big world inside small world networks
Regional diversity in the nineteenth century
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01/11/2013, 07:20
... cholera, typhus, and smallpox in the late 1860s By the end of the century, however, violent conquest had ended, cholera had lost its virulence, resistance to vaccination against smallpox was waning, ... Plague is not mentioned Smallpox in the early 1820s and cholera in the late 1860s are the only serious epidemics recorded Hausa medical literature did not even mention smallpox, although it was ... usually driven by animal power Egypt’s spinning output per head became the fifth largest in the world. 5 The need to import iron, coal, technology, and skills was an obstacle to industrialisation...
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Chapter 6: Strategy in the Global Environment
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06/11/2013, 17:15
... involved Choices of Entry Mode (cont’d) • Wholly Owned Subsidiaries – A parent company owns 100% of a smaller self-contained business unit – This can be a very costly approach, since the parent company...
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Tài liệu The Right Thing to Do, The Smart Thing to Do Enhancing Diversity in the Health Professions pdf
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16/02/2014, 01:20
... this goal, several small discussion sections were convened during the second day of the symposium to allow participants to react to paper presentations summarized above These small discussion sections ... decade Desperate for well-trained nurses and other health professionals, hospitals are recruiting worldwide to fill needed shortages These trends raise the questions: Will we have the health care ... in plenary THE RIGHT THING TO DO, THE SMART THING TO DO sessions, while others were delivered in small discussion groups during the second day of the symposium, to encourage dialogue and the development...
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Radionuclide behaviour in the natural environment docx
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16/03/2014, 22:20
... ion–humic interactions Impacts of humic substances on radionuclide transport in different sites worldwide Conclusions and future trends References 70 73 77 92 93 P E Reiller, French Nuclear and ... Oxy-fuel combustion for power generation and carbon dioxide (CO2) capture Edited by Ligang Zheng Small and micro combined heat and power (CHP) systems: Advanced design, performance, materials and ... catastrophic failure of three nuclear reactors The actual and potential release of radioactivity remains a worldwide concern This volume provides the basis for evaluating the environmental impact of this...
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Advanced programming in the UNIX environment
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19/03/2014, 13:32
... with a small, complete program This lets us see the arguments and return values and is often easier to comprehend than the use of the function in a much larger program But since some of the small ... contrived examples, a few bigger examples are also included (Chapters 16, 17, 18, and 19) These larger examples demonstrate the programming techniques in larger, real -world examples All the examples ... compile this program into the file a.out and execute it, we have $ /a.out hello world from process ID 851 $ /a.out hello world from process ID 854 When this program runs, it calls the function getpid...
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Hazardous Materials in the Hydrologic Environment: The Role of Research by the U.S. Geological Survey docx
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23/03/2014, 01:20
... Water Resources Research Center, St Paul, Minnesota JOHN BRISCOE, The World Bank, Washington, D.C WILLIAM M EICHBAUM, The World Wildlife Fund, Washington, D.C WILFORD R GARDNER, University of ... Columbus LEONARD SHABMAN, Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University, Blacksburg MITCHELL J SMALL, Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania ALAN T STONE, The Johns Hopkins University, ... Berkeley KENNETH R BRADBURY, Wisconsin Geological and Natural History Survey, Madison CONSTANCE HUNT, World Wildlife Fund, Washington, D.C DAWN S KABACK, Colorado Center for Environmental Management,...
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Báo cáo khoa học: Cold stress defense in the freshwater sponge Lubomirskia baicalensis pot
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23/03/2014, 10:20
... dinoflagellates present in L baicalensis are related to G sanguineum, a species that has been found worldwide, especially in coastal waters [20] We have shown that the dinoflagellates (G sanguineum)...
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INVESTIGATING DIVERSITY IN THE BANKING SECTOR IN EUROPE: THE PERFORMANCE AND ROLE OF SAVINGS BANKS pdf
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29/03/2014, 07:20
... secondtier financial institutions that are also part of these networks Thus, they are, in most cases, elements of decentralised networks with second- and third-tier organisations that would support ... banks to lend to poor people and to the local micro, smalland even medium-sized firms as a profitable line of business.8 More recently, a small number of specialised micro-finance institutions ... publication by Christen et al (2004) 14 15 The World Bank has just published a concise summary of the state of knowledge concerning financial exclusion (see World Bank, 2008) The authors demonstrate...
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advanced programming in the unix environment, 2nd edition, 2005
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07/04/2014, 15:00
... with a small, complete program This lets us see the arguments and return values and is often easier to comprehend than the use of the function in a much larger program But since some of the small ... contrived examples, a few bigger examples are also included (Chapters 16, 17, 18, and 19) These larger examples demonstrate the programming techniques in larger, real -world examples A ll the examples ... compile this program into the file a.out and execute it, we have $ /a.out hello world from process ID 851 $ /a.out hello world from process ID 854 When this program runs, it calls the function getpid...
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whittet d. dust in the galactic environment
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24/04/2014, 17:25
... However, smaller grains have much lower heat capacities and may undergo transient increases in temperature caused by absorption of individual energetic photons (section 6.1) A population of ‘very small ... a smallgrain component is easily explained by consideration of the forces exerted on the particles by solar radiation pressure and the interplanetary magnetic field, which selectively block smaller ... cosmos, impinging directly or indirectly on most fields of modern astronomy Dust grains composed of small (submicronsized) solid particles pervade interstellar space in the Milky Way and other galaxies:...
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Báo cáo khoa học: Bacteriophages and Pathogenic Vibrio spp in the Aquatic Environment
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13/05/2014, 15:24
... have been possibly derived by lateral gene transfer • tdh+ and trh+ strains account for only a small proportion of environmental V parahaemolyticus population (1-2%) • Pandemic clone of V parahaemolyticus ... SEAFOOD Food and Agriculture Organisation Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations World Health Organization 2013 Direct Plating Performance criteria Quantitative method? Recovery ... high value negligible value (in ranges from low to most regions of the high value (see text pg world) 12) negligible value negligible value negligible value limited value or limited value or...
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Báo cáo hóa học: " Constancy and diversity in the flavivirus fusion peptide Stephen J Seligman" ppt
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20/06/2014, 01:20
... [17] This strain was isolated in the 1960s For more recent strains, only limited sequencing of a small part of the structural protein gene P1 has been done Because recent studies suggested that ... and 90% in VP1 For VP3, a maximum co-segregation value of 70% could be identified only in a very small part of the protein An abrupt halt of co-segregation with the HPeV1 prototype was observed ... Conselho Nacional de Desenvolvimento Científico e Tecnológico (CNPq), Brazil We are grateful to H Hilbig-Hanl, H Kocken, U Krause, G Mueseler, E Voß, and B Liedigk for excellent technical assistance...
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Báo cáo hóa học: " Two-Stage Maximum Likelihood Estimation (TSMLE) for MT-CDMA Signals in the Indoor Environment" doc
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22/06/2014, 23:20
... of tones, with a considerable decrease in the ISI and very small increase in the ICI, the overall effect of the interference becomes smaller, making the error floor significantly low Two-Stage ... in smaller gain improvement Consequently, at lower number of tones the performance gain of the TSMLE-based system is higher than the coherent system, while at higher number of tones it is smaller ... bit rate environment, the overhead encountered from the reference symbols in TSMLE is reasonably small [6] Capitalizing these advantages of TSMLE technique lets us find out further the reasons behind...
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THE IMPORTANCE OF BIOLOGICAL INTERACTIONS IN THE STUDY OF BIODIVERSITY pdf
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28/06/2014, 08:20
... biodiversity distributed around the world? As stated in the introduction, mosquitoes are occurring worldwide, except in the Antarctic They occur heterogeneously around the world Anopheles mosquitoes for ... been linked to military movements during World War II as well as marine trade with Australia (Belkin, 1962) Introduction of Cx p quinquefasciatus in the New World also appears to have been recent ... introducing new vectors, especially through shipment of goods and small aircrafts that introduced numerous mosquito species worldwide contributing locally to an increase of the biodiversity Reports...
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Advanced Programming in the UNIX Environment docx
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28/06/2014, 19:20
... compile this program into the file a.out and execute it, we have $ /a.out hello world from process ID 851 $ /a.out hello world from process ID 854 When this program runs, it calls the function getpid ... password file (Section 1.3) 1.5 Input and Output File Descriptors File descriptors are normally small non-negative integers that the kernel uses to identify the files being accessed by a particular ... under which programs can run Generally, we call this software the kernel, since it is relatively small and resides at the core of the environment Figure 1.1 shows a diagram of the UNIX System architecture...
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Business in the global environment ppt
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28/06/2014, 21:20
... relatively young world s second most popular website, behind Google companies started by enthusiasts, where are Facebook is the world s largest online social network, Facebook and other social networks ... reluctant to sign up to advertising on social networks On the other hand, the Facebook audience is far bigger than that of any television network in the world, and, because of the enormous amount ... small- to-medium size enterprise (SME) This category covers the vast majority of the world s business enterprises It derives from the classification given below: • • • • Micro: 0–9 employees Small: ...
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