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A Bridge of Time

A Bridge of Time

... A BRIDGE OF TIME This is a work of fiction Names, characters, places, and incidents are products of the author’s imagination or are used factitiously and are not to be construed as real Any ... to be a greater person by far than you ever dreamed yourself to be.” Patanjali (c 1st to 3rd century BC) ACKNOWLEDGMENTS Linda, Tiffany, Tina and Felicia Tortola Peter Naccarato Gabriella Petrino ... only minute traces of minerals It had been filtered clear and cleansed of all human contact The droplets seemed mystical, appearing ever so sporadically out of nowhere on the underside of the bridge,...

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scientific american   -  2002 09  -  special issue  -  a matter of time

scientific american - 2002 09 - special issue - a matter of time

... COPY AND RESEARCH: Daniel C Schlenoff, Rina Bander, Shea Dean EDITORIAL ADMINISTRATOR: Jacob Lasky SENIOR SECRETARY: Maya Harty ASSOCIATE PUBLISHER, PRODUCTION: William Sherman MANUFACTURING MANAGER: ... RUN, RABBIT, RUN — “During the past two years a great rabbit plague has run like a scared rodent across the length and breadth of Australia The epidemic was man-made, and Australia thinks that it ... edge of a prairie, pockmarked with gopher holes, in southern Alberta Thirty yards away a 250-milliliter bottle of mustard agent— a cupful capable of spreading a quarter of a mile and affecting a...

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Tài liệu The King''''s Post Being a volume of historical facts relating to the Posts, Mail Coaches, Coach Roads, and Railway Mail Services of and connected with the Ancient City of Bristol from 1580 to the present time pdf

Tài liệu The King''''s Post Being a volume of historical facts relating to the Posts, Mail Coaches, Coach Roads, and Railway Mail Services of and connected with the Ancient City of Bristol from 1580 to the present time pdf

... many of the great men of his time Among those friends was Lord Chatham It was twenty years after Allen's death that Palmer's Mail Coach system was started Its advantage soon made itself apparent, ... State for the Management of the Poste affaire Whereas John Teage who hath formerly beene actually in Armes for ye Parliamt and since that being an Inhabitant of this Citty hath beene Postmaster ... the date of Allen's death: Allen may have been a Freemason [By permission of Mr Sydenham, of Bath TOKENS COMMEMORATIVE OF PALMER'S MAIL COACH SYSTEM [Pg 51] It is to Mr Sydenham, of Bath, that...

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Forecasting UK GDP growth, inflation and interest rates under structural change: a comparison of models with time-varying parameters potx

Forecasting UK GDP growth, inflation and interest rates under structural change: a comparison of models with time-varying parameters potx

... constant degree of parameter drift TVP-VAR (Homoscedastic) Time- varying VAR with constant variance-covariance matrix of the VAR residuals TVP-FAVAR Time- varying factor augmented VAR model TVP-FAVAR ... models that incorporate a gradual change in parameters and also include a large set of explanatory variables particularly well as far as the inflation forecast is concerned recording gains (over ... methodology Data Our main data set consists of quarterly annualised real GDP growth, quarterly annualised inflation and the three-month Treasury bill rate Quarterly data on these variables is available...

Ngày tải lên: 06/03/2014, 14:20

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WASTE MANAGEMENT THE DUTY OF CARE A CODE OF PRACTICE potx

WASTE MANAGEMENT THE DUTY OF CARE A CODE OF PRACTICE potx

... council) Using a waste carrier 3.6 A waste holder or broker may transfer waste to someone who transports it - a waste carrier who may or may not also be a waste manager (Annex D paragraphs D.7-D.10) ... obtain a physical or chemical analysis from a laboratory or from a waste management contractor 10 SECTION KEEP THE WASTE SAFELY The problem 2.1 All waste holders must act to keep waste safe against: (a) ... services to examine waste problems, identify wastes and recommend storage and handling methods A waste holder may also use an analytical laboratory to establish the nature of unknown waste that he needs...

Ngày tải lên: 08/03/2014, 14:20

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Báo cáo "A study of waste water impacts of main factories on water quality of To Lich river, Ha Noi " doc

Báo cáo "A study of waste water impacts of main factories on water quality of To Lich river, Ha Noi " doc

... selecting and sampling the river’s water and industrial waste water from some main factories to analyze and compare The water samples were preserved and analyzed in the Laboratory of Environmental Analysis, ... metals in waste water of the factories meet the standard Calculations of pollutants loads in waste water from some factories by IPC software show that, if not treated, the annual pollutants loads ... standard Only parameters in Trang An JSC are standards Because the factory has built a relatively efficient water treatment system N-total in waste water from the factories 40 30 mg/l 20 N-Total...

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hawking, stephen - a brief history of time

hawking, stephen - a brief history of time

... that the farther apart the bodies, the smaller the force Newton’s law of gravity says that the gravitational attraction of a star is exactly one quarter that of a similar star at half the distance ... attraction of gravity Chandrasekhar calculated that a cold star of more than about one and a half times the mass of the sun would not be able to support itself against its own gravity (This mass is ... a star’s mass is less than the Chandrasekhar limit, it can eventually stop contracting and settle down to a possible final state as a “white dwarf” with a radius of a few thousand miles and a...

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Tài liệu The impact of timely information on organisational performance in a supply chain

Tài liệu The impact of timely information on organisational performance in a supply chain

... published papers in International Journal of Production Research, International Journal of Human Resource Management, Journal of Business and Industrial Marketing, Supply Chain Management: An International ... International Journal of Mobile Communications, International Journal of Electronic Healthcare and International Journal of Human Resources Management R Anthony Inman is Ruston Building and Loan Professor ... extent of the potential bias Substantial common method variance is signalled by the emergence of either a single factor or one ‘general’ factor that explains a majority of the total variance (Podsakoff...

Ngày tải lên: 28/05/2014, 20:34

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university of wales press a history of money from ancient times to present day feb 2003

university of wales press a history of money from ancient times to present day feb 2003

... essential but not nearly as enjoyable as the preliminaries What the European saw as waste the African saw as a pleasant social custom However, given the spread of western modes of life the wasteful ... satisfactorily any or all of money’s many other functions Although acting as a unit of account or as a common measure of value – which are two ways of looking at the same concept – are both abstractions, ... experiences to analyse how far abstract theories stand up in comparison with the practical tests of the market place My grateful thanks are also offered to Eric Hammonds, Chairman, and Jonathan Hodge,...

Ngày tải lên: 11/06/2014, 13:58

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báo cáo hóa học: " Changes in spatiotemporal gait variables over time during a test of functional capacity after stroke" pot

báo cáo hóa học: " Changes in spatiotemporal gait variables over time during a test of functional capacity after stroke" pot

... mat was placed in the middle of the course to measure spatial and temporal gait parameters Participants walked over the mat on each pass of the 30 m course Gait speed and temporal symmetry ratio ... final manuscript Acknowledgements We thank C Arasaratnam, H Cheung and B Lakhani for their assistance with data collection This research was supported by the Heart and Stroke Foundation of Ontario ... for categorical variables and Wilcoxon-Mann-Witney test for non-parametric variables Statistical significance was set at p < 0.05 Values expressed are mean ± standard deviation Results Clinical...

Ngày tải lên: 19/06/2014, 08:20

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Báo cáo hóa học: " On a boundary value problem of a class of generalized linear discrete-time systems" ppt

Báo cáo hóa học: " On a boundary value problem of a class of generalized linear discrete-time systems" ppt

... and uniqueness of solutions for generalized linear discrete -time boundary value problems of a class of linear rectangular matrix difference equations whose coefficients are square constant matrices ... Singular Systems of Differential Equations Cole Publishing Company (1980) Gantmacher, FR: The Theory of Matrices, Volume I and II Chelsea (1959) Datta, BN: Numerical Linear Algebra and Applications ... GI, Psarrakos, P, Karcanias, N: On the computation of the Jordan canonical form of regular matrix polynomials Linear Algebra Appl 385, 117–130 (2004) doi:10.1186/1687-1847-2011-51 Cite this article...

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Báo cáo hóa học: " Research Article Existence and Stability of Antiperiodic Solution for a Class of Generalized Neural Networks with Impulses and Arbitrary Delays on Time Scales" ppt

Báo cáo hóa học: " Research Article Existence and Stability of Antiperiodic Solution for a Class of Generalized Neural Networks with Impulses and Arbitrary Delays on Time Scales" ppt

... a time scale,” Journal of Mathematical Analysis and Applications, vol 319, no 1, pp 315–325, 2006 35 R Agarwal, M Bohner, and A Peterson, “Inequalities on time scales: a survey,” Mathematical ... Boston, Mass, USA, 2001 a 32 M Bohner and A Peterson, Advances in Dynamic Equations on Time Scales, Birkh¨ user, Boston, Mass, a USA, 2003 33 V Lakshmikantham and A S Vatsala, “Hybrid systems on time ... scales,” Journal of Computational and Applied Mathematics, vol 141, no 1-2, pp 227–235, 2002 34 E R Kaufmann and Y N Raffoul, “Periodic solutions for a neutral nonlinear dynamical equation on a...

Ngày tải lên: 21/06/2014, 07:20

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Báo cáo sinh học: " Research Article Polynomial-Time Algorithm for Controllability Test of a Class of Boolean Biological Networks" ppt

Báo cáo sinh học: " Research Article Polynomial-Time Algorithm for Controllability Test of a Class of Boolean Biological Networks" ppt

... is a redundant variable, and h (a, b) can be rewritten as h (a) = a Any given Boolean function can be changed so as to satisfy Assumption 1: after it is transformed into an appropriate canonical ... total computational time in Part B is measured because from the proof of Lemma we see that the computational complexity of Part B is dominant So the adjacency matrices to be evaluated are generated ... the real biological relevance The reasons why such identities are appeared are that the state is binarized and that a time- delay of the state is ignored To overcome the latter point, a temporal...

Ngày tải lên: 21/06/2014, 16:20

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Báo cáo hóa học: "Research Article A Decentralized Approach for Nonlinear Prediction of Time Series Data in Sensor Networks" pptx

Báo cáo hóa học: "Research Article A Decentralized Approach for Nonlinear Prediction of Time Series Data in Sensor Networks" pptx

... some abuse of notation Radial kernels have a natural interpretation in terms of measure of similarity in X, as the kernel value is larger the closer together two locations are Two typical examples ... to a signal-to-noise ratio of 10 dB These data were used to estimate a nonlinear model, based on the Gaussian kernel, that predicts temperature as a function of location and time Preliminary ... other hand, a small value for ν will result in a large model order This will lead to a small approximation error, at the price of high computational load for updating the model at each sensor, and...

Ngày tải lên: 21/06/2014, 17:20

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Báo cáo hóa học: " Research Article Multiple Positive Solutions for a Class of m-Point Boundary Value Problems on Time Scales" potx

Báo cáo hóa học: " Research Article Multiple Positive Solutions for a Class of m-Point Boundary Value Problems on Time Scales" potx

... of boundary value problems for p-Laplacian dynamic equations on time scales,” Journal of Mathematical Analysis and Applications, vol 321, no 2, pp 911–920, 2006 14 Advances in Difference Equations ... V Lakshmikantham, S Sivasundaram, and B Kaymakcalan, Dynamic Systems on Measure Chains, vol 370 of Mathematics and Its Applications, Kluwer Academic Publishers, Dordrecht, The Netherlands, 1996 ... Chyan and J Henderson, “Eigenvalue problems for nonlinear differential equations on a measure chain,” Journal of Mathematical Analysis and Applications, vol 245, no 2, pp 547–559, 2000 18 V Lakshmikantham,...

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Báo cáo hóa học: "Research Article Online Estimation of Time-Varying Volatility Using a Continuous-Discrete LMS Algorithm" ppt

Báo cáo hóa học: "Research Article Online Estimation of Time-Varying Volatility Using a Continuous-Discrete LMS Algorithm" ppt

... nonuniformly sampled data Both the mean value and the standard deviation of the relative error of estimation are about 1% and 10%, respectively Here again they are calculated by time averaging; this ... relative error are to be calculated by time averaging) The mean trajectory of 100 estimated trajectories of the volatility is reported in Figure The mean value and the standard deviation of its ... noting that in all illustrative synthetic examples of this paragraph, the parameters can be chosen arbitrarily The only essential thing to account for are realistic values of the volatility The...

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Báo cáo hóa học: " Preparation and Characterization of Nano structured Materials from Fly Ash: A Waste from Thermal Power Stations, by High Energy Ball Milling" potx

Báo cáo hóa học: " Preparation and Characterization of Nano structured Materials from Fly Ash: A Waste from Thermal Power Stations, by High Energy Ball Milling" potx

... Particle size of fly ash with milling time (in hours) Table Surface energy and work of adhesion of fresh as well as ball milled fly ash Fly ash sample Fig Variation of Specific surface area of fly ash with ... milling time, as determined from EDX analysis are shown in Table The percentage of alumina reduces marginally and the percentage of silica increases marginally as milling for 20 h, there after ... SEM of ball milled fly ash for 20 h at 1,000 and 3,000 times magnification, (E and F) SEM of ball milled fly ash for 40 h at 1,000 and 3,000 times magnification, (G and H) SEM of ball milled fly ash...

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