... 33 iv COASE AND CAR REPAIR: WHO SHOULD BERESPONSIBLEFOR EMISSIONS OF VEHICLES IN USE? Winston Harrington and Virginia D McConnell* Soon after the Federal emission standards fornew motor vehicles ... greatly overstated the potential for emission reduction for HC and CO, and were optimistic about the NOx emissions level in fleet both before and after I/M testing and repair Not only did the Enhanced ... Harrington and McConnell RFF 99-22 realistically provides is the potential for improved diagnostic and repair information, and, at best, the potential to lower the cost of enforcing the liability for...
... Brain magnetic resonance imaging after the onset of seizures Brain magnetic resonance imaging after the onset of seizures Page of (page number not for citation purposes) Journal of Medical Case ... must be carried out to look for the presence of an associated tumor Alamowitch S, Graus F, Uchuya M, Rene R, Bescansa E, Delattre JY: Limbic encephalitis and small cell lung cancer Clinicaland ... informed consent was obtained from the patient for publication of this case report and any accompanying images A copy of the written consent is available for review by the Editor-in-Chief of this...
... electrolytes and renal function normalised but CRP increased to 350 mg/l and ceftriaxone and metronidazole were started for presumed aspiration pneumonia Clinically the patient improved and began speaking ... manuscript and patient clinical care Both authors read and approved the final manuscript Consent Written informed consent was obtained from the patient for publication of this case report and any ... [6], and following administration of metformin [7] or glibenclamide [8] The precipitant of the haemolysis is not clear in this case and may have involved a combination of infection, gliclazide and...
... inflammation parameters before and after occurrence of new- onset AF Finally, no data regarding the treatment of new- onset AF in critically ill patients are available to date Thus, we describe the success ... patients with new- onset AF, the number of leucocytes, Creactive protein (CRP) and maximum daily temperature were recorded - retrospectively if possible during the three days before onset of AF and prospectively ... value (value observed three days before onset of AF) The Kaplan-Meier method was used to create the survival curves for septic shock patients with new- onset AF andfor septic shock patients with...
... therefore not be weighed in general This balance has to be estimated for individual patients, and an educated guess has to be made [136] Conclusion A rational treatment protocol could therefore ... association between AF and mortality in some patient groups There is, however, no evidence for a causal relationship [38] Both AF and mortality being a result of disease severity might be one of ... morbidity This is reflected by the number of reported symptoms and by the days spent in the ICU and in the hospital Haemodynamic parameters also tend to be worse in patients with AF As for mortality,...
... Australian andNew Zealand Intensive Care Society Research Centre for Critical Care Resources for their assistance with this project and James Cooper, Simon Finfer, and John Myburgh for their ... ward CA and readmission to ICU) are presented as means ± standard deviation for absolute values and rates of events (adjusted for total ICU admissions) in the 12-month periods before and after ... the incidence and hospital mortality for adverse events before and after commencement of the MET was tested for with the Wilcoxon signed rank test A similar comparison was performed for hospitals...
... Region: This region is located between the parallels 16 and 12, from Quang Nam to Khanh Hoa The typhoon season is between September and November, and is the most intense in October and November There ... Doors and windows: The doors and windows must be well closed during typhoon Sliding doors may also be used for easily closing and opening Door and window frames must be provided with steel nails for ... on Beaufort scale are given in Table Beaufort scale 1-6 10 11 12 13 14 > 14 Table 1: Beaufort scale, wind speed and wind pressures Wind speed: km/hour Descriptive terms / Characteristics and...
... all the newand changed policy settings for Windows Werver 2008 may be found by searching for the file VistaGPSettings.xls at www.microsoft.com NOTE: Before diving in to discuss the new settings, ... should be aware of a change in the way Windows Server 2008 and Vista store Group Policy settings The venerable ADM file format has given way to a new format, ADMX, which offers a number of benefits, ... things you don't want it to – and, incidentally, to make administrators stop and think for a second before executing potentially damaging tasks You can change this behavior through Group Policy...
... demand for sugar also had much to with beverages, both alcoholic and nonalcoholic (but stimulating nonetheless because of Sugar andNew Beverages 165 caffeine) Three ingredients predominated for ... although at this point it was still a rare beverage.17 By the turn of the fifteenth century, however, coffee beans were being roasted, ground, and brewed into a beverage, and coffee trees had been brought ... heighten all his joy Robert Burns (1759–1796) Before cacao, coffee, and tea, European beverages were generally of the alcoholic variety, especially wine and beer (“small” beer or ale called kavas,...
... animals, including giant marsupials and flightless birds on hand for the taking.9 Because Australia andNew Zealand had been cut off from the rest of the world for close to 100 million years, the ... 140 species of plants were eaten – foremost among them the roots and tubers of lilies, orchids, native yams, and a variety of fruits and seeds.12 In New Zealand, bees buzzed, making honey from the ... kangaroo, quandong, and Macadamia nuts were blended with a variety of Asian and Mediterranean vegetables and herbs that couldbe grown locally Stirfrying became common, andnew foods arrived Some...
... codes and standards, for example, often supersede performance criteria in an attempt to simplify the selection process and remove liability for performance failures For many uses, codes and standards ... engineer to mix and match properties and attributes to best solve the problem or need at hand Materials in the engineering realm are chosen based on what they can do, how they behave andwhat they ... exist between ceramics and plastics, and many semiconductors couldbe either a metal or ceramic This way of classifying materials is extremely useful for many reasons In particular, the understandings...
... Understand and respond to informed consent forms, 4) Understand medication instructions for themselves and their children, and 5) Be knowledgeable about the health effects of risks, behaviors, and ... level begins with professionals understanding and respecting cultural differences and understanding that the clients' cultures affect their values, beliefs, perceptions, attitudes, and behaviors ... human behavior including its role in defining illness, health, and wellness and in help-seeking and health maintenance behaviors Of particular importance is the recognition that health beliefs and...
... information (Berger and Udell, 2002; Berger et al., 2005) andthiscould amplify their willingness to preserve the bank-firm business relationship This is particularly the case for mutual banks ... information problems, should be more affected by the crisis (Kashyap and Stein, 1995) On the other hand, small banks may be more efficient than larger ones in collecting and processing soft information ... Following Albertazzi and Marchetti (2010) and Hale and Santos For a survey on modelling the banking firm, see Santomero (1984), Green (1998) and Lim (2000) 9 (2009) we cluster standard errors...
... in the system, the demand for Millennials and beyond for relevant learning models, China will develop a leading learning format, first to educate its population and then expand it to teach the ... wealthy will be able to afford a college education in 2020 Teleconferencing, distance learning, and online courses will be the norm.” “Public institutions and for- profit schools will be forced to ... in the system, the demand for Millennials and beyond for relevant learning models, China will develop a leading learning format, first to educate its population and then expand it to teach the...
... also be performed on-demand via RECOVER command – Requires Active Data Guard (real-time query on physical standby database) Automatic Block Repair Queries Primary database Active Data Guard Standby ... data files SET NEWNAME FOR TABLESPACE | DATABASE • Simplifies renaming of datafiles for RESTORE, DUPLICATE, and TSPITR operations 16 RMAN Best Practices 17 RMAN Best Practices ... • Minimum performant component of these will be performance bottleneck 19 Data Warehouse B&R Best Practices • Exploit partitioning and read-only tablespaces – Older partitions can be moved to...
... began a new quarrel till the autumn vessels had sailed for France; because a full year must then elapse before his adversaries could send their complaints to the king, and six months more before ... annalist Saint-Simon, who knew the court and all belonging to it better than any other man of his time, says of her: "She had been beautiful and gay, and was always in the best society, where she ... gentilshommes at Quebec, and these he reinforced with a number of officers The third estate consisted of the merchants and citizens; and he formed the members of the council and the magistrates...
... in Mexico and Yucatan, its Nahuatl name being homonymous for twin, i e two, and the Maya for serpent, can or cam, being homonymous for the number The Fundamental Principles of Old andNew by Zelia ... upper and lower worlds [the Above and the Below], the same number 13 results, as it is held that in each the sun stands for the individual, being in turn the day sun and night sun, the light and ... of the Male and Female principles, but also with the The Fundamental Principles of Old andNew by Zelia Nuttall 26 Above and the Below, or Heaven (air and water) and Earth (earth and fire) I...
... motivating, and managing members of a lab “Mentoring and Being Mentored” explores what it means to be a mentor, particularly as a strategy for facilitating learning and training new scientists ... patients and how much time will you want to devote to research versus clinical practice? Learning What Is Out There Use all available formal and informal sources of information Formal sources of information ... faculty member may be entirely responsiblefor raising funds for his or her salary andfor all other expenses needed for scientific research Such appointments are generally given for a limited...