... interaction and regulation.48 Another example of the trade-offs of procrastination and trust can be found in the Internet’s absence of “quality of service,” a guarantee of bandwidth between one point and ... demonstration of a vulnerability of generativity: even in the 37 38 The Rise and Stall of the Generative Net custody of trained administrators, such machines could be commandeered and reprogrammed, and, ... as Herman Hollerith controlled the design and use of his tabulators 13 14 The Rise and Stall of the Generative Net The essence and genius of separating software creation from hardware construction...
... are beyond the latter’s scope.) And yet the elaborate webs of relationships between LCSH and LCC that have been created over the course of a century, by thousands of extremely perceptive professional ... delicacy, and importance of insects seen through a magnifying glass… Ask the sumtotal of the value of human life and we are puzzled with the length of the account and the multiplicity of items ... of the need for diligence and persistence in research, andof the requirement to check multiples sources, andof the need to look beyond the “first screen” display of any retrievals, scholars...
... provide all of the necessary skills and expertise • Solid understanding of measures intended to prevent and detect fraud • Awareness of financial fraud schemes and scenarios and knowledge of forensic ... internationalization of accounting standards may lead to a change in the language of accounting • The growth of outsourcing and an upsurge in the offshoring of services and manufacturing have ... political, and ecological spheres Outsourcing and offshoring are key elements of globalization that involves cross-border transactions, the movement of capital, and the integration of financial...
... interaction and regulation.48 Another example of the trade-offs of procrastination and trust can be found in the Internet’s absence of “quality of service,” a guarantee of bandwidth between one point and ... demonstration of a vulnerability of generativity: even in the 37 38 The Rise and Stall of the Generative Net custody of trained administrators, such machines could be commandeered and reprogrammed, and, ... as Herman Hollerith controlled the design and use of his tabulators 13 14 The Rise and Stall of the Generative Net The essence and genius of separating software creation from hardware construction...
... evolves and changes, so nations and their demographic and economic characteristics and cultural moorings And this can lead to a realignment of economic and migration links between different groups of ... futureof world migration It opens with Chapter 6, which deals in some detail with the Arab Spring and the consequences of the conflicts on migration in the Middle East and North Africa and beyond: ... hard to come out of the morass of the economic decline and leave the crisis behind The risks of a setback, however, still persisted; and despite the fledging signs of recovery and growth, many...
... vision of 4G andfuture mobile and wireless systems Such systems target the market of 2010 and beyond, aiming to offer support to mobile applications demanding data rates of 50 Mbps andbeyond ... 4G andBeyondand Related Research Issues Since 4G systems target the market of 2010 and beyond, there is time for 4G research and standards development So far, no 4G standard has been defined and ... for 4G andbeyond wireless systems 6.1.2 Scope of the Chapter This chapter provides a vision of some of the characteristics of 4G andfuture systems Section 6.2 describes the design goals and corresponding...
... Wireless banking and trading is only an extension of the product offerings for the financial institutions It is not an extension of web technology, as often perceived Online banking and online trading ... services, needs, and expectations of societies across continents, regardless of culture In the next twenty-four months and beyond, massive changes will occur in the way we interact with banks and trading ... CDMA, and GSM 3G is the third-generation of wireless It is expected to reach maturity between the years 2003 and 2005 3G is expected to delver enhanced voice and data and even video It is bandwidth...
... encyclopedic collection of rare and extraordinary cases, andof the most striking instances of abnormality in all branches ofmedicineand surgery, derived from an exhaustive research of medical literature ... monstrosities and dermoid cysts, for example, we seem to catch forbidden sight of the secret workroom of Nature, and drag out into the light the evidences of her clumsiness, and proofs of her lapses of ... an unseen hand reaching down into the world of matter and the workings of bodily organization, and reining them to impersonal service and far-off ends All ethnologists and students of primitive...
... confidence and reduce fear For some people this acts as a “balancer” of concern in the face of death; it helps to produce hope, creates a feeling of perspective andof control of the situation and gives ... suicide of an Argentinean veteran in the Falklands war; Born on the Fourth of July (1989) by Oliver Stone, on the consequences of the Vietnam war Reviews of the suffering of veterans or victims of ... profound valour and sensation of lack of meaning, of defencelessness and abandonment in which the victims are left Seeing these films can allow us to console ourselves, recognise and better perceive...
... the number of repeated frames Doing so, removes any hint of flickering, strobing and judder and creates a more compelling and engaging movie-going experience Films produced at 60 FPS, and then ... stages of production, The Hobbit and Avatar 2, will be shot at higher and likely differing frame rates There’s also limited experience and few standards, as yet, for the actual production of movies ... Christie and other technical partners to demonstrate a groundbreaking “proof of concept” screening of footage he shot at different frame rates, at CinemaCon 2011 Scenes of a medieval dinner feast and...
... details of how the annotations are done can be found in (Ayan et al., 2005) and (Ittycheriah and Roukos, 2005) 3.1 Align SU SG SI SA SB Phrase Lengths ofand Table presents the precision, recall, and ... from that of AER but is identical to that of CPER (with a phrase length of 3) for Chinese On the other hand, in Arabic, both AER and CPER provide a slightly different ranking from that of BLEU, ... 2005; Ittycheriah and Roukos, 2005; Taskar et al., 2005) The standard technique for evaluating word alignments is to represent alignments as a set of links (i.e., pairs of words) and to compare...
... Institutes of Health National Institute of Standards and Technology National Mammography Database OBBB OTA OWH Office of Bioengineering, Bioimaging, and Bioinformatics Office of Technology Assessment Office ... crucial to understand the value and limits of [screening] tests, and how they fit into the goals ofmedicine We are in danger of behaving as if all technological change is progress, andof confusing ... FLETCHER, M.D., M.Sc., Professor of Ambulatory Care and Prevention, Harvard School of Medicine, Harvard Pilgrim Health Care, Professor of Epidemiology, Harvard School of Public Health, Boston,...
... the futureof the long war, we identified a number of trends and uncertainties associated with the future combat environment This analysis, combined with our understanding of the components of ... Integration Center, and was conducted within RAND Arroyo Center’s Force Development and Technology Program RAND Arroyo Center, part of the RAND Corporation, is a federally funded research and development ... the fallout and reduce the influence of Salafi-jihadist propaganda Narrowing of Threat Because of the nature of the nationalist terrorist groups, any assistance would be mainly covert and would imply...
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... medical ethics and forging the intellectual and moral concept ofmedicine as a fiduciary profession and thereby inventing professional medical ethics and, therefore, the profession ofmedicine as ... Library of Scotland; the Wellcome Institute for the History of Medicine; McGill University; the College of Physicians of Philadelphia; and the National Library ofMedicine Manuscript and other ... University of Michigan, the University of Pittsburgh, the Cleveland Clinic, the New York Consortium for the History ofMedicine at the New York Academy of Medicine, and the History of Medicine...
... planets, stars, and galaxies) makes up a paltry percent of the total matter and energy content of the universe (Of that percent, most of it is in the form of hydrogen and helium, and probably only ... universe is expanding This confirmed the results of Einstein’s theory of general relativity, in which the architecture of space-time, instead of being flat and linear, is dynamic and curved This ... vocabulary, the laws of physics, carefully constructed after thousands of years of experimentation, are nothing but the laws of harmony one can write down for strings and membranes The laws of chemistry...
... and the binding of light chains and other components of the motor complex including the heavy chain and p150Glued subunit of dynactin [97] Poly-bivalency of DIC is a very important property of ... implications for design and use of multivalent ligands and inhibitors Angew Chem Int Ed 37, 2754–2794 Barbar E, Kleinman B, Imhoff D, Li M, Hays TS & Hare M (2001) Dimerization and folding of LC8, a highly ... binding strength and sequence is that lack of Gln0 decreases the overall affinity of the peptide A recent highthroughput (HTP) in silico analysis of the contribution of key residues and their context...
... traditional systems of health and biomedicine, not only from a medical, but also from a cultural and value-based standpoint 18 The Futureof Alternative Medicine Conclusions In the US and throughout ... traditional medicine on its agenda three times, and prepared and disseminated two documents about traditional medicine training and traditional medicine research The Office of Traditional Medicine ... Strategy of the Modernization of Chinese Materia Medica." By the Department of Science, Technology and Education of State Administration of Traditional Chinese Medicineand Institute of Information...