... using these common variables and then apply the food and overall poverty lines developed by the GSO andthe World Bank for use with the VLSS surveys (Poverty Working Group, 1999) The lower of these ... as in the rural Southeast and in urban areas) and lower where the incidence is high (such as in the rural Northern Uplands) In every region except one (Hanoi and Ho Chi Minh City), the standard ... is bowed toward the upper left-hand corner of the graph, the greater is the accuracy of the test Since the ROC curves are bounded by the interval [0,1], the maximum value forthe area under an...
... on the liner or sand grains and is the stress used to calculate the vertical, horizontal and shear forces on the liner The pore pressure u is equalized inside and outside of the liner so the ... key results for each case The cases are for both L80 and K55 grade liners andfor screened and slotted liners Cases are presented for 500m and 200m depths; andfor zero, partial, and full earth ... forthe wrapped on screen The liners were assumed fixed at one end The graph shows that the free ends of the liners will extend by 1.06 and 2.07 m forthe 350 and 700 m lengths respectively The...
... (filer paper), BWX and PWSD The enzyme kinetic studies for cellulase and xylanase (Km and Vmax) were performed with 1-10 mg/ml of CMC and BWX, respectively [35] The crude cellulase and xylanase were ... thermophilic consortia for cellulase and xylanase production [7, 27] These reports, however, lack information on the biochemical and kinetic properties of the secreted enzymes Such information may be ... temperature because of the heat released during its processing The pH was above in the YWC-I and –II samples, however, the FYWC sample showed acidic pH due to the formation of organic acid and reduced levels...
... integrity, and availability; and you may experience attacks against these dimensions We can think of these as the “primary colors” of information assurance By mixing and matching these and we mix and ... diagram shows another way to think of the Defense In Depth concept At the center of the diagram is your information However, the center can be anything you value, or the answer to the question, ... decrypt the passwords Then, with a stolen password, the attacker can execute an integrity attack when they gain entrance to the system And they can even use an availability attack as part of their...
... (UNDP and others) What is needed, now and later? International support, cooperation and coordination Current international support to Viet Nam on CC • Support to the mitigation of effects of CC and ... average the developing countries should start that after 2020) What is needed, now and later? (b) • Formulate a strategic framework to achieve both policy aims • Stress the importance of andpotential ... • In-depth consultation with key stakeholders andthe wider public • Refine the CCA strategy • Adopt CC impact scenarios as the basis for public and private investments • Mainstream reduction...
... four fundamental forces One of these is the gravitational force The other three are the electromagnetic force, the weak force, andthe strong Force Force particle Mass force Strong Gluon Electromagnetic ... between the two presidents and that therefore, without further ado, the light it emitted traveled the same distance to reach each of them Since the speed of the emitted light to the left and to the ... is forthe president of Backwardland, and since the speed of light toward each is the same, the light will reach the president of Forwardland first This is why the citizens of Forwardland claim...
... edge of the glans or to the top of the penile shaft In moderate cases the meatus is located lower down the shaft and in severe cases lower still and perhaps even in the perineal region, the latter ... 2008) For example, several pesticides and fungicides (such as Vinclozolin, DDE and Procymidone) exert their antiandrogenic effects by binding to the AR – and then instead of activating it, sit there ... investigating thepotential causes of cryptorchidism and hypospadias Quality assessment of the various studies and of the data obtained: The first major issue with both cryptorchidism and hypospadias is the...
... market interest rates and accommodating the demand for outside money Changes in these interest rates alter the opportunity costs of money holdings and thereby affect the demand for broad money however, ... to alleviate the funding risks faced by the banks It should therefore facilitate the provision of money and credit to the economy.22 Understanding the funding models of banks andthe interlinkages ... borrower and on the value of collateral that the bank receives For instance, a positive shock to the value of the collateral that is pledged to banks implies a lower risk forthe bank and thus the...
... costs andthe expenses of the social and health services are increasing The report analyses the factors influencing the use of social and health services by the elderly On the basis of the analysis, ... receiving some help, the sources of the help was asked The list covered both informal and formal care-givers and respondents were asked to list all of them and name one who helps the most The structure ... in five tables The first table reports the probabilities for not using the service andthe rest of the tables give the probabilities for using the services with certain intensity The EVERGREEN...
... WHA55.25) The Regional Office will publish the research papers later this year This publication outlines the extent of the problem, the implications forthe health sector and other sectors, andthe ... National Institute for Public Health andthe Environment, Bilthoven, Netherlands Rudolf Hoogenveen National Institute for Public Health andthe Environment, Bilthoven, Netherlands Alan A Jackson ... of the countries it serves The European Region embraces some 880 million people living in an area stretching from the Arctic Ocean in the north andthe Mediterranean Sea in the south and from the...
... sky near sunset As they walk, the grandfather tells tales of the Old Ones, the elders of the community, and of their wisdom As the boy absorbs the stories and begins to make their wisdom his own, ... groaning woods, the crying grass, andthe moaning rocks They are also in the woman's breast, the wailing child, the home, andthe crowd The last line tells us, "The dead have a pact with the living." ... of the ancestors in the voices of fire and water We are then told that those who have died "have never left" and that they are "not under the earth." Rather, they are in the rustling trees, the...
... control, such as the one promulgated by COSO, and to formally document their internal control activities The Act also provides the impetus for many companies to formalize their approach to the management, ... your company For instance, many companies not contract with foreign governments and are therefore outside the scope of the FCPA At other companies, only certain subsidiaries deal with foreign governments ... determine the probable scope of risk analyst activities and then identify the skills needed to perform them For example, risk analysts might spend 80 percent of their time analyzing business risks and...
... in the Solar System The road was open before us, ours forthe taking And then the will faded Forthe next 30 years, the trail-blazing was taken up by others, as Americans chose to less risky and ... during their lifetimes, the tide of change inexorably rolls forward, sometimes for better, sometimes for worse The story of the first space stations andthe men and women who built and flew them ... self-centeredness In the early 1970s, the United States had the tools, the abilities, the vision, the freedom, andthe will to go to the stars We had already explored the moon Our rockets were the most powerful...
... biology and, therefore, no good evidence forthe existence of God According to Oxford evolutionary biologist Richard Dawkins and other New Atheists, the lack of evidence for design has made the idea ... into the earth, geophysicists would time the resulting echoes as they traveled back to the surface and then use the information from these signals to reconstruct a picture of the subsurface of the ... evidence: the information the digital code—stored in DNA andthe other large biological molecules The case I make for intelligent design is less well known than Professor Behe’s and, therefore, to...
... between the ends they seek andthe means they use to realize them The idea that the end justifies the means has always rested on casuistry It only begs the question of what justifies the end, and to ... a high price for their liberation from the Taliban Aside from the thousands killed andthe tens of thousands injured in the initial bombing campaign, the economy has collapsed to the point where ... shambles; andthe exodus of the middle class Iraq has become the most dangerous place on earth—not merely forthe soldiers of the occupying power but also forthe citizens forced to endure the descent...
... entertainment outside the home Many of the southern theaters, which formed the TOBA, closed their doors The rise of the American economy caused by the start of World War II, as well as the continued ... get the footage to the networks forthe nightly news.9 Furthermore these televised images andthe outrage of segments of the American public directly impacted the Kennedy White House Donovan and ... self-affirmation They garnered the strength to cope with the harsh reality of their public life and critiqued the white society that enslaved them and refused to acknowledge their status as human beings They...
... indigenous shrubland or forest remnants We assume, forthe purposes of this study, that all such land is eligible forthe creation of Kyoto forest (for further discussion, see Sect 3.3) The VCM/LCDB ... exotic plantation forests and those for indigenous shrublands and forests are not, however, the result of large differences in net primary production [45] Rather, they occur because the indigenous ... east coast Potentially, then, there is a total of about 1.45 Mha of marginal pasture lands available for A/R by indigenous shrubland and forest To make an initial estimate of the national potential...
... Talbert et al [38] for P taeda and Yanchuk and Kiss [45] for Picea engelmannii Only Vargas-Hernandez and Adams [41] and Zhang and Morgenstern [48] estimated an h2i = 0.60 value for RD for Pseudotsuga ... from the 6th or 7th year On the other hand, with regard to the genetic control evolution in the characteristics related to the radial growth of trees (LWP and RW), a tendency for an increase of the ... where h2i is the individual heritability and b, f, and t, are the number of blocks, families, and trees/family/block, respectively RESULTS The summary statistics, at tree level, andthe individual...
... integration: I Symmetry and convergence of the corticocortical connections of the left andthe right principal sulcus (PS) andthe left andthe right supplementary motor area (SMA) in the rhesus monkey ... Logsdail and Toone defined diagnostic criteria for PIP [4], thereby distinguishing PIP from the other psychoses of epilepsy, namely ictal and interictal psychosis The patient presented here meets these ... intravenous phenytoin The patient slept and an EEG was performed Information was gathered by telephone contact with the patient's family, and we determined that Mr R was married and lived in a different...