... consumers but this is certainly not the case for other safety features and perhaps all emissions controls and other environmental features─over time Content that reduces emissions, produces positive ... Economy Mandates and the Per Vehicle Cost of these Scenarios Scenario Description: For comparison purposes, CAR researchers chose to use the four fuel economy scenarios developed by the EPA/NHTSA Technical ... could significantly alter the baseline for growth, as well as the age of the U .S motor vehicle fleet and annual sales of new products This could result in the loss of hundreds of thousands of U.S...
Ngày tải lên: 07/03/2014, 11:20
... almost 100 different aquifer studies This is the first national assessment of the occurrence of a large number of VOCs with different uses, and the assessment addresses key questions about VOCs ... sources of contamination Each assessment is guided by a nationally consistent study design and methods of sampling and analysis The assessments thereby build local knowledge about water-quality issues ... this assessment were detected in the samples; these groups included fumigants, gasoline hydrocarbons, gasoline oxygenates, organic synthesis compounds, refrigerants, solvents, and THMs The finding...
Ngày tải lên: 14/03/2014, 19:20
Ele ctricity Use d by Office Equipment and Netw ork Equipment in the U.S.: Detailed Report and A ppendices ppt
... other studies (Meyer and Schaltegger 1999) and some assumptions Although some businesses are run out of homes and some computers are provided by businesses for use at home, we folded those situations ... dependent on assumptions, there are significant uncertainties Notes on Displays and Terminals We assumed that the usage for displays and terminals is same as that for desktop computers Notes on Commercial ... server-use computers (including servers, minicomputers, and mainframes) is 10% of the stock of non-residential desktop computers, based on forecasts of server stocks published by the Business Technology...
Ngày tải lên: 23/03/2014, 23:20
acquisition management in the u s air force and its predecessors ppt
Ngày tải lên: 01/04/2014, 18:20
The auditor's loss function and investors' perceptions of audit effectiveness Effects of regulatory change
... they are described as the existing standard and the proposed standard For expositional purposes, I refer here to the two standards presented in the experimental setting as AS2 (the existing standard) ... prior standard, the new standard eliminates the requirement that the auditor assess and attest to the effectiveness of management s ICFR assessment process (PCAOB 2007b) In addition, the new standard ... receives two news articles discussing the possible changes to the auditing standard and to the auditor liability laws The news articles are compilations of actual articles and press releases that...
Ngày tải lên: 01/06/2014, 14:04
Biogas development in the u s current trends and future opportunities
... determine the differences and what accounts for any disparity In Chapter this thesis assesses the barriers to digester development in the United States Finally, the conclusions section assesses the ... WoodIWood Waste and Municipal Solid WasteILandfill Gas Yet this "Other Biomass" category includes "agricultural byproducts/crops, sludge waste, tires, and other biomass solids, liquids, and gasses".16In ... This paper ends with a set of conclusions based on the results of the comparative case studies and barriers to biogas development in the U .S It also proposes a set of recommendations, based on these...
Ngày tải lên: 21/09/2015, 21:23
Hegel’s analysis of mind and world - the Science of Logic
... priori; and its synthesis of intuitions, conforming as it does to the categories, must be the transcendental synthesis of imagination This synthesis is an action of the understanding on the sensibility; ... (Geistigkeit) As the terminus of these inquiries, the Idea thus represents something that is a Selbstzweck und Trieb, the impulse in the practice of giving and asking for reasons to make reason self-sufficient, ... rationalist metaphysics necessarily lead to such monist substantialism Hegel s response was to argue that Jacobi had gotten that part right The issue, though, was whether that was all there was to the...
Ngày tải lên: 01/11/2013, 08:20
Tài liệu Static and Dynamic Analysis of the Internet’s Susceptibility to Faults and Attacks docx
... mechanism of the Internet affect its robustness? How is the Internet s robustness changing while it is growing? Will performance and robustness of the Internet improve in the future? To answer these ... metrics other than the average diameter We also conducted dynamic analysis of the Internet s susceptibility to attacks and faults, and discovered two interesting results; First, the Internet is much ... failures can be measured from a snapshot of the Internet We call this kind of analysis Static Analysis However, the Internet is a growing network and its topology changes continuously Does the growth...
Ngày tải lên: 18/02/2014, 01:20
Individual Rights and Liberties Under the U.S. Constitution The Case Law of the U.S. Supreme Court pot
... databases In the interest of accuracy, the text stays close to, and often reproduces, the actual language of the Court s opinions In many cases, the presentation and analysis are based on the Court s ... mandatory assessments financed the Commission s operations The Court held that, while the apple growers and dealers were not “members” of the Commission in the traditional trade association sense, they ... did not raise the issue on appeal to the Mississippi supreme court That court raised the issue sua sponte, discussing this federal question at length in its opinion and deciding it against Caldwell...
Ngày tải lên: 07/03/2014, 02:20
A Comparative Analysis of Carbon Dioxide Emissions in Coated Paper Production Key Differences between China and the U.S. pot
... misunderstanding, possible also just to use “biomass” with the same meaning Total biomass growth Biomass of the net annual increment of trees, stands, or forests, plus the biomass of the growth ... comparison of the U .S (NewPage) and Chinese supply chains Thus, the carbon dioxide emissions from biomass fuels were not included in this study Combustion of biomass fuels also emits small amounts ... transportation emissions between the Chinese and U .S (NewPage) industries This is because NewPage facilities are located primarily in the Midwest and East Coast, so Los Angeles is among the longest...
Ngày tải lên: 24/03/2014, 05:20
The Rise and Fall of the U.S. Mortgage and Credit Markets: A Comprehensive Analysis of the Meltdown pot
... cash and depository institutions’ holdings of reserves Since then, the Treasury s deposits have provided additional growth in the balance sheet As a result, the Federal Reserve s assets now exceed ... regime must be designed to address the broad issues of systemic risks Do differences in the size or composition of financial sectors in countries necessitate different regulatory regimes? The recent ... be issued by banks and collateralized by specific pools of assets, such as mortgages If the bank issuing the covered bonds should default, the holders of the bonds would have priority claims against...
Ngày tải lên: 29/03/2014, 07:20
Budget Impasse Hinges on Confusion among Deficit Reduction, Tax Increase, and Tax Reform: An Economic Analysis of Dual Capacity and Section 199 Proposals for the U.S. Oil and Gas Industry ppt
... policies The fossil fuel provisions arise from the President s agreement “at the G-20 Summit in Pittsburgh to phase out subsidies for fossil fuels” and are listed in a separate section of the budget ... production in the designated OCS Planning Areas located between and 200 miles off the coast of 20 U .S States The economic analysis was based on assessing the economic activity generated during the three ... from other countries that have successfully managed their way to higher growth and lower deficits 25 The World Bank s Doing Business Report is spawning thousands of studies on the effects of business...
Ngày tải lên: 31/03/2014, 07:20
VCBS COMPANY BACKGROUND AND SWOT ANALYSIS ON THE COMPANY’S BROKERAGE ACTIVITIES
... ongoing process that evaluates and controls the business and the industries in which the company is involved; assesses its competitors and sets goals and strategies to meet all existing and potential ... as cross functional teams) • Assigning responsibility of specific tasks or processes to specific individuals or groups • It also involves managing the process This includes monitoring results, ... funds such as Prudential, VF1, and VF4 often open trading account at securities Sacombank securities companies (SBS) and Saigon Securities Inc (SSI) The reason is that BVS and SSI are also among...
Ngày tải lên: 10/08/2015, 19:33
a contrastive analysis of lexical and grammatical cohesion in inaugural speeches by the u s president barrack obama and vietnamese former president
... Homes have been lost; jobs shed; businesses shuttered Lost, shed and shuttered are synonymous in some sense in the above example By using synonyms, the expression becomes more precise, coherent and ... this paper welcomes any comments and suggestions for making this thesis more efficient and useful Suggestions for further studies For the limitation of the topic, the author of this thesis does ... occurrences of lexical cohesive devices The last part concludes the main points of the thesis and gives some implications on teaching and learning writing and suggestions for further studies as well The...
Ngày tải lên: 25/12/2015, 17:17
Báo cáo y học: "Genetic polymorphisms in the nucleotide excision repair pathway and lung cancer risk: A meta-analysis"
... in the second meta -analysis [51] Regardless, these meta-analyses indicate that the excess lung cancer risk from the Asn/Asn genotype may be less than 30% Five studies have been reported since the ... Begg 's (P= 0.035) and Egger 's (P = 0.003) tests showed a statistical significance in a subgroup analysis of Caucasians (Asn/Asn genotype vs Asp/Asp genotype) When stratifing by smoking dose, the ... 5'-end of the mRNA [61] The consensus sequence around the start codon is GCCRCCAUGG, which is known as the Kozak consensus sequence [62] The R at position -3 and the G just downstream of the start...
Ngày tải lên: 31/10/2012, 14:59
Contributions of Various Noncovalent Bonds to the Interaction between an Amide and S-Containing Molecules
... Adhikari and S Scheiner as a model of the peptide unit CH3SH is used to represent the Cys side chain, and CH3SCH3 is a prototype of Met The disulfide bond that frequently connects Cys side chains is ... any of the structures, thus allowing an assessment of this H-bond energy of 3.33.5 kcal mol1 in this system When a second S atom is added to the monomer, as in CH3SSCH3, most of the minima, and ... yields higher values of E(2) and SSãããp(CO) bonds occur in more stable minima than does SSãããN There has been one previous computational study of complexes of NMA with S- containing systems of these...
Ngày tải lên: 16/12/2012, 15:21
A Contrastive Analysis between the Verb ‘Run’ in English and the Verb ‘Chạy’ in Vietnamese
... phonetics, phonology, grammar and semantics, whereas Macrolinguistics covers sociolinguistics, discourse analysis and other related disciplines In sociolinguistics, the micro level is often equated ... focused to figure out their general meanings and meanings in some idioms respectively, the synonyms of each verbs are also discussed Then the findings are reached with the statements on the similarities ... synonyms can be classified into five main kinds: semantic synonyms, stylistic synonyms, semantic-stylistic synonyms, phrase-logical synonyms and territorial synonyms Here, we would like to focus its...
Ngày tải lên: 06/04/2013, 08:43
Beyond Brawn the insider''s encyclopedia on how to build muscle and might
... glutes (glutei muscles) d calves (gastrocnemius and soleus) e chest (pectorals, or pecs) f erectors (columns of muscle on either side of the spine) g forearms h lats (latissimus dorsi, muscles on ... is a considerable number of these easy gainers, perhaps as many as or so of a random sample of weight trainees It is this group that provides gyms with most of their successes But these successful ... Trapezius Levator scapulae Deltoid Rhomboideus Infraspinatus Supraspinatus Teres minor Spinalis dorsi Teres major Longissimus dorsi Latissimus dorsi Ilio costalis lumborum Triceps brachii Serratus...
Ngày tải lên: 14/08/2013, 13:19
Analysis of Phosphorus Behavior in the Giant Reed for Phytoremediation and the Biomass Production System
... is widely used as an initial compound in the synthesis of a variety of substituted indoles, can be isolated from the giant reed (Semenov and Granik, 2004) Considering these characteristics as ... well as its phosphorus uptake potential and translocation activity of nutrients, we propose the carbon and phosphorus cycles system using the giant reed as shown in Fig 2, which can serve as a ... phosphorus concentration on the outside of the plant body, R is the transporter of the inorganic phosphorus, PiR is the phosphorus – transporter complex, and Piin is the inorganic phosphorus ion...
Ngày tải lên: 05/09/2013, 09:38