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... percentage points What explains this trend? As with our finding that there has been a short-term increase in trust, caution should be taken in interpreting these findings Measures of trust, neighboring ... points higher in total social support than other internet users (8 points higher than non-internet users), points higher in emotional support than either internet or non-internet users, and points ... receiving advice), 76/100 in companionship (such as having people to spend time with), and 75/100 in instrumental aid (such as having someone to help if they are sick in bed) Internet users in general...

Ngày tải lên: 18/02/2014, 00:20

... in 2009, “are the major engines of increasing productivity and are indispensable to ensuring economic growth, job creation, and rising incomes for American families in the technologically driven ... rationale for drilling in these inhospitable environments must take into account the amount of oil (or energy in some form) that is needed to build and maintain an offshore drilling rig such as ... reserves in the Gulf (see Fig 2.1), we first have to define the physical extent of the oil-producing areas in what is known as the Outer Continental Shelf (OCS) In the U.S Interior Department’s lingo,...

Ngày tải lên: 21/02/2014, 18:20

... ‘Central Business District’ in decline The Centre City Development Corporation worked as a redevelopment and planning manager tasked with developing, maintaining the vision and investing in downtown ... crystallize the ideas, and ingrain the vision in actions going forward It allows agility to meet evolving opportunities while ensuring that incremental investments occur within a larger framework ... LaSalla Manny Lato Irvin Lee Jane Lefferts Peter Lefferts Dustin Lemke Manny Leto Beth Leytham Andy Libbey Pedro Lima Sarah Lindemoth Brenda Lindsay Corine Linebrink Jake Linus Pat Locker Ian Lockwood...

Ngày tải lên: 25/02/2014, 01:20

... author of Coming of Age in the Milky Way Maria Finitzo, filmmaker, Peabody Award winner, Mapping Stem Cell Research Robert Finkelstein, AI expert Christopher Flavin, WorldWatch Institute Louis ... is to tap into the minds of the scientists at the cutting edge of research, who are doing the yeoman’s work of inventing the future They are the ones who are creating the devices, inventions, ... that Paris in 1960 would have glass skyscrapers, air conditioning, TV elevators, high-speed trains, gasoline, powered automobiles, fax machines, and even something resembling the Internet With...

Ngày tải lên: 14/03/2014, 08:49

... hypothesis implying that overall national savings would be unaffected since any decline in government savings would be fully offset by compensating movements in private savings, since private agents ... as changes in interest rates or exchange rates, in the level and composition of savings, in the behaviour of consumers and investors and even, in certain circumstances, in changes in the rate ... is, in fact, a further 16 % points lower than that in the US, being consequently 26 % points lower than here in the Community These 10 and 26 % points differences in the transfer burden facing...

Ngày tải lên: 23/03/2014, 21:20

... Existing activities Impediments Collective actions Train leaders from N America Train leaders from developing world Fund training programs overseas Align with priorities of collaborating international ... of international partners Top priorities Question Existing activities Impediments Collective actions Training international partners Training US students Sandwich programs Partnerships with international ... residents More US residents going than Int'l resident coming Regions visited or represented by medical students More Int’l students coming than US students going Availability of international opportunities...

Ngày tải lên: 28/03/2014, 21:20

Ngày tải lên: 30/03/2014, 01:20

... Depression-era law that had separated investment banking (betting in the financial casino) from commercial banking (taking in deposits and lending them out) Glass-Steagall’s repeal in 1999 had allowed bankers ... are more painful to those with modest paychecks—were increased Most telling of all, Washington deregulated Wall Street while insuring it against major losses In so doing, it allowed finance, which ... remained stagnant The gains of economic growth went mainly into corporate profits and into the pockets of the very rich American families maintained their standard of living by going deeper into...

Ngày tải lên: 08/06/2014, 08:50

... different outcomes The utility score is incorporated into quality-adjusted life-year (QALYs) which combine, in a single index, gains or losses in quantity (life expectancy) and quality of life (HU) ... Other clinical populations need investigation Finally, we utilized a simple hypothetical decision tree model to examine the impact of variability in EQ-5D index scores on ICUR Therefore, using real ... confidence interval; CID: clinically important difference; ICUR: incremental cost-utility ratio Competing interests 11 12 13 14 15 The authors declare that they have no competing interests Authors'...

Ngày tải lên: 18/06/2014, 19:20

... most respected and attractive company in our industry – creating value for all our stakeholders Holcim Strategy House: Working within the triple bottom line © 2008 Holcim Ltd/Switzerland Corporate ... Foundation for Sustainable Construction Platform to promote sustainable construction Activities include: Holcim Awards competitions, Holcim Forum, seed funding for building initiatives and research ... spending of CHF 48 million in 2007 equaling 1% of net income before tax increase of 33% from 2006 23 © 2008 Holcim Ltd/Switzerland Stakeholder engagement Vision, strategy & governance The business...

Ngày tải lên: 26/07/2014, 22:16

... they enter the urinary collecting system It has been shown that fibrin glue and oxidized regenerated cellulose maintain a solid form when initially placed in direct contact with urine and then assume ... http://www.wjso.com/content/8/1/37 bleeding and nephrotoxicity, suggests a possible employ for FloSeal in the treatment of devastating renal injuries [14,15] Furthermore, a porcine model investigating on the use of ... and suturing Our results were in accord with those reported in the current literature [30] By applying Floseal during open enucleoresection of RCC, bleeding was efficiently controlled in all patients...

Ngày tải lên: 09/08/2014, 03:21

... bleomycin units/m2/week, doxorubicin 12.5 mg/m2/week, dacarbazine 187.5 mg/m2/week, vinblastine mg/m2/week RDI relative dose intensity; ABVD doxorubicin, bleomycin, vinblastine and dacarbazine; ... doxorubicin, 12.5 mg/m2/week; dacarbazine, 187.5 mg/m2/week; and vinblastine, mg/m /week Actual planned dose intensities deviated in a number of patients and resulting means were marginally higher in ... dacarbazine; CI confidence interval; EBVD epirubicin, bleomycin, vinblastine and dacarbazine Association of CSF prophylaxis and neutropenic events in the pooled dataset Patients receiving CSF primary prophylaxis...

Ngày tải lên: 10/08/2014, 22:21

... severe economic losses in the Chinese swine industry Genome analysis of the Chinese viruses revealed that the viruses contain distinct amino acid deletions in the Nsp2 gene indicating highly virulent ... US genotype strains including the US field strains (16244B) [6], the US-MLV vaccine (MLV) [7], Canadian field strain (PA8) [8], Asian vaccine strain (SP) [9] and Asian field strain (BJ-4 and HUN4) ... acids in ORF1b were 27/1463 (01CB1) and 16/1463 (01NP1) These findings indicated that ORF1a was continuously changing and evolving as previously described especially in the Nsp2 region [8] In this...

Ngày tải lên: 12/08/2014, 04:20

... plaintiff 2.3.3 Criminalization and Incarceration In the EU, competition law infringements are not criminalized In the US, the Sherman Act provides not only criminal fines to corporations and individuals, ... laws on dealing with abusive pricing The main content of Part I is contained in Chapter The chapter presents an examination of measures for dealing with abusive pricing, after setting out theoretical ... monopolise (in accordance with US antitrust law), relating directly to pricing of goods or services of the infringing entity This dissertation focuses on only laws against abusive pricing In other...

Ngày tải lên: 15/08/2014, 15:49

Ngày tải lên: 21/08/2014, 18:18

... that helps the infringing person to dominate the market High degrees of market power are both a target and an instrument for the infringing persons to restrain competition Infringing persons use ... competition laws in combating abusive pricing by dominant enterprises in the EU, US and Vietnam It aims at finding 58 Tran, Hoang Nga, Regulations on abuse of dominant position and monopoly in Vietnam ... dealing with infringements in selected legal systems to identify common problems and solutions, while also noting their differences with a view to finding useful data to apply in Vietnam; • Examine...

Ngày tải lên: 22/08/2014, 18:45

... investments United States Payment s for oil imports; plus, the world pays oil exporters in dollars China China’s investments in U.S treasuries and agencies Recycling/investing petro-dollars in ... long-standing moral inhibition against the lending of money with interest—originally known as usury If the financial crisis has taught us anything, it has reminded us of the overwhelming importance ... naturally intended to be used in exchange for goods But earning interest on loans is against nature precisely because it involves producing money from money.3 In the thirteenth century, Aquinas elaborated...

Ngày tải lên: 01/11/2014, 13:25

... G Minke Conducting Transatlantic Business Basic Legal Distinctions in the US and Europe Download free eBooks at bookboon.com Conducting Transatlantic Business 3rd Edition © 2012 August G Minke ... Veil 25 2.6 Agents 26 www.sylvania.com We not reinvent the wheel we reinvent light Fascinating lighting offers an ininite spectrum of possibilities: Innovative technologies and new markets provide ... contribute to inluencing our future Come and join us in reinventing light every day Light is OSRAM Download free eBooks at bookboon.com Click on the ad to read more Conducting Transatlantic Business...

Ngày tải lên: 05/11/2014, 12:26

... drawing China into the established system, increasing its stake in the maintenance of the status quo and playing a more significant role internationally, commensurate with its growing size In ... the fact that interpretations are multifaceted In the thesis, I identify six overarching interpretations pertaining to different aspects of China’s rise which I outline in detail in Chapter Two ... Committee in March 2010 18 Main Findings and Contribution The central finding is that the notion of ‘China’s rise’ has been interpreted in various ways by different actors over time; the lack of a single,...

Ngày tải lên: 22/12/2014, 20:54