... acknowledges that the publication of the Finnish Yearbook of International Law is made possible with the support of the Academy of Finland and the Legal Department of the Finnish Ministry for Foreign ... character of international law, the lack of hierarchy, the absence of centralised institutions, and the problems of professional specialisation, all of which have been particular points of debate ... rules of recognition specifying the criteria of legal validity and its rules of change and adjudication must be effectively accepted as common public standards of official behaviour by its officials’)...
... Reinforced Ceramics for Structural Applications, David Belitskus Thermal Analysis of Ceramics, Robert F Speyer Friction and Wear of Ceramics, edited by Said Jahanmir Mechanical Properties of Metallic ... questions are difficult, but the creativity of our responses may determine the quality of life for the new age This new edition of Chemical Processing ofCeramics offers a scientific and technological ... number of books are available that deal with the chemical processing aspect of ceramic materials, but most of them are conference proceedings This revised edition of Chemical Processing of Ceramics...
... mounting of chips.20 LOW TEMPERATURE COFIRED CERAMIC (LTCC) A logical extension of the discussion of cofired alumina is a brief discussion of a recently developed technology: low temperature cofired ... methods of measurement for the properties of most interest to users ofceramics 1.1.1.2 Mechanical Properties Density The mass per unit volume of a material is its density The term is often used ... advanced ceramics This chapter is intended to provide a convenient compilation of many properties of the materials discussed in other chapters of the book Properties of interest to workers using ceramics...
... preparation of bulk ceramics Recently, the soft combustion synthesis is used as alternative route since it offers several beneficial points to the processing element and the properties ofceramics ... impurity in seawater derived magnesia, the aim of this study was to examine the possibility of adding TiO2 in quantities of 1, and wt.-% for 310 Sintering ofCeramics – New Emerging Techniques reducing ... «bottleneck» of this technology This is very important for the design of the thickener as its construction is the time-controlling factor in plants of this type At precipitation of 80% the capacity of...
... satiation because of the reduction in the ability of the fundus of the stomach of the elderly to adaptively relax (Morley and Thomas, 1999) Because of the subjective sensation of satiety, elderly ... practice A lack of specific education, the cautious portioning because 49 of the fear of vitaminosis of lipid-soluble vitamins, cost of supplementation, and also the avoidance of polypharmacy ... overestimate of the true situation of how effective nurses pay attention to nutritional problems among their patients Nutrition education of professionals The nutrition education of professionals...
... included to make the comparison easier Determination of the exact age of the stands on some of the Finnish plots was problematic because all of the stands were naturally regenerated and have never ... consists of 3–4 circular subplots One subplot was selected as a sample plot to represent the ground vegetation of the whole cluster The size of the subplot is 300 m2, with a radius of 9.8 m A total of ... geographical distribution of the effects of pollutants on epiphytic lichens, ground vegetation and the growth and crown condition of Scots pine due to the different sensitivity of these plant groups...
... operations ■ proof of the improvement of the QA system, and how the respective results are communicated within the HEI and to its external stakeholders ■ proof of the impact of the QA system ... perspective of the external stakeholders of the HEI Monitoring, evaluation and continuous improvement of the QA system The QA system as a whole Criteria The audits of the QA system employ a set of criteria, ... substantiate the performance of the QA system The HEI must include evidence and samples providing proof of the performance of the QA system in the audit material for each of the seven audit targets5...
... fetishization of the commodity is the fetishization of a product emptied of its concrete substance of labor and subjected to another type of labor, a labor of signification that is, of coded abstraction ... from the dominance of space to its supplantation by time that comes with the cinematic mode of production, which manifests as moments of reorganization of libidinal flows of matter Zygmunt Bauman’s ... Whitney Museum of American Art in 1987, calling him the prime representative of the renunciation of art, of its disappearance, by turning commodity into an art form Only the signature of the artist...
... spacebar instead of setting tabs Acknowledgments This book has been a process of discovery, not only about the technology of XML and InDesign, but also of the creative community of artists, designers, ... personal journey of discovery of the powers of XML and InDesign The following chapters are written with the sensibilities of the average INdesigner in mind, using plain English and plenty of screen ... group of researchers began the development of an alternative language By the end of 1996 the specifications of this language were taking shape, but it took more than a year for version 1.0 of XML...
... MDMA has been the focus of a great deal of recent attention, since it represents one of a number ofdesigner drugs” that is being increasingly abused among certain segments of the population, especially ... characterization of the effects of these drugs on various physiological parameters An understanding of the mechanisms is critical to the development of therapeutic approaches for the treatment of intoxication, ... to date, whether of release of monoamines from synaptosomes or brain slices, or of the inhibiting of monoamine reuptake into synaptosomes (Steele et al 1987), the S enantiomer of MDMA is either...
... divisions or units of Finnish- based companies that use consultants in the take-o phase (76% of the units which used consultants were units of Finnish- based companies; 12% were units of multinationals ... curve are not due to the operations of one major company and its sub-units In the ®rst survey, the basis of the sample was all members of the Federation of the Finnish Metal, Engineering and Electrotechnical ... gross value of production Excluding the energy sector from industrial production will raise the share of these four industries to 88.5% of the gross value of production In the case of single-unit...
... boundary of a subset A of the line ; aA consists of those points that are limits of sequences of points in A and are also limits of sequences of points outside A Since the boundary of (- oo, ... convergence of the integra s of functions in C(S), in the next section we sha characterize it in terms of the convergence of the measures of certain sets Tightness The fo owing notion of tightness ... product of a countab e sequence of copies of the ine, that is, to the space (x1 , x 2i ) of rea numbers (seep 218) The topo ogy R°° of sequences x has as the basic neighborhoods of a point...
... stylings can be applied to a headline or a body of text; designers often submit text matter that has numerous styles (we jokingly refer to this type ofdesigner in my studio as a “Ten-Typeface-Terry”—apologies ... easy-to-use typeface creation software and the rise of websites dedicated to the sharing or selling of typefaces Many of the typefaces are available online to download free of charge or for a nominal ... Commentary Don’t be surprised if there’s a gasp of horror and a shake ofof the head any time someone asks if this is an acceptable means of treating type As one of the most universally accepted “bad practices”...
... Division, Finnish Defence Forces, Finland Department of Biology of Physical Activity, University of Jyväskylä, Jyväskylä, Finland Authors’ contributions The authors of this manuscript state that all of ... 40-60-year-old Finnish men Häkkinen et al Health and Quality of Life Outcomes 2010, 8:15 http://www.hqlo.com/content/8/1/15 Page of Table Health related quality of life (RAND-36) in 727 Finnish young ... normality of variables was evaluated by Kolmogorov-Smirnoff test and by means of histograms The statistical significance of characteristics among the groups was evaluated by analysis of variance...
... This is the first study of an unselected and representative population of women to report an association of AGA with the general measures of HRQOL, which are recom- Page of (page number not for ... life of AGA subjects are somewhat difficult to compare with our results because of methodological and other differences, such as age, limited criteria of quality of life and the selection of study ... logistic regression analyses for impaired quality of life Odds ratios for risk of belonging to the lowest quintiles in the dimensions of quality of life Variable BDI1) IGR2) QUICKI3) AGA4) Marital...
... patterns of BLTM powder All powders were examined in a 2θ range of 10° to 80° and calcined at 750°C Figure X-ray diffraction patterns of BLTM ceramics All ceramics were examined in a 2θ range of 10° ... BLTM ceramics with high MoO3 concentration The electrical conductivity of BLT and BLTM ceramics measured at frequencies of 1, 50, and 100 kHz is shown in Figure The conductivity values of BLTM ... properties of (1 – x)PMN–xPZT ferroelectric ceramics Phys Solid State 2000, 42:936-943 21 Baudry L: Theoretical investigation of the influence of space charges on ferroelectric properties of PbZrTiO3...
... films The calculation of the contents of the Al2O3 in the composite thick films: (a) the Hashin-Shtrikman bounds of contents of Al2O3 in composite thick films as a function of measured relative ... contents of more than 60 vol.% and studied the characteristics of these composite thick films in relation to their contents of Al2O3 The experiment The AD method is based on the principle of particle ... and dielectric properties of the films Figure shows the XRD patterns of deposited films with different mixing ratios of the Al2O3 starting powder The α-Al2O3 phase of the Al2O3 starting powder...
... when addition of Ti increased Grain size difference of BNZT above 0.4 mole fraction of Ti4+ displayed a significant increase of dielectric constant at room temperature Keywords: ceramics; X-ray ... structure of PZT ceramics For a similar system of BNT-BNZ, Yamada et al [6] predicted only that the phasetransition point of the phase diagram seemed to be approximately at a Zr/Ti ratio of 0.6:0.4 ... not been reported Hence, the purpose of this work is to investigate influences of the occupancy of Ti4+ ions at the B-site of Zr4+ host ions with Zr/Ti ratios of 0.7:0.3, 0.6:0.4, 0.5:0.5, and 0.4:0.6...
... values ofceramics with further increasing of ZnO content (0.1 to 1.0 wt.%) were believed to be due to the presence of micropores at grain boundaries of the ceramics Hysteresis loops of PMNT/ZnO ceramics ... indicated the shifting of a peak with ZnO additions Figure SEM images of the fractured surface of PMNT/ZnO ceramics Fractured surface of pure PMNT ceramic (a) and PMNT ceramics incorporated with ... density values of the PMNT/ZnO ceramics were measured and tabulated in Table The results indicated that an addition of ZnO did not significantly change the relative density value of PMNT ceramics However,...