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... organized as follows: In the first part, “Structural and Morphological Characterization,” the main aspects of the morphology of semicrystalline polymers, as revealed by electron microscopy (Bassett) ... properties, as derived from microindentation hardness studies in different polymers and correlated to nanostructural parameters, are presented (BaltáCalleja, Flores, Ania) Basic aspects of toughness ... explanation for, the associated lamellar texture has been much harder to obtain Once again the best-characterized system is polyethylene In the linear polymer, banding is only found for faster growth,...

Ngày tải lên: 04/06/2014, 14:26

... representative? – – Working on this: RIPE Atlas Network partitioning, examples we encountered: – Level3 - Hurricane Electric – Cogent - Hurricane Electric (fixed as of Aug 31) – See http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comparison_of_IPv6_support_by_major_transit_providers ... http://labs.ripe.net/ipv6day Raw data availability – http://labs.ripe.net/datarepository/datasets/ripe-ncc-active-measurements-of-worldipv6-day-dataset Robert Kisteleki 21 Conclusions - what we learned • IPv6/dual-stack ... RIPE NCC Measurements - World IPv6 Day • IPv6 Eyechart and 6to4 (not in this talk) • Active measurements – Sources: 40 vantage points (RIPE TTM, CAIDA...

Ngày tải lên: 24/10/2014, 14:04

... individual phases also differ between both cycles The contraction phase of the financial cycle lasts several years, while business cycle recessions generally not exceed one year In fact, as discussed ... Recall that credit and asset price booms reinforce each other, as collateral values and leverage increase As a result, credit tends to grow fast alongside asset prices By contrast, opposing forces ... length of the financial cycle emerges also if one measures it based on Burns and Mitchell’s (1946) turning-point approach, as refined by Harding and Pagan (2006) As the orange (peaks) and green (troughs)...

Ngày tải lên: 17/02/2014, 21:20

... although other 20 relative measures could also be used, i.e., with respect to a central bank liability This proportion should be set on a case-by-case basis In practice, most countries limit ... central banks and the ECB as private credit institutions Title: Bank Act 1998 Last Amendment: 2004 Chapter II: Objectives, Tasks, and Activities of the Bank Division Activities Section At the ... obliged to repay these overdrafts on the same day as that on which they are granted Norway Title: The Norges Bank Act, September 9, 1985 Last Amendment: Act No 11 of March 16, 2007 Chapter IV Role...

Ngày tải lên: 22/03/2014, 21:20

... is a significant factor influencing adherence [37-39] as well as sexual risk behaviour [40,41] The more side-effects PLWHA experience, the less adherent they are, and the less likely they are to ... impacts attitudes Associated with other measures, such as public testimonies of PLWHA, and meaningful engagement of PLWHA in the design, implementation and evaluation of HIV programmes, they can ... Sidaction and particularly the French Agency for Aids Research and viral hepatitis (ANRS) for their support as well as our association partners (Association Française de réduction des risques, Act- Up...

Ngày tải lên: 20/06/2014, 08:20

... criteria as markers of response to treatment favours a positive response whereas a composite measurement of asthma control is more stringent The latter may be a truer measurement of asthma control, ... composite measures of asthma control are achievable The results of this study may change our practice by asking us to reconsider our current acceptance of the presence of some symptoms as “adequately ... the composite measure of control as defined by the GOAL trial but would not respond to increased doses of inhaled corticosteroid.5 Clearly, a more stringent composite measure of asthma control...

Ngày tải lên: 08/08/2014, 20:23

... restore abnormal immune parameters; in contrast, levels of circulating TNFα increased following treatment In addition, IFNα activity and BAFF levels also increased following treatment, which may explain ... latter study was followed by a phase III randomized controlled trial on 497 subjects [32] IFNα increased unstimulated whole saliva flow but no significant increase was noted in stimulated whole saliva ... blood, levels of immunoglobulins did not change – but a significant decrease in IgM rheumatoid factor was seen The percentage and state of activation of T-cell subsets did not change Peripheral blood...

Ngày tải lên: 12/08/2014, 15:22

... reflects the fact that transfused patients were sicker to start with Indeed, there is some evidence that this was the case In the ABC study transfused patients were older, had a lower baseline hemoglobin, ... contrast, the age of the transfused RBCs was recorded in both studies: 16.2 ± 6.7 days in the ABC study [2] and 21.2 ± 11.4 days in the CRIT study [1] Interestingly, older blood was not associated ... universal leukoreduction has been introduced in many countries Its effect on transfusionrelated side effects, however, was only very modest: posttransfusion fever decreased but serious nosocomial...

Ngày tải lên: 12/08/2014, 20:20

... reactivity However, the recent literature on autoregulation in patients with sepsis is as inconclusive as that on CO2 reactivity [3,15] Nevertheless, assuming that disturbed cerebrovascular reactivity ... Therefore, in my opinion, the fact that global CBF was normal at the time of measurement does not add to our understanding of SAD What can CO2 reactivity tell us? CO2 reactivity is a relatively robust ... severe brain dysfunction is necessary to disturb CO2 reactivity The action of inflammatory mediators on the endothelium has been proposed as an important element in the development of SAD Endothelial...

Ngày tải lên: 13/08/2014, 08:21

... Gram-negative bacterium, with a 2.25 megabase (Mb) genome containing two rRNAs and 45 tRNAs This method appears to be a promising way of assembling large genomic regions from organisms that cannot be ... reconstruction has been taken to another level by Denis Le Paslier (Genoscope, Evry, France) using an iterative assembly process that uses cosmid sequencing data as a seed for building genome assemblies ... into Rhodococcus RHA1 The tick-borne bacterial pathogen of cattle, Anaplasma marginale, can undergo significant antigenic variation During an infection, bacteria expressing variants of a major...

Ngày tải lên: 14/08/2014, 14:22

... greater abstractions They are ways of implementing the basic ideas in a theory, using more detailed and more specific assumptions that adapt the theory for particular purposes They cannot and ... not a fact  It is an abstraction from reality that we hopefully find useful when organizing our thoughts and actions But no theory is perfect  Thomas Kuhn: all theories have “anomalies”—facts ... theory can explain everything 29 TCDN A Theory is Just a Theory  “man is moral”,  no person ever has acted or will act immorally, or without implying any of the following:  (1) knows exactly...

Ngày tải lên: 14/07/2015, 11:45

... greater abstractions They are ways of implementing the basic ideas in a theory, using more detailed and more specific assumptions that adapt the theory for particular purposes They cannot and should ... Because of this assumption, individual plaintiffs not have to prove that they directly received and relied on the false information they allege was fraudulently provided; instead they are assumed to ... banks had indeed viewed current asset prices as correct, they might not have bid them up to the same extent they did, and the current crisis might have been averted they operate in a fiercely competitive...

Ngày tải lên: 14/07/2015, 11:49

... loan-contract-specific covenants Third, overdraft facilities are loans granted neither for some specific purpose, as is the case for mortgages, nor on the basis of a specific transaction, as is the case ... increases by basis points By contrast, starting a new relationship with another bank that was not previously part of the pool of lenders is interpreted as a “good signal”: the interest rate decreases ... traditional lending activity (we measure this by computing the ratio of loans over total assets) increased their spread by less than other banks (panel (e)) Panel (f) indicates that banks active in the...

Ngày tải lên: 17/02/2014, 03:20

... menus.” They offer more severe warnings than Koppel et al [6] Shulman et al [1] write, As clinicians embrace CPOE, they should not make the assumption that CPOE removes errors; in fact different ... et al [1] describe their CPOE system, they add that it is “without a decision support system” (DSS) And while that is true, it is perhaps also too facile As they note, their system does not offer ... understood as such by CPOE designers or by physicians Also, the CPOE Shulman et al [1] examined included an available (but not interactive) on-line information system with drug interactions, contraindications,...

Ngày tải lên: 25/10/2012, 10:39

... lawsuits has raised massive concern for Vietnamese producers, as it has had a negative impact on international economic integration process of Vietnam, as well as shown that Vietnam has not adequately ... export transactions - A comparison of normal value and export prices on a transaction-to-transaction basis - a weighted average basis may be compared to prices of individual export transactions if ... 0918.775.368 As far as Vietnam is concerned, the exporting producers who requested MET also claimed IT in the event that they would not to be granted MET On the basis of the information available, it was...

Ngày tải lên: 04/04/2013, 16:17

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... lawsuits has raised massive concern for Vietnamese producers, as it has had a negative impact on international economic integration process of Vietnam, as well as shown that Vietnam has not adequately ... export transactions - A comparison of normal value and export prices on a transaction-totransaction basis - a weighted average basis may be compared to prices of individual export transactions if ... above purposes, domestic firms can strategically use this measure to target only foreign firms they view as competitive rivals, some nations abuse anti-dumping measures to protect domestic production...

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