... Kazakhstan Spain Portugal Bulgaria SriLanka Bangladesh India Middle East East Asia Sub-saharan Latin Europe & and North and Pacific Africa America & Central Asia Africa Caribbean Europe High Income ... Assessing Advances and Challenges in Technical Education in Brazil A WORLD BANK STUDY Assessing Advances and Challenges in Technical Education in Brazil Rita Almeida, Nicole Amaral, and Fabiana ... (Secretaria da Educação Estado de São Paulo), Secretariat of Labor of São Paulo State (Secretaria Trabalho Estado de São Paulo), Centro Paula Souza (São Paulo State network of vocational and technical...
... theprogram prob1d.c that will use the library Compile the program, either statically or dynamically linking it against your library (and sqlite3) Submit via Stellar a copy of your code and the ... for a few illuminating test cases For instance, "Citizen Kane", "Casablanca" and "Gone with the Wind" are all inthe database (d) For this final part, you will create your own library from the ... your programIn particular, you should provide the following functions: – int initialize db (const char ∗ filename); – loads the SQLite database from file filename and reads the contents into a B-tree,...
... is the lowest nonzero Neumann eigenvalue of −∆ in G.) The following Lemma generalizes (to an arbitrary body G) a particular case ofthe first part of Theorem 10.1.2 in [9] (see also Lemma 2.1 in ... family of arbitrary bodies homothetic to a standard bounded domain which is star-shaped with respect to a ball Instead of locally integrable potentials V ≥ we consider positive measures We also include ... by the Department of Mathematics and the Robert G Stone Fund at Northeastern University The research ofthe second author was partially supported by NSF grant DMS-0107796 920 VLADIMIR MAZ’YA AND...
... example, the blink rider artifact overlapping a saccade is separated into a blink waveform and a saccade waveform The quality of separation of eye and brain activity depends on the quality ofthe ... the total variance ofthe data A covariance matrix contains the variance related to the experimental manipulations A correlation matrix contains the experimental variance for standardized measurements ... can alleviate the distortion of topography that results from spatial noise (i) The Experimenter Must Use Statistical Analyses That Are Appropriate to Both the Nature ofthe Data and the Goal of...
... p-Laplacian eigenvalues were obtained in [18] by generalizing Lyapunov inequality [15], a classical tool in oscillation theory The paper is organized as follows: in Section we prove the main Theorems ... differential equations involving a parameter, Transactions ofthe American Mathematical Society 354 (2002), no 12, 4751–4767 [22] W Walter, Sturm-Liouville theory for the radial Δ p -operator, Mathematische ... retarded argument, Journal of Mathematical Analysis and Applications 41 (1973), no 2, 293–299 [21] K Takaˆi and M Naito, On the number of zeros of nonoscillatory solutions to half-linear ordinary...
... Publishing Program) , Massachusetts, 1985 [2] Q Kong, Interval criteria for oscillation of second-order linear ordinary differential equations, Journal of Mathematical Analysis and Applications ... oscillation theorems for a class of quasilinear elliptic equations, Annali di Matematica Pura ed Applicata Series IV 175 (1998), 277–283 [5] A Wintner, A criterion of oscillatory stability, Quarterly of ... references therein Inthe qualitative theory of nonlinear partial differential equation, one ofthe important problems is to determine whether or not solutions ofthe equation under consideration are...
... medical information) participated inthe review In addition to the guidelines, each evaluator was asked to read the AGREE instrument training manual [4] and received a 2-hour training Page of 12 (page ... funding bodies are clearly stated A domain score is calculated by adding the scores ofthe items ina domain and by standardizing the total out of 100% Domain scores greater than 60% are considered ... Poitras et al based approach to the management of knee osteoarthritis: Report ofa Task Force ofthe Standing Committee for International Clinical Studies Including Therapeutic Trials (ESCISIT) Ann...
... ESRS dyskinesia items equal or 1) ESRS score assignments of mild as a rating of or and moderate as a rating of on the physician's examination for dyskinesia subscale were based on a prior analysis ... Each item is rated from (absent) to (severe and constant) Raters were trained on the ESRS using training tapes at a multicenter investigators' meeting held to standardize procedures Investigators ... Changes in scores from baseline to endpoint (last observation carried forward) were analyzed using two-sided paired T tests or repeated measure analysis Mean values and their standard deviation...
... accessed, inserted, and deleted only from the end, called the top, ofthe stack Data1 Data2 Data3 Data2 Data1 Data1 Data3 Data2 Data2 Data1 Data3 Data2 Data1 Data1 Data1 Liang, Introduction to Java Programming, ... are inserted into the end (tail) ofthe queue, and are accessed and deleted from the beginning (head) ofthe queue Data1 Data2 Data3 Data2 Data1 Data1 Data3 Data2 Data1 Data3 Data3 Data2 Data1 ... extending the linked list class MyArrayList MyStack MyLinkedList MyQueue – Using composition: You can declare an array list as a data field inthe stack class, and a linked list as a data field in...
... by Masuduzzaman and Rangaiah (2008) The popular methods used by academia inthe field of chemical engineering are a posteriori methods using scalarization approach (i.e weighting and εconstraint ... Increasing attention and emphasis are being placed on sustainability For example, an Inter-Ministerial Committee on Sustainable Development (IMCSD) has been established in Singapore in February ... Operating inthe “sustainable” zone does not imply that the world has to maintain a particular way of life that is deemed optimal; rather, this state would change with demands as well as any...
... Cocapata), inthe Province of Ayopaya, Department Cochabamba, Bolivia, approximately 120 km north-west ofthe city of Cochabamba The large and remote province of Ayopaya is among the poorest areas ... but was principally stated as “buena parada”, which targets a “square appearance” ofthe animal with a 36 TRADITIONAL LLAMA HUSBANDRY AND BREEDING MANAGEMENT INTHE AYOPAYA REGION, BOLIVIA ... data for breeding male llamas in Ayopayaa Average age of ‘machos’ at selection for breeding Average productive life of ‘machos’ Actual age of ‘machos’ inthe herd at the time ofthe survey Actual...
... general spectrum ofthe research area, followed by the empirical approach that has the major role of investigating the applicability ofthe theoretical models inthe real economy framework If inthe ... financial crisis Inthe particular case of Malta, the coordination between the nominal convergence criteria, allowed a decrease ofthe inflation rate and budget deficit, the stability ofthe ... following policies elaborated by the national governments ofthe states that are inthe position of adopting euro inthe near future, taking into consideration the fact that they capture, based...
... construction stage For each ofthe three main constructions stages there are number of subconstruction stages The main construction stages and sub construction stages were illustrated in Table The role of ... input, easiness to understand and use, and so forth The most essential factors for choosing the MCA technique is the easiness of understanding by the analyst, the stakeholders and use Ref [16] stated ... Master in civil engineering from University Kebangsaan Malaysia E-mail address: ibrahiem.moadmawi.ak@gmail.com Lariyah Mohd Sidek Associate Professor in Civil Engineering, Universiti Tenaga Nasional,...
... Reasonable board presentation, clear handwriting and drawings, clear and standard speech; adequate lesson plan (2 points) Planning (4 points) Flexible organization of all stages and processes, reasonable ... understand and follow - the objectives are clear and achievable - there is an awareness of student problems - the teacher understands and can explain the plan - the lesson plan shows a good understanding ... ofthe activities is appropriate - there is a variety of activities - the teacher uses a variety of media e.g blackboard, other visuals etc - the teacher uses a variety of questioning strategies...
... market value as any other share of common stock from the organization Employees ofthe company were educated about the financial rewards system via intranet, written communication, and training ... stock had no real market value Rather, these stock grants would, at a future vesting date, “turn into” actual shares ofthe company’s real stock In other words, when granted, the restricted stock ... and the interaction of performance with those control variables They then used the first derivative oftheresults as a measure of each individual’s pay-for-performance relationship In Kahn and...
... ranges of behavior: the elastic range, the plastic range (during which the material flows at a constant stress), the strain-hardening range, and the range during which necking occurs, terminating ... Tests also indicated that strain hardening of cold-driven rivets resulted in an increase in strength.3.1 Although only a few tests are available; they indicate that the increase in strength of ... the resistance ofthe member, as illustrated in Fig 2.5 The shaded area indicates a finite probability of failure As the overlap increases, the shaded area, and consequently the failure probability,...
... the capacity of local institutions through a learning-by-doing process, gradually increasing the level of local officials’ involvement inthe course ofthe reintegration programme Initially these ... Demobilization and Reintegration Programme [MDRP] inthe Great Lakes Area), there has been a great deal of institutional resistance The Bank defines the fragile states it is involved with as its ... multilateral organizations or international NGOs, or working through an often incapable state, may choose the ‘middle way’ of local capacity-building through learning-by-doing, as was the case in...
... What States Can Do Fully addressing the barriers that children and parents face in accessing health care requires action at the national and state level But even without federal action, there are ... 2007, and 2008, representing information from calendar years 2005, 2006, and 2007 NCCP averaged three years of data because of small sample sizes in less populated states The national data were calculated ... enrolled in Medicaid receive an annual EPSDT health screen Ages 1-2 Connecticut Delaware District of Columbia Iowa Maine Massachusetts Rhode Island Ages 3-5 Delaware District of Columbia Iowa Massachusetts...
... pattern: along the a- axis, the same in- plane arrangement of Mn3+ and Mn4+ is stacked and the neighboured planes are antiferromagnetically coupled via super-exchange interaction On the other hand, charge-ordering ... increase of Mn4+ content plays a crucial role in variations of magnetic properties ofthe samples We found that the charge-ordering state coexists with a antiferromagnetic state at temperatures ... remarkable at high magnetic field variation Acknowledgements The work at Hanoi National University was supported by National Fundamental Research Program 421.104 and part ofthe Vietnam-Italia...
... identified Among the most significant are those that contain gamma-aminobutyric acid (GABA), glutamate, noradrenaline, serotonin, dopamine and acetylcholine Many drugs may cause disturbances inthe ... disaster, which struck in 1961, stimulated national and international action towards assuring thesafetyof medicinal drugs and reducing the risk of adverse reactions to them The response ofthe ... World Health Assembly culminated ina few years in an international system of drug safety monitoring One effect of this system was that the pharmaceutical industry overcame its mistrust of drug...