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... 13 14 INTRODUCTION Water is crucial for all aspects of life, the defining feature of our planet Ninety seven and a half per cent of all water is found in the oceans, of the remaining freshwater ... Depending on the type of ore deposit being mined, tailings can also contain heavy metals like copper, lead, zinc, mercury and arsenic The contaminants in mine waste may be Cooling waters used in industrial ... Bottled water Before Mining Rainfall filtering through soil Surface runoff Sulfide Filtering soils Groundwater After Mining The problem of poor water quality in many urban centres has been one of...
... .127 Table 3 Z-test of the Proportion of Firms Seeing Financial Payoff 128 Table T-test of Means of Percent Increase inFinancial Measures .128 xi List of Figures Figure Structural ... provides insights into the current allocation of resources and provides guidance for investing additional resources 1.7.1 Investing the marginal dollar The marginal output obtained by increasing input ... analysis of the performance of various typesof dot coms can provide valuable insights into the phenomenon of leveraging the Internet for business activities For example, it can suggest whether all types...
... factors behind this increase? Evidence for a relationship includes both the means to in uence some entity and the motivation for doing so Eight typesof relationships (“spheres ofin uence”) ... small number of submissions, many of which used Document Retrieval Since information retrieval systems supply the initial set of documents on which a question answering system operates, it makes ... reduce the amount of text under consideration We believe that the techniques introduced in this paper are applicable to the different typesofinformation needs discussed above While information retrieval...
... new interfaces have been created that allow interactive access to large sets ofinformation Online software ‘mash-ups’ are becoming more common, bringing together distributed data sources into ... assumptions In general, information visualization techniques with an intrinsic focus thus contain interactive features Those techniques which aim for extrinsic meaning often explicitly limit interactivity, ... techniques facilitate both intrinsic insight into patterns and extrinsic meaning underlying the data Its mapping techniques are generally direct and accurate, similar to those ininformation visualization,...
... frequency of occurrence of P pityogra- Table The frequency of occurrence and stem cover of some cambioxylophagous insects (%) in standing spruce trees non- infested and infested by fungal pathogens in ... felled by the wind in autumn were checked for the presence of cambioxylophagous insects in next spring and autumn Merocoenoses of cambioxylophagous insects in wind-felled trees in the area with ... diversity of cambioxylophagous and wood-inhabiting insects (33), but only 18 species were more abundant Considering the frequency of occurrence of cambioxylophagous insects in standing trees...
... included Typesof intervention AE was assumed if the reported target heart rate of the training protocol was at least (on average) 40% of maxHR or if the training protocol included exercise involving ... one-sixth of the skeletal muscles (for example, walking, running, biking, aerobics, vibrations) At least 50% of the training session should consist of AE In the case of mixed exercise, defined as ... the effects of continuing exercise on outcomes [25,80] One study compared the outcomes of continuers of exercise versus noncontinuers at follow-up without mentioning whether continuing exercise...
... usefulness of the softwares in teaching listening stages 31 Table 14: Uses of the softwares in Pre-teaching listening 32 Table 15: Uses of the softwares in While-teaching listening 32 Table 16: Uses of ... of the softwares in teaching listening skill Students‘ opinions about the advantages of the softwares in teaching listening skill Students‘ opinions about the disadvantages of the softwares in ... Hermann Gmeiner school in Vinh Firstly, the author would like to investigate the influence of utilizing those softwares in teaching and learning listening skill in Hermann Gmeiner School - Vinh Secondly,...
... order of the level “often” is: finding words (65%), checking spelling and grammar (60%), revising and editing (55%), discovering relevant online information (44%), outlining (30%), giving and taking ... Never Discovering relevant online information 44 40 14 Outlining/planning 30 20 35 15 Finding words and phrases for writing 65 30 Checking spelling and grammar 60 35 Giving and taking feedback ... findings 19 CHAPTER II: THE STUDY I Setting of the study Information technology at Faculty of English Language at Vinh University Being a well-known training cradle in the central Vietnam, Vinh...
... the information flows concurrently transmitting in the network according to some dynamic bandwidth sharing rule, which ensures the stability of the total number ofinformation flows ongoing in ... express my sincere appreciation to my supervisors, Assoc Prof Ou Jihong and Asst Prof Ye Hengqing They introduced me into the area of queueing network modelling Their enlightening instruction, ... route is uniquely determined accordingly, facilitating the transmission of these information flows Figure 1.1: Communication Network When an information flow carrying an amount of data arrives on...
... technology, in exploring on-line banking business as well as in promoting non- bank financial institutions Efforts should be made in upgrading financial operations and financial services, and in conducting ... institution building process of the financial sector The relationship between financial opening and financial security China’s decision to join the WTO signifies a step forward in the opening offinancial ... role of FDI in institution building Over the past 20 years, foreign financial institutions, mainly foreign banks have played an important role in the opening up of Chinese financial industry In...
... successively independent sequence of self-adjoint elements of A with τ (xn ) = ∀n ∈ N Suppose that (tk ) is a sequence of positive real numbers and (nk ) is a strictly increasing sequence of positive integers ... R Jajte, A non- commutative extension of Hsu - Robbins law of large numbers, Bull Polish Sci 30 (1982) 533 [11] Nguyen Van Quang, On the Law of Large Numbers of Hsu- Robbins type in Noncommutative ... set of all natural numbers For each self-adjoint operators x in A, we denote by e∆ (x) the spectral projection of x corresponding to the Borel subset ∆ of the real line R Let x be a operator in...
... now being exploited in cancer, attempting to modulate their expression, reintroducing microRNAs lost in cancer, or inhibiting oncogenic microRNAs by using anti-micro oligonucleotides [38] In a ... The dominant staining intensity in tumor cells was scored as: = negative; = weak; = intermediate; = strong (Figure 1) In case of disagreement (score discrepancy >1), the slides were reexamined ... glass mounting Scoring of ISH The ARIOL imaging system (Genetix, San Jose, CA) was used to scan the TMA slides of ISH staining The slides were loaded in the automated loader (Applied Imaging SL 50)...
... studying the influence of SARS- CoV on the immune system-independent induction of cytokines Interferon genes and their antiviral effectors To properly assess the cytokine profile of SARS-CoV infection, ... dissemination of SARS-CoV By slowing down expression of IFNs and their antiviral genes in the infected tissue cells, the virus buys time during the initial, critical phase of infection in order ... Virus-induced cytokines not only play a significant role in host defense, but also in immunopathogenesis Investigations of the cytokine profiles of SARS patients have shown that the proinflammatory...
... W of W -invariants in T The subalgebra T W was first studied in [4, 20] with the aim of obtaining noncommutative analogs of classical results concerning symmetric function theory Recent work in ... decomposes into three irreducible components, with the trivial representation s6 being the span of m222 inside Λ 4.3 Λ meets S S We begin by explaining the choice of normalizing coefficient in (16) ... their minimum elements The shape λ(A) of a set partition A = {A1 , A2 , , Ar } is the (integer) partition λ(|A1 |, |A2|, , |Ar |) obtained by sorting the part sizes of A in increasing order,...
... root water uptake is provided by water channels (aquaporins) in the cell-to-cell passage ofwater flow in roots [7, 45] Opening and closing of the channels could alter Lpr mainly when the water ... deficits According to the much larger flux data set of [8, 10], large differences inwater uptake rates among neighbouring fine roots of a single tree are a characteristic of the root systems of mature ... were investigated 2.5 In situ-measurement of root water absorption In the past few years, considerable progress has been made in measuring water flux in tree roots under in situ conditions in undisturbed...