Not th e leas t factor , when lau nching th e corp orate tr aining, is str ategy dete rmination. On the one hand, an e ducational institution has to follow the mar ket and be able to satisfy the demands of corporate clients and companies. I t is a s o called market adaptation. However, th is approach implies a number of shortcomings. An excessive interest in mar ket ad aptation may l ead to lop...

The Bureau of Drug Research, Health Protection Branch I the Government of Canada, requested of the transplant nd clinical chemistry professional groups that a consensus leeting be held, to develop a “state-of-the-art” consensus aper on cyclosporune (CsA) monitoring. The often confusg scientific literature on CsA monitoring, created largely s a result of the use of different nonspecific and spec...

O's/O •6 ratios of thirteen tektites from Czechoslovakia, Libya, Texas, Indochina, Philippine Islands, Australia, Java, and Peru have been determined by the fluorine-extraction technique. All but one of these lie in relatively restricted range of Oas/O •6 ratio, with $ -9.6 to 10.4 per mil relative to the ocean-water standard. Tektites are therefore 0.5 to 1.5 per mil heavier than average grani...

A c t ive learning has been widely re c og n i zed as central in a student’s mastery of a subject (Angelo and Cross 1993; Pa s c a rella and Te renzini 1991). One type of a c t ive learning is role play i n g, wh i ch has been used effe c t ive ly in a va riety of fi e l d s . For ex a m p l e, B h awuk (1990) discusses it as a technique to foster cro s s c u l t u ra l awa reness; Smokowski (1...

L It is a result familiar in the theory of automorphic form s that an entire automorphic form of positive dimension on an H-group is identically zero (see sec. 2 for the definitions). This follows immediately , for exa mple, from the well-known exac t formula for the Fourier coefficie nts of automorphic forms of positive dimension ([1], p. 314).1 Another proof is by means of a formula for the n...

Most of statistical approaches in cardiovascular research were based on variance analysis (ANOVA). However, most of the time, the assumption that data are independent is violated since several measures are performed on the same subject (repeated measures). In addition, the presence of intraand inter-observers variability can potentially obscure significant differences. The linear mixed model (L...

In time series problems, where time ordering is a crucial issue, the use of Partial Liklihood Estimation (PLE) represents a specially suitable method for the estimation of parameters in the model. We propose a new general supervised neural network algorithm, Joint Network and Data Density Estimation (XWDE), that employs PLE to approximate conditional probability density finctions for multi-clas...

Aanshenogsifaat42 8400 0ostende, Belgium. • Ther e were 4 sacred drums, of abou t six feet high. Figure 1-Zaire mountains, until the legendary Gihanga d escend ed from the heavens, along w ith the thunder, as d id other emperor s in Su meria, Mesopotamia or Creta. Besid es cattle and see d, he bro ught fire to the morta ls; the memory of this Promethean event would onl y extinguish in 1933, whe...

Numerical Relativity (NR) uses advanced numerical techniques in supercomputers to simulate the relativistic, strong-field dynam s and radiation of merging compact binaries, such as black holes and neutron tars, and oth r s milar phenomena that are governed by E nstein's th ory of General R lativi y (GR). Analytical relativity (AR) metho s, based on Po -Newtonian exp ns ons of the GR qua ion nd ...

For a decade or more research has been conducted which is intended to lead to the design of operational earth resource information systems. Clearly this research has not yet been completed. It does seem to be far enough along however, that an assessment relevant to future operational activities might well be possible and beneficial. In this paper a model operational system will be discussed not...