slouching+towards+a+global+network

... metropolitan area network; when extended to a wide area it is known as a WAN, wide area network And when the interconnectivity is global, we have a GAN, global area network The MAN, WAN and GAN are ... network An alternative to a common carrier transmission facility is a private data network Such networks are economically feasible over short distances, which explains why they are called local area ... and cheaper to maintain and operate, but transmission needs a modem, a device that translates from an analogue signal of, say, a telephone to a digital signal of a computer and vice versa Conversion...

Ngày tải lên: 05/04/2014, 23:26

Ngày tải lên: 04/10/2012, 10:02

... treated wastewater Qualitative % removal % removal % removal MPN/100mL kg/person/year Qualitative Qualitative Qualitative USD/pe/year USD/pe/year Qualitative Qualitative Qualitative Qualitative Qualitative ... is based on multi-criteria evaluation for qualitative analysis and life cycle assessment (LCA), cost analysis and health risk analysis for quantitative analysis, that integrate environmental, ... Potential Global Warming Potentials (GWPs) are intended as a quantified measure of the globally averaged relative radiative forcing impacts of a particular greenhouse gas It is defined as the cumulative...

Ngày tải lên: 05/09/2013, 10:15

... K., Nagae Y., Nakamura S and Baba Y (2003) Removal of nitrate anion by carbonaceous materials prepared from bamboo and coconut shell, J Chem Eng Japan, 36(4), 511-515 Maeda M., Ihara H and Ota T ... retardation factor and (b) retardation factor and distribution coefficient In addition, both the range and value of retardation factor in Andisol are smaller than those in silica sand for the same ... 320-330 Forman D., Al-Dabbagh S and Doll R (1985) Nitrate, nitrite and gastric cancer in Great Britain, Nature, 313, 620-625 Kapoor A and Viraraghavan T (1997) Nitrate removal from drinking water -...

Ngày tải lên: 05/09/2013, 10:15

... Preventive education, including awareness about the causes of malaria and ways to avoid infection, is an important and cost-effective way to address malaria control in school health, as are activities ... school health programs from countries as diverse as China, Bangladesh, Malawi, and Jamaica Whereas ministries of education often develop consistent national guidelines and targeted flagship activities ... nutrition and education for all Washington, DC: The World Bank Kelly, M J (1999, December) What HIV/AIDS can to education, and what education can to HIV/AIDS Paper presented at the All Sub-Saharan Africa...

Ngày tải lên: 14/02/2014, 13:20

Ngày tải lên: 23/02/2014, 04:20

... Kathrin Plangeman, Shobhana Sosale, Masako Uchida, and Ayesha Vawda Dina Abu-Ghaida, Cecile Fruman, Carolyn Winter, and Mary Eming Young provided additional input Hernán Araneda, Martin Cristóbal, ... York, Albany) Hermann-Günter Hesse (German Institute for International Educational Research), Trevor Riordan (International Labour Organization), and Akiko Sakamoto (International Labour Organization) ... reported in standard human capital estimates may capture only about half of the total value of an additional year of schooling (Wolfe and Haveman 2001) Education has an important effect on female productivity...

Ngày tải lên: 15/03/2014, 10:20

... organisations such as the Arab League This has facilitated beneficial new relations with the UAE, Bahrain and Qatar and has led Gulf-based companies to invest in Tunisia Angola Economic Background ... Diversification: towards a new paradigm for Africa’s development; Ben Hammouda, H., S.N Karingi, A. E Njuguna and M Sadni-Jallab, 200 6a And Accelerating Africa’s Development through Diversification; UNECA Economic ... scale Kenya hosts a submarine terminal station for Seacom, and has undertaken a similar project, the East African Marine Cable (TEAMS) to connect Kenya to the United Arab Emirates Kenya plans...

Ngày tải lên: 17/03/2014, 08:20

... authors also thank Mona El-Sayed Ahmed of PAPFAM and Donna Clifton of PRB who helped tabulate the data; and Fatma El-Zanaty of El-Zanaty and Associates in Cairo and Ikhlas Aranki of the Department ... the League of Arab States; independent consultant Lori Ashford; and Maha El Adawy, Reproductive Health Advisor at UNFPA Arab States Regional Office (UNFPA ASRO) Special thanks are due to Hafedh ... Unsafe Abortion: Global and Regional Estimates of the Incidence of Unsafe Abortion and Associated Mortality in 2008: tables and Arab States Regional Office 15 Special tabulations by Sara Bradley,...

Ngày tải lên: 22/03/2014, 11:20

... elderly, and that may be small (Kochar 1999) For acute care, hospital-based treatment is obviously more expensive than ambulatory care The literature analyzes a number of factors that can potentially ... hospital-based care was an important reason for the increasing popularity of home-based care for Medicare patients Another example is Norway that has lower rates of co-payments for home-based care ... Africa and Asia (Mason et al 2001) There are likely to be significant variations across developing patterns in the pattern of ageing, dependency ratios and disease patterns In Africa, for example,...

Ngày tải lên: 22/03/2014, 13:20

... Clinical Pharmacy Prof Saleh Bawazir Pharmacy, Vice-president of the Saudi Food and Drug Administration (SFDA), Ex-Consultant for the Minister of Health Dr Adnan Al-Rehaily Egypt/Japan U.S .A Pharmaceutical ... Pharmaceutical Professor, Department of Chemistry Prof Tarek Abul-Fadl Pharmaceutical Chemistry Pharmacognosy Associate Professor, Department of Pharmacognosy Dr Abdul-Hakim Al- Canada Pharmacology Associate ... Central Africa, Liberia and Uganda to more than 1,000 nurses per 100,000 populations as in Norway and Finland Also in Europe the average ratio is 10 fold greater in "high ratio areas" than that...

Ngày tải lên: 22/03/2014, 14:20

... Table Numbers of young people participating Initiative Accounts Products Bancolombia, Colombia Hatton National Bank, Sri Lanka GSB, Thailand National Savings Bank, Sri Lanka MICOOPE, Guatemala ... encourage maximum savings accumulation that can potentially transform a YSA from a tiny balance account with frequent transactions into a product with higher, more stable balances and lower transaction ... DESHPANDE and J.M ZIMMERMAN From a business perspective, savers who accumulate balances are more attractive Age-appropriate branding is another tactic – inculcating a habit or culture of savings among...

Ngày tải lên: 22/03/2014, 21:20

... HD Brazil -11 0.08 0.06 TFP Brazil Capital per worker Canada -11 Capital per worker Canada 10% 83,001.43 B illions -2 -2 -2 Canada SR alpha Capital per worker Canada Savings Canada % of treatment ... 2015 in all countries Table 4: Annual gain in income as percentage of GDP given the global goal scenario: Average between 2005 and 2015 Brazil Average annual income gain as % of GDP Canada 0.03% ... our estimates Table 1: Data and data sources Data item Source(s) GDP per capita Population data Working population data Disease specific deaths Capital stock per worker World Bank estimates WHO/GBD...

Ngày tải lên: 23/03/2014, 20:20

... traditional bulletin board, and a technological evolution of the dialup bulletin board system Hashtag - A hashtag is a tag used on the social network Twitter as a way to annotate a message A hashtag ... rights associated with establishing and maintaining an appropriate physician-patient relationship The relationship between a physician and patient begins when an individual seeks assistance from a ... electronic and digital media by physicians (and physician assistants, where appropriate) that may be used to facilitate patient care and nonprofessional interactions Such electronic and digital media...

Ngày tải lên: 24/03/2014, 02:20

... the savings banks) Tripartite (519 local savings banks, 12 regional state banks, DekaBankDeutsche Girozentrale) Coordinating function National Bank of the savings banks State banks and DekaBank ... savings banks, local authorities Local public authorities Structure of the savings bank organization Tripartite (approximately 450 local savings associations, 34 regional savings banks, National Bank ... The associative tasks are carried out centrally by a national association of the savings banks In addition, the savings bank group consists of around 450 local savings companies at its disposal...

Ngày tải lên: 29/03/2014, 08:20

... educational institutions can take advantage of the exception to perform and display a variety of film and media works as part of their courses by understanding and managing the institutional, ... purposes The ability to copy, excerpt and edit, capture stills, and manipulate images and sounds in this way enhances film and media educators’ ability to analyze, critique, and teach media The community ... course A license may also be required for screenings aimed at entertainment rather than educational purposes Many films and videos directed at an educational market may be rented with licenses that...

Ngày tải lên: 30/03/2014, 12:21

... k and each subcarrier d are drawn from an M-ary QAM constellation (modulation alphabet AM ) and collected in the K × D matrix A = [Ak,d], which is denoted as the frequency-domain MIMO OFDM frame ... than a straightforward application of singleantenna SLM to each transmit antenna A more sophisticated extension has been presented in [8,9] and named directed SLM (dSLM) Following the analytical ... choosing arbitrary additional permutation matrices exhibits almost the same performance as the optimum permutation, which makes this strategy a reasonable approach e In this paper, the comparison...

Ngày tải lên: 21/06/2014, 02:20

... take into account characteristics of the application (i.e., using the standard approach) Our results show that MORSA can reach a comparable video quality than the one obtained with the standard ... environment are available in [25] Note that in the following simulations, CTS and RTS control packets and PLCP headers are sent with a BPSK modulation, an FEC rate equal to 1/2, and a Mbps data rate All ... wireless Ad Hoc networks,” in Ad Hoc Networking, C E Perkins, Ed., chapter 5, pp 139–172, Addison-Wesley, Boston, Mass, USA, 2001 [29] R Khalili and K Salamatian, A new analytic approach to evaluation...

Ngày tải lên: 23/06/2014, 00:20

... In conclusion, it seems that mobile phone use is higher in Europe than in North America ...

Ngày tải lên: 07/07/2014, 12:20

... cement demand was satisfactory in Vietnam, Malaysia, Australia and New Zealand, there was only a very slight increase in the Philippines, Indonesia and Thailand A majority of the Group companies ... partially unfavorable weather conditions In Central America, demand was essentially stable At Holcim Venezuela, the ongoing political instability led to a fall in domestic sales – one that was ... -2.2 Annual production capacity cement Sales of cement and clinker Sales of aggregates Sales of ready-mix concrete Net sales Operating EBITDA Operating EBITDA margin EBITDA EBITDA margin Operating...

Ngày tải lên: 27/07/2014, 16:15