... on the total efficiency ranks of the merging banks, rather than dealing with the cumbersome array of components of efficiency or with the level of efficiency The use of total efficiency, the ... efficiency variables and neither hypothesis nests the other one In addition to the Relative Efficiency Hvpothais and the hw Efficiency Hvpothais, we 32 control for/investigate a number of other possible ... improve efficiency more, the lower is the efficiency of both the acquiring and acquired bank, with a larger marginal effect from the acquiring bank The effect of the lower efficiency of the acquiring...
Ngày tải lên: 06/03/2014, 08:21
... scientific and engineering research, dedicated to the furtherance of science and technology and to their use for the general welfare Upon the authority of the charter granted to it by the Congress ... by the Academy, the Council has 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 engineering communities The Council is administered jointly by both Academies and the Institute of Medicine Dr Bruce M Alberts and Dr Wm A Wulf are chair and vice...
Ngày tải lên: 15/03/2014, 15:20
Báo cáo khoa học: "Young patients with colorectal cancer have poor survival in the first twenty months after operation and predictable survival in the medium and long-term: Analysis of survival and prognostic markers" pot
... and AJCC stage 1V versus stage 1, 11 and 111 (The lifereg procedure, SAS 9.00): the model was first fitted using the three main effects only Type III analysis of effects showed neo-adjuvant therapy ... studied, and the model with only the main effects assumed as adequate (Table 4) Therefore it was concluded that the two factors which were independently significant were neo-adjuvant therapy and AJCC ... Supervised and assisted in all of the statistical analysis KID - Conceived of the idea, participated in its design and wrote and supervised several drafts of the manuscript All authors have read and...
Ngày tải lên: 09/08/2014, 03:22
Báo cáo y học: "The discovery of the first human retrovirus: HTLV-1 and HTLV-2" doc
... HTLV-1 and HTLV-2 The first detection and isolation of HTLV-1 was in 1979, and the first detection came from the analysis of a T cell line established by J Minna and A Gazdar from a patient these ... catalyzed the further development of our work and of our understanding of HTLV-1 and its role in T cell malignancies The first of these (in the summer of 1980) was information from Drs Tom Waldmann and ... form as provirus, the name given to his theory In 1970 Temin and his colleague Mizutani, and separately, David Baltimore, gave credence to the theory with their discovery of the DNA polymerase...
Ngày tải lên: 13/08/2014, 09:21
The green brewery concept - Energy efficiency and the use of renewable energy sources in breweries ppt
... rates) and the existing technology As the current study was focused on thermal energy optimization, electrical energy requirements were only included if they were important for the thermal energy ... potentially supply its thermal energy demand with own resources (excluding M AN U waste water exceeds the remaining thermal energy demand of 37 MJ/hl Integration of biogas was the favorite alternative over ... technologies is needed to identify the technology with the best energy and exergy efficiency This minimal energy demand and exergy loss can then be used as a true benchmark for the process itself – MEDprocess...
Ngày tải lên: 24/03/2014, 04:20
efficiency and sustainability in the energy and chemical industries scientific principles and case studies
... we briefly review the essentials of thermodynamics and its principal applications We cover the first and second laws and discuss the most important thermodynamic properties and their dependence ... on what the future may hold 6 Efficiency and Sustainability in the Energy and Chemical Industries References Seader, J.D Thermodynamic Efficiency of Chemical Processes, Industrial EnergyConservation ... instance, the heat flow rate Q 2.4 The First Law Thermodynamics is solidly founded on its main laws The first law is the law of conservation of energy For a closed system that receives heat from the...
Ngày tải lên: 01/04/2014, 11:38
barkana, loeb. the first sources of light and the reionization of the universe
... between the sources and the IGM density Valageas and Silk (1999) and Chiu and Ostriker (2000) calculated the clumping factor semi-analytically by averaging over the IGM on the one hand and virialized ... (t) and b (t) are the background densities of the dark matter and baryons, dm (t) and b (t) are the dark matter and baryon overdensity amplitudes, r is the comoving radial coordinate, and k is the ... assumed that the gas is stationary throughout the entire region and ignored the transitions to infall and the Hubble expansion at the interface between the collapsed object and the background...
Ngày tải lên: 24/04/2014, 17:06
Financing energy efficiency and climate change migration a guide for investors in belarus, bulgaria, kazakhstan, the russian federation, and ukraine new york geneva, 2005
... of the first phase of the privatization process were the MuJstry of Finance, the State Property Committee, and the Ministry of Energy, Industry and Trade The State Property Committee has been the ... of the foreign trade revenue for the state budget The overindustt.ialised structure of the economy, the country's abundant energy resources, and very low energy prices, resulted in the high -energy ... &srnissing the judges of the Supreme Court and half of the judges of the Constitutional COW The Chamber of Representatives appoints the remaining half The Committee for State Security (KGB) and the...
Ngày tải lên: 04/06/2014, 16:24
A Study on Using English Songs in Teaching Listening Skill to Improve the Efficiency and Motivation for First-Year Non-English Major Students at Hai Duong Medical Technical University
... like or who they admire Then it is easier to get them closer to the teacher because then they can speak more together about the issue that they are interested in The author agrees with the definition ... unstable and unpredictable because it depends on many factors such as: the content of the subject, the necessity of it, the method of the teacher, or even the weather of the day That explains the ... for the skill as when they find the lesson enjoyable, they will like to learn it more and more and when they feel relaxed in it, they will it better and better Especially, more than half of the...
Ngày tải lên: 15/07/2015, 12:57
Assessment of biomass energy sources and technologies: The case of Central America
... measures the influence of weather seasons on the biorefinery operation and the challenge to implement systems that enable the biorefinery to operate despite the weather conditions For the analysis of the ... account the cost of these systems (stove/fuel) and the current status of the biomass market in the region, there would be even higher barriers for deployment of these stoves than for ICSs Other alternatives ... around 800–1000 °C [40] and the thermal energy contained in the hot gases can be transformed into electricity (steam turbines and generator) and/ or heat and process steam The cost of electricity...
Ngày tải lên: 29/07/2016, 14:03
The First and Last
... The First and Last PERSONS OF THE PLAY KEITH DARRANT, K.C LARRY DARRANT, His Brother WANDA SCENE I KEITH'S Study SCENE II WANDA's Room SCENE III The Same SCENE I It is ... radius of the light.] [Staring] Are you ill? [LARRY stands still again and heaves a deep sigh.] KEITH [Rising, with his back to the fire, and staring at his brother] What is it, man? [Then with ... goes quickly over to the door and draws the curtain aside, to see that it is shut, then comes back to LARRY, who is huddling over the fire.] Come, Larry! Pull yourself together and drop exaggeration!...
Ngày tải lên: 06/11/2012, 14:13
some renewable energy sources in the ASEAN region
... for the harnessing of wind energy, another renewable energy source (Cunanan, 2002) Asean countries lie mainly in the Southeast Asian region and span the equator Since they are all under the influence ... tied to trees and other plants which are released when the water reservoirs are filled with water for the first time and these crops rot without the help of oxygen This leads to the creation of ... mortality there was the result of a convergence of factors, some of which were due to the bad siting in the local ecosystem while others were due to the wind turbine and tower technology used at the...
Ngày tải lên: 25/04/2013, 08:20
An overview of the EU Member States support schemes for the promotion of renewable energy sources
... section The EU RES directive The EU policy on RES is set out in the relevant Directive [3] of the European parliament and of the Council The Directive concerns the promotion and use of energy ... and delivery, which in the French mainland and Corsica amounts to 5.5% and in the overseas departments and regions of Guadeloupe, Martinique and Réunion amounts to 2.1% In Italy, the fiscal and ... Lithuania, Malta, the Netherlands and Sweden In the Czech Republic, the investment support measure is provided through some governmental programs The National Program for the promotion of energy saving...
Ngày tải lên: 05/09/2013, 16:10
Energy efficiency and cost analysis of canola production in different farm sizes
... efficiency, energy productivity, specific energy and net energy were calculated using the following Eqs [8]: Energy use efficiency = (Energy output (MJ ha-1)) / (Energy input (MJ ha-1)) (1) Energy ... energetic efficiency of the agricultural systems can be evaluated by the relation between energy inputs and output [20] Based on the energy equivalents of inputs and outputs, the indices of energy ... input energy Energy output and net energy are crucial parameters when the availability of arable land is the limiting factor for plant production [21] The energy inputs were divided into direct and...
Ngày tải lên: 05/09/2013, 16:30
TEACHING PRONUNCIATION TO THE FIRST YEAR STUDENTS AT THE UNIVERSITY OF TRANSPORT AND COMMUNICATIONS a CASE STUDY
... Organization of the study The study includes three parts: - Part 1, INTRODUCTION, introduces the rationale for the research, the aims of the study, the scope, the methods and the organization of the study ... exercises and activities The segmental elements (sounds and word stress) were taught at the beginning of the elementary course, and then they were integrated into the teaching of other areas during the ... A2 The New English series are edited and developed from different series of the same level like the Headway (mainly based), the New Headway, the Lifeline, and the Power Base The reason why the...
Ngày tải lên: 07/09/2013, 13:45
Tài liệu Paper and Key of the first term test TQC Senor High School - Hoi An Town
... until the end of the 14th century Illiteracy was not seen as a problem until the end after the invention of printing in the 15th century The first significant decline in illiteracy came with the ... attack on illiteracy as one of their goals, with the former Soviet Union, China, and Cuba being among the most successful in the 20th century According to the passage, the anti-illiteracy a adults ... instructors for the public Throughout most of history most people have been illiterate In former society, the ability to read and write was of value only to clergy and aristocracy The first known...
Ngày tải lên: 23/11/2013, 10:11
A study on common grammatical and lexical errors in writing compositions made by the first year english major students at hai phong private university and some suggested solutions
... carry out the study of identifying the common errors of grammar and lexis and helping them find out the effective solutions Method of study With the purpose of the study is to help the first year ... finding out the most common grammatical and lexical errors made by the first year English major students when they write the compositions as writing tasks in their second semester of the first year ... speakers, who use them all the time On the other hand, other combinations may be unnatural and just sound "wrong" (www.learningenglish.com) E.g: The gangsters live by dirty money The “dirty money”...
Ngày tải lên: 14/12/2013, 16:45
Tài liệu Chapter 8: Potential Energy and Conservation of Energy doc
... as the spring force are called “conservative” because the can transfer energy from the kinetic energy of part of the system to potential energy and vice versa Frictional and drag forces on the ... constant As the pendulum swings, the total energy E is transferred back and forth between kinetic energy K of the bob and potential energy U of the bob-earth system We assume that U is zero at the lowest ... which there are forces external to the system The system under study is a bowling ball being hurled by a player The system consists of the ball and the earth taken together The force exerted on the...
Ngày tải lên: 23/12/2013, 00:16
THE FIRST YEAR – LANGUAGE STUDENTS’ DIFFICULTIES IN PARAGRAPH WRITING AND SOME APPROPRIATE STRATEGIES TO SOLVE THESE PROBLEMS AT THE NATIONAL ECONOMICS UNIVERSITY
... wall on the left is occupied by the bed Then, on the wall next to the bed there is a big 38 closet with two shelves and space to hang clothes It is next to the door On the right hand wall there ... four shelves In the farther left corner …(5) the room, there is a chest of drawers The rest of the short wall on the left is occupied by the bed Then, on the wall …(6) the bed there is a big closet ... placed The rest of the short wall on the left is occupied by the bed As you walk through the door, you see the desk on the right side of the long wall Then, on the wall next to the bed there is...
Ngày tải lên: 06/02/2014, 14:40
Tài liệu Energy Research at DOE WAS IT WORTH IT? Energy Efficiency and Fossil Energy Research 1978 to 2000 docx
... Acknowledgments The Committee on Benefits of DOE R&D on Energy Efficiency and Fossil Energy wishes to acknowledge and thank the staffs of the Office of Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy and the Office ... affordable, and dependable supplies of energy for the Nation, now and in the future That means increasing the diversity of energy and fuel choices and sources, bringing renewable energy sources into the ... DOE and to evaluate the utility of the analytic framework in a diversity of circumstances The committee then asked the Office of Fossil Energy and the Office of Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy...
Ngày tải lên: 17/02/2014, 06:20