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... resources This report does not address the question of an appropriate U.S share of the world pharmaceutical industry Nonetheless, several circumstances the traditional importance of U.S firms ... the basis of thenumber of jobs and the volume of salaries generated domestically,investors on the basis of future profits, and consumers on the basis ofvariety, safety, effectiveness, and costliness ... pharmaceutical industry presumes acoherent perspective for evaluation Yet, several substantiallyvarying perspectives immediately present themselves Americanlabor will assess the pharmaceutical industry...

Ngày tải lên: 14/03/2014, 11:20

... 1The U.S Newspaper Industry in Transition Trang 2Summary The U.S newspaper industry is suffering through what could be its worst financial crisis since the Great Depression Advertising revenues ... times in the past If, on the other hand, the current crisis is related to the struggle of some major newspapers to survive the current recession, possible policy options to ensure the continuing ... 14 Searching for New Business Models 17 Nonprofits 19 Public Policy Issues 21 Congressional Action 21 Industry Proposals 22 Supporting the General Practice of Journalism 23 Figures Figure...

Ngày tải lên: 18/03/2014, 02:20

... would apply only the United States, could influence domestic producers’ future location and investment decisions 5.1 Production Cost Structure (BAU—Business As Usual) In 2006, material costs ... impacts on industry’s bottom line in the II-CPM simulations, under the assumptions about fuels and prices used in the study The modeling results showed only a 0.5 percent reduction in the operating ... costs, labor compensation and new capital expenditures in the Census Bureau's Annual Survey of Manufactures, 2006); † Does not include expenditures on energy fuels used as manufacturing feedstock...

Ngày tải lên: 26/01/2016, 10:42

... depositors  Reduces “systemic risk” in the banking system Deposit insurance gives banks  incentives to:  hold riskier assets  hold less capital  manage the bank’s assets less carefully. ... competition from other financial firms (such as mutual funds)  new kinds of financial assets (such as futures and other derivatives) made it possible for investors (including banks and S&L’s) to take ... Trang 37their deposits even if they pursue risky strategies that increase the risk of bank failure. As a result, deposit insurance reduces banks’ incentives to avoid risk. Trang 38Capital Requirements...

Ngày tải lên: 18/10/2015, 07:57

... programs in support of this growing industry This task of this report is to summarize the presentations and discussions that took place at this symposium Needless to say, the battery industry has ... VEHICLES the U.S has the supply base and skilled workforce to sustain a globally competitive industry These issues present important inter-related questions about the need to stimulate consumer ... This report captures the presentations and discussions of the STEP symposium on Building the U.S Battery Industry for Electric Drive Vehicles: Progress, Challenges, and Opportunities It includes...

Ngày tải lên: 18/02/2014, 21:20

... common Research shows that higher ties of glyphosate-resistant weeds reduce crop yields 48 Purdue University scientists found that Roundup-resistant ragweed can cause 100 percent corn-crop losses 49 ... 1How the U.S State Department Promotes the Seed Industry’s Global AgendaTrang 2Food & Water Watch works to ensure the food, water and fish we consume is safe, accessible and sustainable So ... crops in Austria.16 Despite the embassy’s efforts to “eventu-ally wear down Hungary’s resistance,” the public has shown “no sign of changing their minds about the ban on biotech corn.”17 The State...

Ngày tải lên: 13/03/2014, 21:49

... the forest products industry has made great strides in streamlining industry energy consumption, reducing reliance on fossil fuels, and reducing greenhouse gas emissions Since 1972, the industry ... chlorophenolics, and VOCs (same as air emissions) Sludge Paper manufacture consumes more water than any other industrial use and produces significant process effluents A typical pulp and paper mill uses ... boiler fuel, or disposed of as solid waste Tables 2-4 through 2-9 summarize the various air emissions, effluents, residuals, wastes, and byproducts generated by the pulp and paper industry a Biological...

Ngày tải lên: 18/03/2014, 02:20

... captured particulate or gaseous pollutant species The disposal of ashes and scrubber sludge is a concern in the industry, due to the generally low pH of these wastes Many mills must raise the pH by ... pulp products, a large portion of which becomes a post-consumer solid waste This section discusses disposal of wastewater treatment sludge, scrubber ash and sludge, and wood residues 2.2.1 Wastewater ... compounds (VOCs), some of which may also be HAPS SO x , SO 2 and, to a lesser extent NO, are also a concern The following sections discuss emission sources for these pollutants and the associated...

Ngày tải lên: 24/03/2014, 05:20

... conductthe analysis and the current state of research on threats to agriculturallivestock and produce It then outlines agriculture’s importance tothe U.S economy, assesses the vulnerabilities in ... Passive Disease-Reporting System Responsibility for reporting unusual occurrences of livestock disease in the United States lies with the agricultural producers However, inmany cases, communication ... andservices, such as suppliers, transporters, distributors, and restaurantchains.11 The fiscal downstream effect of a major act of sabotageagainst the food industry would, in other words, be multidimen-sional,...

Ngày tải lên: 29/03/2014, 16:20

... with other quantum systems In contrast to an open quantum system, a closed quantum system obeys the unitary evolution and thus is information lossless that implies state reversibility The experimental ... collection is based on simulation results and the results refer to the maximum overshoot From the results presented, the system arrives at better and more exact results and the value of overshoot is decreased ... highest valuable individual fitness will survive whereas the low valuable individual will die The fitness function is the basis of 30 I Yusuf et al Fig Structure of chromosome the survival of the...

Ngày tải lên: 06/05/2015, 07:47

... considered as a drive system The synchronization problem of system 2.2 is considered by using the drive-response configuration According to the drive-response concept, the controlled fuzzy response system ... these advances in T -S fuzzy model-based chaos control and synchronization, most works were restricted to chaotic systems without time-delay Due to finite signal transmission times, switching speeds ... complex nonlinear systems containing certainties that are otherwise difficult to model Among various kinds of fuzzy methods, Takagi-Sugeno T -S fuzzy model provides a successful method to describe certain...

Ngày tải lên: 21/06/2014, 07:20

... on the results on the independent set since this set was not used to design the proposed method and thus it allows for an unbiased analysis A recent study by Nielsen and colleagues reveals several ... 39,215 human 3'UTR sequences (the total lengths of these sequences equals 3.62e+07) the search for miR-21 targets takes 1,488 seconds using a desktop computer We also computed execution times for ... has no impact on the Septin7 expression, and thus it should be considered as a false positive As a result, 4(3) out of predictions in this set are true positives - In Set 3, the Western blots...

Ngày tải lên: 12/08/2014, 17:20

... progress in the CCSP This is the second report and it identifies priorities for addressing these issues and for meeting new scientific and societal needs To gather input and discuss the issues, the committee ... political instability in regions such as sub-Saharan Africa, the Middle East, and Southeast Asia The intelligence assessment, which relied on CCSP results and other published sources, calls for better ... reports was about the same as the cost of the last national assessment Therefore, a national assessment should be within the scope of existing agency funding Program Office funds could be used...

Ngày tải lên: 22/03/2014, 23:20

... researchers can ask themselves throughout the research process, on topics such as goals and accountability of the research; including women of diverse abilities, ages, classes, cultures, ethnicities, ... determinants such as income and structural inequality CONCLUSION The interest in women s health research and incorporating gender issues into mainstream health research is there Some tools exist, others ... disabilities who had never held a paying job went a step further It had the participants themselves design the research from scratch, determining the questions and the measures of success The training they...

Ngày tải lên: 28/03/2014, 13:20

... areas of the samples is also discussed Key words: nanosheets; self-assembled 3D flower-like structures; ZnO; solgel-based hydrothermal method; photocatalysis Introduction As one of the most important ... Thus, the nanosheets would grow out continuously from the surface of the primary structures (Fig 2b) [40] Subsequently, with increasing hydrothermal treatment time, more and more nanosheets with ... microstructure, confirming the 3D structure with a diameter of about ȝm and its construction from numerous nanosheets The SAED pattern shown in the inset of Fig 1d indicates the single-crystalline...

Ngày tải lên: 06/05/2014, 13:26

... generated automatically The remainder of this paper is dedicated to the different issues arising during our proposed design flow Section discusses the input format based on SystemC called SysteMoC SysteMoC ... functional resources (RISC processor, coprocessors, or ASIC) and communication resources (shared buses or point-to-point connections) Note that in our approach, we assume that the resources are selected ... should make use of BRAMs as otherwise too many LUTs are required Small FIFOs on the other hand can be synthesized using LUTs, as the number of BRAMs available in an FPGA is restricted To this...

Ngày tải lên: 22/06/2014, 19:20

... at the time, let 's consult and find a whole series of areas, a scattergun approach, and some of the areas seem sensible but others less so, and let 's just see who comes up with good projects and ... about the IMP as a whole There was a better response to the postal survey sent to midwives A summary of the figures from the 100 out of 227 questionnaires returned (44%) is shown in Table The ... or small Limited resources precluded any attempt to assess final outcomes in terms of benefits such as health gains, but the questionnaire did explore ways in which the dissemination of the research...

Ngày tải lên: 11/08/2014, 05:22

... terms of four phases In the first phase, CBR retrieves old cases similar to the new one The second phase reuses the solutions of the retrieved cases for solving the new case The third phase revises ... solve the multiclass problem Given a k class problem, OVA trains k binary classifiers, each focuses on classifying one class against the others A new sample will take the class label of the classifier ... nearest between-class distance maximum and furthest withincluster distance criterion used in ANMM makes the feature selection less sensitive to noise or outliers existing in the data (2) In classification...

Ngày tải lên: 12/08/2014, 17:20

... implies some assumptions on the size of sequence and clone gaps remaining in the assembly between adjacent disjoint scaffolds Superscaffolding (a process that uses all available sources of evidence ... by the queen are super-sisters (they have the same father) or halfsisters (different fathers) In addition to arrhenotokous parthenogenesis (drone production), cases of thelytokous (female-producing) ... genetic distances and homogenize density, and also to add numerous 'unknown' scaffolds (not yet assembled) to the successive assemblies All unknown scaffolds longer than 73 kb of the assembly version...

Ngày tải lên: 14/08/2014, 07:21

... and Swiss-Prot:P42859] Nevertheless, we believe that these annotations were correct at the time the PLOC dataset was constructed These results underscore the robustness of our method and usefulness ... demonstrate the usefulness of our probabilistic confidence measures, we show how these measures can be used to consider situations in which a sequence may have multiple localizations, as well as ... model is being used across numerous species, it is very important to include a broad spectrum of data across all species Unfortunately, this is not possible because of the imbalanced nature of...

Ngày tải lên: 14/08/2014, 07:21