... Flame figured it was the same one he had seen from the air—and set a course that soon put them within earshot of what seemed the loneliest bell onthe face of the planet The tiny man-made island ... bottom, and the few mariners who had been out there told the surfers they were crazy Along their intended route, compasses were known to spin in random directions It was a place where theimpossible ... lines In addition to Bishop Rock, other shoal spots lay on Cortes Bank, one only nine fathoms deep Another nine-fathom bank called Tanner lay just to the northeast A few miles out, the ocean plunged...
... “Terminators” The Value of a Naïve Question Preparing for the Big Conversation EPILOGUE REFERENCES Acknowledgments ABOUT THE AUTHORS INDEX This constitutes a continuation of the copyright page: “Boynton ... pleasure in the Hunt Many of them keep notebooks where they record what they’ve seen and heard, and they connect their personal experiences and impressions to their projects and proposals Their search ... notion Of course, the incandescent light bulb was pioneered by none other than Edison, the very symbol of the tinkering genius alone (supposedly) in his lab Yet, as wil be further told in these...
... feel them On February 16th, Edgar Evans died Onthe 17th they were past the mountains At the depot there they ate one of the dead ponies Then they went on - ten, eleven, twelve kilometres a day They ... boy They're very strong ponies, you know Thebest ponies on earth. ' Later that night, Oates wrote a letter to his mother There are nineteen ponies onthe Terra Nova now, he wrote All the ponies ... pulled the Norwegians' sledges They ran quickly over the snow and pulled the big sledges from the ship onto the ice The men ran beside them on skis They put a big wooden house onthe ice The house...
... boy They're very strong ponies, you know Thebest ponies on earth. ' Later that night, Oates wrote a letter to his mother There are nineteen ponies onthe Terra Nova now, he wrote All the ponies ... pulled the Norwegians' sledges They ran quickly over the snow and pulled the big sledges from the ship onto the ice The men ran beside them on skis They put a big wooden house onthe ice The house ... ponies, and twenty-six dogs The dogs were faster than the ponies - they ran quickly over the top of the snow, but the ponies' feet went through it Every morning the ponies started first, and the...
... had the sales force’s attention, we moved on to the mission Clearly the interpretation of the mission by each camp was further distorting and inflaming the situation The process of mission clarification ... out in the afternoon The product enters the store and is immediately onthe shelf The production-to-consumer sequence is short, controlled, and efficient Another example of an operationally excellent ... up-front with the customer in a one -on- one relationship pays great dividends in the long term People and businesses pay premium prices to have their needs legitimized, their concerns heard, and their...
... opportunities, and delivering on specific key milestones Growth companies, especially those in the Inc 500|5000, are a prime source of these skill sets Given that our firm, Avondale, is engaged in partnering ... 2 They are large enough more than 75% of the Inc 5000 generates more than $5 million in annual revenue to quickly scale a new business They have developed unique capabilities ... market companies to find new growth engines, we are putting our money where our mouth is on this topic Similarly, many of you run growing companies and have sources of growth, in the form of new...
... or more specifically the conditional random fields (CRF) model We focus onthe issue of finding translations in mixed code snippets returned by a search engine The translations are identified, ... transliteration feature is the most important Overall, the system with full features perform the best, finding reasonably correct translations for out of 10 phrases 4.2 Table Cases failing the exact ... translations for over 50% of the cases, and at least partially correct almost 90% of the cases Conclusion and Future work We have presented a new method for finding translations onthe Web for...
... connects the needs of the customer to the needs of the manufacturer and the loop onthe left connects the needs of society to the needs of the manufacturer A necessary but not suf®cient condition for ... Fig The demand curves for the simulated purchase of a lottery taking the course as part of a continuing education pro- ticket H E Cook, A Wu: Onthe valuation of goods and selection of thebest ... H E Cook, A Wu: Onthe valuation of goods and selection of thebest design alternative The purpose here is three-fold The ®rst is to illustrate the use of the model to gain insight...
... secondary prevention Part of this book considers secondary prevention in light of some of the major HEALTHCARE COSTS chronic diseases I have focused on these chronic diseases because these are the ... billion $289 billion $133 billion $130 billion The rest goes to medical equipment and other services like dental care and research Take a look at the diagram onthe next page I call it thethe ... you can see from Prevention the diagram, this is the smallest (Conventional, Complementary Therapy) section of the pyramid Primary prevention is the least costly Institutional Care thing we can...
... numbers, and let f be a convex function on I If a, b, c, d ∈ I such that c, d ∈ a, b and pa qb pc qd, 2.4 then qf b ≥ pf c pf a qf d 2.5 Lemma 2.3 Let f be a convex function on I, and let x1 , x2 ... 61 of c c c Mathematics and Its Applications, Kluwer Academic Publishers, Dordrecht, The Netherlands, 1993 S S Dragomir, J Peˇ ari´ , and L E Persson, “Properties of some functionals related ... this inequality is a consequence of Jensen’s inequality Thus, the proof is completed 4.3 10 Journal of Inequalities and Applications Proof of Propositions Proof of Proposition 2.6 Using Corollary...
... variation in arterial pulse pressure recorded with an arterial catheter The strength of the study is that it takes into account the variation in the ‘pulse’ wave rather than that in the peak of the ... in the presence of motion, hypothermia or arterial vasoconstriction, although the new generation of pulse oximeters allows one to optimize the recorded signal-to-noise ratio and thus improve the ... Monnet et al good correlation between respiratory variation in the amplitude of the ‘pulse’ wave (peak–nadir) calculated from variations in the POP waveform (called ∆POP by the authors) and the...
... reasons for considering selection based onthebest predictor, and a lot of other results onthebest predictor are summarised in [12] (see also references Selection based onthebest predictor ... Furthermore, by selecting any upper fraction of the population onthe basis of ui bp , then the expected value of Ui (in the selected proportion) is maximised These properties, which are reasons ... distribution that does not depend ˆ on fixed effects Furthermore, if parents of the next generation are chosen based onthebest predictor of their breeding values, then the expected response to...
... of the head mark the position of the ears The tongue is another important means of sensing their surroundings In the roof of the mouth is Jacobson’s organ This is sensitive to chemicals gathered ... links to other relevant sources of additional information Chapter 1, The Land, looks at the living conditions that animals face on land, and briefly reviews the course of evolution among land ... adaptations of the animals that live there This is one reason for the existence of a huge range of animals in the modern world, and throughout the many millions of years that animals have lived on the...
... and correct them One of thebest important steps on early man ,s long road to civilization was the invention of the wheel Yet, it look as though the day of the wheel is over Already the wheel is ... think as quick as other children and are clumsy when they use their hand There are another long-term effects of pollution If the gases in the atmosphere continue to increasing, theearth ,s climate ... crashed into the Dylan The man and the boy lied onthe street They were bleeding terribly The girl was seeing the accident She ran to the telephone book The police and an ambulance came at once (line….)...
... (Definition 1) – A disjunctive analysis (the real either wholly on one side of the ideal, or partly on it, but none onthe other side) “Concave,” requiring the following considerations: – The idea ... being taken, the straight between the points either all fall onthe same side of the line, or some fall onthe same side, and some onthe line itself, but none onthe other side /3/ ... distinguishes this clause, onthe relation between the volumes, from the next one, onthe relation between the surfaces In other words, the cylinder “itself ” is what we call the volume of the cylinder.”...