... report was prepared for the Office of the Secretary of Defense (OSD) This research was conducted under the auspices of the Forces and Resources Policy Center of the RAND National Defense Research ... funded research and development center sponsored by the OSD, the Joint Staff, the Unified Combatant Commands, the Department of the Navy, the Marine Corps, the defense agencies, and the defense Intelligence ... of how the racial and ethnic distribution of officers Officer Classification and the Future of Diversity Among Senior Military Leaders Figure 1.1 Racial/Ethnic Distribution in the Enlisted, Officer,...
Ngày tải lên: 06/03/2014, 21:20
... overview of all relevant sources as they can achieve They want to see the shape of the elephant” of their topic the full extent of its different important parts and how the parts fit together Librarians ... on the “shape” of the book literature on their topics, too many digital library theorists fail even to notice their existence–or they dismiss them out of hand because the system that created them ... survey of Athenian financial history from the transfer of the Delian Treasury in, probably, 454 to the end of the Peloponnesian War some fifty years later, in the hope that future research will profit...
Ngày tải lên: 07/03/2014, 23:20
Parallel Worlds: A Journey Through Creation, Higher Dimensions, and the Future of the Cosmos
... estimate of the age of Earth In comparison, the WMAP satellite today has measured the echo of the big bang itself to give us the most authoritative age of the universe The WMAP data reveals that the ... most of it is in the form of hydrogen and helium, and probably only 0.03 percent takes the form of the heavy elements.) Most of the universe is actually made of mysterious, invisible material of ... represent the crowning achievement of the last two thousand years of research in physics, ever since the Greeks first began the search for a single coherent and comprehensive theory of the universe The...
Ngày tải lên: 10/03/2014, 21:20
Stem CELLS and the FUTURE OF REGENERATIVE MEDICINE pdf
... or the brain, in the adult body They can renew themselves in the body, making identical copies of themselves for the lifetime of the organism, or become specialized to yield the cell types of the ... science and technology and to their use for the general welfare Upon the authority of the charter granted to it by the Congress in 1863, the Academy has a mandate that requires it to advise the federal ... members of appropriate professions in the examination of policy matters pertaining to the health of the public The Institute acts under the responsibility given to the National Academy of Sciences...
Ngày tải lên: 15/03/2014, 09:20
Green Illusions: The Dirty Secrets of Clean Energy and the Future of Environmentalism
... to take advantage of these government handouts of your money, and wineries represent just a handful of the thousands of industries and mostly wealthy households that have done the same Fifth, photovoltaic ... within the communities of scientists, engineers, and other experts who work on solar energy But because of specialization and occupational silo effects, few of these professionals capture the entire ... owners are often shocked by the underwhelming performance of their solar arrays in the real world For example, roof jobs may require that they disconnect, remove, and reinstall their rooftop arrays...
Ngày tải lên: 16/03/2014, 22:02
Multilateral Enviromental Agreements and the Future of Global Biodiversity pdf
... as the value of including the World Heritage Convention (WHC) in the template due to the bio- diversity focus of the template, and the length and complexity of the template For many PICs, there ... determined by the Conference of the Parties, present to the Conference of the Parties, reports on measures which it has taken for the implementation of the provision of this Convention and their effectiveness ... The Lao CITES Management and Scientific Authorities are concerned by reports of thousands of tons of orchids crossing the border each year to China in the north, and to Thailand in the south The...
Ngày tải lên: 25/03/2014, 06:21
Research Universities And The Future Of America potx
... dedicated to the furtherance of science and technology and to their use for the general welfare Upon the authority of the charter granted to it by the Congress in 1863, the Academy has a mandate that ... 1970 by the National Academy of Sciences to secure the services of eminent members of appropriate professions in the examination of policy matters pertaining to the health of the public The Institute ... become the principal operating agency of both the National Academy of Sciences and the National Academy of Engineering in providing services to the government, the public, and the scientific and...
Ngày tải lên: 30/03/2014, 15:20
natural-born cyborgs minds technologies and the future of human intelligence apr 2003
... of the key environments in which this work formed and developed These include the School of Cognitive and Computing Sciences (and especially the Interact Lab) at the University of Sussex, UK; the ... Space The year is 1960 The pulse of space travel beats insistently within the temples of research and power, and the journal Astronautics publishes the paper that gave the term “cyborg” to the ... bypass, rather than penetrate, the old biological borders of skin and skull To see what I mean, let us return to the realms of the concrete and the everyday, scene-shifting to the flight deck of a...
Ngày tải lên: 11/06/2014, 00:24
Research Universities and the Future of America pptx
... dedicated to the furtherance of science and technology and to their use for the general welfare Upon the authority of the charter granted to it by the Congress in 1863, the Academy has a mandate that ... 1970 by the National Academy of Sciences to secure the services of eminent members of appropriate professions in the examination of policy matters pertaining to the health of the public The Institute ... become the principal operating agency of both the National Academy of Sciences and the National Academy of Engineering in providing services to the government, the public, and the scientific and...
Ngày tải lên: 28/06/2014, 17:20
The precautionary principle: protecting public health, the environment and the future of our children pptx
... only of the level of risk and the strength of evidence and uncertainty, but also of the magnitude, reversibility and distribution of the risk, the availability of opportunities to prevent risk, the ... of the level of risk and the strength of evidence and uncertainty, but also of the magnitude, reversibility and distribution of the risk, the availability of opportunities to prevent risk, the ... convincing proof of harm These cases exemplify the failure of science and policy to prevent damage to health and ecosystems and the resulting impacts on health and the economy In line with the mandate...
Ngày tải lên: 28/06/2014, 23:20
Designing for Sensors and the Future of Experiences
... knowledge, and positing solutions in the design and planning fields As a style of thinking, it is generally considered the ability to combine empathy for the context of a problem, creativity in the generation ... @jeremyjohnson FUTURE http://www.neatorama.com/2012/05/27/back-to -the- future- in-lego/ futurist http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bruce_Sterling Design and Futurism are not the same thing - design is a method of ... writing about the need for designers.” - Jared Spool 2012 http://www.lukew.com/ff/entry.asp?1548 “People at the boardroom and level are paying attention the value of design Experience design is more...
Ngày tải lên: 03/07/2014, 14:01
Bauhaus ideology and the Future of Web design
... ideology and the future of web design simon collison fowd tour 2009 bauhaus ideology and the future of web design simon collison fowd tour 2009 bauhaus ideology and the future of web design simon ... ideology and the future of web design simon collison fowd tour 2009 bauhaus ideology and the future of web design simon collison fowd tour 2009 bauhaus ideology and the future of web design simon ... 2009 bauhaus ideology and the future of web design simon collison acknowledge the machine fowd tour 2009 bauhaus ideology and the future of web design simon collison standardise production fowd...
Ngày tải lên: 10/07/2014, 15:26
Chapter 7 Consumers, Producers, and the Efficiency of Markets pot
... by the total area a under the demand curve and above the price b above the supply curve and up to the equilibrium price c under price and up to the point of equilibrium d between the demand and ... both the demand for and the supply of radios would imply that a both the value of radios to consumers and the cost of producing radios has increased b both the value of radios to consumers and the ... Producers, and the Efficiency of Markets 41 On a graph, consumer surplus would be the area a between the demand and supply curves b below the demand curve and above price c below the price and above the...
Ngày tải lên: 11/08/2014, 10:21
Global warming and the future of the earth
... equator Because of the rotation of the Earth, water piles up on the western sides of the oceans and flows toward the equator in rather narrow currents The Gulf Stream off the coast of the United States ... to the salinity of seawater, of 12 Global Warming and the Future of the Earth FIGURE 1.4: The thermohaline circulation: the ocean conveyor belt The cool, salty water in the high latitudes of the ... near the northern states of Oregon and Washington, 18 Global Warming and the Future of the Earth undulating across the U.S mainland and creating constantly changing weather patterns But in the...
Ngày tải lên: 04/10/2014, 23:04
ghosh - the global economic crisis and the future of migration; issues and prospects (2013)
... competitiveness and productivity growth, on the one hand, and the demand as well as exchange rates of its trading partners, on the other Few of these, especially the demand from the rest of the rich ... are depleting the human resources of the sending countries and casting dark shadows on their future growth As the outflows of some of the best and brightest workers from Spain and Portugal to ... like the USA and France had taken before and during the Great Depression of the 1930s and the social climate created by these actions During the years 1900–1914, the average annual flow of permanent...
Ngày tải lên: 01/11/2014, 11:35
varoufakis - the global minotaur; america, the true origins of the financial crisis and the future of the world economy (2011)
... The gist of their response was that, while they had their finger on the pulse and their eye on the data, they had made two related diagnostic mistakes: the error of extrapolation and the (rather ... his close study of the history of the Arab states of Spain and North Africa, he told a story of the rise and fall of regimes, in which rulers play the role of the predator and there is something ... characteristic of the global political economy was the reversal of the flow of trade and capital surpluses between the United States and the rest of the world The hegemon, for the first time...
Ngày tải lên: 03/11/2014, 13:49
glinavos - redefining the market-state relationship; reponses to the financial crisis and the future of regulation (2014)
... issue, the ability of member states of the Eurozone to leave the monetary union, either voluntarily or involuntarily The presentation of the two facets of the crisis, the financial and the sovereign ... examples of reform, exploring the reasons behind policy changes, and enquires into the origin (and likely destination) of current shifts in our perception of the role of law and the place of the state ... into the will of the market? One of the key problems we have in understanding the relationship between the state and the market is the obscuring effects of ‘economism’ We can define economism as the...
Ngày tải lên: 04/11/2014, 05:30
Free trade frontier hong kong businesses and the future of FTAs
... benefits of doing so They want more of them And the SAR aims to be at the heart of future negotiations to liberalise trade in goods and services in the region, and across the world © The Economist ... interviewees for their time and insights The findings of this report are those of the EIU and not necessarily reflect the views of the sponsor This report was written by Jonathan Hopfner and edited ... internationally Only a handful fully utilise all the trade agreements they have access to, and many profess only a limited understanding of these pacts More interestingly, being the product of a free-trade...
Ngày tải lên: 04/12/2015, 00:02
The Semantic Web:A Guide to the Future of XML, Web Services, and Knowledge Management phần 8 pdf
... that no Father is his own Father (nonreflexive) If X is the Father _of Y, Y is not the Father _of X (antisymmetric), though of course if X is a Father and the Father _of Y, Y can be a Father There will ... component, at the lower left, is the terms, that is, the symbols (the labels for the concepts) or the words of English and the rules for combining these into phrases and sentences (the syntax of English) ... over the disjunction of the set Thing, the set Person, and so on, all of which are subsets of the entire Universe of Discourse Again, the formal notation in these figures is simplified a bit and...
Ngày tải lên: 14/08/2014, 12:20
The Future of Wireless Banking Implementation of Wireless Banking and Financial Systems
... react to the new world economy quickly and offer what the clients are looking for!! The future of wireless banking is massive and aggressive in terms of requirements, demands, and support The good ... to the WSP gateways, and then to the handheld units The Future of Wireless Banking Ron Ghani 12 The vendor must have widely available resources and experienced programmers, systems architects and ... exchange the messages between the backend system and the application server XSL and XSLT style sheets are mainly used to manage the presentation of the data, whereas the XML is handling the data...
Ngày tải lên: 26/10/2013, 16:15