reflections and second thoughts

... ‘Then I’d put her on the stove, and she’d melt.’ And then his grandmother patted his head and told him other stories In the evening, when little Kay was at home, and half undressed, he climbed ... twice, and Kay tied on his sledge as quickly as he could, and off he drove with it On they went quicker and quicker into the next street; and the person who drove turned round to Kay, and nodded ... still flew about in the air: and now we shall hear what happened next SECOND STORY A Little Boy and a Little Girl In a large town, where there are so many houses, and so many people, that there...

Ngày tải lên: 14/12/2013, 09:15

... The Audit Society - Second Thoughts increased demands for financial and VFM auditing The 1980s were characterised by financial constraint and a commitment to organizational and financial reform ... interested in understanding the power of the word ‘audit’ as it is in defining it The idea of audit (and auditors) consists of general and highly idealised elements, and is appealed to and used in a ... ‘best value’ demands The audit explosion was also driven by closely related political demands on behalf of citizens, taxpayers, patients, pupils and others for greater accountability and transparency...

Ngày tải lên: 06/03/2014, 19:20

... have also adopted theWetland Reserve, such as the Woodlands Secondary School in 1999, the Commonwealth Secondary School in 2001, and Hillgrove Secondary in 2002 The Wetland Reserve has exhibits ... national, regional and international collaboration; and strengthen the science and understanding of linkages among biodiversity conservation and climate change adaptation and mitigation – The ... soil and crops and other elements in the food chain Large herds of cattle require bigger grazing land and pastures Poultry and other livestock are also given artificial feeds to increase weight and...

Ngày tải lên: 25/03/2014, 06:21

... University, Khon Kaen, Thailand; G Jourdain, Program for HIV Prevention and Treatment, Chiang Mai, Thailand; J Ananworanich*† and T Suwanlerk, The Netherlands, Australia, Thailand Research Collaboration ... doi:10.1186/1758-2652-14-7 Cite this article as: and : A biregional survey and review of first-line treatment failure and second- line paediatric antiretroviral access and use in Asia and southern Africa Journal of ... formulations that can be dosed and delivered to children, and that are safe to use during growth and development [7,8] To better understand the growing need for paediatric second- line ART, we conducted...

Ngày tải lên: 20/06/2014, 08:20

... access and use in Asia and southern Africa J Int AIDS Soc 2011, 14(1):7 doi:10.1186/1758-2652-14-17 Cite this article as: and : A biregional survey and review of first-line treatment failure and second- line ... transcriptase inhibitor and Journal of the International AIDS Society 2011, 14:17 http://www.jiasociety.org/content/14/1/17 Page of Switzerland and the School of Public Health and Family Medicine, ... (TApHOD), and The International Epidemiologic Databases to Evaluate AIDS (IeDEA) Southern Africa Paediatric Group: A biregional survey and review of first-line treatment failure and second- line...

Ngày tải lên: 20/06/2014, 08:20

... and the CDF FC (r) of the capacity C(t) of N ∗Nakagami-m channels are presented in Figures and 3, respectively Also, the approximation results obtained in (23) and (24) are shown in Figures and ... into the influence of the number of hops and the severity of fading on the instantaneous channel capacity, and hence they are very useful for the design and performance analysis of multihop communication ... relays can generally be classified into two types, namely amplify -and- forward (or non-regenerative) relays [9, 10] and decode -and- forward (or regenerative) relays [9, 11] The relay nodes in multihop...

Ngày tải lên: 20/06/2014, 20:20

... then Ꮿ J1 = y : J1 −→ R : y and y ∆ are continuous on J1 , + + Ꮿ J2 = y : J2 −→ R : y and y ∆ are continuous on J2 and y t1 and y ∆ t1 exist , A = y : J −→ R : y1 ∈ Ꮿ J1 and y2 ∈ Ꮿ J2 (3.7) For ... p 0,u(0) − p 0,un (0) (2.23) Now take limn→∞ and apply the Lebesgue dominated convergence theorem and the continuity of g in its second variable and of p to conclude lim Gun (t) − Gu(t) = (2.24) ... introduce the concept of lower and upper solutions of problem (3.1)–(3.5) as follows F M Atici and D C Biles 127 Definition 3.1 The functions α and β are, respectively, a lower and an upper solution of...

Ngày tải lên: 23/06/2014, 00:20

... reporting and can help to make it happen: companies, analysts and investors, NGOs, regulators and standard setters, accounting firms, technology and data vendors, academics, students, and civil ... Do you understand your context, your stakeholders, your key relationships; you understand material risks and opportunities and the context in which they are manifest and evolve; and how have you ... international standardization system and clarifies its relation to private standards, specifically in the areas of information and communication technologies, the agri-food sector and on social and environmental...

Ngày tải lên: 27/06/2014, 23:20

... on cancer incidence data among Atomic bomb survivors [25] Second, a well established methodology described by Land and colleagues [26] (and almost identically in the recent BEIR-VII report [27] ... dose to normal tissues delivered with past, current and potential future treatment, and to model the associated reduction in secondary breast and lung cancer risk While the motivation for IFRT ... thyroid gland, bilateral female breasts, bilateral lungs, the whole heart, and the proximal coronary arteries (PCA) was performed under the supervision of a diagnostic radiologist (NP), and utilizing...

Ngày tải lên: 09/08/2014, 10:21

Ngày tải lên: 19/03/2015, 14:51

... pressure, temperature, and concentration and with the relationships between them  The first law prediction is however concern only the difference between the “ initial and final states” of the ... Heat” and relationship among them Energy Thermodynamics is concerned with “internal energy U” , that is energy acquired by means of the mass and motions of molecules , intermolecular forces and ... absorbed by the system W= work done of the system At the constant volume the work of expansion is zero and so ∆E=q At constant pressure work is w=P ∆V Then the heat is equal ∆E+P ∆V Normally the reaction...

Ngày tải lên: 21/07/2015, 16:18

... passion and knowledge I am very grateful to Mr Alvin Kang Chiang Huen in Singapore and Dr Jaewon Cha in MIT for their mentorship They taught me all the knowledge and skills about optics hand by hand ... to give my deepest appreciation to my family, my parents and grandparents for their selfless support and love They always care my life and my feelings no matter how far I am away from home I would ... Lei, Dr Tong Wen Hao and Ms Xing Jiangwa shared all my thoughts and feelings I also would like to thank my friends Dr Zhang Chenyu, Dr Zhang Bo, Dr Yin Lu, Ms Shao Yiou and Ms Zhang Yujie who...

Ngày tải lên: 09/09/2015, 08:17

... Mean and Standard Deviation 13 Signal vs Underlying Process 17 The Histogram, Pmf and Pdf 19 The Normal Distribution 26 Digital Noise Generation 29 Precision and Accuracy 32 Chapter ADC and DAC ... Audio 359 Companding 362 Speech Synthesis and Recognition 364 Nonlinear Audio Processing 368 Chapter 23 Image Formation and Display 373 Digital Image Structure 373 Cameras and Eyes 376 ... nearly one-thousand By all accounts, it will increase by another factor of one-thousand in the next 15 years This tremendous power has changed the way science and engineering is done, and there is...

Ngày tải lên: 13/09/2012, 10:21

... sentences • The ability to understand and use grammatical rules • Memory of key words, what they mean and how to use them An important point regarding aptitude and second language learning is that ... are integrative and instrumental motivation All of them want to English firstly for a future job, and secondly for better understanding of the foreign tourists 4.2 Activities and techniques used ... (1985) Social Psychology and second language learning: The roles of attitudes and motivation London: Edward Arnold 16.Gardner,R.C & Lambert,W.E (1972) Attitudes and motivation: Second language learning...

Ngày tải lên: 07/11/2012, 15:01

... Besides, the data from the study confirm the fact that the infrequent and inadequate feedback and assessment from teacher(s) and the institution’s lack of conductive facilities also contributed ... presentation skills, students, teacher(s) and institution should make greater efforts in learning and teaching oral communication skills On the part of the second- year majors, for example, in order ... text and a list of references is given Nguyen Thi Van Ha -Signature 27/08/2007 - -Date iii Abstract In an attempt to investigate Phuong Dong University’s second- year...

Ngày tải lên: 07/09/2013, 13:02

... the left-hand column contains left navigation and the other contains the main content of the page ❑ Where the left-hand column contains the main content of the page and the right-hand side contains ... (elements here means items on the page such as navigation, branding, articles/products, and so on, rather than tags and their content), and whether your page will be a fixed size or whether it will ... elements that will appear on every page This usually means starting with the branding and the primary navigation The branding and primary navigation should be in the same place on every page For example,...

Ngày tải lên: 24/10/2013, 12:15

... enter a URL or click a link and read the page and view the images JavaScript allowed web-page authors to access and manipulate features and content of the document and the browsers used to view ... that everyone is able to access the site And like being a brand consultant, you need to choose the right colors and select fonts that work well with the aims and values of your site What you have ... but what you will learn in this chapter and the next should be enough to help you understand the thousands of free scripts that are available on the Web and allow you to incorporate them into...

Ngày tải lên: 07/11/2013, 15:15

... month, and day ❑ yr_num, mo_num, day_num, hr_num, min_num, seconds_num, ms_num: Represents the years, days, hours, minutes, seconds, and milliseconds Here are some examples; the first uses milliseconds ... although to understand this point you need to understand functions and global and local variables, which are covered later A variable’s value can be recalled or changed by the script, and when you ... value of x and y min(x,y) Returns the number with the lowest value of x and y pow(x,y) Returns the value of the number x raised to the power of y random() Returns a random number between and round(x)...

Ngày tải lên: 14/12/2013, 21:16