... an Intel P4 Thigh & shin Microhinged sliders tethers Torsional hinges Fig 12: Close-up of a leg assembly REDUCED ORDER MODELING The idea behind reduced-order modeling is to reduce the order p of ... matrix, KNonLin,i are the cubic nonlinearities, and the i index is a function of the displacement vector q A complete derivation can be found at [1] To see the significance of the nonlinear stiffness ... to the sliders pull on the microhinged tethers These forces represent the minimum force requirement for an actual actuator such as an inchworm motor Future work in this area includes friction in...
Ngày tải lên: 25/01/2014, 13:20
... A.Criminal Justice Institute Survey: Managing the Needs of Aging Inmates and Inmates With Chronic and Terminal Illnesses 59 Managing the Needs of Aging Inmates 61 Managing ... Ohio In Ohio, all wardens receive training on the aging process and its impact on inmates In five institutions, elderly inmates are housed together in distinct units; one of these is the Hocking ... IDENTIFYING THE SPECIAL NEEDS OF INMATES INTRODUCTION Correctional managers are now being asked to meet the needs of a growing population of elderly inmates and inmates who exhibit a variety of complex...
Ngày tải lên: 14/03/2014, 17:20
Broken Bonds - Understanding and Addressing the Needs of Children with Incarcerated Parents doc
... population One of the greatest needs within the policy community lies in obtaining better records of the number of children with incarcerated parents Information about these children, their caregivers, ... percent In contrast to incarcerated fathers, most mothers in prison lived with their children before the arrest, often in a single-parent household While many of these mothers resided with other ... disrupting the family, losing custody of the children, or implying poor parenting on the part of the incarcerated parent The time consuming and expensive process of obtaining formal rights also...
Ngày tải lên: 29/03/2014, 03:20
THE ECONOMICS OF CLOUD COMPUTING ADDRESSING THE BENEFITS OF INFRASTRUCTURE IN THE CLOUD potx
... The Economics of Cloud Computing Addressing the Benefits of Infrastructure in the Cloud The federal government is embracing cloud computing as a means of reducing expenditures for information ... estimate the potential absolute savings across the federal government (As part of the Information Technology Infrastructure Line of Business [ITI LoB] initiative, GSA is coordinating a benchmarking ... and the near-term costs and other impacts of a transition from the current environment Factors such as the number and rate of federal agencies adopting cloud computing, the length of their transitions...
Ngày tải lên: 31/03/2014, 05:21
Legal issues relating to the archiving of Internet resources in the UK, EU, USA and Australia pot
... made of them during the term of copyright? Other difficulties arise not in terms of ownership of the content, but rather in terms of the legality of the content itself - to what extent is the ... be the main thrust of the Act It drafters intended the CDA to introduce new criminal offences of knowingly creating, sending, transmitting or displaying obscene or indecent materials to minors, ... collected by simply downloading them over the Internet The purpose of the MINERVA prototype was to gain insights into the practical issues involved in collecting and organizing selected Web sites,...
Ngày tải lên: 06/03/2014, 21:20
Báo cáo khoa học: "Case markers and Morphology: Addressing the crux of the fluency problem in English-Hindi SMT" pot
... corpus Training, tuning, and decoding were performed using the Moses toolkit Tuning (learning the λ values discussed in section 4.1) was done using minimum error rate training (Och, 2003) The Stanford ... separation of the lemma and suffix helps in tiding over the data sparsity problem by allowing the system to reason about the suffix-case marker combination rather than the combination of the specific ... For instance, in the Stanford parser, the agent relation is the complement of a passive verb introduced by the preposition by, whereas in UNL it º john ne seba khaayaa Thus, the combination of the...
Ngày tải lên: 08/03/2014, 00:20
Monetary Policy in the Eurozone: Evaluating the European Central Bank’s interest rate decisions and the needs of member states using a Taylor rule ppt
... and the questioning of the long-term viability of the Eurozone as the prospect of a breakup of the euro is increasingly viewed as possible.” While the potential fiscal and political causes of the ... time of this investigation, March 2012, are late enough to represent the revised versions of many of the numbers used The issue of the “timings” of the data is addressed again by the nature of ... discussed in more detail in the “risks” section), the qualitative analysis of each of the trends in the Taylor rates of each of these important example countries will put a limited amount of weight...
Ngày tải lên: 29/03/2014, 13:20
báo cáo sinh học:" Human resources and the quality of emergency obstetric care in developing countries: a systematic review of the literature" potx
... Among them is the inadequacy of human resources (HR) in developing countries In the health sector in general, and in maternal health in particular, health care professionals are at the heart of the ... that the failure of the policy regarding traditional birth attendants is due mainly to the lack of technical legitimacy in their training, the excessive supervision required, the difficulty of ... phase of labour [28,45] and on interpersonal communication with the patient [53] Further studies are needed to determine the ideal number of training years, the type of staff to train and the number...
Ngày tải lên: 18/06/2014, 17:20
báo cáo hóa học:"The role of disclosure in relation to assent to participate in HIV-related research among HIV-infected youth: a formative study" docx
... told at the beginning of the research Their reasons focused on reducing the children being taken aback upon learning their status during the course of the research and for enhancing the children's ... component of the research, being mindful that the minors participating in the research may in fact want to know that they have HIV Participation in the research could serve as a first step in the disclosure ... caregivers of youth who had been informed of their HIV status explored decisions by parents and caregivers on the timing of disclosure of the youth' s HIV-positive status to the youth in non-research...
Ngày tải lên: 20/06/2014, 08:20
Báo cáo khoa học: "Forecasting wood resources on the basis of national forest inventory data. Application to Pinus pinaster Ait. in southwestern France" ppsx
... Despite the increasing intensity of final cuts and thinnings, the simulations indicated that wood resources continued to increase in the ‘Landes de Gascogne’ during 1988–1998 Final harvest The simulated ... practiced in the region Scenario SII represents an alternative silviculture regime, with thinnings more intense than in the SI of the owners Under these scenarios the number of thinnings and the final ... number of dead trees during the years preceding the survey (Nmort), the basal area exploited during the years preceding the survey (Gecl), the basal area of the trees that died during the years...
Ngày tải lên: 08/08/2014, 14:21
báo cáo khoa học: "Bridging the gap between basic science and clinical practice: The role of organizations in addressing clinician barriers" pps
... statement of Investigator (Form FDA 1572)] will never the third trial But they get into it thinking they were going to start a research business They walk in and anoint their office nurse study coordinator ... research methods [6]) The remaining participants with expertise in the conduct of clinical research in community settings contributed to our development of strategies for addressing clinicians’ concerns ... sessions for clinicians interested in clinical research could contribute to a sense of community and provide a way for clinicians in the information-gathering stage to obtain advice from clinicians...
Ngày tải lên: 10/08/2014, 10:23
báo cáo khoa học: " The role of business in addressing the long-term implications of the current food crisis" docx
... hampered them talking to each other, are slowly giving way to the development of creative ways of interacting The emergence of new business models that tackle social problems while remaining profitable ... about 15 percent addressing micronutrients and percent focus on stunting and hunger In contrast, there has been progress in redressing this lack of investment in science in developing countries ... variety of foods, often of lower nutritional quality, reducing portion sizes, eating wild foods and seed stock (in rural areas), seeking credit or borrowing, begging and in time, starving These...
Ngày tải lên: 11/08/2014, 14:21
báo cáo khoa học: " The production of consumption: addressing the impact of mineral mining on tuberculosis in southern Africa" pdf
... tuberculosis in the general population to the number of mines in the population among southern African The relationship of tuberculosis in the general population to the number of mines in the population ... delineation of responsibilities between different institutions Several government ministries are involved in the management of TB in mining, including the Department of Minerals and Energy, the Department ... not causation, the finding indicates that the implications of mining for community-wide tuberculosis control requires further investigation What is currently being done? The mining industry has...
Ngày tải lên: 11/08/2014, 14:21
Gradient enhanced plasticity and damage models addressing the limitations of classical models in softening and hardening
... dependence on the orientation and size of the finite element mesh during softening In the limit of infinitesimal element size, the softening behavior localizes to a set of zero volume and the material ... size of the finite element mesh during softening To the limit of infinitesimal element size, the softening behavior localizes to a band of zero volume and the material response approaches that of ... representation of the micro processes during loading The intensely heterogeneous deformation during strain softening clearly violates the assumption of smoothly varying fields and standard continuum models...
Ngày tải lên: 10/09/2015, 08:25
The contribution and impact of sele enat charitable organization in fulfilling the needs of destitute children and their families
... empower them to become self-reliant mothers as a sustainable strategy The IGP will be conducted in group of ten to twenty mothers depending on 40 the kind of business they plan to involve in Then the ... saving and IGP The monthly stipend helps the mothers to fulfill the basic needs of their children The support reduces the mothers’ stress to provide their children with minimum of their needs The ... understand the lived experience of a group of people by collecting data through interactive interviews The interviews proceed in the form of storytelling with little or no intervention of the interviewer...
Ngày tải lên: 14/08/2017, 16:49
The Fundamentals of Drawing in Colour
... or lying on the ground) with all the vertical poles diminishing in size as they proceed along the limiting lines of perspective towards a central vanishing point lying in the centre of the horizon ... end of your picture Start with the outline The colour could be ultramarine but a fairly watery mix Then define all the blocks of architecture and the line of the base of the buildings where they ... and interest to the details of the buildings Cover the areas of distant vegetation with a green tone Then with a much deeper version of the original colour of the canal, put in the reflection of...
Ngày tải lên: 13/09/2012, 14:19
Cambridge.University.Press.The.Crisis.of.Literature.in.the.1790s.Print.Culture.and.the.Public.Sphere.Nov.1999.pdf
... these values, could be contained The emotional intensity of the backlash against the intrusions of these subaltern groups suggests the importance of reading these developments in ways which interfuse ... advances in the print industry.22 In Letters on Education (1790), Catherine Macaulay argued that the ‘advantages of printing, by rendering easy the communication of ideas, giving an universality to their ... demonstrates, they are none the less able to inscribe themselves within it, and in doing so, to gain a limited measure of autonomy without necessarily reproducing the myth of the selfdetermining subject.31...
Ngày tải lên: 21/09/2012, 11:00
Circuit theory of finance and the role of incentives in financial sector reform
... profitability is declining The internalization of information within the same institution may thus enhance intra-circuit and inter-circuit stability by reducing the incentive to overfinancing The ... Creating a stronger investor base amounts to strengthening the circuit by completing the financial market structure of the economy, thus eliminating discontinuities in the transmission of information ... placing money with investment financial institutions in the capital market, and hold the remaining share in noninterest bearing, short-term bank deposits (eq 7) The share of savings going to the...
Ngày tải lên: 24/10/2012, 09:33
Báo cáo y học: "The characterisation of mucin in a mature ovarian teratoma occurring in an eight year old patient
... resulted in most of the mucin eluting in the included volume of the column, suggesting the findings of previous studies that the mucin sample could have had a fraction resistant to reduction [12] The ... of the purified mucin gave high amounts of ‘mucin-like amino acids, serine, threonine and proline Serine and threonine are points of O-glycosylation found in the tandem repeat regions of mucins ... confirming the specificity of the antibody Amino Acid Analysis The results are shown in Table with the signature amino acids for mucins, namely, serine, threonine and proline comprising 48.3% of the...
Ngày tải lên: 26/10/2012, 10:03
Báo cáo y học: "Thioglycosides as inhibitors of hSGLT1 and hSGLT2: Potential therapeutic agents for the control of hyperglycemia in diabetes"
... consider because they are not hydrolysed by β-glucosidases in the intestine and can be administered orally [27] Therefore, the aim of the present study was to evaluate the inhibitory effect of some thioglycosides ... Furthermore, thioglycosides are not metabolized in the intestine [27] Therefore, a chemical reaction to convert the substance in its active form, after intestinal absorption like in the case of ... baseline reading, 0.1 ml of PBS containing 10 µM of the compound investigated was added, and the fluorescence signal was recorder for 40 sec The change in fluorescence was calculated as the ratio...
Ngày tải lên: 26/10/2012, 10:04