... refraining from action, as a result of the material in this publication can be accepted by the editor, the publisher or any of the authors The views expressed in this book are those of the authors ... the blocks 156 152 4.2 European patents: differencesfromtheUnitedStates Timothy J May and Beth Z Shaw, Finnegan Henderson Introduction 163; Filing and prosecuting patent applications in the ... on many fruitful collaborations between the member states, working together to improve the innovation culture of Europe In parallel, the member states of the European Union have achieved great...
... the second digit in theUnitedStates (0.0079) Overall, the degree of deviation in Taiwan is larger than the degree of deviation in theUnitedStatesThe results reject the hypothesis H1, indicating ... mechanisms Therefore, the results not reject the hypothesis H2b Nevertheless, even if this is the case, the effect of the improvement of corporate governance cannot be ignored The Cramer's V of the ... of the samples in Taiwan was larger than that of the samples in theUnitedStates For example, the Cramer's V of the second digit in Taiwan was 0.0179, which is larger than the Cramer's V of the...
... to produce ethanol from corn in theUnited States, the price of ethanol is determined by the price of gasoline and other factors, rather than the cost of producing ethanol from corn With recent ... feedstocks in theUnited States, as well as sugarcane in Brazil and sugar beets in the European Union (EU) In theUnited States, corn is the least cost feedstock available for ethanol production The cost ... 32 The Economic Feasibility Of Ethanol Production From Sugar In TheUnitedStates Introduction The Central American—Dominican Republic UnitedStates Free Trade Agreement (CAFTADR) focused the...
... to produce ethanol from corn in theUnited States, the price of ethanol is determined by the price of gasoline and other factors, rather than the cost of producing ethanol from corn With recent ... feedstocks in theUnited States, as well as sugarcane in Brazil and sugar beets in the European Union (EU) In theUnited States, corn is the least cost feedstock available for ethanol production The cost ... 32 The Economic Feasibility Of Ethanol Production From Sugar In TheUnitedStates Introduction The Central American—Dominican Republic UnitedStates Free Trade Agreement (CAFTADR) focused the...
... parental background and SES These measures are (a) whether the mother or father of the respondent was dead at the time of the collection of the retrospective data, and if so their age of death which ... ‘explanation’ of the excess disease in the US arises fromthe inclusion in the model of the indicators of prevalence of the specific childhood illnesses themselves as opposed to the interactions of these ... actually higher in theUnitedStates than in England In some cases, the prevalence rates are rather close (epilepsy, migraines, and asthma), but in most cases the rates in theUnitedStates are much...
... in theUnitedStates have been motivated primarily by the need to protect human health However, studies conducted in the early 1980s in theUnitedStates and during the 1990s in Europe and other ... O3 must diffuse in the gas phase fromthe atmosphere surrounding the leaves, through the stomata, become dissolved in water coating the cell walls, and then enter the cells of the leaf (1) Uptake ... conducted in the past decade on yield response to O3 exposure as an extension of the review conducted by Heck (22) 3.1 UnitedStates In theUnited States, the Clean Air Act mandates the protection...
... they provided for persons of their own race, were the Quakers Believing in the brotherhood of man and the fatherhood of God, they taught the colored people to read their own "instruction in the ... embrace the advantages thus presented to them either by subscription to the funds of the Society or by sending their children to the school Since the improvement of the intellect and the morals of the ... effective than the efforts of other sects in the enlightenment of the Negroes was the work of the Quakers, despite the fact that they were not free to extend their operations throughout the colonies...
... equivalents) in the USA [24-30] The IPUMS data for the 1980, 1990, and 2000 are fromthe 'long form' samples of the U.S decennial Census in those years The IPUMS data for 2005 and 2007 are fromthe annual ... assessed the degree of variation in the PA workforce distribution across thestates Furthermore, we examined the ratio of PAs to population by state The analysis was supplemented with data on the ... display the absolute changes and the percentage changes in the rates of PAs per 100 000 persons across thestatesThe ratios of PAs to population had increased since 1980 in all but three states...
... assess mean score differences between groups PCS and MCS scores for the REVEAL study were calculated fromthe SF36, whereas the PCS and MCS scores for the MEPS were calculated fromthe SF-12 Results ... in the REVEAL study were recruited fromtheUnitedStates and Canada It is possible that our findings may be affected by differences in normative scores across different countries Second, the ... improved the physical and psychological health of these patients to levels comparable with or greater than the physical and psychological health of the general population in theUnitedStates List...
... [21] The scores fromthe dimensions are summed to calculate the Global Fatigue Index (GFI), which ranges from (indicating no fatigue) to 50 (indicating severe fatigue) The MOS-SS includes the ... using the FIQ Physical Impairment Score which ranges from to 10 The FIQ total score reflects all ten areas and ranges from to 100 Higher scale scores indicate a greater impact of the disease The ... scores range from to 100 The sleep quantity scale is the mean number of hours of sleep per night reported over the past week Higher scores represent more of the concept being measured The HADS is...
... their time Our estimate of the increase in risk is therefore subject to considera ble uncertainty However, even in the most conser vative scenario (with the use of the time estimates fromthe ... than that of the Cambridge Fire Department and the other representing a lower level of emergency activity These estimates were derived with the use of data for the population served, the numbers ... for these ratios were calculated on the basis of the multinomial distribution Odds ratios for death from coronary heart disease during specific duties were calculated fromthe ratios of the observed...
... to enter the kingdom of heaven." Even if the needle were the small casement at the gates, the words betoken serious difficulty for the rich It will be but a step for the theologian fromthe doctrine ... individualism, the answer therefore is: The race has tried that All progress from that barbarous day to the present time has resulted from its displacement Not evil, but good, has come to the race fromthe ... during their lives Under the first and second modes most of the wealth of the world that has reached the few has hitherto been applied Let us in turn consider each of these modes The first is the...
... Agency/ Carbon Dioxide Emissions fromthe Generation of Electric Power in theUnitedStates Carbon Dioxide Emissions fromthe Generation of Electric Power in theUnitedStates between projected and ... Emissions fromthe Generation of Electric Power in theUnitedStates In theUnited States, about 40.5 percent6 of anthropogenic CO2 emissions was attributed to the combustion of fossil fuels for the ... estimates the CO2 emissions attributable to the generation of electricity in theUnitedStatesThe data on CO2 emissions and the generation of electricity were collected and prepared by the Energy...
... communities and for the rural majority Nevertheless, the available data allows us to piece together a picture of the extent of antimicrobial resistance in the most populous country in the world To examine ... countries that stand relatively distant from these two Accordingly, we compare the experiences of the U.S and China with new data on the resistance experience of Kuwait The first section gives brief background ... is 28% UnitedStates Fairly comprehensive data on resistance trends in the U.S come fromthe National Nosocomial Infections Surveillance System (NNIS) for hospital-based resistance, and the U.S...
... Journal 2009, 6:191 The NDV can cause clinical signs varying from subclinical infections to 100% mortality, depending on the susceptibility of the host and the virulence of the virus The virus is categorized ... of the 43 isolates clustered with NDV sequences of genotype I/Ia suggesting them to belong to genotype I (Figure 1) Four of the five isolates clustered together with genotype I NDVs fromthe ... 2004, EF564901] EU547755] The sequence homology among these four isolates was 99.6% to 100% at the nucleotide level The remaining one isolate was in a different group from these four isolates and...
... substantially underestimate the contribution of the syndrome to deaths in theUnitedStates Available online http://ccforum.com/content/13/1/R28 Figure category in theUnited States, 1999 to 2005 Age-specific ... bridged-race population estimates fromthe National Center for Health Statistics [31,32] Age-adjusted rates were standardised to the population of theUnitedStates in 2000 Statistical comparison ... sepsisassociated mortality rate in theUnitedStates was 50.49 deaths per 100,000 persons (95% CI = 50.39 to 50.59) From 1999 to 2005 the crude annual mortality rate increased from 50.14 (95% CI = 49.87...
... inflation, to judge by the massive growth of the money supply in theUnited States, Europe and Asia, and the stubbornness of central bankers who insist that high unemployment demands the creation of ... more money The last time the world went through a similar period was the 1970s The term that defined the era was "stagflation." Thus because the 1970s stagflation did great harm to the U.S economy ... or the “flation” in the term By the time of 1980, when U.S President Jimmy Carter was running for re-election against Ronald Reagan, the misery index (the sum of the unemployment rate and the...
... along the rows of the table, the columns of the table, or even the diagonal Indeed, in the Swedish data the monotonicity extends across the property boundary as well In theUnitedStatesthe results ... in theUnitedStates than in either other country, and credentials a more central role in Japan Overall, Sweden and theUnitedStates are much more like each other than they are like Japan The ... Hypothesis 3, although they remain less consistent than those of Sweden and theUnitedStates Overall, then, these results for the three countries suggest that the patterns of variation across the...
... direct interest in the Southern Ocean Likewise, in the north, there are six other Arctic states plus numerous other states which have interests in the region Nevertheless, the chapter provides ... year-round sailings between Alaska and the east coast of theUnitedStatesThe voyage was only the eleventh complete transit of the Northwest Passage, and the first since the end of World War II by a non-government ... important for theUnitedStates were not occurring in the polar north.30 Rather, it suggests that, relative to other parts of the country and the world, US policy interests toward the Arctic received...