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... and socio-cultural factors We then present an African-centered cultural model which can be employed as an organizing framework and problem solving tool for culturally relevant interventions and ... Context of CVD Risk in SSA While understanding the burden of clinical CVD risk conditions is an important first step towards addressing the epidemic of CVD in SSA, it is also important to understand ... surveillance efforts and research to further illuminate the etiology, sociology and epidemiology of cardiovascular risk and disease in SSA is needed While we recognize that ongoing surveillance and...

Ngày tải lên: 11/08/2014, 14:21

... of Program Total Cost/Person Cost of Cannabis Quantity of Cannabis Cost of Cannabis/kg Cost of Cannabis/Person Usable Percent of Cannabis Cost of Unusable Cannabis Price to Patients/kg Mark-Up ... not-for-profit, community-based model of distribution of medicinal cannabis and its related services these organizations also offer a number of different strains and alternatives to smoking, and are ... of cannabis on both hepatitis C (with the University of California, San Francisco), and nausea and pregnancy [31] In addition, the VICS was awarded a $50,000 grant from the U.S.-based Marijuana...

Ngày tải lên: 11/08/2014, 18:20

... supervisor Andreas Bitz in particular, and the help from the whole Market Risk Control team in general Sincere thanks to Roberto Frassanito and Michael Rey for their most useful explanations and remarks ... Prof Uwe Schmock for all the help with the mathematical theory And last but not least, many thanks to all my friends and family for their help and support -2- Master Thesis: An Application of ... European indices, Nasdaq - the much more volatile than its European counter-parties American index And the stocks of a highly liquid financial institution, and the highly volatile stocks of ABB,...

Ngày tải lên: 27/04/2013, 11:17

... 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 ... light water as reactor coolant, and the use of a direct cycle CANDU plants The net output of CANDU X is in the range of 350MWe to 1150MWe (depending on the number of fuel channels used in a specific ... 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/...

Ngày tải lên: 05/09/2013, 15:28

... Kingdom Romania Slovak Republic Romania Slovak Republic Poland Portugal Poland Portugal Malta Netherlands Luxembourg Latvia Lithuania Italy Ireland Greece Hungary France Germany Estonia Finland Denmark ... 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 ... Estonia Finland France Germany Greece Hungary Ireland Italy Latvia Lithuania Luxembourg Malta Netherlands Poland Portugal Romania Slovak Republic Slovenia Spain Sweden United Kingdom Share of energy...

Ngày tải lên: 05/09/2013, 16:10

... global solar radiation data of the NASA SSE model and can be considered representative The highest daily mean and maximum temperatures were 43.87°C and 48.81°C on 27 and 29 July, respectively, ... minute, the mean, 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 maximum temperatures and solar radiation data indicate that the values are higher in the summer months and lower in the winter season Figure shows the observed daily average and daily...

Ngày tải lên: 05/09/2013, 16:11

... splinting and casting Ultimately surgery 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 ... consists of a flexed, adducted, internally rotated arm with pronated forearm and flexed wrist and fingers The leg is extended, internally rotated and adducted, and the ankle is plantar flexed and inverted, ... involve co-contraction of the agonist and antagonists Simultaneous contraction of agonist and antagonist muscles is a normal motor phenomenon and is required for the smooth movement of the limb However,...

Ngày tải lên: 01/11/2013, 10:20

... nations such as 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 ... amount of water available for use It really threat the sustainability of the country if we have no any way and mean to control and to improve It is necessary to balance water supply and demand based ... 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,...

Ngày tải lên: 20/12/2013, 19:15

... reduce 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 ... Insurance Companies – Property and Casual Insurance Companies – Pension Funds and Government Retirement Funds 2- Types of Financial Intermediaries II • Investment Intermediaries – Finance Companies ... Engage in process of indirect finance • Are needed because of transactions costs and asymmetric information • Transaction costs – time and money spent carrying out financial transactions • Asymmetric...

Ngày tải lên: 05/01/2014, 16:55

... 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 ... quality of products and services to both your employees and your customers • Determine competitive strengths and weaknesses • Gain additional insight into the sources of dissatisfaction and areas ... Expectations of Specific Levels of Performance Determine Areas of Greatest Impact Provide Ongoing Quantitative Assessment of Performance Deliver Easy-toUnderstand Reports to Employees/Management...

Ngày tải lên: 18/01/2014, 15:20

... Proceedings of Data and Applications Security, 19th Annual IFIP WG 11.3 Working Conference, USA [12] Kühn U (2006) Analysis of a Database and Index Encryption Scheme – Problems and Fixes Secure Data Management ... keys and does not allow choosing which data to encrypt/decrypt and thus have a significant influence on both data security and performance Table summarizes the influence of encryption granularity ... plaintext values by observing and analyzing the changes performed in the database over a period of time For example, if a user monitors the index for a period of time, and if in this period of time...

Ngày tải lên: 19/02/2014, 12:20

... Must be easier and cheaper to manufacture than CMOS • Need high current drive; should be able to drive capacitances of interconnects of any length • High level of integration (>1010 transistors/circuit) ... lasers… Chemical and biological sensors Novel materials for all applications (CNTs, quantum dots, inorganic nanowires… • Integration of nano-micro-macro • Bio-nano fusion • • • • Carbon Nanotubes - ... composites, BN nanotubes CNT based sensors DNA transport Transport in nanopores Nanowires: transport, thermoelectric effect Transport: molecular electronics Protein nanotube chemistry * Quantum Computing...

Ngày tải lên: 21/02/2014, 17:20

... assessment, planning, deployment and management of Information Security risk and countermeasures Assess This stage of the security lifecycle involves the assessment of Information Security risks and threats ... choice of domain over which to launch attacks against companies It provides an anonymous playground on which hackers can scan and probe hosts and networks to their hearts content with a low risk of ... Spoofed portscanning A new breed of publicly available scanner is spoofscan.c by jsbach, which is available from http://packetstorm.securify.com/UNIX/scanners/spoofscan.c Spoofscan takes advantage...

Ngày tải lên: 05/03/2014, 21:20

... Netherlands Poland Belgium Germany Sweden Czech Republic Denmark Italy Spain Greece Ireland Austria France Canada Norway Spain Poland Switzerland Finland France Germany Ireland Italy Denmark Canada ... Netherlands France Switzerland Austria Denmark Switzerland Italy Hungary Spain Netherlands Sweden Canada Finland Portugal France Poland Norway Belgium Belgium United Kingdom Germany Germany Ireland ... 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...

Ngày tải lên: 05/03/2014, 21:20

... 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 ... government of the hosting nation changes and become unfriendly There have been instances where there has been a complete blackout of entire cloud services and making it unavailable for hours and even...

Ngày tải lên: 05/03/2014, 23:20

... 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 ... Role of ANP- and BNP-mediated GC-A signaling in blood pressure regulation Transgenic animals, which constitutively express a fusion gene consisting of the transthyretin promoter and the ANP gene, ... 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

... 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 ... 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, and yet this analogy is often fallacious Within ... political and institutional contexts, conditions and geographies that are shaped by history and that constrain and enable the parameters of choice and decision- making related to supply and demand processes...

Ngày tải lên: 15/03/2014, 04:20

... biological barriers and can cause disease in animals but not in humans and vice versa [15] The role of RBC antigens transport in inducing tolerance to self-antigens is a feature that can be considered ... theory about the role of RBC in health and disease based on the proved hypotheses and how we can benefit from this theory in diagnosing and treating of patients Knowledge analysis and hypotheses induction ... the dynamics of RBC’s antigens Rediscovering Red Blood Cells: Revealing Their Dynamic Antigens Store and Its Role in Health and Disease 23 The role of RBC antigens transport in health and disease...

Ngày tải lên: 16/03/2014, 21:20

... includes national oil and gas companies, travel and entertainment companies, utility companies, real estate firms, government entities, and smaller retailers ing loans and any evidence of money-related ... indicators of credit use and repayment performance, including measures of credit utilization, numbers of recently opened accounts, and timing and severity of payment problems The breadth and timeliness ... categories: banking institutions (commercial banks and savings associations), finance companies and credit unions, retailers, and ''other.'' The retail category includes department stores and jewelry,...

Ngày tải lên: 22/03/2014, 18:20