science in the service of practice

... taketime to determine how well they work in practice The case studiesoffer the best insight into the execution of the two oldest acquisitions,the Army BSC and R2CSR programs For the other four acquisitions, ... would increase estimates of DoD spending on services still further. Trang 34period, the largest increases came in purchases of information services(46 percent increase); professional, administrative, ... robustness of theissues identified in the December briefing In March 2002, OSD alsoasked RAND to draw on interim findings to help OSD frame newpolicy on “Acquisition of Services,” as required by the

Ngày tải lên: 23/03/2014, 01:20

... developed to maximize the system capacity The novelty of this paper is that the effect of the lengthening of the on-periods of non-real-time traffic classes is investigated by using the Go-Back-N automatic ... illustration Taketin,1 =0 (referenced,v =1), thentin,2 = T, tin,3 =2T thereforetin,4=3 + 0=3,tin,5=7 sincem2=1 andm3=0, and so on In the following, based on the above definition, we are going to derive ... traffic classes Their QoS performances in the uplink are investigated and their QoS metrics are formulated at both the data link layer and the packet level of the network layer In the literature,

Ngày tải lên: 22/06/2014, 22:20

... present in the enhancer/promoter sequences of multiple proinflammatory cytokines, activation of NF-κB may contribute to the increased expression of multiple cytokines in the lung in the setting of ... to increasing intracellular stores of GSSG, a potent inhibitor of NF-κB transcription factor DNA binding The pathway leading to the formation of GSH by the action of γ-glutamylcysteine synthetase ... effects of lisofylline on the activa-tion of NF-κB and CREB, on the expression of proinflamma-tory cytokines in the lungs and on the circulating levels of oxidized free fatty acids were examined,

Ngày tải lên: 12/08/2014, 19:21

... carnitine supplementation in the management of VHT, VHE and acute VPA poisoning The potential benefit of carnitine supplementation in the prevention of VHT of VHE in the setting of chronic VPA dosing ... endogenous synthesis of carnitine by blockade of the enzyme butyrobetaine hydroxylase Fourth, valproylcarnitine inhibits the membrane carnitine transporter, thereby decreasing the transport of extracellular ... Conversely, there is no evidence for accumulation of valproyl-CoA in brain tissue, suggesting that the effects of VPA in the CNS are independent of the formation of this metabolite [80] Development of

Ngày tải lên: 12/08/2014, 22:22

... like the one below to organize information about one or more of the veterinarians mentioned in this book Write the veterinarian’s name in the center and the animals he or she treats in the surrounding ... this book Write the veterinarian’s name in the center and the animals he or she treats in the surrounding circles Use examples from the book, and name other animals you think the vet might care ... wildlife veterinarian helps animals in the wild A wildlife veterinarian might go to the forest to study wolves and their growth. A zoo veterinarian cares for the animals in the zoo A zoo veterinarian

Ngày tải lên: 21/04/2017, 15:22

... ports There are several distinctive gaps in the price system of port services for container cargoesin the port of Hai Phong port joint stock Company in particular and in other ports of Viet Nam in ... using port services are intervened by the use of other resources of the port, therefore service time in port will increase (Service time is the time the ship stays at the berth whether it works ... according to marginal cost do not play a role in maximizing the net profit of port services In case of port service prices affected by the environmental cost, to achieve the target of maximizing

Ngày tải lên: 02/12/2017, 15:03

... effect” –meaning the effect of the initial grant of the right in increasing people’svaluation of goods– captures the basic point.13 People value goods morehighly if they own them in the first instance ... the work of the Behavioural InsightsTeam in the United Kingdom and the Social and Behavioral SciencesTeam in the United States has produced significant changes in behavior,including dramatic increases ... in a workplace savings plan, and explaining thepotential value of making even small contributions, nearly doubled theenrollment rate for members of the military service In 2010, the United Kingdom

Ngày tải lên: 03/01/2020, 10:45

... and integrate with other countries in the region and the world In the coming years, Education and Training of the City will develop in the following directions: Fundamentally renovating the management ... force of education and training, a central figure in the schools, along with the managing officers to determine the quality of education and training, contribute to the implementation of educational ... collection of people working in secondary schools, directly taking on the task of teaching and educating in the schools, their same task is to implement the goal of secondary education 1.2.3 Developing

Ngày tải lên: 08/01/2020, 06:46

... autonomy in higher education In the context of international integration and accelerating the quality of training to meet the requirements of the industrial revolution 4.0, higher education in Vietnam ... assess the quality of training programs at all levels of higher education in order to assess the effectiveness level of the current training program of the university compared to the standard In ... after finishing the course, it outlines the process of implementing the training content, it also show the training methods and how to evaluate learning results All the issues of this design is

Ngày tải lên: 10/01/2020, 05:25

... weathering Since the project including this study was carried out with the major objective of explaining the role played by kaolin-rich vein-like zones within saprolites on slopes in Hong Kong in ... kaolin minerals comprised at least 80% of the infill (Table 2 in Churchman et al 2010b) XRD showed that 100% of the kaolin minerals in TKL2 infill are halloysite, while 80% of them in SSR DS1 infill ... neogenesis of clays in rock fractures The common thicker infills resulted from weathering Dark infill contained comminuted primary minerals whereas thin pale infill originated hydrothermally Scanning

Ngày tải lên: 13/01/2020, 19:30

... further clinical training and addressing barriers that go beyond the scope of such training In settings where clinical outcome data is unreliable, data triangulation, the process of synthesizing ... part of the larger AMA-NAT program at PHCs and were infrequently involved in labor and delivery care in these facilities Using a train-the-trainer model, PRONTO provided six days of training for ... evaluate the impact of PRONTO training on the quality of NR skills in simulated re-suscitations; 2) to evaluate the impact of PRONTO training on performance in live deliveries requiring resuscitation

Ngày tải lên: 01/02/2020, 04:02

... suggest the possibility of shortening and eliminating the gap in some specific cases On the other hand, the common measurement also expose the particularity of the gap in the relationship of S&T ... Europe for their economic development In the second Industrial Revolution, one of the bases for German Empire to replace Great Britain to become the leading nation of Europe in the field of industry, ... between the regions in a country in respect of the interaction and difference of the gap in the linkage between S&T with economy, scientific and technological gap, economic gap Gaps in the linkage

Ngày tải lên: 03/02/2020, 01:32

... programs given these other challenges they face in maintaining the services they currently Page of 12 provide This likely has a strong negative influence on the dissemination process In summary, ... improving the quality of substance abuse services in AI/AN communities Indeed, broadening the conversation to include building the necessary research and practice evidence, developing the human, infrastructural, ... National Institute of Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism to the IHS in 1978 [59], and the training of counselors for these programs was (and is) often done through special training programs (e.g., the Southwest...

Ngày tải lên: 10/08/2014, 11:20

... piece of writing may be read varies inversely as the square of the distance and directly as the illumination of the writing; then the amount of light lost at the greatest obscuration of the sun ... reputation to the subject The more careful of the early investigators refined observing techniques to minimize the effects of the changes they noted in the sensitivity of the eye The 19th century ... is lost in reflection’ Besides measuring the reflectance of various mirrors, he studied the effect of angle ( the difference of the angles of incidence at the surface of the mirror, within the limits...

Ngày tải lên: 05/06/2014, 11:28

... to an inquiring and inventive mind Sometimes we shall be naming nothing, but often one succeeds in formulating the idea of a kind of thing that is retained in successive elaborations of theory ... swarm of bees is made up of bees, but nothing is made up of lines of force There is a definite number of bees in a swarm and of electrons in a bottle, but there is no definite number of lines of ... style of reasoning just replacing another one There can then be two limiting processes: the long term settling into a ` rationality' of accumulated modes of thinking, and the long term settling into...

Ngày tải lên: 05/06/2014, 11:31

... one is already engaged in the business of taking up a stance toward the future in the light of the past Reading, then, is a matter of anticipating meaning and of correcting one's anticipations, ... on the "cosmic night" of the "forgetfulness of being", the nihilism that Nietzsche prophesied, then may one look at the last fading light of the sun that is set in the evening sky, instead of ... within the realm of the contingency of human affairs, which nonetheless does not hold good against the principle, for there is no higher principle of reason than that of freedom Thus the opinion...

Ngày tải lên: 11/06/2014, 12:52

... only delays the parameters in the waiting space of the initial node: packets are not further delayed in intermediate nodes Since the aggregation is part of the IDRA architecture, the aggregation ... are important in the context of the internet of things Memory overhead The memory overhead of the overall IDRA architecture (including queue management, the network service broker, the packet facade, ... their relevance in Page of 14 the context of the internet of things This next section describes in more detail on how IDRA can support two important internet of things use cases: (1) supporting...

Ngày tải lên: 21/06/2014, 01:20