... investment to pay for itself’ The basic premise of the payback method is that the more quickly the cost of an investment can be recovered, the more desirable isthe investment The payback period is expressed ... the old In with the new’ Sometimes the change entails letting easy on everyone Other times the new corporation maintains some employees for good orto train their own people Whatever the decision ... package is established through the various agreements, contractors, undertaking andthe guarantees Buyer looks tothe security package agreement in order to provide security for money the investment...
... for the half width The half width of the wave packet, however, is large because it is proportional to 1aỏ On theother hand, when the parameter ỏ is large, the maximum of A(k) is low andthefunction ... photons is in accord with a probability distribution When the photon is observed or constrained to pass through a speciđc slit, whether theother slit is open or closed, the behavior is more ... A, there are two indistinguishable ways for the particle to reach the detection screen D andthe two wave functions ỉA (x) and ỉB (x) are added together With a detector at slit A, the two paths...
... motor incapacity The floor effect was greater for the arising, walking and gripping domains only for the patients with the hemiparetic form of the disease, and only for the gripping domain for ... extrapyramidal and ataxic The spastic type was classified as hemiplegia, diplegia and quadriplegia according to motor involvement [24] The motor function was evaluated according tothe Gross Motor Function ... acceptability and effort efforts by the informants in filling out the questionnaires The low frequency of the floor effect in the domains suggests that the instrument is able to evaluate andto discriminate...
... was standardised by equating the sum of Euclidean distances with the sum of the appropriate genetic distances The position was standardised by placing one population tothe coordinate origin and ... (uniform distribution) were shifted by a random vector (normal distribution) and rotated by a random angle (normal distribution) The quality of the new configuration was calculated, andthe new ... randomly chosen population or individual (random number from uniform distribution) was shifted by a random vector (two random numbers from normal distribution) in the plane The quality of this...
... flourish The sort of expert typically found there isthe sort who is confident, clear, and dramatic The sort who delivers quality sound bites and compelling stories The sort who doesn’t bother ... mention this because the mistakes and delusions I chronicle in this book are human follies We are all susceptible to them, even authors who write about the mistakes and delusions of others The goal ... thanks to my research assistant, Courtney Symons, and my marvelous editors, Susan Renouf at McClelland & Stewart and Stephen Morrow at Dutton Many others contributed one way or another tothe book...
... for the award of any other degree or diploma at any university orother tertiary intuition and, tothe best of my knowledge and belief, this thesis contains no material previously published or ... undeformed state exists The fluid has no memory Afterthe fluid has undergone motion it doesn’t come back to its original configuration afterthe forces causing the motion are withdrawn The same is ... (2-59) Where σ and σ′ are total stress and effective stress, respectively I isthe identity tensor and P isthe pore pressure The effective solid is related tothe solid strain with the following...
... sys:\java\servlets\SimpleServlets to this location and it works with Tomcat If you want to start NetWare Enterprise Web Server and Tomcat within your AUTOEXEC.NCF, start NetWare Enterprise Web Server first and give it ... Jakarta isthe overall project for many subprojects For example, Tomcat isthe Servlet+JSP Engine which is a subproject of the Jakarta Project Many people confuse Jakarta and Tomcat; the reality is ... enough time to load and then start Tomcat You can use the following lines to load NetWare Enterprise Web Server and Tomcat: java nsweb ?echo off ?echo off ?tomcat The question mark is a delay...
... had to capture the technical understanding of application engineers and relate this to Analog’s products and their attributes in order to build cases for the KATE-Tools platform This activity took ... defensive reasoning, and make tacit their premises and interpretations in order to avoid appearing incompetent before others Consequently, they close the door to self-awareness andthe possibility ... referring to organizational records lying unused in corporate repositories, the interlocutor here suggests that ‘none of this data is used as a source of knowledge’ What is revealing here isthe use...
... mother orthe fact that they were abused as a child or a whole range of issues It is important to be lead by the client’ (NHS worker) 'The client is more important than the therapy model as the ... Acknowledging the pre-migratory and flight stages in the over-all migratory experience is important for providers of health and social care services It is a necessary basis for a more thorough understanding ... forced or ‘pushed’ out of their former location while ‘pull’ factors may make another place seem more attractive and therefore influence the decision to move The two ‘push’ factors identified are...
... have the requisite elements for catalysis andare at least capable of the same types of structural interactions described for oligomeric CK isoforms It is important to note that these isoforms ... ligated into TOPO cloning vectors and mutated The mutated construct was then excised and re-ligated back into the original expression vector containing the two non-mutated domains The following ... trimer, and, if there are constraints, they have an impact on catalysis in other domains orthe domains function independently across the molecule? To address the above issues, we have cloned and...
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... in the coreceptor used for Page 11 of 15 (page number not for citation purposes) Virology Journal 2008, 5:90 entry in the two cell lines: CCR5 for TZM-bl cells and an unknown coreceptor for sMAGI ... antibodies Discussion This study isthe first to directly compare the evolution of primate lentiviral variants from different stages of infection after they were transmitted to a new host This analysis ... cohort [27] Thus, the relationship between neutralizing antibody response and viral load remains unclear and may depend on other factors Our finding of no relationship between these factors is...
... method is based on signal area registration, we assume that b = for all signals or in other words, the offset term is removed before CISA calculation Furthermore, to describe the shape statistics ... Time CISA ISA ECISA ˆ (d) The estimated shape fluctuation functions ni (c) The ISA, the theoretical CISA, andthe estimated CISA signals Normalized amplitude 0.8 0.6 0.4 0.2 0 Time ˇ (e) The registered ... tsup arethe limits of the CISA signal time support The conditions on thefunction ni ensure the absence of compensatory effects between the shape fluctuation term andthe affine term and also the...
... placing the site for the experiment at my disposal and for their assistance in constructing the wooden frames of the nets and measuring the seedlings I also thank K Thoroe for measuring the dry ... variables to test the following model: y = b0+b1Z1+b2Z2+b3Z3+b4Z1Z2+b5Z1Z3+b6Z1Z2Z3, where y isthe dependent variable, Z1 is for oak and –1 for beech, Z2 is –1 for the shading treatments and for the ... selected according tothe law on forest reproductive material The seeds were sown into a permeable pot of 2000 cm3 in size andthe seedlings stayed there tothe end of the experiment The rooting...
... 22 to 58 28 to 55 31 to 68 to 20 to 27 to 57 to 24 45 to 98 46 to 98 57.4 to 81.5 39.7 to 44.2 18.5 to 42.6 37.5 to 45.5 47.3 to 51.5 7.0 to 9.0 8.2 to 12.0 27.7 to 34.3 11.1 to 13.9 75.2 to ... monitoring and support It is not possible to say that after withdrawing support or monitoring whether these subjects would relapse or deteriorate Much has been said about the 'return tofunction' ... to employment, there is a clear need for continued monitoring and support to prevent further decline andto maintain the level of recovery Further studies are required to assess the causes for...
... protocol) for the treatment of peritoneal carcinomatosis [5] They reported a 50% complete cytoreduction rate by cytoreductive surgery after neoadjuvant intraperitoneal and systemic chemotherapy The ... months For bidirectional chemotherapy, various chemotherapeutic agents have been used for intraperitoneal and systemic chemotherapy [1,5] For intraperitoneal chemotherapy in the present report, ... metastasis and peritoneal carcinomatosis Furthermore, palliative bypass surgery (gastrojejunostomy) is thought to provide better long-term results compared to endoscopic stent placement, andis therefore...
... they last as long as there is relevance tothe topic and interest in learning together This distinction has, however, been criticised for being rather vague and contradictory; for instance, the ... heuristic for understanding and informing these processes CLAHRCs and CoPs: the instrumental perspective Like any other healthcare partnerships and collaboratives, the CLAHRCs have to co-exist and ... The main strength of the CoP theory is that it is able to provide a basis for the development and delivery of theoryinformed implementation interventions as well as their evaluations, which is...
... testosterone would be favored during the postprandial period to allow for anabolism [34] For cortisol, a further lowering during the postprandial period may be viewed as positive, as lower cortisol ... proteolysis [35]–also important when considering anabolism However, despite these findings, no differences existed for meal type or size with regards to testosterone or cortisol With regards to cortisol ... macronutrient to gather data regarding how these hormones are affected during a 24 hour cycle This would further clarify whether the changes in cortisol and testosterone are indeed impacted by feeding or...