protecting personal privacy in cyberspace the limitations of third generation data protection laws such as teh new zealand privacy act 1993
Gradient enhanced plasticity and damage models addressing the limitations of classical models in softening and hardening
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10/09/2015, 08:25
... dependence on the orientation and size of the finite element mesh during softening In the limit of infinitesimal element size, the softening behavior localizes to a set of zero volume and the material ... order formulations incorporating the plastic strain gradient as a measure of the GNDs induced by the heterogeneous deformation (e.g Fleck and Hutchinson, 1997) Another type of (intrinsic) size effect ... size of the finite element mesh during softening To the limit of infinitesimal element size, the softening behavior localizes to a band of zero volume and the material response approaches that of...
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IMPACTS OF CLIMATE CHANGE ON AGRICULTURE IN VIETNAM The case of Mekong River Delta, Vietnam
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23/01/2013, 22:00
... and wastes, the failure in each growing state will affect the others The change in monthly rainfall distribution such as less rains in early wet seasons and more heavy rains in the end of the ... planning for a one meter rise in sea level by the end of the century The consequences of doing nothing would see more than a third of the Mekong Delta flooded by then A spokeswoman for the Tra Vinh ... millions of people in Vietnam The impacts of climate change are already destroying livelihoods and increasing financial, political, social and environmental inequities Hundreds of people in the coastal...
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The role of leadership theory in raising the profile of women in management
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08/10/2013, 15:56
... viewed as limited in raising the profile of women in management However, during this period of research, there was an emerging recognition of the importance of a concern for people in the behavioural ... management, as the theory was constructed as a male model at a time when women were not visible in paid employment One of the off shoots of the great man theory was a spawning of new research and theoretical ... that the role of management was largely seen as a male domain These two factors could account for the lack of women or feminine characteristics being included in the leadership theories between...
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HOW TO IMPROVE LISTENING SKILLS IN TOEIC THE CASE OF questions and responses short conversations
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11/12/2013, 23:59
... skills as well as listening skills in TOEIC test Scope of the study In fact, there are lots of various methods to improve listening skills in TOEIC test, the case of part and It requires much of ... take the time to eat! 14 Express opinions, Agreeing or Disagreeing 14.1Expressing Opinions - I'm of the opinion that - As far as I am concerned - From my point of view - In my opinion - I think/believe/feel ... Really fine - So-so, thanks - Oh, the usual rounds - No, nothing much - Fair to madding, thanks - Im full of the joys of spring - Same as ever Making and responding to instruct 24 3.1 Asking for instructions:...
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Tài liệu From Data to Knowledge and Back Again: Understanding the Limitations of KMS pdf
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20/12/2013, 19:15
... because in so doing they run the risk of making themselves dispensable As indicated, the reluctance of users to express their knowledge arose as a major issue in the implementation of the CBDS ... courses of action reflects the existence of a ‘tacit’ component of knowledge and the difficulties inherent in representing it In commenting on this, practitioners at IMS outlined the main reasons ... service-related view; the measure of the outcome is subjective from the organization’s point of view What we in case-based decision support is we assemble a model of the case with the organization...
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Tài liệu Health Education in Schools – The Importance of Establishing Healthy Behaviors in our Nation’s Youth pptx
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14/02/2014, 13:20
... statistics are alarming and disturbing for the health of the nation The good news is that research has revealed that health risk behaviors that contribute to the leading causes of death in the United ... or delay the onset of the leading causes of death in our country.30 New evaluation of health education research shows promise of having a positive impact on academic achievement as it has on health ... risk behaviors such as tobacco use, poor nutrition, lack of physical activity, drug and alcohol use, as well as actions that increase stress, and risk of injury, and violence Because these behaviors...
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Tài liệu Osteoporosis in Men: The Effects of Gender on Skeletal Health Second Edition pptx
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14/02/2014, 21:20
... beginning of treatment, whereas aBMD decreases slightly then increases A similar pattern of changes in BTM levels (increase then decrease) was found in adults independent of the etiology of GH ... (as distinct from cartilage) include: osteonectin (SPARC), the matrillins, the thrombospondins, the tenascins, the galectins, periostin and osteopontin and BSP (SIBLINGs) Each of these proteins ... inflammatory macrophage activity, whereas TRACP 5b is an indicator of osteoclast activity Cathepsin K The enzyme cathepsin K is a member of the cysteine protease family that, unlike other cathepsins,...
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Tài liệu THE HISTORICAL EVOLUTION OF ACCOUNTING IN CHINA: THE EFFECTS OF CULTURE docx
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17/02/2014, 10:20
... accounting It was the basis of state accounting in late imperial China (Chen, 1998) Following innovation in commercial and trading activities after the Ming Dynasty, the single-entry bookkeeping ... emerged at the end of the Ming and the beginning of the Qing dynasties; and Tian (Heaven-Earth) He (Matching) Zhang (Bookkeeping System), which emerged in the middle of the eighteenth century The most ... 2001:598) In the search for the invention of writing it has been seen that there was a link between writing, abstract counting and accounting It has also been argued that cuneiform writing was originally...
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Tài liệu Careers In Marketing - The University of Arizona Eller College Department of Marketing pdf
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18/02/2014, 02:20
... Opportunities Starting jobs in the industrial field vary according to the size, need, and practices of firms Training programs may be of the general type, providing an overview of a variety of opportunities, ... areas of marketing seem more glamorous But selling, like doing interviewing for marketing research, is a great way to learn about the world of marketing at its grass roots At the heart of the ... advancement in advertising usually are greater than that in other fields because of less emphasis on age and length of employment People in the advertising field may work in a variety of settings As advertising...
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Tài liệu Cleaner Water in China? The Implications of the Amendments to China’s Law on the Prevention and Control of Water Pollution pptx
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18/02/2014, 04:20
... legal tool, the scope of who can sue should be expanded in China On the other hand, an interesting aspect of China’s law is that in a lawsuit, the discharging party has the burden of proving both ... important impacts on China’s progress in addressing pollution B Increased Penalties but Challenges Remain Under the revised LPCWP, China has also increased the fines for pollution The government ... pollution incidents] and other personnel responsible therefor may be imposed a fine equal to 50% of their incomes from their respective employers for the preceding year.”115 Fining the individual is innovative...
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Tài liệu Báo cáo khoa học: "An Experiment in Evaluating the Quality of Translations" pdf
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19/02/2014, 19:20
... this fact into account in making their judgments In effect, then, fidelity of a translation was to be judged in terms of the “informativeness” of the original relative to the translation In this ... to the original because of the writer’s relative lack of expertness in the Russian language) and sorted by the writer into nine piles of ascending degrees of “informativeness” of the original ... that they would be suitably sensitive to the niceties of English phraseology and diction as well as to the intellectual content of the material There was no such guaranty in the case of the raters...
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Labour Force Participation of the Elderly in Europe: The Importance of Being Healthy doc
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05/03/2014, 18:20
... of the issues covered by SHARE) The …rst wave of SHARE, which is designed to be a longitudinal survey, contains data that was gathered in 2004 and was publicly released in Spring 2005 Given the ... observations The last three columns of Table 4.1 show the percentages of individuals in three age classes These age classes contain about one third of the selected sample, although there is quite ... test associated with the null hypothesis that there is no joint impact of all the health related variables Results for women are provided in the last column of Table 4.10 As the results indicate,...
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PROBLEMS IN ESTIMATING THE BURDEN OF PULMONARY TUBERCULOSIS IN INDIA: A REVIEW pot
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06/03/2014, 04:20
... for the size of the population covered in each Committee' in 2000 and assigned them the task of survey to estimate the burden of disease in the estimating the burden of TB in the country4 The ... surveys wherein X-ray was the initial screening tool They had chosen to ignore the findings of surveys, wherein the initial screening was 'symptom elicitation' Disregarding the findings of these surveys ... place, was in recognition of the limitation of the yield of bacteriological cases by the investigation of only two samples of sputum from the X-ray abnormals in a survey The limitation of X-ray interpretation...
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WORKING PAPER SERIES NO. 398 / OCTOBER 2004: MERGERS AND ACQUISITIONS AND BANK PERFORMANCE IN EUROPE THE ROLE OF STRATEGIC SIMILARITIES potx
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06/03/2014, 09:22
... based on the ‘specialness’ of banks in a setting in which there are asymmetries of information In this setting, according to the ‘signalling hypothesis’, commercial banks specialise in lending ... considering the main characteristics regularly used by practitioners for analysing the financial performance of banks.6 Then, to measure the strategic similarity of firms involved in M&A activity, ... (1997) for the financial sector, there have only been a handful of studies – all US-based – examining these aspects of M&A activity These studies analyse the impact of strategic similarities in bank...
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Bell & Howell Information and Learning 300 North Zeeb Road, Ann Arbor, MI 48106-1346 USA 800-521-0600UMI.The Potential of Soil Survey Data in a Quantitative Evaluation of Surficial Geology Mapping in Northern Maine by Rosalia EvansThesis submitted t pptx
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08/03/2014, 23:20
... areas include portions of the St John River Valley near Fort Kent and another section of the valley stretching from the town of Grande Isle to the town of Hamlin The two areas were delineated as ... purpose in mapping the area was to delineate surficial geologic units and thereby establish the water-bearing characteristics of these units Since the focus of these ground-water sources was for the ... as the field-check for evaluating the validity of soils maps to represent the surficial geology of the study areas The localities of 248 point stations out of a total of 301 in the study areas...
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Factors infl uencing the risk of breast cancer – established and emerging ppt
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15/03/2014, 01:20
... women are surviving the disease than ever before The high incidence of the disease in developed European countries, and the sharp increase of new cases in the rapidly developing eastern European ... defined In the meantime, not smoking has other clear health benefits BREAST CANCER Factors in uencing the risk of breast cancer – established and emerging Other risk factors As well as those ... HFA Database, June 2007 BREAST CANCER Factors in uencing the risk of breast cancer – established and emerging Established Risk Factors The established risk factors for breast cancer may increase...
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Bringing the Hidden Giants to the Footlight: the Role of Savings and Retail Banks in Increasing the Level of Access to Financial Services docx
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15/03/2014, 10:20
... businesses, the traditional target client group of savings banks By capturing and channelling more of the remittances into the financial system and intermediating the flow of the resources, savings ... system, instead of relying on informal circuits In designing their products, savings banks take into account the special needs and limitations of lowincome households as well as those of more affluent ... program in wholesale lending to microfinance institutions for lending to their micro borrowers Savings banks could refinance well-functioning microfinance institutions individually or indirectly...
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A naturalist in Brazil; the record of a year''''s observation of her flora, her fauna, and her people pptx
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15/03/2014, 19:20
... the third Hes the germ of the nut the white substance of the nut spreads over the inside of the shell, forming a lining as thick as the finger this is the nourishment provided for the germ (the ... further find reminiscences of them even in the manners all their into the country will of the Indian aborigines Again, the repose dictated by the climate impresses the traveller agreeably Of ... flows into another, so it is in the leafy crown of the coconut-palm, as the sunlight plays dominates, the leaves; now the yellow of the ribs prethe dark green of the leaves in shadow, and now the...
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