... members and attending physicians [20] This conflict can be related to the different interpretations that different relatives and physicians have of the patient’s AD and the progress and prognosis of ... at all [21] Cost of intensive care provision and advance decisions Intensive care is an expensive and limited resource, consuming up to 20% of the entire hospital budget and 1% of the nation’s ... for 64.9% of all cases of sepsis and for greater than 50% of the ICU bed occupancy [25,26] The World Bank population statistics have shown that the over-65 age group has increased Page of (page...
Ngày tải lên: 13/08/2014, 03:21
... 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 ... Advanced high temperature reactor 1000 FUJI MSR 100 Power cycle Rankine Rankine Rankine Rankine Rankine Rankine Rankine Supercritical Rankine Rankine Rankine Brayton Brayton Rankine Brayton Rankine/ ... Physicist (CPhys) and Member of The Institute of Physics (MInstP) His present employment is with the Electricity Authority of Cyprus where he holds the post of Assistant Manager of Research and...
Ngày tải lên: 05/09/2013, 15:28
An overview of the EU Member States support schemes for the promotion of renewable energy sources
... producers of heating and cooling from RES Such an arrangement may be made subject to a minimum capacity limit A guarantee of origin shall be of the standard size of 1MWh No more than one guarantee of ... post of Assistant Manager of Research and Development; he is also, a Visiting Fellow at the University of Cyprus In his professional career he has worked for academic institutions such as a Visiting ... Journal of Energy and Environment (IJEE), Volume 3, Issue 4, 2012, pp.553-566 560 of PV systems, which amount to 55% of the costs of labour and service, material and planning for large enterprises and...
Ngày tải lên: 05/09/2013, 16:10
An overview of global solar radiation measurements in Ghardaïa area, south Algeria
... 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 sunshine duration is more ... the diffuse fraction and clearness index (Kt) Mustafa G [2] and Oturanc et al [13] performed an analysis of daily total horizontal solar radiation measurement for cities and for Konya city in ... maximum and minimum hourly values were calculated From the hourly data set, daily and monthly statistics were made for the solar radiation and temperature data Results and discussion Daily mean and...
Ngày tải lên: 05/09/2013, 16:11
An overview of the clinical management of spasticity
... but surgery is now often reserved for the unwanted complications of spasticity, particularly soft tissue contracture If soft tissue contracture is advanced and disabling, there is often no option ... extrapyramidal disease Other problems that occur on movement or attempted movement involve co-contraction of the agonist and antagonists Simultaneous contraction of agonist and antagonist muscles is a normal ... may be needed to relieve advancing and disabling soft tissue contracture In practical terms there is often a mixture of neural and biomechanical hypertonia, and it is very difficult clinically...
Ngày tải lên: 01/11/2013, 10:20
Tài liệu An overview of the drinking water supply situation in the Mekong river delta, Vietnam pdf
... Finland, Denmark, France, Japan, the Netherlands, Australia, Sweden, South Korea and Germany Looking at urban markets anywhere, we can count more than 20 trade-marks of bottled drinking water This ... and canal is widely used in the upper parts of the delta, where the water quality isnot effected by high concentration of salinity and/or acidity and/or pollution In An Giang and Kien Giang, ... sulphate (alum) and sand filter techniques Finally, chlorination is used as a disinfectant The purpose of sand filtration is to separate solid and liquid mixture Alum treatment is used commonly...
Ngày tải lên: 20/12/2013, 19:15
an overview of the financial system
... transactions costs by developing expertise and taking advantage of economies of scale 2- Function of Financial Intermediaries III Risk Sharing • Create and sell assets with low risk characteristics ... An Overview of the Financial System • Primary function of the Financial System is financial Intermediation • The channeling of funds from households, firms and governments who ... Insurance Companies – Property and Casual Insurance Companies – Pension Funds and Government Retirement Funds 2- Types of Financial Intermediaries II • Investment Intermediaries – Finance Companies...
Ngày tải lên: 05/01/2014, 16:55
Tài liệu An overview of customer satisfaction and loyalty doc
... Expectations of Specific Levels of Performance Determine Areas of Greatest Impact Provide Ongoing Quantitative Assessment of Performance Deliver Easy-toUnderstand Reports to Employees/Management What is ... Plans Phase 6: Tracking Phase 3: Needs and Performance Evaluation Provide Quantitative Measures of: • Importance of Key Attributes • Company Performance on Key Attributes • Competitive Performance ... Competitive Leverage Map – This map integrates both importance and performance information to identify areas of competitive strength and weakness • Regression Analysis – This is a useful method for...
Ngày tải lên: 18/01/2014, 15:20
Tài liệu Database Encryption – An Overview of Contemporary Challenges and Design Considerations pdf
... challenge and we ignore it in the remainder of this paper (2) Data-in-use - An adversary can access the memory of the database software directly and extract sensitive information This attack can be ... which can range from fully trusted to fully untrusted: (1) Fully trusted - In this scenario, the server can perform all of the operations and no threat exists Obviously this scenario is not of our ... this method is very limited and is extended in [4] in order to solve elementary problems such as unauthorized modifications and discretionary access control Further analysis and fixes to this...
Ngày tải lên: 19/02/2014, 12:20
Tài liệu AN OVERVIEW OF RECENT DEVELOPMENTS IN NANOTECHNOLOGY pptx
... composites, BN nanotubes CNT based sensors DNA transport Transport in nanopores Nanowires: transport, thermoelectric effect Transport: molecular electronics Protein nanotube chemistry * Quantum Computing ... Carbon Nanotube • • Every atom in a single-walled nanotube (SWNT) is on the surface and exposed to environment Charge transfer or small changes in the chargeenvironment of a nanotube can cause ... A A A Future • Nanotechnology is an enabling technology that will impact electronics and computing, materials and manufacturing, energy, transportation… • The field is interdisciplinary but everything...
Ngày tải lên: 21/02/2014, 17:20
AN OVERVIEW OF NETWORK SECURITY ANALYSIS AND PENETRATION TESTING docx
... There is a fine balance between a highly secure network and one that is not end-user friendly Network security is often overlooked by many organisations that not recognise or understand the risks ... connect() TCP scanning Vanilla TCP portscanning as it is sometimes known, is the most simple type of portscan to conduct There is no stealth whatsoever involved in this form of scanning, as a TCP/IP ... Gathering and Network Reconnaissance By this stage you should already be aware of the target organisations networks and hosts and their IP addresses The information gathering and network reconnaissance...
Ngày tải lên: 05/03/2014, 21:20
Child poverty in perspective: An overview of child well-being in rich countries pptx
... number of deaths is but the tip of an iceberg of trauma and disability Spain Switzerland France Japan Norway Germany Greece Canada Finland Ireland Austria Australia Belgium Hungary Poland Czech ... and that this is an issue which needs to be dragged out from the shadows of national life and into the daylight of public and political scrutiny Finland Sweden Germany Netherlands Italy Ireland ... achievement of 15 year-olds, an overview of reading, mathematical and scientific literacy Finland Canada Australia Japan Netherlands New Zealand Belgium Switzerland United Kingdom Sweden Ireland Czech...
Ngày tải lên: 05/03/2014, 21:20
AN OVERVIEW OF THE SECURITY CONCERNS IN ENTERPRISE CLOUD COMPUTING pptx
... Proportionality of analysis/evaluation: The depth of the above analysis and evaluation and the scope of risk mitigation measures and required vendor assurances must be proportional to the risk involved, ... for risk, understanding of compliance requirements, transparency about the significant risks to the enterprise and embedding of risk management responsibilities into the IT organization 5.0 Cloud ... on cost and increase profitability should seriously analyze the security risk of cloud computing The strength of cloud computing in information risk management is the ability to manage risk more...
Ngày tải lên: 05/03/2014, 23:20
Báo cáo khoa học: Natriuretic peptide system: an overview of studies using genetically engineered animal models doc
... cloning of the first mammalian GC (thus called GC-A) from rats and humans [17] Expression of the cloned enzyme confirmed that GC-A is an ANP receptor Soon after the discovery of GC-A, cloning of a ... exons 1–13 and an additional 3.8 kb of the 5¢ sequence of the GC-A gene, a loxP-flanked neomycin resistance cassette (at )2.6 kb of exon 1) and a third loxP site in the middle of intron Dominant-negative ... half of the extracellular ligand-binding domain and the transmembrane segment, were replaced by the neomycin resistance gene Most of exon was replaced by the neomycin resistance gene GC-B dominant...
Ngày tải lên: 14/03/2014, 23:20
An Overview of South African Human Resources Development ppt
... manner since at least 1994 Underlying the language of ‘supply and demand’ is the concept of the market The market analogy is implicit in and assumed in discussions of teacher supply and demand, ... conditions and geographies shaped by history These constrain and enable the parameters of choice and decision-making, and they are critical to an analysis of failure to balance supply and demand Here ... better the tenacity of the conception of the problem of teacher supply and demand as one of redistribution rather than investment and expansion Until we understand and address this appropriately,...
Ngày tải lên: 15/03/2014, 04:20
Blood Cell – An Overview of Studies in Hematology pptx
... correlated to the degree of the accompanied IT The transport mechanism of antigens to the thymus is a critical issue because of the remarkable capacity of IS which can recognize any antigen [4] In [5], ... which is an allograft, is considered part of self In humans and animals, not all microorganisms are capable of causing disease Some of those microorganisms are equipped with the machinery that can ... most of delivered infants are normal when there is no anti D alloantibody which means that there is an efficient mechanism that can handle the other incompatibilities The mechanisms explained in...
Ngày tải lên: 16/03/2014, 21:20
An Overview of Consumer Data and Credit Reporting ppt
... Accounts Dollar size of balance, accounts with a balance Distri bution of balances, by dollar size of b alance Dollar-weighted balances of bal Type of account Share Share of of all account open ... reported (highest balance used as a proxy) Distribution of accounts by dollar size of highest balance: Distribution of accounts byof accounts of highestsize of highest balance: Distribution dollar ... profile for a consumer The following discussion reviews the more important of these issues and quantifies their scope Because [note: information is now somewhat dated, some12] This sample consists...
Ngày tải lên: 22/03/2014, 18:20
An overview of research, policy and practice in teacher supply and demand, 1994–2008 docx
... manner since at least 1994 Underlying the language of ‘supply and demand’ is the concept of the market The market analogy is implicit in and assumed in discussions of teacher supply and demand, ... conditions and geographies shaped by history These constrain and enable the parameters of choice and decision-making, and they are critical to an analysis of failure to balance supply and demand Here ... better the tenacity of the conception of the problem of teacher supply and demand as one of redistribution rather than investment and expansion Until we understand and address this appropriately,...
Ngày tải lên: 22/03/2014, 19:20
Who Regulates Whom? An Overview of U.S. Financial Supervision pdf
... examines and supervises financial institutions, and manages receiverships, assuming and disposing of the assets of failed banks The FDIC manages the deposit insurance fund, which consists of risk-based ... Regulates Whom? An Overview of U.S Financial Supervision Appendix A Forms of Banking Organizations The structure of banks can be complex Currently, the regulator of a particular activity of a bank or ... Some of these risk characteristics can be estimated at the time the loan is issued Credit risk, for example, is the risk that the borrower will fail to repay the principal of the loan as promised...
Ngày tải lên: 22/03/2014, 21:20