... factor of instability or risk is reflected in the possibility of a gain Often options are shaped as a choice between a stable outcome (gaining £3,000 for sure) against an instable one (gaining £5,000 ... and government It is vital to building, maintaining the democracy and women should be committed in institution to working 11 The reflectionof woman empowering in the 21st century ... school, in average, in female experience violence issues in their lifetime In the article “Many voice of feminism”, McAndrew quoted the opinion of Susan Sage Heinzelman, an associate Professor,...
... port-dependent integrated routing performs better than port-independent integrated routing in terms of blocking probability The performance in terms of blocking probability and mean number of OEO conversions ... user-network interface, UNI) The IP domain acts as a client to the optical domain The IP/MPLS routing and signaling protocols are independent of the routing and signaling protocols of the optical layer In ... improving its sharing efficiency with existing backup LSPs We develop algorithms to determine the set of unprotected links in two cases where the failure probabilities of links, given a single link...
... in teaching and learning politeness strategies in requests; and applying them in our daily interaction The research questions of the study are: - What kind of politeness strategies are used in ... behavior that establish and maintain comity That is the ability of participants in a social interaction to engage in interaction in an atmosphere of relative harmony In stating his maxims, Leech uses ... instruction Strategy 6: Instances in which the threat is minimized implicitly Strategy 7: Doing the FTA is in the interest of the hearer Strategy 8: Instances in which threat minimizing does not occur...
... overwintered bud, may be determined during the previous growing season; the lengths of FIRST and SECOND flushes reflecting, in part, different patterns of growth, physiology and apical dominance in ... which were prone to recurrent flushing The percentage of shoots showing SECOND flushes of growth between 1981 and 1990 are given in table I The proportion of leading shoots forming a second flush ... shown in table I Data for leading shoots and branches have been combined For both types of flush there were considerable differences between years in the proportion of buds remaining live overwinter,...
... substantially in all parts of the study except from the collection of data MS, PW, and PR contributed substantially in the planning of the study and the collection of data as well as in the interpretation ... advances in understanding of their biology Hum Pathol 1999, 30(10):1213-1220 Kindblom LG, Remotti HE, Aldenborg F, Meis-Kindblom JM: Gastrointestinal pacemaker cell tumor (GIPACT): gastrointestinal ... 70.2%, well in line with others In earlier publications, surgery for recurrent IaRS has been considered palliative [16] We found a 5-year survival inrecurrent IaRS of 51.8%, but when looking specifically...
... was symmetric upon smiling, eyebrow wrinkling, lip pursing, and eye closure Light touch and cold perception in his trigeminal nerve territories was normal His hearing was intact His palate elevated ... developed Plasmapheresis was initiated on day nine of his symptoms following insertion of a vascular catheter Near the end of the first treatment, he developed severe right- Page of sided facial weakness ... facial droop appeared The remainder of his neurological examination, including contralateral facial strength, remained unchanged A brain magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) scan was performed two...
... was symmetric upon smiling, eyebrow wrinkling, lip pursing, and eye closure Light touch and cold perception in his trigeminal nerve territories was normal His hearing was intact His palate elevated ... developed Plasmapheresis was initiated on day nine of his symptoms following insertion of a vascular catheter Near the end of the first treatment, he developed severe right- Page of sided facial weakness ... facial droop appeared The remainder of his neurological examination, including contralateral facial strength, remained unchanged A brain magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) scan was performed two...
... extensive inclined cracking would occur in the joint Tests indicate that initial inclined cracking in well-confined interior joints occurs at levels of nominal shear stress of approximately to 10√fc′ ... longitudinal bars, to improve bond capacity of column bars, and to provide some confinement to the joint core Confinement of the joint core is intended to maintain the integrity of joint concrete, ... limitations of Section 4.1 for spacing of longitudinal bars in Type connections, are intended to create a steel gridwork capable of adequately confining the column core Crossties are required to maintain...
... identical in meaning to the unbalanced moment as defined in ACI 318 Performance of a connection can be affected by behavior of the joint (including slip of reinforcement embedded in the joint) and ... 2-DEFINITIONS AND CLASSIFICATIONS 2.1 -Definitions Joint-The part of the column within the depth of the slab including drop panel and having plan dimensions equal to those of the column at the intersection ... limiting strengths of the slab, the column, and the joint In lieu of a general analysis, strength of the slab included in the connection may be determined according to the procedures given in Sections...
... transformation of the normal mucosa into a mucosa that resembles intestinal epithelium (intestinal metaplasia) The presence of intestinal metaplasia increases the risk of GC Subsequently, intestinal metaplasia ... and institutional funding from Duke-NUS and Cancer Sciences Institute of Singapore I wish to acknowledge Department of Physiology, Yong Loo Lin School of Medicine in National University of Singapore, ... causes fusion of the BCR signaling protein to the ABL non-receptor tyrosine kinase, resulting in 20 constitutive tyrosine kinase activity and complex interactions of this fusion protein with many...
... routing against single-link failures in WDM networks In [30], the problem of routing two categories of connections, dependable connections (D -connections) and nondependable connections (ND -connections) ... survivability of a single class ofconnections There is also some work existing in the literature considering survivability of different classes of traffic For example, in [59], supporting of three ... failure independent path based protection The performance of one category ofconnections improves at the cost of the worsening of the performance of the other category ofconnectionsIn this...
... train runs along the Red River All trains leave in the evening from Hanoi and arrive at Lao Cai train station in the early morning Trains also leave in the evening from Lao Cai and arrive in ... the country and intergrats into Asian railway Up to now,with over 125 years of operation.Viet Nam railway network consists of mains lines linking and passing through over 35 provinces and cities ... *Air-couditioners were installed in soft and hard berth cars,soft seat car as buffer car.beside,there were automatically-boilt hettles in these cars of individual demand of passengers.The installation of fresh...
... with Ministry of Science, Technology and Environment, Ministry of Planning and Investment, have invested the matter in various hospitals and submitted the project of constructing “the centre of ... more easily by using one of the latest technologies – Biofast – a kind of machine for filtering liquid wastes Biofast are outstanding because of its effectiveness and efficiency Biofast operates ... Vietnamese factories tried manufacturing incinerators but either they could not apply in reality or incinerators were inefficient The abatement cost of treating one kilogram of solid medical waste is 8,000vnd...
... buying inflows to reduce the NOFP Nonetheless, in certain cases involving large one-off inflows of FDI, the SARB may have sufficient prior information to make an assessment as to whether the inflow ... considering buying inflows of capital, the central bank may wish to know the likelihood of that type of inflow being repeated over a given period of time To test for persistence, we examined the ... that a reduction of US$1 billion in the NOFP was typically associated with a decline in spreads of nearly 15 basis points.2 This means that the cut in the NOFP from its recent peak of US$23 billion...
... Our results regarding inconsistencies in post-discharge care of sexually abused females are in line with the findings of the United Nations panel reporting unmet needs of victims of sexual violence, ... violence seeking medical care in the hospitals of Goma; (2) assessment of the availability of key resources to treat victims of sexual violence in hospitals regularly caring for victims of sexual ... patients following sexual violence, these institutions were visited and included in the survey During on-site visits consisting of personal interviews and visits of key hospital facilities (e.g outpatient...
... National Bureau of Statistics of China China statistical yearbook 2003 [in Chinese] Beijing: China Statistics Press 2003: 100-102 19 Chongqing Municipal Bureau of Statistics Chongqing statistical ... refractions in Western China In order to obtain the refractive status in school-age children in Western China, we selected Yongchuan District, Chongqing, a representative district in Western China, ... the time of selection were also included During door-to-door selection interviews, a parent or legal guardian of the child was informed of the study details, including the side effects of pupillary...
... fixed in buffered formalin, embedded in paraffin, and stained with hematoxylin-eosin-safran and Masson's trichrome Hepatic steatosis, stage of fibrosis and grade of disease activity were determined ... were 1.0~2.5 cm in length Liver biopsy was performed to obtain the specimens under the guidance of ultrasound within week after admission, using a needle with an internal diameter of 1.4 mm (Quick-Cut; ... (FBG), insulin, triglyceride (TG), cholesterol (CHOL), ALT, aspartate aminotransferase (AST), γ-glutamyltransferase (GGT), alkaline phosphatases (ALP), albumin (Alb) and globulin (Glb) were determined...