... enough to allow comparative advantages to last for extended periods The advent of technology as a major tradeable asset has radically changed the dynamics of trade among nations What the centuries’ ... plan for and thereby make the transition to the next major technology, the smart phone, where not just basic design and manufacturing are important Operating and other software, for example, are ... largely determined by endowed assets (arable land, navigable water ways, minerals deposits, etc.) The fact that these assets were available in at most slowly changing quantities facilitated the...
... Wind Damage Investigation, and the U.S.-Japan Natural Disaster Task Committee on WindHazards He has served on the board of the American Association for Wind Engineering and is a member of the American ... Federal Emergency Management Agency INEEL Idaho National Engineering and Environmental Laboratory NASA National Aeronautics and Space Administration NIST National Institute of Standards and Technology ... Emeritus California Institute of Technology Pasadena, California Bonnie Johnson Director Aerodynamic Laboratories National Institute for Aviation Research Wichita State University Wichita, Kansas Atul...
... designs for PDSA quality improvement research Qual Manag Health Care 2004, 13(1):17-32 Wolf MM, Kirigin KA, Fixsen DL, Blase KA, Braukmann CJ: The Teaching-Family Model: A case study in data-based ... techniques; all in as much detail as is possible, unless these details are already readily available (e.g., in a prior publication) Access to intervention manuals/protocols At the time of publishing a ... confused Having consistent terminology and sufficient information for replication appears to be more problematic for behavioural and organisational interventions than for pharmacological ones Twenty-six...
... designs for PDSA quality improvement research Qual Manag Health Care 2004, 13(1):17-32 Wolf MM, Kirigin KA, Fixsen DL, Blase KA, Braukmann CJ: The Teaching-Family Model: A case study in data-based ... techniques; all in as much detail as is possible, unless these details are already readily available (e.g., in a prior publication) Access to intervention manuals/protocols At the time of publishing a ... confused Having consistent terminology and sufficient information for replication appears to be more problematic for behavioural and organisational interventions than for pharmacological ones Twenty-six...
... PMC and SDC All authors read and approved the final manuscript Acknowledgments This research was supported by The French National Agency for Aids Research (ANRS, France), the charity organization ... visit thereafter was defined as the injection of any drug in the months before that visit Clinical and laboratory data on viral load, CD4 T-cell counts and data on HIV clinical stage, with stage ... individuals Finally, although a statistical adjustment was made to allow for non-random assignment to medication type, this study was not a controlled clinical trial and further investigations are...
... ensure greater generalization of therapeutic effects Following the idea of Pelham’s summer treatment approach, also in Germany and Japan Intensive-Behavioural Treatment approaches have been developed ... Psychiatric Clinics of the University Basel, Schanzenstrasse 13, CH-4056 Basel, Germany Authors’ contributions All authors have equally contributed to the manuscript All authors read and approved the ... child antisocial behavior There is also a significant body of research underpinned by the social and operant learning theory, addressing the relationship between early parenting practices and child’s...
... Pacific and the Americas A substantial number of people travelling to endemic regions are also infected each year In the last year, DHF has again been on the increase in India and in several Asian ... with an N-terminal protease domain (NS3pro) (1–180), an RNA triphosphatase, an RNA helicase and an RNAstimulated NTPase domain in the C-terminal region [26,27] The protease and NTPase enzymatic ... [120] because the kinetic parameters of synthetic peptides based on the natural cleavage sites are generally unfavorable [121] The NS3 protease in the absence of the cofactor reacts with small model...
... protects against heat and cold Many glove manufacturers use aramid fiber to make gloves that are cut- and abrasive-resistant and wear well • Other synthetic materials Several manufacturers make gloves ... insulating protection against heat Aluminized gloves require an insert made of synthetic materials that protect against heat and cold • Aramid fiber gloves Aramid is a synthetic material that protects ... sufficient For example, install a barrier that makes it impossible for employees to put their hands at the point where a table saw blade makes contact with the wood it cuts For other hazardous operations,...
... enhancement, the knowledge base may be augmented with an additional component for storing away the results of the preceding database interactions to obviate theneed to search the database for ... implications if the interactions with a database management system are to have the properties and constraints normally associated with human dialogue Interactions with traditional database management ... behave intelligently and co-operatively Kalita J.K., Generating Summary Responses to Natural Language Database Queries, M.Sc Thesis; also available as TR-9, University of Saskatchewan, Saskatoon,...
... demand /need The demand /need submodel was based on normative standards of needfor each specialty or group of specialties in the baseline year and over the successive years Theneedfor specialists ... effect, and causal links A causal link connects a cause variable with an effect variable by a link with a positive or negative charge A positive link from variable X to variable Y means either that ... are those used by the US Department of Health and Human Services [51] These rates and appropriate standards can be set as parameters, as the model is an instrument that allows Page of the Health...
... to 18 years old and their families who reside in a rural community near Mumbai and Pune in Maharashtra Rural adolescents in Maharashtra were targeted for several reasons First, Maharashtra continues ... supporting "mother-daughter" and "father-son" communication At the same time, other fathers felt that a family-based programme was not embarrassing "It sometimes gets a little awkward forthe parents ... Guilamo-Ramos, as principal investigators, had full access to all of the data in the study and take responsibility forthe integrity of the data and the accuracy of the data analysis The study was designed...
... administration and supply of the assortment criteria forthe grading routine, a database application thar-QDB (Tharandt Quality Data Base) was developed as subject-matter of a diploma thesis [19] The ... 23, 28] The characterization of grading relevant stem form parameters was complemented by picture analysis for classifying stem surface parameters as basis fora quality assessment of the sample ... form and stem surface parameter oriented classification, based on (iii) data base application as link between inventory and forest enterprise, including (iv) a marketoriented evaluation approach...
... delineated the contours in collaboration with KS, created software needed forthe study and drafted the manuscript PB and AG aided in the creation of the registration software MK participated in the ... MR-MR registrations Analysis We quantified the registration uncertainty as the standard deviation of the center of mass distance between the prostate gland (RV0) binary masks for each pair of registered ... study, a cm margin added to the prostate was required to ensure a successful registration An alternative approach is non-rigid image registration for treatment adaptation Chao et al [26] used deformable...
... 16-20 Age at the beginning of RT (years) Figure Age distribution and needfor anesthesia Age distribution and needfor anesthesia Age at start of radiotherapy and needfor anesthesia in 164 radiotherapy ... Female Age Median Mean Range Anesthesia Yes No Age of those with anesthesia (Years) Median Mean Range Standard Deviation Total dose of irradiation (Gray) Median Mean Range * Standard Deviation ... administration) was the first choice for sedation The association of the psychoeducational intervention and of six predefined clinical variables with theneedfor anesthesia was analyzed using uni- and...
... execute an integrity attack when they gain entrance to the system And they can even use an availability attack as part of their overall effort to neutralize alarms and defensive systems, so they can’t ... “vulnerabilities are the gateways by which threats are manifested” So, fora threat model to have any meaning at all, there has to be a threat Are there people with the capability and inclination ... replicating and reinfecting machines at a much faster rate than he had anticipated -there was a bug Ultimately, many machines at locations around the country either crashed or became "catatonic."...
... message-based architectures are that they are asynchronous and that they are based on the exchange of messages rather than function calls Both of these features have some advantages, such as: ... one format to another led to the segregation of organizations based on the data formats that they could handle Because of the problems in using binary protocols, there was aneedfora ubiquitous ... Protocols and Data Formats Before looking at the specifics of Web-based protocols and data formats, let us briefly trace the path that led to the emergence of these standards The Internet and the Web...
... the overall action is Overpower the on the other branch Disturbance :^',k''' *iA^^>, NFFL that of a NFFL, namely the disturbances propagate down NFFL with a that enters the start Normal, manafter ... boundary and the boundary variables are treated as P0 / -S primal events The unit models describe both normal and failed behavior and depend on a wide variety of operating parameters and failure ... deviation variables, i.e changes from the normal, steady-state value The output variable is the variable of immediate concern, here V2 Changes in the output variable are caused by changes in the input...
... clearly consider CSM as an activity that is based on standardized questionnaires that are delivered to a sample of the customer base These quantitative multi-attribute questionnaires are then analyzed ... power (Silk & Kawani, 1982) Therefore, it can be argued that the aggregate satisfaction of the buying organization is a rather complex function of satisfactions of individual, from an importance ... the performance of the organization’s offerings (see e.g Parasuraman et al., 1985 & 1988 & 1991) Another stream of research is the performance-based approach (or linear regression approach) (see...
... Council National Aeronautics and Space Administration National Astrophysics and Space Science Programme Nuclear Energy Corporation of South Africa National Industrial Policy Framework National Qualifications ... alleviation and HRD These plans are interrogated, adapted and finally approved by the President and Cabinet at six-monthly lekgotlas, which take place in January and July of each year In almost all cases, ... extracted from the SAABC database This database comprises firm-level benchmarking data from 75 South African auto component manufacturers The data used in the study generally covered the 2001–2006...