... central Arctic have warmed by 0.5°C), temperatures in Canada’s Hudson Bay and in Greenland, particularly in the Davis Strait area have decreased (Chapman and Walsh 1993), suggesting that climate ... northern Canada; the Kalaallit and Inughuit of Greenland; the Saami of Fennoscandia and Russia’s Kola peninsula; and the Chukchi, Even, Evenk, Nenets, Nivkhi and Yukaghir of the Russian Far North and ... UV-radiation and the long-range transported contaminants in arctic and alpine regions are stress factors that challenge terrestrial and aquatic ecosystems The large natural variation in the physical parameters...
Ngày tải lên: 23/03/2014, 01:20
... corresponding data packet, since such information is contained in the MAC header and is in many instances transmitted at a rate higher than what STAs can support Fortunately, since each data packet sometimes ... sustainable rates between STAs and STAd , between STAs and STAh , and between STAh and STAd , respectively 3.2.1 Data Plane Before the transmission of a packet, station STAs should access all ... physical layer header (PLCP header) of any 802.11 data packet has rate information in its PLCP signaling field Since PLCP header is always transmitted at the base rate, it can be decoded and understood...
Ngày tải lên: 21/06/2014, 20:20
The dynamics of literary representation and interpretation in a multilingual environment a study of selected malaysian and singaporean novels in english
... in an article, “Trial and Error in Malayan Poetry”, Wang Gungwu admits that they “had promoted a didactic approach to poetry in Malaya” and that their “moral and political attidudes to Malaya ... Achenese, Javanese, Sulawesis and Minangkabaus from Sumatra They spoke different varieties of Malay Munshi Abdullah in his travel accounts contrasts the ‘pure Malay language’ (Andaya & Andaya 119) ... surprising that the main lingua franca among the non-English educated remained Bazaar Malay, while among the English educated, a new lingua franca, Singapore-Malayan English, developed “mainly...
Ngày tải lên: 16/09/2015, 08:30
Quantifying recent trends in seagrass cover and biomass in a stressed environment, pulau semakau, singapore
... SWIR bands, all with 30 meter resolution The USGS Landsat-8 Operational Land Imager (OLI) has similar bands as Landsat-7, with two additional visible and NIR bands Both Landsat-7 and Landsat-8 also ... Singapore’s shallow, intertidal seagrass beds and seagrass beds globally are important in maintaining coastline stability and reducing turbidity Seagrass also provides a significant mechanism ... physiology make them invaluable to human and environmental health 1.1 Importance of seagrass Tropical seagrass meadows play important roles in maintaining the health of adjacent tropical ecosystems and...
Ngày tải lên: 30/09/2015, 10:12
From the Critics’ Corner: Logic Blending, Discursive Change and Authenticity in a Cultural Production System* potx
... world has entered a period of cultural declassification – the unravelling and weakening of ritual classifications critics in as disparate fields as pop music, painting, and literature bemoan aesthetic ... played piano, bass and various brass instruments, Mr Schwartz covered classical music, including the Atlanta Symphony Orchestra and the Atlanta Opera, for the Journal-Constitution as a free-lancer ... Industries, and the Miniconference on the Sociology of Music, August 2003 in Atlanta, GA We thank EGOS and ASA participants for their constructive comments, as well as Candace Jones, Anand Narasimhan,...
Ngày tải lên: 30/03/2014, 16:20
A computational study to investigate the effects of insulation and EGR in a diesel engine
... [29] Arash Nemati, Shahram Khalilarya, Samad Jafarmadar, Hassan Khatamnejhad, Vahid Fathi Numerical parametric investigation of a gasoline fuelled partially-premixed compression-ignition engine International ... the shape of high temperature regions for baseline and adiabatic with EGR cases are the same Also at adiabatic case for 400°CA and 420°CA, these regions more spread out in the main chamber and ... pressure (Imep), and work done per cycle increased in adiabatic case The amount of BSFC at full and part loads are 18 % and 23 % lower respectively in adiabatic case than baseline and it is the...
Ngày tải lên: 05/09/2013, 16:11
New headway- rooms and objects in a house
... Cooker Washing machine Telephone Cupboard Cup Sofa • • • • • • • an armchair a fridge a television a coffee table a shelf a plant a stereo • • • • • • • a lamp a cooker a washing machine a telephone ... Starter Rooms in a house Living room = sitting room Bedroom Kitchen Dining room Bathroom Toilet Objects in the house Armchair Fridge Television Coffee table Bookshelf Plant Stereo Lamp Cooker ... a shelf a plant a stereo • • • • • • • a lamp a cooker a washing machine a telephone a cupboard a cup a sofa ...
Ngày tải lên: 30/09/2013, 13:10
A case-study in IVF - paternalism and autonomy in a ‘high-risk’ pregnancy
... pregnancy There was a significant further advance of her renal disease, necessitating the initiation of haemodialysis (a kidney machine) two years later, and a living, related donor renal transplant ... remaining remarkably stable The pregnancy was complicated at 20 weeks’ gestation by a right deep vein thrombosis, affecting the femoral and external iliac veins, and anti-coagulation with heparin ... IVF in women with renal transplants, but specialists were becoming increasingly reluctant to advise women with transplants against trying for a baby, as medical care for ‘high risk’ pregnancies...
Ngày tải lên: 01/11/2013, 08:20
Tài liệu Debugging C and C++ code in a Unix environment ppt
... cafetaria and some serious caffeine and sugar intake while reading (and annotating) your code carefully Tools In this section a number of tools relating to debugging and analysing your programs ... if you are interested in it Chapter Aspects of debugging C and C++ code Debugging C and C++ code entails noticing, localising, understanding and repairing bugs Noticing and localising a bug You ... assert macro, your program will be aborted as soon as an assertion fails, and you will get a message stating that the assertion expression failed at line l of file f assert is a macro; you can...
Ngày tải lên: 21/01/2014, 06:20
Tài liệu SYSTEMS ANALYSIS AND DESIGN IN A CHANGING WORLD pdf
Ngày tải lên: 15/02/2014, 07:20
Tài liệu Báo cáo khoa học: "Liars and Saviors in a Sentiment Annotated Corpus of Comments to Political debates" pdf
... Theresa Wilson, and Claire Cardie 2005 “Annotating expressions of opinions and emotions in language” In Language Resources and Evaluation, volume 39, 2-3 We are grateful to João Ramalho for his assistance ... Processing and Computational Natural Language Learning, Prague Krippendorff, Klaus 2004 Content Analysis: An Introduction to Its Methodology, 2nd Edition Sage Publications, Thousand Oaks, California ... mentions are classifiable into syntacticsemantic categories; (vi) the opinionated sentences may be characterized according to their polarity and intensity; (vii) each opinionated sentence may have a...
Ngày tải lên: 20/02/2014, 05:20
Coral Reef Fishes: Dynamics and Diversity in a Complex Ecosystem ppt
... for the appearance of many antipredator adaptations, including increased external ornamentation in gastropods (Vermeij, 1977), and infaunalization, boring, and cementation in bivalves and other ... land masses are Gondwanan fragments The break up of Gondwana extended over a period of about 80 Ma from an initial separation about 135 Ma to the final separation of South America and Africa in ... dashed lines indicate Atlantic sites Families: 1, Acanthoclinidae; 2, Acanthuridae; 3, Albulidae; 4, Antennariidae; 5, Aplodactylidae; 6, Aploacinidae; 7, Apogonidae; 8, Aulostomidae; 9, Balistidae;...
Ngày tải lên: 06/03/2014, 18:21
Intellectual Property and Traditional Cultural Expressions in a Digital Environment pptx
... 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 ... 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 ... Press, 2004, at p 107 25 Beatriz Caiuby Labate and Wladimyr Sena Araujo, O Uso Ritual da Ayahuasca, Campinas: Mercado de Letras, 2004; Carsten Balzer, Wege zum Heil: Die Barquinha Eine ethnologische...
Ngày tải lên: 07/03/2014, 11:20
Báo cáo khoa học: "Generating Usable Formats for Metadata and Annotations in a Large Meeting Corpus" pptx
... generation of annotation and metadata databases to enhance search and browsing of meeting recordings This goal can be achieved by providing plugand-play databases, which are much easier to access ... generates the global tab-separated files for each annotation The script also generates an SQL script that creates a relational annotation database and populates it with data from the tab-separated ... important information is spread in many places, and can be found as attributes of a meeting in the annotation files (e.g start time) or obtained by parsing file names (e.g audio channel, camera) The...
Ngày tải lên: 08/03/2014, 02:21
Socioeconomic position and health in a population of Brazilian elderly: the Bambuí Health and Aging Study (BHAS) pdf
... reliability of the data gathered, standardizing procedures and instruments, training of field-work and labo- ratory teams, and adjusting for several confounding variables Internal validity was assured ... (puntuación en el Cuestionario General de Salud, autovaloración del estado de salud y de la agudeza visual, grado de dificultad para caminar 300 metros, incapacidad para realizar las actividades ... appointment because of existing lines, and in obtaining medicines because of financial problems or any other problem (Table 4) ple, in China and India, higher income levels, particularly in urban...
Ngày tải lên: 14/03/2014, 20:20
School Crisis Guide: Help and Healing in a Time of Crisis pot
... activities Make mental health services available, including Employee Assistance Program, if applicable Practice active listening and acknowledge pain and anxiety as well as a healing process that has ... counseling; classroom lesson planning; and where to reassemble students and staff if the school building is unavailable ● Training and practicing Training needs, dates and types of training to ... students, families and staff? ● Provide regular information updates and maintain open communication with teachers, other staff and parents? ● Monitor rumors and maintain timely, accurate information?...
Ngày tải lên: 14/03/2014, 20:20
Diagnosis of pulmonary tuberculosis by smear microscopy and culture in a tertiary health care facility: Biology and Medicine docx
... being achieved Passive case finding is the mainstay of case finding in most developing countries This relies heavily on sputum examination by smear and culture, chest radiology and tuberculin ... (TB) laboratory investigations in tertiary healthcare facilities which have a large number of cases and financial constraints The present study aimed to re-evaluate the efficiency of smear microscopy ... of Science, Jazan University, Jazan, Kingdom of Saudi Arabia *Corresponding Author: kismail@jazanu.edu.sa, sayeedkhatib@hotmail.com Abstract Smear microscopy and culture forms the backbone of tuberculosis...
Ngày tải lên: 15/03/2014, 03:20
Effect of hydrogen peroxide on the destruction of organic contaminants synergism and inhibition in a con
... the reactor was taken using a sampling/drainage valve Sample filtration and analysis was performed immediately after collection 2.3 Analyses Analysis of 4-CBA was performed using an Agilent Series ... M Saquib, M Muneer, Desalination 155 (2003) 255 [63] E.R Bandala, S Gelover, M.T Leal, C Arancibia-Bulnes, A Jimenez, C .A Estrada, Catal Today 76 (2002) 189 [64] A. E.H Machado, J .A de Miranda, ... photocatalytic treatment of organic contaminants in water, Ph.D dissertation, University of Cincinnati, Cincinnati, OH, 2001 [68] T Hisanaga, K Harada, K Tanaka, J Photochem Photobiol A: Chem...
Ngày tải lên: 16/03/2014, 00:07
Geochemistry of inorganic arsenic and selenium in a tropical soil effect of reaction time, ph, and comp
... potential groundwater and surface water contamination by these contaminants Arsenic can exist in inorganic form, organic form, and gaseous state The oxidation states of As in the natural systems are ... metals and occurs in about 50 minerals (Kabata-Pendias and Pendias, 2001) It is present in four different oxidation states in aqueous and subsurface systems, namely )2, 0, +4, and +6 The fate and ... values of their parameters as well as the correlation of determinations (r2 ) Arsenate and Se(IV) adsorption increased significantly with increased adsorbate loading initially and then increased...
Ngày tải lên: 16/03/2014, 00:25
Technology Gap and Efficiency in Cocoa Production in West and Central Africa: Implications for Cocoa Sector Development. ppt
... Braun, Ann R, Thiele, Graham., and Fernandez, Maria., 2002 Farmer Field Schools and Local Agricultural Research Committee: Complementary Platforms for Integrated DecisionMaking in Sustainable Agriculture ... Kielland 2006) Recent global and African production trends are shown in Table In Africa, cocoa production is dominated by four countries Côte d’Ivoire and Ghana produce approximately 41 percent and ... Productivity Analysis In Economics and Management of Shrimp and Carp Farming in Asia: A collection of Research Papers Based on the ADB/NACA Farm Performance Survey, Hayami, Yujiro (1969) Sources of Agricultural...
Ngày tải lên: 18/03/2014, 02:20