... locate their facilities and the jobs that result: • Cost of labor (professional and general workforce) • Availability and cost of capital • Availability and quality of research and innovation talent ... curricula, standards, and assessments of student learning Convene a national panel to collect, evaluate, and develop rigorous K–12 materials that would be available free of charge as a voluntary national ... that can be taken by the federal government, it is clear that related actions at the state and local levels are equally important for US prosperity, as are actions taken by each American family...
... International Education for Canada and Nine Comparator Countries: A Comparison of International Education Activities and Economic Performance Ottawa: Department of Foreign Affairs and International ... led to major policy reforms in education, civilian and military research, and federal support for researchers Within a year, the National Aeronautics and Space Administration and DARPA were founded ... States leads the world (with a score of 100), followed in order by Hong Kong (93), Singapore, Iceland, Canada, Finland, Denmark, Switzerland, Australia, and Luxembourg (80) 2Mainland China ranks...
... for teachers and students and high standards for, and measurable achievement by, teachers, students, and administrators The programs will create broadbased academic leadership for K–12 mathematics ... staff and expand laboratory space, andby the time capacity has expanded, the pace of budget increases has\ve slowed and researchers have difficulty in readjusting Others fear that reallocating ... advanced placement and International Baccalaureate teachers, and (4) development of a voluntary national K–12 science and mathematics curriculum We need to reach all K–12 science and mathematics...
... original National Defense Education Act (NDEA) boosted education and training and was accompanied by simultaneous actions that created the National Aeronautics and Space Administration and the Advanced ... Education, through its Graduate Assistance in Areas of National Need program, also provides traineeships and has a mechanism for identifying areas for grantmaking to academic programs Those are ... program and Integrative Graduate Education and Research Traineeship Program (IGERT) or by the National Institutes of Health Ruth L Kirschstein National Research Service Award program The US Department...
... research, and academe Dr Jackson is immediate past president of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) and chairman of the AAAS board of directors, a member of the National ... Society, the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, and the Academica Sinica and is a foreign member of the Chinese Academy of Sciences and the Korean Academy of Science and Engineering Dr Chu also serves ... National Academy of Engineering and served years as chairman of the American Red Cross He has also been president of the American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics and served as chairman...
... fields? Some argue more broadly that all college students should gain an awareness, understanding, and appreciation of the natural and human-constructed worlds and have at least one laboratory experience ... information available.17 Career Prospects in S&E Students considering research careers can face daunting prospects Graduate and postdoctoral training may take over a decade, usually with low pay and ... National Science Foundation to expand its data collection on S&E careers and its research into national and international workforce dynamics.11 Postdoctoral Training For more than decades, an...
... social sciences, and the humanities • Direct NSF to establish and lead a large-scale, interagency, and internationally coordinated Advanced Cyberinfrastructure Program to create, deploy, and apply ... materials research Each of the 27 areas was identified on a competitive scale ranging from lagging to leading, and each area was then compared with Europe and Japan.11 Over the 1990s, the RAND ... not always have the capital to compete on salary alone Already China and India have learned from the successful use of stock options in Silicon Valley and are using it to attract and retain businesses...
... International Education for Canada and Nine Comparator Countries: A Comparison of International Education Activities and Economic Performance Ottawa: Department of Foreign Affairs and International ... International Students and Postdoctoral Scholars, National Academies, July Hira, R., andA Hira 2005 Outsourcing America: What’s Behind Our National Crisis and How We Can Reclaim American Jobs Washington, ... 10% attrition among the current 33,000 AP mathematics and science teachers andby training an additional 70,000 teachers, public high schools would have an estimated 100,000 mathematics and science...
... customers who may desire to remit drafts as means of payment, and (2) that the local bank may have agents in the centers to handle and collect drafts drawn by dealers or manufacturers who have shipped ... days later, makes no essential difference; bank credit may take even the form of an overdraft The Bank Acceptance as Bank Credit The bank acceptance, which is a draft or bill drawn upon and accepted ... outstanding and borrowers would completely pay their obligations to banks at least once a year The business or trade that has a season longer than a year is rare, perhaps non-existent At the same...
... of appearance of ETA in hepatic plasma membranes and endosomes after toxin administration Rat hepatic plasma membrane (A) and endosomal fractions (B) were isolated at the indicated times after ... intact ETA ( 66 kDa), ETA -A ( 37 kDa), and unknown degradation fragments Molecular mass markers are indicated to the left ETA and ETA -A signals were quantified by scanning densitometry, and ... intermediates shown in (A) : AEEAFDL for intermediates 1, 4a, 4b, 4d, 6a and 6c; CPVAAGECA for intermediates 6b and 6d; and PALA for intermediate 4c Western blot analysis with an antibody against ETA...
... BSA as a standard Purification of d-ACTX-Hv 1a and d-ACTX-Ar1 Radioiodination of d-ACTX-Hv1, LqhaIT and Lqh-II Crude venom was ÔmilkedÕ by direct aspiration from the chelicerae of live spiders maintained ... quantification was performed using a bicinchoninic acid Protein Assay Kit (Pierce) using BSA as a standard Absorbance was read at 570 nm on a BIO-RAD Model 450 microplate reader The molecular mass was ... saturationÕ analysis The kinetic data for ligand association and dissociation rates were subjected to analysis by LIGAND, using Ôkinetic analysisÕ Each curve was subjected to multislope analysis...
... from a man-to-man to a zone, box and one, or triangle and two setup In any case, a quality motion offense can be used against a man-toman, as well as all types of zones such as the box and one, ... I own and have read more than a hundred books on coaching basketball I have a video collection of more than fifty tapes, both visual and audio I have attended countless basketball clinics all over ... Bill, and he was the standard I set for myself and my teams at Saint Anthony’s He set a very high standard for his coaching peers to strive for, and I am obliged to say he has been a personal friend...
... complications which can lead to haemorrhage, infection and shock in the mother and birth asphyxia and brain damage in the infant Spontaneous abortion or miscarriage: A fetal death in early pregnancy ... a population are collected, collated, analysed, and disseminated Traditional birth attendant (TBA): A trained or untrained birth attendant who traditionally assists women at community level Trained ... pregnant of amenorrhoeic Include female and male sterilization, injectable and oral hormones, intra-uterin device, diaphragms, spermicides and condoms, natural family planning and lactational amenorroea...
... of database servers and databases ■ Optimize and implement a data recovery plan for a database ■ Design a strategy to monitor and maintain a database solution ■ Design a database data management ... proofreading coordinator, Sandi Resnick, our layout coordinators, Carl Diltz and Elizabeth Hansford, and our indexing coordinators, Patty Masserman and Shawn Peck Few creatures are more antisocial ... operation can result in very large database and transaction log files, and disk capacity limits can be a potential problem, even with the very large disk arrays currently available In this situation,...
... a small space: and the remainder will be amply filled with the details of its application to woman as girl and mother and grandmother, as wife and widow, as individual and citizen Woman is Nature’s ... be regarded, at any rate in the higher animals and plants, as formerly parts of the parent individuals On the contrary, we have to accept, at least in general and as substantially revealing to ... of life, acted on and directed by natural selection, as guardian and transmitter of the germ-plasm, assumes a less paradoxical character when we perceive with what unfailing art Nature has constructed...
... SCB data analyses and manuscript review, and MBR performing experiments; JC Luminex data analysis and interpretation PK and HSJ data interpretation; OR project design, experimental analyses and ... Disease Advisory Board OR, HJ and AM have received research grants from Medimmune and P.K is an employee of Medimmune Authors' contributions A. M study design, data analyses, manuscript preparation; ... Mejias A, Chavez-Bueno S, Rios AM, Saavedra-Lozano J, Fonseca Aten M, Hatfield J, Kapur P, Gomez AM, Jafri HS, Ramilo O: Anti-respiratory syncytial virus (RSV) neutralizing antibody decreases...
... Tenkova T, Fagan A, Parsadanian M, Sartorius L, Mackey B, Olney J, McKeel D, Wozniak D, Paul S: Apolipoprotein E isoform-dependent amyloid deposition and neuritic degeneration in a mouse model of Alzheimer's ... disease Proc Natl Acad Sci USA 2000, 97:2892-2897 Greenberg SM, Rebeck GW, Vonsattel JPG, Gomez-Isla , Hyman BT: Apolipoprotein E ε4 and cerebral hemorrhage associated with amyloid angiopathy Ann ... not a thermodynamic inhibitor of amyloid formation: Implications for the pathogenesis and treatment of Alzheimer's disease Proc Natl Acad Sci USA 1995, 92:763-767 LaDu M, Falduto M, Manelli A, ...