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... be established as follows: A1 A2 An A1 a1 /a1 a1 /a2 a1 /an A2 a2 /a1 a2 /a2 a2 /an An an /a1 an /a2 an/an 149 where ai/aj = aj/ai for all i, j = 1, 2,, n (ai/aj expressed in another ... that matrix The following is a brief summary of the mathematical theory of the AHP, as reference to Saaty and Vargas (1991) and Harker (1989) The matrix of pair-wise comparisons A = (aij) can ... Underpinning mathematical theory The application of the Analytic Hierarchy Process is (1) to establish a matrix of pair-wise comparisons A = (aij), and (2) to establish weights of a set of criteria (w1,...

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... GBC, as expressed in equation (12), include the total site area (Asite), building footprint area (Af), percentage of hard-paved area of the site (P), and total net usable area of the building (Anet) ... (Af) and the percentage of hard-paved area of the site (P) should be kept as low as possible, and the total net usable area of the building (Anet) should be as large as possible In Singapore, scarcity ... being the third lowest among the scores of all case studies This is due to the large surface parking area, resulting in small percentage of greenery area in the total site area, and the rather large...

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... potential sustainable performance of the project, based on the information available at the end of the Design phase Because the information available during the Pre-Design and Design phases are likely ... potential sustainable performance of the project, based on the information available at the end of the Pre-Design phase." The Design phase assessment is intended to indicate the future potential ... housing, as well as the escalating popularity of environmental performance assessment practice, the thesis has: – identified implication and weaknesses in BEAMs and the concept of environmental performance...

Ngày tải lên: 16/09/2015, 08:29

... data for further discussions in Part III Part III compiles a set of empirical analyses and discussion in order to substantiate the theoretically critical review of the practice of BEAMs and the ... environmental performance concentrates on quantifiable environmental factors and it lacks qualitative aspects This has raised a number of questions, namely the reliability of the quantifiable factors, and ... places, they had easy access to plant food and water Small animals that came to drink and feed there were easy prey The humans had only to protect themselves from attack from predatory animals...

Ngày tải lên: 16/09/2015, 08:29

... research have a major advantage over those located at a distance:13 11 Acs et al used a database of innovations prepared by the US Small Business Administration in 1982 The database contains ... differences across industries in the relationship between academic research and industrial innovation Table is based on a statistical analysis of the Pace survey of European industrial managers ŽArundel ... recent graduates bring both enthusiasm and a critical approach that stimulates others and raises standards Moreover, the skills acquired during education are often a necessary precursor to the development...

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... Because of the relatively poor quality of the available data and the lack of other important information, the question of preferred treatment still remains unanswered, and there is clearly a need ... Journal of Oral and Maxillofacial 1997; 35: 230-6 Talwar RM, Ellis III E, Throckmorton GS Adaptations of the masticatory system after bilateral fractures of the mandibular condylar process J Oral ... recent advances in prevention, diagnosis and management Int J Oral and Maxillofacial Surgery 2005; 34: 823-33 27 Banks P A pragmatic approach to the management of condylar fractures Int J Oral Maxillofac...

Ngày tải lên: 08/08/2014, 17:20

... in the parametrial areas [35], whereas Levenback found 9% of the sentinel nodes in the paraaortic area, 11% in the common iliac, 71% in the external iliac, and 9% in the parametrial area in a ... Of the cases, 90% are squamous cell carcinomas, while the rest are melanoma, adenocarcinoma, basal cell carcinoma and sarcoma [7] Nodal metastasis in vulva cancer is the main prognostic factor, ... Although majority of the nodes are located in internal iliac and external iliac areas, nodes have been found in also presacral, parametrial and pararectal areas [33] In a sentinel node study carried...

Ngày tải lên: 09/08/2014, 07:21

... developed from the transformation are retained and transferred to other problems and parts of the healthcare organization The two exceptions to the question of sustainability are Furman and Caplan's report ... and Management in the School of Rural Public Health at the Texas A& M Health Science Center in College Station, Texas Additional material Additional file Table S1 Summaries of organizational transformation ... Backoff RW: Organizational Transformation Journal of Management Inquiry 1997, 6:235-254 Van Tonder C: 'Organisational transformation': wavering on the edge of ambiguity SA Journal of Industrial...

Ngày tải lên: 11/08/2014, 05:21

... developed from the transformation are retained and transferred to other problems and parts of the healthcare organization The two exceptions to the question of sustainability are Furman and Caplan's report ... and Management in the School of Rural Public Health at the Texas A& M Health Science Center in College Station, Texas Additional material Additional file Table S1 Summaries of organizational transformation ... Backoff RW: Organizational Transformation Journal of Management Inquiry 1997, 6:235-254 Van Tonder C: 'Organisational transformation': wavering on the edge of ambiguity SA Journal of Industrial...

Ngày tải lên: 11/08/2014, 16:20

... they are generally downplayed and not affect the decisiveness of the conclusions Interpretation of the findings is often biased and obvious caveats and alternative explanations for the data are ... asked them, among other aspects of their experience, about addiction and loss of autonomy The claim that participants could validly report physical addiction to nicotine was based on the observation ... that “When asked what exactly it was they were addicted to, participants readily answered that it is the nicotine in cigarettes.” Clearly, the responders had no way of knowing this for a fact and...

Ngày tải lên: 11/08/2014, 18:20

... for assessing psychosocial outcomes in AYA cancer survivors These databases were chosen as they all provide extensive coverage of journals in the field of cancer research The database search was ... reported across more than one publication Sample characteristics Overall, reporting of the sample accrual method and the sociodemographic and clinical characteristics of participants for each measure ... or bone cancer [4,6-8] The acute psychosocial impact of cancer and its treatment The acute psychosocial impact of cancer and its treatment may be substantial Some AYAs experience physical side-effects...

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... water ascends to the top of the tank It is originated from the fact that, after gaining heat from the solar radiation, the tank wall heats a thin vertical layer of water along the tank wall Part ... function of the density, specific heat capacity and the initial and massweighted average temperatures of water; with all the values, apart from the mass-weighted average temperature, are the same ... solar radiation and average temperature of the present experimental study and the theoretical results of [1] in January Figure 12 The time variation of solar radiation and stored energy of the...

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... INTERNATIONAL MONETARY FUND Fiscal Affairs Department Chart of Accounts: A Critical Element of the Public Financial Management Framework Prepared by Julie Cooper and Sailendra Pattanayak Authorized ... Note: Sailendra Pattanayak is a Senior Economist in the Fiscal Affairs Department of the International Monetary Fund; Julie Cooper was a Technical Assistance Advisor in the Fiscal Affairs Department ... around the financial transactions the managers of government agencies can enter into; and (ii) the reporting arrangements for evaluating the performance of managers (of government agencies) and the...

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... Muralikrishna M Gamma a high performance dataflow database machine Proceedings of the International Conference on Very Large Data Bases, Kyoto, Japan, August 1986 Morgan Kaufmann: San Mateo, CA, ... to the worst-case situation for the values chosen The advantage of this approach is the possibility of checking how the variation of D and D affect the performance of materialise An alternative ... optimization and parallelization are automatic, having as a result an operator tree that represents a query’s evaluation plan Although all of them implement some form of intra-transaction parallelism,...

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... histologic grade of the adenocarcinoma The carcinoma has involved the corpus and the cervix The carcinoma has extended outside of the uterus but not outside of the true pelvis The carcinoma has extended ... al (53), who also noted that the depth of invasion in the uterus remained significant in a multivariate analysis of survival Women with metastatic disease in the para-aortic lymph nodes have a ... decades In the early 1980s, the pathology committee of the GOG arbitrarily defined an architecturally based grading system for endometrial adenocarcinomas, using the percentage of the surface area in...

Ngày tải lên: 28/03/2014, 14:20

... domicile of the funds) Australia Belgium Canada Europe France Germany Germany/Austria/Switzerland International Ireland Italy Japan Luxembourg Malaysia Netherlands Norway Singapore Sweden Switzerland ... The Performance of SRI Funds: A Meta-Analysis   The Performance of Socially Responsible Investment Funds: A Meta-Analysis Sebastian Rathner* March 2012 Abstract Empirical studies, which analyse ... Conditional Matching Other PerforPerforperforprocedure of SRI of performance mance mance funds convenmance evaluation evaluation evaluation tional evaluCarhart’s Jensen’s funds ation Alpha Alpha Bauer,...

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... Natural Law? The Natural Law and the Law of Nations Natural Law and the Basis of Political Society The Law of War as Part of the Law of Nations Sedition and Rebellion The Separation of Morality ... broad use of ‘measure’ and ‘rule’, and asserts that Aquinas would not speak of a law in all these cases (ii 5.6, citing Aquinas, ST 2–2 q141 a6 and ad1) Both as a foundation and as a measure, rational ... philosophical account must be such that we not say that the danger of death prevails against the obligation of natural law; for if the obligation and every circumstance of the precept ...

Ngày tải lên: 11/06/2014, 10:28

... [9], Australia [14] and Canada [7] Generally male pharmacists predominated above the age of 50 Education One response to the shortage of pharmacists was found to be a planned expansion of the ... to become an ageing profession Finally, the death of pharmacists was another factor in the permanent attrition of pharmacists from the workforce Although the death of pharmacists was not reported ... Potential areas of recruitment to the pharmacist workforce Potential areas of recruitment to the pharmacist workforce Another important issue in the recruitment of pharmacists was the lack of male...

Ngày tải lên: 18/06/2014, 17:20

... delay at time t n , L n the size of the data, t n-1 the arrival time of the previous ack, and tn the arrival time of nth packet at the receiver The sender interprets the estimated rate as the ... than half of a cwnd’s worth of packets is detected to be lost, cwnd is set to one and triggers the slow start algorithm One of the major advantages of TCP PR is that it can able to maintain ack ... to 32 packets the size of an ack packet is same as the size of data packet We enabled the delay ack alogrithm DSR is the main routing protocol in our simulation with a maximum message buffer size...

Ngày tải lên: 21/06/2014, 02:20

... the calculation of the cost of a path, based on the LQI values of all links Therefore, we chose to evaluate the performance of these LQI-based routing metrics for NST-AODV Note that the PATH-DR ... packet were obtained at each of the remaining motes The LDR was calculated for all the receivers The same procedure was repeated three times, and the sender was placed at each of the other three ... including the LQI of lost packets [19] 6.2 Variability of the LQI of a Link Figure depicts the standard deviation of the LQI against the average values of LDR (%) EURASIP Journal on Wireless Communications...

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