... the size in the range of 1-100 nm and the assembly of such constituents, one could alter and prescribe the properties of the assembled nanostructures As Professor Roald Hoffmann - the Chemistry ... for the formation of SBA-15 materials under aqueous solutions [11], the potential of hydration of PEO chains is directly correlated to wall structure of SBA-15 Dehydration of PEO segments may ... structures and adjustable physical properties From the point view of the pore arrangement, mesoporous materials can be divided into ordered and disordered structures Some of the ordered mesostructures...
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... design of the trabecular network allows for the efficient distribution of compressive and shear forces This efficiency exists via the orientation and spacing of the three dimensional arrangement of ... spine Generally, women loose 20% of peak cortical bone mass and 40-50% of trabecular mass by 90 years of age [58] This results in a decline in the loadbearing capacity of the vertebral body For example, ... unit of volume, i.e volumetric BMD in osteoporosis interferes with the mechanical support properties of the bone Various measures of BMD correlate strongly with compressive failure loads of vertebrae...
Ngày tải lên: 03/11/2012, 09:49
A review of agile manufacturing systems
... cycle phases and their associated decision processes The organization’ s life cycle is made up of the identi®cation, formation, operation and termination phases Each of the phases is made up of two ... development-time of the new product The proposed method is based on the principles of group technology (GT), and on the de®nition of the neighbourhood of similarity of critical design attributes A two- step ... Three out of seven not only talk about design of products but present ®ndings about design of manufacturing systems In addition, two of the previous three analysed the integrated Review of agile...
Ngày tải lên: 23/11/2013, 10:01
Tài liệu THE ELDERLY AND MOBILITY: A REVIEW OF THE LITERATURE pdf
... RESEARCH CENTRE drive; impact of loss of licence on safety; impact of loss of licence on mobility; and impact of the ‘greying of society’ on safety For each set of ‘facts and myths’ conclusions ... position of safety: the complex traffic environment at intersections and the range of perceptual and cognitive tasks demanded of drivers, often combined to produce a ‘testing of the limits’ type of ... older driver road deaths Gender of driver Male Age of driver Overall risk of death per distance travelled Risk of death per distance travelled – due to fragility Risk of death per distance travelled...
Ngày tải lên: 13/02/2014, 18:20
Tài liệu Financial crises and bank failures: a review of prediction methods docx
... where network units are connected by a flow of information The structure of NN models changes based upon external or internal information that flows through the network during the learning phase ... group of artificial neurons and processes information associated with them using a so-called connectionist approach, where network units are connected by a flow of information The structure of the ... that allows for isolation of a pattern of the data — the signal — out of noisy or raw time-series data 16 that the choice of estimation models makes a difference in terms of indicator performance...
Ngày tải lên: 16/02/2014, 06:20
Tài liệu A Review of the Ocean Research Priorities Plan and Implementation Strategy docx
... with a discussion of the balance of effort between the two sets of priorities RESEARCH AND HUMAN RESOURCE NEEDS The draft plan successfully lists most of the types of physical infrastructure that ... purpose of Part I of this report The committee was then asked to provide an assessment of the final ORPP within six months of the release of the final plan (Part II of this report) The statement of ... president of the National Academy of Sciences The National Academy of Engineering was established in 1964, under the charter of the National Academy of Sciences, as a parallel organization of outstanding...
Ngày tải lên: 17/02/2014, 06:20
Tài liệu Future Flight: A Review of the Small Aircraft Transportation System Concept pdf
... aircraft on behalf of about 3,500 owners The number of jets in the business fleet is growing—especially the number of small and midsize private jets Currently, two- thirds of jets in the business ... president of the National Academy of Sciences The National Academy of Engineering was established in 1964, under the charter of the National Academy of Sciences, as a parallel organization of outstanding ... Academy of Sciences National Academy of Engineering Institute of Medicine National Research Council The National Academy of Sciences is a private, nonprofit, self-perpetuating society of distinguished...
Ngày tải lên: 17/02/2014, 06:20
Tài liệu A REVIEW OF INDOOR AIR POLLUTION AND HEALTH PROBLEMS FROM THE VIEWPOINT OF ENVIRONMENTAL HYGIENE: FOCUSING ON THE STUDIES OF INDOOR AIR ENVIRONMENT IN JAPAN COMPARED TO THOSE OF FOREIGN COUNTRIES pptx
... H and Mizumoto, Y (2006) Estimation of Intake Level of Di (2-ethylhecyl) phthalate (DEHP) of Japanese pregnant woman based on measurement of concentrations of three urinary metabolites Jpn J Hyg., ... concentration of some organic compounds is regulated The WHO has proposed guideline value of organic compounds,67) as has The Ministry of Health, Labor and Welfare in Japan.68) The effect of volatile ... concentrations of toxic pollutants.150) JAPANESE REGULATIONS ON FORMALDEHYDE EMISSION FROM ARCHITECTURAL MATERIALS In 2003, the Ministry of Land, Infrastructure and Transport of Japan amended...
Ngày tải lên: 17/02/2014, 22:20
Tài liệu Determinants of Productivity for Military Personnel - A Review of Findings on the Contribution of Experience, Training, and Aptitude to Military Performance pdf
... estimates of marginal rates of substitution and lower elasticities of substitution.2 These findings The marginal rate of substitution is the rate at which two factors can be traded off while ... be partially offset by increased CO tenure Table 2.5 offers a complete summary of the results for this study for each class of ship - 11 Table 2.5 Predicted Percentage of Time Free of Failure ... assigned to individuals with two years of experience In this case, if one minute more per day of the least challenging type of work were assigned to individuals with two years of experience (rather...
Ngày tải lên: 17/02/2014, 22:20
Tài liệu Marketing Food to Children and Adolescents - A Review of Industry Expenditures, Activities, and Self-Regulation docx
... Division of Advertising Practices Bureau of Economics Pauline M Ippolito, Deputy Director, Bureau of Economics Research Assistants Todd Dickey, Bureau of Consumer Protection, Division of Advertising ... Finegold, Bureau of Consumer Protection, Division of Advertising Practices Conor McEvily, Bureau of Consumer Protection, Division of Advertising Practices Colin Conerton, Bureau of Consumer Protection, ... Program Micah B Burger, Bureau of Economics Michelle Y Kambara, Bureau of Economics Dane M Vrabac, Bureau of Economics ii Contents List of Tables v List of Figures ...
Ngày tải lên: 18/02/2014, 07:20
Tài liệu A Review of the Uses of Poultry Eggshells and Shell Membranes doc
... the increased activity of carbonic anhydrase, improving the quality of egg shell and the presence of manganese has an activator influence on the calcification and resistance of the egg shell (Ceylan ... membranes: The presence of hydroxyproline in hydrolysates of membrane layers of eggshell membrane has been confirmed by biochemical and immunological tests to consist of collagen (Wong et al., ... types of collagens that naturally occur in the body (Madison, 2011) Collagen is one of the most plentiful proteins present in the bodies of mammals, including humans It makes about 25 percent of...
Ngày tải lên: 21/02/2014, 01:20
Tài liệu RESULTS BASED MANAGEMENT IN THE DEVELOPMENT CO-OPERATION AGENCIES: A REVIEW OF EXPERIENCE docx
... constituencies Monitoring of outputs is the responsibility of project staff and managers and usually involves keeping simple records of numbers of products or services provided and of numbers of clients reached ... the aim of improving performance and achieving better results, this is often referred to as managing-for-results Such actual use of performance information has often been a weakness of performance ... quantities of physical, human or financial resources provided to the project, often expressed in dollar amounts or amounts of employee time (examples: number of machines procured, number of staff-months...
Ngày tải lên: 21/02/2014, 11:20
A Review of the Medical Benefits and Contraindications to Breastfeeding in the United States ppt
... et al reported that of a group of 63 infants studied, of the infected infants were breastfed; however, 33 of the 56 noninfected infants were also breastfed; of the mothers of the noninfected infants ... (i.e., the risk of a small amount of the drug compared to the tremendous benefit of being breastfed).1 The American Academy of Pediatrics Committee on Drugs has prepared a rating of some of the more ... the first few months of life because of the immaturity of liver metabolism and renal excretion Thus, a drug that might be of concern for an infant at one week of age might be of little concern at...
Ngày tải lên: 05/03/2014, 10:20
Báo cáo " A review of washback and its pedagogical implications " potx
... intended or unintended (accidental) direction and function of curriculum change on aspects of teaching and learning by means of a change of public examinations” Similar concept terms to washback ... from the uses of tests, the impacts of testing on test takers and teachers, the examination of results by decision makers, and the potential misuse, abuse, and unintended usage of tests In other ... implications of testing that are only one facet of a broader, unified concept of test validity Measurement-driver instruction (Shohamy 1992 [15]) Shohamy contended that “the use of external tests...
Ngày tải lên: 05/03/2014, 12:20
A Review of Approaches to Mobility Telemonitoring of the Elderly in Their Living Environment potx
... of over 99% Prado et al.43,44 developed a WPAN-based (Wireless Personal Area Network) system that is capable of monitoring posture and movement of the subject 24 h a day, inside and outside of ... (IAU), capable of months of autonomous use and which is fixed to the skin at the height of the sacrum using an impermeable patch The IAU (diameter 50 mm, thickness mm) consists of two dualaxis accelerometers, ... durability of materials Bulky systems are indiscrete Data forwarding systems cannot monitor person outside of range of base station User must control system (recharge, switch on/off, don/doff) Combines...
Ngày tải lên: 05/03/2014, 21:20
Environmental and Occupational Causes of Cancer: A Review of Recent Scientifi c Literature ppt
... cancer or suspected of causing cancer To summarize the current scientific literature on causes of human cancer, we rely on a combination of reviews of epidemiologic studies of groups of individuals ... review of epidemicologic studies of exposure to trichloroethylene (TCE) yields evidence of increased risk of cervical cancer.58 Studies of dry cleaning workers also demonstrate an increased risk of ... “whether the molecular structure of the substance is similar to the molecular structure of another substance which meets the definition of a potential occupational carcinogen;…”170 Two months later,...
Ngày tải lên: 06/03/2014, 01:20
Nutrition and cancer: A review of the evidence for an anti-cancer diet pptx
... stage of breast cancer have been randomized into two groups The dietary goals for the test group of the study are servings of vegetables, 16 oz of vegetable juice, servings of fruit, 30 g of fiber, ... indication of the blood sugar response of the body to a standardized amount of carbohydrate in a food The glycemic load takes into account the amount of food eaten An international table of the glycemic ... amount of energy (calories) that is consumed While being difficult to practice, this approach has a lot of scientific merit for being able to extend average life spans of many species of animals...
Ngày tải lên: 06/03/2014, 02:21
A Review of the EPA Water Security Research and Technical Support Action Plan ppt
... president of the National Academy of Sciences The National Academy of Engineering was established in 1964, under the charter of the National Academy of Sciences, as a parallel organization of outstanding ... achievements of engineers Dr Wm A Wulf is president of the National Academy of Engineering The Institute of Medicine was established in 1970 by the National Academy of Sciences to secure the services of ... • Assessment of water supply alternatives for different types of drinking water systems in the United States (reflective of effects of size, type of supply, system design and type of distribution...
Ngày tải lên: 06/03/2014, 15:20
A review of the scientific literature as it pertaintto gulf war illnesses pyridostigmine bromide executive summary doc
Ngày tải lên: 06/03/2014, 15:20