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... people have made substandard usage their trademark Dizzy Dean, a pitcher for the St Louis Cardinals who later became a radio and TV sports broadcaster, is a case in point Typical of his utterance: ... action, as in this example: • We made a mistake (We are taking blame.) A verb is passive when its action is performed upon the subject, as in this example: • A mistake has been made (No one is ... it is another I can help you correct errors in grammar and usage with surprising ease After all, that's what this book is all about Gross grammar abuse it another matter There's no cure for that...

Ngày tải lên: 17/01/2014, 05:20

... was the first black American to play baseball in the major leagues a whose b was c to play d the a Laser technology is the heart of a new generation of high-speed copiers and printer a is b a ... unvalued a 27 Harvesting has started earlier than usual It yet a hasn’t finished b didn’t finish c hadn’t finished d isn’t finishing a 28 This wine is much too dry Could I have a one, please? ... which isn’t really a fish, it has no brain, no bones and no face a isn’t b a c it d bones c Grammar and Vocabulary 11 How many expressions have you studied in this book so far? a now b presently...

Ngày tải lên: 18/06/2014, 17:20

... be a decreased plasma concentration of the molecule with a risk of misinterpretation of some important kinetic parameters (area under concentrationtime curve, maximal concentration, time to peak ... substances is often greater due to an increased capillary permeability resulting in fluid shifts from the intravascular compartment to the interstitial space Distribution volume may also be increased ... similar way to variables such as extracellular fluid volume or renal clearance enables calculation of urinary excretion ratios, thereby eliminating the effect of these factors [4] Another observation...

Ngày tải lên: 13/08/2014, 19:20

... after five years Rama and MacIsaac (1999) find that employees displaced from the Ecuadorian Central Bank in 1994 had regained on average only 55% of their pre-dismissed salaries after 15 months ... formal sector it earns a higher wage and that, as a result, some poverty is alleviated If trade liberalization raises the value of the marginal product of labour in the formal sector, e.g by raising ... internal producer and consumer prices and analysis is straightforward The alternative view is that goods are differentiated, so that each variety faces its own separate downward-sloping demand...

Ngày tải lên: 06/11/2012, 15:51

... strategic goals The reverse is also true Your goals must be converted to practical, daily behavior A critical point raised in my many discussions with managers is the failure of planning to reach ... this company?” Ask your management team, “How satisfied are you with our planning process?” 10 Ask anyone, “Have you ever read a complete business plan for this company?” This Page Intentionally ... creates a vehicle for bonding among your team What better way to become a team than to deal with real business issues in an orderly, professional fashion? And finally, this book helps you create...

Ngày tải lên: 24/10/2013, 09:20

... of a situation in which they are aware of the risk that ‘harm’ may arise, but they argue that the disorder is a late-onset disorder, as a consequence not manifesting itself for many years Again, ... of Appeal was unhappy regarding the evaluation of damages How could a court attempt to evaluate non-existence – to compare non-existence and the value of existence in a disabled state? The only ... couple at risk of bearing a severely handicapped child make the decision to go ahead, then who precisely will bear the cost of care and of medical treatment if the risks attendant upon handicap materialize?...

Ngày tải lên: 01/11/2013, 08:20

... this is the value of option button rbDistinct After the SQL string is created, it is assigned to lblSQLString to display the string, and then it is used in a data adapter to fill a dataset Last, ... build the data adapter and fill the data table Dim odaResults As New OleDb.OleDbDataAdapter(Me.lblSQLString.Text, _ BuildCnnStr("(local)", "Northwind")) Dim dtResults As New DataTable() odaResults.Fill(dtResults) ... GenerateData routine when the rbDistinct option button is changed, and not when the rbShowAll option button is changed Because only two buttons are available, you only have to program one of the control's...

Ngày tải lên: 26/01/2014, 11:20

... for instance, Canada and Australia.24 In particular, the Australian saving rate has been negative since 2002 Furthermore, the Canadian personal saving rate appears now close to zero (it is 1.4 ... stNIPA +1 which may be sometimes substantial and—even when ρt+1 = rt+1, that is, all capital gains are realized—never disappears as long as rt+1 ≠ Formally, this means that while the NIPA personal ... obviously a simplified description that abstracts from many important practical details For instance, it is clear that capital gains may be taxed at a rate different from labor income; in reality, only...

Ngày tải lên: 16/02/2014, 11:20

... A. -R Karala and L W Ruddock bacitracin contains at least nine different peptides, of which bacitracin A is the most abundant, and it is mainly used as an antibiotic against infections caused ... thiol–disulfide exchange enzymes, Escherichia coli DsbA and DsbC, as well as the isolated catalytic a domain of PDI Both the PDI a domain and DsbA have a catalytic site, with an associated substrate-binding ... control in the absence of bacitracin is presented as mean ± standard deviation (number of samples) Statistical significance between each pair of samples with and without bacitracin present was determined...

Ngày tải lên: 16/02/2014, 14:20

... characterization was prepared by a cyclic flux of DAPY solution through a hydroxyapatite column (1 · 10 cm) containing immobilized GPAO and catalase After GPAO (10 mkat) and catalase (10 mkat) ... an increasing linear gradient from to 100% B for 20 and isocratically at 100% B for an additional 20 This was followed with a decreasing linear gradient from 100 to 0% B in and a short final isocratic ... shows a mass spectrum of the GPAO/DAPY reaction mixture prepared in 0.1 M ammonium bicarbonate containing ACA as a reagent for trapping of the product aminoaldehyde, where several new peaks appeared...

Ngày tải lên: 19/02/2014, 16:20

... et al Typhimurium DT104 ATCC 700408, and Klebsiella pneumoniae ATCC 13883), and Gram-positive bacteria (Listeria monocytogenes ATCC 19115, Staph aureus ATCC 25923, Staph aureus ATCC BAA-39, and ... efficiency against both antibiotic-susceptible and antibiotic-resistant bacterial strains Killing of bacteria by fowlicidins starts immediately on contact with bacteria, in sharp contrast with human cathelicidin ... presence and absence of 100 mM NaCl at 37 °C A chromogenic substrate for b-galactosidase, o-nitrophenyl-b-D-galactopyranoside, was also added to a final concentration of 1.5 mM The absorbance at 405...

Ngày tải lên: 07/03/2014, 11:20

... Rico and Cuba The Caribbean has been traditionally defined as primarily English-speaking nations in the Caribbean Sea namely: i the CARICOM (Caribbean Community)states of AntiguaBarbuda, Bahamas, ... European languages with the Native American languages and African languages brought by the slaves The result of this mixture is the local patois and Creole languages that are unique to the Caribbean ... Caribbean sea to include the Caribbean diaspora; places where Caribbean 25 people have migrated to and formed a community for example, the east coast of America, Canada and England Stuart Hall...

Ngày tải lên: 07/03/2014, 15:20

... phone calls and instant messages from an anonymous source began claiming that the Majestic fire was arson and part of a larger and dangerous conspiracy Thus began the "real" game, which had cleverly ... players to a game’s gameness, is an unusual development for the practice of play [2] Historically, play has been defined in large part by its ability to signal a representational “space apart,” ... stated) and legal disclaimers All of this peripheral information serves as a constant reminder that a game is being played Another barrier to player immersion in the Nokia Game is its reliance on...

Ngày tải lên: 07/03/2014, 17:20

... is easier than finding grammatical relations as we tag a headword of a chunk as e.g a subject in isolation whereas grammatical relation assignment also includes deciding which verb this chunk is ... with a fixed training set size might present a misleading snapshot Second, the amount of training material available today is already enough to make words more valuable input than (gold-standard!) ... learning (Stanfill and Waltz, 1986; Aha et al., 1991; Daelemans et al., 1999b) is a supervised inductive learning algorithm for learning classification tasks Memory-based learning treats a set of labeled...

Ngày tải lên: 08/03/2014, 07:20

... first honorary chairman “Watson was a real gentleman, a smart guy, an academic, and he saw the need,” Bentley recalls Professional Golf Association Tour commissioner Deane Beman and Don Padgett, ... professionals from all over the world Although Americans dominate junior tournaments, Europeans and Asians are increasingly visible at AJGA events As golf cast a spell over millions, it has spawned a ... golf tournaments An advisory board was assembled Tom Watson, who that year had won the Masters and British Open and was named PGA Tour Player of the Year, agreed to become the organization’s first...

Ngày tải lên: 08/03/2014, 20:20

... vulnerability assessment nessus, nmap … • system files Rootkit Propagation (Dan Kaminsky) http://www.doxpara.com/ Firewall Data (Raffy Marty) http://raffy.ch/blog/ Firewall Data (Chris Lee) "Visual ... •Full view of all packet parameters •Capture and display filters •Dissect and analyze protocols •Robust and configurable filtering •High quality signature database •Helps to focus human resources ... http://ehp.niehs.nih.gov/docs/2003/111-2/prison.jpg information visualization is the use of interactive, sensory representations, typically visual, of abstract data to reinforce cognition http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Information_visualization...

Ngày tải lên: 16/03/2014, 17:20

... your grammar/vocab better… because that’s what the test is usually about) but it is an artificial means of acquiring or improving the language Some artificial ways are quite useful, but they are ... passionate I am to get this message out there – speaking a language does not have to be a chore! When I hear so many people complain about grammar I feel like they are looking at their language ... still artificial When you look at a language the same way you look at geography or history or other subjects in school that can be tested, then you simply don’t know what a language actually is...

Ngày tải lên: 16/03/2014, 17:20

... F(aa¯ a, aaaa) a ¯ ¯ A( a, a) F (a , aa) a ¯ A( a, a) D (a , aa) a ¯ E (a a, aaa) a ¯ ¯ D (a , aa) a ¯ C(ε, #) A (¯ , a) a ¯ D(ε, ε) F (a , aa) a ¯ A( a, a) D(ε, ε) E(¯ , a) a ¯ D(ε, ε) A (¯ , a) ... A, A , C, D, E, F}, Σ = {a, a, #}, and P consists of the following rules: S(x1 y1 , y2 x2 ) ← D(x1 , x2 ), C(y1 , y2 ) C(ε, #) ← S(aa¯ aa¯ , #¯ a aaa) a a a a D(aa¯ aa¯ , aa¯ aaa) a a ¯ a ... L(G), a derivation tree for w is a derivation tree for some S(w1 , w2 ) such that w1 w2 = w Example (continued) Figure shows a derivation tree for aa¯ aa¯ #¯ a aaa a a a a The following lemma...

Ngày tải lên: 16/03/2014, 19:20

... performance Parking Analytics Parking analytics are metrics and visualizations of parking data designed to help urban parking administrators to manage parking resources They set parking policies and ... sensors enable realtime monitoring of a parking space occupancy status Within a parking management system, this data is integrated with data from meters, Total Parking Management The system can support ... information needed to run a parking program Occupancy rates, turnover, violation rates, data capture, and accuracy are all measured and reported By understanding these metrics and the variables that...

Ngày tải lên: 17/03/2014, 20:20