... Pipelining and Packetization The top line of the figure depicts a sample voice waveform and the second line is a time scale in 10 ms increments At T0, the CS-ACELP algorithm begins collecting ... only minimum buffering delay) In practice, over a number of network switch hops, it may not be necessary to assume the worst case The calculations in the following examples increase the initial ... backhauling, microwave links, and other factors found in carrier networks create many exceptions The other significant component of delay is from queuing within the wide-area network In a private...
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... Understanding banking in Canada Welcome to banking in Canada Moving to another country is an exciting beginning to a new stage in your life At the same time, it can be challenging and ... moving costs, taxes, insurance, utilities and maintenance Find out everything you need to know about buying your first home at rbc.com/homeincanada Understanding banking in Canada 17 Borrowing ... RBC Direct Investing™ If you are comfortable managing a portion or all of your investments, you can invest online or by phone through RBC Direct Investing Online Our online investing site gives...
Ngày tải lên: 16/02/2014, 11:20
Tài liệu The challenges facing community banks: In their own words docx
... banking, merchant banking, securities brokerage and and retain core deposits.7 New financial instruments, underwriting, and insurance sales and underwriting.4 combined with improved information about ... limited array of banking products, generating interest loans for large, highly rated business borrowers, and income from loans and investments and generating a junk bond financing has become an ... business relationship lending is in many ways inconfinancial information about the borrower that can sistent with automated lending technology Thus, when be fed into an automated credit-scoring...
Ngày tải lên: 16/02/2014, 11:20
Tài liệu Báo cáo khoa học: "The Structure of User-Adviser Dialogues: Is there Method in their Madness?" pdf
... and realizing topic continuity in a dialogue Since new topics are introduced at the beginning of new subdialogues and developed in the following sentences, one can predict that pronominal noun ... STRUCTURES DISTRIBUTION OF NON-PRONOMINAL AND PRONOMINAL NOUN PHRASES N-3 Non-pronominal noun phrases play a role in indicating and realizing topic shifts in a dialogue Since new subdialogues are assumed ... immediately dominates N, the node N-2 dominates N-I, and so on The nodes subordinate to each of the nodes dominating N are indexed beginning with the left-most node and proceeding rightward Thus,...
Ngày tải lên: 21/02/2014, 20:20
A Review of Approaches to Mobility Telemonitoring of the Elderly in Their Living Environment potx
... Mobility Telemonitoring who fear they will remain unattended in the event of an accident The increasing use of telemonitoring to support independent living inside and outside of the home inevitably raises ... Hughes, and K Doughty Reducing fall incidence in community elders by telecare using predictive systems In: 19th Annual International Conference of the IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society, ... wish to remain living in their own homes for as long as possible provided they are safe Technology, and in particular telemedicine, has a role to play in achieving this goal by reassuring the person...
Ngày tải lên: 05/03/2014, 21:20
Understanding differences in health behaviors by education pot
... Demographics Adding income Adding alternative measures of discounting, in addition to income Winning and losing questions Planning horizon Time spent on financial planning Time spent planning vacation ... the gradient in drinking The coefficient on years of education in explaining current smoking declines by 17 percent with the knowledge questions included, while the coefficient for drinking is essentially ... 2348 Drinking Current drinker Heavy drinker (ever drinks > drinks–all persons) Average reduction in education coefficient Unweighted standardized index, excluding preventive care 4936 Adding economic...
Ngày tải lên: 05/03/2014, 22:21
Health education for microcredit clients in Peru: a randomized controlled trial potx
... illness among children of clients This study is novel in investigating the effect of IMCI in the setting of an economic intervention, in which the potentially increased income and empowerment provided ... controlled longitudinal trial in rural Bangladesh evaluated a fiveyear intervention involving all three components of IMCI, and included training of health providers, household visits by trained health ... http://www.biomedcentral.com/1471-2458/11/51 funders had no role in the study design; in collecting, analyzing, or interpreting the data; in writing the report; or in the decision to submit the article for publication...
Ngày tải lên: 05/03/2014, 22:21
RKesneaorcwh arlteiclde ge and perception of pulmonary tuberculosis in pastoral communities in the middle and Lower Awash Valley of Afar region, Ethiopia docx
... should be taken into account in community-based health education pertaining to TB intervention HIV/AIDS is known to play a major role in increasing the burden of TB [5] Very few individuals we ... categorized into high and low knowledge of each domain using mean value Information collected during the FGDs was translated into Amharic and entered into separate tables for women and men, according ... thereby sustaining the transmission of the disease within the community [11-14] For these reasons, creating general awareness about TB among communities and initiating community participation in the...
Ngày tải lên: 06/03/2014, 04:20
In Their Own Language…Education for All pdf
... outweighed the incremental costs of establishing and maintaining schooling in local languages (production of learning materials, teacher training, etc.) In Mali, for instance, a World Bank study found ... reform to include (i) teacher training in active and effective teaching methods, (ii) a transfer to the second language in the early grades and (iii) changing examination policies and ensuring ’quick ... benefits of using local languages for instruction as well as in appropriate methods, and ensuring that high stakes examination systems reward the skills in which children instructed in local languages...
Ngày tải lên: 06/03/2014, 10:20
Reproductive health in nomadic communities: Challenges of culture and choice pdf
... having multiple sexual partners, engaging in unprotected sex, having sex with older partners and consuming alcohol and illicit drugs.5 Findings indicated that the sexual debut of nomadic youth in ... changes However, the following challenges stand in the way of increasing the uptake of modern FP: women need to be involved in decision in all matters relating to their reproductive health, especially ... participate in making decisions pertaining to their reproductive health Acknowledgement We thank the Dutch Ministry of Foreign Affairs for funding this study Also our gratitude goes to the National Institute...
Ngày tải lên: 14/03/2014, 16:20
Beyond Remittances: The Role of Diaspora in Poverty Reduction in their Countries of Origin pptx
... major player, in attracting Diaspora investors Writing of investment from Taiwan into mainland China, Hsing makes the point that the partners to the overseas Chinese investors in many cases were ... promoting investment in India by NRIs It provides “all necessary services” for NRIs in setting up their investments, including explaining government policies and procedures, available incentives, ... Indian government to create an “investor-friendly” environment to attract Diaspora funds “Several overseas investors have burnt their fingers in investing in projects in India as they wound their...
Ngày tải lên: 15/03/2014, 09:20
BEST MANAGEMENT PRACTICES GUIDEBOOK FOR SPECIAL EVENT-GENERATED WASTE IN RURAL COMMUNITIES pot
... when emptying the recycling bins within the fairground Labor - Labor will be essential for setting up, monitoring, emptying, and removing recycling barrels or bins, and transporting containers to ... recycling containers (e.g., transporting, buying, removing from storage, painting, fixing, etc.); Placing containers around event grounds prior to start of event; Emptying full containers into a cart ... “fountain drinks” in paper or plastic cups, bottles and cans find their way into the waste stream Many attendees bring these containers in backpacks; vendors keep their own supply to quench their...
Ngày tải lên: 16/03/2014, 11:20
Báo cáo khoa học: The Rab5 effector Rabaptin-5 and its isoform Rabaptin-5d differ in their ability to interact with the small GTPase Rab4 doc
... deleted in Rabaptin-5d is shown in white Positions of coiled-coil regions CC1-1 and CC1-2, Rab4 binding domain, and the region deleted in Rabaptin-5d are numbered according to the amino acid ... Overlays are shown in A and B with yellow color indicating colocalization, red color indicating mycRab4Q67L, and green color indicating EGFPfused proteins The black-and white insets in panels A¢ and ... and the Rab4 binding site of Rabaptin-5 are located in the N-terminal portion of protein However, some discrepancy exists in the literature concerning the position of the Rab4-binding site While...
Ngày tải lên: 16/03/2014, 18:20
Báo cáo khoa học: "UNDERSTANDING REPETITION IN NATURAL LANGUAGE INSTRUCTIONS - THE SEMANTICS OF EXTENT" pptx
... class of instructions found mainly in the cooking domain The example used by Karlin is (4) Steam for g minutes or until the mussels (4) open Karlin asserts that 'the meaning of sentences in this ... that all processes in the cooking domain must have culminations The validity of this approach is discussed in the next section However, before doing t h a t we examine Karlin's final class, "disjuncts ... process in the cooking domain must have a culmination ' [3, pg 62] This is accompanied by a claim that a verb may contain inherent information about the endpoint of the action it describes, as in...
Ngày tải lên: 17/03/2014, 08:20
The Field Behind the Screen: Using Netnography For Marketing Research in Online Communities pptx
... reinforcing consumption Hence, marketing researchers interested in online word-ofmouth and influence may find it useful to track how tourists and minglers are socialized and “upgraded” to insiders ... companies (both online and off), and advertisers working on coffee-related accounts By carefully corroborating, interpreting and critically evaluating this information, insights might be gained to ILLUSTRATIVE ... the individual marketing researcher, these steps may act as a guide to researchers interested in rigorously applying the method to their own research This combination of more rigorous online...
Ngày tải lên: 23/03/2014, 03:20
Báo cáo khoa học: Apo a-lactalbumin and lysozyme are colocalized in their subsequently formed spherical supramolecular assembly doc
... in their opposing isoelectric points (the pI value of lysozyme is 10.7, whereas that of a-lactalbumin is near 4–5) and their calcium-binding properties (a-lactalbumin has a specific calcium-binding ... specific calcium-binding site) Interestingly, the formation of spherical particles containing the two proteins in an equimolar ratio was favoured at pH 7.5 under conditions in which apo a-LA adopts ... LYS contained one mole of FITC or RBITC per mole of protein, respectively, as assessed by mass spectrometry analyses (results not shown) To examine the in uence of labelling on protein interaction...
Ngày tải lên: 23/03/2014, 07:20
Excess Cervical Cancer Mortality: A Marker for Low Access to Health Care in Poor Communities doc
... successful in increasing Pap test use among historically underserved women.43 Likewise, provideroriented interventions, including reminders and education, can increase screening rates.44 Provider interventions ... Roundtable meeting is contained in Appendix A In October 2002, CRCHD staff and selected participants in the prior Think Tank and Roundtable meetings presented key project findings and issues ... local levels to help in determining how best to reach them and motivate lasting behavior change This may include finding ways to establish infrastructure to provide services, link services, provide...
Ngày tải lên: 28/03/2014, 23:20
UNDERSTANDING RESEARCH IN CLINICAL AND COUNSELING PSYCHOLOGY doc
... UNDERSTANDING RESEARCH IN CLINICAL AND COUNSELING PSYCHOLOGY UNDERSTANDING RESEARCH IN CLINICAL AND COUNSELING PSYCHOLOGY Edited by Jay C Thomas Michel ... multibillion dollar industry (Sexton et al., 1997) In addition, clinical and counseling psychologists are asked to intervene in prevention efforts in situations involving individuals and/or families, ... B Higgins, James A D’Andrea, Quinn Kennedy, and Dolores Gallagher-Thompson 441 Author Index 469 Subject Index 479 Preface The development of Understanding Research in Clinical and Counseling Psychology...
Ngày tải lên: 29/03/2014, 04:20
Micro-Finance in Rural Communities in Southern Africa pdf
... rapid increase in the incidence of HIV/ AIDS will also have increased the need for access to micro-fin an ce (again both credit an d savin gs) in care-givin g households to help them maintain income ... household’s working capital s The rapid increase in the incidence of HIV/ AIDS will also have increased the need for access to micro-fin an ce (again both credit an d savin gs) in care-givin g households ... household’s working capital s The rapid increase in the incidence of HIV/ AIDS will also have increased the need for access to micro-fin an ce (again both credit an d savin gs) in care-givin g households...
Ngày tải lên: 29/03/2014, 05:20
Beyond the Golden Section and Normative Aesthetics: Why Do Individuals Differ so Much in Their Aesthetic Preferences for Rectangles? pot
... genuinely differ in their tastes, in their aesthetic preferences, and, hence, in what they regard as beautiful Nevertheless, differences between individuals have mostly been entirely lost in over ... emphasize their diversity, with the constraint that none of them subsequently appear in Figures or 1.0 117 Q-Mode Factor Analysis Because a principal interest of this study was in describing individual ... McManus (1980) findings suggest that the findings generalize across more than 25 years and a technically different method of testing, involving different sets of rectangles (and, in particular,...
Ngày tải lên: 30/03/2014, 16:20