... helped to draft the manuscript and participated in the data collection AJH, HN, and KH participated in the study design and data collection GS participated in the data collection TKK was the main designer ... designer of the study and helped draft the manuscript All authors read and approved the final manuscript Acknowledgements The authors thank the patients for participating in this study, the Norwegian ... candidate criteria The rationale behind this approach is derived from the hypothesis that the physician at the time of a disease-modifying anti-rheumatic drug (DMARD) prescription assumes the patient...
Ngày tải lên: 09/08/2014, 14:22
... during the first debate, "Big Bird" began trending on Twitter Early on, the TV network bought a "sponsored tweet" that turned up high on the list when people clicked on "Big Bird." Build and engage ... and engage your communit y Find out what people expect and want from your brand As an example, Steele said the Romney campaign posts behind -the- scenes campaign trail photos Show personalit y Have ... during the first debate," Steele explained "The Obama team was refuting Romney's statements in real time." Also, Steele pointed out, after Romney announced he would cut PBS's funding and mentioned...
Ngày tải lên: 07/01/2014, 15:28
AVAILABLE AND EMERGING TECHNOLOGIES FOR REDUCING GREENHOUSE GAS EMISSIONS FROM THE PULP AND PAPER MANUFACTURING INDUSTRY doc
... carbon (DOC) in the waste, the fraction of DOC dissimilated, the fraction by volume of CH4 in the landfill gas, the decay rate of the waste, and the years when the waste was disposed and the emissions ... compete with the lignin-degrading fungus The chips are then air-cooled, and the fungus and the nutrients are added The treated chips are placed in a pile for the next to weeks: climatic and seasonal ... kraft (and soda) pulping and chemical recovery process, biomass carbon from the wood is dissolved and either emitted as biomass CO2 from the recovery furnace or captured in Na2CO3 exiting in the...
Ngày tải lên: 18/03/2014, 02:20
progression of music from the 1940 s to the present
... Fever" introduced a new type of dancing and music The new form of disco hit the floors with "The Bee Gees" They kept the anger of original Rytheme and Blues and created very upbeat material Very ... living off of music, often luxurious life Along with the music progressing the American people have progressed The world of music continues to change and may never stop progressing until the world ... to hold your hand" They broke up in 1970 and all pursued solo careers or in their own band Many people requested that they have reunions, but those requests basically stopped with the death of...
Ngày tải lên: 21/03/2014, 22:49
ASSESSMENT OF THE BENEFITS OF EXTENDING THE TROPICAL RAINFALL MEASURING MISSION A PERSPECTIVE FROM THE RESEARCH AND OPERATIONS COMMUNITIES doc
... scientific and engineering research, dedicated to the furtherance of science and technology and to their use for the general welfare Upon the authority of the charter granted to it by the Congress ... August 2004 At the request of the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA), and with additional urging from others in the scientific and operational user community and the White House ... extend the lifetime of TRMM beyond the original anticipated maximum length of the mission thereby enhancing the value of the data from TRMM to science and operations The committee found the following:...
Ngày tải lên: 22/03/2014, 23:20
Interfacial Compatibility in Microelectronics : Moving Away from the Trial and Error Approach ppt
... Under thermal cycling, the solder interconnections experience strains and stresses due to the differences in CTE of the component packages and the PWBs In drop tests, on the other hand, strains and ... Sn along the crystal axis is about three times of that along the x and y axes, and the coefficient of thermal expansion along the z axis is two times that along the two other axes [10]) The anisotropy ... represents the plastic work done on the material, the width of the loop represents plastic strain range and the elastic strain range is given by the difference between the total strain and the plastic...
Ngày tải lên: 24/03/2014, 02:20
Control of Dioxins (and other Organochlorines) from the Pulp and Paper Industry under the Clean Water Act and Lead in Soil at Superfund Mining Sites: Two Case Studies in EPA''''s Use of Science potx
... Dioxin from Pulp and Paper and Lead in Soil at Mining Sites i Abstract This paper discusses EPA’s acquisition and use of science in addressing dioxins (and other organochlorines) from the pulp and ... toward the “high-profile” end of the distribution of EPA decisions Nevertheless, among the case studies, there is some variability in the political and economic stakes involved and in the level ... pollutant, the decisionmakers “knew a lot about it; they were sensitized and could mesh things together about dioxin other than what they just heard about in the context of pulp and paper.” The Proposal,...
Ngày tải lên: 24/03/2014, 05:20
Industry Consolidation and Price-Cost Margins --Evidence from the Pulp and Paper Industry ppt
... estimates from the random effects model and 2SLS estimation are similar to the OLS estimates, and the F-test cannot reject the hypothesis of no fixed effects and Hausman test cannot reject random ... Pulp and Paper, in 1998 over million tons were imported to the U.S., 87 percent of which came from Canada The rest of the imports came from Brazil, Chile, Finland, New Zealand, Portugal, Spain and ... banking, advertising, and gasoline and grocery retailers and cement (Weiss 1989, Schmalensee 1989, and Werden 1991, and Koller and Weiss 1989) and notwithstanding that there has been an active...
Ngày tải lên: 01/04/2014, 00:20
Báo cáo y học: "Estimation of stature from the foot and its segments in a sub-adult female population of North India" pps
... epiphyses of the first metatarsal (mt.m), the most prominent part of the inner side of the ball of the foot, and the joint of the anterior epiphyses of the fifth metatarsal (mt.l), the most prominent ... measurements The technical error within the measurements taken from each foot (left or right) and between each of these feet is described as the ‘S2 within foot’ and ‘S2 between feet” and the ratio of the ... majority of the individuals from these caste groups are engaged in agriculture, and animal husbandry Data collection and anthropometry The data for the present study included stature, length of the foot...
Ngày tải lên: 10/08/2014, 21:24
báo cáo khoa học: " How is Telemedicine perceived? A qualitative study of perspectives from the UK and India" pps
... litigation, the main advantages being saving time and money from the UK side, and generating revenues from the Indian side, and protectionism and lack of recognition being key barriers These are ... the findings of the literature review previously carried out by the authors [11] On the other hand, the participants disagreed on a number of issues For instance, most of the UK and some of the ... (Respondent #7) The response from the Indian stakeholders was mixed Whilst some believed there was great potential for telemedicine trade between the UK and India, others were of the opinion that the UK...
Ngày tải lên: 11/08/2014, 14:21
Báo cáo y học: " Identification of super-infected Aedes triseriatus mosquitoes collected as eggs from the field and partial characterization of the infecting La Crosse viruses" pot
... analysis of the NSs and NSm genes from SI+ and I+ mosquitoes The multiple functions of the NSs (S segment) and NSm (M segment) proteins in the viral life cycle make these proteins strong candidates ... However, also note that these two isolates collected from the same site in consecutive years are very similar to one another The other three SI+ isolates are paraphyletic and therefore not phylogenetically ... in a clade with all the LACV isolates from Wisconsin and Minnesota, whereas in the L segment analysis the isolate is in a clade with the isolates from NAT/Crawford, WI/2006 and/ 2007 This is likely...
Ngày tải lên: 12/08/2014, 04:20
Báo cáo khoa học: "Optimization of the Agar-gel Method for Isolation of Migrating Ascaris suum Larvae From the Liver and Lungs of Pigs" pptx
... optimize the method or to evaluate the impact of the factors that may influence the recovery Therefore, the aim of the present study was to optimize and standardize the agar-gel method for fast and ... 1% glucose, in the incubation saline and in the agar may increase the motility of the larvae and thereby increase the recovery The results did not, however, indicate any effect on the liver larvae, ... one hand facilitates the migration of larvae, while it on the other hand also must increase the number of larvae that become injuried, and which therefore may not be able to migrate in the gels...
Ngày tải lên: 12/08/2014, 15:20
Báo cáo y học: "Measuring cough severity: Perspectives from the literature and from patients with chronic cough" docx
... cough, and the episode, participants also discussed the frequency of their urges to cough, coughing, and coughing episodes For participants in these focus groups, the frequency of the urge, the ... frustration and worry about the implications of the intensity of their cough on their health Participants also discussed the ways in which their cough disrupted their work, causing them to regularly ... here, and then I cough like the devil I get-it sticks here, great big chunks of it will stick here-can't get it out And I cough, and cough, and cough, and then if you go to a restaurant and start...
Ngày tải lên: 13/08/2014, 08:20
Báo cáo y học: "Cost of acute renal replacement therapy in the intensive care unit: results from The Beginning and Ending Supportive Therapy for the Kidney (BEST Kidney) Study" pps
... the maximum cost of each domain for CRRT and the minimum cost for IRRT and the maximum cost of each domain for IRRT and minimum cost for CRRT The box represents the 1st and 3rd quartiles of the ... error bars represent the absolute range between the maximum nursing cost of CRRT and the minimum nursing cost of IRRT on the right, and between the maximum nursing cost of IRRT and minimum nursing ... cost of CRRT on the left The box represents the 1st and 3rd quartiles of the nursing-cost range The thick solid line represents the median difference in nursing costs for CRRT and IRRT across...
Ngày tải lên: 13/08/2014, 20:21
wehn et al (eds.) - rethinking valuation and pricing models; lessons learned from the crisis and future challenges (2013)
... estimated by the NN with the hint model over the first quarter of 2008 Clearly, the estimates follow the actual prices very closely and there are no major outbursts in the prices as well as in the MSPEt, ... information from the third quarter (and the second quarter) that is used for validation and not for the estimation of the NN with the hint model Also, the BS model is a pre-specified non-linearity and ... dotted line) and the actual data (gray, solid line) are plotted for 2008 First, the NN model with the hint is estimated using the data from the first three quarters of the year and, then, 2274 out-of-sample...
Ngày tải lên: 01/11/2014, 16:43
moloney - how to protect investors; lessons from the ec and the uk (2010)
... market issues from the Member States to the EC The reach of the EC over local and cross-border retail markets is also clear from the growing tendency of the Member States, notwithstanding the sensitivities ... of the European Parliament and of the Council as regards organisational requirements and operating the retail investor and the ec drawing on international experience and experience in the other ... of the European Union and so generally refers to the European Community, the EC and the EC Treaty At the time of writing, the Lisbon Treaty had not been ratified by all the Member States If the...
Ngày tải lên: 01/11/2014, 21:27
bài thảo luận tiếng anh borrowing money is an uneasy task for companies provide some procedures needed in getting money from the banks and credit funds
... some money in, or you can put some in - yourself, this will make the bank more likely to lend to you Go to lots of banks, not just the one you have your current account with Mọi người chọn phần...
Ngày tải lên: 19/05/2015, 15:20
Innovations, real options, risk and return, evidence from the pharmaceutical and biotechnology industries
... whether to abandon or continue development of the compound In other words, at the end of each development stage, the firm decides whether to exercise the option on a drug candidate, abandon the ... of the project reduces the future fixed payments and leads to an increase the value of the option The net result will be a decrease in the risk premium of the project The option valuation of the ... levels of expected cash flows from the project at different stages of the project The first row gives the value of the project and the second row gives the risk premium of the project (annualized expected...
Ngày tải lên: 30/09/2015, 16:34
IT project outsourcing risk management process model from the client and vendor perspective
... Vendor and client might have or represent different interests within projects Therefore depending on the role they play and the benefits they are intending to gain from the implementation of the ... client and vendor firms (Muluneh, 2009; Daniel, 2010) There were few studies in other contexts that investigate these facts from vendor and client perspective and the result was the client and vendor ... outsourcing, the organizations pass through the selection of the vendor and develop and strengthen clientvendor relationship and manage the relationship Later the consequence of outsourcing either success...
Ngày tải lên: 14/08/2017, 16:47
DSpace at VNU: A Fuzzy MCDM Approach for Green Supplier Selection from the Economic and Environmental Aspects
... 2 The fundamental idea of TOPSIS is that the chosen alternative should have the shortest Euclidian distance from the positiveideal solution and the farthest distance from the negativeideal ... solution The positive-ideal solution is a solution that maximizes the benefit criteria and minimizes the cost criteria, whereas the negative ideal solution maximizes the cost criteria and minimizes the ... TOPSIS and fuzzy AHP In the proposed approach, the fuzzy AHP is employed to determine the important weights of criteria under vague environment Then, the fuzzy TOPSIS is used to evaluate and rank the...
Ngày tải lên: 16/12/2017, 14:54