... Administration andNet Cost of Private Health Insurance 27 2.24 KENYA Program administration andnet cost of private health insurance (US $ mln): Kenya 1995 - 2005 Year Kenya % of Region % of Globe ... Administration andNet Cost of Private Health Insurance 2.6 18 BURKINA FASO Program administration andnet cost of private health insurance (US $ mln): Burkina Faso 1995 - 2005 Year Burkina Faso % of ... Administration andNet Cost of Private Health Insurance 38 2.46 SWAZILAND Program administration andnet cost of private health insurance (US $ mln): Swaziland 1995 - 2005 Year Swaziland % of Region...
... contamination [25] or the formationof reaction intermediates other than metHb and HbNO [26] In carp and rabbit there was practically equal formationof metHb and HbNO, and the sum of metHb and HbNO ... Addition of ATP at an [ATP] [Hb] ratio of ([ATP] [Hb4] = 20) increased the P50 of carp Hb to mmHg and the n value to 2.7, showing that ATP both lowered O2 afnity and increased cooperativity ... intermediate So2 values The reaction at intermediate So2 led to the production of a higher concentration of metHb than of HbNO (Fig 2BE), but the formationof NO and HbNO remained signicant, even at...
... indicate the ratio of dissociation of water and dissolution of TiO2 and this ratio is the key factor in governing the porosity of the ATO films, as we discuss later The protons in the form of H3O+ ... NH4F and wt% water as electrolyte, and working temperature of15 C TiO2 specimens were collected with different anodization times from 20 to 17 h in order to investigate the tube formationat ... images of (a) a cluster of ATO nanotubes and (b) a single nanotube, showing an O-ring pattern on the outer surface of the nanotubes (c) and (d) Schematic drawings of the O-ring formation in ATO...
... (110 cc), and three new large stock sizes produced Table I Initial morphological characteristics (mean and standard deviation) of the four white spruce and black spruce stock sizes at time of planting ... treatment and no vegetation treatment (Figs 5A and 5B) For each vegetation treatment, the 110 cc stock had a significantly lower diameter, height and volume index, as opposed to the larger stocks ... cc stock On site 1, no significant Vegetation × Stock size interactions were found for foliar N, P andK concentrations after five growing seasons (data not shown), indicating that vegetation...
... Molina R & Trappe J.M (1984) Ectomycorrhiza formation in eucalyptus The ultrastructure of compatible and incompatible mycorrhizal fungi and associated roots New PhytoL 96, 43-53 Massicotte H.B., ... al., 1988) Understanding recognition is therefore quite important for the controlled utilization of mycorrhizal symbionts in plantation man- agement not have any knowthe nature of the signal from ... tincto- rius isolated from beneath pine and eucalypts respectively on roots of Eucalyptus urophylla in vitro Mycorrhizal formation in model systems New Phytol in press Malajczuk N., Molina R &...
... study of NDMA formation potential and its removal in treated wastewater Chapter one and two illustrate concerns of NDMA in wastewater treatment, characterization oforganic precursors, and background ... taken 25 into consideration: presence of carbonate species, natural organic matter (NOM), reduced metal ions, and pH Carbonate species, in particular carbonate and bicarbonate react with OH∙ and ... water treatment, when organicandinorganic matter in water reacts with disinfectant Depending on disinfection process, DBPs include chlorinated and nonchlorinated DBPs Many DBPs are toxic and...
... management of extensive loss of femoral and/ or acetabular bone Mechanical complications and reconstruction strategies The exact rate of mechanical complications following hip spacer implantation remains ... constructs failed at significant lower loads (pins at 832 N and nails at 1275 N, respectively) To our knowledge, there are no clinical data available that have demonstrated that the insertion of a metallic ... This implantation technique also offers the advantage of a prevention of a spacer migration into the pelvis (Figure 4) beside a normal articulation and prevention of any spacer dislocation Hereby,...
... (PST) at the KNUST sewage treatment plant and its potential power production Feedstock analysis 2.1 Wastewater handling at KNUST Liquid waste generated at KNUST can be grouped into sullage and ... Abeeku Brew-Hammond is an Associate Professor at the Department of Mechanical Engineering, Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology (KNUST), Kumasi, Ghana He is the Acting Director of ... Engineering – Thermofluids and Energy Systems) and his BSc (Chemical Engineering) from the Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology (KNUST) in Kumasi, Ghana He is currently a lecturer at the Energy...
... effects of negotiated interactions (modifications and adjustments that happen in communicative interactions between native and non-native speakers (NS/ NNS) and also 17 between NNS/NNS) of Spanish and ... 18 2.2 TASK- BASED PLANNING AND TASK PERFORMANCE 19 2.2.1 Definition of a task and a frame work of task-based instruction 19 2.2.2 Classification of task-based planning ... Pre-task, Task Cycle and Language Focus Pre-task: introduces the class to the topic and the task activating topic-related words and phrases Task Cycle: offers learners the chance to use whatever...
... Chinese Department at MSA - Nature of group work - Relationship between group work and individual presentation Objectives of the study contribute more theory to the understandings of group discussion ... more accurately and better than those in unplanning groups in terms of tenses, subject-verb agreement and pronouncing morpheme-s in plurality? Methods of the study Qualitative : - Observation - ... performed better and more accurately than those in NP group in terms of EFVF and EFNF (in terms of tense, subject verb agreement and pronouncing morpheme-s in plurality ) Conclusions and Suggestions...
... conveyed (Wilkins, 1972, p.111) Rationale Aims of the study Scope of the study Methods of the study Design of the study Research questions: What is the present situation of teaching and learning ... vocabulary at Pre – Intermediate level at FLC-HPU? What is the main reasons of the difficulties in vocabulary teaching and learning at Pre – Intermediate level at FLC-HPU? Do games help learners at ... Pre-Intermediate level at FLC - HPU 2.1 Learners and learners’ need 2.2 Teachers and teaching methods 2.3 Material and material assessments Part two: Development Chapter three: Data collection, findings and...
... contamination of ground water and surface water, including Skiatook Lake, a 4,250-hectare reservoir that provides drinking water to the local communities and is a major recreational fishery At the ... showing the salinity of water and the relative concentrations of major cations and anions in a transect from the BA-02 well to well BE07, located in the littoral zone of Skiatook Lake at the OSPER ‘B’ ... Hostettler, F., Kharaka, Y .K. , and Godsy, E.M., "Environmental impacts of petroleum production: The fate of petroleum and other organics associated with produced water from the Osage-Skiatook petroleum...
... related the threshold times to cell concentration at incubation time of zero (C_0) The rate of survival was calculated as the number of CFUv of HN-like compoundtreated cells ⁄ number of CFUv of ... structure attractive for further consideration Potentiation of the antimicrobial activity of HN and related compounds by ATP Inflammation caused by infection or wounds triggers the stimulation of neutrophils, ... immobilization and killing of bacteria [12] Thus, the presence of antimicrobial proteins and peptides in NETs was proposed to ensure a high concentration of the antimicrobial compoundsat sites of...
... imaging: implications for facial rejuvenation and facial animation surgery Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery 98: 622–636 Kapagiannidis D, Kontonasaki E, Bikos P, Koidis P 2005 Teeth and gingival ... relation to gender and age Journal of Oral Rehabilitation 32: 830–837 Kokich V, Kiyak H, Shapiro P 1999 Comparing the perception of dentists and lay people to altered dental esthetics Journal of ... fact that lip elevation was the same for all ages (Table 5) In this investigation, a combination of perioral muscle activity and lower lip soft tissue atrophy was considered to play a key role...
... information about the production practices and costs of milk production This version targeted dairy operations in 24 states that accounted for more than 90 percent of national milk production and ... costs are for organic certification 25 Table Production costsa and returns of U.S conventional andorganic dairy operations, by region and size of operation, 2005 Type of dairy operation Item Conventional ... months of age Products and feeds that meet organic standards must be found andorganic feeds can be priced at more than double that of conventional feeds Also, the approach to management will likely...
... Regulations and Segregation of First- and SecondGeneration GM Products: Innovation Incentives and Welfare Effects In Just, R.E., Alston, J and Zilberman, D (eds.), The Economics of Regulation of ... contribution of the paper is to derive a model of differentiated food demand that is consistent with the stylized attribute of the problem at hand Specifically, we derive a demand system that admits ... maize and 1.4% and 3.2% for potatoes (to meet a 1% threshold level) Desquilbet and Bullock (2001) considered the segregation costs at the farm and handling stages to be 4% of the farm price and...
... SM and Neural Network, SM and Euclidean Distance, Image Averaging and Neural Network, and Image Averaging and Euclidean Distance Table 1: Errors rates for data from MNIST Table 2: Errors rates ... indicate that Image Averaging and Euclidean distance give more stable and smaller errors than the combination of Neural Network and SM, while the best performance is obtained using Neural Network ... Networks and Statistical Techniques in Marketing Research: A Conceptual Comparison (1994), Vol 12 Iss: 7, pp.30 – 38 [7] Cheng Liu Liu, “Handwritten Digit Recognition: Benchmarking of state -of- the-art...