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... partners to doing a better job taking its cues from the market In doing so, it has become one of the nimblest players in the business.”6 The Media Hype Sony had once dominated the electronics industry ... an increase of 400% since 2000 and twice that of Sony’s Since becoming CEO in 1997, Jong-yong Yun, has become famous for turning Samsung Electronics into one of the most profitable companies in ... to other Asian companies The History and Business Areas of Sony and Samsung Electronics Sony The King of AV In 1946, the year after Japan’s defeat in World War II, Sony was incorporated as the...

Ngày tải lên: 14/03/2014, 14:02

... were the SOFA scores every day during follow-up and the incidence of severe brain injury There were no statistical differences of the ISS or the incidence of severe thoracic injury between the ... measurement of mHLA-DR expression have evolved, thereby complicating interpretation and comparison of the findings of these studies In the present cohort, incidence of sepsis was 35% and the mortality ... systemic inflammatory response syndrome involving activation of several cellular systems and the overwhelming production, by the innate immune system, of proinflammatory cytokines and other inflammatory...

Ngày tải lên: 14/08/2014, 07:21

... painting pictures of a big sea off the coast of windswept Scotland, of men braving the storms, drilling into the ocean floor in freezing, dangerous conditions, pumping the crude oil, hundreds of ... out there in New York with the big dogs, playing in the major leagues of finance The trouble was, my chances of getting in were zilch Those big finance firms recruit from the best colleges in the ... this was the wrong end of the business I was never going in there I’d starve before I set foot in their rathole Through the thick smoke the guy standing on the desk was cajoling, urging, trying to...

Ngày tải lên: 29/03/2018, 13:34

... important role in the development of Mechanical Engineering The thesis studies the English – Vietnamese translation of terms in the materials for Mechanical Engineering First, the thesis collects ... The thesis aims to draw out common translation strategies which can be applied in the English-Vietnamese translation of terms in materials for mechanical engineering Hopefully, the result of the ... Engineering terms and Vietnamese ones Next, the thesis works out and compares the English terms with the Vietnamese ones to finds out appropriate Vietnamese equivalents for the English terms The...

Ngày tải lên: 07/09/2013, 13:04

... mean to suggest that the choice is either to invest in language skills or in other forms of education In fact, one of the key findings in this paper is that knowledge of the foreign language, ... ending up just above the cutoff The growth in skill is likely to be less than the average difference in skill of those above and below the cutoff The current version of the paper replaces the ... Department of Economics at the College of Management in Israel under the direction of one of the authors The survey is not intended to be representative of the Israeli or immigrant populations but instead...

Ngày tải lên: 24/01/2014, 04:20

... the precise contextual meaning of the original within the constraints of the TL grammatical structures” and “it attempts to be completely faithful to the intentions and the text-realization of ... vividly in mechanical engineering texts In some cases, they refer to the quantity of something, e.g., start two engines – khởi động hai máy, when the engine is restated four wheels of the engine ... Specifically combined words usually consist of a noun which plays the most important role in naming things, phenomena, processes in mechanical engineering, the other words in each specific word combination...

Ngày tải lên: 29/01/2014, 10:43

... adults (39 ) The renewed interest in examining the indications for BCG vaccination in the United States included consideration of the wide range of vaccine efficacies determined by clinical trials ... explore the sources of the heterogeneity in the efficacy of the BCG vaccine reported in the individual studies Using a model that included the geographic latitude of the study site and the data ... efficacy of BCG vaccine in HCWs or b) the effects on efficacy of the vaccine strain administered Vol 45 / No RR-4 MMWR and the vaccinee’s age at the time of vaccination The protective efficacy of BCG...

Ngày tải lên: 15/02/2014, 13:20

... reported four main integrated rubber farming systems in the South of Thailand emerging during the financial crisis in the late 19 1990's The major systems included 1) Rubber intercrop farming, 2) Rubber-rice ... Most of Thailand receives the majority of rain during the Southwest monsoon Generally, the quantity of rainfall decreases with increasing distance from the sea, but the amount of rainfall and the ... However, the rubber tree is the most widely planted tree species in Southeast Asia (FAO 2005) The characteristics of rubber farming systems vary within Southeast Asia In the beginning of the 20th...

Ngày tải lên: 21/02/2014, 04:20

... and developed the recommendations An independent Guideline Review Panel oversaw the development of the guideline (see appendix B) There is more information in the booklet: The guideline development ... Figure Targeting treatment: a summary of the treatments recommended in sections 1.2 to 1.5 Starting at the centre and working outward, the treatments are arranged in the order in which they should ... syndrome of joint pain accompanied by varying degrees of functional limitation and reduced quality of life It is the most common form of arthritis and one of the leading causes of pain and disability...

Ngày tải lên: 21/02/2014, 11:20

... the binding of HB-19 Similarly, the iron-binding hTf had no effect On the other hand, bLf inhibited the binding of HB-19 to cells In accordance with the involvement of both lobes of hLf in the ... general, the crosslinking of a ligand leads to the clustering or capping of its surface receptor Accordingly, we investigated the distribution of surface nucleolin following the crosslinking of bound ... showing the efficient competition between Lf and HB-19 for binding to nucleolin, suggest that the C-terminal tail of nucleolin should be implicated in the mechanism of binding of Lf to nucleolin In...

Ngày tải lên: 07/03/2014, 15:20

... main divisions: the public sector and the private sector The dotted lines in the second oval in Figure 1.1 indicate the proportions of nurses working in each of these sectors: about 60% of the ... females in the 30–34 year age group These are the years in which young women might be undergoing their nurse training, entering the nursing profession, beginning to consolidate their nursing career ... Profile of the profession The profile of the South African nursing workforce has changed dramatically since its inception The profession remains largely female, although numbers of males are increasing...

Ngày tải lên: 15/03/2014, 02:20

... from the surface of the PO and into branchiocardiac veins through the direct openings of anterior and posterior bars [35] Furthermore, considering the localization of PO-CHH-producing cells in the ... varicosities in trunks of the PO Cloning and sequencing of PO-CHH cDNA The first PCR of PO cDNA with a combination of a set of primers LF1 and LR1 (Table 1) produced an amplicon of 500 bp On the basis of ... decrease in CHH expression in the ES is in proportion to that of CCAP expression in the same tissue, as described in Chung et al [47], but there is no change in CCAP of TG, indicating the tissue-specific...

Ngày tải lên: 16/03/2014, 06:20

Ngày tải lên: 16/03/2014, 11:20

... you often been bothered by feeling down, depressed or hopeless? − During the last month, have you often been bothered by having little interest or pleasure in doing things? NICE clinical guideline ... benefit from the intervention initially offered, or declines an intervention, they should be offered an appropriate intervention from the next step Figure The stepped-care model Focus of the intervention ... During the last month, have you often been bothered by feeling down, depressed or hopeless? • During the last month, have you often been bothered by having little interest or pleasure in doing...

Ngày tải lên: 17/03/2014, 15:20

... analyses of health spending per capita and its determinants can be quite useful in assessing the importance of these links and other possible “indirect” influences of ageing, defined in the sense of ... importance of ageing in the increase in health expenditures per capita during the period from 1940 to 1990 in the United States He found that that ageing, in the sense of an increasing proportion of ... above in total population, the main indicator of “ageing” used in these studies, does not have a statistically significant role in explaining either crosscountry differences in the level of per...

Ngày tải lên: 22/03/2014, 13:20

... number of individuals is increasing at the Northern boundary of the population Results show that there is an overall increase in the number of Clouded Apollo in Estonia, with 73% of all sighting ... impossible to finalise within the original time frame However, to maintain the momentum of EBIE and to link the ecological advances to conservation, we invited five of the principal authors of EBIE ... described in 1985 but has been increasing rapidly in territory and in the number of individuals Despite the fact that the Clouded Apollo is decreasing in most areas of Europe (Meglécz et al., 1999), the...

Ngày tải lên: 23/03/2014, 01:20

... The ‘Resist!’ samples are triggered with increasing pace from the margins of the mix until one repeated sample of a woman saying ‘Feminist fury’ reclaims the centre of the mix; the voice of the ... understanding of the sampling process Existing literature does not justice to the musicality of the sampling process; instead, it fosters an incomplete understanding of sampling and spreads a certain ... on sampling – that samplers ‘place authenticity and creativity in crisis, not just because of the issue of theft, but through the increasingly automated nature of their mechanisms’ (Goodwin 1990:...

Ngày tải lên: 23/03/2014, 13:20

... within the scope of the guideline Details are therefore given of the remaining 58 studies Settings Of the 58 studies, 47 reported the effect of interventions in participants living in the community ... use of padding worn around the hip has been advocated as a measure of reducing the impact of the fall and thereby the chance of fracturing the hip The fracture is usually the result of a fall The ... provided information on the assessment of older people at risk and a summary of the risk factors predictive of falling This section reports the findings of these key documents and the review of evidence...

Ngày tải lên: 28/03/2014, 16:20

... two histidines, packed into the binding groove between bB and aB, which may arise from binding of the C-terminus of a 5222 neighboring PDZ domain in the crystal We therefore used chain A, which ... to the C-terminal end of the aB than in the complex structure, suggesting that peptide binding is accompanied 5224 by slight opening of the structure, also including slight alterations in the ... the bound peptide In addition, there is a water molecule occupying the hydrophobic pocket for the terminal leucine Moreover, there is an intriguing switch involving Lys324 in the bA-bB loop In...

Ngày tải lên: 30/03/2014, 10:20

... set-theoretic order on some domain (e.g the obvious order on physical lengths) The subject mapping is a mapping from the domain of the denotation of the subject of the CE to the domain of the ... satisfied, and they are easily identified by examining the base order component of the MTrans rules being used All of the remaining candidates in one of the lists are presented to the user who ... i o n is the new instance of that class resulting from the combination of zero or more old instances For example, if John combines the oil from three cans into a large vat, the oil in that vat...

Ngày tải lên: 31/03/2014, 18:20