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... Arbitrage Pricing Theory (APT) is particularly difficult due to unreliable or nonexistent data For a recent example, see Dailami et al (1999) Also see, Jayawardena, et al (1999) and Jenkins and ... information available at the end of year Similarly, α21 and α31 may not be equal to α20 and α30, respectively, after the passage of the first year of the project Thus in each year, any available information ... Project Appraisal.” World Bank Working Paper #154 Benninga, S & Sarig, O (1997) Corporate Finance: a valuation approach (McGraw Hill) Bhattacharya, S (1978) “Project Valuation with Mean-reverting Cash...

Ngày tải lên: 07/03/2014, 00:20

... additional standardized PRP protocols, preparations, and techniques There are a variety of commercially FDA approved kits available with variable platelet concentrations, clot activators, and leukocyte ... A new technique for hemodilution, preparation of autologous platelet-rich plasma and intraoperative blood salvage in cardiac surgery Int J Artif Organs 1987;10:47–50 11 Antitua E, Andia I, Sanchez ... in the United States 2nd ed Rosemont: American Academy of Orthopaedic Surgeons; 1999 Marx R, Garg A Dental and craniofacial applications of plateletrich plasma Carol Stream: Quintessence Publishing...

Ngày tải lên: 19/10/2013, 22:15

... misalignment that ball screw assemblies can tolerate? Q: Are there ways to improve the load capability of a ball screw? A: There are no magic ways to increase the load capacity of a standard ball ... void any warranty Q: Do you get position feedback? A: Positional feedback can be obtained on the drive system or via a linear optical scale (or equivalent) Q: For a given screw thread can a ball ... backlash in a tolerance critical application? A: Ball screw assemblies can be provided with standard back lash, minimal back lash, or preload Preloading of a ball screw affects the repeatability...

Ngày tải lên: 13/12/2013, 01:16

... Comments are welcome and may be addressed to Jennifer Kavanagh, RAND Corporation, 1776 Main Street, Santa Monica, California 90407, or Jennifer_Kavanagh@rand.org For more information on RAND's Forces ... and AFQT 29 Table 4.2 Group Troubleshooting and AFQT, AIT Graduates 29 Table 4.3 AFQT and Patriot Air Defense System Operator Performance, Probabilities of Success 31 Table 4.4 AFQT and Patriot ... combat and infantry occupations For example, - more advanced communication systems, networking, and automation have made it necessary for even infantrymen to have a fairly advanced technical understanding...

Ngày tải lên: 17/02/2014, 22:20

... officials and policymakers from Central Asia, Caucasus, Black Sea, Central, Eastern and South Eastern European countries, as well as Mongolia, the Russian Federation and the Middle East and North Africa ... Part (needs targeted, strategies accomplished, management changes achieved, stakeholder and institutional arrangements made and programme development) and indicates gaps and areas for improvement; ... needs have been established, programmes developed, and delivered, programmes are marketed as well as how they are managed Formative and summative evaluations are dealt with in more detail in Part...

Ngày tải lên: 18/02/2014, 00:20

... who recently had a colon polyp removed, Japanese-Hawaiians, North American Caucasians, native rural Japanese, and rural native Africans Lactobacillus species and Eubacterium aerofaciens, both ... [157] Also, green tea contains a flavanol, epigallocatechin-3-gallate (EGCG), which can inhibit metalloproteinases, among several possible other mechanisms [158] And there are claims for various ... DHA had a protective effect ↑DHA = ↓Breast cancer No associations between N3:N-6 ratio and breast cancer ↑Intake of N-3 fat from fish / shellfish = ↓Breast cancer, for all highest quartiles Among...

Ngày tải lên: 06/03/2014, 02:21

... countries in east and southern Africa (ESA): Angola, Botswana, DRC, Kenya, Lesotho, Madagascar, Malawi, Mauritius, Mozambique, Namibia, South Africa, Swaziland, Tanzania, Uganda, Zambia and Zimbabwe There ... Efficiency Index* (and rank) Angola Botswana DRC Kenya Lesotho Madagascar Malawi Mauritius Mozambique Namibia South Africa Swaziland Tanzania Uganda Zambia Zimbabwe HDI rank (and index) 0.275 (181) ... countries (Botswana, Mauritius, Namibia, South Africa and Swaziland) and low-income countries (Angola, DRC, Kenya, Lesotho, Madagascar, Malawi, Mozambique, Tanzania, Uganda, Zambia and Zimbabwe) (HDR,...

Ngày tải lên: 06/03/2014, 19:20

... villages through 4700 kiosks across six states (Madhya Pradesh, Karnataka, Andhra Pradesh, Uttar Pradesh, Maharashtra and Rajasthan) Source: Excerpted from http://itcportal.com/ Smaller and micro ... MTN has engaged in a strategy that places the company as major player in the regional mobile market place With recent expansion into Nigeria, Rwanda, Swaziland, Cameroon and Uganda, the MTN brand ... Individual Loans % ICI vs IT vs ICT apps % Public vs Privat e focus na na na na na na Global Loans mostly to SMEs in IT services na na 24 100% private na na na Major Barriers for the sector and private...

Ngày tải lên: 15/03/2014, 19:20

... Foundation: Altamonte Springs, FL, 97129 Arena, M., M Arnaboldi and G Azzone 2006 Internal audit in Italian organizations Managerial Auditing Journal 21 (3): 275-292 Bailey, A. D., A. A Gramling and ... Australia and Nava Subramaniam Faculty of Business and Law Deakin University, Victoria, Australia ABSTRACT: This paper reviews the recent European and international literature on i nternal audit independence ... co-sourcing internal audit activities; and (v) internal audit as a management training ground For As previously noted, for a detailed review of external auditors’ evaluation of and reliance on the...

Ngày tải lên: 15/03/2014, 23:20

... mechanically-aerated lagoon6 The naturally-aerated lagoon is very similar in construction to an anaerobic lagoon except in depth They are usually shallow (up to m in depth) and bacteria and algae ... manure28 There are several advantages to operating an anaerobic poultry manure digester It is a stable and reliable process as long as the digester is loaded daily with a uniform quantity of waste; the ... to the anaerobic lagoon In this case, a mechanical aerator which is a pump or blower is designed to float in place in the lagoon6 There are several advantages to mechanically aerated lagoons...

Ngày tải lên: 17/03/2014, 10:20

... Yamashita, M Harada, J Misaka, M Takeuchi, K Ikeue, M Anpo, Journal of Photochemistry and Photobiology A 148 (2002) 257–261 [140] H Yamashita, M Harada, J Misaka, M Takeuchi, B Neppolian, M Anpo, ... crystal lattice has also been reported to elevate the anatase to rutile phase transformation temperature Padmanabhan et al successfully modified titanium isopropoxide with trifluoroacetic acid carrying ... thermal instability to the anatase phase of TiO2 [29] Kang argues that despite the fact that a decrease in band gap energy has been achieved by many groups through metal doping, photocatalytic activity...

Ngày tải lên: 17/03/2014, 19:20

... Nature 460, 909–913 89 Hong H, Takahashi K, Ichisaka T, Aoi T, Kanagawa O, Nakagawa M, Okita K & Yamanaka S (2009) Suppression of induced pluripotent stem cell generation by the p53–p21 pathway ... demonstrating that placenta can yield higher amounts of HSCs than umbilical cord blood, and further suggesting that placenta could be banked and used for clinical transplant in a similar way to umbilical ... a CD34+ hESC-derived starting population has been considered as a potential AIDS therapy, and as a way to alleviate secondary effects produced by anti-retroviral drugs [16] Various studies have...

Ngày tải lên: 22/03/2014, 17:20

... not hard to draw a general picture that Qigong therapy for cancer may be a powerful alternative to what we are using today Unfortunately, this is an area that is often neglected by mainstream medicine ... reality, a reasonably large sample size with a compatible control is a must for examining such an alternative therapy For any scientific study of a new therapy or treatment, a large amount of time and ... that Qigong therapy for cancer treatment may be a powerful alternative to what we are using today in treating cancer Qigong therapy is an area that is often neglected by mainstream medicine and...

Ngày tải lên: 22/03/2014, 17:20

... However, the chance of receiving retirement pay can create important incentives for performance and sorting for midcareer personnel There are several advantages as well as disadvantages associated with ... PAY FOR PERFORMANCE Pay for performance ties rewards directly to metrics of organizational, workgroup, and/or individual performance.31 These measures of performance can be linked to base salary, ... need to have more flexible and innovative ways to use and manage personnel The most radical approach to achieve these goals of transformation is to implement a pay-forperformance compensation system...

Ngày tải lên: 23/03/2014, 02:20

... the National Aeronautics and Space Administration have both adopted this approach For example, at the NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory, the Dialogue process will be used in developing a Mars sample-return ... ACWA ACW I AEA Ag2+ AgCl a- HAX Assembled Chemical Weapons Assessment (program) Committee on Review and Evaluation of Alternative Technologies for Demilitarization of Assembled Chemical Weapons ... Chemical Weapons Assessment (PMACWA) On July 28, 1997, after organizing a staff and establishing a program plan, the PMACWA published a request for proposals (RFP) for a total system solution for...

Ngày tải lên: 28/03/2014, 11:20

... involved reviewing documentation for allowed claims See Appendix A for point estimates and confidence intervals See Appendix B for case examples of additional allowed claims failing to meet payment ... record indicated that a beneficiary paid $5 in cash and an additional $20 with a personal check Because the suppliers did not 55 Based on a lack of information in claims data, we were unable to determine ... payment errors and claims that were questionable In 2007, Medicare allowed nearly $29 million for questionable repair claims for beneficiary-owned capped rental DME Table 5: Questionable Claims...

Ngày tải lên: 31/03/2014, 12:20

... databases A wide range of academic-quality documents (especially journal articles) and data (e.g detailed company financial data, market research and analysis) can only be obtained from specialist ... bibliographies Other evaluation criteria that apply to academic journals (as detailed above), such as voice, appearance, publisher and author qualifications and affiliation also apply to academic ... world: Latin America and Carribean (R 1), South Asia (R 2) and Sub-Saharian Africa (R 3) The analysis indicates that the infectious disease situation in Sub-Saharian Africa is much worse than that...

Ngày tải lên: 02/04/2014, 05:21

... 3-hydroxy-3methylglutaryl coenzyme A reductase inhibitors (statins), specifically lovastatin, atorvastatin, cerivastatin, pitavastatin, and simvastatin, may alter bone metabolism [13] Recent attention has focused ... bisphosphonate such as alendronate will have a good anabolic response to PTH Small pilot studies suggest that patients who are treated for years with a bisphosphonate, alendronate, and are then treated ... received standard-of-care therapy, that is, fracture fixation with intramedullary nailing The two study groups received standard-of-care therapy and intraoperative placement of an absorbable collagen...

Ngày tải lên: 09/08/2014, 01:23

... diameter and essentially replaced the entire breast No cervical, supraclavicular, or axillary lymphadenopathy was noted The contralateral breast showed no signs of a mass Core tissue biopsy taken at ... The patient had an unremarkable post-operative course and was able to start tissue expansion 19 days after her surgery She had exchange of her tissue expander for a permanent implant months after ... past medical history was significant for a hysterectomy and oophorectomy at 46 years of age Her first menstrual period was at age 13, and she had never been pregnant Physical exam revealed a well-nourished...

Ngày tải lên: 09/08/2014, 07:22

... Statistical analysis Manly and Olson [82] have recently reviewed the methods and current software available for QTL mapping The principles underlying QTL mapping are straightforward In the simplest case, ... Leastsquare methods have the advantage of being computationally simpler and easy to implement with any statistical software package [52]; therefore, they have become very popular They are also ... information on the position of QTLs As Kearsey and Farquhar [63] stated, marker-assisted selection and introgression schemes not require a very accurate estimation of the location of a QTL, and...

Ngày tải lên: 09/08/2014, 18:21