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Showing 1 to 20 of 45 for “"BDS"”.
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Business Development Services (BDS) and SMME Development in South Africa
… offering business development services (BDS) are required to assist small, medium and micro enterprises (SMMEs) help government to address unemployment. Small and medium enterprises (SMEs) are recognised for the crucial role they play in activating and supporting economic growth. While …
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Enhancing entrepreneurship in Sri Lanka: the provision of business development services (BDS) by microfinance institutions to support the self-sufficiency of microenterprises
… micro credit and business development services (BDS) are recognised as helping such firms to address these challenges as the provision of finance and support in the development of key skills can facilitate start-up and foster growth. Given this context, this study investigates how microfinance …
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Sulfatderivate zum Aufbau von Funktionsmaterialien
… Beständigkeiten zeigen: 0 [unendlich] {[Cd(m BDS)2/2(H2O)4]2} (m BDS = 1,3-Benzoldisulfonat) (Dimere), 1 [unendlich] [Cu(p-BDS)2/2(H2O)4] (p BDS = 1,4-Benzoldisulfonat), 1 [unendlich] [Cu(p-BDSCl4)2/2 (H2O)4] (p BDSCl4 = 2,3,4,5-Tetrachlor-1,4-benzoldisulfonat) sowie 1 [unendlich] [Zn(p …
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Mechanistic understanding of microbial desulfurization
… Microbial desulfurization or biodesulfurization (BDS) has gained interest due to the ability of certain biocatalysts to desulfurize compounds that are recalcitrant to the currently employed hydrodesulfurization (HDS) technology. Two of the major obstacles to commercialization of BDS are mass …
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Development of high energy density dielectrics for pulse power applications
… and ~0.125 thick) with high breakdown strength (BDS). The presence of porosity and increasing grain size lowers the BDS. Testing conditions such as sample thickness, electrode area, electrode design, and form of applied voltage (DC or pulsed) can also influence the BDS. The effect of electrode …
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Surface and interphase studies of the adhesion of a siloxane- modified-polyimide coating on metals
… studies of a siloxane modified polyimide, BDS [BTDA (3,3\4.4'~ benzophenonetetracarboxylic dianhydride) ~ DDS (3.3'~diaminodiphenyl sulfone) - PSX (polydimethylsiloxane) copolymer], used as a coating material. The BDS coating surface can be modified by pretreatment in an alkaline solution. …
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Responses of respiratory system cells in vitro and in vivo to petrochemical combustion-derived ultrafine particles
… incomplete combustion product, butadiene soot (BDS), in vitro. The studies presented here represent a continuation of these initial studies, where we first characterize BDS with respect to particle size distribution and assembly, PAH composition, and elemental content of BDS ultrafine particles. …
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Studies of dielectric breakdown under pulsed power conditions
… applications, the electrical breakdown strength (BDS) of ceramic dielectrics, particularly titanium oxide and ceramic/epoxy composite materials, are being characterized and studied. Results of research to-date show that the dense titania ceramics with nanocrystalline grain size (~200 nm) exhibit …
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The conclusion of a biologic's lifecycle : manufacturing sourcing strategies on the eve of follow-on biologics
… of the biological bulk drug substance (BDS) for Enbrel® (etanercept), which blocks the action of one's immune system, helping to treat immune diseases, such as rheumatoid arthritis, ankylosing spondylitis, psoriatic arthritis, and psoriasis. A productivity process improvement is …
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Analysis of early auditory evoked potentials elicited by stimuli with directional information
… (ABRs) and binaural difference potentials (BDs) to stimuli with interaural differences in time (ITD) and level (ILD) are measured and analyzed. In chap. 2 the advantage of using information from the raw data of a measurement to accurately estimate the residual noise and the signal-to-noise …
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Optimal Mitigation of Geomagnetically Induced Current Effects in Power Systems Considering Transformer Thermal Limits
… BD placement to minimize the number and costs of BDs. Although there has been research on placing blocking devices and their optimal placement, none of them considers the hotspot temperature rise in transformers during GIC. Therefore, Voltage violation and rise in hotspot temperature of …
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The Initial Mass Function of the Orion Nebula Cluster from Near-Infrared Photometry
… Nebula Cluster (ONC) down to the Brown Dwarfs (BDs) regime, using ground-based Near-Infrared (NIR) photometric observations. The data taken in the framework of the Hubble Space Telescope (HST) Treasury Program on the ONC have been obtained with the wide-field imager Infrared Side Port Imager …
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The development of micro-sample electrical impedance analysis for freeze-drying process development
… to operate using frequency identified from the BDS study. In Z-FDM development, Lyostat5 freeze-drying microscope (Biopharma Process Systems Ltd) with an ISX3-min impedance analyser (ScioSpec) were integrated to analyse the sample using gold interdigitated electrodes (IDE) on a glass substrate …
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Development and deployment of a novel deep-sea in situ bubble sampling instrument for understanding the fate of methane in the water column
… sampling system, the Bubble Delivery System (BDS), to quantify gas chemical composition in the water column. The BDS was deployed at the Cascadia Margin – a region well known for its active CH4 bubble seeps – where 95 samples were collected from McArthur Ridge, Hydrate Ridge, Heceta Deep and …
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Development and deployment of a novel deep-sea in situ bubble sampling instrument for understanding the fate of methane in the water column
… sampling system, the Bubble Delivery System (BDS), to quantify gas chemical composition in the water column. The BDS was deployed at the Cascadia Margin -- a region well known for its active CH₄ bubble seeps -- where 95 samples were collected from McArthur Ridge, Hydrate Ridge, Heceta Deep and …
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Subjective Image Quality of CRT Displays under Ambient Glare: Assessing the ISO 9241-7 Ergonomic Technical Standard
… Large Source, Screen Image Luminance Ratio (LR BDS/FDS) and the Specular Reflection Luminance Ratio (LR BDS/BD) always passed. Conversely, negative polarity always produced Class II or Class III because the Small Source, Specular Reflection Luminance Ratio (LR BDS/BD) failed every time. Also, …
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SPONTANEOUS SPEECH ANALYSIS FOR DETECTING MILD COGNITIVE IMPAIRMENT AND ALZHEIMER’S DISEASE IN THAI OLDER ADULTS
… model was CIU and backward digit span (BDS), in which provides 61.1% of correct classification. This discriminant function showed AUC of .81 in differentiating HC and MCI, AUC of .91 in distinguishing HC and AD, and AUC of .86 in detecting persons with cognitive impairments (MCI and AD) …
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High power X-band RF test stand development and high power testing of the CLIC crab cavity
… (BDR) of better than 10-5 breakdowns per pulse (BDs/pulse). At the nominal pulse width of 200 ns, the cavity reached an input power level of 43 MW with a BDR of 10-6 BDs/pulse. These parameters are well above the nominal design pa-rameters of an input power of 13.35 MW with a 200 ns pulse length. …
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Real-time GNSS for fast seismic source inversion and tsunami early warning
… on the fact that the positioning performance of BDS is now equivalent to GPS in Asia-Pacific area and Manila subduction zone has been identified as a zone of potential tsunami hazard, we suggested a conceptual BDS/GPS network for tsunami early warning in South China Sea. Numerical simulations …
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