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... points in the space-time scale in which we all dwell They differ in the factors they take into account in forecasting the state of the world, how far they look into the future, and ... the United States are the two leading grain producers of the world The two countries grow a disproportionate share of the food from which the world population derives most of ... possibility The superbugs have also given a new shot of hope to exobiologists, scientists who look for evidences of life on other worlds Another stimulus is the. .. to the full and

Ngày tải lên: 05/07/2014, 07:31

... sustained Robert Go DTT Life Sciences and Health Care Industry Group Leader The future of the life sciences industries Preface The future of the life sciences industries: Aftermath of the global recession ... Don’t know 11% 24 The future of the life sciences industries What will be the main legacies of the global economic recession on the size and shape of the life sciences industries in the next five years? ... 18 The future of the life sciences industries The recession legacy Are the effects of the global recession fundamentally altering the future environment of the

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... National Academy of Sciences. All rights reserved. Research for a Future in Space: The Role of Life and Physical Sciences The SSB is a unit of the National Research Council of the National Academies, ... Copyright © National Academy of Sciences. All rights reserved. Research for a Future in Space: The Role of Life and Physical Sciences Research for a Future in Space The Role of Life and Physical Sciences ... Academy of Sciences All rights reserved 15 Research for a Future in Space: The Role of Life and Physical Sciences The Nature of Fluid P Fo of W str the wh

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... in the interdisciplinary fields of astrobiology and biogeophysics This encompasses all aspects of research into the origins of life – from the creation of matter to the emergence of complex life ... convincingly prove the existence of nonhuman intelligent beings? Is the number of planets on which life is able to evolve too small, or is the formation of life − and particularly intelligent life − an ... 5.5.2 The Molecular Clock 5.5.3 The Evolutionary Tree of Bacteria 5.5.4 The Timetable of the Evolution of Life 5.5.5 Sequencing and the

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... Storm” Drives the Adoption of Mobile Learning Content Suppliers Product s Rapid Evolution of Powerful Wireless Handheld Devices Explosion of New Learning Content & Apps Growth of App Stores ... Mifflin Harcourt, IBM, Kaplan, Microsoft, Proctor & Gamble, RIM, and SkillSoft  Ambient Insight…  Does not evaluate, compare, or rank the effectiveness of learning technology products  Does ... Definition of Mobile Learning and Overview of the US Mobile Learning Market  Testing in a Mobile World  Academic and Corporate Device-embedded Testing  Academic and Consumer Exam Preparation  Professional

Ngày tải lên: 31/12/2013, 15:42

... science as a guide evo-to the consequences of their choices Engaging communities in decisionsabout the future of the land around them makes such evident sense thatthe power of the idea led some conservationists ... not alone in their discomfort in dealing with questions ofscale Economists are far worse: the vast majority of economists never evenbother to ask the question of the proper scale of the economy ... perspective, the size of the challenge becomes clear.The following chapters explore some of the work that organizations such as World Wildlife Fund, the Wildlife Conservation Society, The lands

Ngày tải lên: 17/02/2014, 17:20

... Market of the Future? The discussion concerning the viability and chances of success of eBooks is not new In recent decades, there have been talks as to when and whether the eBook will overtake the ... regard to the range of eBooks that are available The United States is a pioneer in this regard: At the launch of the Kindle, Amazon offered 90,000 eBooks for purchase, including 102 of the 112 The ... On the other hand, publishers in the Netherlands and Germany are more conservative in their approach to digitizing their book holdings As recently as summer 2009, the range of eBooks in the Netherlands

Ngày tải lên: 22/02/2014, 09:20

... understanding of the com-ponents of the long war, provided the basis for a set of seven strategy options for the United States in the long war Trang 18xvi Unfolding the Future of the Long WarDivide ... way of thinking about the potential future threats the United States faces in the long war is to Trang 382 Unfolding the Future of the Long Warconsider it as the confluence of three sets of problems: ... 1.1 In addressing the future of the long war, we examine what the broader future will look like and what shape the long war might take within these futures Our analysis of the future is not comprehen-sive

Ngày tải lên: 06/03/2014, 20:20

... sponsored by the OSD, the Joint Staff, the Unified Combatant Commands, the Department of the Navy, the Marine Corps, the defense agencies, and the defense Intelligence Community. The RAND Corporation ... on a synthesis of the social science literature, Figure 2.1 provides a conceptual view of the factors affecting the distribution... than that of the officer ranks During the Vietnam ... reflect these gains As an illustration, Figure 1.1 shows a recent picture of how the racial and ethnic distribution of officers 1 2 Officer Classification and the Future of

Ngày tải lên: 06/03/2014, 21:20

... services, and to shake them out of complacency and ineffi ciency The late 1990s and early noughties then witnessed the emergence of two major themes One of these was the creation of separate audit ... of the Audit Commission in Wales and also at the same time the deputy-auditor general for Wales, with the job of leading the creation of the Wales Audit Offi ce from the ‘Welsh’ parts of both the ... independence of local government, but overall resolved the issue of the accountability of public audit itself fi rmly in the direction of the legislature rather than the executive arm of gov-ernment

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... overview of all relevant sources as they can achieve They want to see “the shape of the elephant” of their topic–the full extent of its different important parts and how the parts fit together ... Assessments in the Athenian Empire (1919) Studies in the Athenian Tribute Lists (1926) Treasurers of Athena (1932) Athenian Financial Documents of the Fifth Century (1932) Athenian Assessment of 425 ... survey of Athenian financial history from the transfer of the Delian Treasury in, probably, 454 to the end of the PeloponnesianWar some fifty years later, in the hope that future research will profit

Ngày tải lên: 07/03/2014, 23:20

... for an area include the soil quality and depth in the wadi and the ratio of catchment area of the wadi and the size of the area to be cultivated in relation to the rainfall runoff (Bruins, Evenari ... cultivated area When the slope along which the runoff must travel is very long, the velocity of the flow is often rather slow, which makes it quite possible that a significant amount of the water may ... Scarification of the soil surface allows for protection against erosion and runoff due to the addition of crop residues to the soil This method is used in the semi-arid region of the Sahel but

Ngày tải lên: 09/03/2014, 00:20

... 10 The Physician of the Future 11 The Medical Education System of the Future 11 Rethinking Medical Education 12 A Collective Vision 13 Building on Success: AFMC and the Faculties ... given the 100thanniversary of the Flexner report, which takes place in 2010 The recommendations in thisreport are not offered in a vacuum but must be viewed in the context of the broad continuum oflearning, ... willenable them to respond directly to the ever-changing health care needs of the communities theyserve Trang 21The particular role of the medical school in terms of social accountability is to support

Ngày tải lên: 14/03/2014, 20:20

... or the brain, in the adult body Theycan renew themselves in the body, making identical copies of themselvesfor the lifetime of the organism, or become specialized to yield the celltypes of the ... secure the services of eminent members of appropriate professions in the examination of policy matters pertaining to the health of the public The Institute acts under the responsibility given to the ... 20418NOTICE: The project that is the subject of this report was approved by the Governing Board of the National Research Council, whose members are drawn from the councils of the National Academy of Sciences,

Ngày tải lên: 15/03/2014, 09:20

... 37to be solved To take the Theory of Five Elements as an example, some of the explanations of the theory seem far-fetched In modern society, the integration between the theory of TCM and modern science ... in development of TCM 2.2 Anticipated Breakthrough in the TCM Theoretic System The theoretic system of TCM is established on the basis of Chinese classical philosophy Many of its theories such ... tailored primarily to the programmatic Trang 22Factors Shaping the Future of AM 13 responsibility of the institutes rather than to the topics of interest to AM Similarly, other grants that were

Ngày tải lên: 15/03/2014, 09:20

... towards this grand challenge further advancing the state of the art in computer networking and paving the road to the Network of the Future report the quality of the connectivity delivered by individual ... to cope with the challenges of the new millennium In light of the ever increasing importance of ICT in all areas of society and the role of the Internet as the central compo¬nent of ICT, it is ... control functions of the Internet – the neck of the hourglass, but for control Main Objectives Despite the phenomenal growth of the Internet over the last twenty years, we believe that the current

Ngày tải lên: 15/03/2014, 21:20

... variety of reasons,these technologies have not yet reached the parts of the world wherethey could be most beneficial On the other hand, the Gene Revolu- tion is unlike the Green Revolution in the ... amount ofland that could be usefully farmed with the same amount of labor.Then, shortly after the turn of the 19th century, the Haber-Boschprocess made possible the economical production of nitrogen ... accepted the prod-ucts of the new technologies economi-4 There was cooperation among those that provided the gies, regulated the technologies, and used the technologies, andthere was support at the

Ngày tải lên: 15/03/2014, 22:20

... respondents about the future of their internal audit function — where they most need to make improvements — their top five priorities were: 1) Improving the risk assessment process 2) Enhancing the ability ... Internal audit can use the organization’s overarching organizational strategy to identify the risks that matter most in the context of the organization’s risk appetite Elements of the organizational ... within other business units or functions in other parts of the organization 2) Guest auditor program This program provides an opportunity for high-performing employees from other parts of the business

Ngày tải lên: 15/03/2014, 23:20

... 14The Future of Bankingdecision-takers to bear the losses of these decisions is an incentive compatible with aligning the interests of banks and the broader economy The Eurozone crisis – lots of ... complicated in the case of a member of a currency union and, even though Greece constitutes only 2% of Eurozone GDP, the repercussions of the Greek crisis for the rest of the Eurozone and the global ... proposal to improve the resilience of the Eurozone’s financial architecture They are part of the solution to the current crisis, but they are not the full solution Getting out of the crisis also

Ngày tải lên: 16/03/2014, 20:21

... the future development of English in the world is the ‘outer circle’ of those who speak it as a second language. English often plays a special role in their lives and the fate of English in the ... a professional interest in the development of English worldwide. The Future of English? takes stock of the present, apparently unassailable, position of English in the world and asks whether ... a new era, but have fallen off the edge of an old one. But there are reasons why we ought to take stock and reassess the place of English in the world. The future of the English language may not...

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