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Three novel F8 mutations in sporadic haemophilia A cases
No full textLetter to the editorRashid Hussain, Noman Bin Abid, Sajjad Hussain, Zeeshan Shaukat, Mudassir Altaf, Sara Altaf, and Gulzar Niaz
Global Production Networking and Technological Change in East Asia
No full textThis book examines the effects of the
changing global geography of production for the growth
prospects of East Asian economies. The authors conclude that
in the face of a global environment, economies in East Asia
need to adapt to the changing character of global production
networks and to nurture and develop technological
capabilities in order to sustain their growth prospects.
This is the third volume in a series of publications from a
study co-sponsored by the Government of Japan and the World
Bank to examine the sources of economic growth in East Asia.
The study was initiated in 1999 with the objective of
identifying the most promising path to development in the
light of global and regional changes
Global Change and East Asian Policy Initiatives
No full textMany East Asian economies have grown
briskly in the past few years. However, future development
will depend on the quality and timeliness of regional and
national policy actions. The policy agenda must address the
problems that buffeted the region in the late
1990s-associated with the weakness of domestic institutions
and policies in the context of globalization. These problems
include financial shocks, rapid shifts in the
competitiveness of major exports, changes in international
production networking, and significant reconfiguration in
the geographical composition of production systems that had
provided the foundation for growth. Sustaining dynamism in
East Asia requires policy initiatives that contain the risks
from shocks and manage the ongoing shifts and changes in
ways that enhance both the competitiveness of firms and the
stability of the economies. This report provides specific
policy responses that could be employed to navigate
successfully through periods of economic, political, and
technological turbulence. The book is a collection of
studies by leading experts in such fields as corporate and
political governance, economic policy, globalization, higher
education, legal reform, regional integration, and social
protection. The studies reflect the most current thinking
and research on global, regional, and national policies of
relevance to East Asian economies. It is an important
resource for policymakers, researchers and students
interested in East Asia
Dr. Duane M. Jackson, Morehouse College, July 2011
No full textThis video is a conversation with Dr. Duane M. Jackson. Dr. Jackson talks about his paper, "Recall and the Serial Position Effect: The Role of Primacy and Recency on Accounting Students' Performance." Jackie Daniel, AUC Woodruff Library, is the interviewer
"Reflections on the subject of Emigration from Europe with a view to Settlement in the United States" By M. Carey.
No full text"Reflections on the subject of Emigration from Europe with a view to Settlement in the United States: containing bried sketches of the moral and political character of those states.
By M. Carey, member of the American philosophical, and of the American Antiquarian Society, and author of The Olive Branch, Cindiciae Hibernicae, essays on banking, on political economy, and on internal improvement.
To which are now added the English editor's comments on the subject; together with Important Advice to Emigrants, and Cautions Against Impositions Practiced in the Outports
Effects and relationships of wheat seed size and dimensions upon yield, yield components, test weights and milling yields at different fertility levels, seed rates and environments
No full textThe experiments herein reported were conducted at College Station, Chillicothe and McGregor, Texas, with the objectives of determining the relationships of varying seed sizes and shapes in wheat to yield, yield components, test weight and milling yields under different fertility levels and seeding rates. Eighteen and 16 different strains of wheat were included in the variety comparisons in the years 1965 and 1966, respectively, at College Station. Favorable growing conditions in 1966 resulted in good yields and quality of grain. The higher fertility level did not show any significant increase over normal fertility, except in number of culms and number of kernels per spike. Varieties of different seed sizes differed significantly amongst themselves for all the yield character measurements, and it has been observed that the varietal differences were greater than the influences of seed size and shape. Correlations among yield components were high and are statistically highly significant. Kernel dimensions, number of culms per spike and 500 seed weight were highly correlated with yield. The same trends were observed in the test at Chillicothe. Though none of the characters measured were significantly correlated with test weight, there was some association with factors determining yield and an indication pointing to higher test weight for shorter and plumper kernels. ..
Dispelling the Myths Behind First-author Citation Counts
No full textWe conducted a full-scale evaluative citation analysis study of scholars in the XML research field to explore just how different from each other author rankings resulting from different citation counting methods actually are, and to demonstrate the capability of emerging data and tools on the Web in supporting more realistic citation counting methods. Our results contest some common arguments for the continued
use of first-author citation counts in the evaluation of scholars, such as high correlations between author rankings by first-author citation counts and other citation
counting methods, and high costs of using more realistic citation counting methods that are not well-supported by the ISI databases. It is argued that increasingly available digital full text research papers make it possible for citation analysis studies to go beyond what the ISI databases have directly supported and to employ more
sophisticated methods
Dr. Glendon Swarthout
No full textHosted by Roger M. Busfield, MSU Assistant Professor of Speech and Theater, Meet the Author is designed to introduce a general audience to a contemporary author and their work through in-depth interviews. This episode features a conversation between Dr. Glendon Swarthout, prolific author and English professor at MSU, and assistant professors Sam S. Baskett and Theodore B. Strandness
A Study of Reduced Order 4D-VAR with a Finite Element Shallow Water Model
No full textForecast models often depend on unknown parameters, such as model initial and boundary conditions, or other tunable parameters not necessarily having any physical meaning. Calibration of these parameters to minimize errors between forecasted and observed states is called data assimilation. A common approach in this context are variational methods, of which four dimensional data variation (4D-VAR) is studied in this thesis. In 4D-VAR, a cost function is defined that penalizes misfits between observations and the corresponding numerical model results, obtained by running the model with the chosen configuration. Performing optimization with regard to this cost function yields an improved initial parameter set. Associated with this type of methods, however, are difficulties in connection with programming the adjoint model, which is needed to compute the exact gradient of the cost function. Additionally, having to integrate the adjoint model backwards in time adds significantly to the computational cost of the data assimilation process. To avoid manual implementation of adjoint code and to reduce computational complexity, approximation of the gradient calculation is considered through the use of proper orthogonal decomposition (POD), a flexible data-driven order reduction method. To facilitate this, a finite element model of the shallow water equations is tested with both the full adjoint 4D-VAR method and two different POD-reduced approaches. Twin experiments are performed and comparisons are made in terms of accuracy, computational complexity and sensitivity to perturbation and number of observation points.Applied mathematicsElectrical Engineering, Mathematics and Computer Scienc
Simulation of thermal plant optimization and hydraulic aspects of thermal distribution loops for large campuses
No full textFollowing an introduction, the author describes Texas A&M University and its utilities system. After that, the author presents how to construct simulation models for chilled water and heating hot water distribution systems. The simulation model was used in a $2.3 million Ross Street chilled water pipe replacement project at Texas A&M University. A second project conducted at the University of Texas at San Antonio was used as an example to demonstrate how to identify and design an optimal distribution system by using a simulation model. The author found that the minor losses of these closed loop thermal distribution systems are significantly higher than potable water distribution systems. In the second part of the report, the author presents the latest development of software called the Plant Optimization Program, which can simulate cogeneration plant operation, estimate its operation cost and provide optimized operation suggestions. The author also developed detailed simulation models for a gas turbine and heat recovery steam generator and identified significant potential savings. Finally, the author also used a steam turbine as an example to present a multi-regression method on constructing simulation models by using basic statistics and optimization algorithms. This report presents a survey of the author??s working experience at the Energy Systems Laboratory (ESL) at Texas A&M University during the period of January 2002 through March 2004. The purpose of the above work was to allow the author to become familiar with the practice of engineering. The result is that the author knows how to complete a project from start to finish and understands how both technical and nontechnical aspects of a project need to be considered in order to ensure a quality deliverable and bring a project to successful completion. This report concludes that the objectives of the internship were successfully accomplished and that the requirements for the degree of Degree of Engineering have been satisfied
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