... users have larger overall networks While the average person who uses a SNS has about the same number of social ties as the average American, there is considerable variation by SNS platform Users ... many outcomes associated with SNS use that cannot be explained by the demographic characteristics of those who uses these services Facebook users are more trusting than similar Americans MySpace ... propensities However, total network size may not be as important as other factors – such as intimacy Americans have more close social ties than they did two years ago And they are less socially isolated...
... across the country and across the oceans Oil on a beach means local restaurants serve less beef from Kansas, fewer chickens from Arkansas, and fewer vegetables from California Those restaurants ... consequences As the owners of boats, restaurants, and motels lose business, they lay off employees and pay less tax The suppliers with whom they business suffer the same in connections that extend across ... energy-alaska.wdfiles.com/local files/natural-gas-as -a- resource/natural_ gas171.jpg) It Is the Rate, Stupid! Hydrocarbon resources in oil and gas fields are geological accumulations of chemically transformed...
... Taryn Sabia Vivian Salaga Natisha Salman Hamid Salzeblear Dan Samufer Sally Santos Linda Saul-Sena Dave Scott Martin Scrichner Franklin Sebastian Nancy Sebastian Pete Sechler Joe Seidle Miguel Senisse ... Manager Chris Ahern Art Akins Adjoa Akofio-Swah Beth Alden J.J Alexander Albert Alfonso Robert Allen Joseph Alvarez Monica Ammann Ashly Anderson Lynn Andrews Chase Anzalone Vicki Anzalone Magrie ... JohnsonWilliams Delphine Jones Hannah Jones John Jones Lyndi Jordan Frances Joseph Carrol Josephs Marshall Sean Josephs Marshall Sarah Joubert Levant Karazshm Roger Karz Barbara Kazem Tom Keating Kevin...
... Irie, former scientist at AI Lab, MIT, Massachusetts General Hospital P J Jacobowitz, PC magazine Jay Jaroslav, former scientist at MIT AI Lab Donald Johanson, paleoanthropologist, discoverer of ... dictation Yet all these technologies exist today Soon, we will also have versions of the universal translator, which can rapidly translate between languages as you speak, and also “tricorders,” ... Quammen, science writer, author of The Reluctant Mr Darwin Katherine Ramsland, forensic scientist Lisa Randall, professor of theoretical physics, Harvard University, author of Warped Passages Sir...
... This scarcity view assumes that in a situation of relatively slow population growth, there is an acceleration, on a per capita basis, in human capital accumulation In their crossnational analysis ... this survey evidence, the results of studies such as that by Masson, Bayoumi and Samiei (1995)6, which derives both time series and cross-section estimates, suggests that although demographics are ... obtained Miles states « What the numerical examples and the empirical studies suggest is that failure to measure pension wealth correctly can have a major impact on estimates of saving, especially...
... information Website / Post address Email address / Phone # / Fax # Date accessed Director s Contact Information Name / Email Address / Phone # Program description Mission statement School where based ... assets can be assembled and accessed and synergies which are otherwise not possible may be explored.” Pat Kelley, MD Director Board on Global Health Institute of Medicine “There is an advantage ... International Medical Education and Research AAMC – American Association of Medical Colleges Faculty participation in organized and established international opportunities (n=94) UNC-CH, U Mich, Harvard,...
... pay taxes on only 15 percent of what they make a lower rate than that paid by many middleclass Americans—because of a loophole that treats this income as capital gains The ostensible reason capital ... investments in schools and health care and infrastructure And we all better with strong safety nets, reasonable constraints on Wall Street and big business, and a truly progressive tax system ... breathtaking Just four years before, AIG nearly collapsed because it couldn’t make payments on its swap contracts that were supposed to insure big Wall Street banks against losses on their bets...
... measurements of patients' HRQoL [3] The EQ-5D instrument consists of a five-item descriptive system of health states and a visual analog scale (VAS) Scores for the five health states can be converted ... assessed the associations between the three EQ-5D scores and sociodemographic & clinical data and health status including age, gender, income, duration of diabetes, body mass index (an indicator ... complications (presence and absence) namely neuropathy, retinopathy, nephropathy and cardiovascular diseases (Table 8) The relative precision values suggest that the Japan weights discriminated...
... tissue via a sapphire crystal, which is non-adhesive and of high thermal resistance ISC is focused against the bleeding surface as long is necessary to achieve haemostasis The study endpoints ... 2005, 19:312-7 Shashoua AR, Gill D, Barajas R, Dini M, August C, Kirschenbaum GL, Escuardro L: Caseating granulomata caused by hemostatic agent posing as metastatic leiomyosarcoma JSLS 2009, 13:226-8 ... FDA as absorbable or non-absorbable, or as sealants (liquid adhesives) and dressing (solid matrix) [12] As it should be hard to conduct clinical trials on the use of HAs in several different surgical...
... Univariate associations between variables were explored in the pooled dataset Associations of binary data were expressed as relative risks with accompanying 95% confidence intervals Significance ... testing was based on Fisher s exact test (2-sided) due to small sample size, which explains some apparent inconsistencies between p values and confidence limits Results Patient characteristics ... Roche and has been a paid expert for Amgen, Bayer and Roche MS has received honoraria and research funding from Amgen and has acted as a consultant for Amgen Page of GHL has been a PI on a research...
... the US-MLV vaccine (MLV) [7], Canadian field strain (PA8) [8], Asian vaccine strain (SP) [9] and Asian field strain (BJ-4 and HUN4) [10] are available in the database In addition, full-length sequences ... Canada [8] Unfortunately, full length nucleotide sequence of the Spanish vaccine virus (Amervac) was not available for analysis since only the Spanish vaccine was the only live vaccine available ... Serological studies and isolation of porcine reproductive and resiratory syndrome (PRRS) virus in Thailand J Thai Vet Med Assoc 1996, 47:19-30 Thanawongnuwech R, Amonsin A, Tatsanakit A, Damrongwatanapokin...
... is used to interpret and evaluate the content and systematize specific valid provisions of concerned legal systems Sources such as laws, case law, preparatory work and doctrine are assigned value ... statistics from state bodies, and reports found in mass media This dissertation uses case law from the EU and US to illustrate issues under discussion With such a long development and history, ... the US and Vietnam The EU and the US are the most important and characteristic legal systems, which deal with the issues concerned in this thesis These two legal systems have had a great deal of...
... violates the antitrust laws and permits States to sue companies for antitrust violations parens patriae 15 In those Acts, Section of the Sherman Act14, Sections and of the Clayton Act15 and ... the Association of South East Asian Nations (ASEAN) on July 25, 1995; ASEAN Free Trade Area (AFTA) on January 1, 1996 On December 10, 2001, Vietnam – US Bilateral Trade Agreement was ratified and ... relevant EU and US laws Part II, located in Chapter 3, focuses on an introduction to the same issues as addressed by the Vietnamese legal system, and makes a comparison through the same logical...
... subprimes andsubsidies: The political economy of the financial crisis.” Available at SSRN: http://ssrn.com/abstract=1270196 ABOUT THE AUTHOR Ashok Bardhan is a senior research associate at the Fisher ... losses Subprime assets rated AAA/AA became, in turn, attractive assets for pension funds, commercial banks, and special vehicles like conduits and structured investment vehicles (SIVs) all over ... CENTRAL BANKING THROUGH LOWERING COLLATERAL STANDARDS AND AGGRESSIVE BALANCE SHEET EXPANSION Bagehot s second principle states that central banks must accept all good banking collateral in a crisis...
... Institute APEC Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation ARF ASEAN Regional Forum ASAT Anti-Satellite ASEAN Association of South East Asian Nations ASL Anti-Secession Law CFSP Common Foreign and Security Policy ... setback and a major step forward in both sets of relations The Taiwan Strait crisis has been seen as something of a watershed in US-China relations as it was the closest the two sides came to armed ... China s rise Debates amongst policymakers, political commentators and analysts have generated opposing sets of ideas about China s rise as either a ‘threat’ or an ‘opportunity’ The ‘threat’ characterisation...
... sides, as shown, to make strata EAXTHQUAKES a Earlhquakes often happen at plate edges where two plates push against each other Rocks can stand this Plat s push pressure for many years, agaitrst ... SHADOW A4 EROSION AND TATEATHERING A6 TUNNELS AND PASSES A8 HIGHEST, LONGEST AND LARGEST SO GLOSSARY SI INDEX SA INTRODUCTION Geo6lraphy is about people and places and aII the changes that take ... the surface Sone crystalg ate waslreal aLo.I'vn to the sea Volca4ic velt MOI]NTAINS AND MAPS To desi€ln maps, cartographers (map-makers) need exact measurements of the land Surveyors measure and...