... Power tothe peopleMSOs have traditionally used AC pow-er at the headend, while their telephonycounterparts have used DC power. But as ca-ble networks delve into the telephony realm,operators ... into smaller network elements.Asked to do more, do it in less space, and doit more efficiently, operators are incorporat-ing high-amperage power distribution plat-forms into the headend to ... elementdesigned to meet to- day’s high-band-width requirements. Cable operatorscan increase their profitability by increas-ing the number of throughput ports in aCMTS. Many of the newest, most...
... groups to seek out good practices, to analyse them and to reach agreement on the best way forward, the Council is able to give its members authoritative guidance and tools to help them face their ... that are to be present, in or absent from, thewater and as tothe concentrations of substances which are, or are required to be, present in the water. • Specific requirements as to other characteristics ... or more of the following: • General requirements as tothe purposes for which the waters to which the classification is applied are to be suitable. • Specific requirements as tothe substances...
... groups to seek out good practices, to analyse them and to reach agreement on the best way forward, the Council is able to give its members authoritative guidance and tools to help them face their ... countries. The activities have been implemented together with UNEP, the Danish Water Quality Institute (VKI), the Institute for Inland Water Management and Wastewater Treatment in the Netherlands ... of the Netherlands. Financial support for the activities undertaken by the Working Group has been provided by UNEP and by the Government of the Netherlands. The Working Group brought together...
... was the last of the three great seafaring nations to break into the Chinese and East Indian trade routes. This was due in part tothe unsteady ascension to the throne of the Stuarts and the ... long way towards reaching the Millennium Development Goals.MARKETING SAFE WATERTOTHE POOR : THE CHALLENGES Contrary tothe marketing successes seen in the bottled water market, the four ... Among the CWP purchasers, 86 % had previous-ly boiled their water and 17 % continued to boil their water. Interestingly, among the population without a filter, 83 % were boiling their water ; the...
... objectives for the main river and other watercourses in the catchment area. 2.4.3 The ecosystem approach The application of the ecosystem approach in water management has led tothe development ... irrigation water. Water quality criteria for irrigation water generally take into account, amongst other factors, such characteristics as crop tolerance to salinity, sodium concentration and phytotoxic ... preservation of the oxygen content in the water, prevention of eutrophication, prevention of sedimentation, preventing toxic compounds from entering thewater and food chains, and promotion of water...
... city the Neris river flows into the Nemunas. The Neris is the biggest tributary of the Nemunas. The basin area of the Neris is 24 492km2. The source of the Neris river is in the territory ... Industry uses the river water for technical processes too. The used water becomes wastewater that is discharged back into the surface water body, in Kaunas city case, the Nemunas river. raw water riverwastewaterindustryhouseholdgroundwaterNATURAL ... surface urban stormwater outlets will be left in the territory of the city. The treated wastewater will be discharged downstream the city and downstream the beaches. Water in the two beaches...
... preservation of the oxygen content in the water, prevention of eutrophication, prevention of sedimentation, preventing toxic compounds from entering thewater and food chains, and promotion of water ... other oxidative chemicals, or with UV irradiation. This adds tothe treatment cost and the operational complexity of the treatment technology and eventually may reduce the reliability of the ... the treatment measures avoid transferring pollution or pollutants, from one medium to another (from water into sludge for example). Thus BPEO takes into account the cross-media impacts of the...
... forests. Annually, the highest water storage capacity in the soil is in August, and the lowest one in February, meaning that these months can store more or less rainy water than others respectively. ... moisture; and to estimate the capability of these forest types to prevent surface runoff. b) to determine influences of watershed characteristics, forest cover, and forest distribution on storm runoff ... 15 representative watersheds in Vietnam; and to determine peak discharge of these watersheds by the predictors of initial flow, rainfall, and rain intensity. c) to identify the roles of forest...
... differences in the sensitivity to PLX4032, with some BRAFV600E mutants demonstrat-ing resistance tothe cytotoxic effects of PLX4032. Inmost cases, these cells had a tendency towards slowergrowth ... Taken together with the dataon cell cycle inhibition, these data suggest that PLX4032has cytostatic effects in BRAFV600E mutant cell lines witha poor response, while it has cytostatic and cytotoxiceffects ... have amplification of the BRAF locus (Table 1).There was no clear relationship between these amplifica-tion events and the BRAFV600E zygosity or the sensitivity to PLX4032. There were very few...
... 5-10 minutes). There are some essential aspects to be aware of. As mentioned before, to prevent floor andceiling effects (i.e. the extent to which respondents scoreat the bottom or top of a scale) ... picked to assess patient's disability level, since the ALDS is based on the IRT. The latter is, as we foundout, the most difficult part of the ALDS to appreciate bythose who are used to work ... in order for the ALDS to be valid, the ALDS scores had to show a decreasing pattern of asso-ciations, with the highest correlation with the disabilityrelated Activity domain of the VascuQol,...
... from the cellular proliferation assayswith GSK1070916. Ymin values represent the bottom oftheresponsecurveanddefinethelargesteffectofthecompound. These Ymin values are evaluated relative to the ... mechan-isms/checkpoints to prevent polyploidy [37]. It can behypothesized that for cells that are primarily polyploid,they have developed mechanisms to bypass these check-points to tolerate polyploidy and therefore ... or equal to a 96 hour exposure with GSK1070916 for the majority of cells to contain sub2N DNA. Furthermore, the Ymin (minimum response of the dose response curve)and the T = 0 values (the number...
... from the cellular proliferation assayswith GSK1070916. Ymin values represent the bottom oftheresponsecurveanddefinethelargesteffectofthecompound. These Ymin values are evaluated relative to the ... forGSK1070916. The cell line response data was compared to the mutation patterns in the cell lines, gene expres-sion patterns and t he karyotypes of the cell lines. Highchromosome number in the cell lines ... mechan-isms/checkpoints to prevent polyploidy [37]. It can behypothesized that for cells that are primarily polyploid,they have developed mechanisms to bypass these check-points to tolerate polyploidy and therefore...
... 5-10 minutes). There are some essential aspects to be aware of. As mentioned before, to prevent floor andceiling effects (i.e. the extent to which respondents scoreat the bottom or top of a scale) ... picked to assess patient's disability level, since the ALDS is based on the IRT. The latter is, as we foundout, the most difficult part of the ALDS to appreciate bythose who are used to work ... researchers,using their clinical judgment, can make their own selec-tions of items from the itembank that are applicable to the population they are investigating. By using a smallnumber of items tailored to...
... proved that the Mazur–Ulam theorem holds when X is a linear2-normed space. Chu et al. [17] generalized the Mazur–Ulam theoremwhen X is a linear n-normed space, that is, the Mazur–Ulam theo-rem ... al. [20] proved the Mazur–Ulam the- orem for the interior preserving mappings in linear 2-normed spaces.They also proved the theorem on non-Archimedean 2-normed spacesover a linear ordered non-Archimedean ... when the n-isometry mapped to a linear n-normed space isaffine. They also obtain extensions of Rassias andˇSemrl’s theorem [18].Moslehian and Sadeghi [19] investigated the Mazur–Ulam theorem...