a multisensory perspective on human auditory communication

... 29 PIRI AVERAGE PRICE CHANGE Rank Location Country/Area Nairobi Kenya Kenyan Coast Kenya Miami US Bali Indonesia Jakarta Indonesia London UK Vancouver Canada Moscow Russia Toronto Canada 10 Beijing ... nationalities now Russian Hong Kong British French American Swiss German Chinese Singaporean Canadian Nationalities growing in importance Chinese Indian Brazilian Malaysian Norwegian Kazakhstani ... Zealand 44 Washington DC US 45 Barcelona Spain 46 Paris France 47 Dubai UAE 48 Shanghai China 49 Madrid Spain 50 Singapore Singapore 51 Geneva Switzerland 52 Tuscany Italy 53 Barbados Caribbean...

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... metabolite content [5] It was observed that neuroblastoma, glioma and meningeoma cells display low concentrations of normal neural metabolites, such as N-acetylaspartate (NAA), c-amino butyrate ... The Authors Journal compilation ª 2007 FEBS J L Griffin and R A Kauppinen 40 Tate AR, Griffiths JR, Martinez-Perez I, Moreno A, Barba I, Cabanas ME, Watson D, Alonso J, Bartumeus F, Isamat F et al ... commercial clinical scanners as input for diagnosis of brain tumours [42] It has become evident that there are additional relevant aspects available from 1H MRS data for patient management It has...

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... response to the changes, and about the process for municipal decisionmaking;  discover what provincial and local actions are taking place in response to the changes;  have a chance to say what ... Table of Contents I Background on Provincial Budget Cuts to Social Assistance …………… Cap on health and non- health related discretionary benefits.……… Community Start-Up and Maintenance Benefit ... will continue to be delivered as a mandatory benefit without change Health-related benefits are costs like basic dental services, eyeglasses, and hearing aids for adults, as well as funerals and...

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... libraries and assume physical consolidation of individual print collections into an above-the-institution aggregation This paper takes an alternative approach, based on a broader view of library ... advocating megaregions as the appropriate scale for achieving consolidation and cooperative management in practice Assuming that regions are in fact the natural unit of consolidation, the scale at which ... the publications in the North American print book collection are only available in one regional collection, or are only available in either the US or Canadian “extra-regional” collection 17 Eighty...

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... misinterpretation of label information and exploitation Secondly, regulating authorities should strive towards mandating labelling regulations that require a simpler format for label information that consumers ... decisions (Lazarowicz, 2005) In addition, educational programmes should educate consumers on interpreting technical label terminology and layout and to practically apply it in decision making, because ... regulations and thereby to reduce misleading label information Despite this, international research indicates that many consumers not trust claims made on labels and find label information difficult...

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... organizational decision making 3 Model A central idea of performance feedback theory is that decision makers use an aspiration level to evaluate organizational performance along an organizational ... of simulation studies on how aspiration-level learning contributes to organizational adaptation Finally I discuss how organizational goal variables are chosen 39 40 Organizational Learning from ... as would a decision maker who lacks the information to build an adaptive aspiration level Are there natural aspiration levels in reality? Arguably, the status quo is often a natural aspiration...

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... respond 3.3 Aspiration levels and adaptation Is it helpful or harmful for organizations that managers use performance feedback and aspiration levels to manage change? As noted earlier, historical ... Historical aspiration levels track the actual performance of the organization, and thus may let the aspiration level lose alignment with what is actually achievable in a given 66 Organizational Learning ... performance relative to the aspiration level affects organizational search, risk taking, and change This broad impact makes performance a “master switch” that controls a range of organizational responses...

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... problem and managerial risk tolerance, innovation generation results from organizational search only As discussed in chapter 3, organizations search habitually through institutionalized search, playfully ... Lending officers, analysts, and bond traders are individuals taking risk on behalf of the organizations, as managers are, and the risk taken by a single trader can be substantial (Shapira 2000) Thus, ... so changes in the rate of launching innovations over time can be investigated, and measures of organizational slack and search effort are also available over time Thus, 98 Organizational Learning...

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... organizational change that many managers hesitate to make We can study the acquisition of assets by pursuing the usual idea that performance below the aspiration level causes organizational change and managerial ... that performance relative to social aspiration levels weakly affects the growth of assets, and organizational slack does not affect the growth at all Model has all variables included, and confirms ... preceding ones have shown that performance feedback affects a variety of consequential organizational behaviors Risk taking, research and development, innovations, and asset investment are all behaviors...

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... advertising rates, targeted advertisers, and format changes Because radio broadcasting has many local markets, there is cross-sectional variation in social aspiration levels Because data are available ... estimates of historical aspiration levels Audience share estimates are a goal variable viewed as important by all radio station managers and sufficiently public that data are easy to compare across ... collect many years of performance data and one year of outcome data The potential for all organizations in a given year to be affected by third causes such as a common social aspiration level...

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... organizations can help managers make differentiated social aspiration levels where the most similar organizations have greater weight Again, this differentiation is only helpful if managers are ... cases: a manager who is fully rational and acting in the organization’s interest, and a manager who is boundedly rational and selfish The answer is that the former case seems unproblematic, and ... the aspiration level viewed as most helpful for organizational adaptation A quick review of section 3.3 should convince the reader that the form of aspiration level matters for organizational...

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... Prentice-Hall 1995 Institutions and Organizations Thousand Oaks, CA: Sage Scott, W Richard and John W Meyer 1983 “The organization of societal sectors.” Organizational Environments: Ritual and Rationality, ... 198 8a “Introduction: a chronicle of speculations about decision-making in organizations.” Decisions and Organizations Oxford: Blackwell 1–21 1988b “Variable risk preferences and adaptive aspirations.” ... Charles A. , III and Jennifer A Chatman 1986 “Organizational commitment and psychological attachment: the effects of compliance, identification, and internalization on prosocial behavior.” Journal...

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... illustrations, recitation, broadcasting, reproduction on microlms or in any other physical way, and transmission or information storage and retrieval, electronic adaptation, computer software, ... disease (Dawson and Dawson 2003) and possibly aging (Balaban et al 2005) Mutations in nucleus and mitochondria encoded subunits have been associated with several neurodegenerative diseases (Sazanov ... helices contains an apparent half-channel for proton translocation: TM4-8 cytoplasmic half; TM9-13 periplasmatic half 12 R.G Efremov and L Sazanov (Efremov and Sazanov 2011b) (Fig 1. 2a, b) The half-channels...

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... treatment concept for gunshot related intracranial haematomas Some authors had recommended an evacuation of haematomas [22,23], whereas others prefer evacuation only in cases of elevated intracranial ... threatening injuries of the thorax are haemato- or haematopneumothorax, tension pneumothorax and pericardial tamponade They should be diagnosed within the first physical examination and be treated ... have similar personalities as closed fractures [4,6,71] Unstable fractures require an appropriate method of surgical stabilization; those that can be controlled easily may be treated non-operatively...

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... summary, the LCA probably was not able to produce either L-aspartate or L-asparagine via the modern canonical alternologs (nitrilase and asparaginase), but could via the degradation of oxaloacetate ... Additional data files 18 The following additional data are available with the online version of this paper Additional data file is a graph showing a detailed view of the bipartite network analyzed ... work Additional data file provides details of enzymes analyzed in this work Additional data file is a detailed view of pathways and branches analyzed in this work Additional data file is a bipartite...

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... evolution reveals biochemical networks and functional modules Proc Natl Acad Sci USA 2003, 100:15428-15433 Ravasz E, Somera AL, Mongru DA, Oltvai ZN, Barabasi AL: Hierarchical organization of modularity ... following additional data are available online with this paper Additional data file shows the reconstructed metabolic networks from various databases (EcoKegg, EcoCyc, RefKegg and MetaCyc), eliminating ... duplication Thus, we suggest that an ancestral pathway catalyzed both fatty-acid degradation and biosynthesis The direction of this ancestral pathway would be dependent on the acyl carriers and fatty...

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... collaboration with other international organisations The member countries include Argentina, Australia, Brazil, Canada, China, France, Germany, India, Indonesia, Italy, Japan, Republic of Korea, ... International Energy Agency International Energy Forum Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change International Relations International Renewable Energy Agency Million tons of Carbon Dioxide North Atlantic ... energy and environmental issues from a domestic-international interaction perspective in a comparative framework Figure 1.4: International Political Economy: A Conceptual Map From a theoretical perspective, ...

Ngày tải lên: 09/09/2015, 08:17

... and Garofoli, 200 7a; Yeung, 2009b) These transnational economic transactions are sustained by social and institutional factors, such as international organizations, transnational communities, and ... communication, and innovation, and retained regional competitive advantage in a given global production filiere Some researchers conducted an analytical focus similar with organizational approaches, mainly ... approaches (see Table 2-1) Proponents of organizational approaches consider firms as the main analytical focus and the organizational form of production as a key factor to explain regional economic growth...

Ngày tải lên: 09/09/2015, 10:21

... what subsumption involves in terms of qualia instantiation Bayne and Chalmers are happy to talk in terms of qualia, and anyway such talk can hardly be avoided in discussing the conscious character ... “components” One might think of subsumption as analogous to a sort of mereological part/whole relation among phenomenal states, although this should be taken as an aid to intuition rather than as a serious ... are talking about overall visual content) The same goes for contents at a particular location in the visual field: anyone with an experience as of a certain location will have some specific content...

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... financial operations and transactions, research on financialization has established that finance is constituted by both financial and non-financial actors and institutions Hence, it is critical ... everyday life in finance The notion of financialization emanates from political economy and radical Marxian analyses of capitalism from the late 1960s to the 1980s Financialization was deemed as a ... them and managing corresponding financial transactions Financial transactions and flows are not entirely space-neutral and neither are financial centres all the same; financial centres are tiered...

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