wo of the most important reforms to American public schooling in this century have been an increase in the minimum school-leaving age and a dramatic increase in expenditures per pupil. The former reform has generally been hailed as a success, given evidence that an extra year of schooling significantly boosts students' earnings later in life. However , evidence on the effectiveness of the trend...

Al-Quds has always enjoyed a special standing worldwide for either its historic and civilized position, or geographically strategic location in the center of Arab region Old-World continents. Due to importance, issues were paid attention on global arena by major countries international institutes, particularly United Nations institutes. This study addresses five main claims: 1) most prominent U...

Date The final copy of this thesis has been examined by the signatories, and we find that both the content and the form meet acceptable presentation standards of scholarly work in the above mentioned discipline. Performance of current mesh networks suffer due to the lack of an intelligent physical layer. Research and development in higher layer protocols alone cannot reduce the latency and perf...

—The introduced American Bullfrog (Lithobates catesbeianus) has been implicated in the decline of native amphibians. Bullfrogs have become widespread in California and are a threat to the native California Red-legged Frog (Rana draytonii). The two species are ecologically similar, and the bullfrog is a predator to the red-legged frog that may influence its habitat use patterns. We analyzed the ...

The aim of this study was to review original scientific articles describing the relationship between atmospheric pollution and damage to human health. We also aimed to determine which of these studies mentioned public policy issues. Original articles relating to atmospheric pollution and human health published between 1995 and 2009 were retrieved from the PubMed database and analyzed. This stud...

The Treatment Committee of the Japanese Society for Tuberculosis published statements on the “Standards for tuberculosis care” in April 2008. Therein we referred to rifampicin as follows; “Use of rifampicin requires attention because of the interactions with a number of other drugs. Particularly for HIV-infected patients who need antiviral drugs, the replacement of rifampicin by rifabutin shoul...

Existing JPEG/MPEG compliant perceptual coding methods do not fully exploit the local variation of perceptual masking thresholds. This work demonstrates that, for natural images with the same perceptual quality, the rst-order entropy of the quantizer outputs can be reduced by 15 to 40 percent when optimal locally-adaptive perceptual quantization is used. Locally-adaptive perceptual quantization...

Date The final copy of this thesis has been examined by the signatories, and we find that both the content and the form meet acceptable presentation standards of scholarly work in the above mentioned discipline. Thesis directed by Prof. Dirk Grunwald This research investigates a reconfigurable processing approach to a signal processing application that runs on an onboard space system. The recon...

The effect of different carbon sources on morphology and cellulase and xylanase production of Penicillium echinulatum was evaluated in this work. Among the six carbon sources studied, cellulose and sugar cane bagasse were the most suitable for the production of filter paper activity, endoglucanases, xylanases, and β-glucosidases. However, sucrose and glucose showed β -glucosidase activities sim...