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This digital document is an article from Emerging Infectious Diseases, published by Thomson Gale on April 1, 2006. The length of the article is 1128 words. The page length shown above is based on a typical 300-word page. The article is delivered in HTML format and is available in your Amazon.com Digital Locker immediately after purchase. You can view it with any web browser.

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Title: HIV-1 CRF07_BC infections, injecting drug users, Taiwan.(Letter to the editor)
Author: Yi-Ming Arthur Chen
Publication: Emerging Infectious Diseases (Magazine/Journal)
Date: April 1, 2006
Publisher: Thomson Gale
Volume: 12Issue: 4Page: 703(3)

Article Type: Letter to the editor

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China has attracted the attention of numerous companies as the second largest market in the world. With an authoritarian political system and socialist market economy, the Chinese government practices strong intervention on business operations. At the same time, China's ongoing structural transformation that fosters its economic reforms places increasing influence of business, both domestic and foreign, on national policy. These both force firms to pay greater attention to their relationships with the Chinese government - at all levels. In this timely work, Yi-Ru Regina Chen examines how 25 multinational corporations (MNCs) in China implement government affairs activities as a managerial strategy for achieving competitive advantage from an integrated perspective of public relations and political economy. The work documents the MNCs' strategies, tools, and organizing for government affairs activities, roles of government affairs managers, and factors shaping their management. These findings have significant implications for the conceptualization of corporate lobbying/public affairs and government relations in China's political economy.This book is addressed to students and academics in public relations, business and management, communication, public affairs, and policy, as well as CEOs, association executives, lobbyists, business managers, and government officials. ... Read more

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This up-to-date review closes an important gap in the literature by providing a comprehensive description of the M?auer effect in lattice dynamics, along with a collection of applications in metals, alloys, amorphous solids, molecular crystals, thin films, and nanocrystals. It is the first to systematically compare M?auer spectroscopy using synchrotron radiation to conventional M?auer spectroscopy, discussing in detail its advantages and capabilities, backed by the latest theoretical developments and experimental examples.

Intended as a self-contained volume that may be used as a complete reference or textbook, it adopts new pedagogical approaches with several non-traditional and refreshing theoretical expositions, while all quantitative relations are derived with the necessary details so as to be easily followed by the reader. Two entire chapters are devoted to the study of the dynamics of impurity atoms in solids, while a thorough description of the Mannheim model as a theoretical method is presented and its predictions compared to experimental results.

Finally, an in-depth analysis of absorption of M?auer radiation is presented, based on recent research by one of the authors, resulting in an exact expression of fractional absorption, otherwise unavailable in the literature.
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Global Integrated Supply Chain Systems assimilates the principal views from international authors, who provide a combination of industrial experience and scholarly research, in the area of supply chain systems. This book discusses the business and technical reasons for integrating supply chain systems, and provides excellent arguments for globalization resulting through integration of supply chain systems. Readers of Global Integrated Supply Chain Systems will receive an excellent overall understanding of what comprises supply chain systems, why they should be integrated and how the resultant global organization will be able to compete and grow in this age of communication. They will also find practical business reasons for the crucial need to integrate supply chain systems in global enterprises and, more importantly, collaborating clusters of organizations. ... Read more

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Solving modern biological problems requires advanced computational methods. Bioinformatics evolved from the active interaction of two fast-developing disciplines, biology and information technology. The central issue of this emerging field is the transformation of often distributed and unstructured biological data into meaningful information.

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Global Enterprise Transitions: Managing the Process addresses the importance of information technology management and issues in operating information systems in the global dynamic business environment. This book embraces discussions of the global information technology theory, frameworks and IT architecture, discovery of global knowledge management, improvement of the global information systems development methodologies, and applications of the latest technologies such as mobile technology and web services in the global information systems development and operations. ... Read more

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This digital document is an article from Human Biology, published by Wayne State University Press on October 1, 2003. The length of the article is 7656 words. The page length shown above is based on a typical 300-word page. The article is delivered in HTML format and is available in your Amazon.com Digital Locker immediately after purchase. You can view it with any web browser.

From the author: KEY WORDS: REFFERENCE VALUES, LOCAL METHOD, LOCALLY WEIGHTED REGRESSION, HEIGHT, WEIGHT, BMI

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Title: A modified locally weighted method for developing reference standards for height, weight, and body mass index of boys and girls aged 4 to 18 in Taiwan.
Author: Jim-Yih Chen
Publication: Human Biology (Refereed)
Date: October 1, 2003
Publisher: Wayne State University Press
Volume: 75Issue: 5Page: 749(22)

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This digital document is an article from Real Estate Weekly, published by Thomson Gale on September 12, 2007. The length of the article is 1036 words. The page length shown above is based on a typical 300-word page. The article is delivered in HTML format and is available in your Amazon.com Digital Locker immediately after purchase. You can view it with any web browser.

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Title: New rules will further restrict foreign investment in China.(INSIDERS OUTLOOK)
Author: David Blumenfeld
Publication: Real Estate Weekly (Magazine/Journal)
Date: September 12, 2007
Publisher: Thomson Gale
Volume: 54Issue: 2Page: 34(1)

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For the past two thousand years, the prophecies in the Revelation of the Bible have always been the mysteries for most Christians. Many scholars and priests tried to guess the true meaning of these prophecies; some tried to use them to predict future. But the prophecies of God are never intended for people to predict future, only to confirm the works of God once they have been done. Now, as the majority of the prophecies have been fulfilled, the time to reveal the secret of the prophecies in the Book of Revelation has come.

The prophecies of the Revelation are not the prophecies of the "End Time" as most people believed in the past. They are the prophecies regarding the major historical events starting from the early Christian time all the way to the twenty-first century and the coming New Era of Peace & Wisdom. Many major historical events and influential figures, like Constantine the Great, the Rising of Islamic Movement, the Dark Age, The Reformation, the French Revolution and Napoleon, the Holocaust and Hitler, the Re-birth of Israel, the Rising of Communism, the AIDS plague, the "Sept. 11", and the recent War in Iraq, were all prophesied in the Book of Revelation and some other books in the Bible.

Now, all these mysteries of the prophecies have been revealed by God since the "Man Child" in Revelation 12 was enlightened in year 2000 to bring forward the New Millennium Testament to the world. This book not only uncovers the mystery of the prophecies in the book of Revelation, but also gives a brief introduction of the New Millennium Testament and brings new messages from God for some major religions and nations in the world, including the message for the peace of the Middle East. Once people learn the basic concepts of this book, they will have a better understanding on the full revelation of the New Millennium Testament, which is the Eternal Gospel for Peace & Wisdom as prophesied in Revelation 14:6. ... Read more

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Mystery Solved with Historical Proof
I am glad to know there is no "Doomsday" disaster waiting. Mr. Yi-Chen did a wonderful job to use world history to decode the mystery of the book of Revelation. The historical proofs on the prophecies about Napoleon, Communism, AIDS, "Sept. 11" and War in Iraq are very convincing. Unlike other books about Bible Revelation in the market, this book is the first book to reveal the complete picture of the prophecies in the Bible Revelation that matches the timeline in world history. That's should be the case for God's prophecies like those in the book of Daniel.

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1975 Foreign Language Press. Paperback, 108 pages. A collection of Chinese short stories and color plates. ... Read more

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Global Information Society: Operating Information Systems in a Dynamic Global Business Environment addresses the importance of information technology management and issues in operating information systems in the global dynamic business environment. It embraces discussions of the global information technology theory, frameworks and IT architecture, discovery of global knowledge management, improvement of the global information systems development methodologies, and applications of the latest technologies such as mobile technology and Web services in global information systems development and operations. Global Information Society: Operating Information Systems in a Dynamic Global Business Environment is a collection of new ideas, latest technology applications and experiences in global information systems development and operations. It contributes significantly to the academic, research and corporate business communities. ... Read more

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The Asian Arowanas (Scleropages sp.) belong to the most fascinating fish of the World.Due to their brilliant colors, their large scales, their swimming pattern and their large fins, they remind us of the ancient and mythological Dragons!
Keeping these Dragon fishes at home brings luck and fits perfectly to the philosophy of Feng Shui.
However, some wild populations of Dragon fishes are threatened by extinction and all are therefore listed on Appendix 1 of CITES. Thus only captive bred specimens are open for the trade.

This book reflects the actual status quo of the captive bred Asian Arowana population, with well over 500 fascinating and brilliant color photographs.
Everything you need to know, wanted to know or should now about those fascinating creatures is in this book!
Separated in chapters about Arowana breeding farms, reports (with photos) of true international Arowana fans, all the different color patterns in photos, breeding reports, feeding, other fish that can be kept with the Dragon, diseases and cures, water parameters, how to obtain a CITES permit, really everything you need to know about the Dragon fish! The ultimate Arowana reference book!! ... Read more

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This book summarizes two significant tendencies for application of conservation laws and energy release rates. The first is to establish a bridge between some famous invariant integrals and microcrack damage descriptions. The second is the direct extension from the understandings established in Fracture Mechanics for conventional materials to those for functional materials. In the first point it discusses the vanishing nature for both components of the J_k-integral vector when the closed contour encloses all discontinuities completely. Both mathematical manipulations and numerical examinations are given. Thus the M-integral and the L-integral are independent of coordinate shifts and, more significantly, the M-integral presents a new description for the damage level of a microcracking brittle solid. In the second point it discusses the direct extension from the basic understandings established in Linear Elastic Fracture Mechanics to those for functional materials, e.g., piezoelectric ceramics. Owing to the mechanical and electric coupling, some new insights of energy release rates are discussed in detail. ... Read more

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This digital document is an article from Polymer Engineering and Science, published by Society of Plastics Engineers, Inc. on January 1, 2005. The length of the article is 5870 words. The page length shown above is based on a typical 300-word page. The article is delivered in HTML format and is available in your Amazon.com Digital Locker immediately after purchase. You can view it with any web browser.

From the author: The main objective of this study was to investigate the barrier properties of polyethylene (PE), PE/modified polyamide (MPA), and PE/blends of modified polyamide and ethylene vinyl alcohol (MPAEVOH) bottles against white spirit permeation. After MPAEVOH barrier resins were blended with PE, the resistance of the PE/MPAEVOH bottles against white spirit permeation was significantly improved compared to the PE bottle. Surprisingly, with proper compositions of MPAEVOH resins, the white spirit permeation resistance of PE/MPAEVOH bottles at 40[degrees]C improved by more than 3000 times compared to the PE bottle, wherein the best permeation resistance (4200 times barrier improvement) of the PE/MPAEVOH bottles was found as the weight ratio of MPA: EVOH reached 4:1. These interesting permeation properties of PE/MPAEVOH bottles were investigated in terms of the barrier and free-volume properties of the base resins and their corresponding morphologies in blow-molded bottles. POLYM. ENG. SCI., 45:25-32, 2005. [c] 2004 Society of Plastics Engineers

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Title: White spirit permeation resistance of polyethylene, polyethylene/modified polyamide, and polyethylene/blends of modified polyamide and ethylene vinyl alcohol bottles.
Author: Jen-Taut Yeh
Publication: Polymer Engineering and Science (Refereed)
Date: January 1, 2005
Publisher: Society of Plastics Engineers, Inc.
Volume: 45Issue: 1Page: 25(8)

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This digital document is an article from Southern Medical Journal, published by Southern Medical Association on January 1, 2005. The length of the article is 3907 words. The page length shown above is based on a typical 300-word page. The article is delivered in HTML format and is available in your Amazon.com Digital Locker immediately after purchase. You can view it with any web browser.

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Title: Relation between intraocular pressure and systemic health parameters in Taiwan.(Original Article)
Author: Hsin-Yi Chen
Publication: Southern Medical Journal (Refereed)
Date: January 1, 2005
Publisher: Southern Medical Association
Volume: 98Issue: 1Page: 28(5)

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The papers included in this volume were presented at theSymposium on Advances in the Continuum Mechanics and Thermodynamics ofMaterial Behavior, held as part of the 1999 Joint ASME AppliedMechanics and Materials Summer Conference at Virginia Tech on June27-30, 1999. The Symposium was held in honor of Professor RogerL. Fosdick on his 60th birthday.
The papers are written by prominent researchers in the fields ofmechanics, thermodynamics, materials modeling, and appliedmathematics. They address open questions and present the latestdevelopment in these and related areas. This volume is a valuablereference for researchers and graduate students in universities andresearch laboratories. ... Read more