from mercury to neptune — and beyond

... adjusts itself to one extra disk as follows The top 2k − rows remain packed hexagonally, and the bottom row ripples to accommodate 2k + disks instead of 2k In this ripple of the bottom row, the ... the next value of k we add two triangles ∆(2) on the bottom and three more layers of disks to enlarge the top triangle to become a ∆(8) (and, in general, this procedure is repeated for larger ... our c- and d-packings, we will not be astounded We provide these mainly for comparison purposes, and to serve as benchmarks for other packing algorithms It would also not be surprising to discover...

Ngày tải lên: 07/08/2014, 06:20

... opposed to DSS, GDSS, EIS and expert systems, etc.) and the claims that they can capture, store, and transfer knowledge within organizational contexts To better understand the limitations and capabilities ... the development, implementation and use of systems to informate organizational actors and automate business processes (Checkland and Howell, 1998) However, Boland et al (1994) argue that information ... reluctant to enter what they perceived as their most important work-related personal resource—their experiential knowledge and skills as foresters—into a system for all to see and use—thus possibly...

Ngày tải lên: 20/12/2013, 19:15

... for each of those intervals, and binned them into activity regions of 0.0 to 0.1, 0.1 to 0.2, 0.2 to 0.3, 0.3 to 0.4, 0.4 to 0.5, 0.5 to 0.6, and 0.6 to 0.7 VAI The maximum VAI value for all 10-s ... sequences from films in our sample, and a few from beyond it Twenty-two sequences of film from 14 different movies are listed in Table 1, with their lengths, VAIs, and ASLs Also listed is the point from ... sequence) and one from Cloverfield’s bridge sequence And finally, among the 3-s and 1-s fragments there are a number that fall above the line, both from the three high-intensity films and from the...

Ngày tải lên: 19/02/2014, 14:20

... Basquiat and mutual friends and acquaintances The film creates a past as a touching tribute, but never strays too far from Schnabel’s own experience Basquiat allows him to retell some of the C.V.J story ... agents, brown, green, red, white and black mix together to form an undulating surface, something like the bark of a tree which invites the onlooker to touch Marie, Vito and Balzac are the foundation ... store in Orbetello, Italy and taken back to New York, where they were cast and stacked on top 6f each other Originally, the stack was six vases high,10 but later it was cut and transformed into...

Ngày tải lên: 07/03/2014, 14:20

... making a descent on Boston; to range the coast of Newfoundland; and to take New York, from whence the troops were to return overland to Canada, by the side of the River Hudson and Lake Champlain ... images and in the arrangement of details Not only has attitude and grouping to be attended to by the painter, and by the narrator of events, but attention must be paid to light and shade; and the ... and twenty tons, and forty tons, Cartier arrived in the St Lawrence—as some spring traders of the present day occasionally do—before the ice had broken up, and found it necessary to go back and...

Ngày tải lên: 29/03/2014, 02:21

... crop growth and yield and water use across a series of soil types Fields Evapotranspiration – From Measurements to Agricultural and Environmental Applications range in size from 32 to 96 and are ... from the site Hourly ETo values were summed over 24-hour periods to obtain daily ETo During May-October period, average daily values of ETc were of 3.5, 2.9 and 3.1 respectively from EC, SR and ... combination of factors and care must be exercised in the placement of energy balance and evapotranspiration equipment within fields and across landscapes in order to capture information from sites representative...

Ngày tải lên: 29/06/2014, 16:20

... risk factors [1] Inflammation is thought to play a central role in the development and progression of vascular disease In addition to their lipidlowering effects, statins have anti-inflammatory properties, ... underpowered to address mortality or other clinically meaningful endpoints, with their primary endpoints focusing on inflammatory cytokines and markers of endothelial function In addition to their ... 177:1242-1247 doi:10.1186/cc9006 Cite this article as: Rao AD, Milbrandt EB: To JUPITER and beyond: Statins, inflammation, and primary prevention Critical Care 2010, 14:310 ...

Ngày tải lên: 13/08/2014, 20:22

... due to the lack of normalization of the DNA samples, so that the same protocols and the same labs should be mandatory for these investigations With regard to the SNPs selected for analysis, Todd ... gene of about 40% To analyze the allele-specific level of expression of genes within the candidate region, Paracchini and her colleagues tested lymphoblastoid and neuroblastoma cell lines heterozygous ... described data from our group on the association of anorexia and bulimia with variants in the genes for brain-derived neurotrophic factor (BDNF) and its receptor (NTRK2), defining risk and protective...

Ngày tải lên: 14/08/2014, 14:22

... production and business situation of Cosevco6 Joint Stock Company from 2006 to 2010  Part III: Cement business strategy building of Cosevco6 Joint Stock Company from 2011 to 2015 and the vision towards ... qualified and enthusiastic staffs, lacking a professional part to supervise and forecast changes of the market, activities and reactions of competitors, customers’ demands, distributors’ demands, ... important factor to keep staffs, to encourage the creativeness of staffs, to attract good staffs, to create the equal and friendly working environment, and etc in order to contribute into creating...

Ngày tải lên: 26/03/2015, 11:05

Ngày tải lên: 27/03/2015, 14:27

... algorithms for (a) and (c) that reduce the complexity to linear and relaxed the algorithm for (b) to give robust sub-linear complexity • Stochastic Behavior Stochasticity (and/ or non-determinism) ... discuss how to utilize stochastic local-search together with the optimal algorithm into an effective and efficient segmentation algorithm • Chapter 3, we discuss how stochasticity helps to make database ... graph size and the diameter of the graph We designed our algorithms to be highly parallel and distributed which allows it to scale to very large graphs We implemented our algorithms on top of a...

Ngày tải lên: 09/09/2015, 17:56

... is crystallization from solution (Mohan and Myerson, 2002) Crystallization phenomena, such as nucleation, polymorphism and crystal growth are vital to industries, especially to pharmaceutical ... failure to control polymorphism of a drug can lead to a disastrous consequence (Davey et al., 1997; Desiraju, 1997; Ferrari and Davey, 2004; Knapman, 2000; Mohan and Myerson, 2002; Qiu and Rasmuson, ... and Mohan and Myerson (2002), expressing the driving force for nucleation and crystal growth in terms of solute concentration difference is inadequate for many real systems, and it can lead to...

Ngày tải lên: 13/09/2015, 21:11

... A and S The average length of β-strand and its neighboring amorphous linker is approximately equal to the average contour length (~16.9 nm) The average rupture force of β-strand is ~122 pN, and ... silkworm silk and spider silk (b) The working toughness is calculated by taking the strain from 0~7.5% for both silkworm silk and spider silk The working toughness can be increased up to 12.5% and 22.5% ... exert the shear force and the elongational force to the silk proteins, driving them to extend along the duct and initiating the structural transition from initial random coils to the β-conformations...

Ngày tải lên: 30/09/2015, 05:58

... extend beyond simple staff-mix modifications to address organisational and system factors To support planner, policy makers and workforce planners, this article reviews the main approaches to and ... developing tools that will enable managers to clarify the roles of their staff in different contexts, to monitor the scopes of practice of their staff, and to detect any barrier or facilitator to effective ... management tools that divert focus away from the issue of numbers and occupational mix towards the range of roles, functions, responsibilities and activities each staff member is educated and able to...

Ngày tải lên: 18/06/2014, 17:20

... throughout Australia, New Zealand, Papua New Guinea, Fiji, Tonga, Solomon Islands, and the Cook Islands vi Lead Author and Technical Editor Michael Gough is host and webmaster of www.SkypeTips.com, ... the Internet to communicate with your family and friends and explore the many options Skype has to offer to improve your communication experience and make life a little more fun and cost effective ... Understanding the Basics… To Pay or Not to Pay for VoIP The only real reason to pay for VoIP from your local provider is if you want a certain amount of defined uptime on your system and access to...

Ngày tải lên: 26/10/2014, 21:32

... structure, and to the kind of stories that get told and retold about the Irish, so as to reveal both the regularity of English colonial discourse on Ireland and the Irish and the mutations to which ... to legitimate English rule in Ireland so often involve disputed rights to land and property, the relation of fathers to sons, of mothers to daughters, and of potential wives to would-be husbands ... means as monotonously monolithic and insensitive to historical change as Eagleton’s work in particular may make it seem By paying close attention to rhetorical matters, and especially to the concrete...

Ngày tải lên: 21/09/2012, 10:39

... bring it to the customer’s attention and easy access, and how to keep the customer wanting to buy more from you Furthermore, marketing strategy and actions are not only played out in customer markets ... your company also has to raise money from investors As a result you need to know how to market to investors You also want to attract talent to your company So you need to develop a value proposition ... able people to join your company Whether marketing to customers, investors, or talent, you need to understand their needs and wants and present a competitively superior value proposition to win their...

Ngày tải lên: 21/09/2012, 17:33

... and internal factors is given as follows: 2.2.1 External factors External factors are the factors from outside environment and the businesses can not adjust but can only harmonize and adapt to ... to provide products and services that satisfy all committed agreements - Improving quality of products and services to satisfy customers’ higher and higher demand - Being a reliable partner and ... - general director and two deputy director (one deputy director is in charge of finance and administration and the other is in charge of technique) In which, the general director is the head...

Ngày tải lên: 24/07/2013, 09:11

... Course® was born d Learn to organize, deputize and supervise He authored several best-sellers, including, How To Win Friends and Influence People and How to Stop Worrying and Start Living Over 50 ... 1888 in Missouri, USA and was educated at Warrensburg State Teachers College As a salesman and aspiring actor, he traveled to New York and began teaching communications classes to adults at the YMCA ... Carnegie’s books have been printed and published in 38 languages Put enthusiasm into your work Don’t worry about insomnia Prevent Fatigue and Worry and Keep Your Energy and Spirits High Dale Carnegie...

Ngày tải lên: 19/10/2013, 03:15

... or hers Try honestly to see things from the other person’s point of view Win People to Your Way of Thinking Be sympathetic with the other person’s ideas and desires Appeal to the nobler motives ... Let the other person to save face Be a Leader Praise the slightest improvement Give the other person a fine reputation to live up to Use encouragement Make the fault seem easy to correct Make the ... feel important – and it sincerely Win People to Your Way of Thinking Show respect for the other person’s opinion Never say, “you’re wrong” If you’re wrong, admit it quickly and emphatically Begin...

Ngày tải lên: 19/10/2013, 22:15