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... evaporation of intercepted rain Rain on August 22 was followed by an increase in windspeed which replaced the almost saturated air with dry air, and caused a sharp decrease in Sw The hourly change ... 286 and day 287 a clear increase in air temperature did not cause the expected increase in overall heat storage, which is explained by rain and cloudy weather conditions occurring during daytime ... layer and the lower LAI in the ash stand, inducing 534 R Samson and R Lemeur Figure Diurnal pattern of: (a) sensible heat storage in the canopy layer; (b) latent heat storage in the canopy layer;...

Ngày tải lên: 08/08/2014, 14:21

... calculated following Askew and Blush (1990) The index was estimated for each possible pair of mating clones, for individual clones acting as males and/ or females, and finally for the entire orchard For ... recalculated using additional information on flowering synchronization among mating clones based on formulas: where PO is an index of phenological overlap of i i-th clone acting as male (Askew and ... to investigate trade-offs between male and female allocation This was done following partitioning variance and covariance components cones RESULTS = Phenology The phenograms of male and female...

Ngày tải lên: 08/08/2014, 18:21

... Drusini AG, Eleazer GP, Caiazzo M, Veronese E, Carrara N, Ranzato C, Businaro F, Boland R, Wieland D: One-leg standing balance and functional status in an elderly community-dwelling population in ... Musculoskeletal conditions (in last month): Arthritis Low back pain General joint pain or stiffness Hip, leg and/ or knee pain Neck pain and/ or stiffness Muscle aches Foot and/ or ankle pain Headache Tingling ... compare participants weeks after baseline to assess changes in balance scores as measured by the Berg Balance Scale, One Leg Standing Test and the Activities-specific Balance Confidence scale...

Ngày tải lên: 13/08/2014, 14:20

... land is fixed in all periods, but the rental price can change according to changes in demand 3.2.3 Balance of payments and trade Changes in the balance of payments are also driven by trends in ... Textile and Apparel Barriers and Rules of Origin in a Post-ATC World Alan Fox U.S International Trade Commission, Washington, DC William Powers U.S International Trade Commission, Washington, DC Ashley ... real and financial stocks and inter-temporal optimization by economic agents USAGE-ITC distinguishes 523 commodities, 521 industries, 23 foreign regions, and a detailed handling of margins and...

Ngày tải lên: 12/04/2013, 16:17

... System.Object, ByVal e As System.EventArgs) Handles MyBase.Load GenerateData() End Sub In the class module for the form, add the code in Listing 6.7 to create the GenerateData routine After creating the ... 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() Try odaResults.Fill(dtResults) ... statement, this routine assigns it to the Text property of lblSQLString Then the string is used in a data adapter that was created to fill the dtResults data table Last, the data table is set as...

Ngày tải lên: 14/12/2013, 20:16

... building a Web site that a user can order products from, store their shopping cart in the database Using a DataGrid Control to Access a Database A DataGrid allows you to access rows in a database ... to create a DataSet object You use a DataSet object to store a local copy of the information stored in the database A DataSet object can represent database structures such as tables, rows, and ... store information that is shared for all users One use for the Application object might be to store a DataSet object containing a product catalog The information is stored in name and value pairs,...

Ngày tải lên: 24/12/2013, 01:17

... time Because the agent can always underreport and steal at rate γR until termination, any incentive compatible strategy yields the agent at least R In contrast, this constraint may bind in a discrete-time ... Cadenillas, Abel, Jaksa Cvitanic, and Fernando Zapatero, 2003, Dynamic principal-agent problems with perfect information, Working paper, USC Clementi, Gian Luca, and Hugo A Hopenhayn, 2002, A ... principal randomizes when the agent defaults) Second, because cash flows may be arbitrarily negative in a continuous-time setting, the contract may involve a compensating balance requirement as...

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Ngày tải lên: 15/02/2014, 07:20

... judiciary, and a general system of checks and balances, to protect public liberty against corruption and to safeguard the equal individual rights of all citizens against each other and against the state ... political and legal structures of North America and Western Europe, and recently also of South America and Eastern Europe, with growing influence in Asia and Africa, but the theoretical coherence and ... sides in the shallow academic culture wars had approached republican doctrine in the spirit of litigants, quarrying history for partisan advantage, without real interest in learning from the past...

Ngày tải lên: 18/02/2014, 11:20

... circulated; a frantic translation of incoming images into collages of ‘ideal companies’; less frantic but steady attempts to translate those images into the local practices and vice-versa; and once again ... more becoming a matter of practice: eating at particular restaurants, staying at particular hotels or choosing particular means of transportation Cultural capital, in Holt’s interpretation, is ... myriad of tools and concepts embracing presented as tools for achieving sustainability (including initiatives such as LCA, dematerialization, factor four and factor 10, ecological footprints, natural...

Ngày tải lên: 19/02/2014, 17:20

... resulting in an averaged spatially resolved concentration pattern for each wind class Various input data was taken into account in the calculations as described earlier [18,19], including annual data ... averages In addition, we examined mean maternal PM10 and NO2 exposure levels during total pregnancy according to maternal characteristics and infant characteristics Information on these characteristics ... home address, using a combination of continuous monitoring data and GIS based dispersion modelling techniques, taking into account both the spatial and temporal variation in air pollution In addition,...

Ngày tải lên: 06/03/2014, 19:20

... Intelligent Analysis and Information Systems in Germany, an International Fellow of the Yale Law School Information Society Project and has been an International Scholar at the Information Law and Policy ... environmental rationality against trade rationality, human rights rationality against the rationality of diplomatic intercourse Thus described, fragmentation of international law would articulate a rather ... behind relying on national patent law is revealed by the Ayahuasca Liana case, where da Vine was only patentable because of its slightly modified petal and leaf shape But also approaches relying...

Ngày tải lên: 07/03/2014, 11:20

... narrates a tale about marriage and love in early 19th Century England, this “discourse” has distinct qualities thanks to her intentional use of language in a certain way and with a certain style ... bookstore that had also used the “Amazon” name Initially, one would assume that Amazon.com would have a good case for registering “Amazon” both as a trademark and a domain name Before the Amazon.com ... intellectual and creative works, so that they are not alienated from their actual creators and openly available to anyone This system would encourage and reward the sharing of information and the advancement...

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Ngày tải lên: 08/03/2014, 16:20

... a great deal of training data available, and the statistical methods used are simple and unsophisticated However, we still get a significant improvement on rules alone by adding a trainable component ... 22.2% Table 1: Percentage semantic interpretation errors on in- domain test data for different amounts of training data and different versions of the system Training and test data both in speech ... Training and decoding Training data for ALTERF is supplied in the form of a text file containing one example per line, in the format (Wavfile) (Atoms) (Transcription) where (Wavfile) is the name...

Ngày tải lên: 08/03/2014, 21:20

... not many researchers on the CSR field Many recent years, taking part in many organizations and political economy in the world WTO, ASEAN has attracted many investors and business organizations ... packing materials) In the area of making quality assurance of staff's living standard, a web search “Google" which treats their staff as golden is a best example More than that is many corporations ... implementation, CSR reporting of CSR in a multinational company operating in Vietnam by asking respondents' understanding and opinion From conducting the research, it is able to show the understanding...

Ngày tải lên: 13/03/2014, 14:19

... and Mullineaux, 1987) as the formative reason for the commercial-bank clearinghouses in the U.S., and eventually for the Federal Reserve Chari and Jagannathan (1988), Jacklin and Bhattacharya ... playing a coordination game For example, suppose that there are two possible industries in which banks can invest, denoted as and Bank A (B) can lend to firms A1 and A2 (B1 and B2 ) in industries and ... seventh largest bank in the U.S when it failed in 1984, as providing evidence against a significant role being played by inter-bank linkages in contagion.16 9.3 Herding Linked to Managerial Reputation...

Ngày tải lên: 15/03/2014, 09:20

Ngày tải lên: 15/03/2014, 14:20

... narrates a tale about marriage and love in early 19th Century England, this “discourse” has distinct qualities thanks to her intentional use of language in a certain way and with a certain style ... bookstore that had also used the “Amazon” name Initially, one would assume that Amazon.com would have a good case for registering “Amazon” both as a trademark and a domain name Before the Amazon.com ... intellectual and creative works, so that they are not alienated from their actual creators and openly available to anyone This system would encourage and reward the sharing of information and the advancement...

Ngày tải lên: 16/03/2014, 12:20

... amplifying the 4-1BB and TRAF1 cDNAs were: 5¢-GAATTCAAGCTTATGGGA AACAGCTGTTACAACATA-3¢ and 5¢-GAATTCAAG CTTCACAGTTCACATCCTCCTTCTTCT-3¢ for 4-1BB, 5¢-CCCGGGATATCATGGCCTCCAGCTCAGGCAG CAGTC-3¢ and ... 5¢-CCCGGGAAGCTTCGGACCATGG AACAGAAGCCAAGCAAGGTG-3¢ and 5¢-CCCGGG GTCGACGACTTCCTGATCCTCAAAGACCTC-3¢ In order to overexpress 4-1BB and TRAF1 in the HeLaTR cells, the entire coding regions of the 4-1BB and ... protein was fractionated on a polyacrylamide gel and visualized by an image analyzer The arrow indicates the band of human TRa1 protein (C) Reporter luciferase activities induced by T3 HeLaTR and...

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