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... in transition as Russia, Hungary, Poland, the Czech Republic and Bulgaria Within the national framework, acts may specifically target the local level, as in the case of the German Länder Their ... of central and local efforts and of the ways in which central government can facilitate and support local and regional efforts, are therefore essential In Hungary, the law provides fora three-tiered ... The Tesla plant in Lanskroun, Czech Republic, was the only producer of capacitors in Czechoslovakia, and of machinery for that purpose After central planning was abolished, AVX Kyocera gradually...
... together such that the final output takes the uncertainty in both steps together The approaches proposed by Ramshaw & Markus and Cardie&Pierce are deterministic and local, while Argamon, Dagan ... Street Journal distributed with the Penn Treebank II, and the definition of baseNP is the same as Ramshaw’s, Table summarizes the average performance on both baseNP tagging and POS tagging, each section ... identifiers assigned to POS tags We used the approach of Katz (Katz.1987) for parameter smoothing, and build a trigram model to predict the probabilities of parameter (1) and (3) In the case that unknown...
... rather than separate location variables and coefficients, and we treated the variant’s annual mileage-by-age figures as usage values in the equations After calculating EDA-based repair costs by age, ... panel-data analytic techniques As more years of data on individual vehicles become available, it may be advantageous to adopt a panel-data approach 8 Improving Recapitalization Planning: Toward a Fleet ... Recapitalization Planning: Toward a Fleet Management Modelforthe HMMWV Table 4.1 Fleet Management Model Assumptions in Sensitivity Analyses and Base Case Replace Earlier Base Case Replace Later...
... the QuickChange method (Stratagene, La Jolla, CA, USA) The primer sequences were as follows: 5¢-GG GGT GTT ATG GTT TCC CAT CGA TCT GAA GAA ACT GAA GAC (G376E) and 5¢-CCA TTC TTG AAC GTT TTA AAC ... denaturation, any change at these positions was destabilizing G37 6A and G376E had identical Tm values At position 157, alanine had a smaller effect than aspartate, but even alanine decreased the ... phosphoenolpyruvate, and glycines 157 and 376 are space-filled 98 Analytical ultracentrifugation (AUC) was used to examine the quaternary structure of the variants Wild-type enolase and the G157D variant had...
... Nature 460, 909–913 89 Hong H, Takahashi K, Ichisaka T, Aoi T, Kanagawa O, Nakagawa M, Okita K & Yamanaka S (2009) Suppression of induced pluripotent stem cell generation by the p53–p21 pathway ... suggesting that the environment surrounding the transplanted cells could determine their final lineages [71] Advantages and disadvantages of using hESCs and hiPSCs for therapeutic applications The successful ... months after transplantation) by Narayan et al., who studied HSC engraftment in fetal sheep by injecting HSCs in utero into the fetal peritoneal cavity [70] The site of transplantation (and therefore...
... neither photoaf®nity labeled by a dioxin analog, nor activated by b-naphto¯avone in a yeast system [20]; the rainbow trout AhRa that binds TCDD [21] and the Microgadus Tomcod AhR also activated ... Comparison between the mAhR model (A, C) and the parental FixL PAS domain structure (B,D) In (A) and (B) residues that in¯uence the size of the ligand pocket are highlighted The arrow indicates the ... domain and PYP are activated by ligands; in FixL, oxygen binding at the heme binding PAS domain controls the activity of a histidine kinase domain [12]; and in PYP, a local conformational change...
... wave breaking on a natural beach To verify the accuracy of the numerical model on the simulation of the wave transformation on a natural beach, existing experimental data on the wave dynamics in ... suitable fora practical application. On the other hand, based on results of Nadaoka et al [9], Ting and Kirby [15‐17], it can be estimated that in the surf zone, the time scale ... of various wave characteristics, it can be remarked that the numerical model can simulate wave transformation in the nearshore region with an acceptable accuracy. 006 005...
... Materials and methods All mathematical analysis and numerical tting were performed using the software package Mathematica 7.0 (Wolfram Research, Inc Champaign, IL, USA) The substrate in the calorimetric ... and off rate At a xed k2, a change in this ratio may be interpreted as a change in the afnity of the enzyme forthe substrate Hence, we can assess relationships of this afnity parameter and the ... both qualitative and quantitative, are captured by themodelFor example, themodel accounts well forthe diminished burst (i.e the disappearance of the maximum) at low S0 (below 510 lm) In these...
... War Bonds in the Second World War: AModelfora New Iraq/Afghanistan War Bond? Summary The high costs of fighting the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan have rekindled congressional interest in the ... States War Bonds to aid in funding of the operations in Iraq and Afghanistan.” All three bills are similar and state that the authorized war bonds “shall be in such form and denominations, and ... Congressional Research Service War Bonds in the Second World War: AModelfora New Iraq/Afghanistan War Bond? Introduction The high costs of fighting the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan have rekindled...
... with the exception of the guarantee forthe livret A already mentioned In particular, therefore, French savings banks are subject neither to a liability forthe debts of the saving banks (“Anstaltslast”) ... institutions The association acts principally as a forum forthe exchange of ideas and the formation of opinions However, it also shares the responsibility with the National Bank of the savings banks ... regional savings banks and a national bank of the savings banks have been responsible for running the banking business The national bank works together with the regional savings banks within a closely...
... are one area where practica and capstones (theses or projects) can serve a critical catch-all role, in much the same way as qualifying exams for doctoral students External assessments, such as ... 5, the Department has had a string of rapid successes and ambitious plans for attaining status as a school of public health in the next decade Notable achievements include the graduation of the ... on the part of the faculty to examine assessment at both a course and a programmatic level: it may be fine to assess only a student's ability to calculate a chi-square statistic on a biostatistics...
... and a concerted international effort to roll out ART, only four countries in sub-Saharan Africa (Senegal, Rwanda, Botswana and Namibia) have achieved the "3 by 5" goal of treating at least half ... mentoring, and one to two years of practice were assessed by summarizing the CCC evaluation forms on an annual basis The evaluation summary score was obtained by averaging the domain scores and was reported ... final approval to the manuscript HMS assisted in data analysis, interpretation of results, and provided final approval of the manuscript RV assisted in data collection, data analysis, interpretation...
... completed ratings before and after treatment with guidance from the research staff about the criteria for each rating The nurses' judgment was based on review of the medical record, as a summary of all ... Mental Health They have the same mission and similar staffing, for both psychosocial and pharmacological interventions They serve similar populations demographically, in terms of educational and ... interviewed the staff Finally, they obtained the medication regimen of each subject for before and after admission Raters, subjects and clinical staff at all three sites were informed about the general...
... used for estimating the branch and stem capacitance for day 153 We did not observe any clear change in the stem or branch capacitance forthe four sample days at the Bray site 4.3 Model evaluation ... semi-cylindrical shape, and calculating the sap flux as the average of the measurements made at a height of m on a sample of ten trees at Carrasqueira and at a height of 8.5 m on seven We trees at the Bray ... compares the water potential values predicted by themodel and the measured values, for day153 at the Bray site There is an acceptable agreement between the measured and predicted data, even if a...
... of the ATP transporter family based on available amino acid sequences from a range of microsporidian parasites 1, Putative ancestral duplication of ATP transporters within the microsporidia following ... Nakamura Y, Nakamura F, Murata S, Okada N, Okamoto K, Shimizu M, Hasegawa M: Protein phylogeny of translation elongation factor EF-1 alpha suggests microsporidians are extremely ancient eukaryotes ... Dayoff acid substitution model and invariable plus gamma rate variations across sites The Markov chain Monte Carlo search was run for 10,000 generations, sampling the Markov chain every 10 generations,...
... the families Viperidae (for example, rattlesnakes, and adders) and Elapidae (for example, coral snakes, cobras, and mambas) In addition to these lineages that contain commonly used model research ... with other comparative data to estimate genomic characteristics of the ancestral amniote genome Page of (or the ancestral squamate genome) would be fascinating, including estimation of ancestral ... collected, and an effort to make available sets of sequences for use as molecular markers for snakes (for example, microsatellite primers and orthologous loci for use in phylogenetics and other applications)...
... So far, the only study on the successful loading of a Ca2+-sensitive dye into a whole plant organ was performed by Zhang et al [28] They analyzed the intracellular localization of Ca2+ in intact ... cells as well as in the intracellular spaces between them The stigmatic surface is the main place for signal exchange between pollen and stigma Ca2+ ions are more abundant in the receptive stigmas ... maximal values just after anther dehiscence (stage 4) At the latest analyzed stage (stage 5) a significant decrease of Ca2+ levels was observed in the upper parts of the pistil (stigma and style)...
... of barium titanate particles in the temporary cavity The radiological examination of the infiltration depth of barium titanate particles within the ruptures of a temporary cavity in the gelatin ... Yoganandan N, Pintar FA, Kumaresan S, Maiman DJ, Hargarten SW: Dynamic analysis of penetrating trauma J Trauma 1997, 42:266-72 Yetiser S, Kahramanyol M: High-velocity gunshot wounds to the head ... of the temporary cavity and the infiltration depth of the barium titanate particles In contrast to this, the infiltration depth of barium titanate particles in the case of the full metal jacket...