... Focus and objectives of the Project The focus of this project is to study the feasibility, as well as lifecycle, of using microspheres, primarily a glass and a polymer, as ball bearings without the ... image showing the TP resting on the BP of the tribometer The diameter of the Si plates are 15mm 28 measured by setting up the load and measuring it on the digital weighing scale The deadweight ... (DRIE) was subsequently conducted with photoresist asthe mask layer The equipment used was the Oxford Plasmalab ICP180 Etch system (Oxford Instruments) Both the circular trenches andthe scribing...
... I Phase I–II Phase I–II Phase II Phase Phase Phase Phase Tea polyphenols and theaflavins III III I–II II II II II II II Phase II Phase II Phase II FEBS Journal 275 (2008) 5512–5526 ª 2008 The ... mitochondrial ATPase [101], calcium plasma membrane ATPase [102], protein kinase A [103], protein kinase C [104,105] and topoisomerase [106] The structure of the flavonoids determines whether they act as potent ... cancer therapy [16,22–24] The proteasome The proteasome is a multi-catalytic protease complex found in prokaryotic cells and in the cytoplasm and nucleus of all eukaryotic cells, and is the major...
... While the standard solvency capital ratio does not depend on the initial cohort size, this is the case for the stochastic approaches The age at contract issue is either x 30 or x 40 andthe ... random, and we consider stochastic models that include the process and systematic risk components This is the subject of Section 6.3 Comparing the standard approach with variants of the stochastic ... the insurance 12 Risk Management – Current IssuesandChallenges company administers the contract as if it had no knowledge of any decrements, as long asthe contract is not terminated Only the...
... another? We explore some of the contextual factors that appear to play an important role in determining the utility of KMS in the following section ISSUESANDCHALLENGES We identify issuesandchallenges ... because they already knew everything that was in there … they were wanting to see new information from other parts of the organization.” On the other hand, diversity can also be overwhelming as it ... contents a priori The collaborative filtering system records the browse and search behaviors of users and recommends documents based on the past behaviors of other users when they performed similar...
... deal in the coming year or so The TPP would strengthen ties between Asia andthe Americas, create a new template for the conduct of international trade and investment, and potentially lead to a comprehensive ... Asian agreements, in turn, have aimed to promote the ASEAN Economic Community in 2015, improve political relations in Northeast Asia The TPP emerged as a US priority some years ago, but it has ... region for both the participants andthe world The region is home to 40% of the world's population, produces over 50% of global GDP, and includes some of the fastest growing economies in the world...
... and transfer, were also included in the search In the screening phase, every article was read and judged based on the inclusion criterion, asthe focus of the study was knowledge management and ... 2009) Therefore, knowledge management is as important as other assets and resources for the survival and success of the organization Knowledge that is not well managed and shared corrodes easily ... him/her as a part of group or as a single individual In a high collectivist culture, ties among the individuals are strong and individuals consider them as a part of the group On the other hand,...
... Developed areas were calculated by dividing the area of the municipality that was classified as developed by the land area of the municipality and converting the results to a percentage Change was calculated ... places, and human environments interac- tions assists students as they create their spatial views and geographic perspective of the world beyond their personal locations • Civic Ideals and Practices: ... worried about your plans and want to protect the wildlife and preserve the scenic areas along the river To preserve thenatural settings they offer to buy your right to divide the property into smaller...
... Out of the equivalence, the identity, the fusion of the world wide world andthe worldly world arises beauty Thus it surpasses the real in the direction of the human andthe human in the direction ... or, rather, doing them violence And, as one might expect, the new adversary can win or lose In the days of the Iliad and of Goya, the world wasn't considered fragile; on the contrary, it was threatening, ... depends on how aggressive they are: the more heated the struggle, the more violent their movements become andthe faster they sink in The belligerents don't notice the abyss they're rush ing into;...
... = the growth rate of private The economy in steady state means the same asthe economy on the BGP 24 TheEnvironmentand Economic Growth consumption reduces as a result of the increase in the ... markets, and labor mobility, has brought into focus theissues related to global growth, resources, andenvironmentThe industrialization in many countries in the past 100 years andthe resource-based ... growth on theenvironmentandthe effect of the exhaustive use of natural resources as well asthe reverse linkage We thus address three interconnected issues: economic growth, environmentand climate...
... years, and they are as persistent in the environmental policy world as they are in theenvironment Nanotechnology is a new challenge, but the scope of the policy issues it presents is as broad and ... reverse They start with the question of whether there is an impact, then analyze the environmental pathways and finally deal with whether and how to control the sources The impacts are the policy ... depend upon the nature of the particle, the use of the product, the fate of the particle, the fate of the silver metal andthe bioavailability and toxicity of both nanosilver andthe newly added...
... sunlight Asthe species T superba is disseminated throughout the evergreen rain forest in the south of the Ivory Coast and it invades the secondary bush (Aubréville, 1959), the variability and local ... variability among the chosen trees, as if seedlings had been studied The trees (TA-TE) were of the same geographic provenance, were half-sibs (TA and TC) and were of the same clone (TD and TE) The ground ... (figs 4A, B) These bands were paratracheal axial parenchyma of the confluent type In general, band spacing varied gradually, increasing and decreasing alternately The dark background of the transverse...
... study was continued to examine the temporal aspects of the growth of young Terminalia superba trees in the same natural environment, including the lateral and radial growth of the tree In the present ... was seen at the apex of the main leaf emergence as phases of slow shoot elongation These phases coincided with each other, although the latter often lagged a little behind the former (fig 3) The ... regulating the development of the shoot system of young T superba trees, as schematized in figure 14 The influence of seasons (the long dry andthe long rainy seasons) on the development of the young...
... Austria); and YASRAT by Masahiro Kasahara (The University of Tokyo, Kashiwa, Japan) One distinguishing feature in these new alignment tools is that they all try to address the cases in which there ... of base-pair errors in the raw reads Databases and data visualization As sequence availability has increased, data access, representation, analysis and visualizations pose signifi cant challenges ... assembler, Arachne From the comparison of the results, the quality of short-read assemblies was found to be close to that of capillary assemblies, in terms of both base accuracy and contig connectivity...
... variables The definition and explanation of the problem, the presentation of the options, andthe discussion of the pros and cons (i.e., benefits, risks, and costs) will be assessed with the 'information-giving' ... (the partner effect) while controlling for the influence of the essential elements of SDM assessed on the part of the patient; andthe influence of the essential elements of SDM assessed on the ... methods Assess the influence of the agreement between the physician's andthe patient's uncertainty on the decisional regret and QOL of the patient Put simply, this research project emphasizes...
... variables The definition and explanation of the problem, the presentation of the options, andthe discussion of the pros and cons (i.e., benefits, risks, and costs) will be assessed with the 'information-giving' ... (the partner effect) while controlling for the influence of the essential elements of SDM assessed on the part of the patient; andthe influence of the essential elements of SDM assessed on the ... methods Assess the influence of the agreement between the physician's andthe patient's uncertainty on the decisional regret and QOL of the patient Put simply, this research project emphasizes...
... researching and teaching in the areas of transport and environmental issues for the last 15 years Currently, her research interests include carbon auditing of supply chains, e-commerce andthe environment, ... changed Many of theissues remained the same, but the way these were tackled, andthe dimensions of the issues, altered The second edition thus had only one chapter identical to the first edition ... lightly changed, astheissues remain broadly the same, but many were brand new and developed especially for the second edition The second edition was finally published in 2004 and has been even...
... Particularly for capital adequacy! – The spirit of the low probably more important than the letter of the law Better corporate governance: Strengthened functions and accountability of board of directors ... Restricted An assessment of the reform so far b Financial liberalization Introducing market practices: – Reduction in reserve requirements and in their remuneration • Steady reduction in liquid assets ... (60% ) and informal financing: risky!! Success of ongoing bank reform key: – For China’s economic development – For the rest of the world given China’s size & interlinkages Restricted An assessment...
... picture therefore, we have on the one hand the identity of the thinking subject, and on the other hand the multiplicity of the representations which it has The same complex thinking subject – asthe ... but the metaphysicians have claimed that the judgment is both true and necessary The first question that had to be asked therefore, as Kant slyly put it, was whether there are any such synthetic ... make There are two ways, Kant suggested, that we can look at judgments: on the one hand, we can regard the form of the judgment (how the subject is related to the predicate); and, on the other hand,...
... between the marine environmentandthe land environment This is scarcely surprising, given that the greatest impact on the marine environment comes not from the use of the sea but from the use of the ... Treaty area, rather than the Antarctic Convergence On the other hand, Article commits the parties to the comprehensive protection of the Antarctic environmentand dependent and associated ecosystems’, ... Mediterranean and Black Seas; some are oceanic, such as West and East Africa; some are based on island groupings, such asthe Caribbean Some involve ecosystem management or coastal zone management, whereas...