... through the surficial beds tothe Skiatook Lake ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS We are grateful tothe Osage Indian Nation, tothe Army Core of Engineers and Bureau of Indian Affairs, as well asthe field operators ... were measured in these wells in April-May 2002, and water sampling was carried out in June A total of about 100 water samples have been collected fromthe two sites and adjoining areas For the OSPER ... drinking water tothe local communities and is a major recreational fishery (Figs and 2) The sites are located inthe Central Oklahoma platform inthe southeastern part of the Osage Reservation...
... Namibia, El Salvador, Cambodia, Mozambique, Eastern Slavonia, Sierra Leone, and East Timor It also examines the nationbuilding effort in Iraq This study was sponsored by the RAND Corporation as part of ... was drawn down too quickly The resultant casualties reinforced the American determination to establish and retain a substantial overmatch in any future nation-building operation Inthe aftermath ... than Bosnia The U.S learning curve was not sustained into the current decade The administration that took office in 2001 initially disdained nation-building as an unsuitable activity for U.S forces...
... Jeanne Cushing, Alfredo Aliaga, Rebecca Stallings and Shane Ryland, allfrom ORC Macro, for input into all facets of the survey design and coordinating the pretest, sample selection, training, ... (Zomba, Malawi) the last two weeks of March 2004 Training was extensive and was based on standard Demographic and Health Survey training protocols for conducting an interview, making callbacks and ... consent from his or her parent or caretaker was obtained before the adolescent was approached to participate inthe survey Once the parent or caretaker gave consent, separate consent was still obtained...
... one airport in Samarinda, one sea port in Maloy, a coal railway in Balikpapan, a toll road connecting Balikpapan and Samarinda, as well asa coal fired steam power plant (2x100MW).21 For the Maloy ... sectors include the Road sector, the Solid Waste or Waste Water Management sector, as well as other priority sectors such as Water Supply & Sanitation sector, the Power sector and the Transport ... Planning/ National Development Planning Agency, Jakarta, 2011 BAPPENAS 2011 Sustaining Partnerships: Media Informasi Kerjasama Pemerintah dan Swasta: Manajemen Pengelolaan Sampah Berbasis Mandiri,...
... Many thanks are due to colleagues at ORC Macro— Pav Govindasamy, Albert Themme, Jeanne Cushing, Alfredo Aliaga and Rebecca Stallings—for input into all facets of the survey design and coordinating ... years Training was extensive and was based on standard DHS training protocols for conducting an interview, making callbacks and completing survey questionnaires The training manual used was also ... translated into Akan, Ewe, GaDangbe and Dagbani, the most widely spoken local languages in Ghana The approach adopted for the translation was to first translate the questionnaires into the Ghanaian...
... was associated with hallucinations (OR = 0.50, 95%CI = 0.35–0.71 The authors argued that command hallucinations were not an independent risk factor, but they increased the risk in those already ... epidemiological research by the authors as well as classifications and data from World Health Organization The authors agreed on a number of key topics relevant tothe aim of this paper III Results ... Akathisia is also associated with a constellation of symptoms with both affective and anxious features as well as motor components In addition to general risk factors, there may also be risk factors...
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... history of truancy These studies suggest an association between truancy and being on the streets as well as that truancy is an important contributor of non-attendance at school Other factors that ... estimate the association between relevant predictor variables and truancy Inthe calculation of odd ratios for any one particular predictor variables, the other predictor variables were controlled for ... declare that they have no competing interests Authors' contributions SS analysed data and participated in drafting of manuscript ASM conceived the analysis plan, participated inthe interpretation...
... Kent WJ: BLAT: the BLAST-like alignment tool Genome Res 2002, 12:656-664 Hayashita Y, Osada H, Tatematsu Y, Yamada H, Yanagisawa K, Tomida S, Yatabe Y, Kawahara K, Sekido Y, Takahashi T: A polycistronic ... placed at an evolutionary midpoint relative to eutherian mammals and nonmammalian vertebrates, using it as an outgroup tothe existing eutherian genomes allows for the estimation of the mammalian ... human and other species are available in Additional data file deposited research Fromthe transcription factors included in our dataset, 80 have a position-specific scoring matrix (PSSM) binding...
... selection The national sample was increased in several add-on areas: New York State, Wisconsin, Texas, Kentucky, Hawaii, Lancaster Pennsylvania, Baltimore Maryland, Des Moines, Ohio and Oahu Hawaii An ... response fashion from rural to urban area Increases from rural to urban areas were more pronounced for younger groups than for the elderly People in rural areas had the lowest PAT with the smallest ... transportation peaks during the spring and autumn Tothe authors’ knowledge, this is among the first studies to examine variations in active transportation across the US asawhole and variations...
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