... circular economy changes the financial landscape ING, as a large financial institution, plays a pivotal role in financing sustainable transitions From past experience we already know that sustainability ... shows that clients who are leading in sustainability are more innovative, show better financial performance and have better credit ratings Directing more assets and capital to sustainable businesses ... collateral and its value From linear to circular banking wisdom Financial institutions can facilitate the transition towards acircular economy in many ways Chapter describes them in detail...
... GaAs spacer, 40 Å AlAs barrier, 50.9 Å GaAs QW, 42 Å Al0.4Ga0.6As barrier, 51 Å GaAs spacer, 0.1 μm n-GaAs (1 × 1017 cm-3), and 0.51 μm n-GaAs (1 × 1018 cm-3) Circular mesas of 400 μm diameter ... the QW and contact layers split into spin-up and spin-down Zeeman states and the optical recombination can occur with well-defined selection rules giving information about the spin polarization ... FE PL intensity decreases and a new lower energy PL line abruptly appears and gain intensity at expense of the exciton PL This abrupt transfer was explained by a phenomenological dynamical model...
... for a given spacing, the correlation in the transverse plane increases when the axial distance increases, at least until the end of a zone, named Ain Figure 9, occurring at a point called “breakpoint ... of an MIMO link ina straight tunnel having an arched cross-section, which is the shape of most road and railway tunnels The transmitting and receiving arrays are supposed to be linear arrays, ... It also appeared that K is an increasing function of distance, reaching dB at about 400 m Empirical formulas to model the main propagation characteristics were proposed and applied to generate...
... Propagation of simulated action potentials (APs) ina single linear chain of 100 myocardial cells Figure Propagation of simulated action potentials (APs) ina single linear chain of 100 myocardial ... membranes contain fast Na+ channels at a higher density than that in the surface sarcolemma [9,15,16] Transverse propagation also occurred by the same EF mechanism between adjacent parallel chains ... Figure summary that chain of varies with gj-channels velocity inin the singlequantitates how the the number Graphic simulated cardiac APs100 cells propagation of Graphic summary that quantitates how...
... chains, the propagation velocity in the core chain was the same as that in the surface chain, as found in the present study In summary, the present study demonstrates that longitudinal propagation ... propagation Theor Biol Med Mod 2005, :17 Koura T, Hara M, Takeuchi S, Ota K, Okada Y, Miyoshi S, Watanabe A, Shiraiwa K, Mitamura H, Kodama I, Ogawa S: Anisotropic conduction properties in canine ... of each chain in order to limit the total number of traces to 60 (20 chains × markers/chain) All electrical parameters were the standard values; the variables were as follows One variable was...
... to as CJICF), and the second part looked at the effects of jet exit geometry on the characteristics of non -circular jet ina cross flow In all cases, the cross flow was maintained ina laminar ... A Dantec hot-film probe connected to a Dantec constant temperature anemometer channeled the signals to a data acquisition board ina computer after appropriate signal filtering and conditioning ... dynamics, as well as allowing still images to be captured via a frame grabber card ina PC 21 Chapter : Experimental Setup and Techniques 2.5 Laser-Induced Fluorescence (LIF) Apparatus Setup A Spectra-Physics...
... static patch load and concentrated load using Laplace-Hankel integral transforms Zimmerman and Stern (1994) obtained several analytical solutions for some basic problems of harmonic wave propagation ... the investigations on wave propagations in poroelastic media have generally adopted either analytical methods or finite element schemes A number of investigators have succeeded in obtaining analytical ... Christiano (1986), Philippacopoulos (1988) and Senjuntichai and Rajapakse (1994) Rajapakse and Senjuntichai (1993) obtained the fundamental solutions for a poroelastic half-space under applied a static...
... (20…) 1-6 ABCD matrix form can be considered as a product of three parts: an input matrix X , including the input coax-to-antenna transition, transmission T , and an output matrix Y , including the ... J Roelvink and S Trabelsi, "A calibration technique for measuring the complex permittivity of materials with planar transmission lines," in 2013 IEEE International Instrumentation and Measurement ... Ghodgaonkar V V Varadan, and V K Varadan "A free-space method for measurement of dielectric constants and loss tangents at microwave frequencies," IEEE Transactions on Instrumentation and Measurement,...
... and an accompanying stress (a so-called pre-stress) the CR IP T propagation of Rayleigh-type surface waves ina principal plane of the underlying deformation was examined in detail in Ogden and ... theory for an isotropic material Dowaikh and Ogden (1990) analyzed the propagation of surface waves ina principal plane of a deformed half-space and the limiting case of CE surface instability ... preceding sections we have analyzed the combined effect of a uniform initial stress and finite deformation on the propagation of harmonic waves of infinitesimal amplitude ina half-space of elastic...
... switching in waveguides with broadband delayed Raman response and narrowband nonlinear gain-loss, and explain their advantages compared with other broadband nonlinear waveguides The rest of the paper ... with broadband delayed Raman response, linear gain-loss, and narrowband nonlinear gain-loss We showed that the combination of Raman-induced amplitude shifts in interchannel collisions and single-pulse ... Since we consider waveguides with broadband delayed Raman response and narrowband nonlinear gain-loss, Raman-induced intersequence interaction is taken into account, while intersequence interaction...
... doing something, the other threads can handle the user inputs and perform the tasks For example, if a user wants to cancel bringing ina large amount of data from a web page, a single threaded ... running at a higher priority can immediately react and cancel the operation When Not to Use Threads… Using multiple threads in an application does not guarantee any kind of a performance gain ... constantly interacting with the program, are independent activities The performance of an application can be improved by creating a separate thread for performing each of these activities rather...
... and coordination, and in drafting the manuscript BEH participated in the design of the study and the statistical analysis, and participated in drafting the manuscript BHV participated in the design ... HEMS training programme, intraosseous training was given using manual needles, Bone Injection Guns, and EZ-IO® on both manikins and cadavers All HEMS physicians have used the technique on patients ... study, and the drafting of the manuscript and tables and figures All authors have read and approved the final manuscript Competing interests The authors declare that they have no competing interests...
... such as endoscopy [66-72] Non-cardiac chest pain, defined most simply as recurrent episodes of unexplained retrosternal pain in patients lacking a cardiac abnormality after a reasonable evaluation, ... chest pain In order for chiropractors to have a role in managing chest pain from the point of entry, they must acquire and demonstrate competence in diagnosing the complaint Chest pain can have a ... chest pain, whether as a main presenting complaint or as a co-morbid condition The prevalence and clinical management, both diagnosis and treatment, of musculoskeletal chest pain in ambulatory...
... Relief-Web (a media and NGO repository maintained by the Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs), the Uppsala Conflict Database Program (a database that contains information on armed conflicts ... census data that can provide region-specific demographic and mortality data However, in many settings affected by conflict, populations are displaced, census data is out-of-date and Health Information ... death certificates Death certificates may vary in quality; some provide specific causes of death, others not In many settings lacking infrastructure, particularly among displaced populations, authorities...
... data analysis and interpretation, and drafting of the manuscript, NS, MB, JT, JV, JV, CA, PA, EV, JCH, AY, WP and CC participated in the study design, data acquisition and drafting of the manuscript ... peak plasma creatinine > 2.5 mg/dl, Peak plasma urea nitrogen > 60 mg/dl, dialysis or continuous venovenous haemofiltration Table Causes of mortality in the patient group Variable Standard treatment ... manuscript All authors read and approved the final manuscript Available online http://ccforum.com/content/12/5/R120 Additional files The following Additional files are available online: Additional file...
... clinically relevant and irrelevant findings, and simply reported on all abnormalities [12] At present, in many ICUs CXRs are still routinely obtained on a daily basis, at least in The Netherlands ... design and statistical analysis of the study MS conceived and coordinated the study and was involved in the interpretation of the data and manuscript revision All authors read and approved the final ... journal on the utility of daily routine CXRs in clinical decision making in the ICU In that study, a questionnaire was completed for each radiograph, addressing the indication for the radiograph and...
... medication within the last seven days before the examination was ascertained by an instrument for database-assisted online collection of medication data (IDOM) [19] The following substance classes ... Greifswald, Greifswald, Germany 7Central Hospital of Augsburg, MONICA/KORA Myocardial Infarction Registry, Augsburg, Germany 8Ludwig-Maximilians-University, Institute of Medical Data Management, ... Germany Authors’ contributions ES was responsible for the data analysis, interpretation of data and manuscript preparation JH and ES developed the statistical analysis plan SK, HS, SG, CM, MH, AP,...
... arrest) Gastrointestinal complications* Other Sepsis Cardiovascular Gastrointestinal Gastrointestinal bleeding Liver failure/cirrhosis review Acute COPD exacerbation Gastrointestinal commentary Respiratory ... determine the percentage of routine and non-routine radiographs that change management in our medical–surgical ICU, and to determine the specific resultant management changes Materials and methods ... changed management In surgical patients with ICU stays shorter than 48 hours, a smaller percentage of routine CXRs (17%) resulted ina change in management In both the medical and surgical patients,...