... Recognizing the beneficial effect that urban heat island mitigation can have on the local and global environment, EPA launched the Urban Heat Island Mitigation Initiative (UHIMI) in the fall of 1997 The ... CA, and Baton Rouge, LA, and data collection and analysis is now underway The remaining sections of this paper will describe the type of data collection and analyses to be conducted by NASA and ... Teams to develop an "Action Plan" based on both the results of the NASA/LBNL analysis as well as additional information gathered by the Pilot City Teams during the first year of the project Although...
Ngày tải lên: 15/03/2014, 20:20
... common practice, on the one hand, and the latter findings of the MTA and Pelham and DuPaul on the other, it helps to recall how stimulant medications work Stimulant drugs, like many medications ... perfect, there is a strong correlation between stimulant use and the ADHD diagnosis.) But even within the US there is significant variation in diagnostic and treatment rates Beyond the phenomenological ... disease classification Whereas clinicians in the US currently use the DSM IV, clinicians in Europe use the 10th edition of the World Health Organization's International Classification of Diseases...
Ngày tải lên: 13/08/2014, 18:21
An update on the management of caustic esophageal injury
... formation of granulation tissue and weakening of the esophageal wall → not a good time for EGD • CHRONIC : By weeks → fibrosis and stricture formation (perforation is less likely) CLINICAL MANIFESTION ... corticosteroids and in 11 of the 29 controls (38%) (P not significant) • Similar conclusions were reached by systematic reviews of patients with grade or burns • The presentation of perforation can be ... randomized trial of methylprednisolone − Study group (n=42): methylprednisolone (1 g/1 73 m2 for three days) + ceftriaxone and ranitidine − Control group (n=41): placebo + ceftriaxone and ranitidine...
Ngày tải lên: 14/11/2016, 06:05
Báo cáo y học: "Update on the treatment of ocular toxoplasmosis"
... pyrimethamine and strain growth rate In conclusion, larges randomised clinical studies will be necessary to prove the advantage of one drug toward the other These studies should be completed by strains analyses ... strains are predominant in European and North American population Type III and recombinant I/III strains are predominant are predominant in South America Various virulence has been demonstrated: Type ... growth rates and resistance Genotypic strains of toxoplasma gondii and resistance to medication were recently suspected Despite the fact that all clonage lineages can infect human beings, type II...
Ngày tải lên: 03/11/2012, 11:01
AN EXPLORATION ON THE EFFECTIVENESS OF PEER-EDITING TECHNIQUE IN TEACHING ESSAY WRITING AT FOREIGN LANGUAGES FACULTY, LHU
... main reasons: The first and also the leading reason is that they have no one to read and comment their writings (41.7% of the respondents); the second one is due to the difficulties they have ... to writing the report on the study once they had gained clear conclusions on the findings In short, after a long time conducting the study with the employment of different methods, the researchers ... making the range between the highest and the lowest score in the post-test results larger than it was in the pre-test To a certain extent, the fact about the change of CG has strongly confirmed the...
Ngày tải lên: 10/12/2013, 18:19
Tài liệu An Essay on the Shaking Palsy, by James Parkinsos pptx
... EXPERIMENT ; AND, THA T ANALOGY IS THE SUBSTITUTE FOR ANA TOMICA EXAMINA TION, THE ONLY SURE FOUNDA TION FOR pathological knowledge WHEN, SUBJECT , HOWEVER, THE NA TURE OF AND THE CIRCUMSTANCES THE UNDER ... MITIGA TION OF SUFFERING FROM THE AGITA TION OF THE LIMBS IS DENIED PROPENSITY TO LEAN FORWARD THE BECOMES INVINCIBLE, AND THE PA TIENT IS THEREBY FORCED TO STEP ON THE TOES AND FORE PAR OF THE FEET ... IN THE LEFT HAND AND ARM, AND SOON AFTE FOUND THE TREMBLING COMMENCE IN ABOUT THREE YEARS AFTERWARDS THE RIGHT ARM BECAME AFFECTED IN A SIMILAR MANNER: AND SOON AFTERWARDS THE CONVULSIVE MOTIONS...
Ngày tải lên: 17/02/2014, 07:20
Tài liệu POLICY BRIEFS ON THE FINANCIAL CRISIS: AN UPDAATE ON THE IMPACT OF THE FINANCIAL CRISIS ON AFRICAN ECONOMIES ppt
... special attention as the continent attempts to weather the storm in view of the G20 summit (Section 3) Section concludes on the role of the African Development Bank Update on the Outlook Economic Prospects ... DEVELOPMENT BANK GROUP An Update on the Impact of the Financial Crisis on African Economies Meeting of the Committee of Finance Ministers and Central Bank Governors Dar Es-Salaam, Tanzania March ... Financial Regulation, Supervision, and Surveillance 3.3 Since the beginning of 2009, the governance and regulation of financial institutions and markets have been in the spotlights Within the...
Ngày tải lên: 17/02/2014, 21:20
Tài liệu An Essay on the Influence of Tobacco upon Life and Health pptx
... of human minds than any other herb Effects of Tobacco upon Animal Life To the organs of smell and taste in their natural condition, it is one of the most disgusting and loathsome of all the products ... rubbed on the tongue In one minute the pupils were entirely dilated, with strong convulsions In one and an half minutes, in trying to walk, the animal fell In three minutes the eyes rolled up, and ... some constitutions than by others The man, who can live long under the use of tobacco and rum, can live longer without them An opinion has prevailed in some communities, that the use of tobacco...
Ngày tải lên: 17/02/2014, 22:20
Tài liệu Báo cáo khoa học: Coordination chemistry of iron(III)±porphyrin±antibody complexes In¯uence on the peroxidase activity of the axial coordination of an imidazole on the iron atom ppt
... ligands on the iron atom, and the only one that enters the active site bind on the less hindered face of the porphyrin which bears only one ortho-COOH substituent (Fig 7C) The inhibition of the ... face of the porphyrin and, in the more favorable conformation, H2O2 binds to the iron on the same face of the porphyrin as the catalytic COOH residue, the imidazole binding to the iron on the opposite ... a monoclonal anti-porphyrin Ig, with an iron(III)-DoCPP cofactor and imidazole as an axial ligand of the iron which, respectively, mimick the heme cofactor and the axial histidine ligand of the...
Ngày tải lên: 21/02/2014, 03:20
Báo cáo khoa học: "An experiment on the upper bound of interjudge agreement: the case of tagging" docx
... linguist considers the other to be always right (or wrong) and so 'reconsiders' only in terms of the existing analysis The linguists were told t h a t some of the words marked with the "RECONSIDER" ... Voutilainen and Jiirvinen concern the (i) typology of the differences and (ii) the reliability of their experiment Concerning the typology of the differences: in Voutilainen and J~irvinen's experiment the ... morphological analyser, and then each trainee was to independently perform Step (see the previous subsection) on it The disambiguated text was then automatically compared to another version of the same...
Ngày tải lên: 08/03/2014, 21:20
AN UPDATE ON POWER QUALITY pptx
... the third harmonic component of the current drawn by the non-linear load, I5 is the fifth harmonic component of the load current and so on R shows the distributed resistance of the line and the ... the system impedance, thus harmonic compensation is done in an efficient manner and they not Harmonics Generation, Propagation and Purging Techniques in Non-Linear Loads 15 produce the resonance ... harmonics monitoring and evaluation The standards for harmonic control thus address both the consumers and the utility Therefore, if the customer is not abiding by the regulations and is creating...
Ngày tải lên: 17/03/2014, 02:20
REGIONAL PERSPECTIVES ON PLANTATIONS AN OVERVIEW ON THE MEKONG BASIN potx
... Economic Land Concessions (ELCs) centers on the 2001 Land Law and the 2005 ELC sub-decree They include requirements for the contracting and monitoring of operations, provide for protection of the ... Communities adjacent to many concession areas also report that companies have expanded the areas claimed in their contracts and encroached on village lands and commons Plantations are mono-cultures of ... Cambodia: Monoculture plantations bring land conflict Ask any Cambodian what s/he considers to be the foundation of society and life in Cambodia and the answer is likely to be “land.” Land is livelihood...
Ngày tải lên: 17/03/2014, 11:20
An analysis on the effectiveness of conversion in daily conversations Focus on English - major students at Hai Phong Private University
... Classification of conversion 1.4.1 Traditional & occasional conversion A Traditional conversion Traditional conversion is the type of conversion commonly and traditionally used by the public E.g.: hand ... It leads to confusion and can cause a good plan to fail Communication is the exchange and flow of information and ideas from one person to another It involves a sender transmitting an idea to a ... upon is verbing, the creation of a verb by converting a noun or other word (e.g the adjective clean becomes the verb to clean) The boundary between conversion and functional shift (the extension...
Ngày tải lên: 18/03/2014, 00:20
AN UPDATE ON POWER QUALITY doc
... utilities and regulatory authorities to devise the standards for harmonics monitoring and evaluation The standards for harmonic control thus address both the consumers and the utility Therefore, if the ... the system impedance, thus harmonic compensation is done in an efficient manner and they not Harmonics Generation, Propagation and Purging Techniques in Non-Linear Loads 15 produce the resonance ... in the operation of WTGS and its influence on the system WTGS can be connected to MV transmission line and to HV networks The WTGS connected to the existing MV transmission line, which feeds the...
Ngày tải lên: 23/03/2014, 15:20
AN ESSAY on the HISTORY OF CIVIL SOCIETY. docx
... but after they have formed a new connection with the other sex, they change their habitation, and become an accession to the family in which they have found their wives The hunter and the warrior ... Collection of Dutch voyages.] But we need no remote observation to confirm this position: the wailings of the infant, and the languors of the adult, when alone; the lively joys of the one, and the ... men continue their works in progression through many ages together: they build on foundations laid by their ancestors; and in a succession of years, tend to a perfection in the application of their...
Ngày tải lên: 23/03/2014, 17:20
My younger sister has got an apartment on the second floor pot
... đó) My younger sister has got an apartment on the second floor 2 Các bạn di chuột vào cụm từ để biết chức cụm câu: My younger sister has got an apartment on the second floor 3 Tại câu lại dịch ... - on the second floor” – tầng Cấu trúc on + the + số thứ tự + N” “second” số thứ tự (ordinal number) viết tắt “2nd” - thứ hai, thứ = > Dịch câu nghĩa: Em gái có hộ tầng Bài học liên quan: ... *My younger sister has got an apartment on the second floor Hình thức ngữ pháp: Cấu trúc: “has got/ have got + Object (tân ngữ)” – có Chúng ta quan sát câu sau Các bạn di chuột vào từ...
Ngày tải lên: 25/03/2014, 03:22
Update on the management of constipation in the elderly: new treatment options doc
... difficulty with defecation.4 In the elderly, chronic constipation can lead to fecal impaction and fecal incontinence Fecal impaction is the accumulation of hardened feces in the colon or rectum.18 Liquid ... better sexual function and improved mood and depression In addition, constipation is a significant driver of health care costs, as it is ranked among the top most common physician diagnosis for ... and Go in general ractice, 50% gave a different definition of p c onstipation compared to their hysicians.6 Because of these p variable definitions of onstipation, an nternational panel...
Ngày tải lên: 28/03/2014, 20:20
An update to the World Bank’s estimates of consumption poverty in the developing world* pot
... above the $1.25 line points to the fact that a great many people remain vulnerable Open access to the Bank’s global poverty data On February 29, a substantially revised and updated version of the ... For the first time since this monitoring task began, the data indicate a decline in both the poverty rate and the number of poor in all six regions of the developing world Between 2005 and ... 36% between 1981 and 2008 The proportion of poor is lower now in South Asia than any time since 1981 The number of poor had been generally rising in Latin America and the Caribbean (LAC) until...
Ngày tải lên: 29/03/2014, 09:20
An Essay on the Principle of Population doc
... population would be twenty-eight millions, and the means of subsistence only equal to the support of twenty-one millions In the next period, the population would be fifty-six millions, and the means ... that number And at the conclusion of the first century the population would be one hundred and twelve millions and the means of subsistence only equal to the support of thirty-five millions, which ... requires considerable attention, but this necessary attention the women cannot give, condemned as they are to the inconveniences and hardships of frequent change of place and to the constant and unremitting...
Ngày tải lên: 29/03/2014, 12:20
Project Management Suite™» 2012 Edition "An ant on the move does more than a dozing ox" ppt
... Chain Management Project Management Hot! Planning and Control Project Finance and Budgeting Bonus Online Videos Hot! Risk Management Bonus Online Videos Hot! Contracts and Procurement Bonus Online ... • • • • • Understanding human relations Understanding organizations and organizational behavior Encouraging and building competence of individuals, teams, and the organization Motivating staff ... creates goods and services through the transformation of inputs into outputs OM is one of the three major functions of any organization (manufacturing or service), the other two being financing/accounting...
Ngày tải lên: 29/03/2014, 23:20