... distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited 40 MultivariateAnalysisin Management, EngineeringandtheSciences Thus, considering that the man, inserted in ... original work is properly cited 16 MultivariateAnalysisin Management, EngineeringandtheSciencesIn this study an overview of multivariate data analysis methods and their application in waste ... Quantitative modeling for the true boiling point curve and specific gravity Fuel, 2007, 86, 1927-1934 14 MultivariateAnalysisin Management, EngineeringandtheSciences Pasquini, C.; Bueno,...
... display brings out the gap inthe data: There are no scores inthe high 70's 12 One method of denoting the pairs of stems having equal values is to denote the first stem by L, for 'low', andthe second ... units below the lower, or above the upper, quartile Since the minimum and maximum observations inthe data are 325 and 424, we conclude that there are no mild outliers in this data (and therefore, ... below the lower, or above the upper quartile Since the minimum and maximum observations inthe data are 4.4 and 109.9 respectively, we conclude that there are no outliers, of either type, in this...
... for in vivo examination of the eye, and an emerging modality inthe areas of dentistry, endoscopy, andinthe food sciences Also, it is certain that the technology will expand into new fields in ... using conventional microscopy Focusing on the ROI also helps prevent the loss of signals in other parts of the field 2.4 Emission fingerprinting and multifluorescence imaging The spectral imaging ... holoangiotic retinas [26] In these species the entire retina is vascular ized, in contrast with anangiotic retinas, such as the avian retinas, where there are not blood vessels inside the retina In holoangiotic...
... manufacturers then typically dominate the market These procurement policies may discourage other producers from incurring the costs to develop and produce quality-assured ARVs, thereby decreasing the number ... Competing interests BW, MK, TB, and SM serve as consultants for UNITAID Authors' contributions BW designed and coordinated the study, participated in data cleaning and data analysis, and was the ... LS and SM contributed to data analysisand writing of the manuscript MK and TB contributed to the writing of the manuscript and edited it for important content JH conducted data analysis and...
... and disaster risk management He started working inthe World Bank Institute and moved to the Latin American Region in 2006 In 2010 Mr Procee joined the Urban Rural Integration team inthe China ... financing, and emergency and reconstruction planning In December 2011, the Philippines became the first country inthe region to benefit from the World Bank’s contingent financing facility the ... assistance on the design and implementation of insurance products Since joining the World Bank in 2003, Mr Mahul has been involved in designing and implementing disaster risk financing solutions in several...
... determine the Theme/ Rheme boundary The Interpersonal Theme includes all elements coming before the topical Theme that express interpersonal meaning The interpersonal part of the Theme in English ... participant saying, telling, stating, informing, asking, demanding, offering, threatening, suggesting and so on, The Sayer can be a human or human-like speaker, and also any other symbolic source Other ... functions: giving information, demanding information, giving goods -and- services and demanding goods -and- services The usual labels for these functions are: statement, question, offer, and command Table...
... organizations to streamline, improve the quality, and be more innovative inthe design, management, and financing of basic health care services In Ecuador, there is a law that the provision of maternity ... Growth inthe size and influence of civil society in Brazil since the 1980s has facilitated the positive change Increasingly democratic processes have lengthened the policy decision-making process, ... systems, and financial management may be useful to assist inthe assessment of existing capacity for these functions and to help in strengthening such capacity when necessary (7) Continue building...
... guarantees and interest subsidies The study focused on three assistance clusters in Northern Ireland (training, marketing and upgrading machinery and equipment), and two inthe Republic of Ireland (marketing ... whether they were currently participating inthe program; (iii) whether they had participated in it inthe past and, if so, in what year; (iv) the monetary value of the incentive; and (v) how they ... through the coordinated use of a range of CORFO programs It combines training activities, innovation, infrastructure, technical assistance, and business and finance networking In 2001, the PTI financed...
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... understand the “rules of the game” the way the United States does That is one interpretation of both the crude Chinese nuclear threats over the Taiwan crisis and Chinese views of the U.S bombing ... sea, and ICBMs ready to launch within a few minutes—to minimize the effect of a surprise attack Summary • xv U.S weapons were pretargeted and integrated into a single massive plan the Single Integrated ... graphics Alaida Rodriguez made further revisions to the text Emily Rogers did the painstaking work of making corrections to the final version of the text and completing the document xxi ACRONYMS ABM...
... increasing grain size, and fine-graining transferring information with decreasing grain size Sometimes, upscaling and downscaling refer specifically to coarse-graining and fine-graining, respectively ... populations and their interpatch interactions are crucial to 12 J WU AND H LI understanding population dynamics at the landscape scale In a similar vein, understanding the primary productivity of the ... errors in sampling and measurements, distortions in data resampling, and flaws in statistical analysisand modeling (Jelinski and Wu 1996, Wu 2004) Characteristic scales and scale effects are inherently...
... of ERM Part 2: Enterprise risk management Planning and designing Implementing and benchmarking Measuring and monitoring Learning and reporting Appendices A Risk management checklist B Implementation ... framework It includes the essential steps inthe implementation and ongoing support of the risk management process The initial component of the ISO 31000 framework is ‘mandate and commitment’ by the Board ... continuous basis The 10 steps Measuring and monitoring G implementation of an ERM initiative is an ongoing Implementing and benchmarking G management (ERM) initiative Successful Planning and...
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... measures of the variability of the nominal and real yields andthe BEIR The drop inthe mean and variability of the BEIR inthe latter half of the sample coincides with a drop inthe mean and variability ... explain the declining differential between the BEIR and survey measures of inflation expectations over the mid-1990s In fact, there has been an improvement in liquidity since the beginning of the ... ytm ,t Inthe case of a nominal bond, we obtain a nominal ytm Inthe case of the RRB, we use the market price andthe real coupon rate to obtain a real ytm Inthe absence of distortions, the spread...
... (eds.) The Handbook of Economic Sociology, Princeton University Press Quinn, J B., Anderson, P and Finkelstein, S 1998 Managing Professional Intellect Making the Most of the Best In Harvard Business ... directly involved inthemanagement of the content of the research As a starting point the research project manager thus has the task of managing both the complexities stemming from the culture(s) ... with risk-taking and on the other hand at the same time working hard to avoid failures stemming from such risk taking inthe project Faced with these paradoxes and complexities, what kind of guidance...
... including varying the threshold and performing regression analysis on various covariates (including the size of the spill in barrels, the x coordinate of plot (c)), but none succeeded in explaining this ... searching for trends in extreme value data, using the point process approach The method is applied to the North Carolina windspeed data introduced in Section 1.4 In this kind of example, it is of interest, ... (using the lowess function in S-Plus) is superimposed on the plot In neither case is there evidence of a systematic trend Plots (b) and (e) are QQ plots of the Z and W statistics Since the hypothesized...
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... myoglobin and hemoglobin Examination of the effects of these hydrophobic amino acids on the kinetics of O2 and CO binding to the Ec DosH heme is important because both diatomic molecules act as inhibitors ... auto-oxidation andthe redox potential of the heme iron, but, surprisingly, they had less effect on the characteristics of O2 and CO binding Finally, we discuss the roles of these hydrophobic amino acids in ... as there is no obvious structural origin for the differences in binding to the monomers Another possibility is that once the O2 molecule binds to the heme distal site andthe distal Arg97 binds...