... differences existing between the final deposits depend mainly on factors: (1) the contact angle of the droplet 139 with the substrates; (2) the pinning (or lack thereof) of the contact line; (3) the physico-chemical ... branching structure of these bundles is correlated to the direction of the movement of the receding contact line: due to capillary interactions resulting from the deformation of the contact line, ... explanations of the self- assembly processes involved during creation of the films It must be noted that HOPG is not included in the ‘‘Hydrophobic surfaces’’ in Table due to the unique results obtained...
Ngày tải lên: 22/06/2014, 18:20
... differences existing between the final deposits depend mainly on factors: (1) the contact angle of the droplet 139 with the substrates; (2) the pinning (or lack thereof) of the contact line; (3) the physico-chemical ... branching structure of these bundles is correlated to the direction of the movement of the receding contact line: due to capillary interactions resulting from the deformation of the contact line, ... explanations of the self- assembly processes involved during creation of the films It must be noted that HOPG is not included in the ‘‘Hydrophobic surfaces’’ in Table due to the unique results obtained...
Ngày tải lên: 22/06/2014, 22:20
Báo cáo y học: "The self-organizing fractal theory as a universal discovery method: the phenomenon of life" pptx
... plays an increasingly influential organizing role In turn, the planet Earth is an integral and inseparable part of the self- organizing and evolving Universe According to the SOFT-NET theory, the process ... in the evolution of life Concluding this section, the quest for an origin -of- life theory may have been misguided from the very beginning According to the SOFT-NET interpretation, the origin of ... precisely, including such details as the surprisingly weak affinities of the most specific protein-protein interactions driving the assembly of macromolecular complexes in the cell; the dynamic,...
Ngày tải lên: 13/08/2014, 16:20
IMPACTS OF CLIMATE CHANGE ON AGRICULTURE IN VIETNAM The case of Mekong River Delta, Vietnam
... wastes, the failure in each growing state will affect the others The change in monthly rainfall distribution such as less rains in early wet seasons and more heavy rains in the end of the wet ... change is having a big impact on agricultural production and on the lives of the people because of the intensified drought, the saline water coming in, as well as the stormy weather They’ve all ... planning for a one meter rise in sea level by the end of the century The consequences of doing nothing would see more than a third of the Mekong Delta flooded by then A spokeswoman for the Tra Vinh...
Ngày tải lên: 23/01/2013, 22:00
The phenomenon of evaporative cooling from a humid surface as an alternative method for air-conditioning
... proper thermal environment in buildings There are many sustainable alternatives in the air-conditioning of buildings, which consist in minimizing the energy demand by improving the thermal insulation, ... cooling, and that have been developed in the Thermal Engineering Research Group of the University of Valladolid History of evaporative cooling Many examples of the application of the phenomenon of ... and maintain the surface humid, evaporating into the air [4] Other paintings from Rome, founded in a wall from Herculano (70 A.D.), show a big Wessel made of leather used to cool the drinking water...
Ngày tải lên: 05/09/2013, 16:10
The role of leadership theory in raising the profile of women in management
... raising the profile of women in management However, during this period of research, there was an emerging recognition of the importance of a concern for people in the behavioural theories as being ... anything towards raising the profile of women in management, as the theory was constructed as a male model at a time when women were not visible in paid employment One of the off shoots of the ... enabling of others to help achieve the goals of the organisation Furthermore, the ability to control others is given no prominence in this recent definition of leadership A brief review of early...
Ngày tải lên: 08/10/2013, 15:56
HOW TO IMPROVE LISTENING SKILLS IN TOEIC THE CASE OF questions and responses short conversations
... take the time to eat! 14 Express opinions, Agreeing or Disagreeing 14.1Expressing Opinions - I'm of the opinion that - As far as I am concerned - From my point of view - In my opinion - I think/believe/feel ... of speed of Speakers in TOEIC test? Getting information in test is very important, the result indicate that 76% the students felt that speed of the speed of the speaker is very fast In some methods ... Really fine - So-so, thanks - Oh, the usual rounds - No, nothing much - Fair to madding, thanks - Im full of the joys of spring - Same as ever Making and responding to instruct 24 3.1 Asking for instructions:...
Ngày tải lên: 11/12/2013, 23:59
Tài liệu Health Education in Schools – The Importance of Establishing Healthy Behaviors in our Nation’s Youth pptx
... when practicing the skill is tied to the content of a specific health behavior or health decision The most effective method of skill development is learning by doing – involving students in active, ... statistics are alarming and disturbing for the health of the nation The good news is that research has revealed that health risk behaviors that contribute to the leading causes of death in the United ... using communication, decision-making, goal-setting, and advocacy skills to engage in healthenhancing behaviors Further, the effectiveness and quality of health education programs have been linked...
Ngày tải lên: 14/02/2014, 13:20
Tài liệu Osteoporosis in Men: The Effects of Gender on Skeletal Health Second Edition pptx
... distinct from cartilage) include: osteonectin (SPARC), the matrillins, the thrombospondins, the tenascins, the galectins, periostin and osteopontin and BSP (SIBLINGs) Each of these proteins is ... broad distribution of the amount of mineral in the matrix, again varying with age, environment and disease The average amount of mineral in the matrix can be measured by burning off the organic matrix ... Proteins: Siblings There is a family of proteins found in bone that have been named the SIBLING proteins (small integrin binding ligand N-glycosylated) [60] These proteins are all located on the...
Ngày tải lên: 14/02/2014, 21:20
Tài liệu THE HISTORICAL EVOLUTION OF ACCOUNTING IN CHINA: THE EFFECTS OF CULTURE docx
... 2004:54) The influence of Yin & Yang can also be seen in the naming accounting technique of both Longmen Zhang bookkeeping, which emerged at the end of the Ming and the beginning of the Qing dynasties; ... presented the most interesting determinants of national differences in international accounting by presenting an international accounting contingency framework to explain these differences: the main ... court, national politics administration and finance Part of the reform of the system of accounting and auditing was to replace the Ministry of Revenue with the Ministry of Finance and Expenditure,...
Ngày tải lên: 17/02/2014, 10:20
Tài liệu Careers In Marketing - The University of Arizona Eller College Department of Marketing pdf
... Opportunities Starting jobs in the industrial field vary according to the size, need, and practices of firms Training programs may be of the general type, providing an overview of a variety of opportunities, ... levels than in manufacturing or advertising, the gap is narrowing, both in terms of initial responsibility and in terms of money Among the wide variety or routes to the management in retailing are ... computer, in malls, etc The marketing researcher may be involved with the decision maker for resolving the problem He or she will generally be involved with designing the research project, including the...
Ngày tải lên: 18/02/2014, 02:20
Tài liệu Cleaner Water in China? The Implications of the Amendments to China’s Law on the Prevention and Control of Water Pollution pptx
... legal tool, the scope of who can sue should be expanded in China On the other hand, an interesting aspect of China’s law is that in a lawsuit, the discharging party has the burden of proving both ... pollution incidents] and other personnel responsible therefor may be imposed a fine equal to 50% of their incomes from their respective employers for the preceding year.”115 Fining the individual is innovative ... these numbers may seem promising, the number of permits issued lags behind the number of polluting industries In some places, only twenty percent of polluting enterprises had permits.54 In other...
Ngày tải lên: 18/02/2014, 04:20
Tài liệu Research "Increasing Quality and Equity in Education: The Case of Chile " doc
Ngày tải lên: 18/02/2014, 11:20
Tài liệu Báo cáo khoa học: "An Experiment in Evaluating the Quality of Translations" pdf
... into account in making their judgments In effect, then, fidelity of a translation was to be judged in terms of the “informativeness” of the original relative to the translation In this way, the ... expertness in the Russian language) and sorted by the writer into nine piles of ascending degrees of “informativeness” of the original sentence relative to the translation sentence Again, the method of ... Externally, the rating for intelligibility was the same for the monolinguals and the bilinguals, in the sense that they were both rating precisely the same materials on the same scale and taking the...
Ngày tải lên: 19/02/2014, 19:20
Labour Force Participation of the Elderly in Europe: The Importance of Being Healthy doc
... analysis of the determinants of labour force participation of the elderly in Europe Nevertheless, knowing In the future, there will be a link established between SHARE and the social security administration ... analysis of the ageing problem is, of course, the availability of adequate data sources In this respect, many European countries are lagging behind the United States that has a tradition in gathering ... iza@iza.org Any opinions expressed here are those of the author(s) and not those of the institute Research disseminated by IZA may include views on policy, but the institute itself takes no institutional...
Ngày tải lên: 05/03/2014, 18:20
PROBLEMS IN ESTIMATING THE BURDEN OF PULMONARY TUBERCULOSIS IN INDIA: A REVIEW pot
... covered in each Committee' in 2000 and assigned them the task of survey to estimate the burden of disease in the estimating the burden of TB in the country4 The country the country, updating the ... chosen to ignore the findings of surveys, wherein the initial screening was 'symptom elicitation' Disregarding the findings of these surveys had led Dye et al to estimate of prevalence of bacteriological ... customarily examined in However, not considering the findings of surveys surveys, and the over-diagnosis due to the X-ray wherein the initial investigation tool was 'symptom reading technique The revised...
Ngày tải lên: 06/03/2014, 04:20
WORKING PAPER SERIES NO. 398 / OCTOBER 2004: MERGERS AND ACQUISITIONS AND BANK PERFORMANCE IN EUROPE THE ROLE OF STRATEGIC SIMILARITIES potx
... effect of changes on the capital levels on performance hinges on the recent theory of the banking firm, which is based on the ‘specialness’ of banks in a setting in which there are asymmetries of information ... to single out the impact of one single merger from the others in the sample as a few of banks on the sample merged several times Second, when considering a longer time span, the effect of other ... however, the process of banking integration seems far from completed and is expected to continue reshaping the European financial landscape in the years to come.1 First, many of the forces underpinning...
Ngày tải lên: 06/03/2014, 09:22
Factors infl uencing the risk of breast cancer – established and emerging ppt
... and the European Commission, DG Environment The views expressed in this publication not necessarily reflect the of cial views of the funders and the EU institutions Factors in uencing the risk of ... ii) The vulnerable stages of development when exposure occurs (“timing”) These realizations have made the theory of oestrogenmimicking chemicals and their involvement in breast cancer increasingly ... which investigate the timing and nature of exposure to oestrogen-mimicking chemicals and provide invaluable insight into the complicated origins of breast cancer I) THE COCKTAIL EFFECT Despite the...
Ngày tải lên: 15/03/2014, 01:20
Bringing the Hidden Giants to the Footlight: the Role of Savings and Retail Banks in Increasing the Level of Access to Financial Services docx
... businesses, the traditional target client group of savings banks By capturing and channelling more of the remittances into the financial system and intermediating the flow of the resources, savings ... disbursing of loans and collecting loan repayments Another promising track for savings banks is to invest their savings deposits in microfinance institutions by specialising 18 Microfinance Information ... analysis of the creditworthiness and the repayment capacity of their clients, a domain where they have a high level of expertise, while savings banks could make use of their front and back of ce...
Ngày tải lên: 15/03/2014, 10:20