... can possibly respond to Over time, the workload continues to build, the stress returns, and the pressure to drink increases What makes the shifting the burden structure insidious is the subtle ... entire societies are subject to addiction as much as are individuals Shifting the burden structures tend to produce periodic crises, when the symptoms of stress surface The crises are usually resolved ... solution Solutions that address only the symptoms of a problem, not fundamental causes, tend to have shortterm benefits at best In the long term, the problem resurfaces and there is increased pressure...
... environmental assets such as air, water, forests, and complex ecosystems Many of these assets—such as recreational sites in Yellowstone Park, stocks of underground water and flows of river water in the Southwest, ... 20 NATURES NUMBERS economic picture is therefore missing if natural assets are omitted in creating the national balance sheet Likewise, consuming stocks of valuable subsoil assets such as fossil ... natural resources For example, cutting down the nation s dwindling redwood forests increases GDP, yet no account is taken of the loss of this precious asset because the nation s forests have not...
... environmental assets such as air, water, forests, and complex ecosystems Many of these assets—such as recreational sites in Yellowstone Park, stocks of underground water and flows of river water in the Southwest, ... 20 NATURES NUMBERS economic picture is therefore missing if natural assets are omitted in creating the national balance sheet Likewise, consuming stocks of valuable subsoil assets such as fossil ... natural resources For example, cutting down the nation s dwindling redwood forests increases GDP, yet no account is taken of the loss of this precious asset because the nation s forests have not...
... NLP-based systems is much lower than our SNAbased system on the entire goldstandard We also contrast the simple SN-based system with a specific NLP system based on (Gilbert, 2012), and show that ... this section we compare and contrast the performance of NLP-based systems with that of SNAbased systems on the Enron hierarchy goldstandard we introduce in this paper This goldstandard allows ... 279,844 email messages These messages belong to 93,421 unique persons We use these unique identifiers to express our gold hierarchy This means that we can easily retrieve all emails associated with...
... USA) forthe creation of statistics Data analysis was conducted with Chi-square test and Student 's t-test P values less than 0.05 were considered to be statistically significant Results From the ... not for citation purposes) Journal of Orthopaedic Surgery and Research 2008, 3:9 Statistics The microsoft excel program was used forthe creation of the graphs and the SPSS program 12.0 (SPSS Inc, ... union was detected Finally, all the patients were recalled to attend a specially set up clinic forthe final assessment with respect to the purpose of the study Ethics Committee approval was obtained...
... ordinary classes with stylized names, such as OuterClass$InnerClass Because inner classes must be able to access the private fields of their enclosing class, the access control for those fields is changed ... that the product version tested conforms to the standard, CERT issues the developer a certificate and lists the system in a registry of conforming systems Successful conformance testing of a software ... Classes and class members should be given the minimum possible access so that malicious code has the least opportunity to compromise security As far as possible, classes should avoid using interfaces...
... 1.1 Tissue Engineering The need to produce tissues and organs for organ transplant due to the acute shortage of tissues and organs [Mooney and Mikos, 1999], and a possible mismatch of tissue ... improve tissue functions.” Still in its infant stage, tissue engineering is intensively researched into to provide forthe implantation of an engineered substitute fortissue loss or end-stage ... once it has served its purpose of providing a template forthe regenerating tissueThe material needs to be reabsorbed by thetissue after the cells have established themselves; hence its degradation...
... smartphones), teletypes, and televisions The range and breadth of possibilities is so vast that I can’t cover them all What this book focuses on is CSS forthe computer screen All of the demonstrations ... has such varied implementation across different browsers A Brief History of CSS3 The version of CSS in current use is CSS2.1, a revision of the CSS2 specification that was originally published ... Process As I move through this book and discuss each of the different modules, I’ll also refer to that module s status Status is set by the W3C, and it indicates the module s progress through the...
... making false-negative results less likely Nonetheless, this seems not to be the case in the study of Buscemi et al [169], where sample size was constituted by less than 300 subjects Moreover, ... from subjects while in total darkness severely slowed the growth of the tumors The results are the first to show that the tumor growth response to exposure to light during darkness is intensity ... typical seven transmembrane domains These receptors are responsible for chronobiological effects at the SCN, the circadian pacemaker MT2 acts mainly by inducing phase shifts and MT1 acts by suppressing...
... details how we estimate the incentive provided by various designs of the credit and the revenue cost associated with each designThe appendix also describes our sensitivity analyses and discusses ... businesses and consumers throughout the economy Although most economists agree that research spending can generate social benefits, the effects of the research on other businesses and consumers ... gross receipts This result would favor regular credit users whose export sales have increased as a share of their total sales and disfavor users whose export shares have declined These disparities...
... bounds are mostly ˚ 3–4.5 A used for strong intranucleotide cross peaks, for which distance ranges are small and known As the distance ranges forthe observable NOEs are not so large, the NOE distance ... not shown), the melting temperature of the duplex was seen to be 30 °C Tables and show the chemical shift values for all the assigned sugar and base protons The stereospecific assignments involving ... of the sugar conformation, the H2¢–H3¢ NOE intensity should be stronger at shorter mixing times The relative intensities of the crosspeaks of the interproton base to sugar NOEs in the NOESY spectrum...
... MSX disease [Haplosporidium nelsoni], perkinsosis, bonamiosis) • Crustacean diseases (e.g., white spot disease, yellowhead disease) For further details, see the OIE classification of diseases ... practices in the United States and the increased susceptibility of livestock to viral and bacterial infections (discussed earlier in this chapter) Disease transmission models developed by the USDA, for ... food industry to bioterrorism is difficult to address in a systematic manner due to the highly dispersed nature of the industry and because many of the risk evaluations used to assess vulnerability...
... Kansas, where creationist changes to the state s science standards have finally been reversed, the Discovery Institute is nevertheless actively assisting a satellite group, the Intelligent Design ... there is to be recognition—among scientists as well as the literate nonscientist public—of current anti-evolutionism and its aims The Issue The issue, then, is not—as ID creationists insist it is, ... of San Francisco John Angus Campbell, Ph.D Speech University of Washington These names recur, as we shall see, throughout the subsequent history of the Wedge The signers describe themselves as...
... university presses in the United States, enriches lives around the world by advancing scholarship in the humanities, social sciences, and natural sciences Its activities are supported by the UC ... life Other implements associated with the remains were consistent with this estimate But how could researchers be sure? How is it possible to measure the distant past, far beyond the time scales ... discredited among scientists Rutherford was acutely aware of this In his discussions and papers he skirted around the concept of transformation, and took pains to emphasize that his discoveries,...
... implications of design In the final section the essays lay out a standardfordesign that is oriented to generosity in the large sense of the word, the preservation of wildness and wilderness, and thedesign ... voluminous wastes from sight and mind There is little in these industrial systems that fosters mindfulness or ecological competence, let alone a sense of wonder On the contrary, these systems are designed ... inefficient, and destructive Running through each of these ideas is the belief that the successful design strategies, tested over the course of evolution, provide thestandard to inform thedesign of commerce...
... emulsion is also created when a trout sucks in water containing high-quality basic substances Emulsifying these basic substances with the aid of its gill system, it uses them to sustain life The ... life-forms, depends on the shape of the apparatus in which these substances are moved and the alloys used in its fabrication As reactive components of pressure and traction (suction) these forces ... catastrophic mass it causes immense havoc, but in spite of this they are still unable to realise their mistakes This water then sinks down into the depths and makes its escape to areas beneath deserts Here,...
... Accessories Cables Input devices Teacher Tools Books Teacherworkbooks Videos Hardware" Accessories Cables Input devices Mass storage Memory Disk drives Printers & supplies Video and sound Mass storage ... colors, shapes, textures, the piece spatial relationships, line thicknesses, fonts, sizes, graphic concepts, etc This develops the organization and strengthens the unity Alignment Nothing should ... ~ NQNDeSIGNeK 'SDeSIGN DOQK StCQND tDITIQN design and typographic principles forthe visual novice Robin Williams Peach pit Press Berkeley A y California g The Non-Designer 'sDesign Book second...
... chart, there is no reason not to make the page look as nice as possible and to present the information as clearly as possible when information is difficult to understand, that 's when it is the most ... you see the "hard" edge on the right7 There is a strong invisibleline connecting the edges of these two groups of text Youcan actually see the edge The strength of this edge is whAt gives strength ... loses its cohesive look and feel But repetition goes beyond just being naturally effort to unify all parts of a design consistent-it is a conscious ED Part 1: Design principles Here is the same...