China Mobile, the largest operator, has signed an agreement with the agriculture ministry to cover 98% of rural areas by 2012, in part to compensate for its relative weakness in third-generation (3G) networks, where it is being forced to adopt the home-grown and relatively immature Chinese standard.
China's 10-year-old stock markets, while still immature by Western standards, have played a key role in financing state-enterprise reform.
But a word of caution: China's stock market is still immature by international standards.
Previous investigations have demonstrated that under standard conditions, immature neurons prior to the development of synapses have numerous growth cones (Haas et al., 2004).
Enter two promising, albeit immature, technologies: Streaming video (see "Standards, standards.," Technology, Sept. 8, 1997) and low-cost, broadcast-quality MPEG2 compression (see "Fear and sleuthing in COMDEX.," Technology, Nov. 24, 1997).
Whenever I teach it, I tell my students it is an important work about an overlooked moment of American history, acknowledging that Okada's prose might feel a little stiff, Ichiro's psyche underdeveloped, the novel's visions of identity and community immature by today's standards.
The use of semitendinosus graft with preservation of its distal attachment should be the gold standard in skeletally immature patients.
With many bone tumors occurring around the growth plates of immature patients, the use of standard endoprostheses caused limb discrepancies when these patients reached adulthood.
The use of semitendinosus for ACL reconstruction with preservation of its distal insertion should be the gold standard in skeletally immature patients.
Several controversial arise regarding the standard treatment of immature teratoma among paediatric/adolescent population [ 12, 13].
