... technologically literate person cannot knowhow each new technology works, its advantages and disadvantages, howto operate it, and so on, but he or she can learn enough about a product to put itto good ... enough to exercise their control with a wholesome discretion, the remedy is not to take it from them, but to inform their discretion by education This is the true corrective of abuses of constitutional ... (NRC) The committee’s charge was to begin to develop among relevant communities a common understanding of what technological literacy is, how important itisto the nation, and howit can be achieved...
... allows visitors to a website to search an artist name within that larger database, and the results returned would only encompass information relating to compact discs, rather than to book titles ... online registration process This process could include a way to send the registrant an email with specific directions to the facility without requiring the person to go to a third-party website for ... structure of data However, one major benefit of setting up a service-oriented architecture is that it doesn’t matter which language or protocol is used Instead, the process can be written to be used...
... allows visitors to a website to search an artist name within that larger database, and the results returned would only encompass information relating to compact discs, rather than to book titles ... online registration process This process could include a way to send the registrant an email with specific directions to the facility without requiring the person to go to a third-party website for ... structure of data However, one major benefit of setting up a service-oriented architecture is that it doesn’t matter which language or protocol is used Instead, the process can be written to be used...
... some 60 households Local community leaders are chosen to promote SODIS in their community This one does it with charisma and dedication, assisted by his wife SODIS is very popular in hot tropical ... itis not complete ; itis a selective sample with the main emphasis on dissemination issues These issues are discussed further in Chapters and on the specific marketing and social marketing issues ... population is accustomed to boiling water Unfortunately, very little is known about this dissemination process and, since Everett Rogers ' s studies, little follow-up research has been done on this topic...
... individual atoms and manufacturing from the bottom up Major Aspects of Nanotechnology •What is it? How did it come about? •What are the social implications? •What does this mean for the future? History ... Nanotechnology •What is it? How did it come about? •What are the social implications? •What does this mean for the future? Definitions • Nano means one billionth • Nanotechnology - Deals with moleculues ... beams Major Aspects of Nanotechnology •What is it? How did it come about? •What are the social implications? •What does this mean for the future? Positive Effects on Society Above: Nanomachines...
... will eventually slows to a stop The reason the ball slows to a stop is because of friction Friction is a force that always opposes motion in a direction that is opposite to the motion of the ... situations in which you would want to increase the air resistance A good example is the use of a parachute on a dragster to help it stop the vehicle or the flaps on an airplane to help slow it ... are made and how hard the surfaces are pressed together Ice is more slippery than concrete; therefore, ice has less friction or less resistance to slippage A heavier brick is harder to push and...
... workability Data were coded to SSW if they referred to the fit between the new technology and existing skill sets, or efforts made to teach the requisite skills to users In many ways PACS fit well with ... they visited patients, and hence providing access to the patient record during home visits: ‘You’ve seen how streamlined they are quite you know petite You can put them in your pocket.’ –CS3 IT ... department with five or six web browsing terminals, and they just went in and they [clinical staff] were shown howto get into their patient; they were shown howto pick an image, and howto adjust...
... inflammatory arthritis cohort to demonstrate a remission rate of over 58% in patients with PsA Remission, defined by DAS28, has been validated in PsA biologic therapy trials, and shown to be more ... rheumatoid arthritis Ann Rheum Dis 2004, 63:149-155 12 Saleem B, Nizam S, Emery P: Can remission be maintained with or without further drug therapy in rheumatoid arthritis? Clin Exp Rheumatol 2006, ... Lazovskis J, Pinheiro Gda R, Karateev D, et al.: Women, men, and rheumatoid arthritis: analyses of disease activity, disease characteristics, and treatments in the QUEST-RA study Arthritis Res...
... Critical Care Vol 13 No Christaki implications of endotoxin tolerance continue to be elusive [4] Although endotoxin tolerance has been implicated in increased susceptibility to secondary ... models of sepsis have exhibited a protective role of endotoxin tolerance [9-11] Using a model similar to that of endotoxin tolerance [12], the authors attempted to mimic VAP pathogenesis by using ... other critical illness prior to the development of septic shock in the group of patients with VAP Thus, itis hard toknow whether any of the above-mentioned factors independently contributed to the...
... afraid to hire or retain experts to help with the conversion When entering unknown territory, it pays to bring an experienced guide The Bottom Line There’s no need to be afraid of DC powering It ... • anticipated rate of growth The BDFB is typically equipped with circuit breakers or fuses and serves DC power to multiple racks of equipment This secondary power distribution isto a dedicated ... down a lot of equipment • There is A-B power redundancy to each individual piece of equipment • Itis easier to monitor the DC power plant • Cable management is cleaner Riding the Learning Curve...
... The asymptotic distribution of likelihood ratio statistic under the null hypothesis is not known a priori Therefore, one has to simulate this distribution for each hypothesis that needs to be tested ... try to value its vineyards and their output without reference to the character that they inherit from the place where the wine is produced Consumers who visit producers are particularly sensitive ... constitute the cuvaison, the wine is separated from its lees The free-run juice is the wine of better quality, while the remainder is pressed one or several times, resulting in press-wine which is...
... the weight of this history to work, that is, to demonstrate that the difficult present event pales in comparison to the substance of the history of the relationship If this history is characterized ... great chance to work And this means that so long as a bit of trying exists (and, itis hoped, each partner possesses the necessary emotional shock absorbers to be able to tolerate dissatisfaction), ... consists of agreed-on and typical ways the partners respond to the world how they see it as well as how they meld their responses to one another It s about commonality And itis precisely this...
... What You Need toKnowis a concise, fully-referenced resource about bird flu within the larger context of transmittable poultry diseases and disease-causing practices It shows howto find healthy, ... steps: Isolate the radicals Cultivate the idealists and “educate” them into becoming realists Co-opt the idealists and realists into agreeing with industry This is a divide and conquer strategy ... feathers into and mental status.” credits to Cargill for supplying disposable diapers and tampons Still methane to power lights in the another is breeding chickens without city This is a new commodificafeathers...
... (intersite distance approximately 300 m), and limited to pure capacity enhancing sites A further issue with such a feature is that existing equipment is limited in how fast it can be switched, with ... solution to this isto install the RF module in close proximity to the antenna, with an optical connection linking it back to the system module As illustrated in Figure 2, these are known as ... capacity is increased by upgrading existing sites, and/or through the deployment of additional sites When possible, upgrading existing sites is preferred, since already owning the site makes it...
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... (only 25% followed ≥ years) is insufficient to assess the frequency of significant long-term toxicity with carboplatin This concern is supported by the fact that, to date, a very low frequency ... 32% with both features)[13] but these factors have not been independently validated Valdevenito reported that size > cm and rete testis invasion were significant risk factors.[14] The Spanish ... seminoma patients[16] will fall into this group with an expected relapse rate of 32% [13] if untreated In contrast, patients with neither of these factors had a relapse rate of only 6% in the SGCCCG...
... comparison and integration of these results with the existing body of knowledge regarding HFOV in ARDS are made more difficult by the lack of very explicit ventilation protocols Because itis very ... strategies and modes back to conventional mechanical ventilation are even more indistinct, with no clear direction with respect to the priority of airway pressure, frequency and pressure amplitude ... implications of this finding are for future investigators to consider stratifying the randomisation of patients by oxygenation index, or indeed to limiting enrolment to those patients with the most...
... acute kidney injury are associated with hospital mortality in critically ill patients: a cohort analysis Crit Care 2006, 10:R73 Akcan-Arikan A, Zappitelli M, Loftis LL, Washburn KK, Jefferson LS, ... [13], is required in pediatric patients to develop a panel of markers for the accurate and reliable assessment of early AKI development, AKI duration and site of injury So, isit time to leave ... marker for AKI study because its concentration is not affected by muscle mass and itis not secreted by the renal tubule; itis therefore a potentially more accurate and earlier marker of change...
... quirk to IF definition allows the numerator to contain citations to "noncitable" items that are not counted in the denominator [3] In general, "non-citable" items are the short newsy/ with selected ... convey With that disclaimer, howis Retrovirology doing IF-wise as the journal enters its fourth year? Employing the algorithm that IF derives from the number of citations to a journal (by other ISI ... index Total times cited since 1995 Dr Dr Dr Dr Dr Dr Dr Kuan-Teh Jeang Monsef Benkirane Ben Berkhout Andrew Lever Mark Wainberg Masahiro Fujii Michael Lairmore Editor-in-Chief Editor Editor Editor...