money as a catalyst for change

... My Imagination corners a gorilla peeling back the skin of a banana He is seated at a desk in a classroom He takes a bite of the banana and cocks his head to one side as he reads the chalkboard ... general acceptance of the legal system, coinage and what have you But then underneath it, slowly it dawned that as long as sardines are accepted in trade and as long as no one tries to eat them—the ... top was about percent But what did they give you for the percent? They gave you a guarantee of quality, a guarantee of standardization, and a legal system Now trade took off and what you had was...

Ngày tải lên: 16/04/2014, 16:23

... replicating and reinfecting machines at a much faster rate than he had anticipated -there was a bug Ultimately, many machines at locations around the country either crashed or became "catatonic." ... “vulnerabilities are the gateways by which threats are manifested” So, for a threat model to have any meaning at all, there has to be a threat Are there people with the capability and inclination ... and all three dimensions (confidentiality, integrity and availability) are in jeopardy Now, I chose a very simple, well-known attack for a reason A large number (in fact, an embarrassingly large...

Ngày tải lên: 09/12/2013, 17:15

... myöhemmäksi Resurssiskenaarioissa asetettiin tavoitteeksi nostaa sekä laitos-, että kotipalvelujen laatu tasolle "hyvä", joka vastaa laitoshoidon osalta karkeasti muiden Pohjoismaiden tasoa Pelkkä väestönkehitys ... using annual panel appeared problematic, as the number of beds and places is not immediately affected by annual changes of demographic parameters and available finance The data from 1994 and 1995 ... the impact of increased dependency cannot be separated from the impact of age Even if analysis of the same data (Vaarama and Kaitsaari 2002) show, that in some special groups informal help has substituted...

Ngày tải lên: 14/03/2014, 17:20

... Oxcarbazepine was administered at a dose of 600 mg twice daily, as was valproic acid at a dose of 500 mg three times daily and 750 mg at night Lorazepam was administered at mg three times daily ... corticothalamic and thalamocortical connections of macaque prefrontal cortex J Comp Neurol 1987, 257(2):269-281 Monji A, Yanagimoto K, Maekawa T, Sumida Y, Yamazaki K, Kojima K: Plasma folate and ... ventricles MRI of brain was notable for encephalomalacic change within bilateral posterior frontal and right parietal lobes, best seen on FLAIR sequences No abnormal contrast enhancing or mass lesions...

Ngày tải lên: 08/08/2014, 21:20

... before the patent has expired, thereby allowing availability of generics soon after patent expiration Additionally, national patent legislation can be crafted to incorporate exceptions, trademark ... not apply where problems arise regarding a particular area of technology, as demonstrated by the Canadian Generic Medicines case on patent 'evergreening' Page of (page number not for citation ... their laws to conform to TRIPS standards, countries 'may take measures necessary to protect public health' Standards are not always appropriate for poor countries with a multitude of health and...

Ngày tải lên: 11/08/2014, 18:20

... Coalition for Personal Financial Literacy Museum of American Financial History National Academy Foundation National Association of Consumer Affairs Administrators National Association of Hispanic ... Plan Once an individual has gathered the basic information and has reasonably sound knowledge of the saving and investment options available, he or she is ready to formulate a plan, or road map, ... www.sia.com 31 Facts on Saving and Investing Campaign Partners AARP Alliance for Investor Education American Association of Individual Investors American Financial Services Association Education...

Ngày tải lên: 29/03/2014, 08:20

... PCI approach The first case was a 48year-old man, with no previous cardiac history, who was admitted with an acute anterolateral myocardial infarction The patient was eating dinner at a restaurant ... times for primary PCI using transradial versus transfemoral approach: Catheter Cardiovasc Interv, v 75, no 7, p 991-995 Saito, S., S Tanaka, Y Hiroe, Y Miyashita, S Takahashi, K Tanaka, and S Satake, ... of cardiovascular disease: more than 65% patients had hypertension, 37.7% had a myocardial infarction, in nearly 20% was already performed a revascularization of coronary arteries in the past,...

Ngày tải lên: 28/06/2014, 05:20

... high-risk patients (Table 2) Chemotherapy was applied as concomitant chemoradiotherapy, adjuvant chemotherapy or neo-adjuvant chemo-radiotherapy After approval from the local Institutional Review Board, ... mucositis and dysphagia and which will not [5] Mucositis has four phases [2]: a) inflammation; b) epithelial; c) ulcera; d) repair The inflammation phase, also called the initial tissue injury phase, ... van Glabbeke M, European Organization for Research and Treatment of Cancer Trial 22931: Postoperative irradiation with or without concomitant chemotherapy for locally advanced head and neck cancer...

Ngày tải lên: 09/08/2014, 08:22

... the absence of any laboratory variable such as is the case with the Clinical Disease Activity Index [63], may serve the purpose of predicting joint damage at least as well as any biological marker ... M, Kotake S, Nakagawa N, Kinosaki M, Yamaguchi K, Shima N, Yasuda H, Morinaga T, Higashio K, Martin TJ, Suda T: Tumor necrosis factor alpha stimulates osteoclast differentiation by a mechanism ... RA than acute phase reactants No biological marker assessed hitherto has therefore been shown to be related better to disease activity and joint damage than CRP Clinical markers Biological markers...

Ngày tải lên: 09/08/2014, 10:23

... syndrome Prophylactic initiation of IABP treatment was not advocated in any of the cases A Datascope system (Datascope Corp, Paramus, NJ) was utilised The IABP was introduced percutaneously through ... test (two-tailed) A p Value of less than 0.05 was regarded as statistical significant All calculations were made using SPSS 11 edition Operative mortality is reported as 30 day mortality Long ... Cumulative survival for the entire group was 85.2% at years There was a difference in survival between GABG and Valve subgroups as per Figure According to this the years survival was 79.2% for...

Ngày tải lên: 10/08/2014, 10:20

... designs for PDSA quality improvement research Qual Manag Health Care 2004, 13(1):17-32 Wolf MM, Kirigin KA, Fixsen DL, Blase KA, Braukmann CJ: The Teaching-Family Model: A case study in data-based ... intervention, and 3) the causal processes targeted by these change techniques; all in as much detail as is possible, unless these details are already readily available (e.g., in a prior publication) Access ... Lessons Learned: What the WAY Program Can Teach Us About Program Replication Washington, DC, American Youth Policy Forum; 2002 Winter SG, Szulanski G: Replication as Strategy Organization Science...

Ngày tải lên: 11/08/2014, 05:21

... training at all levels Finally, academic faculties who teach medical education are struggling like the practicing physician to assimilate emerging data Faculty development is essential to prepare ... be able to retrieve and interpret data and to use and understand the significance of informatics, probabilities and decision-making assumptions Medical students should also be taught to navigate ... prepare academics who teach medical learners This may be the greatest barrier to change Fortunately, there are efforts under way both in the USA and internationally to bring together innovative...

Ngày tải lên: 11/08/2014, 12:20

... designs for PDSA quality improvement research Qual Manag Health Care 2004, 13(1):17-32 Wolf MM, Kirigin KA, Fixsen DL, Blase KA, Braukmann CJ: The Teaching-Family Model: A case study in data-based ... intervention, and 3) the causal processes targeted by these change techniques; all in as much detail as is possible, unless these details are already readily available (e.g., in a prior publication) Access ... Lessons Learned: What the WAY Program Can Teach Us About Program Replication Washington, DC, American Youth Policy Forum; 2002 Winter SG, Szulanski G: Replication as Strategy Organization Science...

Ngày tải lên: 11/08/2014, 16:20

... was greater than 2:1 The overall average age was early forties; the mean age was higher for female respondents than male The mean duration of psychiatric nursing experience was 11.8 ± 1.0 years ... in part current style of Japanese psychiatric practice management, as shown above Nonetheless, inadequacies at facilities overseas have been reported as well For example, Mangurian and colleagues ... Survivors Academic Psychiatry 2007, 31:333-335 16 Ooka Y, Maeda M, Tanaka M, Takamatsu M, Yajima J, Oe M, Kanehara S, Tsujimaru S: Traumatic Responses of Psychiatric Nurses in the Work Place Seishin...

Ngày tải lên: 11/08/2014, 16:23

... intellectual property laws Foreign pharmaceuticals companies operating in Slovenia, for example, have complained for years that local companies steal and copy their formulas But companies claim that ... the target was crazy” and to play down expectations for the next year As one manager who lost his job after proving that the target was crazy said: “I lost my job but at least I’ll stay sane.” ... dedicated to my wife, Antonia, and daughter, Nina, and to my parents and sister (NP) my wife, Maria, and daughter, Natasha, and to my parents, Harry and Irene, and brother, Paul (DT) LESSONS FOR...

Ngày tải lên: 14/05/2015, 14:57

... the data processing and storage was no longer centralized, it did not mean that the application was not logically a single application If that is the case, then what is a distributed application? ... replay attacks, and so on ! Many operations rely on time stamping For example, it is not acceptable for a server to acknowledge that it received a purchase order before the purchase order was placed ... such as Microsoft Message Queuing (formerly known as MSMQ) Asynchronous Messaging The most evident features of message-based architectures are that they are asynchronous and that they are based...

Ngày tải lên: 10/12/2013, 16:15

... brain that associate certain memories to stimulus to form a picture or idea When you look at a basketball, there is an area of your brain that associates the image with ‘round’, an area that associates ... associates it with ‘ball’, an area that associates it with ‘orange’ and so on When you first learn that it is a ‘basketball,’ you create another association with the word ‘basketball’ Neural pathways ... out for a meal once a week Although they saved a small amount, any other money left over was used to purchase material items After: Were more elated about not having to work anymore than actually...

Ngày tải lên: 13/12/2013, 11:15

... mitigation in all sorts of national strategies and national action plans; (b) to mobilize national and international financial resources to address the causes and effects of CC; and (c) to play a ... of forest coverage in terms of carbon sequestration and articulate trade potential • Build capacities to regulate, manage and stimulate the carbon market • Build research capacities and initiate ... central role in post-Kyoto international negotiations What is needed, now and later? (c) II An action plan or NTP to address CC effects (CC Adaptation) Immediate action CCA (Phase 1; first 2-3 years),...

Ngày tải lên: 24/01/2014, 00:20

... is larger for larger-mass objects and smaller for smaller-mass objects; it also asserts that the strength of attraction is larger for smaller separations between the objects and smaller for larger ... and assistance, and it is a pleasure to acknowledge many helpful interactions with Carol Archer, Vicky Carstens, David Cassel, Anne Coyle, Michael Duncan, Jane Forman, Erik Jendresen, Gary Kass, ... place to place But we are imagining that your whole compartment accelerates as a single unit and therefore your acceleration simulates a single, uniform gravitational force field As your compartment...

Ngày tải lên: 25/01/2014, 16:20

... regional biases in the findings.3 Quantitatively, critical measurement data were extracted from the SAABC database This database comprises firm-level benchmarking data from 75 South African auto ... Council National Aeronautics and Space Administration National Astrophysics and Space Science Programme Nuclear Energy Corporation of South Africa National Industrial Policy Framework National Qualifications ... MAPPP-SETA Free download from www.hsrcpress.ac.za MERSETA xii | MIDP NAACAM NAC NASA NASSP NECSA NIPF NQF NTFP OECD OEM OHS PBMR PPP PV PWR R&D RE SA Tourism SAABC SAAO SACTWU SADC SADRI SALT SANHARP...

Ngày tải lên: 15/02/2014, 08:20