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... rate had doubled. These babies were born into a country where, unless you belonged to the Ceaus¸escu clan or the Communist elite, life was miserable. But these children would turn out to have ... others) If you are the sort of person who likes guessing games, you may wish to spend the next few moments pondering which of the preced- ing explanations seem to have merit and which don’t. Hint: ... during the 1990s. Any parent who has ever said to a recalcitrant child, “Okay, I’m going to count to ten and this time I’m really going to punish you, ” knows the differ- ence between deterrent

Ngày tải lên: 17/10/2013, 18:20

... Firm Before you buy your first stock, you need to know what kind of order to place. It is essential that you learn the vocabulary so that you? ??ll be able to communicate with your stock brokerage. ... purpose of a stop-loss order is to protect your profits (if the stock is a winner) or to cut your losses (if the stock is a loser). A stop-loss order instructs your brokerage to sell the stock at a ... easy to buy and sell stocks. If you have a stockbroker, you call the stockbroker on the phone (most brokerages also allow you to enter the order on their Web site) to place your order. If you

Ngày tải lên: 24/10/2013, 08:20

... unless we do something; but, the reality is that they may also die even if we do something. Therefore, what do we do? The remainder of this book tries to answer that question. So where do we begin? ... sides of the same coin. But for either to proceed, there have to be coins. What the coins do is pay for the job to be done. It is important, therefore, to have a sense of the costs involved – ... Californian language, where strategies found to be common in the formation of long-established words were used to create new ones: see Ahlers and Hinton (1997: 18) Where do we begin? 117

Ngày tải lên: 01/11/2013, 09:20

... Editor Reach for the stars Stomps Stick it to ‘em Right to the top Going global Key messages Fact sheet TOOLS Sample letters Where to write them Powerful web links Research reports and where to ... comes down to the seven major Hollywood studios and their choice to “greenlight” smoking in movies they want kids to see. Educating audiences and convincing the studios to stop smoking in youth-rated ... Reality Check Strikes Again!, Dec 6, 2003, you? ??re going to mail the letter to all the video stores on your list Remember, the letter will be given to you by Reality Check Central and will

Ngày tải lên: 07/03/2014, 14:20

... the color green. If you change the query to “tranquil scenes,” the problem becomes many -to- many: the many -to- one denotational link of features to “green hills,” and the one -to- many connotation- al ... robustness. Final thoughts What does the CMA philosophy bring to this situation? Does systematic attention to domain distinctives, such as film grammar, address these issues? With regard to evaluation, CMA ... techniques used by a domain’s content creators. This article seeks to provide a context for CMA through a review of MCM approaches. The semantic gap Many approaches to MCM are responses to the much-publicized

Ngày tải lên: 07/03/2014, 17:20

... conict with what they are asked to do in business. n As to where they expect to encounter those conicts, “downsizing” and “investing in less-developed countries” top the list. n Compared with ... As you decide whether to accept a job offer, how much importance will you place on whether your potential employer has: n The most important factor in students’ decisions about where to ... likely Very likely Not mind too much Quietly handle the stress Look for another job Speak up about your objections Try to get others to join you in addressing your concerns Experience it as

Ngày tải lên: 08/03/2014, 01:20

... anything, you want your transition from boots to suits to be a smooth one. You want to land a good job that pays well. The only thing standing in your way is your so-called resume. Explaining to would ... little work, yes. You? ??ll have to learn how to translate military skills into civilian terms. You? ??ll have to get used to the “civilian way” rather than the “military way.” You? ??ll find in this ... salute you for that! Now, though you were a civilian before, you? ??re facing another tough transition. You put your civilian life on hold and, lo and behold, a lot’s changed since you first donned

Ngày tải lên: 18/03/2014, 03:20

... RL33897 Where Do Older Americans Live? Geographic Distribution of the Older Population March 5, 2007 Kirsten J. Colello Analyst in Gerontology Domestic Social Policy Division Where Do Older ... States Total: 36,790,113 0 to 499,999 500,000 to 999,999 1,000,000 or more Number DCDC 0 to 499,999 1,000,000 or more Number DCDC United States Total: 36,790,113 0 to 499,999 500,000 to 999,999 1,000,000 ... the older population continues to increase in size and proportion, and as individuals continue to live longer post-retirement, changes in where older Americans live, or the “geographic distribution”of

Ngày tải lên: 22/03/2014, 13:20

... Control!" 8 "Offhand, I'd say today was your day to be cautious, quiet and respect- ful to your betters, namely me. However," she added in a conciliatory tone, "since you put it on a Budget ... the planets lined up in your scopes yet? Where are they? The Sacred Cow wants to know if they're all where they ought to be." Out in the observatory, designed to swing free on the north ... an annoyed tone. "Get the Cow to rework them into a solar pattern." "Yes, sir, Chief Blackhawk, sir. What did you think I was doing?" " ;You& apos;re getting them into the proper

Ngày tải lên: 22/03/2014, 18:20

... Economist VII ACKNOWLEDGMENTS Where Is the Wealth of Nations? has been written by a team including Kirk Hamilton, Giovanni Ruta, Katharine Bolt, Anil Markandya, Suzette Pedroso-Galinato, Patricia Silva, M. Saeed Ordoubadi, ... Database of Protected Areas Note: All dollar amounts are U.S. dollars unless otherwise indicated. [...]... heterogeneous set of assets (total wealth) is equal to the present value of future ... the asset base also opens the door to a range of policy interventions that can increase and sustain growth Where Is the Wealth of Nations? T he total wealth estimates reported

Ngày tải lên: 22/03/2014, 20:21

... copies bear this notice and the full citation on the first page To copy otherwise, to republish, to post on servers or to redistribute to lists, requires prior specific permission and/or a fee EuroSys’12, ... is used Hence ultimately, for an accounting tool to be informative to the developer, the profiling output needs to make explicit how the energy due to asynchronous power behavior such as tail ... Description Windows Mobile (on tytn2) Android (on magic) sd Skin Detection [26] syncdroid Mobile file sync lchess Local Chess [27] streamer Photo streaming pup Upload photo albums andoku Sudoku game

Ngày tải lên: 29/03/2014, 14:20

... However, they are subservient... The Totem How do we inspire people to connect with the real world? Can we use real world connections to inspire people to discover and share amazing places? ... Epiphany The Totem How do we inspire... • Now we re checking into television, books, video games, states of consciousness, and more • Overload is upon us Checking in isn’t cool You know what’s ... WHERE ARE GOING? @jw * Josh Wiiams We The Preface In the BEGINNING Where did we come om? What follows is a brief history of our bizarre journey from a web + UI boutique to a social

Ngày tải lên: 10/06/2014, 09:38

... If you are going to upload to Smashwords or to the Kindle, you will not have to worry about page numbers and headers, but you still want to use a page break between chapters and make sure your ... this reason, but you don’t want to rush the next book You want to make it as good and fresh as possible Will you look back on previous works and think, "Gee, I think I could have done better?" Maybe ... and you can’t please everybody Just your best and write your next book to improve your overall work You can hire an editor or proofreader or barter for these services I barter But I’ll tell you

Ngày tải lên: 27/06/2014, 23:20

... hazardous chemicals. The effect is to encourage tighter buildings, resulting in lower levels of exchange between indoor and outdoor air. Since indoor air is often more contaminated than outdoor ... critique is devoted to the LEED program’s failure to place enough emphasis on the indoor air in the built environment. Building materials are known to include many well-recognized toxic substances, ... chemical exposures and threats to health never previously experienced in human history. [...]... associated with exposure to PFOA, EPA estimated that health risks to young girls and women of childbearing

Ngày tải lên: 28/06/2014, 23:20

... individual motor speeds to velocity components V and V in the reference frame of xy the vehicle are given by [Holland, 1983]: a. Top view b. R Motor 2 of base Motor 1 Forward Motor 3 mdof01.ds4, mdof01.wmf, ... The odometry solution for most multi-degree-of-freedom (MDOF) configurations is done in similar fashion to that for differential drive, with position and velocity data derived from the motor (or ... of-freedom vehicle. MDOF configurations display exceptional maneuverability in tight quarters in comparison to conventional 2-DOF mobility systems, but have been found to be difficult to control

Ngày tải lên: 10/08/2014, 02:21

... attributed to the vertical component of the geomagnetic field. The dip effect varies with latitude, from no impact at the equator where the flux lines are horizontal, to maximum at the poles where ... advantages include high tolerance to shock and vibration, insensitivity to gravity effects, quick start-up, and good sensitivity in terms of bias drift rate and the random walk coefficient. Coil ... range is limited with respect to active ring-laser gyros, and the scale factor is prone to vary [Adrian, 1991]. Open-loop configurations are therefore most suited to the needs of low-cost systems

Ngày tải lên: 10/08/2014, 02:21

... visible and VDOP>10, switches to 2-D navigation. If HDOP>10, suspends 2-D navigation PDOP < (HDOP + 5 ) 22½ PDOP > (HDOP + 10 ) 22½ Rockwell NavCore V If 4 satellites visible and GDOP>13, ... Receiver 2-D/3-D DOP criterion PDOP equivalent Magellan If 4 satellites visible and VDOP >7, will switch to 2-D navigation. Enters 3-D navigation when VDOP<5. PDOP > (HDOP + 7 ) 22½ Magnavox ... different receivers have different DOP limits that cause them to switch to two dimensional navigation when four satellites are in view but the DOP becomes too high. This merely reflects the designer's

Ngày tải lên: 10/08/2014, 02:21

... Orlando, FL. LD90-3 Laser Rangefinder The RIEGL LD90-3 series laser rangefinder (see Figure 4.16) employs a near-infrared laser diode source and a photodiode detector to perform TOF ranging out to ... system is configured to look down at about a 30-degree angle on moving vehicles in a traffic lane as illustrated in Figure 4.12. AutoSense I uses a PIN photo-diode detector and a pulsed (8 ns) ... Laser trigger Lens Optical filter Detector Scanner interface Lens FO line diode Laser Start Stop Peak detector Range gate Detector Trigger circuit Threshold detector Ref 106 Part I Sensors for Mobile

Ngày tải lên: 10/08/2014, 02:21

... discrete range bins with individual TTL output lines: 0 to 1.83 meters (0 to 6 ft), 1.83 to 3.35 meters (6 to 11 ft), 3.35 to 6.1 meters (11 to 20 ft), and > 6.1 m (20 ft). Average radiated power ... is measured and used to calculate the distance to the object: where d = range to target c = speed of light F = beat frequency b F = repetition (modulation) frequency r F = total FM frequency deviation. ... maintain its position well enough to allow the robot to look for landmarks in a limited area and to match features in that limited area to achieve short processing time and to improve matching correctness

Ngày tải lên: 10/08/2014, 02:21

... Type B errors will of course occur together. The problem is therefore how to distinguish between Type A and Type B errors and how to compute correction factors for these errors from the measured ... improved odometry performance of up to two orders of magnitude over con- ventional mobile robots. It should be noted that the rather complex kinematic design of the MDOF vehicle is not necessary to ... Scanning detectors with fixed active beacon emitters Scanning emitter/detectors with passive retroreflective targets Scanning emitter/detectors... exceed 8 ft) as repeatedly measured by the docking

Ngày tải lên: 10/08/2014, 02:21