slope as rate of change

... have often been associated with changes in policies In the case of Vietnam, the success of Doi Moi has often been linked to the implementation of new legal frameworks (Le, 2009; Ronnas & Ramamurthy, ... percentage has increased gradually to reach 11 percent in 2009 The increase between 2000 and 2009 has been often been linked with changes in state policies and regulations during the 2000s, such as the ... line of explanation As has been noted, the process of implementing formal legal and administrative frameworks for the market economy in Vietnam has been quite slow In this, as in other areas,...

Ngày tải lên: 05/10/2015, 21:24

... at measurement, assessing the current rate of technological change involves some uncertainties Moreover, even with fairly accurate measures of historical and current rates of technological change, ... Productivity measurements are typically based on measures of changes in labour input adjusted for changes in quality of labour These calculations are based on surveys that simultaneously measure employment, ... estimate of the rate of technological change Solow residual, dp, is defined as the growth in output minus a shareweighted change in the value of inputs For the US data, the data are based on Jorgenson’s...

Ngày tải lên: 17/03/2014, 10:20

... Inorganic nitrogen was assessed as the sum of ammonium and nitrate: ammonium was extracted in M KCl and was determined following Anderson and Ingram (1993) while nitrate was determined color- ... increased atmospheric CO2 by means of FACE (Free Air CO2 Enrichment) technique and fertilized during the last years Aim of this paper was to assess the validity of the microbial indices as bioindicators ... status of the soil In fact a strong reduction of soil inorganic nitrogen was detected and it was probably due to enhanced plant uptake linked to the increase of biomass under elevated CO2 as shown...

Ngày tải lên: 28/07/2014, 17:21

... increased rate of treatment changes (1.31 (1.13 – 1.51), p < 0.001) This increased rate of treatment change was largely driven by the large number of drug cessation, with 119 of 752 treatment changes ... observational database used the same criteria as ours to define rate of changes and has the same number of years of follow-up (2.3 years) [8,9,18] The rate of combination antiretroviral treatment change ... treatment change was defined as any change in ART excluding dosage change Any start or stop of an individual antiretroviral drug was considered to be a treatment change An interruption of a drug of...

Ngày tải lên: 10/08/2014, 05:20

... was recorded at 460 and 580 nm After a 20 sec baseline reading, 0.1 ml of PBS containing 10 µM of the compound investigated was added, and the fluorescence signal was recorder for 40 sec The change ... greater than demonstrates transport across the plasma membrane mediated by SGLT To validate this assay, studies with D-glucose as a substrate of SGLT were performed and the correlation of sodium-dependent ... depolarization, as measured by FRET, was calculated As shown in Figure 3, a statistically significant linear relation between the changes in membrane potential and the transport activity of the cells was...

Ngày tải lên: 26/10/2012, 10:04

... protection of IPR as well as good IT infrastructure and software development platforms However, China software industry is desperately seeking for independent core technologies as well as distinctive ... of turnover rate the offshore provider has, because if the turnover rate is high, a lot of time will be wasted on re-training and transferring information to new offshore employees Vietnam has ... organizations The packaged software domain includes all software sold as merchantable products In terms of the software outsourcing activities, we have other kinds of classification such as business process...

Ngày tải lên: 27/10/2012, 16:41

... decreased OR of TNF-A -1031CC for H pylori seropositivity relative to TT was significant, but the association with C-857T was not significant [21] This study was approved by the Ethics Committee of ... eradication rate, as well as clarithromycin resistance of H pylori Concerning the lansoprazole-based triple therapy, there are two studies reporting the significant difference in the rate among ... underlined are the bases of the single nucleotide polymorphism Genomic DNA (30ng to 100ng) was used per 25μl of reaction with 0.18mM dNTPs, 12.5 pmol of each primer, 0.5 units of "AmpliTaq Gold",...

Ngày tải lên: 31/10/2012, 16:57

... CRITERIA OF ACCEPTANCE FOR CONSTANT RATE OF STRAIN CONSOLIDATION TEST FOR COHESIVE SOIL LAM CHEE SIANG A thesis submitted in fulfilment of the requirements for the award of the degree of Master of ... CH - clay of high plasticity soil CI - clay of intermediate plasticity CRS - constant rate of strain consolidation test cv - coefficient of consolidation cv d - drained coefficient of consolidation ... as presented here This research is funded by the Intensification Research of Priority Area (IRPA) Grant Coded 74110 lead by Assoc Prof Dr Khairul Anuar Kassim Thanks also for the assistance of...

Ngày tải lên: 22/03/2013, 15:01

... drainage rates obtained from the storm-runoff observations ●: increasing period of drainage rate, ○: decreasing period of drainage rate, : regression line of increasing period, : and decreasing ... The increase of TN was caused mainly by the increase of NO3-N and DON The average concentration of TN was 2.18 mg l-1 NO3-N, DON and PN occupied 33, 30 and 25% of TN The changing patterns of the ... decreasing phase dD R2 0.897 0.986 1.36 0.997 from 0.943 to 1.31 on the increasing phase and from 0.897 to 1.36 on the decreasing phase These results indicated that the loading rate of TN was significantly...

Ngày tải lên: 05/09/2013, 09:38

... feed rate [t/hr] Free lime [%] & feed rate of SHW [t/hr] Feed rate of SHW [t/hr] Total raw meal feed rate [t/hr] Step 10 Figure Free lime content of clinker variation according to feeding rate of ... was again increased by t/hr (i.e a total raw meal feeding rate of 221 t/hr) A slight decrease in free lime could be observed, indicating that a reduction of 10 t/hr in raw meal feeding rate was ... Analyses of raw meal, precalcined meal and clinker The variation of the measured raw meal properties during the test period was insignificant The degree of calcination of the precalcined meal was constant...

Ngày tải lên: 05/09/2013, 15:28

... faced a historically high flood, as severe as that of 1961 which was the most destructive flood in past 70 years The flood in 2000 was extreme not only in terms of its very high peak level and ... provision of fresh water, refilling of groundwater, and protection of forest and provision of ecosystem services The 2nd Vietnam National Strategy and Action Plan for water - related disaster mitigation ... areas are as important as safety helmets for people driving motorbikes on the highways In recent years, hundreds of children have drowned due to lack of life vests Children in the flood areas...

Ngày tải lên: 18/10/2013, 12:15

... Carbon-Rich Biomass Wood gas (or synthesis gas) is another form of biogas produced by thermal gasification of woody biomass or other carbon-rich materials in a gasifier or wood gas generator Usable ... switchgrass, barley, hemp, kenaf, potatoes, sweet potatoes, cassava, sunflower, fruit, molasses, corn, stover, grain, wheat, straw, cotton, biomass in general as well as many types of cellulose waste ... mixture of ethanol is added to gasoline (as is common in E10 gasohol), aldehyde emissions increase by as much as 40%, and these components are not regulated in emissions laws The use of alcohol...

Ngày tải lên: 25/10/2013, 05:20

... more easy, than try itself to understand it Waste time - is the main problem of student who spend a lot of time and force for solving a problem, which can be solved with the help of PC faster ... of the problem of computer illiteracy is the lack of useful information in the course of information science The second cause is unwillingness to learning - many people think that easier to ask ... computer literacy is on of the main requirement at employment Thus we see that the problem of computer illiteracy is one of the main problems for business-students because of it we waste time, we lose...

Ngày tải lên: 26/10/2013, 17:15

... rate related sources of risk when estimating the required rate of return 3.3 The level of the required rate of return Table investigates the required rate of return or weighted average cost of ... setting First, we asked how often the required rate of return changes Second, we asked whether the length of an investment project affects the required rate of return Third, we asked how inflation ... to the results of past studies The results show that there has not been any major changes as far as the popularity of the payback method goes However, if we compare the popularity of the payback...

Ngày tải lên: 17/12/2013, 15:08

... action in support of the final refusal were copies of a number of third-party trademark registrations on the Principal Register based on use In each registration, the list of goods includes skin ... be affirmed As applicant points out, in any likelihood of confusion analysis, two key considerations are the similarities of the goods and the similarities of the marks Tricia Guild Associates ... registered2 for “herbal concentrates for dietary supplement; vitamin supplements of herbal or organic compounds,” in Class 5, that confusion would be likely In support of the refusal to register,...

Ngày tải lên: 20/12/2013, 23:15

... schoolchildren of working or studying parents, or in cases where the child has an individual need A place should be offered as close to the child’s home as possible As in the case of pre-school ... Swedish school system has gone through phases of change, as accounted for above, it seems that transmission of basic skills and knowledge remains the main mission However, and as the account shows, ... qualifying task has been complemented with its socializing task But as Isling claims, in the struggle between these two tasks the qualifying assignment has been dominant The double requirement has resulted...

Ngày tải lên: 16/01/2014, 16:33

Ngày tải lên: 20/01/2014, 09:21

... gas evolution from nitrogen production was observed in the SBN11 cultures Reassuringly, the nitrite reductase activity of the DnirF strain was restored within 10 h of anaerobic growth on nitrate-supplemented ... structure of Met8P has shown that this protein has an aspartate residue (Asp141), which is important for both chelatase and dehydrogenase function [17]; interestingly, this aspartate, Asp129, is also ... the in vivo nitrite reductase activity as seen by the accumulation of large Tota l Influence of variations of conserved residues on the in vivo activity of NirF te amounts of extracellular nitrite...

Ngày tải lên: 15/02/2014, 01:20

... work has focused on endocrine disrupters (Table 1) For each of the compounds tested, students should create a concentrated solution by placing a known amount of the compound in 100 ml of 388 ... abnormalities (such as the absence of a well defined water vascular system) As mentioned earlier, normal sponge growth typically includes the production of a distinct water vascular system with a less ... life cycles of freshwater sponges (Life of the Freshwater Sponge) The running time of the film is 28 minutes, and it shows sponges in their natural environment and in the lab The film was produced...

Ngày tải lên: 18/02/2014, 04:20