RESUMO A pasta de cimento é a parte do compósito cimentício que possui baixa resistência ao atrito e suas propriedades mecânicas microestruturais são determinantes para durabilidade material. As técnicas microscopia comumente utilizadas elucidar esses comportamentos mecânicos, físicos químicos compósitos cimentícios. O objetivo deste trabalho foi importância avaliação direta comportamento abras...

This article reviews and criticizes Joseph Heath’s market failures approach (MFA) to business ethics. Our criticism is organized into three sections. First, we argue that, even under the ideal assumptions of perfect competition, when markets generate Pareto-efficient distributions, does not rule out significant harms. Second, show nonideal conditions, MFA either too demanding, if efficiency be ...

Quota restrictions on United States imports of apparel and textiles under the multifiber arrangement (MFA) ended abruptly in January 2005. This change in policy was large, predetermined, and fully anticipated, making it an ideal natural experiment for testing the theory of trade policy. Prices of quota-constrained categories from China fell by 38% in 2005, with smaller declines from other expor...

One of the sources of resistance to the implementation of electronic health records is that it often takes years to roll out a fully functional system. The George Washington University Medical Faculty Associates (MFA) has set a new standard for rapid EHR implementation by bringing 99 physicians and 130 residents and interns live in less than 30 days in a complex academic setting. MFA leveraged ...

Rare earth elements (REEs) are essential for high-techology industrial sectors. This paper presents research on material flow analysis (MFA) applied to REEs in the EU-27. Innovative aspects of this research pertain to (i) considering potential lithospheric stocks of REEs in the EU and (ii) accounting for incomplete and imprecise information in MFA data reconciliation. Results obtained to-date p...

Methods for missing-feature reconstruction substitute noisecorrupted features with clean-speech estimates calculated based on reliable information found in the noisy speech signal. Gaussian mixture model (GMM) based reconstruction has conventionally focussed on reliable information present in a single frame. In this work, GMM-based reconstruction is applied on windows that span several time fra...

Introduction. Thrombotic complications (TC) in different vascular systems dictate the fate of high-risk patients. In cardiological practice, patients with advanced atherosclerotic disease (MFA) represent most vulnerable group. Malignant neoplasm (MN) is one significant risk factors for developing TCs, especially context antineoplastic therapy. The presence differences mechanisms thrombogenesis ...