... the onset of ALI and the third day of mechanical ventilation [21,19,20] in patients ventilated with traditional tidal volumes In this study, the OI was the only variable predictive of death on ... derivation and validation cohort Future replication of these findings in a separate cohort of patients with ALI would substantiate our results Conclusions In conclusion, we studied the association ... findings The clinical disorder associated with ALI was considered primary if the cause was pneumonia, aspiration, direct lung trauma, or inhalational injury All other causes were considered secondary...
Ngày tải lên: 12/08/2014, 13:22
... Yet these illuminating examinations of the psychology of the frontexperience and its ramiWcations focused almost exclusively on only one half of the war, the Western Front Discussions of the ... book of the same name.2 Since then, many standard works on the conXict have concentrated on western events, casting only occasional glances at developments on the other front.3 Norman Stone’s excellent ... historiography on the Eastern Front in the Second World War The contrast could not be greater, as the Second Introduction World War in the East, marked by Werce ideological combat, harsh German occupation...
Ngày tải lên: 21/09/2012, 11:02
Metaphor, based on the association of similarity, is one of the two basic types of semantic transference that have been an interest for many linguistic researchers
... realize the genre So the context of situation (register) is the second aspect of social context that influences the linguistic realization of the genre This context of An investigation into the role ... information) Halliday brings together these various expressions under the heading of the notion of interpersonal metaphor of mood The reason why these examples are regarded as metaphorical, lies in the ... functions Ideational, interpersonal and textual functions of language are considered in the semantic stratum Here, ideational meaning refers to the way one uses representational tools to compose the...
Ngày tải lên: 07/11/2012, 14:44
The Six Driving Forces That Affect Your Business Plan _ And How to Focus on the Best One for Your Company’s Needs
... up-front with the customer in a one -on- one relationship pays great dividends in the long term People and businesses pay premium prices to have their needs legitimized, their concerns heard, and their ... had the sales force’s attention, we moved on to the mission Clearly the interpretation of the mission by each camp was further distorting and inflaming the situation The process of mission clarification ... is the answer After all, there is only one Rolls, one Randall, and one Rolex A payoff-driven company understands there is a market of people with those attitudes It puts energy into the creation...
Ngày tải lên: 24/10/2013, 09:20
War Land on the Eastern Front - Crisis
... losing their men, in poor and cramped conditions It was no wonder than they sought contact with the occupation troops in the city They washed clothes for the soldiers, mended their torn possessions ... ‘‘strike-breakers’’ intent on prolonging war LudendorV blamed the crisis on soldiers from the Eastern Front, infected with revolutionary ideas It now seemed clear that the war could no longer be won The Supreme ... crucially, the door slammed on promising possibilities of separate peace with Russia based on the prewar status quo This has been called ‘ one of the worst political blunders of the war. ’’88 Soon the...
Ngày tải lên: 01/11/2013, 10:20
Notes on the TOEFL Exam - Registration, the Computer-Based Test, Scores, and Tips for Test Day
... also find the essay easier to write if you are comfortable composing directly on the computer On the other hand, the TOEFL exam is a long one, and concentrating in front of a computer monitor for ... to the ones you will view on the day of the test POWERPREP: Software Preparation for the Computer-Based TOEFL® includes two practice computer-based TOEFL exams To order these products from the ... Group/Prometric P.O Box 1109 6801 BC Arnhem The Netherlands Registration Phone: 31-26-352-1577 Fax: 31-26-352-1278 INDONESIA The International Educational Foundation/Prometric Menara Imperium 28th Floor,...
Ngày tải lên: 01/11/2013, 15:20
Create and Execute On-the-Fly Batch Updates by Using ADO.NET
... as the CommandText The CommandType is set as CommandType.Text The connection is then open Finally, the command is executed with the ExecuteNonQuery method, with the ToString passing back the ... OleDb.OleDbConnection(BuildCnnStr("(local)", "Northwind")) Dim ocmdPhoneUp As New OleDb.OleDbCommand(Me.txtSQL.Text, ocnn) 10 Try 11 ' Specify the name of the stored procedure 12 ocmdPhoneUp.CommandType ... The number of records affected might be different on your system depending on what you have been doing with the Northwind data Create a new Windows Form Add the following controls, setting the...
Ngày tải lên: 07/11/2013, 15:15
Tài liệu create and Execute On-the-Fly Batch Updates by Using ADO.NET docx
... as the CommandText The CommandType is set as CommandType.Text The connection is then open Finally, the command is executed with the ExecuteNonQuery method, with the ToString passing back the ... OleDb.OleDbConnection(BuildCnnStr("(local)", "Northwind")) Dim ocmdPhoneUp As New OleDb.OleDbCommand(Me.txtSQL.Text, ocnn) 10 Try 11 ' Specify the name of the stored procedure 12 ocmdPhoneUp.CommandType ... The number of records affected might be different on your system depending on what you have been doing with the Northwind data Create a new Windows Form Add the following controls, setting the...
Ngày tải lên: 21/01/2014, 12:20
Tài liệu BEYOND THE LAW The Bush Administration’s Unlawful Responses in the “War” on Terror pptx
... obligations during any international armed conflict.19 Under the Geneva Conventions, any person who is not a prisoner of war has rights under the Geneva Civilian Convention, and there is no gap in the ... portion of the Gonzales memo: [s]uggesting a distinction between our conflict with al Qaeda and our conflict with the Taliban does not conform to the structure of the Conventions The Conventions ... protections of the Geneva Conventions” and allegedly avoid criminal prosecution for future war crimes.78 They confused the question of whether Afghanistan existed with the question of whether the Taliban...
Ngày tải lên: 18/02/2014, 05:20
PHYSICS AND POLITICS OR THOUGHTS ON THE APPLICATION OF THE PRINCIPLES OF ''''NATURAL SELECTION'''' AND ''''INHERITANCE'''' TO POLITICAL SOCIETY pptx
... And no one can fully explain them But one use they assuredly had: they fixed the yoke of custom thoroughly on mankind They were the prime agents of the era They put upon a fixed law a sanction so ... Teutons to go a third The tribe took it with them, as the English take the common law with them, because it was the one kind of polity which they could conceive and act upon; or it may be that the ... man the 'fighting age' I called it—there was a considerable, though not certain, tendency towards progress The best nations conquered the worst; by the possession of one advantage or another the...
Ngày tải lên: 06/03/2014, 13:20
Báo cáo khoa học: A kinetic approach to the dependence of dissimilatory metal reduction by Shewanella oneidensis MR-1 on the outer membrane cytochromes c OmcA and OmcB potx
... electron acceptor These results therefore provide evidence that there are differences between the electron transfer pathways towards chelated Fe(III) on the one hand and either U(VI) or Se(VI) on the ... grow on chelated Fe(III), they grow on V(V) to about 50% of the MR-1R stationary-phase density (Fig 1) In the case of V(V), the electron transport chain may thus bifurcate to one or several other, ... kinetic data, we used Monod-based kinetic models [34] that actually simplify to a Michaelis–Menten formulation under the applied conditions The kinetic rate is determined solely by the electron...
Ngày tải lên: 07/03/2014, 09:20
THE ‘WAR ON TERROR’ AND THE FRAMEWORK OF INTERNATIONAL LAW doc
... implications and potential repercussions? 437 Conclusion 441 Conclusion 391 392 443 9.1 September 11 as opportunity and the war on terror’ response 443 9.2 The legal framework 445 9.3 The war on ... II/Second Additional Protocol Protocol Additional to the Geneva to the Geneva Conventions Conventions of 12 August 1949, and Relating to the Protection of Victims of Non-International Armed Conflicts, ... 26, 29 1972 Convention on the Prohibition of the Development, Production and Stockpiling of Bacteriological (Biological) and Toxin Weapons and on their Destruction, Washington, London, Moscow,...
Ngày tải lên: 16/03/2014, 13:20
One dimensional organic nanostructures a novel approach based on the selective adsorption of organic molecules on silicon nanowires
... Ag surface The molecular aggregates form discontinuous lines oriented along the ½110 direction of the Ag that corresponds to the direction of the SiNWs Furthermore, from this image one can notice ... the observed LDOS is a convolution of the LDOS of the SiNWs and that of the adsorbed PQ aggregates Therefore, the contribution of the LDOS of the SiNWs at the proximity of the Fermi level is presumably ... preserved, confirming that the first step in the adsorption process of the PQ on the SiNWs/Ag(1 0) surface is the specific interaction with the SiNWs We propose that the selective adsorption of PQ...
Ngày tải lên: 16/03/2014, 15:35
Begun and held at the City of Washington on Tuesday, the sixth day of January, two thousand and nine docx
... areas, about the transition and to provide one -on- one assistance to vulnerable populations, including help with converter box installation: Provided further, That the amounts provided in the previous ... financing the construction, acquisition, and replacement of the transmission system of the Bonneville Power Administration and to implement the authority of the Administrator of the Bonneville ... Reliability Corporation, the regional reliability entities, the States, and other transmission owners and operators for the formation of interconnection-based transmission plans for the Eastern and...
Ngày tải lên: 23/03/2014, 10:20
Begun and held at the City of Washington on Tuesday, the sixth day of January, two thousand and nine potx
... at the time, determined by the Board If the consumer makes the election referred to in paragraph (1), the creditor shall provide notice to the consumer of the right to revoke the election, in the ... by the consumer in connection with the account before the consumer has attained the age of 21; or ‘‘(ii) submission by the consumer of financial information, including through an application, ... AUTHORIZED. The Board, in consultation with the Comptroller of the Currency, the Board of Directors of the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation, the Director of the Office of Thrift Supervision, and the...
Ngày tải lên: 29/03/2014, 06:21
Three Years After - Next Steps in the War on Terror potx
... operations And adequate financing exists to conduct such operations Not only preparations for further operations continue, but the pace of operations has accelerated over the last 36 months Above ... Steps in the War on Terror This was followed by a joint meeting of the two groups to present their conclusions to one another Next, the two groups divided up again, each holding a mock National Security ... assess the current National Strategy for Combating Terrorism Finally, the groups met together again in a plenary session to present the conclusion of their deliberations The exercise demonstrated...
Ngày tải lên: 29/03/2014, 20:20
scientific american - 1993 10 - is los angeles winning the war on smog
... short one, the viscous forces act more strongly on a long chain In fact, the strong viscous forces will rotate very long chains beyond the angle at which the particles attract one another Therefore, ... species This inconstant pattern could be the result of either gain or loss of introns, but if one is wedded to the notion that introns were there from the beginning, then the only explanation is loss ... 18 million person-days of restricted activity, 65 million person-days of chest discomfort, 100 million person-days of headache, 120 million person-days of coughing, 180 million person-days of...
Ngày tải lên: 12/05/2014, 14:50
the real price of war how you pay for the war on terror
... for it The sooner we honestly assess the costs and divide them fairly among ourselves, the sooner we can mobilize the country’s full resources Introduction for the war The price is not beyond reach; ... economic stresses of war play out far beyond government budgets, with the conclusion that being at war exacts a high economic cost—higher the longer the war goes on Finally, I question whether ... for the nuclear weapons responsibilities of the Department of Energy The Pentagon,” then, is the main claim on your household’s contributions to the national defense Pentagon expenses are themselves...
Ngày tải lên: 03/06/2014, 01:18
yale university press knowing the enemy jihadist ideology and the war on terror jan 2006
... power), and to end the oppression and aggression of the West, they have decided to concentrate on the destruction of one or the other of these “eternal” enemies 13 Why They Did It The September 11 ... what the jihadis themselves are saying They are telling everyone in the world what they believe and how they will act The question is whether anyone is listening to them 15 Historical Context The ... then, their theological justification The Brotherhood was as well a cross-national party, one meant to include all Muslim (men) anywhere, rather than confined to just one country In addition, the...
Ngày tải lên: 11/06/2014, 12:44