... operation for the duration ofthe mission, andthe lines required high maintenance andthe constant supervision of an engineer unit that was in support ofthe fuel mission.9 In summary, the HRS proved ... Assault Hoseline, andthe Tactical Water Delivery System The chapter then moves on to an analysis ofthe ability of these various systems to meet the set of future requirements Inland Petroleum Distribution ... Because of these positive attributes, today the United States has the densest network of petroleum pipelines in the world Like the commercial sector, the U.S Army has had a history of investing in the...
... of information security for the nation’s banking system Theeffectivenessof such efforts is the central theme of this study Statement ofthe Problem The problem of information systems security ... understanding to the role of IT is thereby facilitated Summarily, this meta-research concludes that the TAM analysis oftheeffectivenessof technology, defined in terms of user perceptions of utility ... milieu, such as the efficacy ofthe current broad and practically critical application of technology oriented policy in the arena of government regulation ofthe security of information in the banking...
... to survey and interview senior leaders and team members of quality and safety teams across Canada, a scoping review ofthe literature was undertaken to understand the types of quality and safe ... creation of a valid, useful knowledge and evidence base for quality and safety This will require improved conceptions ofthe nature of quality and safety issues, an understanding ofthe mechanisms ... providers andthe broader health system [12] If health organizations are to improve the quality of care and enhance patient safety, it is essential that there is a more indepth understanding of how these...
... contributed to design ofthe intervention, recruits and assesses participants, and manages the process of randomisation; VP contributed to the design ofthe intervention and management ofthe project; ... design ofthe study, design ofthe intervention management of data collection and drafted the paper DG co-wrote the intervention, facilitates recruitment, and supervises the clinical delivery ofthe ... the participant’s views on the consequences ofthe illness, comprehension ofthe illness, knowledge of prognosis, the extent to which they attribute blame, knowledge of potential causes and their...
... terms ofthe audience’s perception ofthe offensive act Therefore, the appropriateness of a response depends upon the exigence ofthe situation The definition ofeffectiveness also establishes the ... as the perception ofthe appropriateness andeffectivenessofthe apologetic discourse from the perspective of an audience Purpose of Study The purpose of this study was to better understand the ... account the point of view ofthe audience Burns and Bruner (2000) did offer some suggestions in order to improve the theory of image repair First, they suggested that the researcher expands the frame...
... objectives, the scope, methods and design ofthe study Chapter two is to deal with the review of related literature and studies, the general overall identification ofthe area ofthe study Next, ... pack of games, they will use them; however, the rate of 22% of neutral opinion implied that in case of question 14, using a pack xxxv of games if they have did not mean being sure oftheeffectiveness ... Time % at the beginning ofthe lesson 22 at the middle ofthe lesson at the end ofthe lesson whenever during the lesson 78 Table 3: Time when language games are used in class The results of question...
... response to the tax A land tax is different Because the quantity of land is fixed, the burden ofthe tax falls entirely on landowners Thevalueof land is determined by the demand for the fixed amount ... Assessing the Theory and Practice of Land Value Taxation The land value tax is a variant ofthe property tax that imposes a higher tax rate on land than on improvements, or taxes only the land value ... experience offers several specific variations on the general theme of land value taxation In some jurisdictions, thevalueof raw, unimproved land is taxed, and in other states or municipalities, the value...
... distinct pairs of nontrivial solutions, where l is the dimension ofthe space spanned by the eigenvectors corresponding to the positive eigenvalues of M Proof From the proof of Theorem 4.2, it ... point theory 1, 3, 5–7 , the method of upper and lower solutions , and critical point theory 9, 10 are widely used to deal with the existence of solutions for the boundary value problems of fourth-order ... there must exist a subsequence of {u n } which is convergent in Rk Therefore, P-S condition is satisfied Proof of Theorem 4.2 Let λi , ≤ i ≤ l, −μj , ≤ j ≤ m be the positive eigenvalues and the...
... (1.5) The proofs rely on the a priori bounds on solutions of Section andthe nonlinear alternative The following theorem gives the existence of solutions to the Dirichlet BVP on time scales Theorem ... operator by the Arzela-Ascoli theorem Therefore, Theorem 1.8 is applicable to T and T must have a fixed point Hence the BVP has a solution This concludes the proof The following theorem gives the existence ... R on [a,σ (b)] (and there may exist further solutions satisfying y(t0 ) ≥ R for some t0 ∈ [a,σ (b)]) Proofs The proofs follow the modification technique of Theorems 3.6 and 3.7 and so are omitted...
... alike is the increased adoption of broadband access Simply put: the faster pages load, the more people spend time online, the more they do, andthe more they view The number of broadband households ... is the new and exciting research regarding the Web andthe affluent and senior management markets The data show that the more affluent andthe more senior the manager, the more valuable the Web becomes ... recall — both for the brand itself andof specific ads These typically are measured by the percentage ofthe population as a whole, or ofthe target market, who are aware of, and can remember (prompted...
... dilution ofthe spores) and then vortexed vigorously for 10 s and incubated at 37°C After 1, and h, 0.5 ml ofthe spore culture was sampled to determine the number of surviving spores The spore ... analysis In the screening experiment, the counts of viable spores were transformed to log10 values The final results were expressed as the mean and standard deviation of three determinations The values ... passes through the stomach of a pig The fact that the viable counts of most ofthe six Bacillus strains did not decrease after h of incubation suggests that a reasonable percentage of these Bacillus...
... insure they have a comprehensive understanding ofthe interpretation of responses during the chart-stimulated recall Their orientation will consist of training on the theory and methods of chart-stimulated ... within their practice and requires chart audits and observations Stage focuses on the client and requires evaluation ofthe efficiency, effectiveness, adequacy and appropriateness of care and its ... highlighted the need to better understand the mediators of knowledge transfer, and previous work has established that a variety of factors may influence the effects of KT [38,39] However, the mediators...
... optimal position and angulation ofthe inserted implants [16-18] A similar variant ofthe maxillary sandwich osteotomy for therehabilitationofthe severely atrophied maxilla is the horseshoe Le ... ofthe maxilla andthe mandible were peformed under general anaesthesia A mixture of cancellous bone from the iliac crest and Grafton®-DBM-Putty (Osteotech, Eatontown, NJ, USA) was used for the ... correction ofthe sagittal intermaxillary relationship andthe vertical dimension Some authors emphasize the advantages and satisfactory long-term results ofthe one stage procedure [4,15], but others...
... Assess theeffectivenessof some interventions in raising the awareness, attitude and practice ofthe above target subjects on prevention ofthe lower genital tract infections STRUCTURE OFTHE THESIS ... development ofthe marine and island areas till 2020 with many health priorities This study shows that the LGTI pattern ofthe women ofthe marine and island areas has its own characteristics These ... to the health ofthe workers in general and women in particular -3Research in regions ofthe Northern Vietnam shows that the rate of LGTIs were very different by region, ranging from 41-64%, the...
... the table 8, when dealing with pre-listening, 28% ofthe students said that the softwares are very useful, 66% of them said that the softwares are useful, and only 6% of them said that the softwares ... useful, and 46% of them said that the softwares are not useful at all In short, the number of students who appreciated theeffectivenessofthe softwares is higher than those who did not see their effectiveness ... Table 8: The usefulness ofthe softwares in listening stages 28 Table 9: Uses ofthe softwares in Pre-listening stage 28 Table 10: Uses ofthe softwares in While-listening 29 Uses ofthe softwares...
... policies ofthe Party and State, the effort ofthe Health sector as well as the active participation ofthe whole society, we have achieved the significant results in improving nutritional status and ... communication and education for mothers on child-care methods to reduce the rate of stunting malnutrition and anemia, height improvement Structure ofthe thesis: the thesis consists of 134 pages ... part of each national strategy for economic and social development to increase the stature, strength and wisdom ofthe human According to estimates by the World Health Organization andthe United...
... delay the cleaning a while and let more ofthe blocks die in the current segment Thevalueof a segment’s free space is based on the stability ofthe data in the segment Unfortunately, the stability ... relative importance ofthe various kinds of data written to disk, both in terms of how much ofthe live blocks they occupy on disk and in terms of how much ofthe data written to the log they represent ... writes, then reads the file back sequentially, then writes 100 Mbytes randomly to the existing file, then reads 100 Mbytes randomly from the file, and finally reads the file sequentially again The bandwidth...
... very specialized audience State -of -the- art researchers need this kind of detailed mathematics to understand the theoretical implications ofthe work A basic premise of this book is that most practical ... word in the incoming audio signal is isolated and then analyzed to identify the type of excitation and resonate frequencies These parameters are then compared with previous examples of spoken ... away at the speed of light Aircraft in the path of this wave will reflect a small portion ofthe energy back toward a receiving antenna, situated near the transmission site The distance to the object...
... patterns Whether these are activated depends on the social demands placed on the individual by the way of life of their community These determine the situational contexts evocative ofthe social ... if the above definitions ofthe two terms andthe distinctions drawn between them were of interest and perhaps of some clinical value, they would hardly be meaningful so far as research and theory ... see the rise of psychology andthe application of its psychometric methods to the study of social phobia The first scale for the measurement of social anxiety À the psychological construct at the...
... referral) may depend on the nature ofthe condition, whether the referral is for reasons of diagnosis and/ or treatment, the preference ofthe provider, andthe relationship between the providers Medical ... evidence of efficacy /effectiveness for a given condition such as musculoskeletal chest pain, that the path of referral for chest pain will depend on the nature ofthe condition andthe urgency ofthe ... situation, that the point of referral may depend on the familiarity or relationship between the providers, and that the nature ofthe referral (e.g., amount and type of information accompanying the referral)...