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... Internal politics among executives further exacerbated its stagnation On the other hand, the fit between Samsung’s strategy in responding to commoditization with speed and its militaristic organization ... Sony was tied with Philips and Samsung for second in the LCD TV sector It was first in the digital camcorder sector with 43% market share, and second in the digital camera sector, with 15% market ... into one of the most profitable companies in the electronics industry I felt compelled to find out what had caused their changing fortunes Faced with the rapid digitalization of the electronics...

Ngày tải lên: 14/03/2014, 14:02

... •What is it? •How did it come about? •What are the social implications? •What does this mean for the future? The Future with Nanotechnology Left: A nano-gear Right: A nano-universal-joint The Future ... manufacturing from the bottom up Major Aspects of Nanotechnology •What is it? •How did it come about? •What are the social implications? •What does this mean for the future? History of Nanotechnology ... Nanotechnology •What is it? •How did it come about? •What are the social implications? •What does this mean for the future? Definitions • Nano means one billionth • Nanotechnology - Deals with moleculues...

Ngày tải lên: 15/03/2014, 22:13

... and its core, the mantle, but they did not explain how pieces of the crust could have moved Geologists didn’t know whether the mantle was all molten rock or if part of it might be solid They ... in a rather straight line, or they can curve a little like a serpent The plates on either side of the fault move past each other in different directions Usually, they move slowly When they move ... the weight with the pen attached stays still When the frame shakes, it moves the paper below the pen, which records the size of the shock waves Scientists use this record to calculate the earthquake’s...

Ngày tải lên: 11/02/2017, 09:06

... and its core, the mantle, but they did not explain how pieces of the crust could have moved Geologists didn’t know whether the mantle was all molten rock or if part of it might be solid They ... in a rather straight line, or they can curve a little like a serpent The plates on either side of the fault move past each other in different directions Usually, they move slowly When they move ... the weight with the pen attached stays still When the frame shakes, it moves the paper below the pen, which records the size of the shock waves Scientists use this record to calculate the earthquake’s...

Ngày tải lên: 18/04/2017, 15:45

... AM Earth: The Inside Story Name Vocabulary Directions Read each sentence Write the word from the box that correctly fits in the sentence Some words may be used more than once Check the Words ... and the other column “What Happened.” Encourage them to fill in the chart as they read the selection SCIENCE CONNECTION Students can learn more about plate tectonics on the Internet or at the ... students to say what they think extinct means, based on the context What other words in the paragraph help them understand the meaning of extinct? Continue in a similar fashion with the remaining vocabulary...

Ngày tải lên: 18/04/2017, 15:50

... need the land to meet their food needs Despite their obligation to report violations and the threat to be fined themselves, they did not inform the Forest Protection Unit Village solidarity was ... as a surprise then that the trees did not grow well Neither group was interested in their long-term benefits For example, the Forest Protection Unit estimated that only 10᎐15% of the trees planted ... households within the district The ties of the cadres with the central state authorities were limited Ethnic differences, difficult topography, and a lack of infrastructure weakened the linkages with...

Ngày tải lên: 16/12/2017, 11:03

... out of cash and credit They can’t pay the staff or their benefits or their pensions So they have to fire them, shut the gates, and call it a day—for the moment But behind the shut gates are assets ... competition, and the prospect of building around it an entire community of retail outlets If the investment bank likes the sound of it, they will lend the supermarket the money to proceed with the ... corporations for resale to the public It had been too risky, and the pursuit of huge profits had clouded their judgment The man who had stood firmly in the path of the gathering storm of the 1930s was Virginia...

Ngày tải lên: 29/03/2018, 13:34

... participation in the outrage In spite of the inherent charm of the subject, the splendid outbursts of lyrical poetry in some of the choruses and the beauty of the scenery and costumes, 'The Birds' failed ... harangue on the superior attractions of a residence among the birds, they propose a notable scheme of their own to further enhance its advantages and definitely secure the sovereignty of the universe ... Euelpides and Pisthetaerus, two old Athenians, disgusted with the litigiousness, wrangling and sycophancy of their countrymen, resolve upon quitting Attica Having heard of the fame of Epops (the hoopoe),...

Ngày tải lên: 06/11/2012, 14:13

... terms of their business size, 54.55% Through the data, the researcher 44 discovered that the projects of the enterprises in the province is 15-200 billion of capital from the majority and say the ... of the economy of the investor Further, in cases of FDI, the investor’s purpose is to gain an effective voice in the management of the enterprise The foreign entity or group of associated entities ... of geography, history and other link made the basis for selection of investors The economic benefits from FDI The following are the benefits brought by FDI: (1) Employment: While the number of...

Ngày tải lên: 16/03/2013, 10:57

... survive in the oceans Life on Earth had begun, despite its inhospitable atmosphere! Evolution of the Earth and its Atmosphere 3.8 billion years ago – 2.5 billion years ago: ♦ Some of the one-celled ... organisms in the oceans developed the ability to conduct “photosynthesis”: Process “Equation” Photosynthesis 6H2O + 6CO2 + sunlight → C6H12O6 + 6O2 (This provided food, in the form of glucose, to these ... created the “ozone layer” high in the atmosphere, which blocked solar uv from reaching the ground and made it possible for plants and animals to survive above the ocean surface.) Evolution of the...

Ngày tải lên: 04/04/2013, 10:51

... lienhe@docs.vn Tel : 0918.775.368 With limited exposure to all types of students in other university, NEU students are the perfect entity to take the research The study illustrates the effects of music cover ... opinion about the issue For instance, there is someone who agrees with it, or the others think it is completely untruthful However, as we have just said above, the youth are usually the fastest ... song newer, brings the song back to the listener with the whole new style and the performance is completely like remaining the life for the song The cover music in Vietnam is the kind of music,...

Ngày tải lên: 21/04/2013, 20:53

... and text is rewritten Free translation: It reproduces the matter without the manner, or the context without the form of the original Usually it is a paraphrase much longer than the original Idiomatic ... brought gifts to the Babe in the manger They invented the art of giving Christmas presents Comparing with the definite article the , the demonstratives “this, that, those, these, here, there, … are ... lập, Hồ Chí Minh) The readers not make sense Đó in the second sentence if they not base on the meaning of the first sentence In other words, the second shares the link with the first to be made...

Ngày tải lên: 14/12/2013, 00:40

... Explanation: The /duprepare switch prepares the downloaded update files to be used during an installation with the /dushare switch When you run Winnt32.exe with the /DUShare switch, the Dynamic Update wizard ... /dudisable switch D Restart Setup by using the /dushare switch E Restart the computer From the Recovery console, read the Dr Watson.log F Restart the computer From the Recovery console, read the Comsetup.log ... the first ISA slot B Remove the Ethernet card and replace it with an Ethernet card that is PXE compliant C Share the RIS image on the RIS server Create a network bootable floppy disk Insert the...

Ngày tải lên: 22/12/2013, 10:16

... ubiquitin ligase activity of Itch In this study, we first examined the ability of Itch to interact with Bid and tBid We found that Itch specifically interacts with tBid, but not with Bid Itch ubiqui1320 ... through the mitochondrial pathway The key event in the mitochondrial pathway is the release of proapoptotic factors from the mitochondrial intermembrane space into the cytosol, resulting in the downstream ... of Itch together with Bid or tBid fused to green fluorescent protein (GFP) at the C-terminus We then immunoprecipitated FLAG–Itch and looked for the presence of GFP fusions in the immunoprecipitated...

Ngày tải lên: 16/02/2014, 09:20

... hypothesize that the cytotoxic activity of the latter monomers was due to the presence in these proteins of disulfide bonds, with their potential chemical instability It is well known that in the presence ... plateau These data indicate that the cell sulfhydryls responsible for the exchange with the protein disulfides are located in the plasma membrane Furthermore, they show that, as proposed in the hypothesis ... extracted from the PM pellet with mM dithiothreitol; lane 5, proteins from the PM pellet after treatment with dithiothreitol Fig Dimerization effect of PM isolated from SVT2 cells on the labelled...

Ngày tải lên: 20/02/2014, 11:20

... search their knowledge base (i.e., memory) for the description of a given term, and compare that description with four candidates Then they would choose the candidate that is most similar to the ... description For the second type of question, human examinees would search their knowledge base for the description of each of four candidate terms Then they would choose the candidate term whose ... collected from the Class II examination in the autumn of 1999 The objective here is not only to evaluate the performance of our QA system itself, but also to evaluate the quality of the encyclopedia...

Ngày tải lên: 20/02/2014, 18:20

... binding site for the myosin head The hinge region allows the myosin head to protrude from the thick filament and make contact with the actin filament at that binding site In addition to the actin ... flowing from the artery back into the ventricle The pressure gradient across the valves is the major determinant of whether they are open or closed The Circulatory Loop (Figure 1) The cardiovascular ... but varies with atrial contraction and instantaneous atrial volume) The pressure of the point at the bottom right corner of the loop is the pressure in the ventricle at the end of the cardiac...

Ngày tải lên: 22/02/2014, 09:20

... became the directing power also in banks and trust companies the depositaries of the quick capital of the country the life blood of business, with which they and others carried on their operations ... to it Behind his understanding of the methods of obtaining insurance and the proper cost of it to the laboring man lay a philosophy of the vast advantage to the fibre and energy of the community ... the idea that there was a mystery somewhere The editorial printed above hints at how ho solved the mystery, but it would require much more space to tell the other sides, BY LOUIS D BRANDEIS the...

Ngày tải lên: 06/03/2014, 18:20

... coefficients of the planetary gravity field, C20 and C22 In Cassini State 1, the spin vector remains coplanar with the orbit normal and the normal to the plane of the Solar System about which the orbit precesses ... of the crust may be determined separately It is possible to determine anomalies, or lateral inhomogeneities in the mantle, on a scale comparable to the altitude of the orbiter The depth of the ... when, with the supply of attitude-control gas exhausted, the 506 day mission was terminated The spacecraft was, thereafter, transferred into a retrograde orbit around the Sun, which it still orbits...

Ngày tải lên: 06/03/2014, 19:20

... commerce The writers of the time speak of these things with the greatest freedom We learn that the population of the city amounted in the year 1422 to 190,000 souls; the Italians were, perhaps, the ... comparison with the Florentines The rule of the nobility, the tyrannies, the struggles of the middle class with the proletariat, limited and unlimited democracy, pseudo-democracy, the primacy ... isolation, which, joined to the hatred felt for the city by the other States of Italy, gave rise to a strong sense of solidarity within The inhabitants meanwhile were united by the most powerful ties...

Ngày tải lên: 08/03/2014, 12:20