Castles in the Air
... o'clock in the morning, and all that he had to do then was to sweep out the three rooms, fetch water from the well in the courtyard below, light the fire in the iron stove which stood in my inner ... find out." "It is on the first floor, immediately facing the service staircase, and at the end of the long passage which leads to the main staircase." "Easy to find, then," ... to fresh air in a humble hostelry under the sign of the within two minutes of my entry into the room I was descending the service staircase quite unconcernedly, and had gone past the concierge's...
Ngày tải lên: 06/11/2012, 16:14
... cannot be linked back to the source. best in the business in the private sector. This type of The main issue then in is in the feeling of anonymity. If benchmarking implies comparing customer ... important given the track record for customer surveys in the literature thus far and the expansion of their use in the Federal Government. Given the costs involved in designing and conducting these surveys ... consider them to be customers. assuming that the instrument is well designed and able to After all, someone (the taxpayer) is paying the agency to measure what was intended, there are still several issues...
Ngày tải lên: 11/12/2013, 23:15
... defined in (19.10). The excess MSE is the power of the additional error in the filter output due to the errors in the filter coefficients. An equivalent measure of the excess MSE in steady-state is the ... Performance Issues When using the LMS adaptive filter, one must select the filter length L and the step size µ(n) toobtain the desired performance from the system. In this section, we explore the issues ... generalized expression for these stability bounds in (19.41), the upper bound for the step size is inversely proportional to the input signal power σ 2 x in general. In practice, the input signal power...
Ngày tải lên: 16/12/2013, 04:15
Tài liệu ISSUES IN THE INTEGRATION OF RESEARCH AND OPERATIONAL SATELLITE SYSTEMS FOR CLIMATE RESEARCH pdf
... Academy of Engineering in providing services to the government, the public, and the scientific and engineering communi- ties. The Council is administered jointly by both Academies and the Institute ... developing and maintaining a credible integrated climate observing system.” The “Post-2002” report (NRC, 1999b) determined that “ensuring continuity of operational data, evaluating the readiness ... of the candidate sensors. There have been final selections of the winning contractors in 1999 and 2000. The Ozone Mapping and Profiling Suite (OMPS) contractor was selected in early 1999. The...
Ngày tải lên: 17/02/2014, 07:20
Tài liệu Báo cáo khoa học: "Some Pragmatic Issues in the Planning of Definite and Indefinite Noun Phrases" potx
... action, the speaker and he=rer mutually believe that executing plan P will result in the hearer acquiring the required information, but, since only the hearer is actually executing the plan, the ... result in identification of the intended referent, and in the case of the S[ action, the plan is simply to do nothing, because the referent of the term is already mutually known. This is not the ... knowledge. Since there are two dimensions relevant to ,:haracteriz- ing concept activation actions, it is possible to define four 199 Some Pragmatic Issues in the Planning of Definite and Indefinite...
Ngày tải lên: 21/02/2014, 20:20
Water Issues in the Democratic Republic of the Congo: Challenges and Opportunities doc
... to the long-term sustainability of major infrastructure investments in the water sector. The immediate challenge on the ground is the non-application of basic zoning principles and land delineation ... Pygmies draw drinking water directly from natural springs in Ituri forest 47Water Issues in the Democratic Republic of the Congo Work in progress: construction of a retaining headwall in the village ... ($6.9 billion) over the period 2007-2008 was allotted to the water sector, placing it in sixth place in relation to other sectors. In terms of actual spending, the water sector, with 3 per...
Ngày tải lên: 06/03/2014, 16:20
Assessing the quality of investment advice in the retail banking sector docx
... Assessing the quality of investment advice in the retail banking sector A mystery shopping review February 2013 3 Assessing the quality of investment advice in the retail banking sector ... the customer at the beginning of their first meeting. The adviser took time to explain key information and check the customer understood it. This included the adviser making it clear that the ... other factors causing poor advice” 13 Assessing the quality of investment advice in the retail banking sector Section 2 – Key causes of poor advice Failing to give customers the correct information We...
Ngày tải lên: 16/03/2014, 17:20
Policy Issues in the Development of Personalized Medicine in Oncology doc
... Academy of Engineering in providing services to the government, the public, and the scientific and engineering communities. The Council is administered jointly by both Academies and the Institute ... that the FDA has agreed to include information about the lack of activity of anti-EGFR antibodies in the setting of KRAS mutations in the labels (i.e., while the indication remains broad, the ... engineers. It is autonomous in its administration and in the selection of its members, sharing with the National Academy of Sciences the responsibility for advising the federal government. The...
Ngày tải lên: 22/03/2014, 20:21
Episode 13 A wedding in the air docx
... a single man. HECTOR Oh. NICK Goodbye to drinking beer and watching football in bed. HECTOR Oh. NICK Goodbye to eating curry for breakfast. Episode 13 A Wedding in the Air 8 EUNICE MOUNTAIN Oh! What ... about the women? NICK The women? BRIDGET The women you rescue. You carry them out of the house that is on fire. NICK Oh yeah. BRIDGET They must love it! NICK Well they are acting. BRIDGET And do they ... behave badly? EXTRA – don’t miss it! Episode 13 A Wedding in the Air 17 Episode 13 Narrative ANNIE [Reading on screen advert] Pet Weddings, the wedding for you and your little friends. Oh, Hector,...
Ngày tải lên: 23/03/2014, 00:20
Policy Issues In The Development Of Personalized Medicine in Oncology docx
... Academy of Engineering in providing services to the government, the public, and the scientific and engineering communities. The Council is administered jointly by both Academies and the Institute ... that the FDA has agreed to include information about the lack of activity of anti-EGFR antibodies in the setting of KRAS mutations in the labels (i.e., while the indication remains broad, the ... (Oncotype DX, MammaPrint). 20 PERSONALIZED MEDICINE IN ONCOLOGY inaccuracies in how the test is performed in the laboratory. Emblematic of these issues are tests for HER2 amplification. The breast cancer...
Ngày tải lên: 23/03/2014, 11:20
Use of Alternative Fuels in Cement Manufacture: Analysis of Fuel Characteristics and Feasibility for Use in the Chinese Cement Sector pdf
... China 2007). Further investigation is necessary to determine the geographic location and dispersion of these sludges in order to assess the feasibility of using them in cement manufacturing. ... residues in China is paper production. China has the third largest paper industry in the world, and manufactures two-thirds of all non-wood papers (Hammett 2001). Within the waste hierarchy, the ... residue: injection in blast furnace." Waste Management 22(8): 841-851. 39 At present, there is at least one example of sewage sludge being used in cement manufacturing in China. In spring...
Ngày tải lên: 24/03/2014, 05:20
Báo cáo khoa học: "TENSE GENERATION IN AN INTELLIGENT TUTOR FOR FOREIGN LANGUAGE TEACHING: SOME ISSUES IN THE DESIGN OF THE VERB EXPERT" pot
... example, the kind of clause (main, coordinate, subordinate), whether the clause has a verb to be solved, the voice and form of the clause, the kind of event described by the clause, the time interval ... with the event described in the clause, etc. Some of the exercise descriptors must be manually coded and inserted in the exercise data base whereas the others (mainly concerning purely linguistic ... rules according to the results obtained through their use. The work presented here relates both to the research carried out in the fields of linguistics and philosophy, concerning theories of...
Ngày tải lên: 01/04/2014, 00:20
báo cáo sinh học:" Review of the utilization of HEEPF – competitive projects for educational enhancement in the Egyptian medical sector" potx
... provide recommendations for keeping the momentum of reform pursuit in the future. The methodology included obtaining statistics pertaining to the medical sector in Egypt as regards colleges, students, ... quality (QAAP), in which all colleges in this sector would eventu- ally participate The projects of the medical sector as well as those in other sectors were continuously monitored, integrated with each other ... strengthen- ing the cooperation and integration between industry and higher education institutions; e) developing Management Information Systems (MIS); and f) increasing the sources of information,...
Ngày tải lên: 18/06/2014, 17:20
báo cáo hóa học: " Work-related stress and bullying: gender differences and forensic medicine issues in the diagnostic procedure" pdf
... participated in its design and coordination, revised the final document. All authors read and approved the final manuscript. Competing interests The authors declare that they have no competing interests. Received: ... of bullying and work-related stress examined in the Occu- pational Medicine Unit of our Institute, and analyzes, from a forensic point of view, the critical issues still pre- sent in the diagnostic ... “Idon’t know.” The usefulness of information obtained throug h the MMPI-2 depends on the ability of the subject to understand instructions, carry out the required task, understand and interpret the content...
Ngày tải lên: 20/06/2014, 00:20
Báo cáo khoa học nông nghiệp " SMALL-MEDIUM ENTERPRISES IN THE LIVESTOCK FEED SECTOR IN VIETNAM ( VOLUME II)" ppt
Ngày tải lên: 21/06/2014, 04:20
Báo cáo khoa học nông nghiệp " SMALL-MEDIUM ENTERPRISES IN THE LIVESTOCK FEED SECTOR IN VIETNAM ( VOLUME I )" potx
Ngày tải lên: 21/06/2014, 04:20