PowerPoint is a powerful and versatile program for creating presentations. This document will show you how to complete some of the basic tasks involved in
creating presentations, including starting a new presentation, inserting new slides and preparing to print.
becomes â€œpermittedâ€ to the other, and they begin the long journey of life in a spirit of love, cooperation,
This is the strongest of bonds, in which Allah (subhaanahu wa â€˜taâ€™aalaa) unites the two Muslim partners, who come together on the basis of love, understanding, co-operation and mutual advice, and establish a Muslim family in which children will live and grow up, and they will develop the good character and behavior taught by Islam. The Muslim family is the strongest component of a Muslim society when its members are productive and constructive, helping and encouraging one another to be good and righteous, and competing with one another in good works.
The righteous woman is the pillar, cornerstone and foundation of the Muslim family. She is seen as the greatest joy in a manâ€™s life, as the Prophet said:
â€œThis world is just temporary conveniences, and the best comfort in this world is a righteous woman.â€1 A righteous woman is the greatest blessing that Allah (subhaanahu wa â€˜taâ€™aalaa) can give to a man, for with her he can find comfort and rest after the exhausting struggle of earning a living.
Do you dream of having a great marriage? Itâ€™s a good dream to have. A great, forever marriage is a wonderful thing to be part of, and can enrich your life. The question is, though, how do you turn your dream into reality?
This book was written to help you bring your dream closer. In it weâ€™ve condensed everything weâ€™ve learned from our 25 years of marital research and experience into a 12-hour program that will help you develop and protect a loving relationship. Whether you are happily married and want to stay that way, having issues youâ€™d like help with, or planning to marry and want to know how to preserve all the great things about your relationship, the information in this book can help you make it happen.
Just 12 hours to a great marriage? We understand if youâ€™re a little skeptical. We want to say right up front that itâ€™s going to take more than 12 hours to develop a happy, deeply satisfying, loving, lasting marriage. In fact, you and your partner are going to have to commit to a lifetime of teamwork to have the relationship you really want. But the approximately 12 hours it takes to read this book and do the exercises can put you well on your way to making your dream come true.
If youâ€™re like most people, though, it might be hard for you to find even 12 hours to devote to this program. Life just keeps getting busier and busier. But if you want to celebrate your 50th wedding anniversary some day, carving out 12 hours now to help you make sure those 50 years are good ones doesnâ€™t seem like too much to ask.
Since the end of the cold war the United States is the single dominant naval power in the world. The emphasis of the last decade has been to reduce cost while maintaining this status.
As the Navyâ€™s infrastructure decreases, so too does its ability to be an active participant in all aspects of ship operations and design. One way that the navy has achieved large savings is by using the Military Sealift Command to manage day to day operations of the Navyâ€™s auxiliary and underway replenishment ships. While these ships are an active part of the Navyâ€™s fighting force, they infrequently are put into harmâ€™s way. The natural progression in the design of these ships is to have them fully classified under current American Bureau of Shipping (ABS) rules, as they closely resemble commercial ships. The first new design to be fully classed under ABS is the T-AKE. The Navy and ABS consider the T-AKE program a trial to determine if a partnership between the two organizations can extend into the classification of all new naval ships. A major difficulty in this venture is how to translate the knowledge base which led to the development of current military specifications into rules that ABS can use for future ships.
The specific task required by the Navy in this project is to predict the inherent availability of the new T-AKE class ship. To accomplish this task, the reliability of T-AKE equipment and machinery must be known. Under normal conditions reliability data would be obtained from past ships with similar mission, equipment and machinery. Due to the unique nature of the T-AKE acquisition, this is not possible. Because of the use of commercial off the shelf (COTS) equipment and machinery, military equipment and machinery reliability data can not be used directly to predict T-AKE availability. This problem is compounded by the fact that existing COTS equipment and machinery reliability data developed in commercial applications may not be applicable to a military application. A method for deriving reliability data for commercial equipment and machinery adapted or used in military applications is required.
Architecture is a structured relationship of physical elements in which use, experience and memory are integral to its sense of shelter. Beginning with the drawn and built conceptions of the House at Yellow Sulfur Springs, structural fragments of the project included cast concrete studies, a desired relationship between surface, physical structure and light, an indirect path of entry and pre-existing qualities of the site. These fragments coalesced as a house with varying degrees of enclosure, a structure defined by material distinctions and assembly details, and a sensual path between inside and outside.
This PDF Ebooks is an attempt to address the phenomenon of the sun in architecture. Particular use is made of the notions of warmth, light, shadow and energy as form generators. Of specific concern is how one structure can work in harmony within its environment and existing constraints.
An analysis of an existing building is performed, with an eye to its strengths and weaknesses as a residence. It is an interesting challenge for an architect to take an undistinguished building - one designed for a bygone age of surplus energy - to identify those substantive elements to be retained and reused, those which are to be eliminated or substantially altered, and then harmonize them, in conjunction with a new plan, in order to create a warm, energy efficient, aesthetically appealing, and ultimately livable family residence. The possibilities concerning the highest and best changes to be made to improve the use of an existing structure are first identified.
The literature on Ãžnancial stability often argues that increased competition causes riskier banking behavior and deteriorates bank assets, and therefore, financial liberalization is a source of Ãžnancial instability. Examples are Chan et al. (1986), Riordan (1993), Gehrig (1998), Schnitzer (1999), DellÂ’Ariccia (2000), and Hellmann et al. (2000). Despite such a consensus, the empirical findings regarding the effects of increased competition on risk are mixed.On the one hand, there is evidence of a link between financial crises and Ãžnancial liberalization1. On the other hand, among the European emerging economies, it seems that those banking sectors with better performances are those that greatly reduced their entry restrictions. Lifting intrastate restrictions of the US banking sector also contributed to the substantial improvement in loan quality, according to Jayaratne and Strahan (1996). This raises the issue whether the current consensus regarding the relationship of banking competition and risk taking is justified.
This issue is directly related to the on-going effort of building sound banking systems. In the past two decades, many Ãžnancial markets have resorted to Ãžnancial liberalization in order to foster Ãžnancial deepening. In the mean-time, the frequency and degree of severeness of Ãžnancial crises have increased. The question is whether there are inherent trade-offs between efficiency, indicated by lower loan rates, and safty of the Ãžnancial system, and between Ãžnancial deepening and stability. If there are such trade-offs, is increased competition a source, as has been widely accepted?
Today, tea sets are made from porcelain, glass, or pottery. The highest quality of tea set is from the porcelain capital JinDeZheng in Jiangxi Province and the pottery capital Yi Xing in Jiangsu Province, which are both in the southern region of China. A Yi Xing tea set can keep the scent and flavor of the tea. Since a pottery tea set is the natural clay color, it is not suitable for watching the change of the tea leaves and the color of the tea. The designs of porcelain tea sets show attention not only to styles, but also to the art of calligraphy and painting on the tea sets. The color of porcelain teacups is white and the size is large enough for brewing tea so that one can enjoy watching the change in tea leaves in the teacups and the color of tea (China Tea Association & China Tea Trade Company, 1990). The choice of tea sets is important, especially for traditional Chinese tea ceremonies.
The wireless device described in this guide is approved for use on the EGSM 850/900/1800/1900 and UMTS 2100 networks. Contact your service provider for more
Your device supports Internet connections and other methods of connectivity. Like computers, your device may be exposed to viruses, malicious messages and applications, and other harmful content. Exercise caution and open messages, accept connectivity requests, download content, and accept installations only from
trustworthy sources. To increase the security of your device, consider installing an anti-virus software with a regular update service and use a firewall application.
To use the phone you must have service from a wireless service provider. Many of the features in this device depend on features in the wireless network to function.
These network services may not be available on all networks or you may have to make specific arrangements with your service provider before you can utilize network
services. Your service provider may need to give you additional instructions for their use and explain what charges will apply. Some networks may have limitations
that affect how you can use network services. For instance, some networks may not support all language-dependent characters and services.
Your service provider may have requested that certain features be disabled or not activated in your device. If so, they will not appear on your device menu. Your device may also have been specially configured. This configuration may include changes in menu names, menu order, and icons. Contact your service provider for more information.
This booklet will help you and your health-care provider (doctor, nurse practitioner, or physician assistant) plan ways to control your asthma. Why? Because with good treatment, almost all people with asthma can live normal, active lives. Preventionisthekey.Withafew lifestyle changes and medicine, you can learn to prevent serious asthma problems. Together with your provider, you will learn how to reach this goal.
Spray drying is one of the most complex methods for fruit juice drying. Fruit juice is very sensitive and affected the different drying parameters. These parameters should be tested and determined before the design of the dryers. With laboratory spray dryer the basic parameters for drying of orange juice with 65% concentration was studied. The investigated parameters include: drying agent material, feed flow rate inlet and outlet air temperature and sticky point temperature. Tests were performed without and with agent materials and studied the different operating condition of spray drying and the sticky point temperature for orange juice powder. The results of statistical analysis of experimental data show that the parameters of inlet air temperature and feed flow rate have significant effect on the dryer yield and wall deposit of spray dryer individually and jointly. Also with the addition of liquid glucose, the optimum conditions have been obtained with feed flow rate of 15 ml minG , inlet air temperature of 130Â°C and outlet air temperature of 85Â°C. For the orange powder containing 2% moisture, the sticky point temperature was 44Â°C.
solid product from a melt, from a solution or from a vapour. As for all thermalseparations, nonequilibrium conditions are required as a driving force for the process. Here, evaporation of solvent or temperature reduction (cooling) are the most frequent means employed to establish the required non-equilibrium conditions. Pressure can, in principle, also be used to enforce the non-equilibrium state necessary for a phase change.
Allen (2001) proposed the â€œGetting Things Doneâ€ (GTD) method for personalproductivity enhancement, and reduction of the stress caused by information overload. This paper argues that recent insights in psychology and cognitive science support and extend GTDâ€™s recommendations. We first summarize GTD with the help of a flowchart. We then review the theories of situated, embodied and distributed cognition that purport to explain how the brain processes information and plans actions in the real world. The conclusion is that the brain heavily relies on the environment, to function as an external memory, a trigger for actions, and a source of affordances, disturbances and feedback.
video signal and accompanying sound, in the form of digital audio signal, from one point to another.
However, the system may include data and control signals and hence may be thought of as a multimedia
system. Various network technologies find use in the digital television production and transmission of digital television signals. All transmission media are analog channels, but binary digital signals are so tolerant of channel characteristics that they are easily handled. The capability of most communication channels is much greater than what binary transmission requires. Many methods are available for digital television
The Drinking Water Standards and Health Advisories Tables are revised periodically by EPAâ€™s Office of Water in order to update RfD and Cancer values so that they are consistent with the most current Agency assessments of chemical contaminants that may occur in drinking water and to introduce new Health Advisories.
The task of designing and configuring large Computer Networks most suited to a certain application and environment is difficult, as it requires highly specialized technical skills and knowledge, as well as a deep understanding of a dynamic commercial market. Current expert systems have made solid achievements in supporting decision makers, they use prior experience to solve problems in different domains. Hybrid fuzzy expert systems have appeared all over the world proving that integrated fuzzy expert systems/neural networks methods replaces classical hard decision methods and providing better performance.
The gas turbines are generally used for large scale power generation. The basic gas turbine cycle has low thermal efficiency, so it is important to look for improved gas turbine based cycles. The inlet air cooling helps in increasing the performance of gas turbines. Another method for increasing the performance has been to introduce a high amount of water or steam at various points in the cycle. There are several methods suggested and some are already in operation. All of them offer increased performance and increased specific output compared to a dry
gas turbine cycle. The water addition in the gas turbine cycle also helps in reducing exhaust emissions.
+02,MF02, MWA +03]. We consider distributed environments in which remote data sources continuously push updates to a central stream processor, whose job is to evaluate multiple continuous queries over the streamed data [BW01, CDTW00, LPT99, MSHR02]. In these environments, significant communication overhead is incurred in the presence of rapid update streams.
Natural products have been used for combating human diseases for thousands of years, since they exhibit a wide range of biological properties that can be exploited for medical application. Naturally occurring substances play an increasing role in drug discovery and development. In fact, themajority of anticancer and antiinfectious agents are of natural origin. The antitumor activity of natural products has been linked their ability to trigger cell death pathways including apoptosis in cancer cells.
Apoptosis or programmed cell death is the cellâ€™s intrinsic death program that plays a pivotal role in
Dysregulation of normal apoptotic mechanisms provides a growth advantage to cancer cells [1]. In breast cancer, dysregulated apoptotic pathways include down-regulated death receptor pathway function, p53 mutations, and abnormal bcl-2 pathway function [2-4] Furthermore, breast cancer treatments including chemotherapy, radiation therapy and hormone therapy induce apoptotic mechanisms to cause cancer cell death [5]. Therefore, activation of specific apoptotic mechanisms in breast cancer cells could be an effective means to treat breast cancer.
Microsoft Access is powerful software designed for PC. It allows you to create and manage databases. A database is an organized body of related information that is arranged for ease and speed of search and retrieval. Some of the examples of databases are: Jerome Library online catalogue, telephone directories, address books, cookbooks, tour books, etc. Most BGSU offices and departments work with Access as their database application. The examples in this tutorial present common features of databases used on campus.
The Interior Design Program at Georgian College is dedicated to providing our students with a broad-based proficiency in interior space design and physical space management that will enable graduates to proceed to productive and rewarding professional careers in interior design. The 3-Year Interior Design Diploma is recognized by the Association of Registered Interior Designers of Ontario (ARIDO). Graduates are eligible to become Intern Members of ARIDO. After the requisite four years of experience, Interns who successfully complete the NCIDQ (National Council for Interior Design Qualification) examination achieve Registered Interior Design status in Ontario.
Design engineers are reminded that during detailed design stage, sufficient space should be allowed for the erection of noise barriers. Without sufficient space, design options for noise barrier will be limited. As laid down in the WBTC 19/98 and 19/98A, the noise barrier design proposal should be submitted to ACABAS for consideration of its aesthetic acceptability.
Difficult computations and fancy pictures are, of course, not ends in them-selves. We must understand the underlying mathematics if we are to know which
computations to do and which pictures to draw. Likewise we must develop our own intellectual tools sufficiently well in order to understand, interpret, and make use of the data and images that we compute.â€ Thus our focus will always be on the mathematical ideas and their applications. The role of Maple is to
The main objective of this paper is to present the impacts of information technology (IT) and enterprise resource planning (ERP) systems in business process renovation and to discuss selected aspects of the business processes and information modelling. This study presents the results of research conducted on
reengineering business processes in Croatian companies, together with the results of analysis of the status and characteristics of ERP systems in Croatian companies. The results of this study were used to form hypotheses, which were then analyzed and compared against the results of a case study conducted by the authors on business process reengineering and the implementation of the SAP software solution in PLIVA pharmaceutical industry, Incorporated (PLIVA pharmaceuticals, Inc).
The use of shared control techniques has a profound impact on the performance of a robotic assistant controlled by human brain signals. However, this shared control usually provides assistance to the user in a constant and identical manner each time. Creating an adaptive level of assistance, thereby complementing the userâ€™s capabilities at any moment, would be more appropriate. The better the user can
do by himself, the less assistance he receives from the shared control system; and vice versa. In order to do this, we need to be able to detect when and in what way the user needs assistance. An appropriate assisting behaviour would then be activated for the time the user requires help, thereby adapting the level of assistance to the specific situation.
In recent years the topic of infertility has received much public attention. This can be traced to rapid progress in New Reproductive Technologies (NRTs), legal issues concerning the biogenetic production of life and the transformative possibilities of family and relative relations (Inhorn and Balen2002:5). Similarly
some studies have been made on Infertility in the field of Anthropology. However their concern is mainly on the Reproductive Revolution, like the influence of NRTs on family systems and traditional gender relationships (Strathern1992, Inhorn 1994, 2003), and the practices and perceptions of medical doctors, patients and
people such as gamete donors and surrogate mothers who are involved in these technologies (Ginsburg et al.1995, Franklin1997, Tsuge 1999).
Despite continued dialogue over such legal, social, biological and ethical concerns, little attention has been given to the most basic tenet in this matter, namely, Love. In particular, little focus has been dedicated to love and intimacy within marriage arrangements in non-western societies, such as India. Love is generally considered as an emotional bond which is belonged to personal sphere. What I would like to deal with is the political aspect of â€˜loveâ€™ in marriage. As I will discuss in detail later, a womanâ€™s situation becomes very critical when she is not able to conceive. The main concerns in this paper are how women manage and survive the crisis of marriage and what their agency is within that. Human emotions such as love and intimacy related to infertility has been neglected so far, however the politics of love among couples, families and kinship plays a crucial role as motivation for seeking specific behavior concerning infertility. Over the course of sixty interviews with infertile couples, this paper tries try to examine how people construct social relationships based on the body, gender, and sexuality and to consider the possibility of womanâ€™s agency in Indian society through the politics of â€˜loveâ€™.
Gert argues that the prospects for an account of how children could learn an expressivist semantics for moral words are not encouraging. Veryroughly,Gert argues that the fact that expressivism is not widelybelieved means that parents are not disposed to correct their childrenâ€™s speech when that speech is infelicitous according to expressivism. Without such correction, Gert argues that children could not learn expressivist meanings for moral words. Since children obviouslydo learn the meanings of moral words, Gert
Here are some notes about how to write and how to learn to create stories. You will find that I have separated the tasks of creating a story from the ability to write and you may find this distinction useful as it clarifies the differences between the two skills. They may help you in your adaptation of Turk Street, and if you are interested, in creative writing in general.
The following is a sample excerpt from a study unit converted into the Adobe Acrobat format. A sample online exam is available for this excerpt. The sample text, hich is from the Small Engine Repair program, will introduce you to the expanding field of small-engine servicing. Youâ€™ll learn how small engines are used in commercial, residential, and industrial applications.
After reading through the following material, feel free to take the sample exam based on this excerpt
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The volatility of the stock market index return is an indicator of market-wide risk, and the CAPM predicts that it is a determinant of the market equity premium. Recent studies by Ang, Hodrick, Xing and Zhang (2006) and Adrian and Rosenberg (2008) also demonstrate that contrary to the CAPM intuition, market-wide volatility risk is priced in the cross-section of stock returns. Given these findings, and given the overwhelming evidence in the literature that market-wide skewness and kurtosis are important indicators of market-wide risk, and that those risks do not co-vary perfectly with volatility risk, an investigation of higher moments of the market return as pricing factors in the cross-section of stock returns seems worthwhile.
We extend the investigation of Ang et al. (2006) and examine how market skewness and kurtosis risks affect the cross-section of stock returns within the context of the Intertemporal Capital Asset Pricing Model (ICAPM) of Merton (1973). Our hypothesis is that the market volatility, skewness, and kurtosis are all state variables reflecting the future investment opportunity set. The ICAPM then predicts that innovations in market volatility, skewness, and kurtosis must be priced risk factors in the cross section of risky asset returns.
We empirically test this hypothesis using moments of the market return implied by S&P 500 index options, extracted using the methodology of Bakshi and Madan (2000), Carr and Madan (2001) and Bakshi, Kapadia, and Madan (2003). These moments are thus forward looking.
The moments are computed every day, so the resulting estimates are also genuinely conditional. This approach avoids the traditional trade-off problem with estimates of higher moments from historical returns data, which need to use long windows to increase precision, but short windows to obtain conditional rather than unconditional estimates.
A sleep disorder disrupts and disturbs your overall quality of life. It can affect a child, teen, single adult, parent or senior citizen. More than 70 million people in the U.S. have a sleep disorder. Most of those who have one are completely unaware of it. Many of those who are aware of it never choose to seek the help that they need.
Due to advances in the science of Sleep Medicine, help can be found for those who suffer from bad sleep. The International Classification of Sleep Disorders, Second Edition documents 81 official sleep disorders. While some of these are very common, most of them are found in only a small portion of people. Take some time to find out more about these disorders and the treatments that are commonly used to combat them. By doing so, you can help yourself, and others, live a happier and healthier life.
Where there are clashes between policies between neighbouring LPAS, this may be a situation in which the Inspector may be expected to arbitrate between competing policy aims to ensure that the overall approach is sound.
For modified LPAS such as St-AA, VAc-AA and VAc-AA-IA possess better compatibility with UP, which is responsible for the higher final curing conversion than in PS and PVAc systems.
Effects of molecular weight and molecular structure of low profile additives on the properties of Bulk Molding Compound (BMC)