... multimalformed cases need a special and detailed analysis [28] because these data are not distorted by recall bias Another group of teratogens plays a role as trigger factors in the origin of isolated ... increased risk of major CAs associated with high vitamin A intake (10,000 IU per day or more) during the organogenetic period of embryo [26] Here we discuss three problems at the evaluation of ... records [37] Fourthly, it is worth using a patient control group including mothers of cases with other CAs In our HCCSCA system, cases with Down syndrome are used as patient controls [11] because...
Ngày tải lên: 02/11/2012, 11:12
... theory of speech act originated in Austin’s observation (1962) in which it is said that sentences are used to report states of affairs and utterance of some sentences can be treated as performance ... embarrassing the other person, or making him feel uncomfortable simply because we bear in mind that everybody has basic face needs or wants which refers to the respect that individual has for him or ... items and phrases such as: roughly, sort of, strictly speaking, etc In the course of time, the concept of hedging has come to be understood more broadly as including a numbers of ways of expressing...
Ngày tải lên: 07/11/2012, 14:44
Assessment of the Use of Hand Warmer for Nitrate Retardation in Porous Media
... for the purpose of inducing the spread and retardation of nitrate, the use of HWCs might be effective in soils The variation of the dispersion coefficient as a function of Reynolds number for ... retardation of peak time with the increase of the amount of HWCs while there is a slight change of the peak concentration in Andisol (Fig (b)) except for the more pronounced tailing of the BTCs ... properties such as the uniformity coefficient and the mean particle diameter for both soils As seen in Fig 2, the peaks of BTCs appear in the vicinity of the unity In order to clarify the effect of HWCs,...
Ngày tải lên: 05/09/2013, 10:15
Effects of the Use of Permeable Barrier for Landfill Leachate Treatment
... disabled as a reaction medium Reactor Efficiency for Total Phosphorus (TP) Removal Fig illustrates the efficiency of the reactors for the removal of TP The highest efficiency for the removal of TP was ... exchange, fine adsorption, and special adsorption for COD The use of reactor IV gives similar removal efficiency as reactor I After days, results indicated that modified bentonite was easily saturated ... rate of 84.87% This is followed by reactor III with a maximum removal rate of 67.10% The removal rate in reactor II is lower than that in reactor III The least efficient for COD removal is reactor...
Ngày tải lên: 05/09/2013, 10:17
Tài liệu SURVEY OF CASE STUDIES OF THE USE OF KNOWLEDGE MANAGEMENT IN SOFTWARE ENGINEERING docx
... NASA Software Engineering Laboratory The rst implementation of an Experience Factory was at the NASA Software Engineering Laboratory, which is reported in [54] The Experience Factory is used as ... repository of some sort for the entire organisation [18] Many see this term as meaning both a process of collecting and using information as well as a repository In Software Engineering, to reuse ... We used keywords such as knowledge management, corporate memory and Experience Factory together with keywords like software engineering and software process improvement Also, we used a list of...
Ngày tải lên: 16/01/2014, 16:33
Tài liệu Impact of Tobacco Use on Women’s Health doc
... cardiovascular diseases are the major causes of death among women, as well as among men.73,74 Women who smoke have an increased risk of cardiovascular disease, including coronary heart disease (CHD), ... depression.158–165 Because depression is a major cause of morbidity worldwide and is more prevalent in women than in men, the association between smoking and depression is important for women’s health ... neither used oral contraceptives nor smoked.85,86 Recent studies based on lower-dose formulations show the overall risk of CHD associated with oral contraceptive use to be less than was observed...
Ngày tải lên: 13/02/2014, 06:20
Tài liệu Phân biệt As, Because, Since và For pptx
... ten o' clock because dad arrived late He bought a new home because he won a lottery I read because I like reading Mệnh đề Because đứng Why are you crying? Because John hit me For Ta thường ... wanted to pass, so she decided to study well As since Cả As Since lý cho việc hành động đó, với cách dùng tương tự As he wasn't ready, we went without him Since she wanted to pass her exam, ... Lưu ý: Mệnh đề Since As đứng riêng lẻ câu Because Because thường dùng để đưa thông tin mà người đọc/người nghe chưa biết, nhấn mạnh vào lý Khi lý phần quan trọng câu, mệnh đề because thường đứng...
Ngày tải lên: 25/02/2014, 10:20
Measuring the Subjective Well-Being of Nations: National Accounts of Time Use and Well-Being potx
... a professor of management at the Rady School of Management, University of California, San Diego Norbert Schwarz is the Charles Horton Cooley Collegiate Professor of Psychology, a professor of ... was asked first, for example, its mean response was 4.35, compared with 3.99 when it was asked last; when pain was asked first its mean response was 0.89, compared with 1.08 when it was asked last ... six different orderings for the affect questions Once an order was selected, the same order was used for each of the three sampled fifteen- minute intervals The order effect for each of the emotions...
Ngày tải lên: 06/03/2014, 21:20
The evolution of host use and unusual reproductive strategies in Achrysocharoides parasitoid wasps pot
... phylogenies for all three trophic levels We use these to test a number of hypotheses Specifically, we ask whether: (1) parasitoid phylogenies are correlated with host phylogenies, as might occur if parasitoids ... (2001) We used only a single leg or the head from each wasp for DNA extraction and the bodies of sequenced individuals have been deposited at the Natural History Museum, London For each wasp, we ... For each wasp, we sequenced 1501 base pairs, comprising 473 bp of mitochondrial cytochrome b (Cyt b) and 1028 base pairs of nuclear 28S rDNA (28S) These regions often evolve at sufficiently high...
Ngày tải lên: 14/03/2014, 16:20
The Effects of Land Use on the Mobility of Elderly and Disabled and Their Homecare Workers, and the Effects of Care on Client Mobility: Findings from Contra Costa, California pdf
... safety reasons (Bianco & Lawson, 1998) Yet these patterns vary by race Travel time and distance, for example, can be longer for women of color than White women, in part because of increased use of ... Decreasing density was correlated with increasing distance for the following locations (at least at the 10% level, some at the 1% level): doctor’s office or hospital, place of worship, social or ... Transportation, Land Use, and Caregiving The transportation research literature has paid increasing attention to the importance of caregiving networks for maintaining the mobility of senior citizens...
Ngày tải lên: 14/03/2014, 17:20
Postal Savings and the Provision of Financial Services: Policy Issues and Asian Experiences in the Use of the Postal Infrastructure for Savings Mobilization pdf
... targeted for privatization, often at bargain prices However, in some cases, governments offered up hasty sales of state-owned property to foreign corporate investors that were not fully aware of the ... Exchange’s poor performance since its collapse in 1989 is another major reason that the public has been seeking safe placements for the investment of household savings Together, these factors have ... decision-making and the ordering of government priorities, including either possible termination or upgrading of services including more realistic assessments of proposals for the purchase of new technology...
Ngày tải lên: 15/03/2014, 09:20
Báo cáo khoa học: "Acquisition of a Lexicon from Semantic Representations of Sentences*" ppt
... L G G for a word is performed A T L G G is a good candidate for a word meaning if it is part of the representation of a large percentage of sentences in which the word appears The best wordT L ... from a set of 19 sentence templates We modified only the casestructure portion of these pairs There is still the basic case-structure representation, but instead of a single word for each filler, ... this is to use the results to assist a larger learning system The corpus used is based on that of (McClelland and Kawamoto, 1986) T h a t corpus is a set of 1475 sentence/case-structure pairs, produced...
Ngày tải lên: 17/03/2014, 09:20
progression of music in america since the 1940s
... lyrics Lite rock has also developed and has captured the ears of many listeners Music has progressed from fun to an industry in itself People can now earn a living off of music, often luxurious ... "The Bee Gees" They kept the anger of original Rytheme and Blues and created very upbeat material Very popular among disco was Gloria Gaynor She sang the message of the new movement:I won't crumble,I ... 1968 By 1970 the change in direction of rock music was cemented No longer were life -or- death rock riffs the order of the day Groups like Crosby, Stills and Nash, The Band, and Creedence Clearwater...
Ngày tải lên: 21/03/2014, 22:49
Đề tài " The Hasse principle for pairs of diagonal cubic forms " doc
... theorem for exponential sums to confirm the truth, over the rational numbers, of the Hasse principle for pairs of diagonal cubic forms in thirteen or more variables Introduction Early work of ... conclusion of part (i) of Lemma 10 is a special case of Theorem of Br¨ dern and Wooley [7] The proof of part u (ii) of the lemma requires greater effort Observe first that from Lemmas 2.2 and 4.4 of [7], ... of order P s/2 , while the anticipated main term in the asymptotic formula for N (P ) is of order P s−6 It is therefore apparent that this latter term cannot be expected to majorize the error...
Ngày tải lên: 22/03/2014, 20:21
Demographic composition and projections of car use in Austria ppt
... group of households over time, since reorganizations of membership can add or subtract households from a cohort 93% for households aged 40-44, then declines to 65 Cohort ... categorize households according to five compositional variables, or combinations of variables: (1) age of household head, (2) age and sex of household head, (3) size of household, (4) number of ... corresponding number for households of size two is 46% Household composition Household size may be too crude a measure since it aggregates households of the same size, independent of the age of...
Ngày tải lên: 23/03/2014, 10:20
Báo cáo khoa học: "Evaluation of Importance of Sentences based on Connectivity to Title" doc
... Subtopic Passages Computational Linguistics, 23(1):33-64 M Hoey 1991 Patterns of Lexis in Text Describing English Language Oxford University Press I 80 (%) ~ 100 ~ K Zechner 1996 Fast Generation of ... A Collier 1994 A System for Automating Concordance Line Selection In Proceedings of NeMLaP, pages 95-100 H P Ednmndson 1969 New Methods in Automatic Extracting Journal of the ACM, 16(2):264-285 ... Zechner 1996 Fast Generation of Abstracts from General Domain Text Corpora by Extracting Relevant Sentences In Proceedings of COLING, pages 986-989 r,~]i¢~, ~ i / ~ , and ~ I ~ - 1989 ~P)~3~cP~')~]~t~...
Ngày tải lên: 23/03/2014, 19:20
Đề tài " A cornucopia of isospectral pairs of metrics on spheres with different local geometries " potx
... representations of Clifford algebras) [K] Therefore we call them Heisenberg-type, or, Cliffordian endomorphism spaces The classification of Clifford modules is well known, providing classification also for the ... However, these formulas establish the corresponding formulas also in the sphere×torus-cases, such that one substitutes the constant radius R for the function δ(Z) in order to have the formula also ... the origin (0, 1) of the solvable extension SH of a Heisenberg-type group H are level sets of the form ϕ(|X|, |Z|, t) = 0.) The normal vector µ can be computed by means of formulas (1.2) By these...
Ngày tải lên: 29/03/2014, 07:20
Technical report: An Estimate of Infringing Use of the Internet docx
... copyrighted software such as Windows or Microsoft Office For the purposes of this report, the copyright status of any pornography identified is ignored, though the piracy of such content is obviously of ... for each of the four major areas of our investigation follow BitTorrent BitTorrent is the most used file sharing protocol worldwide with over 8m simultaneous users and 100m regular users worldwide ... Part A: Internet Usage Assessment 2.1 Introduction Part A of this report examines the major arenas of the internet known to be used – either primarily or as one of a number of uses – to distribute...
Ngày tải lên: 29/03/2014, 19:20