the portfolio benefits of hedge funds as an alternative asset class
Báo cáo y học: " The economic benefits of reducing physical inactivity: an Australian example" pptx
... population there was a change in the number of days of household and leisure activities lost to ill health The net difference in the value of the days of household production and leisure time between the ... et al [25] nominated 5% and 10% point shifts in prevalence as part of their sensitivity analyses of the benefits of increased physical activity in an Australian cost -of- illness study Similarly, ... absenteeism and lower recruitment and training costs associated with replacing staff, and individuals benefit from more income and increased quality of life The aim of this study was to quantify the...
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The phenomenon of evaporative cooling from a humid surface as an alternative method for air-conditioning
... distributions [7] As the main resistance to heat-transfer can be found in the air on the dry face of the system, the advantage of the higher thermal conductance of metals than that of plastics is negligible ... interesting the idea of considering and analyzing the use of these devices Another disadvantage is the water consumption associated to the operation of these systems, which is a scarce resource in dry and ... In the last stages of the tunnel there will be no mass-exchange because Relative air Humidity (RH) is 100%, and heat exchange neither, as the air and water temperature are the same Thus, these...
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The Benefits of Improved Environmental Accounting: An Economic Framework to Identify Priorities pptx
... instance, the value of information requires knowledge of baseline financial and environmental performance the costs and benefits of decisions made in the absence of the information As was shown, ... analysis of the timing and size of "cash flows" associated with the project Cash flows include the initial cost of a project (the outlay) and its subsequent inflows (such as sales revenues) The ... nature of the waste, and the availability of existing data on costs (i.e., landfill fees) There will also be costs associated with the integration of the data into the firm's accounting and decisionmaking...
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Báo cáo hóa học: "Error Sign Feedback as an Alternative to Pilots for the Tracking of FEXT Transfer Functions in Downstream VDSL" pptx
... for reasons explained later, it might not be as efficient in the initialization phase The precoder can then be computed and transmission can start at the highest rate Then, the channel is changing ... choose the stepsize As in any LMS-like algorithm, the performance is sensitive to the choice of the stepsize μ, see (54), and the error variance can be reduced by decreasing μ However the convergence ... amount of bandwidth usage The issue of limiting the quantity of feedback for channel estimation has already been investigated in the MIMO wireless context in [12] and several other papers However the...
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Tài liệu Báo cáo khoa học: Multi-targeted activity of maslinic acid as an antimalarial natural compound pdf
... behave as a specific inhibitor of HIV protease, or the protease class A2 to which the HIV protease belongs, showing no activity on class A1 proteases (pepsin, cathepsin D) Remarkably, the only aspartic ... may inhibit the activity of proteases of T gondii [14] and HIV [12,31] To ascertain the inhibition range of MA on the different P falciparum protease classes, in vitro enzymatic assays were performed ... (an aspartic protease) and the aspartic protease inhibitor pepstatin A as controls The results (Table 2) showed that MA does not inhibit cathepsin D nor the aspartic protease activity in plasmodial...
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Tài liệu Project Management 2.0 – The Ultimate Benefits of the New Approach to Project Management docx
... things On one hand, these factors lead to obsolete and useless project plans On the other hand, they increase the cost of errors in the initial design of the information hierarchy The whole process ... intelligence and emergent structures Taking advantage of the wisdom of the whole team The new-generation, Web-based tools give team members an easy way to contribute to the common repository of tasks and ... Management Many-to-many structure benefits Microsoft Project and many other traditional management tools allow you to have only a strict, one-tomany work breakdown structure of tasks (and other...
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Tài liệu Báo cáo khoa học: The molecular surface of proteolytic enzymes has an important role in stability of the enzymatic activity in extraordinary environments pptx
... conformational changes on the surface On the other hand, anionic surfactants such as SDS and LAS bind to the surface regions of protein, and the surface regions would be unfolded and removed from the core ... wild-type ALP I On the other hand, the Tm of D266N/Y269A-ALP I increased by only °C The denaturation temperature indicates the stability of the structure of the protein The difference of the increments ... 117 was located in the bottom of the depression on the surface of ALP I, and it was adjacent to Lys26, which was the last residue of N-terminal region on the molecular surface As a result of substitution...
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The Health Benefits of Physical Activity for Girls and Women ppt
... makers and advocates have worked to improve the health and well-being of girls and women Recognition of the complexity of the dimensions of well-being and the determinants of health has led to the ... exercise of daily life: Towards an understanding of the meaning and practice of physical activity in the daily lives of low-income single mothers Masters Thesis University of British Columbia: Vancouver ... of the relationship between physical activity and health These areas of neglect include subjects such as the diversity of girls and women in North American society, alternatives to the dominant...
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Báo cáo khoa học: Site-directed mutagenesis of selected residues at the active site of aryl-alcohol oxidase, an H2O2-producing ligninolytic enzyme pot
... after each docking calculation, and in all cases more than 50% of them clustered together in front of the rectus (re)-face of the isoalloxazine ring of the FAD cofactor This substrate location ... nidulans cultures AAO was secreted by E nidulans, and the activities of the site-directed variants (when active) could be directly detected in filtrates of 48 h cultures of the transformants harbouring ... named after the initial members glucose oxidase, methanol oxidase and choline dehydrogenase [21], currently consists of more than 500 protein sequences All of them show at least one of the two characteristic...
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The economic benefits of farmers’ markets ppt
... jobs in the UK C Farmers’ markets increase the diversity of the local economy The Department of Environment, Transport and the Regions (DETR) reports that “large food stores can and have had an adverse ... farmers’ markets offer more of what people actually want, and there should be more of them to make them more convenient In the USA the main reasons people give are the atmosphere, the fresh, quality ... People can re-connect with food and farmers , and they strengthen community The US Department of Agriculture report that “Consumers shop in a pleasant environment and get the chance to meet the people...
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THE ECONOMIC BENEFITS OF IMPROVING LITERACY SKILLS IN THE WORKPLACE pdf
... on the benefits of literacy training, and discussed the impact on their organizations The Conference Board of Canada, Performance and Potential: Assessing Canada's Social and Economic Performance ... completing an order form or determining the amount of interest on a loan from an advertisement The Conference Board employed the IALS definition as the basis for our research and analysis As the most ... in transferring employees 12 11 10 10 8 6 6 5 Source: The Conference Board of Canada advance Enhanced literacy training offers them the skills they want and need the most Once obtained, ideas are...
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The economic benefits of publicly funded basic research: a critical review doc
... Section the nature of the economic benefits of basic research and the different methodological approaches to measuring them The next two sections then critically review and synthesise the main ... development measures of the direction of spillovers by classifying a large sample of patents in terms of the industry where the innovation occurred and of the industry where it was expected to have an impact ... firms as scientists take advantage of the new tools to expand their research; often the introduction of new instrumentation can then lead to the development of a new field of research such as computational...
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Báo cáo khoa học: Identification of sodium salicylate as an hsp inducer using a simple screening system for stress response modulators in mammalian cells pptx
... suggesting that the increase of Luc activity by SA reflect the levels of transcription and translation of Hsp105, not due to an indirect effect of SA on the basal activity of Luc Enhancement of Luc activity ... HSF, the transcription of hsp genes and the accumulation of Hsps in various mammalian cells and a concomitant increase of thermoresistance of cells Thus, SA may be used for the protection of cells ... doses of SA (45–60 mM) induced the activation of promoter activities of Hsp105 and Hsp70 as well as the accumulation of Hsp105a and Hsp70 in mouse and human cells, although relatively low doses of...
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Report on the Environmental Benefits of Recycling Bureau of International Recycling (BIR) docx
... recycling of metals and paper The key to the document produced was the need to avoid bias, and for this reason the concept of benchmark values was developed The benchmark values were based on the literature ... greenhouse gas emitted is carbon dioxide and a carbon footprint is a quantitative measure of the carbon dioxide released as a result of an activity expressed as a factor of the greenhouse gas effect of ... and Secondary Zinc Production Profile of the Nonferrous Metals Industry, in EPA Office of Compliance Sector Notebook Project 1995, Office of Compliance, Office of Enforcement and Compliance Assurance,...
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The Local Benefits of Global Air Pollution Control in Mexico City - Final Report of the Second Phase of the Integrated Environmental Strategies Program in Mexico ppt
... 44 The annual increase of the low and medium capacity vehicular fleet until 2020 was estimated on the basis of the increase trips absorbed from the massive transport and the individual occupanc ... size and composition of the fleet in the baseline scenario And since no permanent changes are assumed in the emissions characteristics of the new taxis, over and above the new vehicles in the baseline ... carbon is then the difference of the total organic carbon mass and the mass of primary organic carbon Total primary particulate mass from combustion sources (25%) is the sum of primary organic and...
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The Economic Benefits of Passing the DREAM Act ppt
... government—including the Bureau of Economic Analysis and the Department 1 Center for American Progress | The Economic Benefits of Passing the DREAM Act of Defense as well as a variety of departments ... Progress | The Economic Benefits of Passing the DREAM Act Appendix: Methodology For this analysis of the economic benefits of passing the DREAM Act, we produced a dataset of unauthorized immigrants ... effects of passing the DREAM Act, i.e the increased earnings of DREAMers, as well as the increased economic activity that results from DREAMers spending these increased earnings IMPLAN analyses often...
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báo cáo hóa học: " Considerations for the future development of virtual technology as a rehabilitation tool" doc
... on the subject and the location of the sensor within the magnetic field is detected When the sensor is place on the head or glasses of the person the orientation of the head and therefore the ... consisting of mountains, meadows, sky and clouds The floor was the distance from the subject's eyes to the virtual floor and the nearest column was 4.6 m away The resolution of the image was 7.4 of arc ... segments was presented as relative segmental angles where motion of the trunk was removed from motion of the head to determine the motion of the head with respect to the trunk Motion of the shank was...
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báo cáo hóa học:" Thoracic myelopathy caused by ossification of ligamentum flavum of which fluorosis as an etiology factor" ppt
... removed) The laminectomy was performed with high-speed drill The width of the laminectomy was approximately one third the size of the inside of the facet After the laminae were totally floated, it was ... 3b) X-ray of forearms, legs, and chest showed ossification of interosseous membranes of the forearm in 18 of 23 patients (78.3%) (Fig 2), of the leg in 14 of 23 patients (60.1%), and of the ribs ... outcome ANOVA was used to analyse differences among the three groups according to the duration of preoperative symptom When the results of ANOVA indicated < 0.05, further statistical analysis was...
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Scientific report: "The potential energy recovery from landfills and evaluate the environmental benefits of the generation system using gas from landfills in Nam Son landfill, Vietnam" docx
... composition of waste disposed at NS landfill daily, local weather condition and other relevant characteristics around the landfill Gas measurement includes sampling landfill gas and analyzing the samples, ... sample of waste in Nam Son landfill, the percentage of DOC is 26.6% DOCd is calculated based on the theoretical model that the variation depends on the temperature of anaerobic zones of the landfill ... waste, and the methane generation rate constant k of 0.04, landfill gas emission model calculates the methane emission for NS landfill and presents the development of methane emission with the time...
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