electronic architectures for bridging the global digital divide a comparative assessment of e business systems designed to reach the global poor
A comparative assessment of prediction capabilities of modified analytical hierarchy process (MAHP) and Mamdani fuzzy logic models using NetcadGIS for forest fire susceptibility mapping
... with the amount of received solar energy in the area Therefore, slope aspect layer was selected as one of the forest fire-related factors and has been categorized into nine classes: (1) flat, ... Netcad GIS The assessment was performed in the Minudasht forests situated in Golestan Province, Iran The main difference between this research and the approaches described in the aforementioned ... another Very strong importance of one element over another Extreme importance of one element over another Intermediate values Explanation Two elements contribute equally Experience and judgment...
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technical assistance in bridging the “digital divide” - a cost benefit analysis for broadband connectivity in europe - pwc_final_report
... country These are shown in Table for the Base Case and Table for the Extended Case These tables demonstrate a steady decline in costs over the forecast period These are average costs which take account ... areas The level of unmet demand peaks in the middle of the study period, reducing progressively thereafter as terrestrial rollouts extend into at least the outer peripheries of these areas We estimate ... SMEs and large enterprises will have higher broadband availability as they are a desirable customer sector and business areas are amongst the first to be served The charts showing service availability...
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The global MBA: a comparative assessment for its future doc
... online, e- mail messages to students concerning problems Earlier preparation, largely done the semester before teaching Release time for the professors the semester before the class for preparation ... compensate for the lack of face -to- face experience (Larsen, 1999), which is addressed later in the paper noting the studies held to examine that feature of the online MBA Strengths Strengths are the ... example is the Athabasca MBA program The students read the course material online, then regroup into teams and discuss the case among themselves and with ``teacher coaches'' Students are evaluated...
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Báo cáo khoa học: " A prospective study of differences in duodenum compared to remaining small bowel motion between radiation treatments: Implications for radiation dose escalation in carcinoma of the pancreas" doc
... receiving 80% of the prescribed dose were far greater than percent volumes of small bowel receiving the same dose anatomy The duodenum is fixed to the pancreas (by the pancreatic duct) and to the ... duodenum was allowed to exceed this limit Forty-one patients received the intended total dose Treatment was never stopped because of toxicity Acute Grade toxicity was seen in 9% of patients Late ... alpha cradle fixed to the treatment table in order to minimize daily setup variation An external radioopaque fiducial marker was embedded into the cradle in the midline superior to each patient's...
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A comparative study of low cost biomaterials for the removal of chromium (VI III) from aqueous solutions
... nonvolatile metal salts are concentrated in the evaporating water and can be reused Atmospheric evaporators operate at atmospheric pressure and release the moisture to the environment Vacuum evaporators ... increasing awareness of the deleterious ecological and health effects of toxic metals, a number of treatment methods have been developed over the years for their removal from aqueous solutions These methods ... date on metal biosorption by seaweeds have largely been restricted to various species of brown seaweeds On the other hand, green and red seaweed species have not been evaluated comprehensively...
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A reliability assessment of the western canada grid
... of the Saskatchewan system The capacity of the Saskatoon tap has considerable effect on the reliability performance of the Saskatchewan system and because of the interconnection has an effect ... Saskatchewan and Manitoba systems The between the Northern and Southern Manitoba HVDC systems constrains the LCC of the Manitoba system the whereas the grid tap at Saskatoon limits the LCC- of ... relative to the annual load increases in 2828 Manitoba and therefore there are only a few years in As a which new stations are added to the system result there are only a few years just prior to new...
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A reliability data base for performance and predictive assessment of electric power systems
... designates the outage as a sudden forced outage, an immediately deferrable forced outage, a deferrable forced outage or a starting failure The time spent in any of the states can be easily calculated from ... Figure Two-state model of a generating unit The fundamental parameters required in the model are the failure and repair rates ( A ad& n, ) These rates can be estimated from the number of departures ... from the recorded data and important generating unit parameters such as the forced outage rate (FOR) and the derating adjusted forced outage rate (DAFOR) can be computed using the relevant state...
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Tài liệu Báo cáo khoa học: Models and mechanisms of O-O bond activation by cytochrome P450 A critical assessment of the potential role of multiple active intermediates in oxidative catalysis doc
... increase electron afnity has been recognized to be a means of generating a highly reactive species [250,251] However, in most cases available data are insufcient to unravel the intricate mechanism of ... moiety covalently attached to one heme propionate, revealed acetophenone to be the unique product [300] A similar metabolic pattern was observed when the carbonyl group of the secondary aldehyde ... radical rearrangement (radical clocks) may depend critically on the tightness of the radical cage and the ensemble of steric and electronic forces experienced by the incipient radical within the...
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Tài liệu Báo cáo khoa học: A comparative analysis of the time-dependent antiproliferative effects of daunorubicin and WP631 pdf
... dye Data are shown as a percent of the cells in untreated control cells and represent the means of three independent experiments The arrow indicates the rapid decrease in the number of viable ... using a 40 · objective and mW of Argon laser power The entire cell preparation was examined A cell gallery was created by relocation of cells from each of the major peaks in the histogram of integrated ... presence of multinucleated cells was assessed on microscope slides containing samples prepared as described above for flow cytometry After establishing a scan area, the slides were analyzed using...
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A COMPARATIVE STUDY OF THE DIAGNOSIS OF PULMONARY TUBERCULOSIS USING CONVENTIONAL TOOLS AND POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION* pot
... available 4-8 weeks later As no single gold standard was available for comparison of the performance of the individual tests, an analysis of results was done using a variety of standards Efficiency of ... (24/28) of these samples Fifty seven percent (16/28) of these smear negative samples were positive by culture (SC+) PCR was positive for 100% of these samples (Table 1A, serial-b) c PCR data of smear ... smear negative case was false positive which was later determined on the basis of response to ATT and radiological profile after months of treatment initiation and hence not considered in the...
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Báo cáo khoa học: "A Comparative Study of Parameter Estimation Methods for Statistical Natural Language Processing" potx
... the features extracted by their program to the five rerankers we developed Each uses a linear model trained using one of the five estimators These rerankers attempt to select the best parse 𝑦 for ... overlap A 72K-sentences set was used as training data, a 5K-sentence set as development data, and another 5K-sentence set as testing data The results are presented in Tables and 4, where Baseline ... current weights We observed the same pattern as in the other tasks: the three algorithms have nearly identical performance, while L1 uses only 6% of the features, and the Averaged Perceptron requires...
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Báo cáo khoa học: Mechanisms of accumulation of arachidonate in phosphatidylinositol in yellowtail A comparative study of acylation systems of phospholipids in rat and the fish species Seriola quinqueradiata pot
... be resolved Therefore, the amounts of these molecular species are shown as mixed components As expected from the fatty acid analyses, the most abundant molecular species in all the tissues was ... docosahexaenoic acid was the predominant PUFA in all the tissues The presence of dimethylacetals in PtdEtn suggested the existence of a substantial amount of an alkenylacyl subclass in these tissues ... large amounts of docosahexaenoic acid and that several acyltransferase activities are involved in the process in yellowtail Materials and methods Materials Yellowtails (S quinqueradiata) were obtained...
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SOCIAL EXCLUSION OF THE ELDERLY A COMPARATIVE STUDY OF EU MEMBER STATES doc
... variables are added to this in the second model Models 3-10 examine the additional relevance of each of the level variables separately In models 11 and 12, the most relevant level variables are analysed ... better The Czech Republic, Slovenia and Estonia are the exceptions, having rather average scores that are about the same as those of Spain and Italy, the best-performing Mediterranean countries The ... differences are much smaller, but the general pattern remains more or less the same (Figure 9) The data relate to the more limited set of countries available in the ESS Once more the lowest scores...
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The Temporal Pattern of Mortality Responses to Air Pollution: A Multicity Assessment of Mortality Displacement potx
... indeed the first days) before the event had a stronger impact, the exposure in the preceding month substantially increased the estimate of the overall effect FIGURE The estimated shape of the association ... cities in APHEA-2 showed larger coefficients We conclude that there is little reason to believe the effect estimates differ between the cities where the air pollutant measurement has been converted ... a few days to a few weeks, we will see this effect as a negative association between air pollution and deaths several days to several weeks subsequently The net effect of air pollution, net of...
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A comparative analysis of methods to represent uncertainly in estimating the cost of constructing wastew
... processes The choice of these technologies, therefore, can be formulated as an aggregate exponential term in the model Except the separate analysis designed for each treatment level, an integrated ... variables (independent variables) and the explained variable (dependent variable) If Y and x are the set of dependent vari- Figure A1 Fuzzy set of parameter A: A approximates a ables and independent ... Such a normalized cost database, representing a large-scale calibrated effort to integrate the nationwide baseline information of wastewater treatment plants, may serve as a useful tool for the...
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Báo cáo khoa học: "A Comparative Study of Hypothesis Alignment and its Improvement for Machine Translation System Combination" pot
... source and target sentences Due to the nature of greedy search in TER, the bi-directional TERbased word alignments by switching the parameters of source and target sentences are not necessary exactly ... sequence The other hypothesis words are set to align to the ′ ′ null word For example, in Figure 1, e1 and e3 are aligned to the same backbone word e2 , we remove the link between ′ e2 and e3 if ... reference where the edits include insertions, deletions, substitutions and phrase shifts The hypothesis is modified to match the reference, where a greedy search is used to select the set of...
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A Comparative Analysis of the Financing of HIV/AIDS Programmes docx
... take all necessary measures to mobilise the required resources for HIV/AIDS The pledge was made to allocate at least 15 per cent of government expenditure to the improvement of the health sector ... for the largest share (52 per cent) of the total health budget There was an increase in external finance to the health sector over the period 1997–2001 External finance takes the form of grants ... Integrated Programme funds are made available to the three Departments at the provincial level and split between the programmes via the national department(s) At the provincial level the main focus of...
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A Comparative Analysis of Carbon Dioxide Emissions in Coated Paper Production Key Differences between China and the U.S. pot
... this ratio is an adequate estimate of the type of coal being used in each facility for a given country As an estimate of energy content for hard/steam coal, we use an average of the highest heating ... and East Coast, so Los Angeles is among the longest distances that NewPage paper travels to reach a major U.S consumer market Calculate the total average weighted distance for delivery in the U.S ... three aspects of spatial differences in the production of coated paper that are hypothesized to be different between China and the U.S These three are as follows: integrated vs non-integrated...
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Báo cáo khoa học: A comparative analysis of the transcriptome and signal pathways in hepatic differentiation of human adipose mesenchymal stem cells doc
... regulated in the hepatic differentiation system, and that the AT-MSCs differentiate into mature hepatocytes Mesencyhmal -to- epithelial transition is the reverse of the epithelial–mesenchymal transition ... expression profile typical of mature hepatocytes To validate the results of the microarray analysis, we selected several genes expressed in AT-MSCs and 1264 AT-MSC-derived hepatocytes analyzed them ... Japan) The significance of GO term appearance in the up- and downregulated genes (compared with all 12 441 annotated genes) was calculated using the software GO Term Finder adapted to the acegene...
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