... 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 of the high prevalence of HIV and STIs among sex workers, their sheer number of partners, and the possibility that the minority ... and (iii) the average duration of infectiousness of the person with the disease Each of these determinants is significantly influenced by host susceptibility, the infectious virulence of the pathogen,...
Ngày tải lên: 17/09/2015, 17:20
... dependency rule has a structure shown in Fig If the focused word (called FOCUS) and the word on the top of the 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 of the 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 of the deduced...
Ngày tải lên: 09/03/2014, 01:20
Unemployment Among Post-9-11 Veterans and Military Spouses After the Economic Downturn docx
... research and development center sponsored by the Office of the Secretary of Defense, the Joint Staff, the Unified Combatant Commands, the Navy, the Marine Corps, the defense agencies, and the defense ... Center of the RAND National Defense Research Institute (NDRI), and was sponsored by the Office of the Director—Cost Assessment and Program Evaluation, Office of the 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 and the Arts Energy and Environment Health and Health...
Ngày tải lên: 16/03/2014, 07:20
Minnesota State Colleges and Universities Statewide Audit Fiscal Year Ended June 30, 1998 March 1999 Financial Audit Division Office of the Legislative Auditor State of Minnesota_part2 ppt
... written off Chapter of the 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 of the Legislative Audit Commission and the management of the 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...
Ngày tải lên: 20/06/2014, 08:20
Báo cáo y học: "980 nm diode lasers in oral and facial practice: current state of the science and art"
... Following the suggestions of scientific literature on the advantages of the compactness, reliability, ease of use and affordability of the 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 of the handpiece The use of flexible, length-adjustable ... question the efficacy of the 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...
Ngày tải lên: 26/10/2012, 09:48
Báo cáo y học: "Incidence of Ocular Zoonoses referred to the Inflammatory and Autoimmune Ocular Diseases Service of the University of Parma - Italy"
... 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 of the 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 ...
Ngày tải lên: 03/11/2012, 11:11
Optimization of design and operating parameters on the year round performance of a multi-stage evacuated solar desalination system using transient mathematical analysis
... outlet of first collector will be inlet to the second collector and the outlet of the second collector will be inlet to the next and so on up to the Ncth collector Thus, the outlet temperature of the ... considering the effect of various design and operating parameters on the performance and thermal characteristics of the system Description of the multi-stage evacuated solar desalination system The Multi-stage ... variation of global solar radiation and the 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...
Ngày tải lên: 05/09/2013, 16:11
The aspectual make up of Perfect participles and the interpretations of the Perfect- Roumyana Pancheva
... aspect under the perfect has the effect of asserting that the beginning of the event time is included in the PTS The question of whether the end of the event time is included in the PTS or not ... makeup of the Perfect participle 285 ing for the perfect - a combination of the meaning of [PERFECT] in Asp1 and the meaning contribution of a viewpoint aspectual projection The semantic role of the ... (12b), the left boundary of the PTS is asserted to precede the beginning of the event time and the right boundary of the PTS is not asserted to be included in the event time Examples such as the...
Ngày tải lên: 18/10/2013, 14:15
Radioactive waste in the Barents and Kara Seas - Russian implementation of the global dumping regime
... the homes and offices of several persons involved in the preparation of a report on the waste management of the 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 of the Navy and the nuclear industry, the Russian Minister of Environment informed the Consultative Meeting of the London Convention ... clout of Goskompriroda would strengthen those actors in the Soviet system who opposed the dumping practices of the Northern Fleet and encourage the formation of an effective coalition to counter the...
Ngày tải lên: 01/11/2013, 09:20
A study of the english translational versions of tring cong son's songs in terms of semantic and syntactic features
... 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 of the 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 OF THE STUDY - Because of the lack of time and ... sound beat of the song Prompted by the influence of linguistic aspects and music theory, the choice of the most suitable strategy in each case requires translators to have careful and profound thinkinig,...
Ngày tải lên: 26/11/2013, 13:23
Tài liệu Decision Analysis and Risk Management: Two Sides of the Same Coin pdf
... definition is then related to the four steps of the decision making process and finally to the three types of error (risk) that occur in each of the 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 of the analysis determines the “quality” of the decisions High quality decisions are not the best decisions in hindsight They are the best decisions...
Ngày tải lên: 10/12/2013, 17:15
Tài liệu Health of Children Living in Urban Slums in Asia and the Near East: Review of Existing Literature and Data pdf
... educational, and other municipal services and infrastructure The programming approach to city officials will require strong advocacy based on an understanding of the system of land tenure in vigor and of ... 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...
Ngày tải lên: 12/02/2014, 12:20
Tài liệu Fertility, Family Planning, and Women’s Health: New Data From the 1995 National Survey of Family Growth pptx
... 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 of the years 1991–94, the NSFG estimate of the 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 of the ‘‘white and other’’ women from the NHIS were selected for the NSFG...
Ngày tải lên: 12/02/2014, 23:20
Tài liệu Fertility, Family Planning, and Reproductive Health of U.S. Women: Data From the 2002 National Survey of Family Growth doc
... The CDC’s Office of Women’s Health + + The Office of Planning, Research, and Evaluation of the Administration for Children and Families (ACF) + The Children’s Bureau of the ACF + The Office of ... funded by the following programs and agencies of the 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 of the Data The data in this report come primarily from the most recent cycle of the NSFG conducted in 2002, and, as a result, they have...
Ngày tải lên: 13/02/2014, 10:20
Tài liệu CONSUMER PREFERENCE AND CONSUMPTION OF ORGANIC PRODUCTS IN THE EASTERN CAPE PROVINCE OF SOUTH AFRICA docx
... further analysis of the magnitude of the demand differences between products consumed today and the potential demand for organic products in the Transkei and the Ciskei is presented in Figure and ... was drawn randomly from rural and urban locations in the two main regions of the Eastern Cape, namely the former Transkei homeland area and the 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% of the consumers)...
Ngày tải lên: 14/02/2014, 03:20
Tài liệu The Acquisition of Drugs and Biologics for Chemical and Biological Warfare Defense - Department of Defense Interactions with the Food and Drug Administration doc
... drug and biologics development because of the increased appreciation of the 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 the The 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; and the interested public This research was sponsored by the Deputy Assistant to the Secretary of Defense for Chemical and Biological...
Ngày tải lên: 17/02/2014, 11:20
Tài liệu Integrative Medicine and the Health of the Public: A Summary of the February 2009 Summit docx
... stewards of their own health and wellness This publication, Integrative Medicine and the Health of the Public: A Summary of the 2009 Summit, provides an account of the 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 of the public The Institute ... become the principal operating agency of both the National Academy of Sciences and the National Academy of Engineering in providing services to the government, the public, and the scientific and...
Ngày tải lên: 17/02/2014, 14:20
Tài liệu Freedom of Expression on the Internet - A study of legal provisions and practices related to freedom of expression, the free flow of information and media pluralism on the Internet in OSCE participating States ppt
... contradictory to the conclusions of the Final Document of the Moscow Meeting of the Conference on the Human Dimension of the CSCE and in breach of Article 19 of the International Covenant on Civil and Political ... or the economic well-being of the country, for the prevention of disorder or crime, for the protection of health of morals, or for the protection of the rights and freedoms of others Finally, the ... for the outbreak of conflicts and of their prevention, settling and dealing with their aftermaths The development of democratic institutions and the protection of human rights are among the OSCE’s...
Ngày tải lên: 18/02/2014, 00:20
Tài liệu Báo cáo khoa học: Toggle switches, pulses and oscillations are intrinsic properties of the Src activation/deactivation cycle doc
... excitable behavior by presenting the pulse of Src activity in the plane of the inactive and active fractions, si and s1 If the duration of the stimulus exceeds the critical value, the trajectory in the ... by number in the plane of the Csk and RPTP concentrations Within these two regions of monostability, there are parameter sets where the QSS dependence of the active Src fraction on the inactive ... transition from the Off state to On state (in the bistability domain) Regardless of the slope, the active Src fractions increase during the Off to On transition, whereas the value of the inactive...
Ngày tải lên: 18/02/2014, 11:20
Tài liệu Báo cáo khoa học: Looking for the ancestry of the heavy-chain subunits of heteromeric amino acid transporters rBAT and 4F2hc within the GH13 a-amylase family ppt
... CSRs of the hcHAT proteins and the GH13 a-amylase family members A list of the 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 of the TIM barrel in the place of loop connecting the b3-strand ... identifiable, even for the enzymatically active GH13 members [13] Therefore, one of the goals was to align Origin of rBAT and 4F2hc within the GH13 a-amylase family correctly the b5-strands of the hcHAT sequences,...
Ngày tải lên: 18/02/2014, 13:20