... hand
in Wallonia in the first decades of the nineteenth century. The provinces
of Hainault and Liège utilized 64 steam engines in 1804 but 1,334 in 1850,
an exceptional growth in a key component of ... lifestyle.
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By exploiting mines,
introducing new machinery, purchasing and selling land and houses, and
reinvesting profits, this family became one of the wealthiest of Belgium
around 1900. ... 24 Food Culturein Belgium
cuisine of the 1970s) is telling of the quality of Brussels restaurants. They
acknowledged the ability of chefs in Brussels and, in general, in Belgium
to combine the...
... Minimizing lateness/tardiness
ã Minimizing makespan
ã Maximizing system/machine utilization
ã Minimizing WIP (work in process)
ã Maximizing throughput
ã Minimizing average ow time
ã Minimizing ... routings. A routing is selected such that the following goals are achieved:
ã Minimizing number of blocked machines.
ã Minimizing total processing time.
ã Minimizing number of processing steps
Four ... Simulation of scheduling rules in a flexible
manufacturing system using fuzzy logic, IEA-AIE96 Ninth International Conference on Industrial
and Engineering Applicationof Artificial Intelligence...
... risk of being left behind.
Simply, CRM is a high-tech way of gathering mou-
ntains of information about customers, then using
it to make customers happy—or at least a source
of more business. ... on
behalf of human users to perform laborious and
routine tasks such as locating and accessing neces-
sary information, resolving inconsistencies in the
retrieved information, filtering away irrelevant
and ... irrelevant
and unwanted information, and integrating infor-
mation from heterogeneous information sources.
In order to execute tasks on behalf of a business
process, computer application, or an individual,
agents...
... ecosystems in most parts of the world. Research in
this area is beginning to gain some importance on the American continent, and has been
receiving attention in Europe. It is an area that requires investigation ... targeted in terms of mode of action, and often less persistent.
Organometallic compounds such as tributyl tin (TBT) were usually produced and added to
paints in order to prevent bio-fouling of ... industrial plant that exclusively produces a certain chemical. If such a plant is the
only one located in a certain region such as the bank of an estuary, for instance, and
discharges wastes into...
... Cholesterol travels in the blood in
distinct particles containing both lipid and proteins
(lipoproteins). Three major classes of lipoproteins are
found in the serum of a fasting individual: low density
lipoproteins ... that the decline in
risk begins within months after quitting.
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Randomized
clinical trials of smoking cessation in primary preven-
tion settings have revealed substantial reductions in
risk for ... categories shown in this table vary in cutpoints depending on
the results reported for each of the individual studies.
†
See List of Studies appendix for listing of the full names of these clinical trials.
Table...
... 45–60 minutes
Washing windows or floors for 45–60 minutes Playing touch football for 45 minutes
Gardening for 30–45 minutes Walking 1
3
/
4
miles in 35 minutes (20 min/mile)
Wheeling self in wheelchair ... 30 minutes
Walking 2 miles in 30 minutes (15 min/mile) Water aerobics for 30 minutes
Shoveling snow for 15 minutes Swimming laps for 20 minutes
Stairwalking for 15 minutes Basketball (playing ... wheelchair for 30–40 minutes Basketball (shooting baskets) for 30 minutes
Pushing a stroller 1
1
/
2
miles in 30 minutes Bicycling 5 miles in 30 minutes
Raking leaves for 30 minutes Dancing fast (social)...
... (DM)
domain. Being a noncanonical cysteine-rich DNA-
binding motif, this domain has two highly intertwined
finger structures that chelate one zinc ion each, and
binds to the minor groove of the ... in developing germ cells (Table 2).
In terms of inferred function(s), this incidentally indi-
cates that paralogs of dmrt1 in fish, although obviously
not involved in the first steps of gonadogenesis, ... cells. Interestingly, at this point, a
parallel can be drawn with Dmrt1 function studies in
mice. The lack of dmrt1 in mutant mice caused a high
incidence of teratomas and resulted in a failure of
germ...
... attempting to gain information about a com-
plainant’s personal past through seeking disclosure of a wide range of
records about her life, often including notes made within the context of
... “epistemic firewall” “sealing off recognizable injuries and
credible complaints.”
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In order to sustain inequality “it is necessary
that some kinds of people are ‘known’ going in to be liable to irrational
discontents, ... rule of law. As
Sossin explains, these rules often prevent bureaucrats from obtaining
adequate information from citizens and, more important, from sharing
information. In his view, such a legal culture...
... important in the examination of
images of breasts, this results in higher performance of PAM.
Using expert elicitation in the absence of clinical data, prior distributions of the range of sensitivity ... most common type of invasive breast cancer is the infiltrating ductal carcinoma, accounting for
approximately 60-80% of all the breast carcinomas [43]. Infiltrating lobular carcinomas are the ... are in conflict with the results obtained in the study of Hilgerink et al. However,
in this study only the diagnostic performance of PAM II was determined, where in the study of
Hilgerink et...
... activities including
harvesting, cutting roots and drying and collecting cassava chips. The difference in margin
is not big enough for them to try other options. If family inputs are imputed in production ... hedgerow avenue planting pattern was introduced to allow high light penetration
throughout the economic life of the trees. A spacing of tree rows at 18 to 25 meters maintains
a density of 400 to ... roads also hinder processing factories in urban areas from
competing with foreign traders in purchasing cassava because they have the disadvantage of
a higher cost of access to the place of production....
... was injured
in this game. Adding insult to injury, news reports misspelled her
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be three fifths of the starting lineup in 2003, joining Flint, MI
native Deanna Nolan and Elaine Powell of ... by
Charlotte’s Andrea Stinson got momentum on the Sting’s side,
resulting in a 16-3 scoring run that put the Shock behind. Detroit
pulled to within two in the final minutes but could get no ... Hlede
and Cindy Brown had struggled with injuries up to this point in
1999, but they were at last healthy and combined for 32 points in
a 91-71 shellacking of the Liberty. This win moved the...
... much
would remain of its original fine detailing and spatial
interest. Some minor exterior modifications have been
made in the course of remodeling, though the general
effect of the original facades ... discovering the spiritual meanings
embodied in Gill’s mature architecture.
The use of Moorish styling in the Krotona Inn and most
of the other prominent buildings of Krotona may be seen
as a strategy ... best views originally to be had from
within this building or from its roof terrace.
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by 97 feet...
... Coomassie staining
of the SDS–PAGE gel showed a very prominent
change in the binding profile of protein bands migra-
ting in the 60 kDa range (boxed area, Fig. 1C). In
particular, the intensity of these ... was maintained upon PTB
depletion, indicating that variations in PTB binding
are not the main reason for the skipping observed with
del_a and del_c, despite the strong increase in PTB
binding to ... RNAs. As in the Coomassie gel,
PTB binding was increased for the del_a mutant,
suggesting that its binding might be responsible for the
increased exon skipping in the del_a mutant. In con-
trast,...
... to Financial Services in Nigeria” shows that owning a business
has become the main source of income for 19.5 million adult Nigerians (EFInA, 2011).
23% of the respondents in this survey indicated ... ranking
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3.4 Inequality and conflict: why inequality matters in Nigeria
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3.5 North-South divide in life chances
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3.6 Income disparities between and within income groups
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3.7 Income inequality ... all of their lives in rural areas where they make a living mainly off the land but also
increasingly from agriculture- related non-farm activities and wage employment (NBS,
2009). This indicates...