... data for the last 50 years would be only a starting point The nature of modern warfare and modern casualty treatment options have changed the ratio and costof deaths and disabilities drastically ... presents a more economically accurate alternative approach that allocates total accrual charges across person-years The Principle and Practice of Accrual Funding The military retirement system is a ... current military personnel Instead, DoD pays an annual accrual charge into the trust funds These accrual charges are carefully calculated actuarial payments that represent the best estimates of the...
... search Notes in Mathematics, vol 404, Chapman & Hall/CRC, Florida, 1999 Z M Guo and J R L Webb, Large and small solutions ofa class of quasilinear elliptic eigenvalue problems, J Differential ... 27402, USA E-mail address: maya@uncg.edu R Shivaji: Department of Mathematics and Statistics, Mississippi State University, Mississippi State, MS 39762, USA E-mail address: shivaji@math.msstate.edu ... Oruganti and R Shivaji, Existence results for classes of p-Laplacian semipositone equations, submitted Maya Chhetri: Department of Mathematical Sciences, University of North Carolina at Greensboro,...
... mean curvature flow equation (2.4) with initial condition (2.5) A weak solution will be obtained by passing to limits of classical solutions of an approximate problem We will assume that for the ... supersolutions and solutions Theorem 2.2 Assume u is a weak solutionof (2.4) and Ψ : R → R is continuous Then v := Ψ (u ) is also a weak solutionof (2.4) The proofs of these theorems can be ... motivation for our definition of weak solution, and, particular, an explanation as to n why we assume η ≤1 in the definition will be found in Section III 2.2 Properties of weak solutions u k is a...
... have x Ž t g D Ž A , for all t G In particular, Ž0 g D Ž A Define the part AofA in D Ž A by ½ LEMMA w21x D Ž A s Ä x g D Ž A : Ax g D Ž A , A x s Ax for x g D Ž AA generates a ... functional differential equations in a Banach space The linear part is assumed to generate a compact C0-semigroup and the authors obtained several criteria on the existence ofa periodic solution ... Ezzinbi, Local existence and linearized stability for partial functional differential equations, Dynam Systems Appl Ž1998., 389᎐404 H Bouzahir and K Ezzinbi, Global attractor for a class of partial functional...
... float: Table: Some of aquatic plants popular Type Aquatic plant live sink Scientific name Hydrilla verticillata Myriophyllum spicatum Blyxa aubertii Eichhornia crassipes Aquatic plant Wolfia arrhiga ... protein 2.4 Biological treatment: 2.4.1 Use pond for treatment waste water: 2.4.2 Waste treatment by aquatic plant: Table: Part of aquatic plants in a system of treatment waste water Plant -Root or ... arrhiga live drift Pistia stratiotes Salvinia spp Typha spp Aquatic plant Scirpus spp live float Phragmites communis Jussiaea repens L 2.2 Some of aquatic plants in Mekong delta - Aquatic plant...
... exclusively to female humans and animals Eg: Lion (Noun): a large powerful animal of the cat family that hunts in group and lives in parts of Africa and southern Asia Lioness (Noun): a female lion ... morpheme may be defined as the minimal linguistics sign, a grammatical unit that is an arbitrary union ofa sound and a meaning and that cannot be further analyzed This definition may be too ... supplies for learners a large of vocabulary and grammar There are many reading texts and basing on these reading texts, learners have the chance to know about the culture, the people of many countries...
... Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data Arena, Mark V Why has the costof Navy ships risen? : a macroscopic examination of the trends in U.S Naval ship costs over the past several decades / Mark V Arena, ... In the past 50 years, annual cost escalation rates for amphibious ships, surface combatants, attack submarines, and nuclear aircraft carriers have ranged from to 11 percent (Table S.1) Although ... time, for example, the annual cost escalation rate for U.S fighter aircraft was about 10 percent Historical analyses of British Navy weapon systems also show cost escalation rates comparable to those...
... them, and resulting decreased procurement rates, the Air Force and the Navy asked RAND to examine the causes of military aircraft cost escalation From available data, we calculated cost escalation ... maritime aircraft National Aeronautics and Space Administration North Atlantic Treaty Organization Naval Air Systems Command Northrop Grumman Corporation Office of the Chief of Naval Operations Office of ... but are necessary to operate and maintain the fleet Data and Price Trends 11 Table 2.1 Average Annual Cost Escalation for Aircraft and Inflation Indices, 1974 to 2005 Aircraft Type Average Annual...
... managed per DBA Table shows these calculations for the respective databases Database Average Burdened DBA Salary Annual Training Cost per DBA Total Annual Cost per DBA Databases per DBA Total ... maintain, than Oracle Database Study participants reported that on average a Database Administrator (DBA) could manage over 30 Microsoft SQL Server databases, while Oracle Database implementations ... publicly available data from PayScale for the base salaries of Senior Database Administrators According to PayScale the average salary for Senior Oracle Certified Professional (OCP) DBAs is $88,000...
... like sharding and partitioning With Amazon DynamoDB, there are no direct acquisition costs of database hardware, and no indirect administration costs of managing and scaling your hardware environment ... significant costof owning and managing a scalable NoSQL database solution is related to operating and maintaining the software, along with the hardware and infrastructure needed to support it As ... software to maintain You experience significant cost savings from both the elimination of hardware and software costs and from the elimination of manual database administration efforts It handles...
... matrices of rows and 30 columns this is a rather simple task We decided to use the hierarchical clustering algorithm readily available in the MATLAB (MATrix LABoratory) programming language After ... purposes, we can not claim that our algorithm is capable of finding all the fine grained distinctions that are listed in manually created dictionaries such as the Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English ... dimensionality ofa rectangular or square matrix in an optimal way is singular value decomposition (SVD) As shown by Schütze (1997) by reducing the dimensionality a generalization effect can be achieved...
... costof capital Keywords Weighted Average Costof Capital, WACC, firm valuation, capital budgeting, equity costof capital JEL codes D61, G31, H43 ii A Note on the Weighted Average Costof Capital ... value it is necessary to know the WACC, but to calculate WACC, the firm value and the financing profile are needed That we obtain full advantage of the tax savings in the same year as taxes are ... The WACC calculations are made estimating the debt and equity participation in the total value of the firm for each period and calculating the contribution of each to the WACC after taxes As a first...
... number of rows to a vocabulary appropriate for evaluation purposes Since we are not aware of any standard vocabulary previously used in related work, we manually selected an ad hoc list of 50 ... sparseness can be minimized by reducing the dimensionality of the matrix An appropriate algebraic method that has the capability to reduce the dimensionality ofa rectangular matrix is Singular Value ... cluster The comparison of the two dendrograms indicates that the SVD was capable of making appropriate generalizations Also, when we look inside each cluster we can see that ambiguous words like...
... Find an optimal tour for Problem A and B with the following input data (the source a4 and the sink a1 1 for Problem A) : vertices altitude a1 a2 a3 a4 a5 a6 a7 a8 a9 a1 0 16 a1 1 11 a1 2 a1 3 15 a1 4 ... a1 5 a1 6 16 a1 7 11 We first renumber the vertices in increasing of altitudes We see that a4 ↔ 6, a1 1 ↔ 12, so we have b = and e = 12 vertices altitude renum a9 a2 a5 a1 2 a1 5 4 a4 a3 a6 a7 a1 a8 ... talk given at the Conference on Mathematics, Mechanics, and Informatics, Hanoi, 7/10/2006, on the occasion of 50th Anniversary of Department of Mathematics, Mechanics and Informatics, Vietnam...
... literature (Tanaka and Asia, 198 4a, 1984b; Jajuga, 1986; Tanaka, 1987; Tanaka and Watada, 1988; Tanaka et al 1989; Chen, 1988; Diamond, 1988) Later on, the advances in theory have been made with ... Table Plant no Database of all industrial wastewater treatment plants in Taiwan Location of wastewater treatment plant Total Levelg Treatment process Year C.C.I.f Normalized total Operation of ... Industrial CC a0 Â Qa1EXP (a2 Â CS a3 Â AS a4 Â RBC a5 OD a6 A2 /O) CC a0 Â Qa1EXP (a2 Â CS a3 Â AS a4 Â RBC a5 Â OD a6 A2 /O a7 Â ETU) CC a0 Â Qa1EXP (a2 Â CS a3 AS a4 Â RBC a5 ...
... Department of Labor, Bureau of Labor statistics, Historical Data, Table A- 12 21 U.s Department of Labor, Bureau of Labor statistics, The Employment Situation, Table A- 12 (november 2007 and march 2004) ... Department of Labor, Bureau of Labor statistics, The Employment Situation (march 2010) U.s Department of Labor, Bureau of Labor statistics, Regional and State Employment and Unemployment Summary ... florida, michigan, nevada, rhode island, and south Carolina) had a rate of at least 12 percent.14 | A YEAR OR MORE: The high CosTof Long-Term UnempLoymenT Pew Economic Policy Group: FISCAL ANALYSIS...
... Statistics for the total amount of experimental data are reported in Table A simulated annealing (SA) procedure was used starting from a randomly generated linear polypeptide chain The actual ... inammation-mediating proteases [16] More recently, a number of patents on the use of BBIs against various apparently unrelated diseases have appeared [1719] The molecular basis of these BBI activities ... bovine pancreas), a- chymotrypsin (TLCK-treated from bovine pancreas), BApNA and GPpNA were purchased from Sigma-Aldrich Solutions of BApNA and GPpNA were freshly prepared by dissolving suitable amounts...
... HN Ha Hb Asp1 Val2 Ala3 Ser4 Asp5 Ala6 Lys7 Ala8 Ala9 Ala10 Glu11 Leu12 Val13 Ala14 Ala15 Asn16 Ala17 Lys18 Ala19 Ala20 Ala21 Glu22 Leu23 Val24 Ala25 Ala26 Asn27 Ala28 Lys29 Ala30 Ala31 Ala32 ... Liepinsh et al (Eur J Biochem 269) Table Sequence alignment of TTTT and VVVV2KE TTTT VVVV2KE D D TASDAAAAAAL VASDAKAAAEL 13 TAANAKAAAEL VAANAKAAAEL hydrogen bonds involving the hydroxyl groups of the ... constants [26] The COSY and TOCSY cross-peaks were visually inspected to determine the relative magnitude of the JHa,Hb couplings of CbH2 methylene groups The ROESY 24 TAANAAAAAAA VAANAKAAAEA 35...
... individuals are asked to undertake conventional TTO valuations for a sample of health states The Measurement and Valuation of Health (MVH) group version of TTO [18] was used to allow comparison ... to speak) domains A full factorial design produced 36 health states for valuation The health states were stratified into mild, moderate and severe classifications A sample of health states defined ... ran the analysis to identify items for the valuation exercise, analysed the validation data and contributed to the writing of the manuscript JB designed and managed the valuation survey, analysed...
... validity and quality and internal consistency The Cronbach alpha was calculated as 0.89 Data collection The questionnaire was administered to the sampled caregivers by trained research assistants ... the paper Author Details 1Department of Statistics, University of Botswana, 4775 Notwane Road, Gaborone, Botswana and 2Department of Nursing Education, University of Botswana, 4775 Notwane Road, ... Programmatic Implications ofaCost Study of HomeBased Care Program in South Africa Horizons Research Update, Johannesburg; Population Council; 2005 30 Phaladze NA: The impact of Care giving on Caregivers:...