... polite,' said the King and got behind AliceAlice said, 'A cat can look at a King I read thatin a book, I think.' 'Well, this cat has to go,' said the King He called to the Queen,' My dear, I ... thought Alice She waited for two minutes, and the Cat came back again ' What happened to the baby ?' it asked ' It changed into a pig,' Alice said ' I knew it!' said the Cat and vanished again Alice ... ideas Then he said,' March the fourteenth - I think.' ' Fifteenth,' said the March Hare ' Sixteenth,' said the Mouse ' Write that down, ' said the King to the White Rabbit Then he said to the Mad...
... polite,' said the King and got behind AliceAlice said, 'A cat can look at a King I read thatin a book, I think.' 'Well, this cat has to go,' said the King He called to the Queen,' My dear, I ... asked the White Rabbit ' No, I didn't I said," Why ? "' ' She hit the Queen,' theRabbit said Alice started to laugh ' Quiet!' said theRabbit again ' The Queen will hear you, she hears everything ... have the words' DRINK ME' on it, but she drank from it 'I know something interesting will happen,' she thought 'When I eat or drink something here, it always does I hope I get bigger this time I...
... composition of water inthe two brine pits (Fig 2) vary greatly with time, reflecting primarily the mixing of produced water brine with dilute water from precipitation The salinity of water inthe ... drilling Road building and site clearing impacts the soil and biota, and in arid environments can impact air quality by added dust to the atmosphere, and vehicle traffic can introduce invasive ... hydrocarbons fromthe large brine pit reach the lake Minor contamination of Skiatook lake with brine is indicated (02OS-309 vs 01OS-111, Fig 11), but this topic will be covered in detail in future...
... military The United States threw its logistic and diplomatic weight behind the operation The regime in neighboring Liberia, highly complicit in Sierra Leone’s civil war, was displaced Additional ... Belgian Congo The Republic of the Congo failed almost fromthemoment of its birth Within days of the Congo’s independence its army mutinied, the remaining white administrators fled, the administration ... International Force in East Timor International Organization of Migration International Telecommunications Union xli xlii The UN’s Role in Nation-Building: Fromthe Congo to Iraq JIC KDP mbd MINURCA...
... Ahmed fromthe Guttmacher Institute, for helping to develop the design of the survey questionnaire, providing initial feedback on the results and contributing insights to the interpre- tations ... “sexual activities,” since this phrase covered behaviors ranging from talking together to visit* No surveys wound up being administered in Yao 16 ing with boyfriends or girlfriends to forced intercourse ... Most were circumcised between the ages of six and 11 Other types of initiation rites, such as chinamwali for girls†, receiving advice from elders, being initiated inthe Nyau secret society‡ and...
... MP3EI in 2011, the PPP model has increasingly been inthe spotlight in Indonesia The MP3EI is a very ambitious plan It aims to propel Indonesia into the top ten worldwide economies and raise income ... explained inthe following chapters According to the findings fromthe surveys conducted by the Polling Center, problems related to implementing the MP3EI inthe Corridor III are the following: ... sectors in Corridor V of the MP3EI, the Ministry of Tourism and Creative Economy is involved quite intensively in accelerating economic growth inthe region The Ministry has stated thatthe corridor...
... particular people wandering about or sitting within hearing distance during the interview could influence responses Therefore, interviewers were requested to indicate if somebody was within hearing ... STIs, including HIV/AIDS Continued effort must be made in providing information and messages on abstinence, faithfulness and the effectiveness of condom use in preventing HIV/AIDS, with relative ... Cushing, Alfredo Aliaga and Rebecca Stallings—for input into all facets of the survey design and coordinating the pretest, sample selection, training, fielding, and data editing and cleaning The...
... premorbid functioning and the magnitude of the decline in functioning relative to that premorbid capacity Several points can be made about the clinical implications of these findings Patients with ... suicide in schizophrenia is associated with suicidal behavior in schizophrenic patients [33] This is an important tool since this technique gives a specific indication of serotonergic function, ... risk factors for suicide in individuals with schizophrenia [27,53,231] Individuals with good premorbid functioning are those more at risk of suicide Interventions such as social skills training,...
... carrying, weapon carrying in school, physical fighting, and being injured in a physical fight Harel previously reported that bullying of girls in Kenya was contributing to low academic achievement ... interest is in adolescents in in-school settings Despite the fact that there is growing interest on adolescents' in- school bullying, there are limited data fromthe emerging economy nations such ... (0.80–0.81) tion of the GSHS questionnaire may have altered the meaning or interpretation of questions or responses This would make it difficult to compare the current findings with findings from other...
... ectomycorrhizal mycelia is described cluding Laccaria species MATERIALS AND METHODS Strains and culture conditions Isolates were obtained from various geographical sites in France, the United Kingdom ... of interspecific and intraspecific variations inthe rDNA of 12 isolates of L laccata and L bicolor from different geographical locations Isolates belonging to different Laccaria species did ... cost, technical skill required, and utilization of radioactive iso- topes could prevent the spread of RFLPs in identifying ectomycorrhizal isolates Polymerase chain reaction (PCR) is being widely...
... vivo and in vitro [48] HIF2α is closely related to HIF1α, with similarities in DNA binding and dimerisation, but with differences in transactivation domains [49] The genes downstream of HIF2α have ... temperature in streptavidin–peroxidase complex (1:500 in DPBS; Dako), rinsed in distilled water and incubated in fast-DAB (3,3'-diaminobenzidine) peroxidase substrate (Sigma) for minutes and counterstained ... of matrix by IPFP-derived stem cells as they undergo chondrogenesis and that this has important implications for the use of the IPFP in cartilage tissue engineering Competing interests The authors...
... Pizzichini E, Pizzichini MM, Efthimiadis A, Evans S, Morris MM, Squillace D, Gleich GJ, Dolovich J, Hargreave FE: Indices of airway inflammation in induced sputum: reproducibility and validity ... effect i. e the rate of decline in these patients has been reduced simply by inclusion in a clinical study Addition- ally, it is likely that a year follow up in this population was insufficient to ... hypoxia, the systemic absorption of inhaled toxins from cigarette smoke, genetic predisposition to systemic inflammation [8] and a "spill over" of airway inflammation into the systemic circulation...
... somewhat inconsistent, especially for patients inthe third quartile inthe control group (Table 4) The annualised rate of decline inthe SGRQ total score increased linearly with each quartile increase ... authors contributed to the data analyses, the interpretation of the data and the composition of the manuscript and were involved inthe decision to submit the paper for publication Competing interests ... fouryear, international, randomised, double-blind, placebocontrolled, clinical trial that evaluated the efficacy and safety of tiotropium 18 μg daily administered via HandiHaler® (Boehringer Ingelheim...
... analysis, participated inthe interpretation of findings and drafting of manuscript ASM participated inthe interpretation of the findings and drafting of the manuscript ER participated inthe interpretation ... analysis A cut off point for statistical significance was set at the 5% level In order to understand and explain the results of the quantitative analysis in this study, three health behavior theories ... action would activate readiness and stimulate overt behavior Inthe KAP model, it is postulated that increased knowledge spurs people into changing their attitudes and eventually their behaviors...
... interventions were effective in reducing bullying in some settings but not much so in others, possibly suggesting site-specific effects Some of these measures may be putting in place interventions that ... analysis plan, participated inthe interpretation and drafting of manuscript ER participated inthe interpretation and drafting of manuscript All the authors agreed to the final draft of the manuscript ... that interventions which included increasing social workers in school and promoted mentoring of students were successful in reducing the prevalence of bullying Also these authors found that interventions...
... elements, similar to coding genes The following question then arises; how does the conservation inthe upstream regions of the intergenic miRNA genes compare with that of the protein coding genes? In ... One might then ask, for a given percentage of detectable sites (maximum site sensitivity), which is the combination that minimizes the search space (thereby maximizing specificity)? We found that ... other species are available in Additional data file deposited research Fromthe transcription factors included in our dataset, 80 have a position-specific scoring matrix (PSSM) binding model in...
... which is distinct fromthe other race/ethnicity groups, this may be explained by cultural differences resulting in Asian elderly spending more time with their grandchildren, such as walking the ... with longer distances from their households to daily destinations, making them rely more on private vehicles An interesting exception to the income patterning was the effect of income among the ... weighted by personal weights (provided by NHTS) to adjust for the selection probabilities at the individual level In this study, active transportation was defined to include walking and bicycling...
... crisis inthe early 1990s, the Japanese banking and real estate crisis inthe entire 1990s, the Mexican financial crisis in 1994–5, the Asian and Russian crisis in 1997–8, the Argentine crisis in ... privatization program introduced by a coalition of the Independence Party and the Progressive Party included the coastal shipping line, the printing industry, insurance business, fertilizer, Internet, ... explanation without intent to infringe British Library Cataloguing in Publication Data A catalogue record for this book is available fromthe British Library Library of Congress Cataloging in Publication...