... decade For Athens the increase in cooling demands is 28.5% andfor Thessaloniki 13.2% Obviously, directly proportional to the energy demand for heating and cooling is the fuel (diesel oil) and electricity ... requirements for heating is 11.3% for Athens and 6.1% for Thessaloniki On the contrary, for the cooling period of the 1993-2002 decade, an increase of the energy demands of the building for both ... and cooling energy demand [1] or for estimating bin data and heating and cooling degree-days at any base [2, 10, 11] Table shows the monthly and yearly average ambient dry-bulb temperatures for...
... scenarios and best practices for solution structure and architecture I thank my wife Jennifer and my daughter Keira for tolerating my insane love of technology andfor putting up with the long hours and ... working for Telerik in the XAML space covering Silverlight, WPF, Windows Phone, and the up -and- coming WinRT platform Evan is also a Silverlight MVP and recognized throughout the community for his ... Data and Services Cookbook, with Packt Publishing He also authored a chapter for Real World NET, C#, and Silverlight: Indispensible Experiences from 15 MVPs and also authored numerous articles and...
... in total hip replacement Scand J Soc Med 1982, 10:95-99 Standing Committee of the Hospitals of the E.U: Waiting lists andwaiting times in health care Managing demand and supply Leuven 2001 Hawker ... including patients and age matched population controls was 67.6 years (range, 36–86 years) (Table 1) Of patients, 73 (55%) were waitingfor primary THR and 60 (45%) were waitingfor primary TKR ... analyses, we found that the length of waiting was unrelated to the poorer HRQoL at admission Further, moving, sleeping and discomfort and symptoms improved while waitingfor surgery An interesting view...
... equal for despreading That is, the channel estimation and equalization should be done before despreading Therefore, the notch filter will destruct the orthogonality and is not feasible for MCCDMA ... of bandwidth, which is a valuable resource for the service providers Decision-directed channel tracking is a solution to this problem since it does not need any bandwidth and has a good performance ... have other drawbacks, that is, occupying of large bandwidth, inaccuracy in the fast fading channel and under the colored noise, and so forth Therefore, the proposed decision-directed RMLbased channel-tracking...
... “Multimedia encryption with joint randomized entropy coding and rotation in partitioned bitstream,” Xie and Kuo propose a framework that couples randomized entropy coding and bitstream rotation in order ... compression step and diffusion step for security The last two papers are in the field of secure entropy coding, and address the design of entropy coders that can achieve both compression and encryption ... scheme makes known and chosen plaintext attacks extremely difficult The last paper by Magli et al., “Joint source, channel coding, and secrecy,” deals with the problem where compressed and secured data...
... incipient congestion, REAQM overcomes the packet loss problem of burst data and errors over wireless links, and also performs well for high degree of multiplex of flows over wired links The rest ... the pipe capacity and TCP’s rate halving policy [9] Li and Liu present an explicit feedback scheme with AQM to handle large bandwidth delay product and burst packet losses over wireless links ... utilization Figure 4: Performance test versus number of FTP flows for the different AQM schemes over wireless link [1] S Floyd and V Jacobson, “Random early detection gateways for congestion avoidance,”...
... Dave for his commitment and initiative, and our editors for being patient with us I would also like to thank my extended family in Saharanpur, Kanpur and Datia for their constant encouragement and ... shoot for the stars —Praphul Chandra I’d like to thank my colleague, Praphul Chandra, for inviting me to join him in this project andfor his leadership, despite the challenges of time and distance ... I was working for Texas Instruments Since then, I have moved on and joined HP Labs, India The separation in distance (and in time zones) has been a challenge for both of us andfor our editors...
... Xu X.W for teaching Graduate Analysis I, to Prof J Berrick for teaching Graduate Algebra II andfor his interactive teaching style, to Prof Wu Jie for teaching Algebraic Topology andfor all ... (Criterion for Surjection) Let G be an FGA-π group and let A be a finite abelian group For G to surject continuously onto A, it is necessary and sufficient that for every k ∈ Z>0 and every rational ... (UG1 ×UG2 ) for some fixed isomorphism γG1 ×G2 and γG2 Proposition 2.3.3 Let G1 and G2 be admissible FGA-π groups and let A1 and A2 be finite abelian groups Suppose ϕ1 ∶ G1 → A1 and ϕ2 ∶ G2...
... to impose a uniform global standard comparable to that for ships, or even a minimum standard comparable to that for dumping at sea Indeed, no such global standards exist for land-based or airborne ... Sonja Østreng; andfor the 1996 workshop, thanks to Bruce and Rosalie Davis, and to Richard and Twila Herr Moreover, on the occasion of the 1996 workshop held in Another book, titled Governing High ... Netherlands, 29 April–10 May 1996 (The Hague: Netherlands Ministry of Foreign Affairs, 1997) For a comprehensive review see O S Stokke and D Vidas (eds.), Governing the Antarctic: The Effectiveness and...
... It looks, for example, at verb and noun structures, adverb and adjective structures, and ways of linking complex sentences and texts It also provides information on style and register, for example ... William, Sally and Claire for their untold patience John Eckersley for his generosity and support Clive, Judith and the staff and students at BEET Language Centre, Bournemouth The staff and students ... quality and achievement 74 76 Exam practice Entrv test 33 SECTION I Agents and objects with the passive 34 Infinitives and -ing form passives 36 Structures with get and have 38 ~ n i five t '80 32 OVERVIEW...
... It looks, for example, at verb and noun structures, adverb and adjective structures, and ways of linking complex sentences and texts It also provides information on style and register, for example ... William, Sally and Claire for their untold patience John Eckersley for his generosity and support Clive, Judith and the staff and students at BEET Language Centre, Bournemouth The staff and students ... quality and achievement 74 76 Exam practice Entrv test 33 SECTION I Agents and objects with the passive 34 Infinitives and -ing form passives 36 Structures with get and have 38 ~ n i five t '80 32 OVERVIEW...
... It looks, for example, at verb and noun structures, adverb and adjective structures, and ways of linking complex sentences and texts It also provides information on style and register, for example ... William, Sally and Claire for their untold patience John Eckersley for his generosity and support Clive, Judith and the staff and students at BEET Language Centre, Bournemouth The staff and students ... quality and achievement 74 76 Exam practice Entrv test 33 SECTION I Agents and objects with the passive 34 Infinitives and -ing form passives 36 Structures with get and have 38 ~ n i five t '80 32 OVERVIEW...
... recognizable need for health system improvement especially with lack of procedures and guidelines for appraising the staff performance and knowledge in Iraq [5,19] The requirement for better involvement ... and running health-care systems Therefore, their views on efficiency of such system and needs for any changes are very critical and constitute a cornerstone for any health system improvement [9,10] ... self-ruling region, located in northern Iraq and comprised of three governorates out of the 18 governorates of Iraq; Erbil, Duhok and Sulaymaniya Erbil governorate is the capital of the Iraqi Page...
... second L/C covering the same transaction, and when all terms and conditions and terms of both credits are identical, excepts for amounts and dates in the second L/C which must be smaller and earlier, ... UCP 600 Articles 20 and 21 sections (a)(ii) and (iii) "Received for carriage" or "received for shipment" documents are not acceptable under UCP 600 For Road, Rail and Inland Waterway the transport ... which the credit is issued and by other specific features of the credit Each type of credit has advantages and disadvantages for the buyer andfor the seller Charges for each type will also vary...