... brothels’ or in private homes of their pimps or agents Figure 2 Brothels in Singapore Front of a brothel The interior of a brothel Back alley of a brothel where clients gather A room in the brothel ... 65% and 78% after implementation of a condom promotion program In view ofthe high prevalence of HIV and STIs among sex workers, their sheer number of partners, andthe possibility that the minority ... and (iii) the average duration of infectiousness ofthe person with the disease Each of these determinants is significantly influenced by host susceptibility, the infectious virulence ofthe pathogen,...
... dependency rule has a structure shown in Fig If the focused word (called FOCUS) andthe word on the top ofthe push-down stack (called Pd-TOP) have the FEATUREs specified by the rule, a new HEAD with the ... head, the true semantic head of w3 can be found among the words (wl and w2) syntactically dependent on the word, w3 That is the word, wl Furthermore, the crossing of a2 and a3 violates the non-crossing ... example ofthe logical inference rules It infers the right conceptual structure in Fig 6.b from the left semantic structure The knowledge based inference also assures the consistency ofthe deduced...
... research and development center sponsored by the Office ofthe Secretary of Defense, the Joint Staff, the Unified Combatant Commands, the Navy, the Marine Corps, the defense agencies, andthe defense ... Center ofthe RAND National Defense Research Institute (NDRI), and was sponsored by the Office ofthe Director—Cost Assessment and Program Evaluation, Office ofthe Secretary of Defense The Center ... Veterans and Military Spouses After the Economic Downturn Paul Heaton and Heather Krull RAND Research areas Children and Families Education andthe Arts Energy and Environment Health and Health...
... written off Chapter ofthe AVA handbook identifies allowable costs and does not specify that funds can be used for car repairs Recommendation • The system office and colleges participating in the ... intended for the information ofthe Legislative Audit Commission andthe management ofthe Minnesota State Colleges and Universities (MnSCU) System This restriction is not intended to limit the distribution ... Auditing MnSCU’s Office of Internal Auditing’s process consists of quarterly activity reports documenting the status of audit findings The follow-up process continues until the Office of Internal...
... Following the suggestions of scientific literature on the advantages ofthe compactness, reliability, ease of use and affordability ofthe 980 nm Diode Lasers, we evaluated the efficacy and safety of ... are reduced [17,18] The lasers normally adopted offer the enormous advantage of being conveyed in a fibre, which serves as the working tip at the end ofthe handpiece The use of flexible, length-adjustable ... question the efficacy ofthe 980nm Laser for photosclerosis of lesions and areas with little melanin and hemoglobin pigmentation [7] Furthermore, to avoid exaggerated fluences and thermal damage to the...
... this case the patient had a panuveitis, which recovered only after a combination of medical treatment and surgery, with a final visual acuity of 40% in the affected eye [1] The only case of Lyme ... disease affected a 31 year-old farmer and his ocular manifestations are described in the specific section Figure 1: Geographical location ofthe province of Parma (Italy) References Mora P, Vecchi ... Parma (Italy) References Mora P, Vecchi M, Barbera L, Toscani M, Orsoni JG Use of systemic cyclosporin A in a case of severe Toxocara uveitis J Infect 2006; 52:159-161 http://www.medsci.org ...
... outlet of first collector will be inlet to the second collector andthe outlet ofthe second collector will be inlet to the next and so on up to the Ncth collector Thus, the outlet temperature ofthe ... considering the effect of various design and operating parameters on the performance and thermal characteristics ofthe system Description ofthe multi-stage evacuated solar desalination system The Multi-stage ... variation of global solar radiation andthe ambient temperature for the months of July to December The maximum radiation occurs in the month of March of 955.56 W/m2 at 13:00 and minimum in December of...
... aspect under the perfect has the effect of asserting that the beginning ofthe event time is included in the PTS The question of whether the end ofthe event time is included in the PTS or not ... makeup ofthe Perfect participle 285 ing for the perfect - a combination ofthe meaning of [PERFECT] in Asp1 andthe meaning contribution of a viewpoint aspectual projection The semantic role ofthe ... (12b), the left boundary ofthe PTS is asserted to precede the beginning ofthe event time andthe right boundary ofthe PTS is not asserted to be included in the event time Examples such as the...
... the homes and offices of several persons involved in the preparation of a report on the waste management ofthe Northern Fleet They later arrested one of them, a Russian citizen formerly with the ... radioactive waste in the Sea of Japan to irresponsibility on the part ofthe Navy andthe nuclear industry, the Russian Minister of Environment informed the Consultative Meeting ofthe London Convention ... clout of Goskompriroda would strengthen those actors in the Soviet system who opposed the dumping practices ofthe Northern Fleet and encourage the formation of an effective coalition to counter the...
... rendering the meaning of a text into another language in the way that the author intended the text The purpose of translation is that the audience in the TL feel and reacts in the same ways as the ... aware ofthe influence of music theory in composing songs The 25 26 which help them improve and develop a great love in music later 5.3 LIMITATIONS OFTHE STUDY - Because ofthe lack of time and ... sound beat ofthe song Prompted by the influence of linguistic aspects and music theory, the choice ofthe most suitable strategy in each case requires translators to have careful and profound thinkinig,...
... definition is then related to the four steps ofthe decision making process and finally to the three types of error (risk) that occur in each ofthe four steps The paper concludes with an example of how ... guesswork; they are “a stab in the dark.” So, to understand the quality of a decision we must understand the weaknesses in the inputs that have gone into the decision making process and in the approaches ... based on analysis of risk The thoroughness ofthe analysis determines the “quality” ofthe decisions High quality decisions are not the best decisions in hindsight They are the best decisions...
... educational, and other municipal services and infrastructure The programming approach to city officials will require strong advocacy based on an understanding ofthe system of land tenure in vigor andof ... to improve the health of these children The report tries to deal with the questions of what is different about the living situations and life chances of these children (compared with the “average” ... children and 11% of rural children), and 7% suffered from diarrheal disease (6.1% of urban children and 7.8% of rural children) in the two weeks preceding the survey • The Manshiet Nasser survey of the...
... reported in the NSFG and live births registered on birth certificates in the years 1991–94 In each individual calendar year and for the sum ofthe years 1991–94, the NSFG estimate ofthe number of births ... older mothers, mothers living in the West, and mothers having intended births, than in the opposite groups Maternity Leave About 52 percent of mothers were employed around the time of their most ... new in the 1995 questionnaire households with black and Hispanic women in the 1993 NHIS were included in the NSFG Some ofthe ‘‘white and other’’ women from the NHIS were selected for the NSFG...
... The CDC’s Office of Women’s Health + + The Office of Planning, Research, and Evaluation ofthe Administration for Children and Families (ACF) + The Children’s Bureau ofthe ACF + The Office of ... funded by the following programs and agencies ofthe U.S Departments of Health and Human Services: + The National Institute for Child Health and Human Development (NICHD) + The Office of Population ... health of men and women (11–13) Strengths and Limitations ofthe Data The data in this report come primarily from the most recent cycle ofthe NSFG conducted in 2002, and, as a result, they have...
... further analysis ofthe magnitude ofthe demand differences between products consumed today andthe potential demand for organic products in the Transkei andthe Ciskei is presented in Figure and ... was drawn randomly from rural and urban locations in the two main regions ofthe Eastern Cape, namely the former Transkei homeland area andthe former Ciskei homeland area By means of structured ... that (i) They are healthy and nutritious (83.1% of consumers); (ii) They are good for the management of illness (35.4% of consumers); (iii) They have a better appearance and taste (30.8% ofthe consumers)...
... drug and biologics development because ofthe increased appreciation ofthe threat of biological weapons The CBW threat, both to national and homeland security, raises the question of whether ... justify the use of INDs in actual conflict on the grounds that the benefits of IND use (or theThe Challenges of Acquisition 23 costs of nonuse) exceed the risks, such a decision runs the risk of ... Health and Human Services and in the Department of Homeland Security; andthe interested public This research was sponsored by the Deputy Assistant to the Secretary of Defense for Chemical and Biological...
... stewards of their own health and wellness This publication, Integrative Medicine andthe Health ofthe Public: A Summary ofthe 2009 Summit, provides an account ofthe discussion and presentations of ... 1970 by the National Academy of Sciences to secure the services of eminent members of appropriate professions in the examination of policy matters pertaining to the health ofthe public The Institute ... become the principal operating agency of both the National Academy of Sciences andthe National Academy of Engineering in providing services to the government, the public, andthe scientific and...
... contradictory to the conclusions ofthe Final Document ofthe Moscow Meeting ofthe Conference on the Human Dimension ofthe CSCE and in breach of Article 19 ofthe International Covenant on Civil and Political ... or the economic well-being ofthe country, for the prevention of disorder or crime, for the protection of health of morals, or for the protection ofthe rights and freedoms of others Finally, the ... for the outbreak of conflicts andof their prevention, settling and dealing with their aftermaths The development of democratic institutions andthe protection of human rights are among the OSCE’s...
... excitable behavior by presenting the pulse of Src activity in the plane ofthe inactive and active fractions, si and s1 If the duration ofthe stimulus exceeds the critical value, the trajectory in the ... by number in the plane ofthe Csk and RPTP concentrations Within these two regions of monostability, there are parameter sets where the QSS dependence ofthe active Src fraction on the inactive ... transition from the Off state to On state (in the bistability domain) Regardless ofthe slope, the active Src fractions increase during the Off to On transition, whereas the value ofthe inactive...
... CSRs ofthe hcHAT proteins andthe GH13 a-amylase family members A list ofthe abbreviations of proteins and enzymes can be found in Fig The segments covering the strands b2, b3, loop (near the ... concerned, the basic feature discriminating the 4F2hc proteins from both rBATs and GH13 enzymes is the lack of domain B protruding out ofthe TIM barrel in the place of loop connecting the b3-strand ... identifiable, even for the enzymatically active GH13 members [13] Therefore, one ofthe goals was to align Origin of rBAT and 4F2hc within the GH13 a-amylase family correctly the b5-strands ofthe hcHAT sequences,...