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... black and other immigrant mothers are much less likely to smoke or drink during pregnancy; less likely to smoke around their children; less likely to drink on a regular basis; and more likely ... Smoking Around Child Age Age Age Maternal Binge Drinking Age Age Age Frequency of Maternal Smoking Age None < packs/day 5-1 pack/day >1 pack / day Age None < packs/day 5-1 pack/day >1 pack / ... significantly more likely to breastfeed than U .K. -born white mothers, but no less likely to smoke or drink while pregnant In contrast, South Asian, black and other immigrant mothers are more likely to breastfeed...

Ngày tải lên: 12/02/2014, 12:20

... In K A Ericsson, N Charness, P Feltovich, and R R Hoffman (Eds.) Cambridge Handbook of Expertise and Expert Performance, pp 685–706 Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press 27.  K A Ericsson and ... Science and Technology Prepare and Inspire: K- 12 Science, Technology, Engineering, and Math (STEM) Education for America’s Future Working Group Report ★ xiii ★ PCAST K- 12 STEM Education Working ... science and technology and has been designed to assess the kinds of skills needed in today’s workplace, U.S 15-year-olds scored below most other nations tested in 2006, and the U.S standing dropped...

Ngày tải lên: 12/02/2014, 19:20

... in tuxedo's for the men and black outfits for the women The performers consisted of women and 10 men The orchestra was conducted by Zvonimir Hacko Programs were provided and the concert followed ... was outstanding and uplifting The concert opened with Mozart's marvelous miniature, “Eine Kleine Nachtmusik” which stands for (“A Little Serenade”) Mozart's Serenade, which is like a tiny symphony, ... pulses and dissonance's So much was happening that all you could was go for the ride and enjoy it The last major piece was by Copland, called Concerto for Clarinet and String Orchestra with Harp and...

Ngày tải lên: 21/03/2014, 22:00

... 1986; Gause and panels (KO, AIper, 1987; Popper and McConnell, 1987; Malkan and KO, 1989; Brookstein, 1990; Brookstein, 1991; Fedro and Willden, 1991; Gong and Sankar, 1991; Brookstein, 1993; ... Netherlands To my wife Hua and my children Richard and Victoria L Tong To my wife Jenny and my children Lauren and C r s i n hita A.P Mouritz To my wife Ruth and my children Lachlan and Emma M .K ... K. H Leong, Dr P.J Callus, Dr P Falzon, Mr K Houghton, Dr L .K Jain and Dr B.N Cox We are thankful to many colleagues, in particular to Professors T.-W Chou, 0.0.Ochoa, and P Smith, for their kind...

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Ngày tải lên: 22/03/2014, 13:20

... homology (3.13) and homotopy K- theory (3.14) We introduce infinitesimal K- theory in Section and prove that it satisfies cdh-descent This already suffices to prove that X is K d−1 -regular and Kn (X) = for ... objet dans A k ” to “Alors G· est un objet dans A k+ 1 ”], and descending induction on k, we have that Ak is generated by Lq ∗ G ⊗ OY (−l), l = k, , d − CYCLIC HOMOLOGY 553 Remark 1.3 As a consequence ... (Corti˜as) Kinf satisfies excision on the category of n Q-algebras Theorem 4.3 Kinf satisfies Nisnevich descent Proof Both K and HN do, by [34, 10.8] and Theorem 2.9 From Theorem 2.10 and Remark 1.6,...

Ngày tải lên: 29/03/2014, 07:20

... Frenchman Valley Morgan Creek Rock Creek East A Rock Creek West A Rock Creek West B Rock Creek West C Rock Creek West E Wood Mountain Creek CCDP Core 13–31–1–2 W3 Police Island (74) (75) (76) (77) ... Maastrichtian–Danian average about 800 thousand years (Cande and Kent 1995) and C29r, which spans the K T boundary, is between 570 and 833 thousand years (Cande and Kent 1995, D’Hondt et al 1996) Thus, ... TOTAL Brockton (30) Brownie Butte [1984] Brownie Butte [1999] Herpijunk Promontory Herpijunk Northeast Billy Creek Rick’s Place Iridium Hill Lerbekmo Seven Blackfoot Seven Blackfoot Creek (32) (33)...

Ngày tải lên: 08/04/2014, 00:27

... care as well Thanks to the dermatologic surgery Fellows – Khosrow Mark Mehrany, Weimin Hu, Valencia Thomas, and Andrea Willey I would like to thank my coauthors Neil Swanson and Han Lee – Neil ... EXCISIONS AND REPAIRS Ken K Lee, MD Director of Dermatologic Surgery Associate Professor of Dermatology, Surgery, Otolaryngology/Head & Neck Surgery Oregon Health & Science University Portland, Oregon ... EXCISION AND REPAIR 30 SIMPLE EXCISION AND REPAIR Figure 2.13 Keloid Excision Keloids have a tendency to recur Excision should be accompanied by intralesional steroids and pressure A, B Keloid...

Ngày tải lên: 12/05/2014, 17:35

... includes Quirky, Jerky, Extra Perky: More about Adjectives He has also written Peanut Butter and Jellyfishes: A Very Silly Alphabet Book and two poetry books Mr Cleary lives in Cleveland, Ohio Brian ... Homonyms and Homophones? I and You and Don't Forget Who: What Is a Pronoun? A Lime, a Mime, a Pool of Slime: More about Nouns A Mink, a Fink, a Skating Rink: What Is a Noun? Pitch and Throw, Grasp and ... CATegorical™ books, and the Make Me Laugh joke books Mr Gable also works as a political cartoonist for the Globe and Mail newspaper in Toronto, Canada, where he lives with his children j Millbrook Press...

Ngày tải lên: 19/06/2014, 08:20

... (4.3) Let k 1 > and k > be two consecutive elements of a positive semicycle and consider the identity ¯ ¯ − + y + k 1 k + β k k 1 − y k 1 k+ 1 k = + ¯ k k 1 k k 1 + y + k 1 (4.4) ... Thus yk+1 must be greater or equal to yk The cases yk+1 = yk = −1 and yk+1 = yk = (β − 3)/4 are not to be considered because yk+3 does not exist for these choices If yk+1 = yk , then yk+2 = yk+1 ... if yk+1 > is the first element in a negative semicycle, then yk+2 < yk+1 Proof Consider the equation yk+2 = 4βyk+1 − (β − 1)2 4yk+1 β − − yk (β − 1)2 − = yk+1 + + yk + yk + yk (3.1) When < yk+1...

Ngày tải lên: 23/06/2014, 00:20

... Design of Linear Feedback Control, John Wiley & Sons, New York, 1957 18 Dorf, R C and Kusiak, A., Handbook of Automation and Manufacturing, John Wiley & Sons, New York, 1994 19 Dorf, R C., The ... modeling, (ii) sensors and actuators, (iii) signals and systems, (iv) computers and logic systems, and (v) software and data acquisition Engineers and scientists from all walks of life and fields of study ... Harshama, F., Tomizuka, M., and Fukuda, T., “Mechatronics—What is it, why, and how?—an editorial,” IEEE/ASME Transactions on Mechatronics, Vol 1, No 1, 1996, pp 1–4 Auslander, D M and Kempf, C J., Mechatronics:...

Ngày tải lên: 27/06/2014, 17:20

... [1.10] X Huang, W C Lee, C Kuo, D Hisamoto, L Chang, J Kedzierski, E Anderson, H Takeuchi, Y K Choi, K Asano, V Subramanian, T J King, Chapter 1: Introduction 10 J Bokor, and C Hu, “Sub-50-nm FINFET ... preferential breakdown in the high -K and interfacial layer (IL) stack Using carrier separation measurements, breakdowns in high -K stack are attributed to an interface-initiated or bulk layer breakdown in ... S Kim, J S Lee, K Fujihara, H K Kang, J T Moon, and M Y Lee, “CMOS Device Scaling Beyond 100nm,” IEDM Tech Dig., pp.235-238, 2000 [1.7] S H Lee, B J Cho, J C Kim, and S H Choi, “Quasi-breakdown...

Ngày tải lên: 16/09/2015, 17:12

... the typical entries of both sides and checking that m (AB)ij = (AB)ji = m Ajk Bki = k= 1 (B )ik (A )kj = (B A )ij , k= 1 where m is the number of columns of A and the number of rows of B It is ... n2 × k2 , with n1 + n2 = n and k1 + k2 = k Thus X11 and X12 have the same number of rows, and also X21 and X22 , as required for the submatrices to fit together horizontally Similarly, X11 and ... distribution of a continuous r.v X is k ≡ E X − E(X) ∞ k = (x − µ )k f (x) dx, −∞ where µ ≡ E(X) For a discrete X, the k th central moment is k ≡ E X − E(X) k m p(xi )(xi − µ )k = i=1 By far the most important...

Ngày tải lên: 08/04/2014, 12:28

... the typical entries of both sides and checking that m (AB)ij = (AB)ji = m Ajk Bki = k= 1 (B )ik (A )kj = (B A )ij , k= 1 where m is the number of columns of A and the number of rows of B It is ... n2 × k2 , with n1 + n2 = n and k1 + k2 = k Thus X11 and X12 have the same number of rows, and also X21 and X22 , as required for the submatrices to fit together horizontally Similarly, X11 and ... distribution of a continuous r.v X is k ≡ E X − E(X) ∞ k = (x − µ )k f (x) dx, −∞ where µ ≡ E(X) For a discrete X, the k th central moment is k ≡ E X − E(X) k m p(xi )(xi − µ )k = i=1 By far the most important...

Ngày tải lên: 04/07/2014, 15:20

... dimension less than k, say k , where k is the largest number of columns of X that are linearly independent of each other The number k is called the rank of X Look again at Figure 2.8, and imagine that ... of the page Thus, in this case, k = and k = When the dimension of S(X) is k < k, S(X) will be identical to S(X ), where X is an n × k matrix consisting of any k linearly independent columns of ... −1 = Tr (X X) X X = Tr(Ik ) = k The first equality in the second line makes use of (2.68) Then, because we are multiplying a k × k matrix by its inverse, we get a k × k identity matrix, the trace...

Ngày tải lên: 04/07/2014, 15:20

... matrix is of dimension m × k Then we can create X matrices of dimensions 2m × k, 3m × k, 4m × k, and so on, simply by stacking as many copies of the original X matrix as we like By simulating error ... involves Copyright c 1999, Russell Davidson and James G MacKinnon 100 The Statistical Properties of Ordinary Least Squares a k vector, in this case x, and a k × k matrix, in this case A By the ... of Davidson and MacKinnon (1993) provides a simple proof of a relatively elementary law of large numbers More advanced LLNs are discussed in Section 4.7 of that book, and, in more detail, in Davidson...

Ngày tải lên: 04/07/2014, 15:20

... (0, σ I) (4.28) Here X1 is an n × k1 matrix, X2 is an n × k2 matrix, β1 is a k1 vector, β2 is a k2 vector, k = k1 + k2 , and the number of restrictions r = k2 Unless r = 1, it is no longer ... y1 , y2 and X ≡ X1 , X2 where y1 and y2 are, respectively, an n1 vector and an n2 vector, while X1 and X2 are n1 × k and n2 × k matrices Even if we need different parameter vectors, β1 and β2 ... squared, standard normal random variables From the definition of the chi-squared distribution, Copyright c 1999, Russell Davidson and James G MacKinnon 4.3 Some Common Distributions 137 we know that...

Ngày tải lên: 04/07/2014, 15:20

... symmetric k × k matrix Notice that we can compute the latter directly by calculating k( k + 1)/2 quantities like (5.36) without the factor of n−1 Copyright c 1999, Russell Davidson and James G MacKinnon ... I), (5.25) and test γ2 = It is not hard to show that the F statistic for this hypothesis takes the form ˆ ˆ (β2 − β20 ) X2 M1 X2 (β2 − β20 ) /k2 , (5.26) y MX y/(n − k) where k = k1 + k2 ; see Exercise ... X matrix and on the form of the heteroskedasticity Copyright c 1999, Russell Davidson and James G MacKinnon 5.5 Heteroskedasticity-Consistent Covariance Matrices 201 When Does Heteroskedasticity...

Ngày tải lên: 04/07/2014, 15:20

... Let us partition the parameter vector β as β = [β1 β2 ], where β1 is k1 × 1, β2 is k2 × 1, and β is k × 1, with k = k1 + k2 Then the generic nonlinear regression model (6.02) can be written ... parameters δ0 , δ1 , and ρ of this model and the parameters α, β, γ0 , and γ1 of (6.94) How Copyright c 1999, Russell Davidson and James G MacKinnon 6.10 Exercises 253 many and what restrictions ... artificial parameter estimates b and ´ρ , b ´ + b and ρ + ´ρ ´ and the one-step efficient estimates are just β ´ b Copyright c 1999, Russell Davidson and James G MacKinnon 6.7 Hypothesis Testing...

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