... unification of the fundamental forces, probe the origins of mass, uncover the dynamic nature of the “vacuum” of space, deepen the understanding of stellar and nuclear processes, and investigate the nature ... suggests that these impending discoveries may transform our understanding of the origin of matter and energy and the ongoing evolution of the universe The limitations of the Standard Model are ... working with the White House Office of Science and Technology Policy and the Office of Management and Budget and in consultation with the relevant authorization and appropriations committees of Congress,...
Ngày tải lên: 14/03/2014, 10:20
... 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 acts under the responsibility ... setting the stage for another swing of the pendulum back to the latter as a result of disappointments with the results of diffuse grassroots investments of the 1970s In the early 1980s the USAID ... of development while recognizing many other benefits to the United States from expanded cooperation in S&T In the wake of the Green Revolution and the emerging technological achievements of the...
Ngày tải lên: 05/03/2014, 12:20
Evidence-Based Medicine and the Changing Nature of Health Care: Meeting Summary docx
... by the authors to document the proceedings of the 2007 IOM Annual Meeting EVIDENCE-BASED MEDICINE of the national domestic agenda, the choice of EBM by the IOM Council as the theme of the ... (2000) and Crossing the Quality Chasm (2001) In the face of the growing awareness generated about the nature and implications of the gap between healthcare practice and the evidence base, the IOM ... ways of meeting the need, provides the back-drop for the discussions at the 37th Annual Meeting of the Institute of Medicine (IOM) Entitled Evidence-Based Medicine and the Changing Nature of Health...
Ngày tải lên: 06/03/2014, 09:20
Nature of the band gap of silicon and germanium nanowires
... Fig Band structure of (1 0), (1 0) and (1 1) Ge nanowires with D$20 A of the band gap and determines the overall nature of the nanowire band structure Si (100) Ge (100) where mà and mà are the ... shows the distribution of the G, X and L states between the A and B planes in the (1 0), (1 0) and (1 1) unit cells In the (1 0) and (1 1) bulk unit cells, the X ðLÞ points are clearly on the A ... for the other two stacking directions which we are considering Examining the band structure of (1 0), (1 0) and (1 1) bulk unit cells, we can then use the above argument to determine whether the...
Ngày tải lên: 16/03/2014, 15:18
State structure and economic development The political economy of Thailand and the Philippines
... the British Empire and other western countries The Philippines, on the other hand, served as the extension of the US market in the Pacific Since their full integration into the global economy ... previously in the hands of foreign capital and the nobility (Muscat 1994, Hewison 1989, Ingram 1971) On the other hand, studies of the Philippine government’s adoption of ISI in the 1960s demonstrate ... Thailand and the Philippines invite comparison for a variety of reasons Although Thailand was never colonized, the early development of its market economy was largely influenced by the demands of the...
Ngày tải lên: 01/06/2014, 14:03
value and context the nature of moral and political knowledge oct 2006
... e.g sect of the ‘Introduction’, sect and of the ‘First Set of Variations’, and sect of the ‘Second Set of Variations’ However, the main difference between the argument of this book and Moore’s ... about the circumstances By contrast, the best explanation of the forming of the belief by the scientist must, indispensably, mention the presence of the proton in both the aetiology and the justification ... exactly the right place Agents have moral beliefs and any argument critical of the objectivity of those beliefs will be pitched at the meta-level of the best explanation of the holding of them The...
Ngày tải lên: 11/06/2014, 09:44
emergent design the evolutionary nature of professional software development
... to, and that they are the right standards Furthermore, because of the rigors and standards expected of them, professionals (and craftspersons) form supportive organizations—guilds and unions and ... note: It is the product, the activity, the process in which software is embedded that is the real product under development The software development is just a subset of the overall product development ... technology and ideas into a stream of products that meet the needs of customers and the strategic goals of the company.” Mary and Tom Poppendieck, in their excellent book, Implementing Lean Software Development: ...
Ngày tải lên: 03/07/2014, 16:08
Báo cáo lâm nghiệp: "Interactive effects of irradiance and water availability on the photosynthetic performance of Picea sitchensis seedlings: implications for seedling establishment under different management practices" ppt
... management systems The impact of water deficits could also be exacerbated due to the out-planting of bare-root seedling stock, as is used in Ireland and the UK, in the early spring [24] The shallow ... the net photosynthetic rate at a given incident irradiance (I), θ is the convexity of the curve, ø is the photon yield based on incident irradiance, Rn is the dark respiration rate and Amax the ... for both sun and shade plants (Tab I) 3.3 The effect of water deficits on photosynthesis and leaf conductance in exposed and shaded plants Over the first days after the cessation of watering,...
Ngày tải lên: 08/08/2014, 00:22
Báo cáo khoa học: "Interactive effects of waterlogging and irradiance on the photosynthetic performance of seedlings from three oak species displaying different sensitivities (Quercus robur, Q petraea and Q rubra)" docx
... in the bottomland plains of the south-eastern United States (Gardiner and Hodges,1996), and were consistent with the observed distribution of Nothofagus solandri and N menziesii in New Zealand ... the last week of the waterlogging period, under saturating CO and irra2 diance to estimate the photosynthetic capacity ) max (Aof the leaves Seedlings were harvested thereafter, and biomass and ... efficiency of open centres decreased less, and in turn that the extent of the centre closure was larger The generality of this observation and its significance in the ecophysiological performance of the...
Ngày tải lên: 08/08/2014, 18:21
báo cáo khoa học: " The need for medical education reform: genomics and the changing nature of health information" ppsx
... resources They should understand the research processes, the application of emerging information and how new knowledge is developed Certainly the application of these skills requires a backbone of medical ... Conference on Faculty Development in the Health Professions in Toronto, Canada Conclusions The growing field of genomics provides the most visible example of the explosion of medical data, but ... The authors declare that they have no competing interests Authors’ contributions AM and EN drafted and edited the article; AM contributed the genetic and ethics expertise and EN contributed the...
Ngày tải lên: 11/08/2014, 12:20
Báo cáo y học: " The predictive role of serum and bronchoalveolar lavage cytokines and adhesion molecules for acute respiratory distress syndrome development and outcome" pptx
... [8] Insulin initially binds to the insulin receptor causing autophosphorylation of the β-subunit of the receptor [8] The protein kinase domain of the β-subunit then phosphorylates tyrosine residues ... 24 hours and then exposed to media plus either vehicle or insulin (2.5 µg/ml) for an additional 1, 4, and 24 hours The cells were then rinsed and trypsinized, and nuclei from control and treated ... absence of insulin (2.5 µg/ml) The level of transcription in control cells at the 4hour time-point was made equal to one The data are the results of three experiments expressed as the mean ± SD (standard...
Ngày tải lên: 12/08/2014, 18:20
Báo cáo y học: " The predictive role of serum and bronchoalveolar lavage cytokines and adhesion molecules for acute respiratory distress syndrome development and outcome" doc
... induce the secretion of chemokines and other immunomodulators by endothelial cells, epithelial cells, and cells of the interstitium creating an intense local inflammatory response [2,10] The subsequent ... although their role in other inflamma- tory conditions is well known [19,20] In the effort to investigate the sequence and severity of the events during the development of ARDS and to correlate this ... while the time of saline staying in the lungs should be less than 20 s; (b) recovery of more than 50% of the saline used for the lavage; (c) absence of obvious blood contamination in the BALF, and...
Ngày tải lên: 12/08/2014, 18:20
Báo cáo khoa học: " On the nature of man and disaster" docx
... through the ash to escape via either land or sea The residents who remained were trapped Between 07:00 and 08:00 hours on the morning of the 25th, the fourth and fifth eruptive surges occurred and these ... and development of the mathematics of statistics and probability occurred less than 400 years ago – an evolutionarily insignificant amount of time Our entry as a species into the historical and ... experience another catastrophic eruption does not exist Because of the impossibility of timely evacuation in the event of a sudden eruption, those who choose to live and work in the shadow of the volcano...
Ngày tải lên: 12/08/2014, 23:20
Alternative views on the nature of mathematics and their possible influence on the teaching of mathematics
... will look at the development of theories, the methodology of the programme, and the nature of falsifiers 2.4.1 The Development of Theories Lakatos (1978) compares the Euclidean and the quasi-empirical ... view of the relationship between teacher and pupil, that of the learned and the learner, the possessor of knowledge and the receiver of knowledge, the controller and the controlled Teaching mathematics ... accounts can be produced of the choice of alternative theories by mathematicians, and even alternative conceptions of the nature of mathematics, and of mathematical truth, then Bloor's argument...
Ngày tải lên: 11/10/2014, 04:11
money and power; great predators in the political economy of development (2009)
... shape the character of uneven and combined capitalist development in the South The series questions neoliberal theories of development and modernisation and, in highlighting the poverty of the ... the Northern states, borrowing money from them rarely helps the poor, it just deepens the debt cycle and turns the private sector of the developing country into a playground for the rich of the ... empirical data and examples to illustrate the inequities of the trading system, the persistence of unequal exchange, the myths surrounding the benevolence of aid, phantom aid and the degree of capital...
Ngày tải lên: 30/10/2014, 16:54
Development strategy for the national institute of infectious and tropical diseases to 2020
Ngày tải lên: 26/03/2015, 11:02
Investigation of the antioxidant nature of tropical plants and fruits
... oxygenation pattern, number and position of the methoxyl groups, distinction of isoflavones, flavanones and dihydroflavanols and the number and linkage (α or β-linked) of the sugar on the flavonoids One-dimensional ... This decay in the fluorescence is measured and the antioxidant capacity of the sample was determined as the difference in the area under the curve (AUC) of antioxidant and that of the blank as ... consumption of oxygen in this process will be the measure of the rate of lipid peroxidation, which is an indirect measure of the ability of plasma to counteract the reaction Thus, by the comparison of the...
Ngày tải lên: 08/11/2015, 17:01
Manager not MBA A Hard Look at the Soft Practice of Managing and Management Development
... from their own experience In other words, we need to build the craft and the art of managing into management educa-tion and thereby bring these back into the practice of managing Follow the chapter ... claim, the question remains of where the synthesis comes from The usual, dismissive, answer is the students: They will put it together Think of this as the IKEA model of management education: The ... bias is the other side of judgment The best way to get rid of bias is to get rid of judgment MBA programs that rely on these numer-ical scores get rid of judgment, and so, too, they get rid of assessing...
Ngày tải lên: 27/08/2016, 16:20