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... new advisory committee gives its first report in January A final report is expected by February of two thousand eight This VOA Special English Education Report was written by Nancy Steinbach Read ... Special English Education Report was written by Nancy Steinbach Read and listen to our reports at voaspecialenglish.com I’m Steve Ember ...

Ngày tải lên: 14/08/2014, 21:21

... McDonald 's Happy Meals was for business reasons They rejected suggestions that Disney did not want to be linked to concerns about fast food and overweight children This VOA Special English Health ... about fast food and overweight children This VOA Special English Health Report was written by Cynthia Kirk I’m Steve Ember ...

Ngày tải lên: 14/08/2014, 21:21

... unstable business base causes fluctuations in the demand for skilled labor that are expensive and difficult to manage The unstable business base also prevents contractors from leveraging purchases ... its underlying reasons For example, if the increase is continuous and steady, then escalation may be due to a systemic issue such as the increase of shipbuilding input cost (e.g., greater costs ... factors within given groups of ships, we make comparisons between specific classes Such comparisons allow us to address changes in both economy-driven and customer-driven factors in ship cost escalation...

Ngày tải lên: 17/02/2014, 22:20

... depreciation Business base considerations are important in determining the burdened costs because certain fixed costs (costs that occur independently of workload such as security costs) get spread to all ... radar) Equipment comprises all systems such as avionics (electronics to control the aircraft), sensors (such as radar), other mission systems (such as electronic countermeasures, communications, targeting ... characteristics analysis, so our material complexity analysis is based on a further reduced set of aircraft Appendix A lists all systems assessed in each part of our analysis Measuring Cost Escalation...

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Ngày tải lên: 09/03/2014, 14:20

... documented consistent rises in thyroid cancer incidence in counties closest to nuclear plants after startup Data in this report suggests that exposure to radioactive iodine released from nuclear ... contributing factor in current U. S thyroid cancer incidence rates This finding merits further examination, especially in light of the fact that 104 such reactors continue to operate in the U. S These ... Norris R .S United States Nuclear Tests, July 1945 to December 1992 Washington DC: Natural Resources Defense Council, 1994 25 National Cancer Institute Estimated exposures and thyroid doses received...

Ngày tải lên: 15/03/2014, 01:20

... modest increase in M2, it was to buy securities such as government bonds or mortgages fully insured by the government But increased working capital for businesses, especially small and medium sized, ... constraint acts very much like a supply constraint on physical capital In either case, dumping more liquidity into the system does not increase output But why should congestion in the wholesale ... figure also shows that retail bank lending declined and continues to decline so far in 2009 Insofar as U. S commercial banks did slightly increase their net assets as the counterpart of the modest...

Ngày tải lên: 22/03/2014, 17:20

... Fund USAF U. S Air Force USAID U. S Agency for International Development USIA U. S Information Agency USSR Union of Soviet Socialist Republics WMD weapons of mass destruction WSEG Weapons Systems ... losses to an imminent U. S attack, since they will have little to lose Thus, discouraging such threats will depend on active and passive defenses, including designing forces, basing architectures, ... ambiguous terms, and the National Security Strategy does not even raise the possibility of striking first against targets other than terrorists or hard -to- deter states possessing or pursuing weapons...

Ngày tải lên: 29/03/2014, 18:20

... merely crunch numbers without a ­ useful result; human beings (such as cloned ­ umans); and h atomic energy inventions In 2010, the U. S Supreme Court ruled that a process is not patentable unless the ... compositions, articles, processes, and new uses per se On the other hand, copyrights are ­ xclusive e for works of expression, such as writings, sculpture, movies, plays, recordings, and artwork, assuming ... possible, in advertising, etc., so as to establish a “secondary meaning” to enable you to win an unfair competition lawsuit (See above.) 1 Orphan drugs (those useful in treating rare diseases)...

Ngày tải lên: 18/04/2014, 14:10

... ability to assess changes in UPDRS-II scores over time as these measurements were repeated infrequently Conclusions In conclusion, we sought to evaluate health-related quality of life in PD using ... -0.028 to -0.006) Discussion Although Parkinson s disease is most prominently identified with physical symptoms such as tremors and akinesia, this disease has a substantial impact beyond motor impairment ... variables such as individual UPDRS motor subscores of bradykinesia, rigidity, and summed axial subscores (PIGD and ADL-axial) also predicted lower utility scores Motor fluctuations, though mild in...

Ngày tải lên: 20/06/2014, 16:20

... tissue samples were excised from the flowers at the topmost end of the panicle using a dissecting scope Microscopy Conclusions Our results show that the shattering trait in U. S weedy rice has ... and is thus not sufficient for loss of shattering This suggested that novel loci, perhaps distinct from those acting in wild rice species, are involved in the evolution of shattering in U. S weedy ... Tabuchi T, Ito S, Arai N: Anatomical Studies of the Abscission Process in the Tomato Pedicels at Flowering Stage J Japan Soc Hort Sci 2001, 70:63-65 36 Oba S, Sumi N, Fujimoto F, Yasue T: Association...

Ngày tải lên: 11/08/2014, 11:21

... legislation that cut into the company s margins by reducing lender subsidies and decreasing interest rates for students, and in September 2007, it was signed into law by President Bush The Rise ... students since the GI Bill, the lack of standard consumer protections for student borrowers remained Legislative proposals to restore consumer protections, such as Senator Hillary Clinton s Student ... executives of student loan guarantors is the case of the USA Group in Fishers, Indiana, formed as a nonprofit in 1986 Their mission statement: “USA Group Loan Services, Inc., provides data processing,...

Ngày tải lên: 30/10/2014, 16:59

... 1884 crisis 1890 crisis 1893 crisis 1907 crisis Crises summary Regulatory response to crises State deposit insurance The Federal Reserve System Assessment of regulation and stability Assessment of ... Clearinghouse Associations Clearinghouses provided liquidity to member banks during times of financial crisis using several tools During crisis, a loan committee was formed which could authorize ... instability would follow deregulation Similarly, students in my classes often conclude that banking systems outside the United States must be more vulnerable to crises and instability because they...

Ngày tải lên: 01/11/2014, 22:58

... as a supplement to the findings in testing the specific event issues Results of these two parts are finally combined into an overall conclusion about possible financial results manipulation in ... the stock underperformance following SEOs Managers overstate earnings before SEOs because of opportunism By overstating earnings before offerings, managers try to mislead investors and issue stocks ... therefore discount these firms’ stock prices In this situation, issuers who have not previously manipulated earnings would unfairly suffer stock price declines at offering announcements As a result,...

Ngày tải lên: 05/10/2015, 19:01

... that UNRWA has taken all possible measures to ensure that terrorists are not receiving assistance, such as having procedures in place and taking measures to respond to issues that arise.”66 State ... Administrations to broker an Israeli-Palestinian negotiating process that yields a substantive and lasting resolution of core issues in dispute (borders, security, refugees, the status of Jerusalem, ... PA, some commentators allege that U. S funding indirectly supports PA salaries, including those supposedly paid to some Palestinians who are imprisoned by Israel on terrorism charges.39 U. S Security...

Ngày tải lên: 16/02/2014, 10:20

... lead to absurd and possibly dangerous results In some instances, the directives were just confusing Some workers who had been exposed to SARS were put on what was termed “working quarantine” and ... facilities on the radar screen and in many instances changing the business as usual criteria Our healthcare systems are not set up to receive large populations of infectious patients, either through ... Chapter 1) Community buildings may have to be used, and to date most communities have not scouted or prepared community buildings for large in uxes of infectious patients Studies of cross-infection...

Ngày tải lên: 15/03/2014, 05:20

... (LiCor Inc., U. S. A.) leaf area meter Results and Discussion Significant clor!al differences in number of branches, branch length and diameter, and branch angles caused striking differences in form ... with the information on crown architecture and leaf area distribution, in order to provide a stronger basis for understanding and optimizing yields in SRIC of Populus This information on functional ... distribution and leaf area density help explain the substantial differences in light interception and biomass production of these poplar clones beginning (Scarascia-Mugnozza et aL, 1989) Conclusion...

Ngày tải lên: 09/08/2014, 02:21

... GlaxoSmithKline Gilead Sciences GlaxoSmithKline GlaxoSmithKline Hoffmann-La Roche GlaxoSmithKline GlaxoSmithKline Gilead Sciences, Inc Bristol Myers-Squibb Bristol Myers-Squibb Gilead Bristol ... the use of antiretroviral agents in HIV-1infected adults and adolescents [http://www.aidsinfo.nih.goGuidelines/GuidelineDetail.aspx?MenuItem=Guide lines&Search=Off&GuidelineID=7&ClassID=1] October ... public insurance programs in the U. S Public Health Reports 2002, 117(3):252-262 discussion 231–232 Sambamoorthi U, Collins S, Crystal S: Dually eligible individuals with AIDS: characteristics and...

Ngày tải lên: 10/08/2014, 05:20

... TX, USA, 3Division of Biostatistics, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, MN, USA, 4Infectious Disease Service, Walter Reed Army Medical Center, Washington, DC, USA, 5Infectious Disease Clinic, ... benefits Although the MV analysis adjusted for several clinical factors such as previous AIDS event, it is possible that non-active duty status is a marker for poorer health This is substantiated ... Program: Securing HIV/ AIDS Drugs for the Nation 's Poor and Uninsured Book The AIDS Drug Assistance Program: Securing HIV/AIDS Drugs for the Nation 's Poor and Uninsured (Editor ed.^eds.) City...

Ngày tải lên: 10/08/2014, 05:21

... Disorders Identification Test) screening instrument for alcohol misuse/disorders was preferable to older instruments (e.g., the CAGE) As part of this study, investigators with the Substance Use ... alcohol misuse These findings resulted in VA mandating the use of the AUDIT-C to meet the existing performance measure requiring alcohol screening for veterans Thus, QUERI steps that emphasize the ... health, polytrauma and brain-related injury, spinal cord injury, stroke, and substance use disorders As a result, QUERI leaders have taken a key role as experts for the respective CPGs and have helped...

Ngày tải lên: 11/08/2014, 05:21