meaning referring to the same type of credit This kind of L/ C allows the seller to transfer all ... Miscellaneous Provisions, Transferable Credit and finally Assignment of Proceeds After ten year of usage, UCP 500 has revealed lots of weaknesses due to the advance in fields of global logistics and ... 11-15% of international trade utilises letters of credit, totalling over a trillion dollars (US) each year (SITPRO Ltd, 2003) Historically, the commercial parties, particularly banks, have developed...
Ngày tải lên: 27/10/2012, 16:40
An Enemy of the People
... with a looking-glass hanging over it and an oval table in front of it On the table, a lighted lamp, with a lampshade At the back of the room, an open door leads to the dining-room BILLING is ... think I enjoy a meal all the better when I can sit down and eat all by myself, and undisturbed Mrs Stockmann Oh well, as long as you are enjoying it (Turns to the hall door, listening.) I expect ... study In the left-hand wall, opposite the door leading to the hall, is a door leading to the other rooms occupied by the family In the middle of the same wall stands the stove, and, further forward,...
Ngày tải lên: 06/11/2012, 14:12
An Army of Convicts
... School when he was eleven and progressed rapidly He obtained his black belt when he was thirteen Along the way Adam had played soccer, basketball, little league baseball and Pop Warner football ... football He liked all sports and was better than average at all of them He was the quarterback on his Pop Warner football team and the pitcher on the Wildcats Little League baseball team The Wildcats ... members of the tribe When the Bureau of Indian Affairs started enrollment of certifiable Indians who were eligible for Indian benefits Hanks parents not only enrolled as Seminole Indians they had also...
Ngày tải lên: 06/11/2012, 16:13
An evaluation of the material “basic english iii” for the second year non- english major students at bac giang teachers’ training college
... many places, the course book serves as a syllabus If the syllabus is followed systematically, a carefully planned and balanced selection of language content will be made - Ready- made texts and ... of grammar and reading skill, partly fulfilled the aims of the course in terms of writing skills and speaking skills, and failed to meet the requirement for pronunciation and vocabulary development ... study was the analysis of the course syllabus and the material “Basic English III” with three major criteria namely aims, content, and methodology * Syllabus analysis The syllabus was analyzed according...
Ngày tải lên: 07/11/2012, 14:50
An application of alternative risk measures to trading porfolios
... Frassanito and Michael Rey for their most useful explanations and remarks I am very grateful to Prof Uwe Schmock for all the help with the mathematical theory And last but not least, many thanks ... coefficient of -0.48 can be observed between the log returns of the price and the absolute returns in implied volatility and in the case of a Call Option, long Position we are Long Delta24, and Long ... the following example was noticed a number for VaR of 100 means a loss of this magnitude Value-At-Risk at 99% confidence level Tail Conditional Loss at 99% confidence level Expected Shortfall at...
Ngày tải lên: 27/04/2013, 11:17
An Analysis of Domestic Water Demand Structure and Water Recycling in Beijing
... in all households of size d for a day (L/ all households/day) AWUd,w: seasonal water use w in all households of size d for a day in spring and fall (L/ all households/day) Nd: number of households ... reclaimed wastewater for toilet flushing, gardening and car washing Therefore, it would be possible to use reclaimed wastewater to flush toilets and clean rooms, which would fulfill 20% of the annual ... 122 million m3, 250 million m3, and 377 million m3 of groundwater, respectively, can be saved Further studies will be needed to investigate the demand structure of industrial and agricultural water...
Ngày tải lên: 05/09/2013, 10:17
An overview of future sustainable nuclear power reactors
... cycle Rankine Rankine Rankine Rankine Rankine Rankine Rankine Rankine Rankine Rankine Rankine Rankine Rankine Rankine Rankine Rankine Rankine Rankine Rankine Rankine Rankine Rankine Rankine Rankine ... and closed fuel cycle for efficient conversion of fertile uranium and management of actinides A full actinide recycle fuel cycle with on-site fuel cycle facilities is envisioned The fuel cycle ... rod channel coolant The gas circulating in the reactor plays the role of assisting the heat transfer to the coolant channels There are 1661 fuel channels and 211 control rod channels in the reactor...
Ngày tải lên: 05/09/2013, 15:28
An assessment of the availability of household biogas resources in rural China
... of the six areas The evaluation value of the indices was calculated with formula (1) and is shown in Table 10; the evaluation result value was calculated with formula (2) and is shown in Table ... educational level of rural labors in China in 2006 is shown in Table [18] The data shows that rural labors in Area I have a relatively higher level in education, with 81.47% receiving middle school and ... agricultural residue (D5), farmers’ annual mean income (D6) and the educational level of rural labors (D7) as the index layer Climatic factors are the main factors in evaluating the potential for...
Ngày tải lên: 05/09/2013, 15:28
An overview of the EU Member States support schemes for the promotion of renewable energy sources
... Slovenia Slovenia United Kingdom Romania Slovak Republic Romania Slovak Republic Poland Portugal Poland Portugal Malta Netherlands Luxembourg Latvia Lithuania Italy Ireland Greece Hungary France ... Belgium Bulgaria Cyprus Czech Republic Denmark Estonia Finland France Germany Greece Hungary Ireland Italy Latvia Lithuania Luxembourg Malta Netherlands Poland Portugal Romania Slovak Republic ... Belgium Bulgaria Cyprus Czech Republic Denmark Estonia Finland France Germany Greece Hungary Ireland Italy Latvia Lithuania Luxembourg Malta Netherlands Poland Portugal Romania Slovak Republic...
Ngày tải lên: 05/09/2013, 16:10
An overview of global solar radiation measurements in Ghardaïa area, south Algeria
... averages and monthly peaks daily total solar radiation We compared also our measurements of the monthly mean daily values of global solar radiation for Ghardaïa with the larger time-series data of ... http://eosweb.larc.nasa.gov/sse [11] http://www.solar4power.com/map9-global-solar-power.html/ [12] Alnaser W E., Eliagoubi B., Al-Kalak A., Trabelsi H., Al-Maalej M., El-Sayed H M., Alloush M First solar ... exceptional sunshine, most often, it has a very important rate of insolation (75% on average) and the mean annual of global solar radiation measured on horizontal plane exceeds 20 (MJ/m2) The...
Ngày tải lên: 05/09/2013, 16:11