9 where are we going

... achievements are driving activity around the web, but are they really? Trang 39Social validationis the primary driver for activity on today’s web. Trang 40Social Validation• We share on Facebook ... placing your trustin the future web proclaimed by blogs, investors and so-called “social media gurus.” A Word of Caution Trang 31“We are the music makers,And we are the dreamers of dreams.” Wiiam ... THE FUTURE vs.Where are we going? Trang 34Checking out • Checking In is the status update for the places we go It has succeeded where other concepts have failed • Now we’re checking into television,...

Ngày tải lên: 10/06/2014, 09:38

... Trang 1Extensions of Time, Delay Analysis and Prolongation: Where are we? Where are we going? SCOTT ADAMS, SCOTT ADAMS CONSULTANTS LTD., UNIT A5, 17/F MAI LUEN INDUSTRIAL BUILDING, ... to entitle the Contractor to 4 weeks' extension of time (by adding 5 weeks to the date of impact, and comparing with the original contract completion date) However, I would suggest that common ... Costain v Haswell1 Costain, main contractor constructing a water treatment plant (design & build); Haswell its engineer 2 Plant consisted of 10 separate buildings/structures 3 Works were delayed...

Ngày tải lên: 06/04/2023, 10:37

... Where Are We, Where Should We Be Going? Daniel Kaufmann Aart Kraay The World Bank _ 1818 H Street N.W., Washington, DC 20433, dkaufmann@worldbank.org, akraay@worldbank.org We ... counts can be counted" However as we document below there are many different types of data that are informative of the extent to which these principles of governance are observed across countries ... of our taxonomy corresponds to varying answers to the question "Whose views do we rely on?", that we take up in Section 4 We distinguish between indicators based on the views of various...

Ngày tải lên: 29/03/2014, 08:20

... in access to care Trang 88 Priority areas for action • Focused Antenatal Care • Intrapartum Care • Emergency Obstetric and Newborn Care • Routine Postnatal Care • Newborn care • Infant ... Priority area of focus includes Emergency Obstetrics and newborn care – CIDA project for MSG 4 & 5 support – Implementation research projects on PMTCT, MNCH, etc are currently on-going Trang ... MMR, NMR & U5MR - weak health system & low coverage of MNCH interventions • The mother, newborn and child are inseparable Triad • > 61% of newborn deaths between day 0 and 1 • Maternal...

Ngày tải lên: 08/03/2014, 15:20

... constitutes an efficient instrument for empowering women More than 61% of the borrowers are female clients in Subsaharan Africa Figure 2: Percentage of women borrowers of MFIs Source: Africa MIX (2005) ... savings banks in the microfinance’s arena is often overlooked as many are still restricted from lending and offering microcredit schemes However, these restrictions are progressively lifted, fully ... group of specialised banks are by far larger compared to that of the second group formed by institutions with credit/financial institution licenses that are not allowed to operate check accounts...

Ngày tải lên: 22/03/2014, 21:20

... biological interplay we are dealing with in RA [97] There are two exceptions, however, which make the above summary much less disappointing: acute phase reactants, especially CRP, are highly reliable ... these are much higher in patients whose joint damage progresses when compared with those whose radio-graphic changes do not progress [18] These observations as well as the CTX-II data were recently ... function, however, has been poor for most of them This may be due to a variety of reasons First, what we measure in various body fluids may not reflect sufficiently well what is ongoing in the...

Ngày tải lên: 09/08/2014, 10:23

... Trang 1A Decade of Left Main Intervention : PCI vs CABG Where are we now ? Gim-Hooi Choo Cardiac Vascular Sentral KL (CVSKL) 12th July, 2019 Trang 2• No conflicts ... Main is a No Entry Zone for Interventionalists !Trang 8LMCA Interventionalists are called COWBOY DoctorsTrang 9MAIN COMPARE, 5 Year Propensity Match Patients (n=542) Park DW, et al JACC 2010;56:117-24 ... 51Evolving Standard of Care for LM Revascularisation in 2019: CABG spontaneous MI higher with PCI during long-term FU – similar through 5 years CABG Trang 52Evolving Standard of Care for LM Revascularisation...

Ngày tải lên: 15/01/2020, 19:46

... Paper Office of the Executive Director The International Monetary System: Where Are We and Where Do We Need to Go? Prepared by Rakesh Mohan, Michael Debabrata Patra and Muneesh Kapur 1 November ... percent However, the Great Moderation period was immediately followed by the NAFC, with large output losses and volatility Arguably, the macroeconomic and financial policies that were followed during ... shown, however, is that the imperfections of the IMS feed and facilitate developments and policies that are ultimately unsustainable and expose the system to risks and severe shocks, that are difficult...

Ngày tải lên: 13/01/2021, 16:39

... between leagues48 Figure 15 illustrates the following: Lower league countries (1 and 2) have weak dimensions no matter how these are categorized; de jure and de facto are weak, De facto: Weak ... PEFA dimensions between African and non-African countries revealed that Africa generally lags behind in most areas However, this assessment may be skewed due to the differing wealth profiles of ... Where are the rentier, oil-rich resource states?None of the oil-rich resource states are classified as fragile; however, a significant number of governments in the lowest tiers of stability are...

Ngày tải lên: 18/10/2022, 13:26

... vesicles Two different systems are considered Transcytosis (vesicular transport, C) When new vesicles are pinched off, substances dissolved in the extracellular fluid are engulfed, and then ferried ... of drug (D) and its plasma concentration (c) are known, a volume of distribution (V) can be calculated from V = D/c However, this represents an apparent volume of distribution (Vapp), because ... to altered pharmacokinetics of drugs that are highly bound to albumin Plasma protein-bound drugs that are substrates for transport carriers can be cleared from blood at great velocity, e.g., p-aminohippurate...

Ngày tải lên: 22/01/2014, 00:20

... in more detail below are often well characterised in relation to the functionalities for which the new properties are being exploited However, they are usually much less well characterised in ... situations” We generally concur: this remains an area of great uncertainty We also note that this study relates to a narrow range of effects We need to address the question “Would we know if nanomaterials ... threat they pose Nanomaterials are illustrative of the challenge Techniques for their routine measurement in environmental samples are not widely available, nor are we currently able to determine...

Ngày tải lên: 15/03/2014, 16:20

... the sources of the excess sulfate were: they were understood to be the big stadonary sources of coal-fired power plants, mostly although not exclusively in the midwestem states of Ohio, Indiana ... it was going to get worse When the forest issues began to be raised, those questions were magnified It was unrealistic to expect that the research programs initiated in the mid-80s were going ... Acid Deposition 19 were not done, with the result that if this problem were to arise anew today, we would almost be limited to the same set of long-term research sites as we had in 1984 to find...

Ngày tải lên: 16/03/2014, 11:43

... and degradates, are weak acids and weak bases Because site-specific pH influences environmental fate, uptake and toxicity, the study of ionizable therapeutics (~70% of all drugs are weak bases) has ... to assess and judge themselves However, all levels of information are open to the public 32 J.O Straub and T.H Hutchinson All PAS on the Swedish market are going to be integrated into this scheme; ... biggest healthcare providers (including pharmaceuticals distribution) in Sweden In 2003 the SCC started assessing the hazards of “old” PAS that were already on the market, which are not covered...

Ngày tải lên: 16/03/2014, 22:20

... pH 4–5 (eqn [22]) and are the dominant acidifying agent in such acid soils under natural conditions Low-molecular-weight species of humic acids as well as aliphatic acids are produced in the A ... Acidic deposition and natural leaching were considered to be the major contributors to these pH changes; Sweden: Long-term pH changes in southern Sweden were documented by repeating studies from ... (basicity) are responsible for soil ANC In the solid phase these are: (1) carbonates, (2) silicates, and (3) alkali and earth alkali (Mb) cations which are bound or exchangeable on weakly acidic...

Ngày tải lên: 23/03/2014, 01:20

... to 2000 significant areas of the United Kingdom became more intensively lit at night Many of the areas showing no significant increases in night light levels were areas which were already lit at ... implications of light pollution in this report, as we regard these as part and parcel of wider problems that are already well recognised, although we touch on the issue where appropriate.ii i There ... rest of the world, as well as for the more mundane trading vessels that followed in the explorers’ wake and were the foundation of Britain’s strong maritime tradition Folk weather forecasting practices...

Ngày tải lên: 29/03/2014, 14:20

... measurements showed that the results are also in accordance The odor compounds released from a composting facility located near Stuttgart consisted of compounds whose molecular weights are in between 17 ... e.g., odors that are pungent (ammonia), rotten eggs, stinking (garbage wastes), and rancid odors Odors that are sweet (flowers), fresh (outdoor odors), and appetizing (food), are mostly experienced ... odors that we identify in the space around us are the result of the interaction between molecules given off by the odorous material and the sensory cells located in our nose When we sniff a rose,...

Ngày tải lên: 29/03/2014, 14:20

... wastewater have been shown to enter surface water through combined sewer overflow during wet weather conditions.83–85 Thus, combined sewer overflows may be an additional route of entry for pharmaceuticals ... ibuprofen,21,40,103,104 were found in excess of μg/L Fewer studies have examined the concentrations of pharmaceuticals in groundwater (Table 1.2) The concentrations in groundwater typically are even lower than ... health effects are identified that result from their use or as newer, more efficacious compounds are introduced The dynamics of these prescribing trends suggest the need for ongoing research...

Ngày tải lên: 18/06/2014, 16:20

... with internal standard) were between 71 and 118% The method detection limits were between and 10 ng/L (i.e., two orders of magnitude higher relative to those reported by Weigel et al.34) 2.3 DETERMINATION ... recoveries for all compounds were higher than 70°%; only the ionic compounds were recovered at levels of between 55 and 61% The method detection limits were 50 ng/L; lower detection limits could ... tetracycline, recoveries from freeze drying were greater than 80%, and for SPE method recoveries were slightly lower than for the previous methodology Tetracyclines were not recovered in the SPE methodology...

Ngày tải lên: 18/06/2014, 16:20

... contact time between the soil and the analytes, the lower the percent extraction recoveries obtained.14,15 In addition, when short contact time between the solid and the analyte was allowed prior to ... SFE were comparable to the recoveries obtained using PLE (78 to 79%) and MAE (81 to 82%) On the other hand, the recoveries of 4-nonylphenol and bisphenol A were disappointing and were lower than ... from environmental matrices are extracted and concentrated using common methods, they are dissolved in organic solvent However, most modern liquid chromatography methods are reversed phase, and samples...

Ngày tải lên: 18/06/2014, 16:20

... loadings of 1000, 5000, and 10,000 mg/L were prepared The algae were exposed to each concentration in triplicate Six vessels were prepared for the control The algae were incubated in an incubator shaker ... nominal values were available Since these compounds are very well soluble in water (≤469 g/L for dimeglumine gadopentetate and ≤247 g/L for gadofosveset trisodium, respectively) and are very stable, ... compounds that were analytically detected in the aquatic environment and subsequently assessed for their ecotoxicological risk were iodinated X-ray contrast agents.6 Fewer data are currently available...

Ngày tải lên: 18/06/2014, 16:20