Scaling Up Affordable Health Insurance
... protection against the cost of illness become viewed as central parts of the post-war social contract between the state and its citizens With the exception of Switzerland and the Netherlands, the European ... (the Republic of Yemen) , a large group of middle-income non-oil-producing countries of the Maghreb and Mashreq, and the high-income oil-producing countries of the Arabian Gulf The authors highlight ... Spending, 1995, 2000, 2008 Low-Income and IDA Countries, the Republic of Yemen and Djibouti Middle-Income Countries, Mashreq Countries Middle-Income Countries, Maghreb Countries 18 TABLES 2.1 2.2 2.3...
Ngày tải lên: 08/08/2015, 19:23
... (CO2), ammonia (NH3) and methane (CH4) into the atmosphere ♦ Most of the H2O vapor condensed to form the oceans ♦ As a result of three key processes (outlined on the next slide), the air ended up ... grew much warmer, thereby preventing freezing and accelerating surface “weathering” Except for Oxygen, almost all of the Earth’s atmosphere today Evolution of the Earth Process and Equation” its ... Multi-celled organisms appeared, and some of these evolved into soft-bodied worm-like animals with a variety of organs, and still later into the first hard-shelled creatures capable of leaving fossils ♦...
Ngày tải lên: 04/04/2013, 10:51
Evolution of VoIP Signaling Protocols
... with them to enhance the features of SIP servers so that they can have the functionality of a softswitch Such a softswitch may perform the functions of a call controller, MGC, and SS7 SG SIP and ... contains a description of the session to be established Since SIP allows the use of fast, (call) stateless proxies in the core of the network and (call) stateful proxies at the edge, SIP is significantly ... GKs in the core and full routing GKs on the edge, it is possible to achieve the same range of scalability in the H.323 domain as well The following variants of SIP have emerged during the past...
Ngày tải lên: 30/09/2013, 07:20
... Probe's ongoing analysis of bandwidth to the home and small office, and all of the associated terminal equipment, standards, and other issues surrounding the take off of residential multimedia, ... Moreover, the biggest problem with IPT, the quality of the voice, was seriously affected by the end user’s own ability to configure their system (the PC, the software settings, etc), and the reality ... understanding the finer points of codecs The market potential of phone-to-phone and PC-to-phone IPT drove the development of first generation of IPT gateways And service provider fear of lost...
Ngày tải lên: 20/12/2013, 17:15
Tài liệu Evolution of GSM and cdmaOne to 3G Systems pptx
... that used on the down-link On the up-link the DPDCH and the DPCCH are carried on the inphase and quadrature channels of the carrier, respectively At baseband, therefore, the DPDCH and DPCCH are ... state, the MS informs the network of the selected cell by means of an identifier included in the BSSGP header of the data packet from the MS The MS is able to send and receive PDP PDUs The network ... broadcast on the PBCCH 6.2.2.5 The GPRS MS classes There are three classes of MS as far as the GPRS is concerned and these are based on the ability of the MS to support the simultaneous use of packet-based...
Ngày tải lên: 23/12/2013, 17:15
Tài liệu The Object Oriented Evolution of PHP5 ppt
... manipulated by the script The script will pass the hashed value of the combination to itself as part of the web form that the user submits and then compare it to the hashed value of the user’s input ... Luckily, there are at least another couple of measures that you can take to counter the use of OCR programs The first consists of changing the “baseline” of the string outputted by the script If the ... This is the most easily handled type of information We can get it as they navigate, use it while we have them on the site, and then discard it when their session ends Unlike many other types of desirable...
Ngày tải lên: 17/01/2014, 18:20
Tài liệu THE HISTORICAL EVOLUTION OF ACCOUNTING IN CHINA: THE EFFECTS OF CULTURE docx
... 1500-1000 B.C.), the character of the system became more sophisticated As the result of the emperor’s divination, the number of animals and other rewards given to officials or offered to gods and ancestors, ... was extent of the slave system period The amount of land, number of slaves and other rewards continued to grant and describing the awards reflected the ruler’s power and definition of system’s ... emerged at the end of the Ming and the beginning of the Qing dynasties; and Tian (Heaven-Earth) He (Matching) Zhang (Bookkeeping System), which emerged in the middle of the eighteenth century The most...
Ngày tải lên: 17/02/2014, 10:20
Tài liệu Combat Pair - The Evolution of Air Force-Navy Integration in Strike Warfare ppt
... environment, on the northern flank of the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) and the associated defense of northern Norway, and on Murmansk and the Kola Peninsula of the Soviet Union the Air Force ... three-star commander of the Navy’s Second Fleet, such integration “is now a part of the culture” of U.S combat aircrews, regardless of whether the wings they wear on their uniforms are made of silver ... chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff (JCS), Admiral William Owens, “either ruled out by the context of the battle or were ineffective in the confined littoral arena and the environmental complexities of...
Ngày tải lên: 17/02/2014, 23:20
Tài liệu Báo cáo khoa học: An intermediate step in the evolution of ATPases – a hybrid F0–V0 rotor in a bacterial Na+ F1F0 ATP synthase pdf
... handedness, and two of the rings face in the opposite direction in the membrane to the other two, forming the same pattern as in the AFM surface representation of Fig 2A By comparison with the ... and that for the c2 ⁄ monomer was 8.3 ± 0.1 kDa Comparison of the spectra of the complete ring and the fragments revealed a stoichiometry for c1 : c2 ⁄ of : 9, leading to a mass of 93.4 kDa and ... for binding the ion and also for the rotational mechanism of the ring The c ring of I tartaricus has 11 negative charges that are equally distributed along the horizontal axis of the rotor [8]...
Ngày tải lên: 18/02/2014, 17:20
Tài liệu FINANCIAL ENGINEERING The Evolution of a Profession pptx
... notable at the end of 1998 was the creation of the financial behemoth, Citigroup, that challenged the separation of banking and insurance under the then-in-effect Glass-Steagall Act THE MASSIVE ... within the realm of job postings titled “Quantitative Analyst,” there is great variety in the types of analysis to be performed and in the nature of the employers Quantitative analysts, and therefore ... simply in demand for roles on the CDO structuring desk within global banks Rather, they are in demand across a broad spectrum of firms and in a large number of roles The requirement and demand for...
Ngày tải lên: 18/02/2014, 18:20
Tài liệu Báo cáo khoa học: Directed evolution of trimethoprim resistance inEscherichia coli doc
... F0, and F¥ are the observed florescence, the florescence of free enzyme and the florescence of the enzyme ligand complex, respectively; Lt, EL, and Et are the concentrations of total ligand, the ... Binding of the substrates is ordered, with the reaction proceeding by the binding of first NADPH then DHF, followed by the release of NADP +and binding of another NADPH molecule before the release of ... aspect of the activity of TMP, and inclusion of thymidine in the media Directed evolution in E coli allows bacterial growth regardless of the amount of TMP present This necessitated the use of the...
Ngày tải lên: 19/02/2014, 02:20
Tài liệu Báo cáo khoa học: Topology, tinkering and evolution of the human transcription factor network doc
... compares the studied network with randomized versions of it with the same size and degree distribution The so-called Z-score quantifies the difference between the studied network and an ensemble of randomized ... functions, and topological features retain functionality and phylogeny However, the nature of the connections between these factors needs to be understood at the level of the protein domain The global ... [47] and other related factors such as rox [48], mxi [47], miz-1 [49] TRRAP, GNC5, bin-1 [50] Group F contains 90% of the members of the nuclear receptor hormone superfamily of the HTFN (they...
Ngày tải lên: 19/02/2014, 07:20
Tài liệu Báo cáo khoa học: Molecular evolution of shark and other vertebrate DNases I pptx
... sequences of the purified enzymes, the mature forms of H japonicus and T scyllia DNases I were estimated to be composed of 262 and 263 residues, respectively Comparison of the primary structures of these ... species of the Osteichthye class, such as tilapia and eel [21] Taken together, these findings suggest that the formation of the disulfide bond between Cys101 and Cys104 may have been acquired during the ... constructed and their thermal stability was compared with that of the corresponding wild-types The insertion of a Thr residue into the human enzyme rendered it thermally labile, maybe due to the structural...
Ngày tải lên: 19/02/2014, 16:20
Tài liệu Constraining Hypotheses on the Evolution of Art and Aesthetic Appreciation* doc
... and Ardipithecus ramidus Given the fragmentary state of these remains, and the difficulties inherent in their comparison, there is much discussion as to the validity of their hominid status The ... and derived aspects of the organization of the human orbitofrontal cortex was also the result of Van Essen’s (2005) comparison with macaques The overall layout of the cortical areas is much the ... cytoarchitecture: the appearance of two novel cytoarchitectonic brain areas, and the clustering of a kind of neuron unique to great apes and humans THE PRODUCT OF GENES AND CULTURE The fact that structural and...
Ngày tải lên: 19/02/2014, 17:20
Tài liệu Báo cáo khoa học: cN-crystallin and the evolution of the bc-crystallin superfamily in vertebrates pdf
... which encodes the first two structural motifs, and hence the N-terminal domain of the protein, just as in the genes for cS and cA–F However, the second half of the gene has the structure of a b-crystallin ... different regions of the eye The expression of cN in the central regions of the lens, fiber cells that were laid down before birth, is consistent with the familiar pattern of expression of the principally ... crystallins, two of the zebrafish c-crystallins, zfcN1 and zfcN2, are members of the cN family These two proteins have N-terminal arms identical in length with those of mouse and iguana cN and they also...
Ngày tải lên: 19/02/2014, 17:20
Tài liệu Báo cáo khoa học: Complete subunit sequences, structure and evolution of the 6 · 6-mer hemocyanin from the common house centipede, Scutigera coleoptrata pptx
... SDS/PAGE and in 2D PAGE (Figs and 2; Table 1) The N-terminal amino acid sequences (see above) allow the assignment of the HcA clone to the major sequence of the upper hemocyanin band in the SDS/PAGE ... regions and the entire 3¢ untranslated regions The standard polyadenylation signals (AATAAA) and the poly(A)-tails of different lengths are present in each clone The open reading frames of the five ... comparison of the patterns of the SDS, native and 2D electrophoresis, we assign HcA and HcB to the a and b polypeptides (that could not be separated in [14]), respectively, HcC to the c subunit, and...
Ngày tải lên: 20/02/2014, 11:20
Tài liệu Báo cáo Y học: Evolution of the enzymes of the citric acid cycle and the glyoxylate cycle of higher plants pdf
... structure, and that some of the subunits of PDH, OGDH and OADH are related The functional and evolutionary relationships between the subunits of these enzymes are somewhat complicated In a nutshell, the ... (PDH) complex, the tricarboxylic acid cycle, and the glyoxylate cycle by examining the individual phylogenies of the 21 subunits comprising the 14 enzymes of these pathways as they occur in eukaryotes, ... number of substitutions, hence a long branch in the trees, and furthermore it will lead to the mutation of conserved motifs otherwise common to the sequence family to which the gene belonged at the...
Ngày tải lên: 22/02/2014, 04:20
Báo cáo "Evolution of holocene depositional environments in the coastal area from the Tien river to the Hau river mouths " pot
... gravelly sands are spread from 25 m water depth shallow sea They are a product of denudational and redepositional processes of the Flandrian transgression The boundary between these sediments and the ... zone of the Mekong delta consist of sedimentary types and 18 lithofacies, distributed from the land to the 25m water depth 2) Thickness of the Holocene deposits varies from 40 to 55 m, consist of ... front of river mouths Dinh An, Tran De, Ham Luong Where the coast is open, wave is active and sandy tidal flat facies will be formed, which composed of over 80% of sand and 20% of silty clay and...
Ngày tải lên: 05/03/2014, 16:20
THE RAPID EVOLUTION OF REPRODUCTIVE PROTEINS pptx
... member of the pair of sperm- and egg-surface proteins changes first, and the other member adapts to the change to maximize their interaction The above empirical data show the generality of the phenomenon ... (AP) lengthens by actin polymerization and becomes coated with the fusagenic AV protein, sp18 The tip of the AP fuses with the egg plasma membrane and the contractile protein network of the egg ... segment’, then fuses with the egg plasma membrane The cytoskeletal apparatus of the egg then draws the sperm into its cytoplasm There is no large change in the electric potential of the egg membrane...
Ngày tải lên: 05/03/2014, 17:20
Land, Trees, And Women - Evolution Of Land Tenure Institutions In Western Ghana And Sumatra ppt
... disputes involving widows and other vulnerable women as well as the land rights The land and property rights of women and orphans of women returning to their natal homes and those of orphans Chapter ... analysis of the livelihood challenges faced by women and orphans in the context of HIV and AIDS as well as community responses to the pandemic Chapter Five then pulls together the main findings of the ... premised on the fact that a married woman does not own or control the main means of production, namely land, and that any produce from the land therefore belongs to the ‘owner’ of the land, the man...
Ngày tải lên: 06/03/2014, 03:20