babblers competition for prestige and the evolution of altruism

... protection for the needy; encouraging partnerships, private and foreign investments; and strengthening the role of the local authorities   To achieve the targets of the MDGs, a public investment of US$ ... Organization of the health sector   The Ministry of Public Health and Population is the organization responsible for the health sector and is one of the largest public employers in the country However, there ... Understanding between the Ministry of Public Health and Population and the development partners active in the health and population sector The Memorandum implies that the Ministry of Public Health and...

Ngày tải lên: 18/02/2014, 15:20

... N-terminal domain of the protein, just as in the genes for cS and cA–F However, the second half of the gene has the structure of a b-crystallin gene, with two exons encoding the two motifs of the C-terminal ... capable of completing the C-terminal domain of the protein Currently there is no evidence for expression of canonical cN in primates This leaves open the question of whether the gene for cN retains ... specialization for different regions of the eye The expression of cN in the central regions of the lens, fiber cells that were laid down before birth, is consistent with the familiar pattern of expression of...

Ngày tải lên: 19/02/2014, 17:20

... Thus, the higher the pH value, the lower the proton concentration and therefore the degree of dissociation of water This behavior of water depends strongly on the temperature, the higher the temperature ... together over a wide temperature range For example because of the fact that the filled sp3 orbitals of the oxygen lie on one side of the water molecule and the two protons are bound to the other ... consequence of the physical laws of our universe and the subatomic structure of the oxygen atom As we shall see in Chap 2, the existence of oxygen atoms is in turn a necessary result of the evolution of...

Ngày tải lên: 14/03/2014, 10:20

... slopes of 0.98 (The Empire Strikes Back, 1980) and 1.14 (The Revenge of the Sith, 2005) (Again, see the Supplemental Material for results for the other films.) Figure 2d shows the slopes by genre and ... videos, and most of what is called art film—is designed to suppress awareness of the presentational aspects of the film while promoting the narrative The units of film are the act, the sequence, the ... in nature These are often called white, brown, and pink noise, and all are defined by the relation between the frequency and power (proportional to the square of the amplitude) of their components...

Ngày tải lên: 23/03/2014, 12:20

... investment and innovation in the industry The goal of this chapter is to present the theoretical underpinnings of the ladder of investment theory and to review the recent literature on the effects of the ... aspects of competition more than the static ones Competition can take various forms but two of them are particularly important for the ladder of investment theory, the SBC and the FBC Under the ladder ... broadband requires upgrade of the final link from the exchange to end-users (the so-called ‘last mile’) These upgrades increase the quality of the network and allow the offer of broadband services...

Ngày tải lên: 24/03/2014, 02:20

... investment and innovation in the industry The goal of this chapter is to present the theoretical underpinnings of the ladder of investment theory and to review the recent literature on the effects of the ... aspects of competition more than the static ones Competition can take various forms but two of them are particularly important for the ladder of investment theory, the SBC and the FBC Under the ladder ... broadband requires upgrade of the final link from the exchange to end-users (the so-called ‘last mile’) These upgrades increase the quality of the network and allow the offer of broadband services...

Ngày tải lên: 28/06/2014, 21:20

... information, analyzing knowledge, and positing solutions in the design and planning fields As a style of thinking, it is generally considered the ability to combine empathy for the context of ... http://www.neatorama.com/2012/05/27/back-to -the- future-in-lego/ futurist http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bruce_Sterling “Design and Futurism are not the same thing - design is a method of action and futurism is a method of vision.” ... empathy for the context of a problem, creativity in the generation of insights and solutions, and rationality to analyze and fit solutions to the context http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Design_thinking...

Ngày tải lên: 03/07/2014, 14:01

... taxa to the Strongylida are members of the Rhabditina, including C elegans, and both are grouped in Clade V of the Nematoda, on the basis of small subunit rRNA sequence analysis [48] The set of 742 ... broader platform, we have addressed the question of whether secreted proteins of parasitic nematodes show accelerated evolution, and our results indicate that this is the case The predominance of predicted ... pathways, and we have no information on the extent to which parasites may avail themselves of this possibility One example already exists, of the macrophage migration inhibitory factor homolog of B...

Ngày tải lên: 09/08/2014, 20:20

... TFs and putative, as yet uncharacterized regulators We analyzed the history of each of the global regulators, and of a sample of each of the other types of regulators (see Figure and Materials and ... history of HGT for many of the regulators, especially for the neighbor regulators and the as yet uncharacterized regulators Furthermore, these specific regulators are often co-transferred together ... TFs Although we not compare the rate of HGT for regulators with the rate of HGT for other types of genes, we find high rates of HGT for regulators, with the exception of a few global regulators...

Ngày tải lên: 14/08/2014, 08:20

... and Health 2005, 1:5 Mortality of the London Parishes, these attempts date back well over 300 years [1] Cause of death statistics for the population of England and Wales have been collected for ... distribution of exposure that would lead to the lowest theoretical minimum levels of disease burden Thus, for example, in the case of tobacco, the theoretical minimum distribution would be 100% of the ... life-long nonsmokers; for BMI it would be 100% of the population having a BMI of 21 (SD1) kg/m2, and so on The theoretical minima for each of the risk factors quantified in the WHO Comparative...

Ngày tải lên: 11/08/2014, 18:20

... waste The purpose of this study is to document how the local people came to use the biogas plant for sanitation purpose, and to clarify the performance of the biogas plant for the reduction of the ... know the benefit of having the connection of their latrines to biogas plants At the installation, the community agreed to share the 20% of the installation cost and the 100% of cleaning cost of ... because the people were involved from the beginning of the installation and they understood the benefit of the option from the combination of hygiene education and their experience from the test...

Ngày tải lên: 05/09/2013, 09:08

... the fluorescent lamp to the top of the giant reeds was about 0.2 m at the start of the experiment The temperature in the experimental room was kept at about 28 °C The rhizomes and the roots of ... cropped before the start of the dying down period Then, after all of the above-ground part has died down, the whole plants including the roots and rhizomes are cropped except for the roots and rhizomes ... based on the count of the beta ray, capture efficiency, device efficiency, and a specific value of the reagent The phosphorus accumulation was assumed to be uniform in all the leaves, and the total...

Ngày tải lên: 05/09/2013, 09:38

... incentives for the relocation of factories TMG to promote sales of SWT devices □ Coincidence of TMG's request for the development of SWT devices to the makers with strategies of makers out of Tokyo ... cannot forecast the future of water consumption change and has no confidence on the successful performance of WCP Thus, the government tends to increase the water supply capacity corresponding to the ... onwards, the mandatory requirement for RWH installation is imposed for the development of new buildings with floor areas of more than 10,000m² This mandatory system led to the increasing number of...

Ngày tải lên: 05/09/2013, 10:17

... about the thesis First, the rationale is about the main reasons which enhance the author to this thesis Then, the purpose of the study introduces the aims to the thesis And the scope of the study ... expressed in details in the following part of the thesis 3.2.3.2 The results of the study i The results of the questionnaires First of all, the author would like to show the chart of the learners’ purposes ... nineteen to forty Therefore, the author of the thesis would like to investigate their difficulties in learning listening skills here The main objective of the thesis is the difficulties that these...

Ngày tải lên: 14/12/2013, 00:41

... optimize the efficiency of the drive In this work, we will show how an extension of the Park transformation will lead to the 'jxeudo-dq" components of the electric variables The electric equations of ... electrical equations of the machine can therefore be written as follows : are the backemf (p is the number of pairs of poles of the machine, is its instantaneous position and Cl is the rotor r a " PW ... a, b or The total fluxes a can be split in fluxes self-induced by the stator currents andifluxes due to the permanent magnets of the rotor : where L, and M, are the self-inductance and the mutualinductance...

Ngày tải lên: 03/01/2014, 19:44

... samples.134 Are there treatments for anal pre-cancer, and are they effective? The current definitive treatment for CIN is excision of the cervical transformation zone Unfortunately the anatomy and complex ... condition for which there is no restriction for use of the method A condition where the advantages of using the method generally outweigh the theoretical or proven risks A condition where the theoretical ... prophylaxis is the ability of the patients to adhere to the regimen Such individuals are often psychologically vulnerable and relatively intolerant of side effects Therefore, the choice of drugs is...

Ngày tải lên: 13/02/2014, 10:20

... understanding of the structure of both the Ab monomer and its various assemblies could help in the design of new therapeutic strategies targeted at preventing the formation or ameliorating the activity ... increases the cost of the purification, and the require1276 ment for HPLC increases the length and complexity of the purification procedure Moreover, as with the studies by Lee et al [21] and Subramanian ... were then diluted into neurobasal medium and incubated with neurons at final concentrations of 1, and lM for h At the end of this period, MTT was added and cells were incubated for a further h The...

Ngày tải lên: 18/02/2014, 13:20

... and Ardipithecus ramidus Given the fragmentary state of these remains, and the difficulties inherent in their comparison, there is much discussion as to the validity of their hominid status The ... proof of such differences for aesthetic appreciation These and other points led Lewontin to caution against taking plausible scenarios for demonstrated truth about the evolution of cognition, and ... possible that not all the neural structures involved in aesthetic preference (and the functions they perform), have undergone the same degree of transformation since the appearance of the human lineage...

Ngày tải lên: 19/02/2014, 17:20

... scrutinize the signs of the times and of interpreting them in the light of the Gospel”.8 Some of these factors limit what leaders can to realise the good by constricting their behaviour and closing ... talents, energies, and skills to serve the needs of others which, in turn, supports the development of the people who the work The tasks they perform in common bring forth the goods and services needed ... also know the power and grace of receptivity This refusal to receive is found in our origins, in the story of the fall of Adam and Eve, when God commanded them not to eat of the tree of the knowledge...

Ngày tải lên: 06/03/2014, 21:20