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rhodes & stelter - accelerating out of the great recession; how to win in a slow-growth economy (2010)

rhodes & stelter - accelerating out of the great recession; how to win in a slow-growth economy (2010)

... earnings in the United States since 1983 As real earnings fell, middle-class Americans were forced to borrow in order to maintain living standards and pay for health care and education The change ... improving After that, they created what they called the “stressed” scenario a characterization of the worst case And finally, they applied the stressed scenario to the actual income statements and ... operating in a damaged state for years to come They should be acclimatizing to what has become known as the “new normal.” There are, of course, many voices arguing that nothing has really changed, that...

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A survey of technology thinkers and stakeholders shows they believe the internet will continue to spread in a “flattening” and improving world. There are many, though, who think major problems will accompany technology advances by 2020 doc

A survey of technology thinkers and stakeholders shows they believe the internet will continue to spread in a “flattening” and improving world. There are many, though, who think major problems will accompany technology advances by 2020 doc

... amassed The early 1990s predictions are available in a searchable database online at the site Imagining the Internet: A History and Forecast and they are also the basis for a book by Anderson ... emerging as the new lingua franca.” International Domain Names will change the landscape The Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers has been urged for years to find a way to initiate ... necessary, and they have the ability to learn through trial and error or through example and generalization MEMS, agents and bots are the reality today In the near future, as computing and data storage...

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Taking advantage of the pit stop how to prosper in a recession

Taking advantage of the pit stop how to prosper in a recession

... “me too” product Shifting to a business model that was more akin to the entertainment industry than a hardware manufacturer made Apple a hard act for would-be imitators to follow Investing in the ... unfortunate as innovation, collaboration and sustainability are no less relevant now than they were a year or two ago Innovation Recessions are great for highlighting the weaknesses in a company ... but in the way we business as a whole Jorma Ollila, the chairman of Royal Dutch Shell and Nokia, was recently quoted in the Financial Times saying: The crisis will lead to a rethink in the corporate...

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Báo cáo khoa học: "Veterinary decision making in relation to metritis - a qualitative approach to understand the background for variation and bias in veterinary medical records"

Báo cáo khoa học: "Veterinary decision making in relation to metritis - a qualitative approach to understand the background for variation and bias in veterinary medical records"

... Acta Veterinaria Scandinavica 2009, 51:36 Background Files with information on animal disease have a variety of applications at both the herd and national level, including monitoring the incidence ... understanding provides insight into potential errors (bias and random error) related to data based on clinical examina- Page of 10 (page number not for citation purposes) Acta Veterinaria Scandinavica ... 4) Law-abiding Veterinarians stated that metritis scoring is enforced by law This was the primary motivating factor for running the herd health programme, rather than, for example, creating possibilities...

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Tài liệu Báo cáo khoa học: "A Multimodal Interface for Access to Content in the Home" pdf

Tài liệu Báo cáo khoa học: "A Multimodal Interface for Access to Content in the Home" pdf

... items in the database This has to be balanced against degradation in accuracy resulting from increasing the vocabulary In practice we found that users, while acknowledging the value of handwriting ... results in a search for all of the movies with that particular actor or director, allowing users to quickly navigate from an actor or director in a specific title to other material they may be interested ... movie database to determine the new series of results The graphical display is then updated to represent the latest query The system first attempts to find an exact match in the database for all...

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A computational study to investigate the effects of insulation and EGR in a diesel engine

A computational study to investigate the effects of insulation and EGR in a diesel engine

... NOx As shown in Figure 11e, at 380°CA, the NO forms in the swirl chamber throat, pre and main chambers and then transferred into the main chamber at 400°CA for baseline engine While at adiabatic ... [29] Arash Nemati, Shahram Khalilarya, Samad Jafarmadar, Hassan Khatamnejhad, Vahid Fathi Numerical parametric investigation of a gasoline fuelled partially-premixed compression-ignition engine International ... 400°CA, the shape of high temperature regions for baseline and adiabatic with EGR cases are the same Also at adiabatic case for 400°CA and 420°CA, these regions more spread out in the main chamber...

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THE OLD GIRLS'''' NETWORK: Insider Advice for Women Building Businesses in a Man''''s World doc

THE OLD GIRLS'''' NETWORK: Insider Advice for Women Building Businesses in a Man''''s World doc

... want to make a living • Distinguish between an actionable dream and a fleeting fantasy • There are many ways to translate your passion into an idea for a business If your passion doesn't appear ... that Now a motivational speaker and the author of Making Your Dreams Come True, Marcia has taken the concept of helping others to find their passion and follow their dreams and has built it into ... joint or a high-end place Rather, she wanted to create a neighborhood restaurant that welcomed its patrons as family and was affordable for the average person to visit every day A single mother...

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FAST FACTS FOR THE CLINICAL NURSING INSTRUCTOR Clinical Teaching in a Nutshell pot

FAST FACTS FOR THE CLINICAL NURSING INSTRUCTOR Clinical Teaching in a Nutshell pot

... personal information about yourself to a minimum Fast facts in a nutshell • Maintain the boundary of teacher:student • Keep personal information out of the clinical setting 8 FAST FACTS FOR THE ... person can provide the clinical packet of information, assist you in interpreting the clinical evaluation tool, and inform you of any new program updates or changes The clinical instructor is usually ... a zero tolerance for absences or tardiness Each and every clinical day is considered vital to the overall program Lateness for the clinical day is always frowned upon Tardiness and absences are...

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CONFLICTS OF INTEREST IN THE HOLLYWOOD FILM INDUSTRY: COMING TO AMERICA - TALES FROM THE CASTING COUCH, GROSS AND NET, IN A RISKY BUSINESS pdf

CONFLICTS OF INTEREST IN THE HOLLYWOOD FILM INDUSTRY: COMING TO AMERICA - TALES FROM THE CASTING COUCH, GROSS AND NET, IN A RISKY BUSINESS pdf

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leadership for the common good tackling public problems in a shared-power world

leadership for the common good tackling public problems in a shared-power world

... among them the General Electric Award for Outstanding Research in Strategic Planning from the Academy of Management and awards for best articles in the Journal of the American Planning Association ... 3) as actors jointly exercising their capabilities related to a problem in order to further their separate and joint aims The actors may be individuals, groups, or organizations working together ... soon have the feeling of being stuck in a quagmire They clearly cannot wave a magic wand and make everything better Today, anyone who’s involved in the fight against AIDS realizes that a host...

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Working for independence The failure of New Deal politics in a rural industrial place

Working for independence The failure of New Deal politics in a rural industrial place

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báo cáo hóa học: " A tool to measure the attributes of receiving IV therapy in a home versus hospital setting: the Multiple Sclerosis Relapse Management Scale (MSRMS)" pot

báo cáo hóa học: " A tool to measure the attributes of receiving IV therapy in a home versus hospital setting: the Multiple Sclerosis Relapse Management Scale (MSRMS)" pot

... domain (interpersonal care) because they formed a more clinical and statistical cohesive set together rather than existing as separate scales For the same reasons, three domains (physical comfort, ... study including the design and coordination All authors contributed to the interpretation of data and writing of the manuscript All authors read and approved the final manuscript Competing interests ... indicates that the total scores for each subscale are reliable estimates For each scale, the standard error of measurement, an indication of the amount of variation or spread in the measurement...

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Báo cáo hóa học: " Research Article Fixed Point Methods for the Generalized Stability of Functional Equations in a Single Variable" ppt

Báo cáo hóa học: " Research Article Fixed Point Methods for the Generalized Stability of Functional Equations in a Single Variable" ppt

... Grazer Mathematische Berichte, pp 43–52, Karl-Franzens-Univ Graz, Graz, Austria, 2004 21 L C˘ dariu and V Radu, A Hyers-Ulam-Rassias stability theorem for a quartic functional equation,” a Automation ... transformations,” Bulletin of the American Mathematical Society, vol 57, pp 223–237, 1951 Z Gajda, “On stability of additive mappings,” International Journal of Mathematics and Mathematical Sciences, vol ... Ulam,” Journal of Approximation Theory, vol 57, no 3, pp 268–273, 1989 T M Rassias, “On the stability of the linear mapping in Banach spaces,” Proceedings of the American Mathematical Society,...

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Báo cáo lâm nghiệp: "Effect of leaf biomass and phenological structure of the canopy on plot growth in a deciduous hardwood forest in northern Japan" pot

Báo cáo lâm nghiệp: "Effect of leaf biomass and phenological structure of the canopy on plot growth in a deciduous hardwood forest in northern Japan" pot

... 726 M Takiya et al Table I Stem number and basal area in the study plots Thinning was performed in 1984 Values (stem number and basal area just before and after thinning and thinning ratio) are ... BA increased in all plots 2.6 Data analysis 3.2 Plot growth Plot growth was calculated as gross growth, which is the increment in basal area (BA) produced by the radial growth of surviving individuals ... Betula maximowicziana, with Sorbus commixta Hedl and Tilia japonica Simonkai as subdominants This was a secondary stand that regenerated naturally after a forest fire in 1960 Betula maximowicziana,...

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Báo cáo khoa học: "Growth and development of individual Douglas-fir in stands for applications to simulation in silviculture" potx

Báo cáo khoa học: "Growth and development of individual Douglas-fir in stands for applications to simulation in silviculture" potx

... fitted to the data, and were examined against In (1 -In( FV/FV showing again a linear )), max relationship that appears in figure 6b) This analysis establishes the possibility of a linear fit to express ... wide variety of treatments that have never been put into practice, there has been an increasing concern to rely on basic information of general applicability and immediate availability This kind ... figure These trees show the typical variation scheme of the stem cross sectional area of the annual increment, along the stem This area increases linearly from the base of the stem annual shoot; then...

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Báo cáo khoa học: "Physical damage on tropical tree saplings: quantification and consequences for competition through height growth in a neotropical rain forest of French Guiana" pdf

Báo cáo khoa học: "Physical damage on tropical tree saplings: quantification and consequences for competition through height growth in a neotropical rain forest of French Guiana" pdf

... 10 cm in diameter at breast height (DBH) in the Paracou forest are the Lecythidaceae (18 % of the individuals), the Caesalpinaceae (13 %) and the Chrysobalanaceae (12 %) [11] The principal tree ... Eperua grandiflora, Symphonia globulifera, moni, Vouacapoua americana, Pradosia cochlearia (this study), Qualea rosea Carapa procera, patawa, and Dicorynia guianensis [24] From a structural point ... damage to saplings? 2) For a given individual of a given species, is physical damage automatically detrimental in comparison to another individual of the same species with no breakage, especially...

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Báo cáo khoa học: "Gastric outlet obstruction due to adenocarcinoma in a patient with Ataxia-Telangiectasia syndrome: a case report and review of the literature" pdf

Báo cáo khoa học: "Gastric outlet obstruction due to adenocarcinoma in a patient with Ataxia-Telangiectasia syndrome: a case report and review of the literature" pdf

... differentiated invasive intestinal-type adenocarcinoma of the stomach with invasion through the muscularis to the serosa, and multifocal vascular and lymphatic invasion Postoperatively, the patient initially ... probably had gastric mucinous adenocarcinoma [16] In the normal population, the median age for diagnosis of gastric adenocarcinoma is 70 years Known risk factors for gastric adenocarcinoma in the general ... tumour [Japanese] Naika no Ryôiki (Domain of Internal Medicine) 1975, 35:623-626 Watanabe A, Hanazono H, Sogawa H, Takaya H: Stomach cancer of a 14-year-old boy with ataxia-telangiectasia Tohoku...

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Báo cáo khoa học: "Successful radiation treatment of anaplastic thyroid carcinoma metastatic to the right cardiac atrium and ventricle in a pacemaker-dependent patient" pps

Báo cáo khoa học: "Successful radiation treatment of anaplastic thyroid carcinoma metastatic to the right cardiac atrium and ventricle in a pacemaker-dependent patient" pps

... right cardiac atrium and ventricle in a pacemaker-dependent patient Tina Dasgupta*, Igor J Barani, Mack Roach III* Abstract Anaplastic thyroid carcinoma (ATC) is a rare, aggressive malignancy, ... He was treated with a total thyroidectomy for anaplastic thyroid carcinoma in March 2008, followed by post-operative cisplatin-based chemo-radiation therapy to the surgical bed and the draining ... treatment of cardiac metastases encasing the leads of a pacemaker, and of cardiac metastases from ATCs, with a review of the pertinent literature Background Anaplastic thyroid carcinoma (ATC)...

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Báo cáo sinh học: " Expected efficiency of selection for growth in a French beef cattle breeding scheme. I. Multistage selection of bulls used in artificial insemination" docx

Báo cáo sinh học: " Expected efficiency of selection for growth in a French beef cattle breeding scheme. I. Multistage selection of bulls used in artificial insemination" docx

... increases More males are evaluated on maternal performance and thus the uncertainty in preweaning parameters has a larger impact The same comments can be made for the standard deviations of the ... modified to take maternal performance into account: a combined index of the average W210 of 30 sons and the average W120 of calves of bulls’ daughters was built It was assumed that heritability of maternal ... to maximize is the average breeding value (H) of the bulls finally selected for use in AI, whatever the variables with a origin: where the a and the b are the selection thresholds on the X variates...

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Báo cáo sinh học: "Expected efficiency of selection for growth in a French beef cattle breeding scheme. II. Prediction of asymptotic genetic gain in a heterogeneous population" docx

Báo cáo sinh học: "Expected efficiency of selection for growth in a French beef cattle breeding scheme. II. Prediction of asymptotic genetic gain in a heterogeneous population" docx

... offspring Animals are assumed to be unrelated and within a class to have an equal amount of information Ducrocq and Quaas (1988) described the algorithm to calculate the relevant truncation point, ... structure of data was constructed to evaluate sampling variances and covariances between preweaning genetic parameters (Phocas et al, 1995) The sampling variance-covariance matrix is derived for 4050 ... intervals are also quite independent of the uncertainty in genetic parameters; the coefficients of variation are smaller than 2% Except for the average AI sires path, taking into account tiers leads to...

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