globalization the information revolution and emerging imperatives for rethinking fiscal federalism

... cancer and their families, targeted education and online resources for cancer information, insurance resources, peer support, and other information needs will help empower AYAs to understand and ... stakeholders and the general public about the significance of cancer in the AYA population and the unique needs and issues of AYA patients related to their age and stage of life Until now, the AYA ... Heather Sansbury, and Pamela Zingeser for serving as science writers; and Jennifer Secula and Julie Jessup for their expertise related to the design, layout, and editing of the report • Suzanne...

Ngày tải lên: 14/02/2014, 21:20

... US versus foreign producers, and must take advantage of the unique niche provided by CSREES and the Land Grant system A quick overview of what foreign competitors are doing, and how other regions ... fruits and vegetables, rice, grapes and dairy as well Further expansion is hindered by the limited government support in research and outreach, and by the long and complex marketing chains The Canadian ... Association 2005 The past, present and future of the organic industry: A retrospective of the first 20 years, a look at the current state of the organic industry, and forecasting the next 20 years...

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... 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 ... they reveal the location of the process pinch (the point of closest temperature approach), and the minimum thermodynamic heating and cooling requirements These are called the energy targets The ... 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...

Ngày tải lên: 18/03/2014, 02:20

... focus on how the availability of information will transform world events, but where people seek information, what information they trust, and what meaning they draw from that information will ... themselves information providers These five factors can be mutually reinforcing, with each factor enhancing the power of the others to further increase transparency To give some examples, information ... between information provided by one source and information provided by another source, that discrepancy can lead to questions that in turn clarify and improve the quality and credibility of that information, ...

Ngày tải lên: 11/06/2014, 12:45

... mechanisms Therefore, the results not reject the hypothesis H2b Nevertheless, even if this is the case, the effect of the improvement of corporate governance cannot be ignored The Cramer's V of the ... investigate the differences before and after the strengthening of the corporate governance mechanism, the sample was divided into two periods in this study, using 2003 as the division point Formally, the ... accounting information is provided by the managers, who may overstate the numbers in the financial statements through their accounting estimates and standards (Watts and Zimmerman, 1986) The existence...

Ngày tải lên: 12/06/2014, 19:37

... changing their interactions and the way they viewed one another For most of these students in the selected schools, this was the first time they received sexual education in a clear and simple ... the schools in the rural areas of the Quispicanchis and Canchis provinces have an urgent need to receive information about their sexual and reproductive health, keeping in mind their social and ... services units, the school directors, and the teachers responsible for the orientation and well-being of students to explain the project activities to them and to coordinate the pre-test survey...

Ngày tải lên: 05/03/2014, 22:21

... response both to the old hierarchical orders and to the ‘aesthetic revolution The rancière: The Aesthetic Revolution 143 whole motto of the politics of the aesthetic regime, then, can be spelled ... says that aesthetic experience will bear the edifice of the art of the beautiful and of the art of living The entire question of the ‘politics of aesthetics’—in other words, of the aesthetic regime ... of art itself, cancelling their projection into a new life and invalidating the aesthetic revolution The ‘spirit of forms’ becomes the inverted image of the aesthetic revolution This reworking...

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... to the absence of a jolt from the OPEC oil cartel As noted above—many Americans identify the IT revolution and the explosion of the Internet as the primary drivers for the booming economy and the ... WAS THE NEW ECONOMY OF THE 1990s REAL? After the Y2K spending spike and “nonevent,” the bursting of the Dot-com Bubble, the 1929-like decline in the Nasdaq, and the abrupt TLFeBOOK CHAPTER and ... IN THE NEW MILLENNIUM This book reveals the fundamental drivers of the New Economy in the 1990s and sets the stage for a clearer understanding of the economic and investment environment of the...

Ngày tải lên: 09/04/2014, 13:57

... and scope : The aim of this work is the study the effect of the location of welding joint on the fatigue life and fatigue strength of rotating steel shaft and finding the best location for welding ... during welding and form solidified weld metal, while the base material in the close vicinity undergoes a transformation The (HAZ) formation is result of an applied thermal cycle caused by the heat ... life) for each sample till failure For P -Bending load (N) each test, we used two samples and take the average value for them The stress concentration factor (Kt) for stepped shaft depend on the...

Ngày tải lên: 24/05/2014, 20:35

... Acknowledgments There was no source of funding for this project AJ had full access to all the data in the study and takes responsibility for the integrity of the data and the accuracy of the data analysis ... functions of the brain, including the brainstem), and the empirical state of the brain diagnosed by the tests used to confirm BD We hypothesized that neurologists would not be aware of the standard ... are the specialist declaring BD and explaining it to families in the intensive care unit The tests of BD The tests for BD are performed to confirm that irreversible loss of all functions of the...

Ngày tải lên: 21/06/2014, 19:20

... the first term on the right-hand side in (2.3) is less than α for un small enough; the second one tends to and the third one is less than This is a contradiction If w = θ, the second term on the ... satisfy the conditions (G4 ) and (G5 ) Then, there exist three solutions of VI (1.2), at least two of which are nonzero solutions The proof of Theorem 3.2 is similar to the proof of Theorem 3.1 and ... [0,1] and H(t,u) is uniformly continuous with respect to t for all u ∈ K r We will claim that there exists r0 > small enough such that u = H(t,u) for all t ∈ [0,1] and u ∈ ∂K r0 Otherwise, for...

Ngày tải lên: 22/06/2014, 18:20

... networks for the exchange of information and to debate the new ideas All these new discoveries and practices clearly define the first few decades of the seventeenth century as the heart of the transformation ... from the Sun The Earth also rotated; this accounted for day and night and the apparent daily motion of the Sun across the sky Because the Pole Star retained its position in the northern part of the ... topics, such as the Reformation and Counter Reformation and the French Revolution Still oth- xii Series Foreword ers bridge cultures and continents by examining the voyages of discovery, the Atlantic...

Ngày tải lên: 06/07/2014, 15:32

... and count the time for the next dosage (82.7%), 16.3% of them skip the missed dosage and take the next dosage as usual, 1.0% of them did not know what to when they missed one dosage Most of the ... joining in the treatment, the infected people and their families are forced to join in training, therefore, the rate of joining in training before treatment is 100% and up to 85,6% of the subjects ... material facilities, there are at least 02 working rooms, waiting area and consulting area for the patients, area for storing and delivering medicines for the patients, area for keeping and storing records,...

Ngày tải lên: 25/07/2014, 13:57

... contributions AI and MS conceived the design of the study, performed and interpreted the statistical analysis and helped to draft the manuscript FS participated in the design of the study and helped ... been used in HIV research The continuous PHS and MHS of the MOS-HIV and the PCS and MCS of the SF-12v2 were assessed for normality Correlations between baseline physical and mental health summary ... reduced by using the SF-12v2 [8] The purpose of this study was to give further rationale for using the SF-12v2 in HIV research by examining the relationship between the MOS-HIV and the SF-12v2 to...

Ngày tải lên: 10/08/2014, 05:21

... interventions that target the children than interventions targeting the elderly In this way the criteria and their weights were the same for every health intervention, and ranking consistency was ... the DCE results, we calculated the interventions’ probability of being selected, by Page of combining the performance of interventions on each criterion and the importance of that criterion The ... views of stakeholders, and therefore their expressed weights, may diverge This is acknowledged by the ‘Accountability for Reasonableness’ (A4R) framework [7,8] which is based on the believe that any...

Ngày tải lên: 13/08/2014, 11:22

... Center for Health Systems Research and Education (NICHE), Department of Primary and Community Care, Radboud University Nijmegen Medical Centre, Nijmegen, The Netherlands Health Intervention and ... from DCE may improve the consistency of priority setting across contexts and over time, but does not solve the more fundamental problem that views of stakeholders, and therefore their expressed weights, ... object for further research We regret any inconvenience that these corrections might have caused References Youngkong, S., N Tromp, and D Chitama, The EVIDEM framework and its usefulness for priority...

Ngày tải lên: 13/08/2014, 11:22

... Guidelines for the diagnosis and treatment of pulmonary hypertension: the task force for the diagnosis and treatment of pulmonary hypertension of the European Society of Cardiology (ESC) and the European ... the questions posed by the systematic literature review The PICO table then describes each study according to the study type, the population studied, the intervention applied, the nature of the ... In any setting, the most common cause of increased RV afterload is an increase in PVR (Table 2) The gold standard for the diagnosis and management of PH and RV dysfunction in the ICU setting...

Ngày tải lên: 13/08/2014, 21:21

... between the time used for weaning and time available for weaning and 2) to analyse the patient and systemic factors were associated with the time available for weaning that is actually used for weaning ... weaning [8] On the other hand, there are significant barriers to the use of such standardised evidence-based treatment protocols For example, providers may be unaware of their existence, there may ... freedom for the individual clinician to decide if and how weaning should be performed [1,7] This approach also facilitate teamwork and interprofessional communication and may therefore increase the...

Ngày tải lên: 13/08/2014, 23:20

... English and Vietnamese in term of their syntactic, semantic features and their classifications? What are the suggestions for teaching and learning vocabulary in the textbook “English for the hotel and ... However, they belong to the types that are easy enough for the learners to form and use And the meanings of these compound nouns can be guessed through their components’ meanings as most of them ... analysis on the main types of compound nouns in the textbook: “English for the hotel and tourist industry” 4.2.1 An introduction to the textbook: “English for the hotel and tourist industry” The textbook...

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