a melting pot of global experience

... that the artist himself was aware of Often paintings contain homages to earlier artists and this concept of homage fits what we have said about caricature: the later artist makes a caricature of ... anatomical poses are impossible (or unlikely) it is very evocative of the ‘Sringara Rasa’ or ‘Kama rasa’ (sexual and amorous ecstasy) because the artist is providing a ‘caricature’ that exaggerates ... face area in the brain — measured by fMRI — should, paradoxically, be greater for an outline sketch of a face than for a full colour photo of a face 25 V.S RAMACHANDRAN AND W HIRSTEIN mental...

Ngày tải lên: 23/03/2014, 13:20

... Monitors and uses data re: the value of and need for external facilitation facilitators tried to establish a means of regular, goalfocused contact and became a resource and boundary spanner [3,6] ... "They said I was easy to communicate with, readily available I returned calls I either had answers or would find them." Another was said to " have had a great rapport," and a third felt that a facilitator ... leadership, as well as other relevant implementation interventions c Facilitators of and barriers to facilitation d The potential role of facilitation (both external and internal) as a distinctly separate...

Ngày tải lên: 11/08/2014, 05:22

... may result in uncertainties of globally simulated potential yields, and makes an appropriate model calibration essential for global applications Comparing simulated global crop yields to actual ... to calculate global datasets of maximum attainable grain yields, yield gaps, and efficiencies of grain production at a spatial resolution of arc (approximately 9.2 Â 9.2 km on the equator) Applying ... at a arc resolution and are based on a combination of national-, state-, and county-level census statistics as well as information on global cropland area (Ramankutty et al., 2008) The vector of...

Ngày tải lên: 16/12/2012, 15:22

... temporal variable as the covariate (i.e., coded as the average job experience, organizational tenure, or age of the sample, as appropriate) This approach maximized the number of studies being analyzed; ... 1983; Waldman & Avolio, 1986), and the experience/ performance and tenure/performance meta-analyses by Quiñones et al (1995) The manual search examined seven management journals—Academy of Management ... included later as a control variable in the tests with covariates Summary of Literature Searches There are many potential studies to include in a meta-analysis of job experience, organizational tenure,...

Ngày tải lên: 11/09/2013, 11:44

... no place in an academic institution Issues such as avoiding sexual abuse and awareness of The Canadian Journal of Human Sexuality, Vol 11 (1) Spring 2002 Table 27 Depth of Parents’ Coverage of ... in support of SHE in rural Ontario (McKay et al., 1998) and 95% in rural Nova Scotia (Langille et al., 1996), and suggests that the fears teachers and administrators have of parental and community ... Similarly, median responses suggest that parents want sex as part of a Figure loving relationship as well as attraction, love, and intimacy introduced in grades 6-8, yet a similar percentage wanted...

Ngày tải lên: 14/02/2014, 14:20

... (Federal Reserve Bank of New York), as well as from central bank colleagues at the Reserve Bank of Australia, the Bank of Canada, the Bank of England, the European Central Bank, the Bank of Japan, ... Australia, the Bank of Canada, the Bank of England, the European Central Bank, the Bank of Japan, the Reserve Bank of New Zealand, Norges Bank, and the Riksbank Each case study reviews key features ... described as a “floor system.” These are the ECB, the Bank of Japan, the Bank of England, the Bank of Canada, and Norges Bank The remaining central banks— the Reserve Bank of Australia, the Reserve Bank...

Ngày tải lên: 17/02/2014, 03:20

... future of the global economy As we look ahead, we recognize the scale of the challenges that we face—but also recognize the huge potential of the Global Compact as a unique platform for engaging ... being embedded across all corporate and functional strategies and business plans People and performance Performance gaps are also apparent with regard to the capabilities and assessment of employees ... complexities of international markets As Jeffrey Swartz, CEO of Timberland, put it, “One huge barrier is the lack of clear standards, targets and policy.” At the same time, executives are also wary of...

Ngày tải lên: 18/02/2014, 21:20

... network than before, again including the occipital, temporal, and the frontal lobes, but in particular bilateral orbital frontal corlex What the results of Kawabata and Zeki (2004) and Skov ef al (2005) ... neural correlates of preference and beauty, two variables that have affective and cognitive components The areas activated by Vartanian and Goel (2004b) may have highlighted those cOrlical structures ... processing along all five stages of the model The results indicate that evaluating a stimulus as beautiful was asSOCIated WIth mcreased activation in the orbital frontal cortex Activation in the orbital...

Ngày tải lên: 19/02/2014, 17:20

... m a n dialogue, in Proo IJCAI-V, Cambridge, MA, 1977 M a n n , W.C., and Moore, J .A. , C o m p u t e r generation of multl-paraq~raph English text, in preparation Moore, J A. , Levin, J A. , and ... e aggregation and preference rules are directly a n a l o g o u a to t h e capabilities of linguistic eempotence and p e r f o r m a n c e , respectively OUTPUT l s a simple ( t w o pages of ... Levin, J A. , and Mann, W C., A Gool-orianted model of h u m a n dialogue, AJCL microfiche 67, 1977 Moore, J A , Communication as a p r o b l e m - s o l v i q activity, i n preparation 52 ...

Ngày tải lên: 21/02/2014, 20:20

... sounds, some of which are (a) nasals in Tamil (Shanmugam, 1972) and Malayalam (Shanmugam, 1972; Ladefoged and Maddieson, 1996), (b) laterals in Albanian (Ladefoged and Maddieson, 1996), and (c) stops ... separately (positive class) Such a combined feature is often termed ambiguous and its presence in a particular consonant c of a language l indicates that the speakers of l are unable to make a ... graph’s Laplacian matrix rather than the adjacency matrix It is increasingly popular these days to analyze the spectral properties of the graph’s Laplacian matrix However, for reasons explained...

Ngày tải lên: 22/02/2014, 02:20

... 3027 STAT3 and MAPK activation by Hyper-CNTF in transfected BAF/3 cells Downstream signal transduction pathways were analyzed by studying the activation level of JAK/STAT and MAP kinase signaling ... We have successfully expressed an active fusion protein of human CNTF and human soluble CNTF-R in mammalian cells Hyper-CNTF has a calculated molecular mass of 60 kDa and apparent molecular mass ... longer than twice the diameter of the cell bodies appear within a day, and maximal response is reached in days For direct comparison, the amount of responsiveness was evaluated for all factors at 48...

Ngày tải lên: 22/02/2014, 07:20

... geographical location may be a factor in educational disadvantage, but a study in Northern Ireland found that whilst lower educational attainment was observed in rural areas, this was linked primarily ... students attending schools in designated areas of disadvantage may have poorer educational outcomes than the national average Studies have found that 30% of children in disadvantaged primary schools ... increased health care costs, higher rates of hospitalisation and greater use of health care services.49 Parental education and child health The educational level of parents can influence child and...

Ngày tải lên: 05/03/2014, 21:20

... as an extracytoplasmic thioester acyl–enzyme intermediate Biochemistry 49, 341–346 Fukuda A, Matsuyama S, Hara T, Nakayama J, Nagasawa H & Tokuda H (2002) Aminoacylation of the N-terminal cysteine ... Depletion of apolipoprotein N-acyltransferase causes mislocalization of outer membrane lipoproteins in Escherichia coli J Biol Chem 280, 974–983 32 Kodama K, Fukuzawa S, Nakayama H, Kigawa T, Sakamoto ... sequence of the Gram-positive bacterium Bacillus subtilis Nature 390, 249–256 Baba T, Takeuchi F, Kuroda M, Yuzawa H, Aoki K, Oguchi A, Nagai Y, Iwama N, Asano K, Naimi T et al (2002) Genome and virulence...

Ngày tải lên: 06/03/2014, 01:20

... estimate of bacillary cases and by Chakraborty as well as by Christopher Dye, as raise the estimate of radiological cases These appear brought out by the WHO, had not taken into consideration ... as a consensus statement by the WHO Geneva14 Table 2: Prevalence of tuberculosis cases in India (average rate/number) for standard population No of C+/X+ (in , 000) No of Sm+ Potential (annual) ... sputum examination, and the likely fact of a confirmation of only 22% of the radiological cases arrived at by following the conventional method of X-ray reading, the estimate of 32,65,000 bacteriological...

Ngày tải lên: 06/03/2014, 04:20

... culture and PCR KAVITA MODI – PAREKH ET AL weeks Characterization of Mycobacteria was done at the Corporation laboratory by primary differential tests for atypical Mycobacteria Statistical analysis ... were available 4-8 weeks later As no single gold standard was available for comparison of the performance of the individual tests, an analysis of results was done using a variety of standards ... 877-83 CHANCHAL SINGH MEMORIAL AWARD - 2006 The Tuberculosis Association of India awards every year a cash prize of Rs 1000/- to a medical graduate (non-medical scientists working as bacteriologists,...

Ngày tải lên: 06/03/2014, 04:20

... PERGOLATO (HALL OF THE VINE TRELLIS) (S Paolo, Parma) In the time of Correggio the convent of S Paolo (St Paul) in Parma was in charge of the abbess Giovanna da Piacenza, who had succeeded an aunt in ... culture The daughter of a nobleman, she was a person of consequence, whose private apartments were such as a princess might have Already a well known painter of the day had decorated one of her rooms ... were Paula and Marcella, whose names are historical Finally he returned to Palestine, and passed the remainder of his days in a monastery which he had founded in Bethlehem He was a man of vehement...

Ngày tải lên: 06/03/2014, 13:20

... Database Country name Albania Ecuador Kenya Russia Algeria Egypt Korea Senegal Argentina El Salvador Kyrgyz Republic Singapore Australia Estonia Latvia South Africa Austria Ethiopia Lithuania ... Lithuania Spain Azerbaijan Finland Madagascar Sri Lanka Bangladesh France Malaysia Sweden Belarus Georgia Mexico Switzerland Belgium Germany Morocco Taiwan Bolivia Ghana Mozambique Tanzania Brazil Greece ... Greece Nepal Thailand Bulgaria Guatemala Netherlands Tunisia Burkina-Faso Hong Kong New Zealand Turkey Cameroon Hungary Nicaragua Uganda Canada India Nigeria Ukraine Chile Indonesia Norway United...

Ngày tải lên: 06/03/2014, 19:20

... factors Proc Natl Acad Sci USA 99, 14189–14194 Ito M, Yoshioka K, Akechi M, Yamashita S, Takamatsu N, Sugiyama K, Hibi M, Nakabeppu Y, Shiba T & Yamamoto KI (1999) JSAP1, a novel jun N-terminal ... Krystyniak A & Pinna LA (2005) Aurora -A site specificity: a study with synthetic peptide substrates Biochem J 390, 293–302 Ohashi S, Sakashita G, Ban R, Nagasawa M, Matsuzaki H, Murata Y, Taniguchi ... lamin A ⁄ C This regulation may take place following activation of kinases such as PKA in response to various signaling pathways In addition, Aurora A kinase is specifically activated before mitosis...

Ngày tải lên: 07/03/2014, 01:20

... GAL regulon Total mRNAs were extracted and subjected to standard northern blot analysis GAL1 mRNA, and ACT1 mRNA (considered as a loading control), were detected by the use of specific radiolabeled ... incubated at 28 °C Construction of mutant yeast strains Standard DNA manipulation was performed as described in [32] Gene deletions and C-terminal epitope-tagging of wild-type and mutant alleles ... probe 10 lg of total yeast RNAs blotted on a nitrocellulose membrane The membrane was scanned directly using the Cyclone apparatus (Perkin Elmer, Waltham, MA, USA) Preparation of cell extracts, immunoprecipitation...

Ngày tải lên: 07/03/2014, 04:20

... example, still own large-scale sound stages, and maintain significant pre- and post-production facilities, all of which are also available for lease by outside companies.5 That said, as any given production ... competitive advantages in the form of increasing returns to scale and scope and positive agglomeration economies Such advantages are fundamental in maintaining the status of the region as the leading ... TE RNATI ONA L (ITA), 2001) Most of it is directed to Canada, Australia, Britain and Mexico, with Canada receiving 81% of the total The Monitor Company (1999) estimates that the total dollar loss...

Ngày tải lên: 07/03/2014, 15:20