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Ngày tải lên: 16/03/2014, 11:20

... land is fixed in all periods, but the rental price can change according to changes in demand 3.2.3 Balance of payments and trade Changes in the balance of payments are also driven by trends in ... Textile and Apparel Barriers and Rules of Origin in a Post-ATC World Alan Fox U.S International Trade Commission, Washington, DC William Powers U.S International Trade Commission, Washington, DC Ashley ... Chinese quantitative restraints, although these liberalizations have roughly similar welfare effects Because China is a larger trade partner, the elimination of Chinese quantitative restraints...

Ngày tải lên: 12/04/2013, 16:17

... The interpretation of change in item values is illustrated in Table Clarification of the research aim We were interested in examining the percentage of missing values and the strength of association ... subsequent analysis and interpretation of data, in addition to drafting the manuscript AT was involved in the design of the study, interpretation of findings, as well as commenting on the drafts of the ... tau b and Kappa statistics were used to examine the associations between conventional and retrospective values Spearman’s rank correlation and Kendall’s tau b are non-parametric measures of association...

Ngày tải lên: 20/06/2014, 15:20

... endorsement by APA Library of Congress Cataloging -in- Publication Data Cain, Susan Quiet : the power of introverts in a world that can’t stop talking / Susan Cain.—1st ed p cm Introverts Introversion ... best-selling book, Understanding Human Nature “Are you fainthearted? Are you submissive?” Adler explained that all infants and small children feel inferior, living as they in a world of adults and ... fear that he had an IC and would never amount to anything Another popular magazine ran an article called “Your Child and That Fashionable Complex,” explaining to moms what could cause an IC in...

Ngày tải lên: 27/07/2014, 07:49

... measures in analyses were annual change and annual percentage change of tibial plateau bone area Change in this area was obtained by subtracting the bone area at baseline from that at follow-up The annual ... 0.38 Medial tibial plateau area Physical activity Baseline medial tibial area Lateral tibial plateau area Baseline lateral tibial area aFactors were defined as follows: age = percentage change per ... tibial bone area, and grade of medial joint-space narrowing explained 4.6% of variance in annual percentage change in medial tibial bone area BMI and grade of medial joint-space narrowing were independently...

Ngày tải lên: 09/08/2014, 06:22

... forward a $40 billion package of loan guarantees for congressional approval As dramatic as that gesture was, within days it became clear that politically the bailout didn't have a prayer Americans ... the official put it, explaining that Japanese banks had lost confidence in Korea and were about to stop renewing tens of billions of dollars in loans This was a shock A symbol of Asia's remarkable ... compared us to "a bomber coming along and striking a farmhouse because you think that the villain inflation is inside when in fact what's inside is a happy family appreciating the restoration...

Ngày tải lên: 09/08/2014, 19:22

... Zealand are particularly interesting in how they developed after adopting market-opening reforms and gradually increasing ties with Asia, especially China Indeed, Australia and New Zealand are ... history and the culture it has spawned By culture, I mean the shared values of members of a society that are inculcated at an early age and that pervade all aspects of living Some aspects of a nation's ... banks became heavily invested in loans backed by real estate as collateral, as real estate prices soared When the turn came and prices cascaded downward, the collateral became inadequate But instead...

Ngày tải lên: 09/08/2014, 19:22

... rising far more rapidly than real world GDP since the end of World War II The expansion reflects the opening up of international markets as well as major gains in communication capabilities that ... share of GDP flowing to financial institutions, including insurance, has risen dramatically in recent decades.* Information systems that supply unprecedented detail on the state of financial markets ... both investors and savers try to achieve their intentions in the marketplace, any imbalance forces real interest rates to change until actual investment and actual savings are brought into equality...

Ngày tải lên: 09/08/2014, 19:22

... appearance of a new idea or fear A related concern in financial markets is the large and continuing accumulation of U.S Treasury securities by foreign central banks, mainly in Asia Market participants ... base Indeed, India's per capita GDP four decades ago was equal to that of China, but is now less than half of China's and still losing ground It is conceivable that India can undergo as radical a ... on a vast scale virtually overnight China's embrace of free-market competition, first in agriculture, then in industry, and finally in opening itself to international trade and finance, has placed...

Ngày tải lên: 09/08/2014, 19:22

... presents a challenge Many of these arguments apply, mutatis mutandis, in India and in Nepal But here, as in some other parts of the world, physicians face additional complications in sustaining the ... issue in health systems and in pharmaceuticals supply chains in particular than has so far been addressed Although there is a bewildering array of stakeholders concerned with pharmaceuticals in any ... facilities in two key source-countries of pharmaceuticals, FDA offices were established in India (in January 2009) [43] and in China Before the India office was opened, Ranbaxy’s Dewas and Paonta...

Ngày tải lên: 11/08/2014, 14:21

... This finding also implies that interventions that can increase patients’ self-efficacy towards physical activity barriers seem to be particularly important for maintaining physical activity changes ... finding is in line with the theory of Marlatt and Gordon [39] suggesting that individuals who initiate behavior change, experience increased self-efficacy that grows as they continue to maintain ... however, participants did rely again on their family for support Barrera and colleagues [23] also found a mediating effect Van Dyck et al International Journal of Behavioral Nutrition and Physical Activity...

Ngày tải lên: 14/08/2014, 08:20

... endorsement by APA Library of Congress Cataloging -in- Publication Data Cain, Susan Quiet : the power of introverts in a world that can’t stop talking / Susan Cain.—1st ed p cm Introverts Introversion ... idea, he and two colleagues, professors Francesca Gino of Harvard Business School and David Hofman of the Kenan-Flagler Business School at the University of North Carolina, carried out a pair of ... passive or proactive? Grant says it makes sense that introverts are uniquely good at leading initiative-takers Because of their inclination to listen to others and lack of interest in dominating...

Ngày tải lên: 10/01/2015, 15:28

... operation” and some of these include introducing an ‘internal’ market by making departments more financially autonomous, using ‘managerial’ approaches in, for example, staff appraisal and training, ... a transformation in the spatial organization of social relations and transactions generating transcontinental or interregional flows and networks of activity, interaction, and the exercise of ... students and staff • Having curricula and programs that are ‘global’ in nature and in perspectives • Conducting research that has a ‘global’ focus and impact • Being locally and internationally connected...

Ngày tải lên: 11/09/2015, 10:01

... (with a capital D) broadly as: a socially accepted association among ways of using language, other symbolic expressions, and "artefacts", of thinking, feeling, believing, valuing, and acting that ... fluctuating and often contradictory efforts of language learners in her study Whereas motivation treats desire to learn a language in the same manner as it does gender and age, as a static trait assigned ... example, contend that English "is turning into an increasingly international language, rapidly losing its national cultural base and becoming associated with a global culture" (p 30) Yashima...

Ngày tải lên: 11/09/2015, 10:06

... the Union Address Library: http://stateoftheunionaddress.org/2009-barack-obama Chapter 1: Introduction time since the writing of Adam Smith and Karl Marx‟s analysis of capitalism as central to economic ... weakness in formal institutional frameworks In the particular case of Vietnam, it has also been often observed that changes in the behavior of economic actors tend to move ahead of the adjustments in ... participant-observation of these entrepreneurs, I also interacted with local officials, local residents and obtained statistical data from local authorities Access to the informants was not easy, as...

Ngày tải lên: 05/10/2015, 21:24

... 2004:1866 Campbell M Natural history of coarctation of the aorta Br Heart J 1970, 32:633-640 Jenkins NP, Ward AR Coarctation of the aorta: natural history and outcome after surgical treatment QJM ... of surgical repair of coarctation of the aorta in patients older than 50 years Ann Thorac Surg 2001; 72: 2060– 2064 Discussion Aortic coarctation is a congenital vascular lesion typically diagnosed ... trends, and epidemiology of coarctation of the aorta in a population-based study Int J Cardiol 1999, 68:197-202 Cevik S, Izgi C, Cevik C Asymptomatic severe aortic coarctation in an 80-year-old man...

Ngày tải lên: 25/10/2012, 11:40

... Abbreviations ACC: American College of Cardiology; AHA: American Heart Association; CABG: coronary artery binding graft; CK: creatine kinase; MACE: major adverse cardiac events; MI: myocardial infarction; ... adverse cardiac events (MACE), including cardiac death, myocardial infarction (MI), and target vessel revascularization (TVR) MI was defined as the elevation of creatine kinase (CK) > times above ... achieve maximal vasodilatation The use of glycoprotein IIb/IIIa inhibitor (Tirofiban) was at the operator’s discretion All patients maintained antiplatelet therapy after the procedure (aspirin 300...

Ngày tải lên: 26/10/2012, 08:57

... teratoma Amino acid Aspartic acid (D) Threonine (T) Serine (S) Glutamic acid (E) Proline (P) Glycine (G) Alanine (A) Cysteine (C) Valine (V) Isoleucine (I) Leucine (L) Tyrosine (Y) Phenylalanine ... high amounts of ‘mucin-like amino acids, serine, threonine and proline Serine and threonine are points of O-glycosylation found in the tandem repeat regions of mucins and their ratios can vary ... site of secretion and whether the organ is in a normal or diseased state As far as we know this is the first time an amino acid analysis has been done of purified mucin in an ovarian teratoma The...

Ngày tải lên: 26/10/2012, 10:03

... the main source of omega-3 fatty acids (EPA- eicosapentaenoic acid and DHA -docosahexaenoic acid) and also omega-6 fatty acids- two main classes of essential fatty acids Omega –3 fatty acid found ... in an eldely communitybased sample in Kerala India National Medical Journal of India 2000; 13: 9-15 Shanthirani CS, Pradeepa R, Deepa R, Premalatha G, Saroja R, Mohan V Prevalence and risk factors ... suffering from myocardial ischemia Salt intake was assessed from the amount of salt used in cooking and extra salt used during meal Statistical Analysis We used EPI-INFO-2002 software for data entry...

Ngày tải lên: 02/11/2012, 11:12

... AVRT-and EAT patients Panel A: Quantity and duration of episodes and the associated symptoms Panel B: Detraction in daily life generally and in parts of daily life variable PANAL A Detraction in daily ... defective (5) and insufficient (6) Y-axis: Percentage of patients Panel A: AVNRT Panel B: AVRT Panel C: EAT Comparing the categorical variables before and after ablation in AVNRT patients, applying the ... Abbreviations AVNRT: Atrio-Ventricular Nodal Reentry Tachycardia; AVRT: Atrio-Ventricular Reentry Tachycardia; AF: Atrial Fibrillation; EAT: Ectopic Atrial Tachycardia; F: French; INR: International...

Ngày tải lên: 03/11/2012, 11:44