... Meeyai A, Iamsirithaworn S, Burke DS: Strategies for containing an emerging influenza pandemic in Southeast Asia Nature 2005, 437:209-214 Longini IM Jr, Halloran ME, Nizam A, Yang Y: Containing ... pose any risk to cause a pandemic as the H1N1 strain has been circulating inthe population for many years without pandemic potential and leaving the population at least partially immune The implications ... hospitalizations demonstrate this challenge Non-pharmaceutical interventions considered by health decision makers and occupational medicine specialists in their pandemic preparedness plans may play a...
... process of making a Garden City in Singapore The idea of making Singapore a Garden City originated with the launching ofthe Garden City campaign in 1967 The purpose of planting was to create a green ... upon inthe future In cities, another critical threat is the loss of natural habitats for all plants at a faster pace compared to that in rural areas The blocky and angular buildings are always ... dominate the landscape In addition, vegetation provides elements of natural scale, visual beauty, added real-estate value as well as seasonal indicator to buildings and streets These are all the...
... calculated as −2∗ the natural logarithm ofthe ratio ofthe sum ofthe maximum likelihood’s ofthe pig and dairy data analysed separately to the maximum likelihood ofthe pooled data set The likelihood ... phenotypic variances and other necessary information for the resource population In these cases the phenotypic standard deviation was taken from other sources, and were therefore only approximations ... selection – drift followed by a few generations of artificial selection The variance in these populations after artificial selection was largely generated by a small proportion of QTL of intermediate...
... the data in such a way resulting in delusive conclusions Analyzing the data by means of definitions of sepsis and septic shock, and assuming the patients to be a uniform group, we cannot demonstrate ... demonstrate the special subgroups of patients in whom the administration of IgM-enriched immunoglobulin preparations may have highly beneficial effects By grouping the patients according to some characteristics ... effect of IgG immunotherapy ina special subgroup of septic patients has already been shown inthestudy by Dominioni et al [3] In conclusion, it seems that there is a subgroup of patients with severe...
... islands away, to the southeast of Balobaloang Island, is Sumanga’ Island (Pulau Sumanga’) In fact, Sumanga’ Island is administratively part ofthe Village of Balobaloang (Desa Baloabaloang), along ... society as well In August 2007 a large blast occurred inthe coastal village of Pasuruan, a coastal town about 70 km east of Surabaya inthe province of East Java This is the same area where the ... larger main Indonesian islands of Sulawesi to the north and Sumbawa to the south The archipelago is about 200 km from both, and inthe southern part ofthe Strait of Makassar onthe edge of the...
... recruit and retain employees • The advantage and disadvantage when recruiting and retaining the employees • Purpose • The Managers are responding making and executing the Human Resource’s strategy and ... ofthe company Asking them to understand current strategy ofthe company and their disadvantages and advantages when they recruit and retain their employees • Method • In- depth face to face interview ... Leader They are the talents that the company must retain Asking them to understand their current feeling and their expectation They also help to understand the expectation and feeling from their...
... solid waste These variations inthe quantity and quality of humic substances also influenced the speciation of heavy metals Relationship of metal speciation and leachable metal Since a M MgC12 ... exchangeable Cr inthe initial mixture was about 10% of total Cr and the carbonate fraction was also about 10% total Cr, which means about 20% of total Cr inthe mixture may become leachable or available ... Cu and Ni, but the plant available Pb was dramatically decreased The finding is similar to that of Garcia et al ,(1990) who extracted more plant available metals by DTPA after composting of aerobic...
... MacDonald can be said to have a larger degree of dispersion of data around the mean than Max hamburger in those attributes Max hamburger had a larger standard deviation than MacDonald in these attributes“its ... trained staffs” Therefore MacDonald can be said to have a larger degree of dispersion of data around the mean than Max hamburger in those attributes Max hamburger had a larger standard deviation ... some ofthe following factors as ways to achieve brand awareness: • Involve a slogan or jingle: a slogan is a visible feature ofa brand There can be a strong link between a slogan and a brand The...
... opercular areas and travels via the motor cortex and pyramidal tract to the ventral brain stem The involuntary path is comprised of amygdala, thalamic, hypothalamic, and subthalamic areas, in addition ... condition regardless ofa “yes”, the survey was discarded assuming the participant did not fully understand the question Statistical analysis The data was analyzed using both parametric and non parametric ... management of various medical conditions Methods Thestudy was approved by the ethics board of research at Mahatma Gandhi Mission’s (MGM) Medical College, Aurangabad (AUR) Participants A total of 730...
... brainstorming Table 8: The reasons of approval ofthe application of brainstorming inthe future Table 9: The reasons for disapproval of application of brainstorming inthe future Chart 5: The ... effectsof giving a text as a model Chart 8: The control groups views onthe use onthe use of giving a text as a model Tables 10: The reasons for the approval the application of giving a text as a ... benefit of creating a feeling of common ownership of results Table 8: The reasons for the approval ofthe application of brainstorming inthe future As can be seen in table 8, the majority of students...
... knowledge and of innovations implies the application of intelligence, tacit knowledge and information: that is, an interaction between actions and behaviors The action ofCASESTUDY creation does ... with a discussion ofthe main conclusions reached CASESTUDYThe company analyzed in this study is Irizar, an associated work co-operative belonging to Spain’s ´ Mondragon Co-operative Corporation ... CASESTUDY Knowledge and Process Management SUCCESS FACTORS INTHE STRATEGY’S IMPLEMENTATION The analysis ofthecasein question allows pointing out a group of organizational factors that can...
... teaching according to the Grammar-translation method: The grammar-translation method of foreign language teaching is one ofthe most traditional methods The major characteristic ofthe grammar-translation ... teaching is done inthe target language Instead, readings inthe target language are translated directly and then discussed inthe native language, often precipitating in- depth comparisons ofthe ... foreign languages that emphasizes interaction as both the means and the ultimate goal of learning a language CLT places great emphasis on helping students use the target language ina variety of contexts...
... Studies of an Age-Cost Relationship Cost Data Are Lacking in Key Areas A critical factor hampering studies of an age-cost relationship is the lack of detailed maintenance-related data for all relevant ... studies have typically focused onthe spare parts portion of Operation and Maintenance (O&M) accounts, because good maintenance labor hour data are lacking The lack of labor data, as well as the failure ... at the brigade level It discusses the data limitations and mitigating factors that hinder conclusive studies on age and M1 maintenance costs, analyzes the available data, and pinpoints gaps in...
... Considerations Using a regional model ofthe U.S agricultural sector, Lewandrowski et al examined the potential for carbon sequestration at various carbon prices At a carbon price of $34 per MT CO2e , they ... price of $34 per CO2e Figure 4—Carbon Sequestration Potential by Region (based on carbon price of $34/MT CO2e) Pacific Mountain Delta States South East Afforestation from cropland Appalachia Afforestation ... Receipts and Net Farm Income Net farm income declines marginally inthe near term Based onthe EPA energy price impacts, and including the EITE provisions, we estimate that net farm income would fall...
... increase inflammatory transcription factor NF-kappa B As a result, concentrations of TNF-alpha, a known mediator of insulin resistance, are further increased The resultant OS creates an inflammatory ... production from the interaction between NO and the SO anion [21] Inthe absence of L-arginine [19] and in sustained settings of low antioxidant status [20], the intracellular production ofthe SO anion ... Tamura et al (2008) found that the administration of melatonin led to a reduction of intrafollicular oxidative damage and a net increase of fertilization and pregnancy rates [391] A physiologic amount...
... data over the same time interval If data were unavailable for the merging banks for any ofthe intervals, the merger was not used inthe efficiency analysis In many cases, the data were unavailable ... regression specification is repeated inthe last two columns of Table 3, using the changes inthe profitability ratios AROAa and AROEa as the dependent variables AS discussed above, the changes in these ... 1) the acquiring bank during the available years before the merger, 2) the acquired bank or banks during the available years before the merger, and 3) the consolidated bank during the available...
... Memory-based learning treats a set of labeled (pre-classified) training instances as points ina multi-dimensional feature space, and stores them as such in an instance base in memory (rather than ... chunk 2.2 Data preparation To formulate the task as a machine-learnable classification task, we use a representation that encodes the joint task of chunking and function-tagging a sentence in per-word ... POS as input for the combined chunking and functiontagging task depends onthe amount of training data available The absolute performance of words depends onthe treatment of rare words The additional...
... chains The rates of oxidation are reduced inthe presence of chelators of heavy metal cations in most cases An exception is the lack of alteration ofthe increased oxidation rates of cross-linked ... Mansouri and Winterhalter [5] reported that the oxidation ofthea chains of Hb A0 was 10 times faster than that ofthe beta chains and that the oxidation ofthe beta chains was not in uenced by pH The ... during the auto-oxidation of Hb In general, the increase inthe oxidation rate of crosslinked Hb mediated by LPSs is due to an increase inthe rate ofthe initial fast phase, i.e oxidation ofthe a...
... ofthe ASCE Task Committee on Wind Damage Investigation, and the U.S.-Japan Natural Disaster Task Committee on WindHazards He has served onthe board ofthe American Association for Wind Engineering ... available for wind engineering research, advances are being made ina number of areas, such as the characterization of wind fields and the evaluation ofthe performance ofthe building envelope (AAWE, ... National Academy of Engineering was established in 1964, under the charter ofthe National Academy of Sciences, as a parallel organization of outstanding engineers It is autonomous in its administration...