unmasking the illicit trafficking of nuclear and other radioactive materials

... address whether the magnitude of the valuation coefficients on eamings and other information differs for R&D intensive firms To determine if the magnitudes o f the coefficients on eamings and other ... at the theoretical values o f the coefficients The coefficients depend on the persistence o f abnormal eamings and the persistence o f other information I hypothesize that the persistence of ... model and hypotheses Section describes the research design and reports the results o f empirical tests of the roles of eamings and other information in firm valuation Section describes the research...

Ngày tải lên: 30/09/2015, 16:44

... (ntumpane) of the Kele in Congo, the xylophones used by the Northern Chin of Burma, the banging on the roots of trees practised by the Melanesians, the yodelling of the Swiss, the humming of the Chekiang ... the world, from the Fuegian of southernmost Chile to the Inuit of northernmost Alaska, and from the Maori of the remote Cook Islands to Siberian Yakut Some of them describe, of course, strictly ... manner 4 The Meaning of Tingo Hey you! O nce the first encounter is out of the way the correct form of address is important Most of us know the difference between the intimate French tu and the more...

Ngày tải lên: 15/01/2014, 10:51

... switch and alters the expression of the two nuclear genome coded isoforms of CytOX V [10,32] The regulation of genes CytOX5a and CytOX5b, coding for the two isofoms Va and Vb, parallels that of genes ... shows the effects of hypoxia on the steady state levels of nuclear genome encoded CytOX IV and Vb mRNAs There was no change in the levels of these mRNAs in macrophages at h of hypoxia, the time ... measured the steady state CytOX mRNA levels The Northern blot in Fig shows the effect of hypoxia on the levels of mitochondrial genome- and nuclear genome-coded mRNAs for CytOX subunits There were...

Ngày tải lên: 20/02/2014, 23:20

... “delivery” to the “target organ” (the decision-maker) This fate and transport terminology is adopted because it is part of the vernacular of many of those providing the information and of many of the ultimate ... dozen There was an effort to ensure balance in the group of respondents for any particular case study, but because of the relatively small number of respondents and the non-random nature of the ... pedestrian As a group, the cases tend toward the “high-profile” end of the distribution of EPA decisions Nevertheless, among the case studies, there is some variability in the political and economic stakes...

Ngày tải lên: 24/03/2014, 05:20

... respecting these legends and myths It is this: they are versions of oral relations from the lips of the Indians, and are transcripts of the thought and invention of the aboriginal mind As such, they ... nor they employ words which are not known to their vocabulary It is in these legends that we obtain their true views of life and death, their religion, their theory of the state of the dead, their ... power and absorbing topic of Indian lore Their agency is at once the groundwork of their mythology and demonology They supply the machinery of their poetic inventions, and the belief in their...

Ngày tải lên: 29/03/2014, 11:20

... portion of the voyage once made by the Maid of the Mist The water is in a perpetual tumult, a perfect embodiment of the spirit of unrest Owing to the rapidity of the descent and the narrowness of the ... from the dip of this rock On the contrary, there is a rise of fifty feet to the head of the present rapids, and a further rise of twenty feet to the level of Lake Erie During 1871-2, the bed of the ... reasoning They made a double ambuscade: one for the train and escort, the other for the relieving force; and they destroyed them both, only three of the first escaping and eight of the latter...

Ngày tải lên: 31/03/2014, 13:20

... in their published work and were not able to overcome the emerging division of labor between religious and theological studies, on the one hand, and the anthropology of religion, on the other ... own and that of others) and how it acquires meaning as it arises in the body and through interaction with others A more dynamic model of how we articulate our own experience and that of others ... divide The book addresses the subject of religious experience directly and the problems of reductionism and humanistic fears of the sciences indirectly and by example The orientation of the book...

Ngày tải lên: 11/06/2014, 12:43

... i.e., the smallest observation, the lower quartile and the upper quartile cutting off the lowest and highest 25% of the data, respectively, the median which is the middle value of the data and the ... denotes the conversion of the Au(III), X the value of any of the five parameters of each broth, Cov(X, Y) the covariance value and rxy the correlation coefficient of X and Y with a range of [-1, ... those of the other and so was the case of the proteins The difference in the pH value (Fig 6b) was slight, which is also in accordance with what discussed in the prior section That is, in the biosynthesis...

Ngày tải lên: 21/06/2014, 17:20

... MD simulation of the RNIL process The objectives of this study are to understand the deformation behavior of imprinted film and the effect of adhesion and friction with changes of the roller tooth ... of 0.002° per time step The unit of time step was 10-15 s The characteristic width and height of the roller tooth were both nm The roller was composed of 11294 atoms The width and height of the ... on the Au substrate One is the ‘‘pushed behavior’’ that occurs on the substrate atoms that are located on the left side of the roller, and the other is the ‘‘pulled behavior’’ that occurs on the...

Ngày tải lên: 21/06/2014, 20:20

... solid wall of insects that bite, rising out of it But the beach is good dry sand, and the wind keeps the bugs back in the swamp Between the beach and the swamp is a strip of loam and jungle, ... shapes of patches They point into the wind and then go sideways; and they don't steer with an oar that Charon discarded thousands of years ago, that's painted crimson and raw violet; and the only ... Then the sea breeze rose and swept the sky and ocean till they were one and the same blue, the blue that comes highest at Tiffany's; and little puffs of shore birds came in on the breeze and began...

Ngày tải lên: 28/06/2014, 17:20

... was stopped after first cycle of chemotherapy at a dose of 43 Gy because of toxicity and old age of the patient The intensity of chemotherapy was reduced in smoker and non-smokers due to hematologic ... for the development of anal cancer is well known, no data about the influence of smoking during combined radiotherapy on the outcome after therapy exist as of now The exact role of smoking in the ... Touboul E, Schlienger M, Hadjrabia S, Laugier A: [Cancer of the anal canal; role of radiotherapy and combinations of chemotherapy and radiotherapy] Rev Med Interne 1993, 14:340-349 Akbari RP, Paty...

Ngày tải lên: 09/08/2014, 10:21

... hypothetical areas of psychiatric and psychological problems based on theoretical assumptions and the clinical literature in the field By these modules, the A-TAC yields dimensional ratings of ... to the studies; it was hard to get in contact with many of these parents and to conduct a telephone interview with them The clinical diagnoses are state of the art but in the extended group of ... or at home, and (2) suffering on the part of the child A “problem load score” was calculated as the sum of these two items (thus ranging from to 2), with a theoretically defined cut-off for problems...

Ngày tải lên: 11/08/2014, 17:20

... analysis confirms that the changes observed in the viral DNA samples were the result of changes in the viral population close to the time of sampling and not the result of picking up viral DNA ... colon, and then start seeding the PBL and other gut tissues The current data does not allow us to determine this unequivocally and further studies will be necessary Our data did suggest that the ... followed at the Southern Alberta Clinic (SAC), Calgary, Alberta from 1993-1996 [24,25] All protocols were reviewed and approved by the Office of Medical Bioethics of the University of Calgary and patients...

Ngày tải lên: 13/08/2014, 01:20

... the pyrolysis and combustion of these fuels, for which there is lack of information in the literature The obtained data should be useful for the design of furnaces, which will utilize these materials ... cj is the fraction of combustibles in component j, aj(t) is the reacted fraction of component j in time t and m∞ is the normalized amount of the solid residues (minerals) at the end of the experiment ... Ej is the activation energy of component j, g expresses the effect of ambient gas composition and f describes the change of surface reactivity as a function of the fractional burn off: As the function...

Ngày tải lên: 05/09/2013, 15:28

... the piece of discourse under analysis The later includes the type of communicative event, the topic, the purpose of the event, the setting, the xii participant and the relationships between them ... medium of the language activity It is the manifestation of the nature of the language code being used Halliday and Hassan include here: “Mode is the function of the text in the event, including therefore ... renovation cause and to raise its economy's competitiveness on the one hand, and on other hand to affirm the consistency of the Party and State's policies to integrate the national economy into the world...

Ngày tải lên: 20/12/2013, 18:26

Ngày tải lên: 27/12/2013, 15:30

... to the bulge of the equator Many forms of life on the coast are tailored to the cycle of tides High and low The gravitational pull of the Moon on the Earth causes tides in the oceans and seas of ... motion, due to the rotation of the Earth, the gravitational pull of the Sun and Moon, and the difference in temperature and salt content of the water These movements form strong currents in the oceans, ... gravity and formed the Sun, the dust and particles around it clumped together to form the planets The heat of the Sun melted the ice particles nearby and eventually these rocks grew larger to form the...

Ngày tải lên: 27/12/2013, 15:30

... may provide the competent authorities the authority to inform the right holder of the names and addresses of the consignor, the importer and the consignee, and of the quantity of the goods in ... into the Party's territory of copies of the work; B the first public distribution of the original and each copy of the work by sale, rental or otherwise; C the communication of a work to the public; ... presence in the territory of the other Party; D from the territory of one Party into the territory of the other Party; by a service supplier of one Party, through presence of natural persons of a Party...

Ngày tải lên: 24/01/2014, 01:20

... the world Unfortunately the decade of the 90’s had not seen much relief in regulatory pressures There was the grounding of the oil tanker BRAER offthe Shetland Islands, and the grounding of the ... design synthesis, production and part of hydrodynamics Volume I1 contains the subjects for the rest of hydrodynamics, structures and materials On behalf of the Standing Committee of PRADS and the Local ... event was the grounding of the 119,000 DWT tanker, Torrey Canyon, off the southwest coast of England For the first time the tanker industry and the public realized the unfortunate impact of a large...

Ngày tải lên: 13/02/2014, 16:20

... the operational status of the system The types of tests selected and the frequency in which they are conducted depend on the importance of the system and the resources available for testing These ... for the testing organization to alert other security officers, management, and users that network mapping is taking place Since a number of these test mimic some of the signs of attack, the appropriate ... fill the gap between the state of the art in system development and actual operation of these systems Two, security testing is important for understanding, calibrating, and documenting the operational...

Ngày tải lên: 14/02/2014, 08:20