... solid form and can be done after each brood or yearly or can be left for longer periods to add more litter and produce a "deep littering" system A summary of the waste collection alternatives for ... realistic options for using poultry biogas: @ Use it directly for cooking, lighting, space heating, water heating, grain drying or gas-fired refrigerating and airconditioning; @ Transform it into ... the belts for one week After drying on the belts for one week, the poultry manure has a dry matter content of about 45%15 Manure with a dry matter content of about 45% is unsuitable for transport...
... Project targets are often set forfuture dates (e.g., cost when the project is completed), and therefore modelers have often included managerial forecasting of performance As noted above, system ... effort) over the former (inadequate processes) They argue that Managers’ tendency to attribute performance shortfalls to problems with the workforce rather than the production system is reinforced ... important area forfuture research What project conditions should managers use as the basis for project control decisions? What should managers when a project is forecast to fall short of performance...
... Analogy 241 Futuredirections and implications applied in epidemiology and other social sciences Not all of the criteria are equally relevant for all disorders Van Reekum et al (2001), for example, ... below, may well be stronger for social risk indicators than it is for social risk factors; this should both temper the claims that can be made and further emphasise the need for research that directly ... Austin Bradford Hill (1965) proposed a series of criteria against which causation could be judged (see Table 15.1) These have been widely used and Table 15.1 Bradford Hill’s criteria for assessing...
... statistics and lack of information sharing 50 7.3 Conclusion and Recommendations .51 Formulate formal and simple rules for information sharing Recommendations for the Five-year Plan ... plan for a coherent financial sector structure Analyze the current and forecast the future structure of the financial sector; Formulate objectives for regulating the financial sector in the future; ... lack of formal and simple rules for information sharing This situation may have been making hard fort government officials to make optimal policies in a timely manner The rules for information...
... Combat – A Report by the Society for Women’s Health Research in men.10 For more information regarding criteria for diagnosing PTSD, please refer to Figure I For a discussion of the neurobiological ... caregiver for family members – not only for their children, but also for their aging parents The stress of extended deployments for these women is compounded by the demands of caring for their ... Care for Combat-Related PTSD A study published in 2004 found that for those Iraq war returnees who screened positive for a moderate to severe mental health disorder and wished to receive help for...
... Bank led the formation of the International Forum for Utility Regulation, an umbrella structure to support capacitybuilding for utility regulators, as well as the South Asian Forum for Infrastructure ... much as not -for- profit firms In sectors where consumers place a premium on trust, for example, in health and education services not -for- profit providers may be able to out-perform for- profit firms ... sometimes appropriate for formal small and medium firms as well as entrepreneurs in informal settings, for example, in rural areas Such support may comprise both finance and advice, for example, rural...
... systems in widespread use for storing symbolic information The AI community, of course, has a number of methods for maintaining more sophisticated knowledge bases of, say, formulas in first-order ... access to a database expect not only to retrieve information directly stored there, but also to compute "reasonable" derivative information For example, if a database has the location of two ... performed by a database administrator, rather than by a computational linquist When this is achieved, natural-language access to data is likely to move rapidly into widespread use E Future Directions...
... lost the ability to form a virus particle Foreign genes can be inserted into the provirus DNA Such recombinant provirus DNAs can be cloned and used as vehicles for inserting the foreign gene into ... nucleus A transformed cell may contain from 20 to 100 copies of the BPV episome It appears that some of the genes necessary for the oncogenic transformation properties of BPV are not needed for its ... version for attribution New Directionsfor Biosciences Research in Agriculture: High-Reward Opportunities http://www.nap.edu/catalog/13.html CONTENTS xiii The Optimal Climate for Basic Research Introduction...
... Marxist and feminist formulations.11 In summary, Iseminger's new aestheticism as formulated in theses F' and V' is suspect in 11 I look at the Deweyan approach in sections and below For introductions ... an aesthetic one In conclusion, we need to look elsewhere for the genuinely aesthetic considerations necessary for a new aestheticism For Dewey 'the actual work of art is what the product does ... sufficient condition for being 28 JEFFREY PETTS an artwork.14 Still, Shusterman continues that aesthetic experience is a general background condition for art; it is necessary for art's existence,...
... Strategic Directionsfor Injury Prevention and Safety Promotion 2009–2012 Strategic Directionsfor Mental Health Promotion 2009–2012 Strategic Directionsfor Quality Management 2009–2012 Strategic Directions ... Prevention 2009–2012 Strategic Directionsfor Communicable Disease Prevention and Control 2009–2012 Strategic Directionsfor Environmental Health 2009–2012 Strategic Directionsfor HIV/AIDS, Hepatitis ... Promotion and Protection Plan for the Division of the Chief Health Officer 2009–2014 Strategic Directionsfor Cancer Prevention and Control 2009–2012 Strategic Directionsfor Chronic Disease Prevention...
... Experience and Directionsfor Reform EAP Task Force, Paris OECD (2004), Reform of Pollution Charges in the Russian Federation: Assessment of Progress and Opportunities and Constraints for Further ... staff resource problems The Council for Statistics, for example, has only two staff 32 responsible for environmental statistics for the whole country (State Council for Statistics, 2004) Regional ... due charge payments, and, therefore, no incentive to reduce pollution This problem clearly calls for monitoring actual emissions, at least for major polluters and for a limited number of pollutants...
... recommendations 13 For example, platforms and other capabilities for counterdrug efforts might be adapted to also provide for WMD detection, monitoring, and interdiction; many assets made available for NSSEs ... demand exists for forces (e.g., performing a given number of alerts and flying a given number of combat air patrols) Since the Air Force uses the AEF construct as its means for presenting forces to ... civil authorities for natural and manmade domestic emergencies, civil disturbances, and designated law enforcement efforts Homeland Security 17 for short-term requirements, planning for longer-term...
... above-ground, temporary petroleum pipelines for providing wholesale fuel support to all U.S land-based forces, including Air Force, Marine Corps, and Navy forces ashore Yet this petroleum pipeline ... document project findings that inform the U.S Army on the anticipated future requirements for a petroleum pipeline capability, provide an assessment of a range of options for meeting those requirements, ... examination of alternative force designs is not intended to be exhaustive but to provide stimulus for the more detailed force development work inherent in the process for modifying TO&E documents...
... performance This separation is necessary because n-butenes are required in the pure form for producing pure butene-1, as a co-monomer for polymerization of ethylene, feed for acrylates, and for ... ban MTBE in California from 2003 will force refiners to look for a new fuel additive and will probably have adverse implications for the existing and proposed production units for MTBE and other ... Design Aspects for Reactive Distillation Columns 169 Introduction 169 Hardware for Homogeneous Reactive Distillation 169 Case Study for Methyl Acetate Production 173 Hardware for Heterogeneous...
... to the surroundings (e.g., heel strike) in the form of heat, plastic deformation, sound, or other forms, and 2) motion in which the muscles perform negative work Exploiting Riemer and Shapiro ... 2.2 1.07 1.1 J 50 Page of 13 *** 0.8 1.3 (*) Except for calculations for center of mass and heel strike, all other calculations were performed for an 80-kg person, assuming a walking frequency ... rotary magnetic devices to harvest energy Possible directionsforfuture research are the innovative design of magnetic machines that reduce the need for high rotary speeds, improvement of the power...
... sensor per foot to determine ground contact and force distribution between the feet during double stance, eight single-axis force sensors for use in force control of each of the actuators, and an ... changes in the efficiency with which the body performed the required work for each cycle There are many applications for this class of exoskeleton For example, a crutch was constructed with an orthotic ... balance on its own, but the human wearer must provide a forward guiding force to direct the system during walking The control system utilizes the information from eight encoders and sixteen linear accelerometers...
... typing information to narrow down the set of potential donors for a given patient, so these http://www.jiasociety.org/content/12/1/10 individuals could be tested for CCR5-delta32 before costly ... donor homozygous for CCR5-delta32 [4] The patient was classified as being in CDC Stage 2, and had been on HAART for five years with a proportion of CXCR4 using strains (×4) of 2.9% before transplantation ... programmes: CCR5 status testing may not be currently covered by the informed consent given by volunteers Information strategies must therefore be carefully devised in order to avoid detrimental effects...
... Methods and technologies for designing, building, and evaluating TUIs are also addressed Finally, we discuss the strengths and limitations of TUIs and chart directionsforfuture research 1 Introduction ... provided in a Futurelab report on Tangibles and Learning [174] Jorda [124] provides an overview of the history of and motivation for music performance tangible interfaces 22 4.1 TUIs for Learning ... plans, e.g., for task end dates Finally, Senseboard [120] is a TUI for organizing and grouping discrete pieces of abstract information by manipulating pucks within a grid An application for scheduling...