midlife transitions in an era of global transformation

... corrupted Means of corrupting information are many—ranging from “spoofing,” which means changing the content of information collected and transmitted, to deception, which is simply creating bad information ... Avoiding Surprise in an Era of Global Technology Advances http://www.nap.edu/catalog/11286.html AVOIDING SURPRISE IN AN ERA OF GLOBAL TECHNOLOGY ADVANCES SUMMARY OF FINDINGS AND RECOMMENDATIONS ... Avoiding Surprise in an Era of Global Technology Advances http://www.nap.edu/catalog/11286.html 32 AVOIDING SURPRISE IN AN ERA OF GLOBAL TECHNOLOGY ADVANCES Extraterrestrial Intelligence (SETI) Institute...

Ngày tải lên: 28/03/2014, 11:20

... question of representation—the question of what a face means in terms of hiding or expressing some meaning; authenticity remains allusive in a posthuman world of artifice, generating yet another ... faults and inadequacies, the coming “multitudes,” as theorized in Michael Hardt and Antonio Negri’s Empire (2000), are in danger of being apolitically transformed into Bruno Latourian “ANTs” (pun intended) ... professionals, police, educators, insurance companies, and so on, can begin to assess ‘at risk’ individuals through the profiling of information that can be used by any particular institution Who said biopower...

Ngày tải lên: 07/03/2014, 10:10

... growth in ownership and purchase intent for many newer types of devices With the exception of India, consumers in urban areas of emerging markets have spent a greater percentage of their annual income ... smartphones than any other country For instance, 75 percent of urban South Africans own smartphones, compared with 20 percent of consumers in Japan While demand for smartphones is certainly strong in South ... Behavior Changes Resulting from Using Online Services Has your use of these online services changed your behavior in any of the following ways? 38% Stopped/almost stopped renting or buying DVDs...

Ngày tải lên: 07/03/2014, 10:20

... improving, managing and maintaining workforce health by adopting and expanding the use of financial incentives (32%) and taking more aggressive steps to enroll employees in accountbased health plans (21%) ... companies have made incremental changes to plan designs in order to help manage the rising cost of health care In previous years, these changes have included increases in point -of- care cost sharing ... Screening claims to find claimants and inviting them to participate in health management programs 40 32 27 Making tools available to employees and providing assistance in using them 31 45 24 Integrating...

Ngày tải lên: 15/03/2014, 21:20

... Knowledge and Skill Chains in Engineering and Manufacturing A platform independent model of an UMI includes a model of the persons and communities interacting in society Because quite a few of these interactions ... holons to carry out the machining process Enhancing Knowledge and Skill Chains in Manufacturing and Engineering To support operators in improving the makespan of an existing Job Shop schedule, created ... book: information infrastructure systems and services for any level of aggregation in the engineering and manufacturing knowledge and skill chain Enhancing Knowledge and Skill Chains in Manufacturing...

Ngày tải lên: 22/03/2014, 10:20

... sunshine, most often, it has a very important rate of insolation (75% on average) and the mean annual of global solar radiation measured on horizontal plane exceeds 20 (MJ/m2) The sunshine duration ... Daily mean and maximum temperatures and solar radiation data indicate that the values are higher in the summer months and lower in the winter season Figure shows the observed daily average and daily ... daily mean and maximum temperatures were 43.87°C and 48.81°C on 27 and 29 July, respectively, as seen in Figure The minimum recorded temperature was 0°C on 29 January Monthly average daily temperature...

Ngày tải lên: 05/09/2013, 16:11

... diverse locations including Beijing, Albany, and Buffalo under the aegis of the Institute of Critical Climate Change In planning and coordinating these events, Cohen was aided and abetted locally, ... social engineering that human communities are capable of devising In an appreciation of the cultural and theoretical sources that Agamben is capable of mobilizing in the analysis of only too tangible ... encompassing invisibility powering and surrounding digital technology and relations We live amid the instantaneous simultaneity of “Real Time.” This heightens the inexactitude and even danger of rendering...

Ngày tải lên: 29/03/2014, 07:20

... 2004 Mean = 95.5 Mean = 46.5 Figure Retention in an antiretroviral therapy programme during an era of decreasing drug cost in Limbe, Cameroon Monthly enrolment of patients initiating antiretroviral ... revising it critically for important intellectual content SP participated in drafting the manuscript and performed statistical analysis PLR provided significant input in conceiving and designing ... participated in drafting the manuscript, revising it critically for important intellectual content, and participated in data analysis and interpretation All authors read and approved the final manuscript...

Ngày tải lên: 20/06/2014, 08:20

... Global Firms and Emerging Markets in an Age of Anxiety Global Firms and Emerging Markets in an Age of Anxiety Edited by S Benjamin Prasad and Pervez N Ghauri Library of Congress Cataloging -in- Publication ... Control: An Integrated Framework Yan Zhang and Haiyang Li 147 An Analysis of Joint Venture Activities in Southeast Asia Daniel C Indro and Malika Richards 171 National Culture in China and Multinationals’ ... a standard approach for many years beginning in the early 1960s in the Republic of Ireland We ponder whether that approach is now sufficient, in the post–9-11 era, to maintain an increasing in ow...

Ngày tải lên: 28/06/2014, 00:20

... Global Firms and Emerging Markets in an Age of Anxiety Global Firms and Emerging Markets in an Age of Anxiety Edited by S Benjamin Prasad and Pervez N Ghauri Library of Congress Cataloging -in- Publication ... Control: An Integrated Framework Yan Zhang and Haiyang Li 147 An Analysis of Joint Venture Activities in Southeast Asia Daniel C Indro and Malika Richards 171 National Culture in China and Multinationals’ ... a standard approach for many years beginning in the early 1960s in the Republic of Ireland We ponder whether that approach is now sufficient, in the post–9-11 era, to maintain an increasing in ow...

Ngày tải lên: 28/06/2014, 22:20

... formal and standard English is in demands An analysis of errors in using prepositions of place AT, ON, IN is carried out to give the answer to the wondering question That whether the errors in using ... eaters in the world - AT is used before the particular name of a building or organization e.g: She works at Legal and general Insurance But: She works in an insurance company Sometimes, AT and IN ... experience as a means of organizing the L2 He attempts to transfer the rules of his first language into the second language Since this can simplify the task of learning the second language In the case...

Ngày tải lên: 20/12/2013, 18:17

... vital national interests Context 2.2 Afghanistan remains the main effort of Defence We have in the region of 9,500 members of the Armed Forces operating in Afghanistan as part of a UN-mandated, NATO-led ... maintain our network of permanent joint operating bases, including: in Gibraltar; in the Sovereign Base Areas in Cyprus; British Forces South Atlantic Islands, based on the Falkland Islands and ... and Ascension Island and maintaining a regular presence in South Georgia and South Sandwich Islands; and on Diego Garcia in British Indian Ocean Territory These bases give us and in some cases our...

Ngày tải lên: 06/03/2014, 06:21

... goal of increasing yields Three major strategies that are used to increase yields include an 33 increased harvest index (HI)9 , an increase in the general plant biomass, and increased stress tolerance ... harvesting takes place In addition, most water harvesting operations consist of a catchment area and a receiving area for the capture of runoff, and are generally small both in size and in level of ... 1999) These linings served to harvest water and mulch jujube trees The largest plant height was obtained using linings of stone and marble During the first year of the study, when the lining served...

Ngày tải lên: 09/03/2014, 00:20

... Adaptations and Stress Tolerance of Plants in the Era of Climate Change Parvaiz Ahmad ● M.N.V Prasad Editors Environmental Adaptations and Stress Tolerance of Plants in the Era of Climate Change Editors ... Prospects of Halophytes in Understanding and Managing Abiotic Stress Tolerance Vinayak H Lokhande and Penna Suprasanna Abstract Halophytes are a diverse group of plants with tolerance to high salinity ... result of this, cap-dependent translation of many mRNAs is suppressed and the expression of a certain set of genes including the luminal binding protein gene BiP is induced The underlying mechanisms...

Ngày tải lên: 14/03/2014, 10:20

... considerations of antiretroviral therapy (ART) in TB and HIV co-infected patients according to Tanzania National AIDS Control Programme, 2008 Tanzania Antiretroviral therapy improves the quality of ... Predictors of incomplete adherence, virologic failure, and antiviral drug resistance among HIV-infected adults receiving antiretroviral therapy in Tanzania Clin Infect Dis 2007;45:1499-501 33 Range ... prevalence of TB is increasing in many countries and is the leading infectious cause of death worldwide Infection with HIV, likewise increasing in prevalence, has emerged as the most important predisposing...

Ngày tải lên: 22/03/2014, 18:20

... Natural Language Programming System The Transactions of the Institute of Electronics and Communication Engincerings of Japan, 1984, J67-D(3), 297-304 [in Japanese, and is being translated into English ... Japanese program specifications in two phases The sentence analysis phase analyzes an input and generates an instance of a statement model The specification acquisition phase builds an instance ... the use of an inheritance mechanism Introducing a new semantic element is easy, because a new semantic frame can be defined on the basis of semantic characteristics shared with other semantic elements...

Ngày tải lên: 31/03/2014, 17:20

... become involved with what you are hearing This takes four steps: absorbing information analyzing what is important to remember or to study later organizing ideas writing down or drawing the information ... Make lists and timelines of what the lecturer is saying Outline the lecture or number points in the margins If you learn best by doing and moving, you need the sense that you are experiencing what ... you!) Translating What You Hear into Useful Notes Depending on the teaching skills of your instructor, you may need to work harder at understanding what he or she has to say and translating his...

Ngày tải lên: 18/06/2014, 17:20

... CPT and ART) and the burden of TB in PLHIV Tuberculosis is appropriately gaining increasing importance to the HIV community The 'Three I's' have also gained increasing importance among major opinion ... Granich R, Bunnell R: Tuberculosis case finding and preventive therapy in an HIV voluntary counseling and testing centre in Uganda Int J Tuberc Lung Dis 2006, 10(7):761-767 Girardi Enrico, Sabin ... that indicated the presence of extensive drug resistant TB (TB bacilli resistant to a fluroquinolone and one of the second line injectable drugs in addition to resistance to rifampicin and isoniazid)...

Ngày tải lên: 20/06/2014, 08:20

... 1% increase in fasting insulin level for every 1% increase in visceral fat or every 1% increase in abdominal subcutaneous fat (51) Insulin levels and IR are higher in patients with both peripheral ... administration of combination antiretrovirals, which included zidovudine and indinavir in the regimento rats have been shown to increase levels of endothelin-1, a marker of endothelial injury and ... lipid-lowering drug that inhibits intestinal uptake of dietary and biliary cholesterol at the brush border of the intestine, resulting in a reduction of hepatic cholesterol stores and an increase in...

Ngày tải lên: 27/06/2014, 18:20