... identical to those of the study site in A City and dust from refuse incineration, implying that almost of the total amount of Cd in the atmosphere originates from refuse incineration as in the case of ... meteorological conditions, the lead isotope ratios in the atmosphere remain almost constant, presumably because of the mixing and uniformatization of a large amount of waste containing lead in refuse ... Isotope Ratios in Atmosphere literature) ▲ △ Mean Ratios of Fly Ashes from Refuse Incineration (n = 7, measured) While the lead concentration in the atmosphere substantially fluctuates due to...
... essential tools for data analysis, Information processing, modeling and graphical presentation The advancements for PC software and declining prices of hardware are the key factors for their ... Interpretation of History - Theory of Surplus Value Crisis in Capitalism Falling Rate of Profit - A Critical Appraisal - Schumpeter's Theory of Growth - Role of Entrepreneur – Development Cycle - Role of ... structure of transport costs and location of economic activities - Demand for Transport cost function in transport sector - Principle of pricing - Special problems of individual Modes of transport...
... death, or date of switch to a protease inhibitor (PI) to evaluate the response to non-nucleoside reverse transcriptase inhibitor (NNRTI)-based treatment Results From August 2003 to September 2005, ... population consisted of: (1) women never exposed to any treatment for PMTCT; (2) women exposed to single-dose NVP (sdNVP) and zidovudine (ZDV) for PMTCT; and (3) women exposed to shortcourse zidovudine ... by others for shorter periods of follow up [1-4,6], and support the recommendation to use NNRTI-based regimens in women previously exposed to NVP when the delay between the exposure to NVP and...
... GA to the sensor deployment problem, chromosomes are designed to describe a feasible deployment plan for the set of available sensors The length of each chromosome (number of genes) is taken to ... gene is set to Figure illustrates the structure of a chromosome used to represent the deploymentof two sensors (s1 and s2) in a field of three zones (z1, z2, and z3) which is monitored for two time ... 9, SE crossover operator outperforms the TE operator However, as the number of sensors becomes close to the number of zones, both operators recorded similar coverage performance On the other...
... interval of minutes or less for 90% of patients Second, paramedics trained to provide advanced care had to respond for 95% of patients Third, paramedics trained to provide advanced care had to respond ... used to define mortality for the purposes of this study Death according to this definition was recorded for 51 of these 475 patients of patients with a cerebral-performance category score of level ... basic-life -support phase to the advanced-life -support phase (adjusted odds ratio, 1.3; 95% CI, 1.1 to 1.5) CONCLUSIONS The addition of a specific regimen of out -of- hospital advanced-life-support...
... standard relates to the method of test only; it is not a performance standard It has to be stressed that any recommendations on the interpretation of the results of tests for the purposes of design, ... length of the fixing to the nearest millimetre and details of any attachment of the fixing to reinforcement in the base material; v) the location of the fixing in the sample or specimen of base ... determination of density of hardened concrete BS 1881-116, Method for determination of compressive strength of concrete cubes BS 1881-120, Method for determination of the compressive strength of concrete...
... attractive interventions for prevention of HIV-1 A rapid scaling-up of implementation is crucial to allow programs to prevent mother -to- child transmission to affect the burden of paediatric HIV/AIDS ... children were born alive from the total sample with 898 having at least one specimen for HIV testing Of these, 268 tested positive for HIV-1 at weeks of age Details for the earlier analyses in 1998 ... were a total of 622 live births (including 14 pairs of twins), however, 32 infants died to prior to weeks of age, making HIV status undeterminable Multivitamins As described above, the factorial...
... guidance for massive pleural effusions Autopsy was performed in all non surviving patients and no lesion of vessels due to the presence of cannulae was observed ECMO for respiratory failure A total of ... ECLS for hemodynamic support The use of ECLS for cardiac support was reserved for cases of cardiac shock refractory to standard treatments and cardiac arrests not responding to conventional resuscitation ... performance of our ECLS system in terms of speed of response, no patient receiving extracorporeal supportfor cardiac arrest survived In a large series of patients on extracorporeal support for...
... portrayed in an almost cartoon like fashion and were often included in films for comedy relief Strict guidelines were therefore enforced to raise the cultural and intellectual levels of the general public ... buildings The use of 'story' documentary was popular in portraying real situations, often using real people instead of actors, to reflect a nation united in her difficulties Although often wooden, ... also moderating the amount of information they were exposed to whether it be on the weekly newsreels or a feature film The general spirit of each film had to be one of strength and unity, portraying...
... identified for the soil It was clearly the desire of the extensionists to pass on their knowledge to farmers through training courses The role of a mobile lab to improve the identification of soil ... A soil pit was dug to 150 cm depth to examine the different horizons formed during a long weathering process to form a typical Haplic Acrisol Soil compaction and plinthite formation are two major ... application of Eupatorium odoratum (a local weed species) for assessment of its capacity in reducing the impact of soil compaction (improving soil aeration and water infiltration rate), and addition of...
... methods to improve soil quality? Training courses Introduce successful decision support tools Introduce SCAMP's usefulness as a decision support tool Analysis of local soil constraints to interest ... identified for the soil It was clearly the desire of the extensionists to pass on their knowledge to farmers through training courses The role of a mobile lab to improve the identification of soil ... According to the third question of the post-course survey, most participants want to transfer awareness and training in SCAMP to their local farmers (90%) How can farmers be encouraged to evaluate...
... the presence of perforin, presumably secreted by CD3+ T cells It might therefore be of interest to conduct further studies of these naïve T cells and cytokines in sterile SF in order to relate these ... inflammatory diseases in order to obtain greater insight into the immune-related etiology of BD and to develop more specific, molecular based immunotherapies Examples may include targeting cytokines ... inflammatory cells On the other hand, those micro-organisms are also capable of stimulating an immune response in BD Most tissue studies of the pathophysiology of BD are conducted in skin One of the...
... Make it meaningful – Create sense of ownership – Make it trustworthy – Make it credible – Be sincere – Make it simple – Deploy all channels – Facilitate face -to- face 10 – Think long-term Burson-Marsteller ... It’s not easy to hit the headlines… Burson-Marsteller l Asia-Pacific l Evidence-Based Communications Lethargy ... it meaningful Burson-Marsteller l Asia-Pacific l Evidence-Based Communications #3 Create sense of ownership Burson-Marsteller l Asia-Pacific l Evidence-Based Communications #4 Make it trustworthy...
... the uncertainty range of factor xi, respectively The symbol p denotes the number of levels chosen for each factor For the sake of technical convenience, each element of vector X is assigned a rational ... analysis of an ISM, the selection of the quantities of interest depends on the aim of the analysis The purpose of the current analysis is to determine the order of importance of the factors/processes ... are at least five different types of integration within the framework of Integrated Assessment Modelling (IAM) These are integrations of disciplines, of models, of scales, of issues, and of stakeholders...
... areas For example, an E-tailer might have Web server farms in Tokyo tosupport the Far East, in Brussels tosupport Europe, in Tel Aviv tosupport the Middle East and Africa, in Mexico City tosupport ... refer to it as an operating system) supports Sun Cluster software This software, a separately licensed software program that supports a variety of Solaris release levels, supports clusters of up to ... users had to serially try to connect to individual servers Most commercial load balancers support the existence of at least a pair of balancers, and sometimes they support unlimited pooling of balancers...
... France, and the United States of America According to the government of India, import data of more than 59,000 tons and 61,000 tons of plastic waste have found its way into India in the years 1999 ... alternative to the waste incinerator for the thermal treatment of homogeneous carbon based waste and for pretreated heterogeneous waste Summary Plastics are “one of the greatest innovations of the ... by-product before it acts as a thermal insulator and lowers the heat transfer to the plastic, (4) careful condensation and fractionation of the pyrolysis vapors to produce distillate of good quality...
... dialogues of many people for students easy to practice varying of his voice and using body language Some selected texts are introduced in the appendix for students to refer to 3.2.2 Performance ... indebted to Foreign Language Department of offering me a great opportunity to carry out my study I would also like to extend my sincere thanks to the students from class 48 B English for their ... research on the topic “Developing a system of exercises to improve public speaking skill in interpreting for the 4th year students of English at Vinh University” to meet the requirements of students...
... and easier for the consecutive interpreter to visualize In order to turn notes into an effective supported tool to better the interpreting quality, the interpreter should know: what to note ( ... is capable of storing material for a brief period of time” Mayer (2003) stated that “ your short-term memory is a system for temporarily storing and managing information required to carry out ... individual units of information so as to group them into larger units Hence, 1) receiving, processing and combining of received information 2) creating a permanent record of the encoded information...