quality consistency and transparency of the capital base

... polymerization of styrene and the blending of PS and SPS polymers have affected the surface structure of the PVDF membrane obviously The cross-section morphologies of the PVDF membrane, the PVDF-PS ... Thermal analysis of the PVDF-SPS composite membrane The TG analysis curve is presented in Figure for the investigation of the thermal stability of the PVDF membrane, PVDF-PS membrane, and the PVDF-SPS ... under the outer skin layer of the membranes, and the sponge-like structures appear in the inner part of the membranes As shown in Figure 4e, many big aggregates appear in the middle part of the...

Ngày tải lên: 05/09/2013, 16:11

... ‘Improving the Quality of Health Care for Mental and Substance-Use Conditions’ [87] and provide a useful Our group concluded that the characteristics of many of the EBTs themselves and their potential ... Investigator) The content is solely the responsibility of the authors and does not necessarily represent the official views of the National Institute on Drug Abuse or the National Institutes of Health ... communities The two Euro-American sets of practices, 12 step and EBTs, now form the basis of most substance abuse services offered in the United States, and the tensions between them have been...

Ngày tải lên: 10/08/2014, 11:20

... accountants and lawyers in Vietnam in May 2005; and, Discussions with and reviews by officials of the World Bank and the IMF who were well versed in the subjects and/ or the region 1.3 The Structure of the ... determinants of the development of their capital markets The quality of listed companies is represented by the companies’ profitability, growth, size, governance, disclosure, etc., while the quality of the ... embrace the concept of capital markets.” The Prime Minister’s Decision No 163 falls short of referring to possible roles of the SBV and the MOF in the country’s capital market development and the...

Ngày tải lên: 21/01/2014, 12:59

... standard of Vietnam (TCVN 5942/95/B) [4, 9] The two reasons for this situation are the discharges of cattle waste into channels then to river and the uses of fertilizer The concentrations of DO, ... standard, BOD and COD concentrations were near the allowable limit Water quality was greatly improved in the third scenario Conclusion and recommendation 4.1 Conclusion In general, the water quality ... scenarios and finally bring out predictions as well as recommendations [7, 8] VNU Journal of Science, Nat., Sci., & Tech., T.XXI, N02, 2005 Preliminary assessment and simulation of the water quality of...

Ngày tải lên: 05/03/2014, 10:20

... Treasury’s Office of Domestic Finance supports OFR and that OFR was created by the Dodd-Frank Act Similar to other entities within the Treasury such as the Bureau of the Public Debt and the Internal ... understanding of the operations and decision making processes of these entities to help ensure that FSOC and OFR use their authorities as Congress intended To help provide oversight of FSOC and OFR, ... Treasury and administrative services from the Office of the Comptroller of the Currency (OCC) and the Bureau of Public Debt— employees and equipment 13 11 As will be discussed later in this report, the...

Ngày tải lên: 15/03/2014, 19:20

Ngày tải lên: 30/03/2014, 01:20

... spectrum of BT5AA 56 Synthesis and mass spectrum of 2TAA 58 Synthesis and mass spectrum of 3TAA 59 Synthesis and mass spectrum of 5M2TAA 60 Synthesis and mass spectrum of ... 61 Synthesis and mass spectrum of 3MF9AA 62 Mass spectrum of the dimethylamine of 3MF9AA 64 Mass spectrum of the methyl ester of 3MF9AA 65 Mass spectrum of 2BIPAA ... phase and a stationary liquid phase The polarity-based affinity of the column for the compounds permits the differential elution of the PAH compounds whereupon a MS can be employed to speciate the...

Ngày tải lên: 13/05/2014, 14:01

... is valued on the same scale using the same variant of the same valuation technique, as was the case for the CAMPHOR and EQ-5D models, then the valuations should be comparable [25] The valuation ... designed and managed the study, identified the items for the valuation exercise and wrote the manuscript JR designed and managed the valuation survey, conducted analysis and reported on the valuation ... size as the level of each dimension worsened The explanatory power of the mean level model was 0.936 which is very high indicating that the model is a good fit for the data For the random effects...

Ngày tải lên: 18/06/2014, 19:20

... support the validity of the Scandinavian language versions of the GSRS and the QOLRAD in patients with GERD [41] Future studies could use this approach to further assess the validity of the additional ... correlating the GSRS and the QOLRAD with the SF-36 dimensions; and (c) correlating the GSRS and the QOLRAD with the HAD (except in South Africa) and with clinician-rated severity of dyspepsia ... frequency and severity of symptoms, and the QOLRAD Emotional distress domain correlated with physician-assessed frequency of symptoms Known-groups validity of the GSRS and the QOLRAD All domains of the...

Ngày tải lên: 18/06/2014, 22:20

... contributions ES did the data analysis and drafted the manuscript MS and UW conceived of the study and designed the questionnaires Both conducted the realisation and the analysis of the study and helped ... draft the manuscript JR participated in the design of the study and participated in the analysis of the questionnaires JR did the data collection ND, MG and JS participated in the design and the ... and returned the standardized selfassessed questionnaire (response rate 64%) Time of questionnaire dispatch was July 2003 Quality of life was enquired with the Profile of Quality of Life in the...

Ngày tải lên: 18/06/2014, 22:20

... During the cross-cultural adaptation, the group of specialists stated that the concept of the impact of childhood cancer on the quality of life of the families used for development of the original ... Page of (page number not for citation purposes) Health and Quality of Life Outcomes 2008, 6:35 the health-related quality of life of parents/guardians The score is computed as the sum of the 20 ... functioning and well-being of parents/guardians depend on the child's situation as well Information on the quality of life of pediatric cancer patients and their families allows the identification of...

Ngày tải lên: 18/06/2014, 22:20

... JK, and RPA all participated in the design of the study LA and RA wrote the analysis plan and supervised the analysis All authors were involved in the interpretation of the data LA, RA, and JK ... from the CGI-S at baseline) Therefore, further study of the performance of the responsiveness of the RLSQoL in patients with 'mild' RLS is also warranted Finally, the focus of this research was ... patients with moderate and severe RLS) The combination of these results indicates the clinical validity of the RLSQoL in mild, moderate and severe groups [12] The responsiveness of the RLSQoL to change...

Ngày tải lên: 20/06/2014, 15:20

... understand the HRQOL of children with cancer living in mainland China The objective of this study was to investigate the feasibility, reliability, and validity of the Chinese mandarin version of the ... diseases, and the remaining patients (38.7%) had solid tumors The mother answered the questionnaires in 82.7% of the cases and the father in 17.3% of the cases 109 (41.0%) patients completed all therapy ... 50% of the items in the scale are missing, the scale score is not computed To create the Psychosocial Functioning score, the mean is computed as the sum of the items divided by the number of the...

Ngày tải lên: 20/06/2014, 15:20

... means and SDs of the PedsQLTM 4.0 Generic Core Scales for children with and without diabetes and for the PedsQLTM 3.0 Diabetes Module It shows that all of the domains for both of the versions of the ... children with other chronic diseases Measuring quality of life in Iranian children and adolescents with diabetes and assessment of reliability and validity of the Persian version of the PedsQLTM ... health related quality of life (HRQOL) of the patients and their families Diabetes imposes restrictions on physical, emotional and social functioning of children and adolescents One of the international...

Ngày tải lên: 20/06/2014, 15:20

... limitations The unavailability of information on nonrespondents and investigation of only a sample from Tehran, the capital city of Iran, may limit the generalizability of the findings to other parts of ... between physical functioning factor of children and their parents is their different perception of the construction of the mentioned items Hence, the loading of the first four items including, walking ... for both the child self-reports and the parent proxy-reports In the parent-report, the first factor consisted of items to and the second factor consisted of items and 8; however in the children...

Ngày tải lên: 20/06/2014, 15:20

... anti-GBM disease and membranous nephropathy, all of whom were treated with steroids, cyclophosphomide and plasmapheresis Five of the six patients were between the ages of 15 to 22 years and recovered ... creatinine, and were younger, were more likely to respond to cytotoxic treatment and have a favorable outcome Advances in elucidating the structure of the glomerular basement membrane antigen and the ... identification of the pathogenic B and T cell epitopes, along with new insights into the pathogenetic mechanisms at the cellular and molecular level, will facilitate the development of targeted...

Ngày tải lên: 11/08/2014, 03:21

... anti-GBM disease and membranous nephropathy, all of whom were treated with steroids, cyclophosphomide and plasmapheresis Five of the six patients were between the ages of 15 to 22 years and recovered ... creatinine, and were younger, were more likely to respond to cytotoxic treatment and have a favorable outcome Advances in elucidating the structure of the glomerular basement membrane antigen and the ... identification of the pathogenic B and T cell epitopes, along with new insights into the pathogenetic mechanisms at the cellular and molecular level, will facilitate the development of targeted...

Ngày tải lên: 11/08/2014, 07:20

... characterization of SAV3 5'- and 3'-ends The 5'- and 3'-ends of SAV3 were cloned and sequenced from the isolate SAVH20/03 and aligned to the 5'- and 3'-UTRs of other SAVs A) Alignment of the region in the ... the design of the project, discussion through the experimental period, and contributed to the writing of the manuscript Acknowledgements MK and AN are funded by the University of Bergen and the ... overlapping areas off the coast of Ireland, Northern Ireland and Scotland In Norway a genetically homogeneous subtype, SAV3, is found to infect both Atlantic salmon and rainbow trout on the southwest...

Ngày tải lên: 12/08/2014, 04:20

... that the NTHi form biofilms on the respiratory mucosa of humans and other mammals and it has been hypothesized that this contributes to the chronicity of these infections [1,2] They are the most ... analysis of the supragenome is important, the ultimate goal is an understanding of the phenotypes associated with individual genes and combinations of genes and how these contribute to the process of ... not level off due to the discovery of rare genes Figure of addition6 each genome to number of new gene The observed and expected the clustering dataset clusters found at the The observed and expected...

Ngày tải lên: 14/08/2014, 07:21

... List of tables viii List of figures viii PART ONE: INTRODUCTION .1 Rationale for the study Aims of the study Scope of the study ... Significance of the study Methods of the study Structure of the study .3 PART TWO: DEVELOPMENT CHAPTER ONE: LITERATURE REVIEW 1.1 Task-based ... 10 1.3.2.3 Learners’ anxiety and confidence .10 1.3.3 Learning environment and Text books 11 CHAPTER TWO: THE STUDY 12 2.1 The context of the study 12 2.1.1...

Ngày tải lên: 28/03/2015, 08:56