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... National filing system 57; The international trade mark system 60; The CTM system: Europe’s unitary answer 60; A unitary (and unique) weapon against potential infringers in the European Union 61; The ... The European Union – but not only the European Union The European Union is the main actor in European IP integration, but it is not the sole one Indeed, governments quickly abandoned the ... _ International Accounting Standard International Accounting Standards Board intellectual capital intellectual capital management International Financial Reporting Standard Swiss Federal Institute...

Ngày tải lên: 19/02/2014, 05:20

... reducing earnings management Marra et al (2011) found an increase in the in uence of audit committees in strengthening the financial reporting quality after the introduction of the International Financial ... 1999) The major types of earnings management include the selection of the timing of new accounting principles, the selection of accounting standards, the control of transaction times, and the adjustment ... manipulate earnings by exaggerating the earnings numbers There are significantly more zeros and fewer nines occurring in the second and third places The proportion of zeros as the second and third...

Ngày tải lên: 12/06/2014, 19:37

... on information stored in the computer In the following year, the information in the yield map is used to monitor and control fertilizer and herbicide application rates New farm machinery and ... sugarcane and sugar beets depends on the prices of these two crops, the costs of conversion, and the price of gasoline A moderation in the price of gasoline and a return in ethanol prices to their ... of 1998, significantly increased the demand for ethanol during the 1990’s In recent years, the phasing out of MTBE, the Farm Security and Rural Investment Act of 2002, and the Energy Policy Act...

Ngày tải lên: 22/02/2014, 05:20

... on information stored in the computer In the following year, the information in the yield map is used to monitor and control fertilizer and herbicide application rates New farm machinery and ... sugarcane and sugar beets depends on the prices of these two crops, the costs of conversion, and the price of gasoline A moderation in the price of gasoline and a return in ethanol prices to their ... of 1998, significantly increased the demand for ethanol during the 1990’s In recent years, the phasing out of MTBE, the Farm Security and Rural Investment Act of 2002, and the Energy Policy Act...

Ngày tải lên: 08/03/2014, 06:20

... comparably defined in England and the United States using these two surveys In addition to presenting overall prevalence in the two samples, we also stratified the data by four broadly defined birth ... allergies in the United States and a 29% higher risk of respiratory problems in the US compared to England Since England includes hay fever in allergies and the US in respiratory, the relative ... arises from the inclusion in the model of the indicators of prevalence of the specific childhood illnesses themselves as opposed to the interactions of these prevalence indicators with the US country...

Ngày tải lên: 16/03/2014, 15:20

... at the individual plant and leaf level in order to explain the variation in O3-dose/yieldreduction–response relationships There is, however, an increasing interest in better understanding the ... health However, studies conducted in the early 1980s in the United States and during the 1990s in Europe and other countries—including Japan, Pakistan, and Mexico—have indicated that many agricultural ... stomata (14) There is a general pattern of stomatal opening in the morning due to the presence of sunlight and a closing in the evening, with possible midday stomatal closure occurring during periods...

Ngày tải lên: 17/03/2014, 19:20

... Typically the required information in the text is prominent and there is little, if any, competing information The reader is explicitly directed to consider relevant factors in the task and in the ... relationship in 10 OECD countries, including the United States; on the index of disciplinary climate in 16 OECD countries, including the United States; and on the index of teacher-related factors affecting ... possibly find concerning their direct competitors and the companies that led the league tables in the relevant business processes Some of this information appeared in the business press, some in major...

Ngày tải lên: 22/03/2014, 16:22

... plain sewing, knitting, and marking.[4] Knowing the importance of industrial training, the Manumission Society then had an Indenturing Committee find employment in trades for colored children, and ... entreated the Friends to "bring up the Negroes to some Learning, Reading and Writing and" to "endeavor to the utmost of their Power in the sweet love of Truth to instruct and teach 'em the Principles ... education in trades or otherwise, and in having them instructed for their new condition in the duties of morality." The instructors were to provide for them such training as would make them "good...

Ngày tải lên: 31/03/2014, 18:20

... without pay in farm and family business Participants also described the industry in which they worked, and responded to a variety of other employment questions, including their occupation The PAs ... recruited and receive training there [32] Therefore, recruiting younger PA students locally would help to meet the original Title VII goals of filling the existing gap of the physician shortage and ... Figure and Figure display the absolute changes and the percentage changes in the rates of PAs per 100 000 persons across the states The ratios of PAs to population had increased since 1980 in all...

Ngày tải lên: 18/06/2014, 17:20

... symptomatology, including pain and itching, combined with concerns about the appearance of one's skin can substantially affect a patient's psychological well-being and can result in emotional distress, ... guidelines to interpret clinically meaningful differences; differences of to points for the summary scores are considered the minimum important difference in the general US population [7] There ... populations [9] The SF-36 was included in both the REVEAL and NSFHS studies The Short Form-12 Health Survey (SF-12) (Version 1), which was used in the MEPS survey included in this analysis, contains 12...

Ngày tải lên: 18/06/2014, 19:20

... pain intensity, subjects were asked to rate their average pain due to FM over the past 24 hours with an 11-point numeric rating scale ranging from (indicating no pain) to 10 (indicating pain ... impacted their sleep (54%) and caused them difficulty walking, moving, or exercising (51%) (Table 4) The overall mean average pain intensity over the past 24 hours was 6.3 Average Pain Intensity ... timing, and degree of interference in ADLs [21] The scores from the dimensions are summed to calculate the Global Fatigue Index (GFI), which ranges from (indicating no fatigue) to 50 (indicating...

Ngày tải lên: 20/06/2014, 15:20

... (D.C.C.); the Center for Occupational and Environmental Medicine, Kindred Hos­ pital Northeast, Braintree, MA (D.C.C.); and the Cyprus International Institute for the Environment and Public Health in ... return, and physical training, are mained similar in magnitude and close to the associated with significant increases in risk range of our original confidence intervals Final­ Supported in part ... the types of incidents involved in fire and nonfire emergency responses, the average time spent per incident and the average response time, and the estimated number of hours spent each week in...

Ngày tải lên: 27/06/2014, 00:20

... external, and all [40] their days and all their ways, their triumphs and their trials, and all they see, and all they hear, and all they think, and all they do, are hallowed by the radiance wbich shines ... observatories upon this continent, the last being always the largest and the best and certain to carry further and further the knowledge of the universe and of our relation to it here upon the earth As one ... like the others in external appearance, and even within the difference was trifling between it and those of the poorest of his braves The contrast between the palace of the millionaire and the...

Ngày tải lên: 28/06/2014, 12:20

... from the Generation of Electric Power in the United States increased in 1999 in these States, reducing the need for fossil-fueled generation and contributed to keeping CO2 emissions low in the ... are the growth in demand for electricity, the type of fuels or energy sources used for generation, and the thermal efficiencies of the power plants A number of contributing factors influencing the ... dominates the industry and is the most carbon-intensive fuel Economic Growth Economic factors influence the demand for electric power In 1999, a strong economy was measured by the 4.2-percent increase...

Ngày tải lên: 29/06/2014, 02:20

... lower than the 15% number for China Interestingly, unlike the upward resistance trend in China, SPN resistance declined in the last two years of the study period in the US, following an initial ... than the 17% for the U.S and about the same as the 28% China As for the other two countries, resistance appears to be growing in Kuwait Discussion: Comparing antibiotic resistance in China, the ... ICU, other inpatients, and outpatients in the U.S are 20%, 17% and 13%, respectively; in China, average resistance Pooling all patients together (Table 5), we find the prevalence of resistance and...

Ngày tải lên: 11/08/2014, 18:20

... 6:191 The NDV can cause clinical signs varying from subclinical infections to 100% mortality, depending on the susceptibility of the host and the virulence of the virus The virus is categorized into ... that yielded NDV in some of them The NDV isolates were characterized by sequencing to determine the pathotypes and genotypes involved and the changes at the nucleotide and amino acid levels http://www.virologyj.com/content/6/1/191 ... [16,23], the mixing of different species at stop-overs during migration and the sharing of common wintering and breeding areas may provide opportunity for virus spread within and between countries and...

Ngày tải lên: 12/08/2014, 04:20

... statistical analysis and interpretation of the data, and drafting of the manuscript FJS conceived of the study, contributed to its design, and aided in the interpretation and drafting of the manuscript ... certificates In addition the practice of sampling and weighting may bias estimates based on Nationwide Inpatients Sample data The disagreement in trends warrants further investigation and underscores the ... our data The contradictory results may reflect increasing sensitivity in diagnosis and/ or coding of severe sepsis in Nationwide Inpatients Sample data or changes in the attribution and coding of...

Ngày tải lên: 13/08/2014, 15:22

... through the arguments and data in our paper, you could gain comprehensive understanding, including basic and in- depth knowledge, about the issue and be more confident, more active when making decisions ... unwelcome combination of looming recession and persistent inflation that is reviving angst about stagflation, a condition not seen since the 1970s” At the beginning of 2008, inflation was rising The Labor ... profits, increasing expenses and the resulting reduction in financial liquidity II FACTS STAGFLATION IN THE 1970s [Type text] Page STAGFLATION IN U.S People often refer to the 1970s stagflation as ‘the...

Ngày tải lên: 27/10/2012, 16:53

... predicting individuals' class consciousness, the country in which they live or their class location and class experiences? We will then break the data into the three national samples and analyze the ... relevant in these results is that within the working-class coalitions in Sweden and the United States, nonunion members in the two countries not differ signi®cantly on the anticapitalism scale The ... mean value for the nonunion segment of the working-class coalition in the United States is 2.24, while in Sweden it is 2.41 The mean values for the unionized segments, on the other hand, differ...

Ngày tải lên: 01/11/2013, 07:20

... However, in 1991, in a response to concern over mining activities occurring in Antarctica, the Antarctic Mining Prohibition Act was adopted to prohibit mining in the AAT The Act extended to the continental ... systems on both sides of the Arctic Ocean.33 The disintegration of the Soviet Union and the end of the Cold War diminished these threats 32 33 On the Northern Sea Route (NSR) in the context of vessel-source ... accepting the Court’s jurisdiction in the matter In justifying these initiatives, Canada relied upon the growing concern for 17 18 19 10 11 12 Ibid., p 71 D Pharand, The Law of the Sea of the Arctic...

Ngày tải lên: 01/11/2013, 09:20