brief survey of state biofuel policies in the upper midwest

... balance of payments with the object of obtaining more money in international exchange, the protection of industry for the purpose of having articles of export in order to bring money into the country, ... succeed in creating in the consumers a need for certain things, the entrepreneur must still take into account, in calculating the probability of success in the market, the concept of the utility of ... some cases they appear to have been made—as the editor frankly admitted—chiefly in the interest of adapting the book to the concerns of the French public or of bringing certain points into sharper...

Ngày tải lên: 20/02/2014, 19:20

... Chapter Monitoring, assessing and terminating the learning process The monitoring, assessing and terminating of the active learning process go hand in hand The purpose of assessing the learning process ... in keeping the amount of training data needed down, compared to random sampling Brinker (2003) addresses the issue of incorporating a diversity measure when selecting batches of instances Brinker’s ... also increasing the number of iterations during which Co-training 10 Initialize the process by applying base learner B using each v in views V to labeled training set DL to obtain a committee of...

Ngày tải lên: 02/06/2014, 09:22

... 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 ... circulation of class II (genotypes I and II) lentogenic strains of NDVs in wild birds in the Upper Midwest region of the US Further studies are needed to determine the true prevalence and implications of ... virulent strains of NDVs were not detected in this study, their presence in the population cannot be ruled out in view of the potential created by the comingling nature and migration patterns of wild...

Ngày tải lên: 12/08/2014, 04:20

... stem of the stock at or near the ground line The bark is folded back and the bud slipped into place The upper portion of the shield is cut along the line of the top of the "t." A rubber budding ... 28 inches in the southeast to about 16 inches in the northwest Fortunately, most of this rainfall comes during the growing season The severity of our winters places the greatest limitation on the ... Roll the cloth or plastic with the cuttings to form a cylinder, with the cuttings projecting at the top These cylinders can then be placed in round containers with a little water in the bottom The...

Ngày tải lên: 11/06/2014, 17:08

... and the increase of the fishing mortality to which they are subjected Summary view of the decline in populations of large predatory fishes in the North Atlantic since 1950 36 Inflation plus 38 The ... “snapshots” of the abundance of different kinds of marine life there by visitors in the 1500s and 1600s Among them were turtles in “inestimable numbers,” “an in nite number of them all over the sea”; ... capelin in the Barents Sea collapsed in the mid-1980s, resulting in the closing of the capelin fishery for five years Iceland’s cod catch fell by about half in 1994 The cod fishery there has since...

Ngày tải lên: 06/03/2014, 18:21

... documents of the Ministry of Justice The professional qualification of the staff of the Ministry of Justice is mainly in law and politics, not in other disciplines There is no female staff The majority ... through the participation into drafting committee Other departments of the Prime Minister’s Office can assign staff to join the editing team upon the request of the offices presiding over the work ... in State administrative agencies 3.2.1.1 Ministry of Justice The Ministry of Justice is tasked to help the Government outline programmes of establishing laws and ordinances on issues within the...

Ngày tải lên: 17/07/2014, 20:11

... deduplicated resulting in a total survey sample of 536 potential participants Page of Table Reasons for disseminating the findings of research Reason Raise awareness of findings N (%) 216 (93) Influence ... one-third (n = 44) of these pointed to their work being incorporated into clinical guidelines as proxy evidence of influence Others named specific interventions or services in which they anticipated ... anticipated Discussion Principal findings This survey presents an overview of the ways by which health services researchers working across the UK are disseminating the findings of their research Although...

Ngày tải lên: 10/08/2014, 10:23

... by the individual and reducing their use of that substance reducing the harm from substance use incurred by the individual without necessarily reducing their use of that substance reducing the ... N % Definitions of harm reduction reducing harm from substance use I incurred by the individual by reducing or eliminating the use of that substance reducing the harm from substance use incurred ... those agencies providing free condoms, the majority of respondents indicated that the service was implemented as a means of reducing the spread of HIV/STDs Interestingly, 75% of these agencies reported...

Ngày tải lên: 11/08/2014, 18:20

... in an expert consensus guideline series [19] Briefly, the subjects were asked to respond to a statement about their level of CAP experience using a nine-point scale ranging from one, indicating ... could be explained by insufficient CAP experience in the early stages of the respondents' training The score quantifying the probability of CAP as a subspecialty choice was 4.15 ± 2.5 These results ... practice interest, and optimism about the future of the CAP field Furthermore, respondents were surveyed about their interest in pervasive developmental disorders (PDD), whether that interest in PDD...

Ngày tải lên: 13/08/2014, 18:21

... second in changing students‟ seats during speaking activity The teachers admitted in the interview that they are afraid of putting the class in chaos during the speaking activity In contrast, the ... with the findings of the attitudes of the teachers and the students towards the importance of culture and speaking skill in ELT; together with cultural difficulties in the teaching and learning of ... amount of grammar and vocabulary, teachers must be aware of the contribution of other factors involved in speaking 1.3 The integration of cultural factors into the teaching and learning of speaking...

Ngày tải lên: 28/03/2015, 08:55

... obstacles in the process of implementing social policies in the mountainous regions of the province 1.1.3 Implementation of social policy in the mountainous district of Nghe An province the early ... each other grow together" From the general policy, the thesis clearly stated guidelines and policies of the Party and State on the implementation of social policy in the mountainous province of ... synthesis, survey Source material: mainly documents of the Party Central Committee, the text of the State, the resolution, the final report of the Party, the People's Committee of Nghe An province...

Ngày tải lên: 19/08/2015, 09:34

... CTU when they respond to the survey Thereby, they can recognize their strengths and weaknesses in preparing themselves to be successful in the future work Based on the research findings, I would ... the problems of the university graduates in the job market related to their preparation to work in the context of the world and Vietnam The background information and reasons to conduct the thesis ... especially in their jobseeking skills The research results should give insights into students' perceptions on their readiness for the job market This survey suggests an adjustment to the training program...

Ngày tải lên: 11/11/2015, 10:19

... Finally, the kernel informs the hardware physical map module of the new virtual to physical mapping With the exception of the hardware validation, all of these steps are implemented in a machine-independent ... efficiently support the large body of UNIX software used within the academic community [16] In addition, from the point of view of a system designer, the Accent style of message/memory integration lacked ... once, possibly in different tasks The memory region specified by address in the vm_allocate_with_pager call will be mapped to the specified offset in the memory object The offset into the memory...

Ngày tải lên: 12/09/2012, 15:05

... used for information tasks (such as offering, finding or editing all kinds of information) Many things that are said about agents in this thesis do, however, also apply to the other kinds of agents ... focus on the Search engines are domain-independent practical possibilities of agents in the way they treat gathered information and in the way they enable users to search in it Terms in gathered ... on the Internet The functionality of agents can be maximally utilised when they are employed in the (future) three layer structure of the Internet." importance Thinking of the layers in terms of...

Ngày tải lên: 08/10/2012, 15:22

... non-lexicalization of the concepts, the lack of super ordinates of hyponyms etc The main contribution of this paper is to draw out the main ways of dealing with the hurdles by investigating how an experienced ... some minor inappropriateness such as the inconsistency in translating the same words, the misuse of some lexical items and the translation of nominal group 2.2.2 Other types of equivalence In the ... words is that the translations of the same words are not consistent from the beginning The other inappropriateness, to the best of my understanding, is the translation of nominal group There are...

Ngày tải lên: 07/11/2012, 14:31

... rate involved three phases First, data collection phase involved gathering the data for use in training and testing the neural network A large training data reduces the risk of under-sampling the ... nonlinear function, but increases the training time To improve training, preprocessing of the data to values between and was carried out before presenting the patterns to the neural network The ... and the measured value The properties of the soil used for training of the MANN models are shown in Table Class Relative Importance (%) Table Properties of the soil used for learning of the MANN...

Ngày tải lên: 22/03/2013, 15:01

... 0.008 mg/l, the WHO guideline value of DEHP for drinking water quality, and 0.06 mg/l, the guideline value for monitoring items in Japanese drinking water standard, though these guideline values ... water or their river flow was times or higher than normal Since the concentration of pesticides mainly depends upon their usage in the catchment area, timing of pesticide usage was also taken into ... exposure of EDCs via drinking water Grant -in- aid Research Report, the Ministry of Health and Wealfare, Japan Ueda H (2000) Current strategies against Environmental Endocrine Disrupters by the Ministry...

Ngày tải lên: 05/09/2013, 08:40

... to the prevailing weather at that time and the nature of the region Therefore, the values of the vertical velocity in summer is higher than winter And, the relationship between the signs of horizontal ... variables for the point located at (31 ̊5' N), (45 ̊E) which lies in the city of Samawah in the south of Iraq In January, the region was under the influence of high pressure (Figures 3A and 3B) The results ... shown in Figure And in the center there is point (E) which we intend to calculate the vertical velocity using the finite differences method Notice that this method assumes the wind field varies linearly...

Ngày tải lên: 05/09/2013, 17:03

... difficulties in the classroom setting, the research was aimed at finding out: (1) the students’ assessment of the importance of oral presentation skills in their future work, (2) the problems they might ... of the Findings 23 2.3.1 Data Analysis 23 2.3.2 Discussion of the Findings 24 2.3.2.1 The students’ assessment of the importance of oral presentation skills in their ... giving presentations, and (3) factors causing their difficulties and their suggested solutions Specifically, the study has been conducted in the form of survey research, with the informants of the...

Ngày tải lên: 07/09/2013, 13:02

... used for information tasks (such as offering, finding or editing all kinds of information) Many things that are said about agents in this thesis do, however, also apply to the other kinds of agents ... focus on the Search engines are domain-independent practical possibilities of agents in the way they treat gathered information and in the way they enable users to search in it Terms in gathered ... on the Internet The functionality of agents can be maximally utilised when they are employed in the (future) three layer structure of the Internet." importance Thinking of the layers in terms of...

Ngày tải lên: 26/10/2013, 17:15