What is Russia and where is it going? As we approach the ninth year after the Fall, we are faced with Russia’s unprecedented economic decline, year in year out. The story is grim whether measured by gross domestic product, capital investment, industrial and agricultural output, inflation, budget deficits, international debt, educational levels, or health and mortality. Just when economists anti...

Making sense of, and implementing a new education and training system often results in a cutting-up of the system into more manageable pieces. While it is therefore quite understandable that the Sector Education and Training Authorities’ Education and Training Quality Assurance bodies (SETA ETQAs) have focused their initial energies on the core components of qualifications, namely those parts t...

The hydrodynamics, viz. the solids circulation patterns and bubble behavior, of a freely bubbling gas-solid fluidized bed has been investigated experimentally using Particle Image Velocimetry (PIV) combined with Digital Image Analysis (DIA). Coupling of these non-invasive measuring techniques allows us to obtain information on both the bubble behavior and emulsion phase circulation patterns sim...

be viewed within a much larger system of reliability analysis, generalizability theory. Moreover, alpha focused attention on reliability coefficients when that attention should instead be cast on measurement error and the standard error of measurement. For Cronbach, the extension of alpha (and classical test theory) came when Fisherian notions of experimental design and analysis of variance wer...

Undoubtly it can be said that climate and how weather conditions effect on building shape including limited architecture elements which has been noticed at the beginning of making shelter by human beings and the principle of this need has not been changed by passing time and changing the styles and movements and definitions of art and beauty and changing needs and attitudes and expanding archit...

T ( H r l i p p p r a linical cardiac electrophysiology and cardiac pacing have erged into a common cardiac subspecialty discipline. Comlex cardiac arrhythmias are managed by physicians with pecial expertise in cardiac electrophysiology, the use of cardiac mplantable electrical devices (CIEDs), and the application of ther interventional ablative techniques and pharmacologic reatments. Cardiac i...

1 Truth-relativism For our purposes, truth-relativism can be characterised as the doctrine that in a single world the very same token utterance can take different truth-values when considered in different contexts of assessment. The root semantic idea is already present in Lewis’s 1980, where an utterance of a sentence like “It is raining” is conceived as receiving a truth-value only when the v...

Practices for endo and ectoparasite control in beef cattle were evaluated in two independent experiments. First, the effects of rotenone on Rhipicephalus (Boophilus) microplus ticks were evaluated in vitro and in experimentally infected calves. In the second trial, the effects of grazing systems associated with endo and ectoparasite treatments on parasite burden and weight gain of naturally par...

Aspects of our Solar System’s formation are deduced from observations of the chemical nature of matter. Massive cores are indicative of terrestrial-planet-composition-similarity to enstatite chondrite meteorites, whose highly-reduced state of oxidation may be thermodynamically stable in solar matter only at elevated temperatures and pressures. Consistent with the formation of Earth as envisione...