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... the modulus of elasticity of the concrete the modulus of subgrade reaction, diameter of the loaded area, the spacing of the wheels, the concrete’s modulus of rupture and the selected factor of ... caused by the difference in drying shrinkage between the top and bottom surfaces of the slab The effects of shrinkage and curling due to loss of moisture from the slab surface are often overlooked ... on the bottom of the slab and the second is controlled by tension on the top of the slab Both procedures start with use of a relative stiffness term D/k, and require the initial assumption of the...

Ngày tải lên: 24/10/2014, 17:26

... together these accounted for only 2.4 percent of total U.S textile and apparel imports The incidence of these quotas has declined significantly since the expiration of the ATC, and hence ETEs (and ... textile and apparel output because of their large effect on U.S exports This paper is related to two strands in the literature The first strand is the estimation of welfare effects from textile and ... investment as the firm attempts to increase the rate of capital accumulation with the objective of reducing the scarcity of capital in the subsequent period Furthermore, investors' required rates of return...

Ngày tải lên: 12/04/2013, 16:17

... bans imports from the US and from China The main point of disagreement between the US and the EU is on the use of end -of- line chlorine decontamination in US processing facilities The EU does not ... compared to the previous scenario This helps the US and the EU increase their sales of low-value poultry to China, due to the substitution effect, and allows both countries to offset some of their ... Then, the level of poultry production in the ROWE region is the sum of production in these exporting countries Poultry production for the ROWM region is obtained by subtracting the quantity of...

Ngày tải lên: 08/03/2014, 09:20

... one theoretical plate fractionation Systematic observations of temperature readings and volumes of condensate are made, depending on the needs of the user of the data The volume of the residue and ... gives information on the temperature of the flask and specimen at the start of the test and the receiving cylinder Maintaining the temperature of the receiving cylinder at the prescribed temperature ... Recovery and Percent Loss The percent total recovery is the sum of the percent recovery and the percent residue Percent recovery is the volume of distillate in the receiving cylinder at the end of the...

Ngày tải lên: 01/04/2014, 11:24

... science brings an understanding of the mechanisms of accelerated atherosclerosis in SLE and as clinical studies address both the efficacy and the effectiveness of existing and improved risk factor control ... problem, there is a solution which is simple, neat and wrong’ We have known for over 20 years of the late complications of SLE The received wisdom that we need only try harder to implement the known ... from the Arthritis Foundation and American College of Rheumatology, and a grant from the Arthritis National Research Foundation MHL is supported by an NIH grant P60 AR47782 and by a Kirkland Scholar...

Ngày tải lên: 09/08/2014, 01:22

... disagree) There was no verbatim transcription of the group discussions The cards with GPs' comments were the basis for the protocols of the third sessions Similar comments were summarised and grouped ... the claim of having treated patients previously in accordance with the guideline recommendations, and the statement that the guideline has changed their management of LBP Strengths and limitations ... in general might be lower The main purpose of the QCs was educational, and we did not perform an in-depth qualitative study Meaning of the results and comparison with other studies Agreement is...

Ngày tải lên: 11/08/2014, 05:22

... disagree) There was no verbatim transcription of the group discussions The cards with GPs' comments were the basis for the protocols of the third sessions Similar comments were summarised and grouped ... the claim of having treated patients previously in accordance with the guideline recommendations, and the statement that the guideline has changed their management of LBP Strengths and limitations ... in general might be lower The main purpose of the QCs was educational, and we did not perform an in-depth qualitative study Meaning of the results and comparison with other studies Agreement is...

Ngày tải lên: 11/08/2014, 16:21

... avoid the dangers of live donation and evade the controversy that surrounds CDCD UDCD respects the ‘dead-donor rule’ and complies with the deep medical traditions of respecting life at all costs and ... continuing success of the Madrid and Barcelona out -of- hospital UDCD programs, demonstrate the viability and reproducibility of such protocols The IOM conservatively estimated that in the US about 22,000 ... York University School of Medicine, and the Fire Department of the City of New York It is supported by the US Health Page of (page number not for citation purposes) Resources and Services Administration...

Ngày tải lên: 13/08/2014, 19:20

Ngày tải lên: 24/11/2014, 22:40

... changed since the end of 1970s The failure of the planned economy and the goal of facilitating the economic development of the country made China shift to the market economy and adopt the “Open-up” ... to the building of democracy, improvement of human rights, rule of law and facilitation of political and social change in China This thesis approached these questions from the perspective of the ... submerged in the 1950s and 1960s, and the number and diversity of these organisations have grown rapidly since the 1990s The re-emergence of NGOs raises the questions whether, and to what extent,...

Ngày tải lên: 13/10/2015, 16:50

... ASEAN, Regional Intergration Process and Challenges, Hanoi 14 Damien J Neven (2000), Evaluating the effects of non-tariff barriers, University of Lausanne 15 The Australian APEC Study Centre-Monash ... trường với điều kiện chấp nhận tiêu chuẩn môi trường; hạn chế thương mại đặt theo quy tắc MEAs [15] 1.1.2.2 Phân loại Theo nghiên cứu Lê Hoàng Lan [10], có loại rào cản môi trường thường áp dụng, ... nhiều nước giới, có Việt Nam Dù kim ngạch xuất hàng Việt Nam sang thị trường Mỹ theo chiều mũi tên lên, song, theo cảnh báo chuyên gia, doanh nghiệp xuất sang Mỹ cần phải thận trọng với "chiêu...

Ngày tải lên: 06/02/2014, 20:27

... here and could be the focus for further research Nevertheless, some useful insights are provided that may assist the small business sector, the accountancy profession and the development and support ... suggest either complacency on the part of the owners/directors of these firms or perhaps a feeling that ‘all accountants were the same’, and therefore it was not worth ‘replacing’ their present ... supported 45.7% of the firms) Here the provision of relevant and targeted business training could be expanded to meet the needs of the small business sector Greater flexibility in delivery and appropriateness...

Ngày tải lên: 09/02/2014, 21:12

... bubblers of the same design as in Fig Because of the lack of bubble formation and the uncertain surface area of the solid, the condensed phase of the source will often not be in equilibrium with the ... from knowledge of the flow dynamics of the flow controller and the thermal conductivity of the gas for which the flow controller is calibrated Because the thermal conductivity of gases can vary ... pyrolysis in the boundary layer above the substrate, and thermodynamic or kinetic rejection of species from the substrate The worst of these effects can be reduced or eliminated through the use of appropriate...

Ngày tải lên: 14/02/2014, 03:20

... government and the schools, too) to list 10 or more items they buy out of town Then ask other local businesses if they are interested in bidding on these items Track the purchases and the spending ... to redesign and replant corner nodes throughout the downtown and at entry areas Include a number of youth in the group Using the entryway signage and landscape features at the southern Castle ... vision so that they can present ideas and participate in the buy-in of the adopted plan The Cowlitz-Wahkiakum Council of Governments has already started the process of updating the Comprehensive...

Ngày tải lên: 18/02/2014, 07:20

Ngày tải lên: 23/02/2014, 02:20

... husbands In China, the equalization of rights between men and women came on the heels of political change The first law promulgated after the founding of new China in 1949, the Marriage Law of the ... continued in the Civil Code and other statutory legislation until 1988 Prior to that, the husband was the head of the household and had the sole right and duty to legally represent the family, ... regime The text of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, adopted in 1948 by the General Assembly of the United Nations, opens by emphasizing that “recognition of the inherent dignity and of the...

Ngày tải lên: 06/03/2014, 10:20

... government and others) • What will these partners bring to the effort in the way of revenue? • What can they bring in the form of services that relieve your financial burden? Tools •What are the basic ... government offices, and small markets, thus keeping costs low, while increasing traffic and helping to integrate the facility into the social fabric of the community? The ultimate location of the shared ... are the likely community people that we can train as trainers of others? Creating awareness, interest, understanding, and acceptance of outcomes of the online community can be difficult and are...

Ngày tải lên: 08/03/2014, 20:20

... Academy of Sciences to secure the services of eminent members of appropriate professions in the examination of policy matters pertaining to the health of the public The Institute acts under the responsibility ... The committee’s mandate was to gather and analyze the best available information on the status of women in academic science and engineering and to propose ways of putting their abilities to the ... synthesis of the existing reports and basic research and to examine the implicit and explicit obstacles to educational and academic career advancement of women scientists and engineers, and the effects...

Ngày tải lên: 14/03/2014, 19:20

... defect-free and show no kink, dislocation and small angle boundaries because of the periodic change growth direction along the length of the SiNWs The growth plane is one of the (1 1) planes and the ... channels of alumina Further condensation will then produce SiNWs in the channels of alumina Furthermore, the carrier gas Ar will collide with the pore surface and the atomic Si has absorbed and exchange ... amorphous and transition alumina and these sites have the intrinsic catalytic activity of transition alumina in front of the decomposition of silane [23] Therefore it is possible that the internal...

Ngày tải lên: 16/03/2014, 15:08

... at% of O, 41.87 at% of Si, 8.66 at% of V, 0.74 at% of Zn, and no Cl, for the catalyst tip in Fig 2(b), and 60.28 at% of O, 39.40 at% of Si, 0.32 at% of V, and no Zn or Cl, for the long nanowires ... image (the inset shows the SAED pattern) of the asgrown amorphous SiOx nanowires in the temperature region of $1000 1C; (b) TEM image of a catalyst tip, and the corresponding (c) SAED and (d) ... examine the chemical composition of the as-grown nanowires Fig 3(a) shows the EDX spectrum of the round tip on top of a nanowire (Fig 2(b)), and Fig 3(b) shows the EDX spectrum from long bundles of...

Ngày tải lên: 16/03/2014, 15:19