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... considerations are the relevance of any of the sources of variability and uncertainty to the decision and the concordance of the units of the two components and of the distributions ß 2006 by Taylor ... distributions assigned to Ce and Cb are not (IAEA 1989; Hammonds et al 1994) Hence, the geometric mean of HQ is the antilog of the difference of the means of the logs of Ce and Cb, and the geometric variance ... including organization of the input data by type of evidence, the use of standard considerations to evaluate the evidence, and scoring systems Examples of structures for judgment for causal analysis and...

Ngày tải lên: 12/08/2014, 00:21

... Lucau-Danila A, Anderson K, Andre B, et al.: Functional profiling of the Saccharomyces cerevisiae genome Nature 2002, 418:387-391 Winzeler EA, Shoemaker DD, Astromoff A, Liang H, Anderson K, Andre B, ... indirect oxidative stress as a result of the depletion of glutathione The role of transcription factors Yap1 and Cad1 and the metalloid stress response Many of the central proteins in the significant ... transcription profiling of the arr1∆ and parent strains after arsenic treatment (Figure 2a,d and Additional data files 13 and 14), included large differences in expression as a whole and in particular...

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Ngày tải lên: 25/10/2012, 10:02

... projection pain and hemodynamic responses during spinal puncture Methods and Materials This randomized clinical trial was performed in Dr.Shariati Hospital of Tehran University of Medical Sciences ... mild pain, 2= moderate pain and 3= severe pain, and visual analog scale of 0–10, where 0=no pain and 10= worst imaginable pain Agrawal et al used both, 4-point scale and VAS, in which the first ... to the ethical guidelines of the 1989 Declaration of Helsinki Ethics Statement To evaluate the effect of valsalva maneuver on pain, first, we searched Medline, ISI, and other databases This intervention...

Ngày tải lên: 25/10/2012, 11:15

... total of 20 foods were chosen to represent familiar and unfamiliar foods of both plant and animal origin (see Table for food names) Along with familiar and unfamiliar ethnic foods, other types of ... standard deviation (11.4) from the mean 33.9, and the respective number of subjects in each subgroup was 188 (17.4%), 740 (68.3%), and 155 (14.3%) The familiarity of food stimuli at di€erent levels ... Meiselman, Dimensions of the meal The science, culture, business, and art of eating (pp 191±201) Maryland: Aspen Raudenbush, B., & Frank, R A (1999) Assessing food neophobia: the role of stimulus...

Ngày tải lên: 03/04/2013, 21:06

... Evaluation of rules defining collective and individual behavior of actors and their interactions is a part of this exercise Human security of local communities and social rehabilitation of affected ... resources”(ISDR 2004) In many parts of Asia a declaration of state of emergency signifies a state’s recognition of a disastrous event and often is based on loss of property and investments IFA indicates ... Reconstruction of Livelihoods of Disaster Victims Act On Protection of Population and Territories from Natural and Technological Emergencies On Emergencies and Rescue Service and on Status of Rescue...

Ngày tải lên: 22/10/2013, 10:15

... pragmatic features of CRs in English and Vietnamese? What are similarities and differences in the syntactic and pragmatic features of CRs in English and Vietnamese? 1.5 SIGNIFICANCE OF THE STUDY This ... Finally, Vietnamese learners of English should know the similarities and differences of CRs in English and Vietnamese to syntactic and pragmatic features of CRs in English and Vietnamese study English ... closer, establish and maintain the conversation, develop interpersonal relationship and process In the process of teaching and learning English, the pragmatic and discoursal use of responses to...

Ngày tải lên: 26/11/2013, 13:19

... Reading and Writing Microsoft Office Files 66 6.7 Exporting MS Office Files 66 6.8 Importing and Exporting MS Office Files with Linux .68 6.9 Using MS Office Documents with Star Office ... connectivity techniques: NFS, FTP, remote commands, secure shell, telnet, and more Provide reliable data exchange between Microsoft Office and StarOffice for Linux Provide high-performance cross-platform ... 5% of the desktop market Windows is also working to gain a foothold in the traditional strengths of the UNIX (and Linux) market: security, stability, and scalability Microsoft put billions of...

Ngày tải lên: 24/01/2014, 15:20

... definition of well-definedness on SDRSS the discourse is incoherent (and we have presupposition failure) The detailed analysis of (3) and (52) involve reasoning about the values of v and B But ... England Lascarides, A., A Copestake and E J Briscoe (1996) 'Ambiguity and Coherence', Journal of Semantics, vol.13.1, 41-65 Briscoe, E.J and A Copestake (1996) 'Controlling the application of ... M., B Boguraev and J Pustejovsky (1995) 'The acquisition and interpretation of complex nominals', Proceedings of the A A A I Spring Symposium on representation and acquisition of lexical knowledge,...

Ngày tải lên: 22/02/2014, 03:20

... measures, and model outputs Assumptions of homogeneity of variance and normality were tested with plots of the data and residuals For all analyses, α = 0.05 was used Results Effects of warming ... grandiflorum and E speciosus showed significant contributions of root and leaf TNC to reproduction (t = 3.8, P = 0.003 and t = 3.1, P = 0.007, respectively) For E grandiflorum, approx 3.7% of leaf and root ... analyses, and K Etcheverry and G Lyon for assistance with sample and data preparation This work was supported by a fellowship to SCL from the University of California Of ce of the President and NSF...

Ngày tải lên: 05/03/2014, 17:20

... critically important to the advancement of the understanding of life, and that recovering something of what nine­ more whole rather than a sum of disconnected and often discordant parts (such as molecular ... understanding development, inheri­ tance, and evolution by way of analyzing the processes that take place throughout an evolutionary hierarchy of levels of productive organization The core idea of ... The sciences of complexity and "origins of order.1! In J Mitten­ thaI and A Baskin, eds., Principles of Organization in Organisms, 309-39 Reading, MA: Addison-Wesley Theory of Reason and Evolutionary...

Ngày tải lên: 05/03/2014, 23:20

... advertising allowances and other merchandising payments and services, which seek to define the applicability of Sections 2(d) and 2(e) of Robinson-Patman to advertising and merchandising.10 The new ... reputation and future business prospects The prevalence of contracting has direct implications for retailers’ use of slotting fees and other forms of off-invoice charges Negotiating, writing, and abiding ... in excess of profits, a difficult charge to prove In addition, intent and probability of success must also be demonstrated Probability of success is defined most often by the level of concentration...

Ngày tải lên: 07/03/2014, 13:20

Ngày tải lên: 12/03/2014, 07:20

... the land) versus land use requirements (demand side, product) The key of this method is to divide the landscape of the studied area into specific types of land units called land systems The land ... spatial data standards The standardization of the spatial data for GIS applications certainly needs georeference standards Georeference standards of land system adopt the ellipsoid of the World ... irrigation and drainage conditions For example, the soil type of the land unit No 25 is sand dunes and sand at river banks or coastal zone Mechanic composition of the top soil is disjointed sand Terrain...

Ngày tải lên: 14/03/2014, 15:20

... characteristics: The Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System, the Office of the Comptroller of the Currency, the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation, and the Office of Thrift Supervision ... scope of regulation necessary for ratings agencies, and review the usefulness of stress testing and “fair value” accounting methods This article consists of two parts: an outline of events and ... spread most often used by central banks to describe the increase in the cost of interbank lending, reflecting credit and liquidity risk See Arain and Song (2008, p 2) and Bank of England (2008,...

Ngày tải lên: 15/03/2014, 07:20

... On the other hand, a positive association can be interpreted as evidence of soft budget constraints on the part of the banks in the sense of Berglof and Roland (1998) The rest of the variables ... may be an indication of the incidence of soft budget constraints on the part of the banks in the sense of Berglof and Roland (1998).4 We have also included in the credit demand equation the variable ... responses of the supply and demand side can also be interpreted in terms of asymmetric outcomes of the policy reforms initiated in 1997 in the banking and enterprise sectors References Berglof, E and...

Ngày tải lên: 15/03/2014, 07:20

... km2 of forest (an area the size of Cyprus) per year burns, and the size, number and intensity of wildfires is increasing We face a true crescendo of destruction of our own making Disturbance and ... distribution of the mass of all that water across the land and these shifts can trigger volcanic activity and underwater landslides Both the natural and human-mediated damage to the land must be ... ecosystem An understanding of how this happens and what limits the degree and rate of recovery is the foundation of restoration ecology Restoration ecologists seek to redress both natural and anthropogenic...

Ngày tải lên: 16/03/2014, 04:20

... development of action plans and in the design and delivery of services Partnerships at global, regional and country levels have a fundamental responsibility to support and strengthen the capacity of national ... care (mother and newborn) • Prevention and management of sexually transmitted infections and HIV, including mother-to-child transmission of HIV and syphilis • Prevention and management of gender-based ... timely and effective response and recovery services The leadership role of national and local authorities, communities and beneficiaries in ensuring access to SRH services should be recognized and...

Ngày tải lên: 28/03/2014, 16:20

... Committee, the Bundesbank and the Journal of Banking and Finance Bank of England, Threadneedle Street, London, EC2R 8AH, UK; e-mail: piergiorgio.alessandri@bankofengland.co.uk Corresponding author: ... impact of interest and credit risk on liabilities or off-balance sheet items Barnhill and Maxwell (2002) and Barnhill et al (2001) measure credit and market risk for the whole portfolio of banks ... statistics for the profit and loss distributions of these tests As more than 75% of the bank’s deposits are corporate and household deposits with a time to repricing of one year of less, the rents...

Ngày tải lên: 29/03/2014, 13:20

... understanding of natural processes, of human behaviors and decisions in the natural world, and of ways to use new technology effectively to observe the environment and sustain the diversity of life ... Understanding of the underpinnings of science • Understanding scales of change • Understanding how human actions affect the environment • Helping students to become more informed citizens and decision-makers ... journalism professor or even acting as guest professors in this type of course The Society of Environmental Journalists and the National Association of Science Writers have panels and lists of experts...

Ngày tải lên: 29/03/2014, 13:20