the position of the parent in today s culture

... the costs of SSN-667 to SSN-777, we compare costs of the Sturgeon class to those of the Virginia class The surface combatant pairings represent comparisons of average costs for classes; in particular, ... potential sources of cost escalation for naval ships Perhaps the most obvious is the cost for basic inputs, such as labor, material, and equipment, used in shipbuilding If the costs for these inputs increase, ... Navy and the Office of the Secretary of Defense, as well as congressional planners involved in ship acquisition This research was sponsored by the Assessment Division, Office of the Chief of Naval...

Ngày tải lên: 17/02/2014, 22:20

... all systems such as avionics (electronics to control the aircraft), sensors (such as radar), other mission systems (such as electronic countermeasures, communications, targeting systems, guns, ... data sources, including their limitations Second, we discuss how to measure cost escalation Third, we assess how cost escalation for aircraft compares with other measures of cost in ation such as ... programs The report also provides relationships for developing estimates of T&E costs for future programs In Software Cost Estimation and Sizing Methods, Issues and Guidelines, MG-269-AF, Shari...

Ngày tải lên: 17/02/2014, 23:20

... precedes the P, the question still remains: which N is governor? See the discussion below.) An examination of the 33 instances in which the V governed the P in the given structures suggests that ... of N/P; the first noun in the series is of course modified by a string of nouns, normally in the genitive case, occasionally in the instrumental or dative case Assuming the absence of strong government, ... structures the relation of G to P is less obvious and less dependent on meaning than in others In dealing with the first and last of these three situations, it is obvious that the human parser can bring...

Ngày tải lên: 30/03/2014, 17:20

... leaders in business, government, charitable settings, and universities The online CQ Self-Assessment that comes with this book is based on the CQS It gives you a snapshot of where your greatest strengths ... more of these findings in the chapters that follow During the last couple of years, CQ has started to go mainstream Growing numbers of leaders in business, government, and nonprofit organizations ... around the world Chapter describes the power of CQ by synthesizing the key strengths of the CQ approach and sharing some inspirational stories of individuals and organizations who are harnessing the...

Ngày tải lên: 30/03/2014, 18:20

... carries both of these transgenes and has been extensively used as a model for studying processes relating to the formation of SPs Aβ deposition occurs more rapidly in these mice than in the single ... which inhibit different steps in the complement cascade All of these regulatory proteins are produced in the human brain, but less is known about their CNS synthesis in other species [31] The status ... liver is the main source of these proteins in peripheral blood, but they are also synthesized in other organs including the brain [31] Protein fragments generated during activation of the system...

Ngày tải lên: 19/06/2014, 22:20

... Furthermore, global inhibition of src-family tyrosine kinases or inhibition of phosphatidylinositol-3 kinase (PI3K) attenuates ROS production These findings suggest that these kinases are involved ... http://www.jneuroinflammation.com/content/3/1/30 kinases Lyn and Fyn as well as the tyrosine kinase Syk [30,32,52] Activation of these signaling cascades are linked to the synthesis and secretion of proinflammatory molecules and cytokines ... incidence among patient populations receiving statin treatment [117,118] Despite these promising findings, the use of statins in prospective clinical trials has yielded unsatisfactory results,...

Ngày tải lên: 19/06/2014, 22:20

... on these findings, the following symptoms were anticipated domains for discussion in the focus groups of PD patients with off-time: feelings of anxiety, mood swings, loss of interest, fatigue ... on the findings of the focus groups, a Revised SCOPA-DC instrument was created by: 1) modifying the instructions and labels for day segments and response options as well as the format of the sleep ... duration) Scale scores were compared across these groups and statistical significance was assessed using the independent samples t-test if the scores were normally distributed and the Mann-Whitney test...

Ngày tải lên: 20/06/2014, 15:20

... homogenization theory and in fact this was our original interest in the subject The paper is organized as follows In Section 2, we present and discuss our main results In Section 3, these results are ... and the upper bounds for Kε Proofs of the main results and some auxiliary results In Sections 3.1 and 3.2 we discuss, present, and prove some auxiliary results, which are of independent interest ... this domain we have the following theorem (see [15–17]) Theorem 4.1 Suppose that n = 2, the domain Ω is the image of the unit disk G as defined at the beginning of the section and δ ln ε→0 as ε→0...

Ngày tải lên: 22/06/2014, 11:20

... comparing the position of the resin canals of Abies species and their hybrids from seedling samples, stated: "The rigidly fixed marginal position of the resin canals revealed in all the parental species, ... fraseri in the USA, whereas in the needles of the adult and mature trees of the same species, the position changed to median Furthermore, it was found that the position of the resin canals in the needles ... angles of the needle, no matter whether nearer to the endodermis or not The same terminology was used by a number of other investigators of the genus Abies to describe the position of the resin...

Ngày tải lên: 08/08/2014, 23:22

... Characteristics Patient Cell type (gastric or intestinal) predominance in the specialized columnar epithelium 10 11 12 13 intestinal intestinal similar intestinal Gastric Gastric Gastric Intestinal Gastric ... esophagus epithelium was usually seen in the sections, often continuous with the BE epithelium The mucins were not expressed in the esophageal normal stratified epithelium Intestinal metaplasia with ... The esophagus has been shown to increase secretion of mucins from the submucosal glands in response to stimulation by gastric acid, depending upon the reflux esophagitis [33] Each region of the...

Ngày tải lên: 09/08/2014, 04:21

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Ngày tải lên: 05/11/2014, 14:34

... forces and the radial pressure gradients that exist between the outside and inside walls of the curved duct resulting in the formation of secondary flow The description in the previous sections ... cross-sectioned, Sshaped ducts with sharper bends and larger turning angle The organisation of the thesis is as follows: In chapter two, the experimental set-up is described in detail This includes a description ... to the opposite curvature and the reversed radial pressure gradient Since an S- duct consists of bends of opposite curvature and the radial pressure gradient changes sign along the S- duct, the side...

Ngày tải lên: 14/09/2015, 08:37

... of the cobra probe is mm Besides the probe, the system consists of a pressure module (containing seven 0.3 psi pressure transducers), a DAQ board and an acquisition computer The pressure on the ... coordinate system used in this experiment is shown in Fig 2.3 and its origin is at the center of the inlet plane of the S- duct, with the positive s- coordinate pointing downstream, along the duct ... is about 4% The pressure coefficient CP is defined as P − PS Error analysis is enclosed in Appendix D of the ρU m thesis 2.3.2 Total Pressure Measurement The total pressure distribution on the...

Ngày tải lên: 14/09/2015, 08:37

... bend The presence of these vortical structures here explains the noted data scatter in the curves of (s/ SO) versus (s/ SO) for the flow in a circular and square cross sectioned S- shaped duct In the ... collapsed curves when plotted in the proposed manner In the following sections, salient points in the collapsed curves of (s/ SO) versus (s/ SO) for the flow in square and circular cross-sectioned ... Reynolds number The existence of these stream-wise vortices close to the wall alters the pressure distribution on the side walls in the second bend of the S- duct, and one may argue that this results...

Ngày tải lên: 14/09/2015, 08:37

... vortices for Test section and and a single vortex for Test Section Therefore, for these test sections, the vortex configuration remains the same as that in the higher Re cases However, the positions ... along the near-side wall The adverse pressure gradient is defined in the present investigation as the difference between the minimum near-side wall pressure and the pressure at the inflection point ... s ' Expectedly, this shows that the increase in curvature leads to a corresponding increase in the magnitude of the adverse pressure gradient In addition to the presence of flow separation, the...

Ngày tải lên: 14/09/2015, 08:37

... objective is to study the subsequent changes in vortex configuration of the stream-wise vortices on the outer wall of the second bend These will be discussed in the next section 5.3.2 Effects of Inlet ... accurately in the multiple plane measurements These features include the generation of the initial swirl in the first bend of the S- duct, the production of stream-wise vortices and the formation of the ... pressure side) The difference in pressure on the side wall is transmitted upstream, and the incoming flow at the inlet is diverted towards the near-side wall (lower static pressure side), resulting...

Ngày tải lên: 14/09/2015, 08:37

... visualizations show the expected performance of these flow control devices In the next sections, the effects of suppressing flow separation on the total pressure loss in the S- duct will be discussed ... 6.1(b) is the coordinate system used in this experiment Its origin is at the center of the inlet plane of the S- duct, with the positive scoordinate pointing downstream, along the duct centerline The ... reduction in the total pressure loss when these devices are installed exceeds these percentages In the next section, the effects flow control devices on the stream-wise vortices and swirl at the S- duct...

Ngày tải lên: 14/09/2015, 08:37

... increase in the radial pressure difference between the side walls The increase in the radial pressure difference was due to the elimination of flow separation in the first bend and the changes in the ... pressure loss but seem to be ineffective in attenuating the swirl magnitude or improving flow uniformity at the exit In fact, these three methods increase the swirl in the Sduct as a result of an increase ... and position of stream-wise vortices on the outer wall of the second bend These findings indicate competing parameters for improving the performance of flow in S- ducts 7.2 Recommendations for...

Ngày tải lên: 14/09/2015, 08:37

... lending declined and continues to decline so far in 2009 Insofar as U .S commercial banks did slightly increase their net assets as the counterpart of the modest increase in M2, it was to buy securities ... reserves against its potential retail lending opportunities.) Now suppose some upsetting event, such as a crash in home prices makes all mortgage related assets on bank balance sheets suspect Then ... remains controversial One group of protagonists sees unsustainable fiscal deficits and the extraordinary overhang of excess bank reserves as a portent of a monetary explosion and looming inflation...

Ngày tải lên: 22/03/2014, 17:20

... house Ross is in the alley behind the house painting the back Jed is painting the window frames on the north side, Shawn is on the south If Michael switches places with Jed, and Jed then switches ... is Olliopolis located? a the mountains b the coast c in a valley d the desert e the forest The city in the desert got the least rain; the city in the forest got the most rain New Town is in the ... switches places with Shawn, where is Shawn? a in the alley behind the house b on the north side of the house c in front of the house d on the south side of the house 403 Nurse Kemp has worked...

Ngày tải lên: 18/06/2014, 17:20