... International Agreementonthe exploitation of natural resources oftheMoonandothercelestialbodies 293 Annex Treaty on Principles GoverningtheActivitiesofStates in the Exploration and ... provisions are not accurate enough to ensure the peaceful and orderly development ofthe exploitation ofthe resources oftheMoonandothercelestialbodiesThe provisions oftheMoon Agreement, ... of development for mankind 1.2 Space law andthe natural resources oftheMoonandothercelestial bodies: the need for a legal regime 1.3 The natural resources oftheMoonand other...
... stakeholders onthe basis of mutual trust and cooperation and a longer-term horizon – as opposed to contracting onthe basis of curbing opportunistic behavior (i.e., onthe basis of a priori assumed ... underlie the mission ofthe organization We view culture consistent with Hills and Jones (2001), as the specific collection of values and norms that are shared by people and groups in an organization ... measures the frequency of adoption ofthe focal practice within each ofthe two groups, andthe last column presents a significance test ofthe differences between them As before, the data are for the...
... between parents andother adults, the microcontext of interactions between parents and children, the macrocontext ofthe neighborhood one lives in andthe availability of basic educational and health ... incidences of LBW among the population There should be reason to anticipate similar effects onthe level ofthe household with respect to cognitive and mental health outcomes Despite the importance of ... primary mission as mother, not as educator (which they thought was the job ofthe schools) Laosa (50) found that Chicano mothers praised their children less often and used more nonverbal cues...
... variables (pH ofthe solution, reaction time, and binding Table Influence ofthe reaction time (t) and binding ability ofthe counter-ions (X) onthe nature and structural features ofthe set of Hg(II)-MT ... by the comparison ofthe CD spectra of isostoichiometric species obtained under different conditions The contribution ofthe counter-ion to the 3D structure ofthe Hg-MT aggregates is demonstrated ... species, and titrations at acidic pH values provide information onthe binding of Hg(II) to the corresponding apo-MT form [23] In addition, comparison ofthe two sets of data gives an indication of the...
... ofthe additional education induced by the law changes onother measures of health and health behaviors A The Impacts ofthe Compulsory Schooling Changes on Education To examine the effect ofthe ... comparison ofthe U.K and U.S health systems 32 It is also hard to attribute these results to the content of these additional years of education One might worry that the quality of these additional ... from the effects of an additional year of education at other parts ofthe education distribution They may also be very 12 different from the effects of an additional year of education for students...
... being one ofthe most widespread and commonly planted crops, the regressions look at the relation between the incidence of drought andthe price of rice reported by the households in the second, ... Data on drought incidence The major part of studies onthe micro-level consequences of health shocks rely onthe survey respondents’ subjective perception of what they consider an adverse weather ... figure constitutes the largest effect possible in the data, i.e., going to the extremes ofthe drought distribution, a change of one standard deviation in the severity of drought (0.21) causes the...
... in the FM patient population Both of these PRO measures were developed prior to the current emphasis onthe involvement of patients at the concept elicitation and item generation phases [25], and ... further confirm the FM diagnosis, participants also responded to questions regarding the nature, frequency, and location of their pain Recruitment took place in August and September of 2008 and ... The interviews started with a general discussion regarding the impact of FM on participants' lives and then moved to a discussion about the impact of FM onthe participants' sleep Following these...
... in the FM patient population Both of these PRO measures were developed prior to the current emphasis onthe involvement of patients at the concept elicitation and item generation phases [25], and ... further confirm the FM diagnosis, participants also responded to questions regarding the nature, frequency, and location of their pain Recruitment took place in August and September of 2008 and ... The interviews started with a general discussion regarding the impact of FM on participants' lives and then moved to a discussion about the impact of FM onthe participants' sleep Following these...
... Catalogue of Seals and Whales in the British Museum, by J E Gray 2nd ed., p 53 THE BANDA ISLANDS ANDTHE BANDAN BIRDS CONTENTS T HE islands ofthe Banda Sea, with the exception of Letti, Kisser, and ... Rhun The Banda Islands are well known as the principal centre ofthe cultivation ofthe nutmeg When the Dutch East India Company became the possessors ofthe islands in the beginning ofthe seventeenth ... Islands, the Kộ Islands, andthe Tenimber Islands also belong to the Ceram subgroup We are only concerned with the Banda Islands, which are eight in number, and consist of four central islands in...
... expanders 3.8 Degradation ofthe structure ofthe negative plates The second aim of this work was to investigate the in¯uence of expanders onthe energetic and skeleton structures of NAM andon ... Journal of Power Sources 113 (2003) 335±344 onthe activity and stability ofthe expander(s) used, on temperature, andonthe battery type (VRLAB or ¯ooded) Because ofthe speci®c conditions of EV ... of expanders as well as the structure ofthe NAM, which in turn determines the capacity ofthe plate The in¯uence of temperature onthe cycle life of negative plates containing the expanders...
... caused by P gonapodyides and P. cambivora isolates on one hand and from the most aggressive P cinnamomi isolate ontheother hand (Table 1) Infection experiment II Confirmation of substrate specificity ... extended than those on non-stressed ones (P < 0.01) The mean of lesion length was 6.67 mm in the non-stressed group and 18.67 mm in the stressed one (Fig 3) Comparison of lesion development in ... cactorum The analysis showed, that the lesion length in the experiment was influenced by host species and by interaction of host species and isolate identity, too The effect ofthe host species and the...
... enhancing the photosynthetic capacity [11] and by increasing the uptake of water and nutrients, and their accumulation in the seedling tissues [3, 8] Environmental conditions marked by the Mediterranean ... up in order to check the effect ofthe factors: (a) inoculation with spores ofthe five ectomycorrhizal fungi and (b) type of substrate, on mycorrhization and development of P pinea seedlings ... 10 mL ofthe target spore suspension ofthe corresponding fungus The final inoculum concentration was of 106 spores per seedling for M ambiguus and 107 spores per seedling for R luteolus and R...
... delineation had been done under exactly the same conditions, with the same tools andthe same clinical information as the residents; the contours were done after a training session on lung radiation ... borders of tissue, The first family of indices is based on volume ratios: the volume ratio (VR) between the volume ofthe student andthe volume ofthe expert, the common delineated volume (CDV) and ... expansion ofthe GTV andthe PTV was a geometric expansion ofthe CTV Groups had no instructions regarding the size ofthe margins to apply The observers were not allowed to adapt the CTV to the...
... macrophages via the complement receptor (CR)-3 The immune response will then be turned on, one ofthe actions is the phagocytosis ofthe monoclonal antibody tagged tumor cells Page of 11 (page number ... key components ofthe fungal cell wall Figure β-glucan is one ofthe key components ofthe fungal cell wall The basic subunit ofthe fungal β-glucan is β-D-glucose linked to one another by 1→3 glycosidic ... caution as most ofthe proposed mechanisms are based on in vitro The uptake and subsequent actions of β-glucan on immune cells Figure The uptake and subsequent actions of β-glucan on immune cells...
... Richardson and colleagues [27], after examining the impact of earplugs and eye masks onthe critical care patients’ sleep, found that 58.8% ofthe patients in the intervention group and 25% ofthe ... enabled Cureton-Lane and Fontaine to determine that noise was the strongest indicator of sleep state The louder the noise was, the greater the awaking possibility ofthe children in the pediatric ... periods based onthe number of noise peaks In another study, although the sample size was small (nine subjects), the sleep observation together with the continuous recordings of noise and light level...
... 5.4 The positions ofthe silyl group ( ) andthe hydrogen atom (◊) along the decomposition path to a) the intra-row configuration, and b) the on- dimer configuration The initial, transition and ... former, only the π bond ofthe dimer is broken while in the latter, both the σ bond andthe π bond ofthe dimer are broken to accommodate the silylene insertion Figure 5.2 An illustration ofthe ... Decomposition of silyl group andthe configuration of 27 the decomposition product 2.5 Decomposition of silylene group 30 2.6 Diffusion of silylene 34 2.7 Diffusion on Strained Silicon 37 II Table of Contents...
... the purpose of research onthe material from the high heat applications, with magnetic refrigeration in the room temperature andonthe Thesis Vu Thi Huong basis ofthe preliminary findings of ... process) the temperature drops as the domains [1] absorb the thermal energy to perform their reorientation The randomization ofthe domains [2] occurs in a similar fashion to the randomization at the ... structure there are many different types of distortions which can occur from the ideal structure These include tilting ofthe octahedra, displacements ofthe cations out ofthe centers of their 17 Thesis...
... membership ofthe working group included subject-matter experts from across the IRS (e.g., the Office of Disclosure, the Office of Chief Counsel, the Office of Labor Relations, the CSIRC, andthe Office ... analyzing the hard drives onthe 100 laptop computers Evaluated the controls over the protection ofthe boot process7 onthe sample ofthe 100 laptop computers Area Offices are located throughout the ... performed by the Department of Veterans Affairs Office of Inspector General, the drive contained personal information on approximately 26 million veterans and United States military personnel The data...
... purposes ofthe story Even the "poison flowers" exist there and no Bushman will sleep among them, beautiful as they are And lest the huge diamond in the head ofthe "Snake" in the same story be considered ... save the others, though they cannot carry us We must eat, drink, and sleep, for the way is long and we are weak And now, master, if all the tobacco is not there under the big dune with theother ... to be only a respite, for the bushes were few, and I could find no sign of others or of t'samma And so for days I wandered, finding a few ofthe berries here and there, often half maddened and...