The State of Florida has developed a draft radon standard for new residential construction. A study was conducted to evaluate the effectiveness of the standard's features in controlling radon entry in new houses built over relatively high radon potential soils. Special attention was given to foundation preparations and slab placements to insure that the draft standard requirements were being me...

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The Datagram Congestion Control Protocol (DCCP) is a transport protocol that provides bidirectional unicast connections of congestion-controlled unreliable datagrams. DCCP is suitable for applications that transfer fairly large amounts of data, but can benefit from control over the tradeoff between timeliness and reliability. Kohler/Handley/Floyd [Page 1] INTERNET-DRAFT Expires: 28 May 2006 Nov...

• This paper represents a very first draft on an ongoing research project. • In it present extension (some 20 000 words), it is more a has more a book chapter format than an article one. • A simplified, but complete version of the argument and the empirical evidence can be obtained by reading sections 1-2 and 7-8 only (some 8000 words in total), oriented to newcomers into welfare state research...

* I would like to thank all the participants to a session of the Annual Meeting of the American Economic Association held in New York City on 3 rd and 4 th January 1999, in which a first draft of this paper was presented. Remarks, critiques and suggestions were very useful. I am especially grateful to Lawrence Moss. Usual caveats apply.

Large-scale recovery of genomes from isolates, single cells, and metagenomic data has been made possible by advances in computational methods and substantial reductions in sequencing costs. Although this increasing breadth of draft genomes is providing key information regarding the evolutionary and functional diversity of microbial life, it has become impractical to finish all available referen...

for dissemination) This deliverable presents a first version of a series of 5 documents, to be delivered each 6 months and whose target is to give guidelines for the application of Knowledge IT to practitioners in the field of in large E-Commerce and Knowledge Management. This series of documents is primarily aimed at anyone who is involved in the process of designing, building and managing Kno...