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... Car-tastrophe How federal policy can help, not hinder, the greening of the automobile By Amy Kaleita, Ph.D 4 Car-tastrophe How federal policy can help, not hinder, the greening of the automobile ... much on the expected electric range of the vehicle Furthermore, in accounting for the impact of PHEVs and EVs on the environment, one must also consider that in electric mode, the cars themselves ... (produced from sugar cane) from being competitive in the United States While both are set to expire at the end of 2010, the industry and the U.S Department of Agriculture are advocating their extension...

Ngày tải lên: 19/02/2014, 04:20

... Way to Fit the Pieces Together This book gives you all the elements of the business plan and shows you how to fit them together Most businesses think they are planning when in fact they are going ... later the budget people tell you the plan is invalid because it can t be financed The salespeople react to the numbers as unrealistic The manufacturing folks tell you they cannot sustain the production ... tells them how to be successful Everyone needs to understand the relationship between strategic goals and next week’s tasks Employees need to understand the annual targets and how they apply to their...

Ngày tải lên: 24/10/2013, 09:20

... parity can occur The time value of an option is that part of the premium that reflects the remaining life of the option The more time that remains before the expiration date, the higher the premium, ... Under these circumstances, the gains in the option position may not offset the losses in the bond position The maximum loss in the combined position could equal the entire premium plus the loss ... rate in the far month than in the nearby month If the difference in forward rates is large enough to offset the time value associated with the longer expiration, then the premium on the longer...

Ngày tải lên: 06/03/2014, 14:20

... invested there for the past two decades, and how they have made significant footprints in their countries All these bear witness to how globalization can take them to the next level They too want ... know -how will continue fiercely to compete in the international area The sooner these companies close the widening gap in their search for the right talent, the sooner they can speed up the pace ... be rosy Then there is the plan to expand beyond the shores of Asia to take advantage of new market opportunities across the globe Many of these companies aim to set their footprints in the global...

Ngày tải lên: 16/03/2014, 18:59

... true to the promise of our subtitle, “What They Say, Why They Matter, and How They Can Help You.” This was an ambitious task in the 500 to 1,000 words we allotted for each book, but the effort ... the Side of the Head The Creative Habit The Art of Possibility BIG IDEAS The Age of Unreason Out of Control The Rise of the Creative Class Emotional Intelligence Driven To Engineer Is Human The ... these questions of thousands of books, we found ample candidates However, a good idea was not the only consideration in selecting the 100 Best The second factor in choosing these books was the...

Ngày tải lên: 03/04/2014, 17:50

... demonstration of the usefulness of this novel psychometric method in HRQOL research that fully encompasses the intent of the taxonomy, integrates the relevant properties described above, and reflects the ... scientist can read your work free of charge "BioMed Central will be the most significant development for disseminating the results of biomedical researc h in our lifetime." Sir Paul Nurse, Cancer Research ... This property is not addressed in the Hankins' paper, and there is no explanation for how the use of Ferguson's Delta would enhance interpretability Although the use of Ferguson's Delta may someday...

Ngày tải lên: 18/06/2014, 19:20

... the discriminations observed were meaningful Recall that the value of Delta is derived from ordinal comparisons of persons that classify them as either the same or different Therefore, if a researcher ... points Delta then indexes the degree to which the instrument makes valid discriminations Wyrwich suggests that the results of another study [6], in which the dichotomous scoring method of the GHQ-12 ... not the case, then the numerator should be adjusted to take into account only meaningful differences, however defined For example, if the reliability coefficient suggests that differences in the...

Ngày tải lên: 18/06/2014, 19:20

... relationships as the foundation In management circles there is a name for the aforementioned management theory—Scientific Management This theory was derived from the Newtonian concept of how the universe ... session consider the following questions: I What is the trend data of the past? I Where are we now on the cycle of our industry? I How have the variations of ups and downs changed over the past few ... to keep the company in the middle of the road, never venturing too far to either side Managers of timid companies are not bad people They don’t set out to be average; they are just not the risk...

Ngày tải lên: 24/10/2013, 09:20

... Read his previous pieces: Research You’re Doing It Wrong: How Uncovering The Unconscious Is Key To Creativity; I’m Not Your Consumer: How Research Misses The Human Behind The Demographic We’re Marketers, ... it helped the VW brand achieve the best market share stateside in 30 years in 2011 So much f or purchase intent I’m not saying we must measure ads through brain scan research to determine their ... goose bumps not signif icant dif f erences correlated at the 95% conf idence interval! T hese are the things that these data tabulations will never capture, but they are also the things that make...

Ngày tải lên: 27/01/2014, 20:28

... The expression first came into popular use in the 1970s to describe the flight to the suburbs of whites living in the older cities of the American Northeast When the number of incoming African ... point to the decline of the crack trade and the aging of the population Economists, meanwhile, say that the gradual improvement in the city's economy over the course of the 1990s had the effect ... take you to the set of the children's shows Sesame Street and Blue's Clues and into the fascinating world of the man who helped to create the Columbia Record Club to look at how messages can be structured...

Ngày tải lên: 05/03/2014, 20:20

... to its charge, the panel had to limit the scope of the exercise to assessing the state of mechanical engineering basic research as determined by the open research literature, the opinions of ... research, dedicated to the furtherance of science and technology and to their use for the general welfare Upon the authority of the charter granted to it by the Congress in 1863, the Academy has a ... from the councils of the National Academy of Sciences, the National Academy of Engineering, and the Institute of Medicine The members of the panel responsible for the report were chosen for their...

Ngày tải lên: 06/03/2014, 15:20

... models, would normally be built in house These services, plus templates and other tools can significantly accelerate the development cycle The combination of these benefits is driving cloud computing ... shared-disk database can be upgraded individually, while the cluster remains online You can selectively take nodes out of service, upgrade them, and put them back in service while the other nodes continue ... that the results be delivered instantaneously to keep the user engaged, so she doesn’t click on another cosmetics site If the site said that the chosen lipstick is in inventory and completed the...

Ngày tải lên: 07/03/2014, 14:20

... bonuses When they see how low on the totem pole they are, many workers will give up The climb up the ladder is too daunting Others will internalize that the work is less important than the game and ... from the rest of the world Players of a game step across this boundary into the magic circle, and by doing so voluntarily suspend the rules of the real world and accept the rules of the game The ... players—be they employees or customers or some other group—will attempt to hit the targets the game offers them You, on the other hand, care about those targets only as a proxy for other things...

Ngày tải lên: 10/03/2014, 08:36

... moratoriums at the WTO While the WTO was considering the dispute, the United States continued to push for the EU to drop its biotech rules In 2005, the USTR demanded that the United States “get the access ... forcing the EU to accept these imports would assuage fears in the developing world about losing exports to the EU if they cultivated GE crops The United States successfully challenged the EU’s ... the embassy’s efforts to “eventually wear down Hungary’s resistance,” the public has shown “no sign of changing their minds about the ban on biotech corn.”17 The State Department recognized the...

Ngày tải lên: 13/03/2014, 21:49

... depression The way students show their distress can vary by age For instance, preschool students sometimes act younger than they did before the trauma, and often reenact the traumatic event in their ... threat of injury or death to the person who experiences them or to others in close proximity The person exposed to the event feels terrified, horrified, or helpless There are a large number of ... Use of These Programs 54 References 60 Appendix A: How can schools help students immediately after a traumatic event? 67 Appendix B: How can mental health staff and other...

Ngày tải lên: 15/03/2014, 23:20

... Section the nature of the economic benefits of basic research and the different methodological approaches to measuring them The next two sections then critically review and synthesise the main ... substantial differences The study focuses on the economic benefits from basic research rather than the social, environmental or cultural benefits However, there is a fuzzy boundary between the economic ... substantial; Žii they come in a variety of forms; and Žiii the key issue is not so much whether the benefits are there but how best to organise the national research and innovation system to make the most...

Ngày tải lên: 17/03/2014, 06:20

... funded research and development center sponsored by the Office of the Secretary of Defense, the Joint Staff, the Unified Combatant Commands, the Department of the Navy, the Marine Corps, the defense ... center sponsored by the Office of the Secretary of Defense, the Joint Staff, the Unified Combat Commands, the Department of the Navy, the Marine Corps, the defense agencies, and the defense Intelligence ... unlimited NATIONAL DEFENSE RESEARCH INSTITUTE The research described in this report was prepared for the United States Navy The research was conducted in the R AND National Defense Research Institute,...

Ngày tải lên: 22/03/2014, 23:20

... with the public library Remember how the strangeness of all the book shelves, the catalog and the reference desk rather quickly gave way to an easy familiarity with how they all fit together? ... rewrites the complaint and the process starts all over again If the judge grants the motion without leave to amend, the case is ended unless the plaintiff appeals the decision On the other hand, if the ... Strictly for the purpose of deciding the motion, the judge assumes that the factual allegations in the complaint are true and then decides whether the law supports the claim for relief If the judge...

Ngày tải lên: 18/04/2014, 14:08

... with the public library ­Remember how the strangeness of all the book shelves, the catalog and the reference desk rather quickly gave way to an easy familiarity with how they all fit together? ... ewrites the complaint and the process starts all over again If the judge grants the motion without leave to amend, the case is ended unless the plaintiff appeals the decision On the other hand, if the ... true and then decides whether the law supports the claim for relief If the judge grants the m ­ otion but allows the plaintiff a chance to fix the problem (“granted with leave to amend”), the plaintiff...

Ngày tải lên: 18/04/2014, 14:08

... of the law, which can vary from place to place This can be helpful when you’re trying to learn the basics of how the law works, or when you need to compare how different jurisdictions handle the ... must look at what the law says, then try to determine what it means in light of the circumstances of the people before the court, the ones involved in the lawsuit When they do, they may create ... will buy their products, hire them, or join their groups But the biggest explanation for the shift in how research is con­ ducted is the advent of the Internet The Internet allows us to find...

Ngày tải lên: 18/04/2014, 14:09