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... developing the technology? 6.7 Is the USA the place where it is happening? 6.8 What can we learn fromthe US market? 6.9 What are the market opportunities? 35 35 35 LOOKING TO THE HORIZON: THE CHALLENGES ... PRACTICAL INSIGHTS FROMTHE USA orient them to the company and their role within it Productivity and ROI were the watchwords at this level, and as offers and customers changed continuously, there ... if they want their eLearning programmes to succeed, and recognise that the community that learners interact with helps them define not the physical or mental skills but rather the meanings of the...
... 44-136 and 11-11, respectively The LA on the current terminal of each of the clones remains a minor part of the total LA of the tree, until the end of the growing season These clonal differences in ... was lower in the hybrid clones when compared to the parental species, early and late in the growing season (Fig However, in the middle of the growing season, the ratio was highest in the hybrid ... than that of their sylleptic counterparts The relative proportion of LA on sylleptic branches to LA on proleptic branches in the hybrid clones was intermediate between that of the both the parental...
... Splitters The ease of migration from earlier PON architectures to GPON will also be dependent on the design of the fiber distribution portion of the network – the link between customers and the central ... Together, they promise a new network built to provide today’s services while adding the flexibility to handle future access technologies Migration to GPON - Practical Considerations fromthe ... business and residential customers The pressure is on for providers to make their networks GPON-ready fromthe central office (CO) to the outside plant (OSP) The importance of future-proofing...
... to produce ethanol from corn in theUnited States, the price of ethanol is determined by the price of gasoline and other factors, rather than the cost of producing ethanol from corn With recent ... feedstocks in theUnited States, as well as sugarcane in Brazil and sugar beets in the European Union (EU) In theUnited States, corn is the least cost feedstock available for ethanol production The cost ... 32 The Economic Feasibility Of Ethanol Production From Sugar In TheUnitedStates Introduction The Central American—Dominican Republic UnitedStates Free Trade Agreement (CAFTADR) focused the...
... to produce ethanol from corn in theUnited States, the price of ethanol is determined by the price of gasoline and other factors, rather than the cost of producing ethanol from corn With recent ... feedstocks in theUnited States, as well as sugarcane in Brazil and sugar beets in the European Union (EU) In theUnited States, corn is the least cost feedstock available for ethanol production The cost ... 32 The Economic Feasibility Of Ethanol Production From Sugar In TheUnitedStates Introduction The Central American—Dominican Republic UnitedStates Free Trade Agreement (CAFTADR) focused the...
... in theUnitedStates have been motivated primarily by the need to protect human health However, studies conducted in the early 1980s in theUnitedStates and during the 1990s in Europe and other ... O3 must diffuse in the gas phase fromthe atmosphere surrounding the leaves, through the stomata, become dissolved in water coating the cell walls, and then enter the cells of the leaf (1) Uptake ... conducted in the past decade on yield response to O3 exposure as an extension of the review conducted by Heck (22) 3.1 UnitedStates In theUnited States, the Clean Air Act mandates the protection...
... they provided for persons of their own race, were the Quakers Believing in the brotherhood of man and the fatherhood of God, they taught the colored people to read their own "instruction in the ... embrace the advantages thus presented to them either by subscription to the funds of the Society or by sending their children to the school Since the improvement of the intellect and the morals of the ... effective than the efforts of other sects in the enlightenment of the Negroes was the work of the Quakers, despite the fact that they were not free to extend their operations throughout the colonies...
... the second digit in theUnitedStates (0.0079) Overall, the degree of deviation in Taiwan is larger than the degree of deviation in theUnitedStatesThe results reject the hypothesis H1, indicating ... mechanisms Therefore, the results not reject the hypothesis H2b Nevertheless, even if this is the case, the effect of the improvement of corporate governance cannot be ignored The Cramer's V of the ... of the samples in Taiwan was larger than that of the samples in theUnitedStates For example, the Cramer's V of the second digit in Taiwan was 0.0179, which is larger than the Cramer's V of the...
... equivalents) in the USA [24-30] The IPUMS data for the 1980, 1990, and 2000 are fromthe 'long form' samples of the U.S decennial Census in those years The IPUMS data for 2005 and 2007 are fromthe annual ... assessed the degree of variation in the PA workforce distribution across thestates Furthermore, we examined the ratio of PAs to population by state The analysis was supplemented with data on the ... display the absolute changes and the percentage changes in the rates of PAs per 100 000 persons across thestatesThe ratios of PAs to population had increased since 1980 in all but three states...
... of the PROFAD-SSI among Sjogren's syndrome patients in theUnitedStatesThe data provided represent the statistical validation of the PROFAD-SSI among Sjogren's syndrome patients in theUnited ... to the 2002 AECG criteria [11] were recruited through nine highvolume clinics across theUnitedStates (referred to as "PhysR-PSS") To protect the patient's identity, the surveys were sent to the ... in the supplementary section, and drafted sections of this manuscript PCF participated in the design of the study FV participated in the design of the study NM participated in the design of the...
... differences between groups PCS and MCS scores for the REVEAL study were calculated fromthe SF36, whereas the PCS and MCS scores for the MEPS were calculated fromthe SF-12 Results Demographics and clinical ... improved the physical and psychological health of these patients to levels comparable with or greater than the physical and psychological health of the general population in theUnitedStates List ... considered the minimum important difference in the general US population [7] There is extensive evidence demonstrating the reliability and validity of the SF-36 [4] in general populations The SF-36...
... [21] The scores fromthe dimensions are summed to calculate the Global Fatigue Index (GFI), which ranges from (indicating no fatigue) to 50 (indicating severe fatigue) The MOS-SS includes the ... using the FIQ Physical Impairment Score which ranges from to 10 The FIQ total score reflects all ten areas and ranges from to 100 Higher scale scores indicate a greater impact of the disease The ... scores range from to 100 The sleep quantity scale is the mean number of hours of sleep per night reported over the past week Higher scores represent more of the concept being measured The HADS is...
... their time Our estimate of the increase in risk is therefore subject to considera ble uncertainty However, even in the most conser vative scenario (with the use of the time estimates fromthe ... than that of the Cambridge Fire Department and the other representing a lower level of emergency activity These estimates were derived with the use of data for the population served, the numbers ... for these ratios were calculated on the basis of the multinomial distribution Odds ratios for death from coronary heart disease during specific duties were calculated fromthe ratios of the observed...
... to enter the kingdom of heaven." Even if the needle were the small casement at the gates, the words betoken serious difficulty for the rich It will be but a step for the theologian fromthe doctrine ... individualism, the answer therefore is: The race has tried that All progress from that barbarous day to the present time has resulted from its displacement Not evil, but good, has come to the race fromthe ... during their lives Under the first and second modes most of the wealth of the world that has reached the few has hitherto been applied Let us in turn consider each of these modes The first is the...
... Agency/ Carbon Dioxide Emissions fromthe Generation of Electric Power in theUnitedStates Carbon Dioxide Emissions fromthe Generation of Electric Power in theUnitedStates between projected and ... Emissions fromthe Generation of Electric Power in theUnitedStates In theUnited States, about 40.5 percent6 of anthropogenic CO2 emissions was attributed to the combustion of fossil fuels for the ... conditions in much of the Nation, with the exception of thePacificNorthwestStatesThe fuel or energy source used to generate electricity is the most significant factor affecting the year-to-year...
... countries that stand relatively distant from these two Accordingly, we compare theexperiences of the U.S and China with new data on the resistance experience of Kuwait The first section gives brief background ... communities and for the rural majority Nevertheless, the available data allows us to piece together a picture of the extent of antimicrobial resistance in the most populous country in the world To examine ... is 28% UnitedStates Fairly comprehensive data on resistance trends in the U.S come fromthe National Nosocomial Infections Surveillance System (NNIS) for hospital-based resistance, and the U.S...
... Journal 2009, 6:191 The NDV can cause clinical signs varying from subclinical infections to 100% mortality, depending on the susceptibility of the host and the virulence of the virus The virus is categorized ... of the 43 isolates clustered with NDV sequences of genotype I/Ia suggesting them to belong to genotype I (Figure 1) Four of the five isolates clustered together with genotype I NDVs fromthe ... 2004, EF564901] EU547755] The sequence homology among these four isolates was 99.6% to 100% at the nucleotide level The remaining one isolate was in a different group from these four isolates and...