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... and the Russian were military officers (These stories were written in the 1960s, during the darkest days ofthe US-USSR Cold War That is not to say, however, that someday the interests ofthe ... and they think they know what the inside of a jail looks like But what does the reader know ofthe ammonia seas of Titan, the largest moon ofthe planet Saturn? How can a reader visualize the ... “Please How many others are here? Everything seems so quiet.” “There are no others Only the three of us.” “But?y” “I am in charge ofthe security brigade I ordered the others of my command to...
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... Embassy ofthe Kingdom ofthe Netherlands; and the World Bank Implementation of School-Based Management in Indonesia In spite ofthe hundreds of millions of dollars spent to support implementation of ... Development; the Japan International Cooperation Agency; and the Embassy ofthe Kingdom ofthe Netherlands In spite of this high level of support and attention, little is known about the status of implementation ... when they did, they typically sought the approval of their district supervisor or other appropriate district staff One indicator ofthe reluctance of schools to make independent decisions was the...
... 20% ofthe votes in any one precinct, and thatthe “winner” won by a margin of v ofthe votes (where ≤ v ≤ 1), then the adversary would need to change a fraction f = 2.5v (3) b = 2.5vn (4) ofthe ... most ofthe sand grains are white, but a fraction f ofthe grains are black, you may only need to sample a handful ofthe sand to be confident of obtaining a black grain, no matter whether the ... 0.20) = 2.5v ofthe precincts, since each precinct corrupted changes the difference in vote count between the top two candidates by 40% ofthe vote count ofthat precinct.) If the apparent winner...
... over the others except for the case of analyzing tertiary wastewater treatment plants Although the LS method always has better performance in terms ofthe index of `sum of squared residual', the ... explore the feature of economy of scale, the expression of design ¯ow-rate with exponent is needed in the model The value indicates economy of scale if the exponent is 393 less than in these average ... identify the economy of scale easily and remove the effect of heteroscedasticity in the least squares regression analysis, the scatter plots of average construction cost were therefore prepared for...
... report documents the results ofthe first phase of a two-phase study conducted for the Office of Electricity Transmission and Distribution ofthe U.S Department of Energy (DOE) and the Pacific Northwest ... reserve margin of percent in 2025 Other assumptions arethe same as in the nominal scenario Real discount rate of percent in 2025 Other assumptions arethe same as in the nominal scenario The estimated ... depends on the severity ofthe outage or disturbance, the value ofthe electrical services forgone, the cost of interrupted production processes, the cost of alternative power sources and other means...
... logarithm ofthe published RR estimates as the entered means ofthe distribution and the standard errors of these RR estimates derived from the published 95% CIs (Table I) For each ofthe output ... possible risk The attributable fraction of disease burden in the population is determined by the prevalence of exposure to the risk factor in the population and the relative risk (RR) of disease ... maintain that these exposures can differ considerably because of different conversion technologies The theoretical minimum for this risk factor is no use of solid fuels for the production of household...
... intensities of these bands corresponded to the positive reactivity ofthe target protein and may therefore have been degradation productsofthe truncated protein The sensitivity ofthe anti-GST ... 365–385 ofthe hTF C-lobe The mAb F11 blocked binding of hTF to the TFR; this suggests the antibody epitope contains residues thatare located in the vicinity ofthe ligand–receptor interaction The ... protein and hTF bind to the same or closely overlapping sites [14] adds further support for the role ofthe helical domain ofthe TFR in binding to TF since most ofthe residues that bind to HFE reside...
... the value of time that a member ofthe household or volunteer caregiver spent taking care ofthe PLHIV; cost incurred in transport to and from the place of care giving and cost ofthe caregiver ... provided care for, at most, four years Services rendered to clients by caregivers The types of services the caregivers provided to the clients are shown in Figure The figure shows that 80% ofthe caregivers ... experienced while delivering care Other areas investigated were the quality of care provided and the facilities they were provided with for caring for the clients Answers to some ofthe questions were provided...
... performed on the behavior ofthe four criteria, with respect to the dynamic range ofthe amplitudes ofthe two sinusoids (Figure 6a) and to the whiteness ofthe noise (Figure 6b) S/N ratios of 10 dB ... range ∆λ2 The N largest eigenvalues are related to the harmonic signal component The value of ∆λ1 is mainly given by the frequency gap between the closest components The closer they are, the larger ... CASE OF A LINEAR PIECEWISE VARIATION OFTHE AUTOCORRELATION MATRIX EIGENVALUES The theoretical validity of this criterion will be demonstrated in the following, on the simplified case ofthe linear...
... cleanliness ofthe data Do not expect every entry to join on the first run ofthe management agent If a majority ofthe entries not join, reconsider your choice ofthe prime connector; the data ... manage the part ofthe directory stored on the server in their location Next, you must decide who will manage the data on those servers Initially, consider allowing the administrators ofthe connected ... and out ofthe metadirectory The Data Model Specifies: % The strategy for initially populating the metadirectory % The mode in which each management agent is run % The attribute flow rules The metadirectory...
... assume thatthe maximum values ofthe annual decay rates arethe double ofthe default values (and, consequently, the lifetimes were reduced to half ofthe default values) The minimum values ofthe ... result ofthe use of a smaller carbon fraction in paper (0.25) and ofthe inclusion of inherited emissions before 1961 by assuming an exponential growth ofthe consumption of wood products in that ... in the 1990–2000 period, not show the same increasing trend given by the stock-change approach (Fig 1) This is due to the fact that they depend not only on the change in the stocks of wood products...
... conrmed thatthe empirical estimators of CD converged to the true values of CD as the number of replicates increased 3.2 Application ofthe method The large size ofthe data set prevented estimating ... were included in the model The heritability was equal to 0.28 The limited size ofthe data set allowed the estimation ofthe true CD by inversion ofthe coefcient matrix ofthe mixed model equations ... populations of animals could be assessed by measuring the PEV [4,16] or CD [17,18] of contrast between their genetic merits In theory, PEV and CD are derived from the elements ofthe inverse ofthe coefcient...
... wide range of fields, who had expected thatthe number of genes to be a measure of organismal complexity Furthermore, the imprecision ofthe estimate raised questions about the validity of many ... but in the other primates, the DNA has disabling mutations that disrupt the reading frame By extrapolating their findings to the whole human genome, the authors estimate that 18 genes are likely ... than 300, there are several thousand genes in each set that not map cleanly onto the other, many of them representing genes of unknown function Our personal best guess for the total number of human...
... overestimated the TFR of women on ART, thereby overestimating the number of orphans averted through expanded access to ART Nevertheless, as shown in the case of South Africa, even when the TFR is ... conceived the study design, contributed to the demographic modeling methods, and wrote the first draft ofthe manuscript CA and MJ ran the demographic projection software and contributed to the first ... orphans were defined as children under the age of 17 who have lost either their mother or father to AIDS Dual orphans are children who have lost both parents to AIDS [23] HIV disease progression...
... bear weight, and at that time a further radiograph revealed failure ofthe TGN with fracture ofthe proximal end ofthe nail, nonunion ofthe fracture site and varus deformity ofthe proximal femur ... restoration ofthe medial calcar and fatigue loading ofthe DCS implant [2] It is therefore important to restore the medial column to prevent cyclical loading ofthe plate on the tension side ofthe ... nonunion and fracture ofthe proximal end ofthe TGN device The nonunion was revised with the removal ofthe broken TGN, application of a CBP, ipsilateral RIA autografting, and use of BMP-7 and HA...