Bilingual education : information on limited English proficient students : briefing report to the chairman, Committee on Labor and Human Resources, United States Senate /

"B-226877"--P. [1].

Human rights : State Department's commitment to accurate reporting has increased : report to the chairman, Legislation and National Security Subcommittee, Committee on Government Operations, House of Representatives /

"B-240397"--P. [1]

Concerns about controlling union employees' benefit funds by the Carpenters Collection Agency, Youngstown, Ohio : report to the chairman, Committee on Labor and Human Resources, United States Senate /

"B-206934"--Preliminary p.

Information on Labor's awards to the Opportunities Industrialization Centers of America : report to the chairman, Committee on Labor and Human Resources /

"B-211029"--Prelim p.

Plant closings : information on advance notice and assistance to dislocated workers : briefing report to the Chairman, Subcommittee on Labor, Committee on Labor and Human Resources, United States Senate /

"GAO/HRD-87-86BR."

Dislocated workers : trade adjustment assistance program flawed : statement of Linda G. Morra, Director of Education and Employment Issues, Human Resources Division, before the Subcommittee on Employment, Housing and Aviation, Committee on Government Operations, House of Representatives /

"October 19, 1993."

Medicare post-acute care : home health and skilled nursing facility cost growth and proposals for prospective payment : statement of William J. Scanlon, Director, Health Financing and Systems Issues, Health, Education, and Human Services Division : before the Subcommittee on Health, Committee on Ways and Means, House of Representatives /

"March 4, 1997."

Foster care : implementation of the Multiethnic Placement Act poses difficult challenges : report to the Chairman, Subcommittee on Human Resources, Committee on Ways and Means, House of Representatives /

"B-279242"--P. 1.

Continuing financial management problems at the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission : report to the Chairman, Committee on Labor and Human Resources, United States Senate /

"B-205343"--Prelim. p.

Financial management problems at the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission : report to the chairman, Committee on Labor and Human Resources /

"B-205343"--Prelim. p.

[Hearings, reports and prints of the Senate Select Committee on Nutrition and Human Needs]

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Standardization in the Pre-Columbian Pottery from El Caño, Panama: Specialization, Productivity and Consumption

The pottery found in the burials of El Cano is uniform in style to these made in the coclesanos valleys between 700 and 1000 AD. The coefficient of variability of the different pottery forms, evidence diverse standardizations values for polychrome and non-polychrome ceramics. Moreover, data of funerary contexts from the Cano recently excavated, suggest that elite has controlled ceramic production. This control over the production of certain goods reveals that these were important in the support or proper operational of the chiefdoms in Panama and mark the phase of splendour of this culture.

Super insulated aerogel windows: Impact on daylighting and thermal performance.

Window design plays an important role in achieving energy efficient buildings and in providing thermal comfort of building occupants. This paper investigates a newly developed aerogel window and the potential improvement on the comfort factors of an office in relation to daylighting. Improved comfort levels can impact on health and wellbeing of building occupants leading to knock on effects on absenteeism and productivity. A simulation tool was presently created that will easily enable comparison of different façade design and their impact on heat and light transmission and therefore enable optimisation. One of the most important aspects of the present work was comparing the performance of the newly developed aerogel window against the more traditional Argon-filled, coated double-glazing. Whereas the aerogel window provided an extremely low heat-loss index of 0.3 W/m2K, the latter usually offered a centre-glazing U-value of 1.4 W/m2K. On a like-with-like basis the daylight transmission of the aerogel window was significantly lower than double-glazing. However, in view of low thermal loss larger areas of the former can be deployed. This article presents the influence of three key parameters that may lead to an optimum design: daylight, thermal loss and solar gain.

Technology trajectories, innovation, and the growth of biomimetics

Publication rate of patents can be a useful measure of innovation and productivity in science and technology. Patenting activity in new technological fields follows a sigmoid (S-shaped) path. Qualitative and quantitative models in management and economics literature explain why such patterns of productivity may occur. TRIZ analysis suggests that patents are generated in bursts during the evolution of a product and that they are at different levels of inventiveness. The tendency is for the inventiveness to reduce as the product is more mature. This makes it possible to guess at the lifetime stage of a product and gauge its maturity and profitability. An analysis of patenting activity and other measures of inventiveness in the emerging field of biomimetics was presented, and future trends in biologically-inspired innovation was discussed.

Synthesis of galacto-oligosaccharide from lactose using beta-galactosidase from Kluyveromyces lactis: studies on batch and continuous UF membrane-fitted bioreactors

A study of galacto-oligosaccharides (GOS) synthesis from lactose with beta-galactosidase from Kluyveromyces lactis (Maxilact(R) L2000) was carried out. The synthesis was performed using various initial lactose concentrations ranging from 220 to 400 mg/mL and enzyme concentrations ranging from 3 to 9 U/mL, and was investigated at 40degreesC and pH 7, in a stirred-tank reactor. In the experimental range examined, the results showed the amount of GOS formed depended on lactose concentration but not on enzyme concentration. Galactose was a competitive inhibitor, while glucose was a non-competitive inhibitor. In a further study, a laboratory-scale reactor system, fitted with a 10-kDa NMWCO composite regenerated cellulose membrane, was used in a continuous process. The reactor was operated in cross-flow mode. The effect of operating pressures on flux and productivity was investigated by applying different transmembrane pressures to the system. The continuous process showed better production performance compared to the batch synthesis with the same lactose and enzyme concentrations at 40degreesC, pH 7. Comparison of product structures from batch and continuous processes, analyzed by HPAEPAD and methylation analysis, showed similarities but differed from the structures found in a commercial GOS product (Vivinal(R)GOS). (C) 2004 Wiley Periodicals, Inc.