... unprecedented impact andthe consequences are global These impacts can be measured fromthe global to the regional to the individual to the molecular level The next few slides outline and give examples ... that they acknowledge the poor level of understanding of ice behaviour and exclude possible effects of the melting of the big ice sheets of Greenland and Antarctica in their predictions; they ... activities had transformed or degraded 50% of the land mass of the Earth; humans controlled the flow and levels of 2/3 of the rivers of the Earth; humans had already harvested to the limit or exhausted...
... vigorous advocates forthe protection of food from contamination with mycotoxins and other toxins These and other measures are crucial for protecting the health of our children and future generations ... eating and drinking, breathing, and through their skin Molds have been with us for hundreds, even thousands of years, and many of us used to consider them simply a nuisance in the house They were ... Protection for financial support that made this project possible andfor some of the data, graphics and text used in preparing these materials for a broad audience Further support was kindly provided...
... because the people were involved fromthe beginning of the installation and they understood the benefit of the option fromthe combination of hygiene education and their experience fromthe test ... one of the pits of the alternate pit latrine The other pit was no more used andthe people extended their house to the area where the other pit existed It was observed that about 56% of the pits ... benefit of the option fromthe combination of hygiene education and their experience fromthe test plants • It is possible to change the attitude of the local people toward the improvement of their...
... to study games and their cultural (or other) relevance, look for faculty who are active and publishing n Does the school have an actual game lab, and are thestudents making games there? n What ... performance They allow you to arrange your data and code to balance the needs of the game andthe platform Knowledge of C and C++ also serves as a great basis for learning and using other languages ... have to to get the rest of the way there? Most importantly, you should be making games, and not just in class The more games you make, the more you learn about making them, andthe more experience...
... bringing the lame, the blind, the crippled, the mute and many others, and laid them at his feet; and he healed themThe people were amazed when they saw the mute speaking, the crippled made well, the ... walking andthe blind seeing And they praised the God of Israel Matthew 15:29–31 Great crowds came to Jesus, bringing the lame, the maimed, the blind, the dumb and putting them at his feet; and he ... inspiration for my grandfa ther and my father all their lives The Blumhardts’ faith and vision have become part of our legacy as a church movement, and with the witness of orig inal Hutterianism and the...
... buys enough of themand uses them properly • Still, nuclear weapons trump all others, and if the stakes were high enough, and other options were inadequate, nuclear weapons could give the United ... if the need is overwhelming and other options are inadequate may offer a balance of benefits and risks for as long as the United States chooses to retain nuclear forces Both the forces andthe ... increase the risks to U.S forces in 18 The only real chance that India and Pakistan, for example, have at this point to climb out of the hole which they have dug for themselves and establish...
... wave within the savings and particularly the cooperative bank sector (Deutsche Bundesbank 2003) The dummy variable is unity forthe acquirer in the year of the merger and zero otherwise The expected ... is unity for an acquiring bank in the year before the merger and zero otherwise dySB is unity if the bank is a savings bank and zero otherwise (cooperative bank) In order to account forthe unit ... GAP>0, and zero otherwise Then, we interact the dummy variable with the output gap and one minus the dummy variable with the output gap and include both interaction terms in the regression Thus, the...
... (1994) and Devereux (2001) forthe U.S and Devereux and Hart (2006) and Hart (2006) for Britain] For insightful surveys see Brandolini (1995) and Abraham and Haltiwanger (1995) Several theoretical ... retain the last two estimates of α and use the three data points to adjust the trajectory of the estimates forthe fixed effects The estimation routines forthe OLS coefficients, standard errors, and ... containing the estimates of the αs On the other hand, if the least squares solution for β were known, we could easily obtain least squares estimates forthe α The normal equations show that these...
... development and learning opportunities Adolescents should therefore learn to take a critical approach to contents, discover possible risks and know how they can protect themselves Parents and teachers ... Youth and Media is a national Programme forthe Promotion of Media Skills Its aim is to promote a safe and responsible approach to the digital media among children and adolescents The programme provides ... teachers and caregivers with information, support and advice on how to support the children and adolescents under their care The Swiss Federal Social Insurance Office is implementing the Programme...
... of their friendships, the health of their children, the wisdom of their scholars, the skill of their makers, even the abundance of their harvest andthe kindly weather of their skies, depend wholly ... of their friendships, the health of their children, the wisdom of their scholars, the skill of their makers, even the abundance of their harvest andthe kindly weather of their skies, depend wholly ... of their friendships, the health of their children, the wisdom of their scholars, the skill of their makers, even the abundance of their harvest andthe kindly weather of their skies, depend wholly...
... (ψ)) = Hf (Ik ) and this completes the proof of Theorem 3.2 The Jarn´ ık-Besicovitch theorem In the case k = and ψ(x) := let us write S(τ ) for Sk (ψ) The Jarn´ ık-Besicovitch theorem states that ... noting that f k the ratio of the radii of the balls Bi and Bi are uniformly bounded between positive constants and then adapting the proof of Lemma in the obvious manner In view of the above discussion, ... dimension results for Sk (ψ) (i.e the general form of the Jarn´ ık-Besicovitch theorem) can in fact be obtained via Khintchine’s Theorem At first, this seems rather counterintuitive In fact, the dimension...
... because the Standard window reduces the bias but at the same time increases the variance On the other hand, the use of the Rectangular window makes a FTE biased even for high SNR In Fig 21 the behavior ... variance The rmse was computed using 200 trials for each algorithm From Fig 19 one can see that the TFBMPM is performing better than the FTE in all the SNR range On the other hand, and in spite of the ... Comparison between the inverse of the variance andthe CRB forthe first DOA estimate f2 f1 Å 0.090 Hz and SNR Å 17 dB The TFBMPM reaches the CRB for all u1 u2 because the SNR is above the threshold...
... algorithm The numerical simulations are taken when the sensor is placed at the distances L/4, L/2 and L fromthe base In Fig 3, the shapes of the 1st mode, the 3rd mode andthe 5th mode are drawn from ... The effects of the time delay andthe location of sensor are considered Acknowledgements The paper is based on the talk given at the Conference on Mathematics, Mechanics, and Informatics, Hanoi, ... term The magnitude of the error term depends on the number andthe locations of the sensors The numerical simulation is applied to a base excited cantilever beam to illustrate the algorithm The...
... algorithm The numerical simulations are taken when the sensor is placed at the distances L/4, L/2 and L fromthe base In Fig 3, the shapes of the 1st mode, the 3rd mode andthe 5th mode are drawn from ... The effects of the time delay andthe location of sensor are considered Acknowledgements The paper is based on the talk given at the Conference on Mathematics, Mechanics, and Informatics, Hanoi, ... term The magnitude of the error term depends on the number andthe locations of the sensors The numerical simulation is applied to a base excited cantilever beam to illustrate the algorithm The...
... compared the performance of the TST and IGRA in French HCWs when using a high cut-off forthe TST Materials and methods Study setting and study subjects In France the TB incidence in the general ... positive Before TST application, the interview was performed and blood forthe IGRA was drawn The interview covered age, gender, BCG vaccination history and employment in healthcare As IGRA, the QuantiFERON® ... of a hypothetical cohort based on data from Switzerland [31] and Canada [32] There is still an ongoing debate as to whether the introduction of IGRA in TB screening reduces the costs for BCG-vaccinated...
... along the corridor and use stairs without physiotherapist’s assistance Furthermore, the Oxford Hip Score [23], the SF-36 Score [24] andthe WOMAC Score [25] were all recorded pre-operatively and then ... of the study, participated in its design and coordination and drafted the manuscript AM participated in the study and analyses of the study MSS participated in the design of the study and performed ... blinded forthe examining author (A.M.) with respect to the chosen surgical approach andthe radiological assessments blinded forthe two assessing authors (A.M and M.S.) Reliability forthe radiographic...
... Fixed Point Theory and Applications 11 Hence, r C, yn ≤ εβ X r C, {xn } WCS X 3.32 Remark 3.10 Since εβ X ≤ ε0 X , Theorem 3.9 implies the 5, Theorem Furthermore, ε0 X /4 ≥ εβ X /4; then Theorem ... Journal of Mathematics, vol 30, pp 475– 488, 1969 T C Lim, “A fixed point theorem for multivalued nonexpansive mappings in a uniformly convex Banach space,” Bulletin of the American Mathematical ... Queen’s Papers in Pure and Applied Mathematics, Queen’s University, Kingston, Canada, 1982 15 J A Clarkson, The von Neumann-Jordan constant forthe Lebesgue spaces,” Annals of Mathematics, vol 38,...
... samples are not transformed In ZP-OFDM, first the samples fromthe guard interval are added to the first ν samples fromthe data part of the received signal, and then the N samples fromthe data part ... observation andthe subset observation, along with the low SNR limit of the (G)CRB Although it follows from Figure that the GCRB andthe subset GCRB are larger than the low SNR limit of the (G)CRB, the ... that for low N, the approximations HFd = FH and FF+ = IN+ν−M not hold, andthe approximate analytical expression forthe GCRB looses its practical meaning However, forthe range of N for which the...
... Oracle fromthe Visual Studio 2005 environment, retrieve Oracle information from Visual Studio, and work with database objects from Visual Studio It also provides information about how to create and ... (specification) to the public and is encouraging other database companies to develop their own NET data providers Microsoft made the data access model consistent among all of the NET data providers and thus ... available in theThe highlighted line of code finds and lists all the NET data providers installed on your machine (and populates them into a data table) When that code gets executed, the output...