... enough to allow comparative advantages to last for extended periods The advent of technology as a major tradeable asset has radically changed the dynamics of trade among nations What the centuries’ ... plan for and thereby make the transition to the next major technology, the smart phone, where not just basic design and manufacturing are important Operating and other software, for example, are ... largely determined by endowed assets (arable land, navigable water ways, minerals deposits, etc.) The fact that these assets were available in at most slowly changing quantities facilitated the...
... Wind Damage Investigation, and the U.S.-Japan Natural Disaster Task Committee on WindHazards He has served on the board of the American Association for Wind Engineering and is a member of the American ... Federal Emergency Management Agency INEEL Idaho National Engineering and Environmental Laboratory NASA National Aeronautics and Space Administration NIST National Institute of Standards and Technology ... Emeritus California Institute of Technology Pasadena, California Bonnie Johnson Director Aerodynamic Laboratories National Institute for Aviation Research Wichita State University Wichita, Kansas Atul...
... protect against heat and cold • Aramid fiber gloves Aramid is a synthetic material that protects against heat and cold Many glove manufacturers use aramid fiber to make gloves that are cut- and abrasive-resistant ... against temperature extremes, gloves made with other synthetic materials are cut- and abrasive-resistant and may withstand some diluted acids These materials not stand up against alkalis and solvents ... clothing made from these materials protects against certain acids and other chemicals Be aware that different materials will protect against different chemical and physical hazards When chemical or...
... implications if the interactions with a database management system are to have the properties and constraints normally associated with human dialogue Interactions with traditional database management ... enhancement, the knowledge base may be augmented with an additional component for storing away the results of the preceding database interactions to obviate theneed to search the database for ... particular attribute A in T ~ are the same (say, c~) If so, and if no tuple in T,~u.~ has the same value forthe attribute A, the general formulation of the response is: "All tuples having the value...
... effect, and causal links A causal link connects a cause variable with an effect variable by a link with a positive or negative charge A positive link from variable X to variable Y means either that ... demand /need The demand /need submodel was based on normative standards of needfor each specialty or group of specialties in the baseline year and over the successive years Theneedfor specialists ... are those used by the US Department of Health and Human Services [51] These rates and appropriate standards can be set as parameters, as the model is an instrument that allows Page of the Health...
... 16-20 Age at the beginning of RT (years) Figure Age distribution and needfor anesthesia Age distribution and needfor anesthesia Age at start of radiotherapy and needfor anesthesia in 164 radiotherapy ... Female Age Median Mean Range Anesthesia Yes No Age of those with anesthesia (Years) Median Mean Range Standard Deviation Total dose of irradiation (Gray) Median Mean Range * Standard Deviation ... administration) was the first choice for sedation The association of the psychoeducational intervention and of six predefined clinical variables with theneedfor anesthesia was analyzed using uni- and...
... Study designs for PDSA quality improvement research Qual Manag Health Care 2004, 13(1):17-32 Wolf MM, Kirigin KA, Fixsen DL, Blase KA, Braukmann CJ: The Teaching-Family Model: A case study in data-based ... techniques; all in as much detail as is possible, unless these details are already readily available (e.g., in a prior publication) Access to intervention manuals/protocols At the time of publishing a ... confused Having consistent terminology and sufficient information for replication appears to be more problematic for behavioural and organisational interventions than for pharmacological ones Twenty-six...
... Study designs for PDSA quality improvement research Qual Manag Health Care 2004, 13(1):17-32 Wolf MM, Kirigin KA, Fixsen DL, Blase KA, Braukmann CJ: The Teaching-Family Model: A case study in data-based ... techniques; all in as much detail as is possible, unless these details are already readily available (e.g., in a prior publication) Access to intervention manuals/protocols At the time of publishing a ... confused Having consistent terminology and sufficient information for replication appears to be more problematic for behavioural and organisational interventions than for pharmacological ones Twenty-six...
... PMC and SDC All authors read and approved the final manuscript Acknowledgments This research was supported by The French National Agency for Aids Research (ANRS, France), the charity organization ... individuals Finally, although astatistical adjustment was made to allow for non-random assignment to medication type, this study was not a controlled clinical trial and further investigations are ... visit thereafter was defined as the injection of any drug in the months before that visit Clinical and laboratory data on viral load, CD4 T-cell counts and data on HIV clinical stage, with stage...
... ensure greater generalization of therapeutic effects Following the idea of Pelham’s summer treatment approach, also in Germany and Japan Intensive-Behavioural Treatment approaches have been developed ... child antisocial behavior There is also a significant body of research underpinned by the social and operant learning theory, addressing the relationship between early parenting practices and child’s ... combination of several components of psychotherapeutic interventions, case management as well as pharmacological and educational intervention Thus, the optimum method appears to be an integrated approach...
... execute an integrity attack when they gain entrance to the system And they can even use an availability attack as part of their overall effort to neutralize alarms and defensive systems, so they can’t ... “vulnerabilities are the gateways by which threats are manifested” So, fora threat model to have any meaning at all, there has to be a threat Are there people with the capability and inclination ... replicating and reinfecting machines at a much faster rate than he had anticipated -there was a bug Ultimately, many machines at locations around the country either crashed or became "catatonic."...
... message-based architectures are that they are asynchronous and that they are based on the exchange of messages rather than function calls Both of these features have some advantages, such as: ... one format to another led to the segregation of organizations based on the data formats that they could handle Because of the problems in using binary protocols, there was aneedfora ubiquitous ... Protocols and Data Formats Before looking at the specifics of Web-based protocols and data formats, let us briefly trace the path that led to the emergence of these standards The Internet and the Web...
... Component and Allied Manufacturers National Arts Council National Aeronautics and Space Administration National Astrophysics and Space Science Programme Nuclear Energy Corporation of South Africa National ... alleviation and HRD These plans are interrogated, adapted and finally approved by the President and Cabinet at six-monthly lekgotlas, which take place in January and July of each year In almost all cases, ... revelation of what private actors regard as relevant information forthe other party and restraint in exploiting the temporary weakness of partners (Lundvall et al 2002) The state and decentralised...
... gender These variables are labelled as MADL1, MADL2 and FADL1AGE, FADL2AGE and MADL1AGE, MADL2AGE, where F and M are shortcuts for female and male respectively, ADL1 and ADL2 shortcuts for instrumental ... Vanhusbarometri 1998 forthe detailed history of the survey The data set is also extensively analysed in Vaarama and Kaitsaari (2002) The models for care utilisation service use Naturally, causes for ... only forthe youngest age group, whereas forthe elderly above 75 years old all the ADL1 marginal probabilities are negative and all the personal disability (ADL2) marginal probabilities are clearly...
... government agencies, NGOs, and international development organizations to address the health needs of youth and adolescents The participants also made the following recommendations: Form a “National Task ... messages about their bodies, about issues of sexuality appropriate for their age, and about dangers they may face.” Providing children with a healthy attitude toward sex helps them THENEEDFOR REPRODUCTIVE ... Almost all students and parents agreed that physicians are a more acceptable source than teachers for such information “Physicians know how to answer any question” said one student Another said “They...
... the AA represents the area of that phase or structure that is visible in the area of the image As noted before, this is an expected value relationship that actually says the expected value of the ... is always preferable to scan the negatives rather than the prints if those are available But flat bed scanners have another use that is less advertised, namely to directly image samples placed ... requires measuring both its apparent area fraction and the surface area of the phase (SV), because as shown in the sketch it is along the boundaries of the phase region that the slopes of the sides...
... Coalition for Personal Financial Literacy Museum of American Financial History National Academy Foundation National Association of Consumer Affairs Administrators National Association of Hispanic ... Plan Once an individual has gathered the basic information and has reasonably sound knowledge of the saving and investment options available, he or she is ready to formulate a plan, or road map, ... contributing at all to an available plan, the top three reasons cited were inability to afford to save, saving for other goals, and the difficulty in withdrawing funds.105 America’s Youth Lacks Financial...
... dollar market has spurred many gardeners to make a career out of cultivating the plant In a Pensacola Florida News Journal, statements from an article titled, "Marijuana use rising; foes to blame ... shouldn't be allowed to smoke something that's natural," says Rick May, 26, a Pensacolian who smokes a few joints a year "Marijuana doesn't cause the problems that alcohol does You don't hear about ... the ages of 14 and 25 admit to smoking pot "every day." Marijuana has become the US' 'biggest cash crop' despite the death penalty for growing the plant The estimated thirty-two billion dollar...
... Taagepera, Margit Tavits, Liina-Mai Tooding, Sakura Yamasaki, and the monthly Akadeemia (Estonia) Elizabeth Suffling, Louise Sprake, Natasha Forrest, Gunabala Saladi, Ravikumar Abhirami, and Maggie Shade ... Misiunas and Taagepera 1993) and two others that (Taagepera and Shugart 1989; Taagepera 2007c) There are many ways to good social scholarship, and they differ in more than one basic aspect Bernard ... sure, the directionality of social relationships is not always as obvious as that of a falling lead ball In social data, the analogues of lead balls are often outnumbered by the analogues of feathers,...
... evaluation (as part of the measurement update) and state propagation (in the time update) of Algorithm 1, can be implemented straightforwardly in a parallel fashion since all particles are handled ... compared to O(N) fora sequential algorithm The analysis of the algorithm complexity above assumes that there are as many parallel processors as there are particles in the particle filter, that ... based on the scatter and gather principles In [11], these concepts are described in the GPU setting In the forward pass partial sums are created that are used in the backward pass to compute the...