... earnings inthe United States since 1983 As real earnings fell, middle-class Americans were forced to borrow in order to maintain living standards and pay for health care and education The change ... improving After that, they created what they called the “stressed” scenario a characterization of the worst case And finally, they applied the stressed scenario tothe actual income statements and ... operating ina damaged state for years to come They should be acclimatizing to what has become known as the “new normal.” There are, of course, many voices arguing that nothing has really changed, that...
... amassed The early 1990s predictions are available ina searchable database online at the site Imagining the Internet: A History and Forecast and they are also the basis fora book by Anderson ... emerging as the new lingua franca.” International Domain Names will change the landscape The Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers has been urged for years to find a way to initiate ... necessary, and they have the ability to learn through trial and error or through example and generalization MEMS, agents and bots are the reality today Inthe near future, as computing and data storage...
... “me too” product Shifting toa business model that was more akin tothe entertainment industry than a hardware manufacturer made Apple a hard act for would-be imitators to follow Investing inthe ... unfortunate as innovation, collaboration and sustainability are no less relevant now than they were a year or two ago Innovation Recessions are great for highlighting the weaknesses ina company ... but inthe way we business as a whole Jorma Ollila, the chairman of Royal Dutch Shell and Nokia, was recently quoted inthe Financial Times saying: The crisis will lead toa rethink inthe corporate...
... Acta Veterinaria Scandinavica 2009, 51:36 Background Files with information on animal disease have a variety of applications at both the herd and national level, including monitoring the incidence ... understanding provides insight into potential errors (bias and random error) related to data based on clinical examina- Page of 10 (page number not for citation purposes) Acta Veterinaria Scandinavica ... 4) Law-abiding Veterinarians stated that metritis scoring is enforced by law This was the primary motivating factor for running the herd health programme, rather than, for example, creating possibilities...
... items inthe database This has to be balanced against degradation in accuracy resulting from increasing the vocabulary In practice we found that users, while acknowledging the value of handwriting ... results ina search for all of the movies with that particular actor or director, allowing users to quickly navigate from an actor or director ina specific title to other material they may be interested ... movie database to determine the new series of results The graphical display is then updated to represent the latest query The system first attempts to find an exact match inthe database for all...
... NOx As shown in Figure 11e, at 380°CA, the NO forms inthe swirl chamber throat, pre and main chambers and then transferred into the main chamber at 400°CA for baseline engine While at adiabatic ... [29] Arash Nemati, Shahram Khalilarya, Samad Jafarmadar, Hassan Khatamnejhad, Vahid Fathi Numerical parametric investigation of a gasoline fuelled partially-premixed compression-ignition engine International ... 400°CA, the shape of high temperature regions for baseline and adiabatic with EGR cases are the same Also at adiabatic case for 400°CA and 420°CA, these regions more spread out inthe main chamber...
... want to make a living • Distinguish between an actionable dream and a fleeting fantasy • There are many ways to translate your passion into an idea fora business If your passion doesn't appear ... that Now a motivational speaker and the author of Making Your Dreams Come True, Marcia has taken the concept of helping others to find their passion and follow their dreams and has built it into ... joint or a high-end place Rather, she wanted to create a neighborhood restaurant that welcomed its patrons as family and was affordable forthe average person to visit every day A single mother...
... personal information about yourself toa minimum Fast facts ina nutshell • Maintain the boundary of teacher:student • Keep personal information out of the clinical setting 8 FAST FACTS FORTHE ... person can provide the clinical packet of information, assist you in interpreting the clinical evaluation tool, and inform you of any new program updates or changes The clinical instructor is usually ... a zero tolerance for absences or tardiness Each and every clinical day is considered vitaltothe overall program Lateness forthe clinical day is always frowned upon Tardiness and absences are...
... among them the General Electric Award for Outstanding Research in Strategic Planning from the Academy of Management and awards for best articles inthe Journal of the American Planning Association ... 3) as actors jointly exercising their capabilities related toa problem in order to further their separate and joint aims The actors may be individuals, groups, or organizations working together ... soon have the feeling of being stuck ina quagmire They clearly cannot wave a magic wand and make everything better Today, anyone who’s involved inthe fight against AIDS realizes that a host...
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... domain (interpersonal care) because they formed a more clinical and statistical cohesive set together rather than existing as separate scales Forthe same reasons, three domains (physical comfort, ... study including the design and coordination All authors contributed tothe interpretation of data and writing of the manuscript All authors read and approved the final manuscript Competing interests ... indicates that the total scores for each subscale are reliable estimates For each scale, the standard error of measurement, an indication of the amount of variation or spread inthe measurement...
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... fitted tothe data, and were examined against In (1 -In( FV/FV showing again a linear )), max relationship that appears in figure 6b) This analysis establishes the possibility of a linear fit to express ... wide variety of treatments that have never been put into practice, there has been an increasing concern to rely on basic information of general applicability and immediate availability This kind ... figure These trees show the typical variation scheme of the stem cross sectional area of the annual increment, along the stem This area increases linearly from the base of the stem annual shoot; then...
... 10 cm in diameter at breast height (DBH) inthe Paracou forest are the Lecythidaceae (18 % of the individuals), the Caesalpinaceae (13 %) and the Chrysobalanaceae (12 %) [11] The principal tree ... Eperua grandiflora, Symphonia globulifera, moni, Vouacapoua americana, Pradosia cochlearia (this study), Qualea rosea Carapa procera, patawa, and Dicorynia guianensis [24] From a structural point ... damage to saplings? 2) Fora given individual of a given species, is physical damage automatically detrimental in comparison to another individual of the same species with no breakage, especially...
... differentiated invasive intestinal-type adenocarcinoma of the stomach with invasion through the muscularis tothe serosa, and multifocal vascular and lymphatic invasion Postoperatively, the patient initially ... probably had gastric mucinous adenocarcinoma [16] Inthe normal population, the median age for diagnosis of gastric adenocarcinoma is 70 years Known risk factors for gastric adenocarcinoma inthe general ... tumour [Japanese] Naika no Ryôiki (Domain of Internal Medicine) 1975, 35:623-626 Watanabe A, Hanazono H, Sogawa H, Takaya H: Stomach cancer of a 14-year-old boy with ataxia-telangiectasia Tohoku...
... right cardiac atrium and ventricle ina pacemaker-dependent patient Tina Dasgupta*, Igor J Barani, Mack Roach III* Abstract Anaplastic thyroid carcinoma (ATC) is a rare, aggressive malignancy, ... He was treated with a total thyroidectomy for anaplastic thyroid carcinoma in March 2008, followed by post-operative cisplatin-based chemo-radiation therapy tothe surgical bed and the draining ... treatment of cardiac metastases encasing the leads of a pacemaker, and of cardiac metastases from ATCs, with a review of the pertinent literature Background Anaplastic thyroid carcinoma (ATC)...
... increases More males are evaluated on maternal performance and thus the uncertainty in preweaning parameters has a larger impact The same comments can be made forthe standard deviations of the ... modified to take maternal performance into account: a combined index of the average W210 of 30 sons and the average W120 of calves of bulls’ daughters was built It was assumed that heritability of maternal ... to maximize is the average breeding value (H) of the bulls finally selected for use in AI, whatever the variables with a origin: where thea and the b are the selection thresholds on the X variates...
... offspring Animals are assumed to be unrelated and within a class to have an equal amount of information Ducrocq and Quaas (1988) described the algorithm to calculate the relevant truncation point, ... structure of data was constructed to evaluate sampling variances and covariances between preweaning genetic parameters (Phocas et al, 1995) The sampling variance-covariance matrix is derived for 4050 ... intervals are also quite independent of the uncertainty in genetic parameters; the coefficients of variation are smaller than 2% Except forthe average AI sires path, taking into account tiers leads to...