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... References Adachi, N., Adamovitch, V., Adjovi, Y., Aida, K., Akamatsu, H., Akiyama, S., Akli, A. , Ando, A. , Andrault, T., Antonietti, H., Anzai, S., Arkoun, G., Avenoso, C., Ayrault, D., Banasiewicz, ... collected and stored in a centralized database system provided by CERN based on Kafka6 for real-time data streaming and InfluxDB7 for data storage A set of customized user dashboards was created using ... to gamma radiation Data rate Data transfer Data acquisition rate Data transmission protocol Robustness Reliability Resistance to severe weather conditions vibrations and mechanical shocks Maintenance

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... Abu-Alkheil, Ahmad "Ethical Banking and Finance: A Theoretical and Empirical Framework for the CrossCountry and Inter-bank Analysis of Efficiency, Productivity, and Financial Performance" ... countries: the GCC-States (namely: Saudi Arabia, Qatar, Bahrain, Kuwait, and the United Arab Emirates), Malaysia, Azerbaijan, and 177 CHAPTER 7: SUMMARY CONCLUSIONS AND SCOPE FOR FURTHER WORK Turkey, ... Islamic Banks vis-à-vis Interest-Based Conventional Banks of Bahrain‘, IIUM Journal of Economics and Management, Vol 12 No.2, pp 125 Samad, A and Hassan, M K (1999) ‘The performance of Malaysian

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... , for b =0andb = 1 and for a wide r class of relaxation functions. H e established a more general decay result, for which the usual exponential and polynomial decay results are just special cases. ... Cavalcanti and Oquendo [5] and Berrimi and Messaoudi [6]. In their study, Cavalcanti and Oquendo [5] con sidered the situation where the internal dissipa- tion acts on a part of Ω and the viscoelastic ... and proved a global existence result for g ≥ 0 and an exponential decay for g > 0. This result has been extended by Messaoudi and Tatar [2,7] to the situation where g = 0 and exponential and

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... vitro and in vivo characterization of panitumumab F(ab’) fragment with an emphasis on its evaluation towards both imaging and therapeutic applications Materials and methods Preparation of F(ab’)2 ... M, et al: Cetuximab: Preclinical Evaluation of a Monoclonal Antibody Targeting EGFR for Radioimmunodiagnostic and Radioimmunotherapeutic Applications Cancer Biotherapy and Radiopharmaceuticals ... Figure SDS-PAGE analysis of panitumumab F(ab’)2 The panitumumab F(ab’)2 was evaluated by SDS-PAGE before (a) and after (b) the final step of buffer exchange and concentration using a Centriprep

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... Miettinen, A parabolic hemivariational inequality,” Nonlinear Analysis,... Miettinen and P D Panagiotopoulos, “On parabolic hemivariational inequalities and applications,” Nonlinear Analysis, ... Journal of Mathematical Analysis and Applications, vol 239, no 2, pp 213–226, 1999 [19] C Varga, Existence and infinitely many solutions for an abstract class of hemivariational inequalities,” ... 49 of Mathematical Surveys and Monographs, American Mathematical Society, Providence, RI, USA, 1997 [18] G Todorova, “Stable and unstable sets for the Cauchy problem for a nonlinear

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... Miettinen, A parabolic hemivariational inequality,” Nonlinear Analysis,... Miettinen and P D Panagiotopoulos, “On parabolic hemivariational inequalities and applications,” Nonlinear Analysis, ... Journal of Mathematical Analysis and Applications, vol 239, no 2, pp 213–226, 1999 [19] C Varga, Existence and infinitely many solutions for an abstract class of hemivariational inequalities,” ... 49 of Mathematical Surveys and Monographs, American Mathematical Society, Providence, RI, USA, 1997 [18] G Todorova, “Stable and unstable sets for the Cauchy problem for a nonlinear

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... signal to noise ratio, which is a more statistically significant measure of the quality of an assay, as it includes standard deviation of the back- ground as a parameter [22]. Values obtained for ... that a similar strategy was employed by Landgraf et al. [35] in development of a quantitative assay for PCR products. The advantage of having biotin on both strands of the target DNA is that ... sensitive than gel analysis, allows more rapid and accurate biochemical analyses of IN catalytic activity, and moderate throughput screening of inhibitory compounds. The assay is validated, and its utility

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... with all other abstractors and the trainer During each period of data collection, the abstraction manager spot-checked charts for accuracy in abstracting key variables, addressing problem areas ... and others for information about a clinically relevant intervention in routine practice We are not aware of other ongoing randomized trials of pay for performance directed at physicians and provider ... This approach may avoid the pitfalls of process -of- care measures alone that can encourage gaming, while avoiding the disadvantage of basing incentives solely on outcomes that may be relatively rare

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... Educational Research Association., National Council on Measurement in Education., American Psychological Association Standards for educational & psychological tests Standards for educational and ... confirmation of these range... Standards for educational and psychological testing Washington, DC: American Educational Research Association; 1999 30 American Psychological Association., American ... process was formalized in advance, as a comprehensive approach to instrument development. Materials and methods Study design and participants A grounded approach to conceptualization and the

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... ensured that the variance in M values was consistent across arrays Data normalisation of gene expression analysis 675 Table II Summary of the 12 methods used for analysing the simulated data “Analysis ... INRA, EDP Sciences, 2007 DOI: 10.1051/gse:2007031 Available online at: www.gse-journal.org Original article Analysis of a simulated microarray dataset: Comparison of methods for data normalisation ... common of those used was the limma package, which adjusts the t-statistics by empirical Bayes shrinkage of the residual standard errors toward a common value (near to the median) [17] IAH_P and

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... of corporate governance is the examination of mechanisms that deter and correct managerial slack”. We distinguish the separation of these mechanisms into internal and external disciplinary forces. ... collected data regarding firm performance, data regarding the firm size, and data regarding the gearing, from the financial portals advfn.com and barchart.com. The empirical research corresponds ... uk.advfn.com/ 4. Data regarding the gearing Financial_leverage Financial Leverage is calculated as the ratio of total debt to equity. The greater the amount of debt, the greater the financial

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... Interplay of Collaborative Technology with Learner Characteristics: Conceptual and Empirical Examinations b. Means of CT Sociability and TSAB Note: A median-split was performed for DFB to calculate ... Interplay of Collaborative Technology with Learner Characteristics: Conceptual and Empirical Examinations PSE4 PSE5 I maintained contact with all other teammates Teammates gave personal information ... Encyclopedia of Learning and Performance. New York: Amacom, American Management Association. Mindel, J., & Verma, S. (2006). Wikis For Teaching And Learning. Communications of the Association for Information

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... more physical capital (relative to, say, the black-African female body) , which may be parlayed into career advantages at the workplace In using the database of a leading American executive ... authenticity and acceptability Some individuals who undergo transformative surgery are quite honest and transparent about it. Jeff, for instant, transformed Nana for her debut on the cover of FHM, a magazine ... Nowadays, the make-up technique is very different from last time. (Marc) As image advisors to professionals and aspiring professionals, both Helena and Kate are open to the advantages of aesthetic

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... positive and significant. After Leland and Pyle’s study using issuer’s ownership as a signal of firm quality, Allen and Faulhaber (1989) and Welch (1989) extend the signaling model by 13 Leland and ... proxy for firm’s intrinsic value-the 400 trading days aftermarket abnormal return (this is more than one and half years of aftermarket return; 400 days are chosen because of the data availability). ... that IPO underpricing is another signal of firm quality. In the same year, Grinblatt and Hwang construct a model of bivariate signaling which is closest to Leland and Pyle’s model. Leland and

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... an asset allocation) that automatically changes over time as the participant ages A TDF’s initial asset allocation, when the target date is a number of years away, usually consists mostly of ... COMMITTEE OF THE AMERICAN BAR ASSOCIATION AND A COMMITTEE OF PUBLISHERS Additional color graphics may be available in the e-book version of this book Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data ... participants can lose money in the fund, including at and after the target date Check EBSA’s website for updates on regulatory disclosure requirements Take advantage of available sources of information

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... 01 Industrial Production Annual Growth Rate Ratio, Interest Rate Source: National Bank of Poland, Central Statistical Of ce (GUS) and the authors’ calculations. mean that banks have adjusted their loan ... σ 2 i ) and where ˙ D t denotes the annual growth rate of the demand for bank loans, ˙ S t the annual growth rate of the supply of b ank loans and ˙ Q t the annual gro wth rate of the observed amount ... amount of loans. The exogenous variablesofbothloandemandandsupplyfunctionsand their expected signs are as follows. The loan interest rate, IL t ,isdefinedasanarithmeticalmeanof3-month, 6-month and...

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... 173, 2083–2090. 12 Otake H, Masuyama H, Mashima Y, Shinomiya A, Myosho T, Nagahama Y, Matsuda M, Hamaguchi S & Sakaizumi M (2009) Heritable artificial sex chromo- somes in the medaka, Oryzias latipes. ... repression of aromatase transcription, a possible mechanism favoring the male pathway in tilapia. Endocrinology 151, 1331– 1340. 48 Nakamoto M, Wang DS, Suzuki A, Matsuda M, Nagahama Y & Shibata N ... Kajiura-Kobayashi H, Suzuki A, Saito N, Nakamoto M, Shibata N & Nagahama Y (2004) Two DM domain genes, DMY and DMRT1, involved in testicular differentiation and development in the medaka, Oryzias latipes....

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... codes and standards and, in the absence of having their own technical standards, have expressed an interest in establishing ASME standards as the standard for their nuclear programs. In the last ... best way for standards-developing organizations like ASME and for users of standards to find a solution? Possible approaches are to adopt the dominant standard, or to develop an umbrella standard ... INSTITUTE BOARD ON STANDARDIZATION BOARD ON PRESSURE TECHNOLOGY, C&S BOARD ON NUCLEAR CODES AND STANDARDS BOARD ON INTERNATIONAL STANDARDS BOARD ON HEARINGS AND APPEALS BOARD ON COUNCIL OPERATIONS Student...

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