... of the Welfare 54 Appendix 2.3 Proof of Proposition 55 Appendix 2.4 Proof of Proposition 57 Appendix 2.5 Proof of Proposition 59 CHAPTER The Value of ... profitability of a proprietary software producer? Furthermore, what are the welfare implications? Another series of questions relate to the impact of open source software If the open source software ... open source and proprietary software Thus, the price and profit of the proprietary software vary correspondently I compare the maximum profit of the 17 proprietary software under different compatibility...
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... level of accuracy is on the order of log2 ηC (39) Proof We begin with the maximum possible range of values for λ∗ , which is [0, ηC] Because of Corollaries and 2, h with each iteration one end of ... proof of convergence of the algorithm One can find further details of the work reported here in [14] 1.1 Definitions and notation It is assumed that each cell in a network has a fixed number of ... the convergence of the computation, in all cases, to the desired value Theorem Assume the use of (11) for the calculation of the successive values of λh (k) For any initial value of λh (0), λ∗...
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Báo cáo sinh học: "Fast calculation of the quartet distance between trees of arbitrary degrees" potx
... the intersection sizes of all pairs of subtrees of T and T' which runs in time O(n + |V||V'|) and space O(|V||V'|) We will assume that the size of each subtree F of T and G of T', i.e |F| and |G|, ... running time of the algorithm is O(n + |V||V'|) and space usage is O(|V||V'|) Calculating the sizes of all subtree leaf sets All of the above algorithms make use of the sizes of the leaf sets of the ... subtree of T Note that the set of subtrees Fx ∪ F x, since one tree is the complement of the other, contains all subtrees of T and that | F x| = n - |Fx| By using dynamic programming the sizes of...
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Báo cáo y học: "Calculation of the normal range of extravascular lung water" doc
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Enhancing the protection of the welfare of animals in the malaysian legal system
... iii List of Publications iv Table of Contents: List of Chapters v Table of Contents: Detailed Headings vi List of Map and Tables xv List of Selected ... 1.2.2 The status of animals 1.2.3 Protection of the welfare of animals in Malaysia 1.2.4 Previous works on protection of the welfare of animals 1.3 Objectives of the research, ... have specifically designed statutes for the special purpose of either the protection of animals or providing for animal welfare The absence of a clear description of the welfare of animals in Malaysian...
Ngày tải lên: 28/11/2015, 14:02
Tài liệu Báo cáo " Study on Monte-Carlo calculation of peak efficiencies of the superpure Hp Ge detector (Gmx) in environmental gamma spectrometry with using MCNP4C2 " pptx
... Journal of Science, Mathematics - Physics 23 (2007) 9-14 101 Fig.1 The confguration of the HP Ge (GMX) detector Relating to the physical dimensions of the above detector the thickness of the dead ... difference Conclusion The problem of photon self-absorption in gamma spectrometry of environmental samples has no simple solution because of the attenuation of photons depending on many various ... the ratio of the peak counts to the number of photons emitted by the source and it will depend on the photon energy and the source-detector-geometry Application MCNP4C2 for calculation of peak...
Ngày tải lên: 13/02/2014, 04:20
The welfare state as a determinant of women’s health: support for women’s quality of life in Canada and four comparison nations pptx
... snapshots of the effects of increasing privatisation of health and home care on the quality of life of women in each section of Canada [75] It concluded that increasing privatisation of health ... every indicator of general quality of life and women’s quality of life as compared to the UK and the US Canada does not perform well in relation to the values on a number of indicators of Denmark ... that governmental support of these social determinants of health overlap with the quality of life themes presented by the Canadian Policy Research Networks The quality of political rights and general...
Ngày tải lên: 22/03/2014, 11:20
Economic Reform and the Political Economy of the German Welfare State doc
... the burden of German unification The main period of expansion of the German social insurance system was during the heyday of Modell Deutschland in the 1970s and early 1980s, the success of which ... federal grant of E13 billion to cover the extra costs of German unification In the 1990s, short-term consolidation of the social insurance budgets by means of federal subsidies was often financed ... calculated on the basis of the length of 180 GERMAN POLITICS their insurance record and the amount of contributions paid (calculated as a percentage of income, up to a cut-off point) In addition,...
Ngày tải lên: 23/03/2014, 20:20
the dynamics of social welfare policy sep 2003
... professional organization, the National Association of Social Workers (NASW), offers one answer In its Code of Ethics, NASW states, “A historic and defining feature of social work is the profession’s ... end, your knowledge of social welfare policy will become another essential instrument in your repertoire of helping skills Ultimately, regardless of what particular kind of social work you do, ... am pleased that her skillful analysis of complex policy issues could be part of this book In the process of writing this text, I regularly sought two kinds of feedback: one from students and another...
Ngày tải lên: 11/06/2014, 10:17
Báo cáo hóa học: " On calculation of eigenvalues and eigenfunctions of a Sturm-Liouville type problem with retarded argument which contains a spectral parameter in the boundary condition" pot
... λ > Şen and Bayramov Journal of Inequalities and Applications 2011, 2011:113 http://www.journalofinequalitiesandapplications.com/content/2011/1/113 Page of s Proof To prove this, it is enough ... w (π , λ) + λω(π , λ) = (13) By Theorem 1.1, the set of eigenvalues of boundary-value problem (1)-(5) coincides with the set of real roots of Equation 13 Let q1 = q2 = p2 p1 π /2 |q(τ )|dτ and ... the latter discussions of w2 (x, λ), it follows that w1 (x, λ) = identically on 0, π ∪ π 2,π But this contradicts (6), thus completing the proof Şen and Bayramov Journal of Inequalities and Applications...
Ngày tải lên: 20/06/2014, 22:20
Báo cáo hóa học: " Research Article Removing the Influence of Shimmer in the Calculation of Harmonics-To-Noise Ratios Using Ensemble-Averages in Voice Signals" docx
... evaluation of the influence of jitter (as well of other levels of noise and their combinations) in the performance of the PDA and HNRSr would require extensive tests and is out of the scope of this ... spite of using estimated values for the pulse amplitudes Both facts can be explained by the presence, in any pulse of the signal, of the decaying tails of previous pulses This summation of tails ... implementation of (28) was performed by setting a sampling frequency of 22050 Hz, a fundamental frequency of 150 Hz (yielding 147 samples per period), and M = 300, to produce an approximate of seconds of...
Ngày tải lên: 21/06/2014, 20:20
The Welfare of Animals Part 1 pot
... Professor of Animal Welfare, Centre for Animal Welfare and Ethics, School of Veterinary Science, University of Queensland, Australia Titles published in this series: Volume 1: The Welfare of ... and hence profitability, of the industry for the benefit of humans Animal welfare science, however, aims to improve an animal’s quality of life, which is an ambitious goal since we can often only ... animals Of increasing importance is the ethical management of breeding programmes, since genetic manipulation is more feasible, but there is less public tolerance of the deliberate breeding of animals...
Ngày tải lên: 05/08/2014, 13:20
The Welfare of Animals Part 2 pot
... B2 :::::::bn Bn Where W = welfare of an animal Gn = type of good experience gn = the number of Gn good experiences Bn = type of bad experience bn = the number of Bn bad experiences n = number ... hunt The men in the tribe had learned of the whereabouts of a herd of mammoths, they withdrew to an inner part of the caves, away from the distractions of the women and children They carried ... photographs of horses have the same effect on me as works of art (and of course a well-bred horse is to some extent the result of art) (Clark, 1977) The extent to which the Greeks valued the beauty of...
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The Welfare of Animals Part 3 docx
... indicator of welfare than an anthropomorphic assessment of the conditions of the animals An example of the difficulties of an anthropomorphic assessment of welfare is the early weaning of dairy ... of a commoner, or has broken the bone of a commoner, he shall pay one mina of silver If he has destroyed the eye of the noble’s slave or broken the bone of a noble’s slave, he shall pay one of ... lying on the banks of the river in the last stages of exhaustion, while a host of vultures were tearing the living flesh off its hind quarters It was too feeble to keep them off and could only...
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The Welfare of Animals Part 4 doc
... industrialisation of animal agriculture has dramatically reduced the price of animal products, but sometimes at the expense of the quality of life of the animals However, with man’s inherent love of aesthetics ... are profiting excessively from the trade Finally the lack of human care has been prominently exploited in the video footage of the handling of the animals in the recipient countries, some of which ... object of reverence both for their ferocious nature and displays of sexual activity The scale of their sacrifice may be a reflection of the Romans’ strong belief in the need for the support of the...
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The Welfare of Animals Part 5 potx
... proponents of this movement are likely to reduce the profitability of animal enterprises Effective animal business management, including the welfare of the animals, requires an understanding of, and ... commonly used form of ‘alternative or complementary treatment’ There is little evidence of its efficacy in animals, but there have been several meta-analyses2 of reports of the effects of intercessory ... results of meta-analyses of several tens of trials involving many humans, with a preliminary study involving just 22 primates, it should be noted that in all of the meta-analyses some of the included...
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The Welfare of Animals Part 6 docx
... of welfare provision In support of this concept, the great apes have been the subject of an attempt by a group of philosophers to afford them the legal status of humans, principally because of ... regulation of pain responses Surveys of Attitudes to Pain as a Component of Animal Welfare We have little direct evidence of the importance of pain in animal welfare, other than the extent of scientific ... form of trade off that happens all the time in human society, there has been a movement in the last century to diminish the responsibility of individuals to society The sacrifice of millions of...
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The Welfare of Animals Part 7 docx
... population of companion animals is predicted to expand rapidly because of strict control of the number of human offspring in families and the people’s growing wealth The official press agency of the ... probability of the treatment being effective, the expected lifespan of the animal, the cost of treatment, the Decision Making for the Treatment of Animals by Veterinarians 135 value of the animal, ... medicine Ownership of the new discipline should not be claimed by any branch of science, and the dedication of the early founders of this should be respected for the breadth of scientific disciplines...
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The Welfare of Animals Part ppsx
... reality of inadequate experimental design Refinement of techniques, one of the three R’s,1 was very poorly understood, with a variety of views as to what it meant Some members employed a scale of ... austerity At the final lifting of meat rations in 1954, prices escalated because of limited supply Most of the prisoners of war and land girls had left the land, and many of the demobbed men from the ... because of the shortage of other jobs These men were not trained in agriculture and were often reluctant to accept advice from labourers In times of such rapid change new farming methods often...
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The Welfare of Animals Part 9 pptx
... Science B.V Hudson, M 2007 Why the numbers of laboratory animal procedures conducted continue to rise? An analysis of the Home Office Statistics of Scientific Procedures on Living Animals: Great Britain ... Between-subject transfer of emotional information evokes specific pattern of amygdala activation Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America 103: 3858–3862 ... members of partnerships to work full-time, and many are choosing to so to acquire the high standard of living that modern technology offers This style of living does not easily allow the inclusion of...
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