Economics
Introduction: Roughness is irregularity of the road surface. It affects the operation of a vehicle ? safety, comfort and speed of travel ? and the rate of wear of vehicle parts. By extension, it impacts on vehicle operating costs, and hence on the economic evaluation of proposed road maintenance and upgrading expenditures. Roughness is measured using the International Roughness Index (IRI) which is a mathematically defined summary statistic of the longitudinal profile in...
Technical Reference Publication
Introduction: The present tables are part of a series of critical reviews on the rotational spectra of molecules already identified in the interstellar medium. All of the available data have been gathered for each molecule and subjected to reanalysis in order to provide a consistent set of molecular constants, a check on the reliability of the measured transitions, and allow the unobserved transitions to be predicted with known uncertainty limits. The only limit invoked ...
Alice is about to pick daisies when a white rabbit approaches her, but this rabbit is not like any other rabbit she has seen. Her curious nature forces her to follow the rabbit for a wonderful adventure.
Government Reference Publication
Excerpt: The third edition of Molecular Medicine: An Introductory Text, like the previous editions, continues to provide a contemporary and succinct overview of DNA in medicine. Chapter topics include a history of molecular medicine, DNA, RNA, genes, and chromosomes; Mendelian genetic traits; complex genetic traits; genomics, proteomics, and bioinformatics; genetic and cellular therapies; reproduction and development; infectious diseases; forensic medicine and science; a...
Excerpt: She Walks in Beauty. SHE walks in beauty like the night Of cloudless climes and starry skies, And all that?s best of dark and bright Meet in her aspect and her eyes; Thus mellowed to the tender light Which heaven to gaudy day denies. One ray the more, one shade the less Had half impaired the nameless grace Which waves in every raven tress Or softly lightens o?er her face, Where thoughts serenely sweet express How pure, how dear their dwelling place. And on that ...
Introduction: Research on nickel carcinogenesis prior to 1975 has been comprehensively reviewed and critically by panels of scientific experts under the ments auspices of the U.S. National Academy of Sciences (NAS) and the International for Re- carcinogenesis search on Cancer (IARC) (2).
Excerpt: The Lockheed Martin Advanced Technology Laboratories (ATL), participating in the Army’s largest Advanced Technology Demonstration, has developed a real-time, onboard/offboard multi-sensor, multi-target data fusion system that operates on 14 different sources of information. As the Data Fusion software developer, ATL was created two additional software products in order to effectively design, build, measure, and demonstrate the capabilities of the embeddable info...
Excerpt: Synopsis of Program: Anthropological research may be conducted under unusual circumstances, often in distant locations. As a result the ability to conduct potentially important research may hinge on factors that are impossible to assess from a distance and some projects with potentially great payoffs may face difficulties in securing funding. This program gives small awards that provide investigators with the opportunity to assess the feasibility of an anthropol...
The commercial traveler, a personage unknown to antiquity, is one of the striking figures created by the manners and customs of our present epoch. May he not, in some conceivable order of things, be destined to mark for coming philosophers the great transition which welds a period of material enterprise to the period of intellectual strength? Our century will bind the realm of isolated power, abounding as it does in creative genius, to the realm of universal but levellin...
Excerpt: A one-day workshop was held at the summer study on July 13, 1999. Six experts on topics in spintronics gave presentations: David Awschalom from the University of California, Santa Barbara, Berry Jonker from the Naval Research Laboratory, Tom McGill from the DSRC and Caltech, Michael Roukes from Caltech, Stuart Parkn from IBM Almaden, and Jon Slaughter from Motorola. The DSRC was very helpful to the study and a number of participants visited from the DSRC and loc...
Excerpt: The Waste Land by Thomas) Stearns) Eliot.
Excerpt: The report consists of two main sections: the first deals with the consultant?s work with The Information and Technology Association of Jordan on a membership and fundraising strategy and the second section includes the text of a draft manual on ...
Business Reference
Excerpt: The red carpet will be rolled out for international retailers who attend the FMI Show, sponsored by the Food Marketing Institute, May 1 - 3, 2005, at McCormick Place in Chicago. The FMI Show is the industry's premier annual international exposition. It will attract attendees from the U.S. and around the world. The 2005 show will provide new and enhanced services for international attendees, such as an International Group Advantage Program that offers special ben...