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... coal and are designed to meet the same level of energy service demand and socio-economic development projected by the local governments Energy service demand in 2020 is projected to increase by ... Revealed preference data is either observed or reported actual behavior, and stated preference data is observed or expressed in response to hypothetical scenarios A commonly used form of stated ... gasification is burned for heat in the industrial sector, and used to generate electricity and produce dimethyl ether (DME) as residential fuel and DME and methanol as transport fuels  Power generation:...

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... model employ a moving-average forecast rule, the presence of these agents inuences the nature of the rational forecasts employed by the remaining 70% of households.25 For the generalized interest ... mortgage banking, and real estate After peaking in 2006, real house prices have retraced to the downside while the level of real household debt has started to decline Real GDP experienced a sharp ... households in the model employ moving-average forecast rules The use of moving-average forecast rules by even a small subset of agents can have a large inuence on model dynamics because the presence...

Ngày tải lên: 06/03/2014, 08:20

... the levels We next provide some examples of questions relevant to each level whose answers require decision support data Corporate Level The corporate level determines, validates, and arbitrates ... the Air Force with independent analyses of policy alternatives affecting the development, employment, combat readiness, and support of current and future aerospace forces Research is performed ... Trained Personnel Requirements (TPR) process The corporate Air Force combines the requirements (current and projected) of all the users, MAJCOMs, Guard, reserve, and non–Air Force users (other services,...

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... statistics for these measures are presented in Table The TGR values represent the distance between the metafrontier and the national efficiency frontier for a given vector of inputs For the studied countries, ... sum of the values of the The degrees of freedom for the Chi-square distribution involved are 78, the difference between the number of parameters estimated under H1 and H The value of the LR statistic ... are producced by the Development Research Department of the African Development Bank The WPS disseminates the findings of work in progress, preliminary research results, and development experience...

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... limited evidence on the provision of the service, its effectiveness, and the role of the different stakeholders involved [13,14] Integrated services delivered through the healthcare system are identified ... quantitative research in the area of family planning and adolescent reproductive health Final items were generated after discussion among the researchers After consensus, the items were checked for ... identified as one of the most effective ways of delivering RH services [16] Health professional are responsible to promote and provide the sexual and reproductive health service to adolescents in health...

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... a higher incidence of severe disease has been reported in male children Moreover, the relative immaturity of the innate and adaptive immune system in children aged between one and five years ... scavenger receptor B2 (17) and P-selectin glycoprotein ligand-1 (18) Respectively, those receptors have been reported to be ubiquitously expressed or limited to leukocytes Whether the presence ... up-to-date knowledge and experiences on the clinical management of HFMD caused by EV71 The resulting document from the above two meetings has been reviewed by experts within and outside the Western Pacific...

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... life-threatening diseases will themselves have likely effects The effects may include increased migrations, further weakened and failed states, expanded ungoverned spaces, exacerbated underlying ... change can affect health both directly and indirectly (Fig 2.1), for example, it can result in temperature and extreme event related illness and death, extreme weather-related health effects, air-pollution ... and Resilience 1.3.3.1 Resilience Index We next addressed the expected resilience of the countries that we determined to be most significantly exposed to climate change We obtained resilience data...

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... the Secretariat, probably every six years, a comprehensive review of the member’s trade and trade-related policies and practices There are other notification requirements as well For example, ... detail every current and agreed future policy measure affecting trade in goods, foreign investment policy and regulations, the trade-related intellectual property regime, the trade-related services ... barriers are lowered But there will be fewer such people the earlier the reforms take place and the more they are phased in gradually, according to a clear schedule announced at the outset and...

Ngày tải lên: 09/07/2014, 08:19

... involved in the development trajectory: universities, venture businesses and the government REFERENCES Chandler, A (1977), The Visible Hand: The Managerial Revolution in American Business, Cambridge, ... ICT-related technologies, and their relation to knowledge management, focusing on technologies used in design Section assesses the impact and relevance of these new technologies for innovation and ... business competitiveness These theories emphasize the significance of knowledge, and place the practices that surround the use of knowledge as fundamental elements of firm constructs For example: Resource-based...

Ngày tải lên: 07/08/2014, 02:20

... knowledge 25 technologies to become integrated tools for knowledge management they need to be viewed with a strategic perspective Research needs to be informed by an understanding of the potential ... the software calculates the mechanical forces which adjacent elements exert on each one of these finite elements With knowledge of the material properties of the element, engineers can visualize ... push explains innovations of this nature We believe that the demand for these technologies derives from market needs to quicken the delivery of new products and services, to integrate the requirements...

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... Improvements in seismic imaging and advances in well engineering have made deepwater developments less expensive and less risky over time The economics of deepwater have also been demonstrated to ... colleagues afterwards and remembering it in connection with other films and books after the event? With the exception of Greenfield (1966, pp 8–9) few researchers in the services field have recognized ... a few years In fact, the first Texas offshore well was drilled in 1942, only five years prior to the Kerr-McGee development The move to deepwater has taken decades of investment, research and exploration...

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... used when the web pages were being redesigned Suppliers seem to have played a less important role Televerket helped develop switches for the telephone bank The first development of the CRM system ... security level On the other hand, it emerged that the Swedish bank had a better solution for the web pages and the presentation of the commercial offer and these were adopted by Merita (interviews with ... together with the smart card, Nordbanken presented a new improved Internet bank service The Head of the Telephone and Internet Bank at Nordbanken pointed out that the web pages were better designed...

Ngày tải lên: 07/08/2014, 02:20

... investments have been made Televerket was the state-owned telecommunication operator monopolist In 2004 Televerket had its name changed to TeliaSonera after the merger between Telia and Sonera ... they are dependent Coercive pressures take the form of enforced rules, standards or mandates Typical examples of coercive pressures include mandates or standards set by governmental agencies ... the hybrid electric vehicle (HEV) and the fuel cell vehicle (FCV) Of these alternatives the FCV is generally seen as the most likely candidate due to its energy e ciency, low emissions and use...

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... Out-cluster strategies of new biotechnology firms 165 experience exposed them to knowledge developed in centres of excellence and to a variety of environments and cultures and enabled the development ... also reflects differences in institutional context between Europe and the USA The issues of the ‘greenhouse e ect’ and ‘renewable energy’ are higher on the agenda in Europe (and Japan) than in the ... Senior Researcher BMW, Germany April 2001 Energy and Drive Train Research / Head Electric Systems Energy and Environment / Researcher Energy and Environment / Public Relations 150 Table A6.1...

Ngày tải lên: 07/08/2014, 02:20

... recurrent themes in the 180 LAB patents we use the 973 keywords that are represented by single circles in the map Proximity between keywords reflects intensity of co-occurrences Lines represent ... Public Research Organizations and calculated their share of the entire inventor team into an index referred to as ‘PRO-intensity’ Correlations were examined between the PRO-intensity index and the ... number of patents) Figures 8.6–8.8 give the ratio of observed over expected appearance of theme carriers for each year Only the time frame of 1990–2000 is considered, since Figure 8.2 revealed merely...

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... altered metabolic properties New enzymes are included because in their modern version they are based on extensive use of genetic engineering techniques In operational terms patents were screened ... research- intensive sectors where the underlying science is extremely dynamic, the technologies are strongly science-related and the development sometimes takes place at the interface between ... (universities, GRIs, Nestlé, Unilever, and other companies) were calculated for each patent These relative measures were correlated with keyword scores for each of the Table 8.7 Differences in keyword...

Ngày tải lên: 07/08/2014, 02:20

... culture and its e ect on the propensity to publish in peer-reviewed journals As state of art research has become more complex and expensive, and driven by tighter time schedules, research projects ... rather than granting them exclusive intellectual rights to the knowledge, results in the ‘knowledge market dilemma’, where researchers need to be e cient and productive in their research e orts ... licenses are more highly rewarded and generate greater in-house recognition and reputation Researchers may have gradually opted for other ‘easier’ publication outlets with less severe refereeing, such...

Ngày tải lên: 07/08/2014, 02:20

... core technologies have been completed before firms are involved by technology transfer from universities Recently, there has been a tendency to directly commercialize the scientific knowledge created ... movement, represented by the VLSI project, the US Department of Defense in 1980 launched the five year long VHSIC project which encouraged leading electronics companies to develop very high speed ... technology handbooks and textbooks The identification of trajectory elements often requires expert knowledge and the results were often confirmed by experts from the relevant disciplines The author...

Ngày tải lên: 07/08/2014, 02:20

... the neurochemical basis of the effects of sleep and wakefulness on both pharyngeal muscle tone and reflex responses, and especially the mechanisms that underlie the sleep-dependent loss of the ... pharyngeal muscle activity via their effects on motor neurone activity and reflex responses Identifying these neurotransmitters, which may be different between non-REM and REM sleep, and their corresponding ... strategies that is best suited to affect sleep-disordered breathing needs to be determined; this may be different for non-REM and REM sleep events, because the neurobiology of motor control is different...

Ngày tải lên: 12/08/2014, 18:20

... Your research papers will be: available free of charge to the entire biomedical community peer reviewed and published immediately upon acceptance cited in PubMed and archived on PubMed Central ... however, for reasons of personal security, their names could not be published We look forward to the day when this would no longer be the case References 10 11 The root cause of these problems ... indicates that Thailand's ongoing failure to tackle these issues comes at its own peril Competing interests The author(s) declare that they have no competing interests Acknowledgements There are an...

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