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... communities we serve and where we live and work In 2008, we launched a Corporate Citizenship Initiative, a global effort to address the environmental, social, economic, and ethical challenges we ... “safe,” or of the ladder’s marketability, or that help us choose its color Since there are no equations for safety, marketability, color, or for many of the other issues in the ladder questions, we ... differently, with varying activities occurring within them We have worked very hard to clearly articulate our model of the design process in Chapter As we reviewed materials for this edition, we saw...

Ngày tải lên: 10/03/2016, 13:35

... although it is not without issues There is merit in considering increasing the proportion of EU support in order to mitigate some of the problems in terms of Member State affordability In terms ... measures in the 2003 CAP reform, the existence of support for private storage in other sectors does suggest that it would have had a role to play in the short-term The retroactivity period of the Regulation ... Methodology and analytical limitations 67 4.1.2 Evaluation criteria and indicators 68 4.1.3 Criteria 1: the Exceptional Measures were effective in restoring market stability...

Ngày tải lên: 17/03/2014, 10:20

... Discussion Wrong-site surgery is a potentially devastating situation for both the patient and surgeon It does however continue to be a concern particularly in orthopaedics, despite major initiatives ... errors, but the volume or reports gathered can provide important insights into the frequency and causes of errors, and offer opportunities to identify possible ameliorative responses [14] Reports ... errors [4] Clinical outcomes, morbidity and mortality are the product of both technical and nontechnical skill Indeed analysis of error and morbidity suggest that technical failures account for...

Ngày tải lên: 20/06/2014, 04:20

... Discussion Wrong-site surgery is a potentially devastating situation for both the patient and surgeon It does however continue to be a concern particularly in orthopaedics, despite major initiatives ... errors, but the volume or reports gathered can provide important insights into the frequency and causes of errors, and offer opportunities to identify possible ameliorative responses [14] Reports ... errors [4] Clinical outcomes, morbidity and mortality are the product of both technical and nontechnical skill Indeed analysis of error and morbidity suggest that technical failures account for...

Ngày tải lên: 20/06/2014, 07:20

... their local networks and instruct others 5.4 Publicity All opportunities were taken for local TV to record segments during the training courses and field activities, and these were aired during ... application of Eupatorium odoratum (a local weed species) for assessment of its capacity in reducing the impact of soil compaction (improving soil aeration and water infiltration rate), and addition of ... inorganic fertilisers or unbalanced nutrient addition To counteract this, on-site soil analyses for organic carbon, phosphorus and potassium are required Methodologies exist for undertaking these...

Ngày tải lên: 21/06/2014, 04:20

... Training courses for farmers were identified as the major method for improving soil management 009/06 VIE Final Report 2009 Attachment Is it a necessary to have a mobile laboratory which can be ... productive capacity Which soil properties are important to productivity and need to be appropriately managed? Porosity and permeability Erosion Soil texture Nutrient holding capacity (CEC) Hard-setting ... develop effective management solutions for farmers? A mobile laboratory is a necessity Mobile lab is not a necessity Participants (%) 93 The vast majority of participants considered that a mobile...

Ngày tải lên: 21/06/2014, 04:20

... soil fertility status This situation leads to overapplication of inorganic fertilisers or unbalanced nutrient addition To counteract this, on-site soil analyses for nitrate, phosphorus and potassium ... South East Regions These reports also provided site-specific management guidelines for sustainable production of focus crops on major soil groups within the regions It was clearly identified by ... major soil groups in these areas were documented In addition, the SCAMP manual has been translated into Vietnamese and is used as resource material at the workshops Project contents, methodology...

Ngày tải lên: 22/06/2014, 12:20

... Positions according to National Center for Biotechnology Information build 36.1 from the University of California, Santa Cruz genome browser dependent The samples were therefore analyzed either ... Institute, Cary, NC, USA), and P values for association with RA were calculated using χ2 tests for genotype frequencies The sample set was stratified for sex in the initial analysis, and for sex ... revealed that it is not located at any known transcription factor binding site or regulatory element; however, there is a conserved regulatory region (as predicted by the ESPERR regulatory potential...

Ngày tải lên: 09/08/2014, 10:21

... also ordered to rule out a factitious disorder, a conversion disorder or malingering The consulting psychiatrist reported that her symptoms were not due to a factitious or conversion disorder It ... all were all within the normal limits In addition, results of the following rheumatology laboratory tests were normal: sedimentation rate, C-reactive protein, and rheumatoid factor levels As for ... involuntary runs of motor units (continuous motor unit activity) were identified Through limb repositioning, her resting activity was studied, revealing absent fibrillations or positive waves EMG testing...

Ngày tải lên: 11/08/2014, 12:20

... 50 websites listed by each were reviewed; beyond the first 50 websites, quality declined rapidly Since most websites were listed by more than one search engine, only 63 websites were reviewed ... However, a number of items that did not reach the 80% endorsement rate in either panel had significantly differing rates of endorsement For example, consumers and carers were more likely to endorse ... interfering with their usual activities for weeks or more The first aider should encourage the person to seek professional help if they feel very upset or fearful for weeks or more The first...

Ngày tải lên: 11/08/2014, 16:22

... (mouth-to-mouth or mouth-to-nose) External hemorrhage control by compression Positioning for coma Positioning for shock Rescue pull without adding injury review Teaching the uninjured survivors Critical ... cardiopulmonary resuscitation Spending time on the victims in class was therefore a false economy because those in class or class were more likely to benefit from assistance with fewer resources research ... solely on serendipity In such cases, the work of sniffer dogs and structural engineers would be more important than medical technology The earthquake in Armenia, near its capital Yerevan, killed...

Ngày tải lên: 12/08/2014, 18:21

... hospitals worldwide where a larger number of patients was treated with this technology The inclusion and exclusion criteria for this study were chosen according to the indication criteria for ... Kristin Grabein and Jana Rief for their support in acquisition of patient data, Steffen Mitzner for his support as clinical expert and Jürgen Wasem for critical methodological discussions References ... gained were determined The study population consists of all adult patients admitted to the Rostock university hospital for internal medicine for at least seven days with an acute deterioration...

Ngày tải lên: 13/08/2014, 11:22

... ability to perform their most affected activity on a to scale, with being "can without limitation" Treatments consisted of 30 minute sessions, five times per week for four weeks followed by weekly ... weekly sessions for weeks The control group received TENS for 30 minutes daily for 20 days followed by weekly treatment for weeks Both groups were able to take anti-inflammatory and non-narcotic ... quoted on web sites was from peer reviewed scientific journals It was the original intent of the author to perform a traditional systematic review; that is to search the scientific literature,...

Ngày tải lên: 13/08/2014, 14:20

Ngày tải lên: 13/11/2014, 10:42

... accurate 15 It might be more suitable to be described as grafting or ion adsorption, because deposition-precipitation hints the forming of hydroxide or hydrated oxide for the deposition onto the ... impregnation, ion adsorption, depositionprecipitation and colloid-based methods In these methods the gold precursor is applied to the preformed support Among these methods, deposition-precipitation and ... saturation pressure of adsorbents at the temperature of adsorption, ν is the adsorbed gas quantity (for example, in volume units), and vm is the monolayer adsorbed gas quantity c is the BET constant,...

Ngày tải lên: 14/09/2015, 08:27

... support crystalline structure, Lepidocrocite (γ-FeO(OH)) > hematite (α- Fe2O3) > Magnetite (γ-Fe2O3) Also, more importantly, support with well crystallized structure is better than amorphous or ... Ferrihydrite is a metastable mineral It is known to be a precursor of more crystalline minerals like hematite and goethite Thus, ferrihydrite is less likely to be detected by XRD Lepidocrocite, also ... between the O valence states and the metal d states.29 From the SIMS results, it can be seen that after O2 dose more AuO- and AuO2- species were detected compared with that without O2-dose As for...

Ngày tải lên: 14/09/2015, 08:27

... surface by CO adsorption at room temperature: α sites and β sites were used to denote the more strongly bonding sites and more weakly bonding sites individually CO adsorption on α sites leads to ... catalysts with and without CO doses; and Au/TiO2 (NT) catalysts with and without CO+O2 doses Au/TiO2 (NT) position Area FWHM position Area FWHM Au4f 7/4 before 84.3 5180.2 (71%) 0.8 before 84.1 ... supports as compared to Co-Precipitation (CP) and Deposition-Precipitation (DP) Therefore, in Chapter 4, we will employ the same method for gold deposition but mainly focus on the TiO2 support,...

Ngày tải lên: 14/09/2015, 08:27

... with CuO, generating oxygen ion (OCu=O)- or peroxide species Cu+(O22-) with their IR peaks between 800 and 900 cm-1 CO can be weakly adsorbed at Cu+ or Cu0 sites (surface Cu ions with low coordination ... h-1 For both reactions, the reaction products were analyzed on-line using Shimadzu GC-2010 gas chromatography equipped with a thermal conductivity detector (TCD) The catalysts were evaluated for ... (modified Harricks model HV-DR2) The CuO or CuO-supported Au sample was loaded into the DRIFT cell with 1:1 weight ratio with KBr The spectra were acquired with a resolution of 4cm-1 typically averaging...

Ngày tải lên: 14/09/2015, 08:27

... catalyst support, on which the Au nanoparticles exhibit significantly improved catalytic activity for the CO oxidation at room temperature Surface area is found to be an important factor for catalysts’ ... showed that all the three CuO supports have the same crystalline structure Au/CuO(NP) catalyst with larger support surface area showed better catalytic activities Under the same reaction conditions, ... interaction with adsorbed CO, forming HCOO intermediates Higher concentration of OH groups was measured on Au/CuO(NP) with higher CO oxidation activity (than Au/CuO(CB)) O2 could be adsorbed with the...

Ngày tải lên: 14/09/2015, 08:27