... can be represented over the complex number but not the real numbers and over the real numbers but not the rational numbers We use these ideas to construct two matrices, and from these matrices, ... such that the minimum rank of matrices described by CS1 is less over the complex numbers than over the real numbers1 , and the minimum rank of matrices described by CS2 is less over the real numbers ... complexity bounds over the real numbers, and needs at most (M d)O(1)N steps, where M is the number of equations and inequations, N is the number of variables, and d is the maximum degree of the polynomials...
Ngày tải lên: 07/08/2014, 15:23
... for these individuals, western medicine community pharmacists might be the only point of contact when they had minor aliments Therefore, there is a need in promoting and extending the roles of the ... comments on the interpretations of data and on the manuscript SMG and EKY supervised the whole research process All authors read and approved the final manuscript Competing interests The authors ... Authors’ contributions VCHC, CHL and SMG conceived the research idea CHL conducted the statistical analysis VCHC interpreted the result and wrote the first draft of the manuscript FWKC, JHSY, ELYW...
Ngày tải lên: 25/10/2012, 10:06
Tài liệu A REVIEW OF INDOOR AIR POLLUTION AND HEALTH PROBLEMS FROM THE VIEWPOINT OF ENVIRONMENTAL HYGIENE: FOCUSING ON THE STUDIES OF INDOOR AIR ENVIRONMENT IN JAPAN COMPARED TO THOSE OF FOREIGN COUNTRIES pptx
... complained of narrowness of their houses in the 1960 s At the time, airtight houses started to be built in urban area, and air pollution due to a lack of fresh air because of the low ventilation rate ... included, and the substances in indoor air and their concentrations from the 1970s to 2000 in Japan have been summarized by Arashidani et al.12) Outdoor air pollution was also a serious issue from the ... buildings and condominiums with damp problems could have their health affected by microbial contamination.35–37) On the other hand, physiological and psychological effects of low humidity and low air...
Ngày tải lên: 17/02/2014, 22:20
Bank income and profits over the business and interest rate cycle pdf
... include the level of loans to represent the level of operations The larger the latter, the larger the potential loss, and therefore the larger the margins shall be The stock of loans divided by total ... equity and assets are significantly lower than they would have been without the shock Both the ROE and the ROA rise over time and approximately reach the before-shock level after quarters again The ... uncertainty, etc.) and therefore treated as contemporaneously exogenous (and therefore comes first in the variable sequence) On the other hand, the respective banking sector performance measure is the endogenous...
Ngày tải lên: 06/03/2014, 14:20
COMBINING EVIDENCE ON AIR POLLUTION AND DAILY MORTALITY FROM THE 20 LARGEST US CITIES: A HIERARCHICAL MODELLING STRATEGY potx
... including the percentage of people in poverty Pc poverty and the percentage of people older than 65 years (Pc ), and on the average of the daily values of PM10 and O3 >65 "O " PM level over the ... of the spatial model Section summarizes the results, compares between the posterior inferences under the two models and assesses the sensitivity of the results to the choice of lag structure and ... Description of the databases The analysis database included mortality, weather and air pollution data for the 20 largest metropolitan areas in the USA for the 7-year period 1987±1994 (Fig and Table...
Ngày tải lên: 06/03/2014, 16:20
Air Pollution and the Health of New Yorkers: The Impact of Fine Particles and Ozone pot
... meet other air quality goals Computes the hypothetical change in air pollution concentrations as the difference between the current and the comparison levels within each neighborhood Uses the change ... I Air Pollution and the Health of New Yorkers: The Impact of Fine Particles and Ozone concentrated in Northern Manhattan, the Bronx, Central Brooklyn, and parts Eastern-Central Queens and the ... from the city center O3 reacts with and damages organic matter such as plant foliage, the human airway and other lung tissues Exposure to O3 causes irritation and inflammation of the lungs, and...
Ngày tải lên: 06/03/2014, 16:20
Long-term Exposure to Traffic-related Air Pollution and Type 2 Diabetes Prevalence in a Cross-sectional Screening-study in the Netherlands pdf
... adjacent to the area and the nearest freeway, which is located to the west of the study area The circle within the map of the Netherlands indicates were the study area is situated, the area marked ... region of the Netherlands Methods Study area and study population The study was performed among residents of the semirural area of Westfriesland in the North-West of the Page of Netherlands (Figure ... Study area and overview of specific location in the Netherlands The study area consisted of three municipalities Shown are the seven towns or villages within these municipalities, the highways...
Ngày tải lên: 06/03/2014, 19:20
Operation of the Air Pollution Index (API), the Air Quality Index (AQI) and the Air Quality Advisory pdf
... the sub-index values, the highest of these is taken as the Air Quality Index One of the AQI sub-index values may be the API sub-index If the API sub-index is the highest of the sub-indices, then ... Ontario the Air Pollution Index and the Air Quality Index This guideline outlines the objectives of these two indices and describes actions the Ministry shall take in connection with them to ... LEVELS TO THE PUBLIC 5.1 5.2 API AQI SYNOPSIS The Ministry produces two numerical indices based upon current air quality data the Ontario Air Pollution Index and the Air Quality Index These indices,...
Ngày tải lên: 06/03/2014, 19:20
Shaping Our Legacy: Reproductive Health And The Environment pptx
... proteins and these proteins play many critical roles in the cell and in the body For example, proteins perform most of the work performed by cells, and they give cells their shape and help them to ... tissue function and metabolism Endocrine glands include the pituitary, the thyroid, the thymus, the pancrease, the adrenals and the testes (in males) or the ovaries (in females) The endocrine system ... defect in the development of the urethra in the penis (the urethra is the tube through which urine and semen travel) The urethra normally runs the full length of the penis, with the opening at the...
Ngày tải lên: 14/03/2014, 14:20
Analysis of the atmospheric distribution, sources, and sinks of oxygenated volatile organic chemicals based on measurements over the Pacific during TRACE-P pdf
... ppt in the MBL have been reported from the northern and southern Pacific [Singh et al., 1995, 2001], the Atlantic [Zhou and Mopper, 1993; Arlander et al., 1995; Tanner et al., 1996], and the Indian ... relationship with CO and CH3Cl in the free troposphere (3– 12 km) and the MBL over the entire Pacific for a selected aldehyde, ketone, and alcohol These relationships were maintained even in the UT (8 – ... suggested [de Laat et al., 2001; Jacob et al., 2002] On the other hand, Singh et al [2003b] use the gradient at the top of the MBL (Table 1) and an air- sea exchange models to conclude that TRACE-P observations...
Ngày tải lên: 14/03/2014, 20:20
Air pollution and Climate Change - Report from a workshop under the Swedish EU Presidency doc
... transport there is a need for refined air pollution and green-house gas emission standards The levels of air pollutants and green-house gases are currently independent from each other and EURO standards ... the public domain but governments not see the urgency or the need for action Can we identify air pollution sources/sectors where there is a big overlap between the emission of air pollution and ... scheduled to meet (including the UNEP Governing Council, the Arctic Council, the Executive Body of the LRTAP Convention, the Intergovernmental Body of the Malé Declaration, and others) This creates a...
Ngày tải lên: 15/03/2014, 16:20
The Role of Deployments in Competency Development - Experience from Prince Sultan Air Base and Eskan Village in Saudi Arabia potx
... development RAND PROJECT AIR FORCE RAND Project Air Force (PAF), a division of the RAND Corporation, is the U.S Air Force’s federally funded research and development center for studies and analyses ... place to learn the majority of the competencies and skills included in the survey, and in many cases viewed it as the “best” place to learn them These results suggest that if the Air Force elects ... several standards, including the following: The problem is well formulated; the research approach is well designed and well executed; the data and assumptions are sound; the findings are useful and...
Ngày tải lên: 23/03/2014, 01:20
The Key to Sustained Superior Sales Performance: Execution and Helping Clients Succeed™ potx
... driving the client’s need. They discover and overcome barriers that prevent them from winning. They can discuss difficult and sensitive information in a way that endears the client to them. ... dysfunctionality. They learn how to say what they mean, be authentic, expand their awareness and choice, and enable clients to do the same. They learn how to ask tough questions ... Receive their territory and begin making calls Or Understand the problems and results that prospects face Use these as dialogue builders Hand out advertising brochures that describe the features and...
Ngày tải lên: 23/03/2014, 11:20
Shaping the past: sculpture and archaeology pot
... much of the time each discipline laid out their wares – and very interesting they were too – and it was up to the other side to see what felt familiar, where there were overlaps, where they would ... relationships between the past and the present Rather, in the manner outlined by the anthropologist Alfred Gell, we are simply exploring the ways in which materials affect the viewer, and the relationship ... by drawing on the ‘nonrepresentational’ theory of geographers and the ‘actor-network’ theory Andrew Jones and Paul Bonaventura 13 of science and technology studies (STS).30 Both of these approaches...
Ngày tải lên: 23/03/2014, 11:21
Distributed Search over the Hidden Web: Hierarchical Database Sampling and Selection pdf
... matches for the probes for each subcategory Ci , it then calculates two metrics, the Coverage(Ci ) and Specificity(Ci ) for the subcategory Coverage(Ci ) is the absolute number of documents in the database ... “Sports” satisfies the Specificity and Coverage criteria (recall that τs = 0.5 and τc = 100) and is further explored to the next level of the hierarchy In contrast, “Health,” “Computers,” and “Science” ... Figure 10: The average number of interactions per database for FP and RS methods when they retrieve the same number of documents and RS-SVM, respectively The ctf ratio and the SRCC values for the alternative...
Ngày tải lên: 23/03/2014, 16:21
The Communication on Thematic Strategy on Air Pollution and The Directive on “Ambient Air Quality and Cleaner Air for Europe” pdf
... between the MTFR and the baseline in 2020 In the NEC Directive the “gap” was the difference between “no effect” level and the starting point In other words, the “gap” in the Strategy is in between the ... describes the options considered in developing the Thematic Strategy on Air Pollution ( the Strategy”) and justifies the choices presented in the Strategy and in the Commission’s proposal to revise the ... legislation The WGPM was led by experts from the UK and Germany The WGI was convened by the Commission to gather and report on the implementation of existing air quality legislation and to report to the...
Ngày tải lên: 29/03/2014, 14:20
REPORT ON AIR QUALITY AND AIR POLLUTION CONTROL POLICIES OF THE COMMONWEALTH OF VIRGINIA ppt
... quality, provides an overview of the air division programs, and briefly summarizes the federal and state air quality programs being implemented 1.1 Air Quality in the Commonwealth Air quality in Virginia ... Policies in the Commonwealth In response to the decisions of the U.S Court of Appeals for the D.C Circuit regarding the Clean Air Interstate Rule (CAIR), EPA finalized the Cross State Air Pollution ... of the Hopewell air quality study was published in February 2009 and is available at: http://www.deq.virginia.gov /air/ Air_report The results of the study have been released to the public, and...
Ngày tải lên: 29/03/2014, 14:20
Integrated Planning for the Air Force Senior Leader Workforce - Background and Methods pdf
... FORCE RAND Project AIR FORCE (PAF), a division of the RAND Corporation, is the U.S Air Force’s federally funded research and development center for studies and analyses PAF provides the Air Force ... asked RAND Project Air Force (PAF), a division of the RAND Corporation, to study the problem and recommend ways of improving the match between future GOs’ qualifications and the jobs they must ... Employed the flow model and other, related analyses to help the Air Force improve the identification and GO/SES mix of the set of senior leader positions it intends to fill (referred to as the objective...
Ngày tải lên: 29/03/2014, 16:20
Summary of the PERN Cybersminar Air Pollution and Health Linkages doc
... pollutants that apply for an airshed as a whole These standards have the health risks factored in them, which basically means that if an airshed is compliant with the US-NAAQS then the effects of criteria ... topographical features, and questioned the actual enforcement of such standards Honaganahali added that the US National Ambient Air Quality Standards (NAAQS) are healthbased standards for criterial ... structure, poverty, SES, nutrition, and health status between the study population and that of Mexico, as well as differences in PM and other pollutants dynamic ranges between Mexico City and cities...
Ngày tải lên: 29/03/2014, 18:20