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Tài liệu Fertility, Family Planning, and Women’s Health: New Data From the 1995 National Survey of Family Growth pptx

Tài liệu Fertility, Family Planning, and Women’s Health: New Data From the 1995 National Survey of Family Growth pptx

... who had moved since the NHIS interview were traced to their new address, and an interviewer conducted the interview at the new address The numbers, percents, averages, and other statistics shown ... and Human Development, and the Office of Population Affairs, with additional support from the Administration for Children and Families—all of the U.S Department of Health and Human Services These ... in the years 1991–94 In each individual calendar year and for the sum of the years 1991–94, the NSFG estimate of the number of births is very close to the birth certificate total and differs from...

Ngày tải lên: 12/02/2014, 23:20

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Extending past research in extra role behavior unleasing a new paradigm from the prism of knowledge sharing and whistleblowing

Extending past research in extra role behavior unleasing a new paradigm from the prism of knowledge sharing and whistleblowing

... self-monitoring disposition on the effects of these incentives Study is quite different in focus from the other two While studies and examined the role of situational and dispositional factors on ... INTRODUCTION AND LITERATURE REVIEW 1.1 Introduction New knowledge is created when people transfer and share what they know, internalize it and apply what they learned The value and worth of ... associated with helping others and relatively less concerned with their self-image Furthermore, their approach to others should not be contingent on familiarity or the closeness of their relationships...

Ngày tải lên: 12/09/2015, 11:24

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Information content and policy implications of stock splits, new evidence from the saudi arabian capital market

Information content and policy implications of stock splits, new evidence from the saudi arabian capital market

... content and determines the magnitude and the direction of relationships among them The third study concentrates on investigating the changes made to the market structure and whether or not the stated ... adjust their par values from SR 100 to SR 50 and thus imposes a 2-for-l split of their shares The firms and the entire market received the announcement (signal) in the same way and at the same ... went to the company in which the shares were traded to transfer the ownership of shares from the seller to the buyer A new certificate of shares would then be issued for the buyer including the number...

Ngày tải lên: 30/09/2015, 16:34

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A Call from the Dark

A Call from the Dark

... it’s way too expensive), but most of the time I just wolf down the cereal and slurp the milk from the bowl I quickly stuck on the same clothes I’d had on the night before I’ve got pretty simple ... they'd lost, sort of like the tooth fairy, yeah? But then these two kids mysteriously disappear, and the locals freak out and they think she’s murdered the kids, so they hang her, right?’ As ... Robert?’ The thought made my skin crawl ‘I’d totally freak.’ I placed the empty Night Falls cover to one side and gathered up the rest of the returned videos and DVDs There weren’t as many as there...

Ngày tải lên: 06/11/2012, 16:13

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Environmental regulation and economic competitiveness: Evidence from the textile industry in Vietnam

Environmental regulation and economic competitiveness: Evidence from the textile industry in Vietnam

... to their improvement of their environmental performance; and (3) their responses to the current environmental standards and policies and the impacts on their economic competitiveness 25 With the ... regulations, like the US and EU markets, have to meet and anticipate these high standards But once satisfying these standards, they are more likely to have higher penetration rate and the companies’ ... impacts The thesis would bring some insights into the environmental legal regulation in Vietnam and the impacts they have on the industry I.1 Research questions The thesis aims to answer the following...

Ngày tải lên: 24/08/2013, 18:48

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Tài liệu University Oars Being a Critical Enquiry Into the After Health of the Men Who Rowed in the Oxford and Cambridge Boat-Race, from the Year 1829 to 1869, Based on the Personal Experience of the Rowers Themselves pdf

Tài liệu University Oars Being a Critical Enquiry Into the After Health of the Men Who Rowed in the Oxford and Cambridge Boat-Race, from the Year 1829 to 1869, Based on the Personal Experience of the Rowers Themselves pdf

... rows in the race ought to live till the age of 60; and if all the members of the Oxford 1829 crew had lived till the 10th of June, 1869, the 40th anniversary of the race, and then died, their lives ... Reports on the health of the navy, and find from them that among sailors the disorders of the chest occasion about 28 per cent, of the general death-rate ; while the Reports on the health of the army ... next consider the cases of six old Oars who have died since their rowing days—five of them from consumption, and one from heart disease How far they suffered from their labours on the river it...

Ngày tải lên: 14/02/2014, 21:20

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Tài liệu Fresh Light from the Ancient Monuments docx

Tài liệu Fresh Light from the Ancient Monuments docx

... For the dogs and their young " On the other face we have: "On the new- moon of the month Peûlat: For the gods of the new- moon two For the masters of the days, incense and peace-offering For the ... Jahaz, and took it to annex it to Dibon I built Kirkha, the wall of the forest, and the wall of the city, and I built the gates thereof, and I built the towers thereof, and I built the palace, and ... was light to (darkness) was turned (Col III) " (The surface) of the land like (fire?) they wasted; (they destroyed all) life from the face of the land; to battle against men they brought (the...

Ngày tải lên: 21/02/2014, 11:20

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Tài liệu Báo cáo Y học: A Raman optical activity study of rheomorphism in caseins, synucleins and tau New insight into the structure and behaviour of natively unfolded proteins pot

Tài liệu Báo cáo Y học: A Raman optical activity study of rheomorphism in caseins, synucleins and tau New insight into the structure and behaviour of natively unfolded proteins pot

... strand, individually or within b sheet, so the well-de®ned negative band at » 1245 cm)1 in the ROA spectrum of j-casein is assigned here to b strand (rather than b sheet from the appearance of the ... structures with some evidence from UVCD and 1H-NMR studies on short peptides that the former is likely to be in the Cterminal half and the latter in the N-terminal half of the protein [29,48±51] Sequence-based ... Some of the negative ROA intensity in the range » 1240±1266 cm)1 may be due to b strand These data suggest that, as in the caseins and synucleins, the major conformational element present in the...

Ngày tải lên: 21/02/2014, 15:20

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Monetary Policy Surprises and Interest Rates: Evidence from the Fed Funds Futures Market doc

Monetary Policy Surprises and Interest Rates: Evidence from the Fed Funds Futures Market doc

... represents the yields on 3- 6- and 12-month bills, 2- 5- and 10-year notes, and 30-year bonds The results appear in Table Two main conclusions emerge from the table The first is that the coefficient on the ... change too much from one day to the next The only contamination is the day τ targeting error, and the revision in the expectation of future targeting errors.5 The expected component of the change ... (1990) These the December 19 move is treated as if it occurred on the 18th, and the difference between closing futures rate on the 18th and the opening rate on the 19th is used to measure the surprise...

Ngày tải lên: 06/03/2014, 02:21

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Deep Recessions, Fast Recoveries, and Financial Crises: Evidence from the American Record ppt

Deep Recessions, Fast Recoveries, and Financial Crises: Evidence from the American Record ppt

... recoveries from 1880 to the present Figure shows the quarterly path of GDP from the preceding peak to the trough of each business cycle and then the quarterly path of GDP from the trough for the same ... pattern: the recovery from the Great Contraction in the 1930s; the recovery after the recession of the early 1990s and the present recovery The present recovery is strikingly more tepid than the 1990s ... pattern: the recovery from the Great Contraction in the 1930s; the recovery after the recession of the early 1990s and the present recovery The present recovery is strikingly more tepid than the 1990s...

Ngày tải lên: 06/03/2014, 19:20

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Social Marketing and Public Health Lessons from the Field pptx

Social Marketing and Public Health Lessons from the Field pptx

... grandmothers as the appropriate source for the intervention The grandmothers who participated in formative research developed the chitterlings cleaning method for their peers Having the grandmothers ... Carolina, and Virginia) and two national organizations: the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) and the Association of State and Territorial Health Officials (ASTHO) The mission of the ... who enjoyed their work were featured in various media, focusing on what they liked about the work and the conditions, and the importance of their role Although paid advertisements and public service...

Ngày tải lên: 07/03/2014, 00:20

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Credit-risk valuation in the sovereign CDS and bonds markets: Evidence from the euro area crisis ppt

Credit-risk valuation in the sovereign CDS and bonds markets: Evidence from the euro area crisis ppt

... update the influence of the new observations quicker than the 1,000-day windows and to estimate the price-discovery metrics for the years 2006 and 2007 On the other hand, the 1,000-day windows ... points (bp) for Germany and the highest one was 23 bp points for Greece For the same period, the lowest average bond spread was bp for both France and The Netherlands, and the highest average was ... average and the volatility of CDS and bond spreads over the subsequent years (from 2009 on) in most of the countries and especially in the peripheral ones (Greece, Ireland, Portugal, Spain, and Italy)...

Ngày tải lên: 15/03/2014, 07:20

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Báo cáo khoa học: Choline increases serum insulin in rat when injected intraperitoneally and augments basal and stimulated aceylcholine release from the rat minced pancreas in vitro pptx

Báo cáo khoa học: Choline increases serum insulin in rat when injected intraperitoneally and augments basal and stimulated aceylcholine release from the rat minced pancreas in vitro pptx

... experiments The animals were fed a standard pellet diet and tap water ad libitum and were exposed to a 12-h light- dark cycle The experimental protocol was approved by the Animal Care and Use Committee ... receptors, and the stimulation of catecholamine release from the adrenal gland and subsequent activation of a-adrenoceptors involves in the hyperglycemic response to choline [41] The observed ... USA) and 20 mM MgCl2 and incubated for 30 to remove excess choline After the incubation period, mL of 0.001 M HCl was added to the tube and the column procedure was repeated once again The recovery...

Ngày tải lên: 17/03/2014, 09:20

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Báo cáo khoa học: Characterization of scorpion a-like toxin group using two new toxins from the scorpion Leiurus quinquestriatus hebraeus doc

Báo cáo khoa học: Characterization of scorpion a-like toxin group using two new toxins from the scorpion Leiurus quinquestriatus hebraeus doc

... [23] On the other hand, the binding of the a-like toxin 125I-labeled Lqh3 (site 3), was inhibited by Lqh6 and Lqh7 as well as by the insect a-toxin, LqhaIT, and by the a-like toxins, Bom3 and Bom4 ... Purification and sequence analysis of two new toxins from L quinquestriatus hebraeus By fractionation on C18 Nucleosil column, the ionexchange fractions and from the venom yielded the new toxins ... structural and functional properties that differentiate them from classicalor anti-insect a-toxins, they also differ from each other in their pharmacological profile (Table 1) These differences further...

Ngày tải lên: 17/03/2014, 11:20

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101 Quick and Easy Ideas Taken from the Master Photographers of the Twentieth Century

101 Quick and Easy Ideas Taken from the Master Photographers of the Twentieth Century

... obviously took the picture from the center of the road When you go to emulate the shot, you will be emulating only the subject and roughly, at that The other elements of the photograph light, color, ... long time Another thing I discovered was that the great photographers (and artists) of the twentieth century were interconnected—they knew each other and learned from one another The book begins ... matrix mode will adjust the highlights and shadow in your frame for the best contrast between light and dark because it measures the light from different points throughout the frame Redefining Sky...

Ngày tải lên: 20/03/2014, 21:44

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Wars and Child Health: Evidence from the Eritrean-Ethiopian Conflict pdf

Wars and Child Health: Evidence from the Eritrean-Ethiopian Conflict pdf

... exposure to the war) and temporal (within a given region, the timing of whether a child was born during the war period) These variables are binary and indicate whether a child was born before the war ... for boys and girls born during the war in the war regions of Eritrea and Ethiopia, and the magnitude of the negative impacts appears comparable for boys and girls Additionally, both boys and girls ... for the rest of their life (Thomas, Lavy, and Strauss, 1996) We compute Z-scores for each child’s heightfor-age, where the Z-score is defined as the difference between the child’s height and the...

Ngày tải lên: 22/03/2014, 09:20

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Báo cáo " Teaching efl writing in Vietnam: Problems and solutions - a discussion from the outlook of applied linguistics " doc

Báo cáo " Teaching efl writing in Vietnam: Problems and solutions - a discussion from the outlook of applied linguistics " doc

... sharing the correction workload with them For example, the teacher can let students the peer correction, which sensitizes students to the problems in their own paper, and gives them the sense ... contexts, and meaning is instantiated through language use Grabe and Kaplan [5] also emphasize that only teachers who understand theory and make a transition from theory to practice can make the most ... progress in the writing process, what they can achieve at each stage and how they evaluate their own and their peer’s work Portfolio assessment is also reliable because it has specific and clear...

Ngày tải lên: 22/03/2014, 10:20

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Báo cáo khoa học: A new sulfurtransferase from the hyperthermophilic bacterium Aquifex aeolicus Being single is not so simple when temperature gets high potx

Báo cáo khoa học: A new sulfurtransferase from the hyperthermophilic bacterium Aquifex aeolicus Being single is not so simple when temperature gets high potx

... TTHA0613 from T thermophilus HB8 We have shown that: (a) the monomeric form was less stable than the oligomers, and (b) the concentration and or substrate induce the dimerization and the tetramerization ... aq477 is anked by genes panD and aq478 Because a single base pair separates the termination and initiation codons for panD and aq477, they appear to be organized as an operon panD encodes an aspartate ... detected The rhodanese fold was rst observed in the crystal structure of bovine mitochondrial rhodanese [19] and later in the crystal structures of TTHA0613 from Thermus thermophilus HB8 and At5g66040.1...

Ngày tải lên: 30/03/2014, 03:20

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scientific american  special edition  -  2003 vol 13 no3  -  new light on the solar system

scientific american special edition - 2003 vol 13 no3 - new light on the solar system

... evaporating the clouds from below A positive feedback ensued: the more the clouds eroded, the less sunlight was reflected, the hotter the surface became, the more the clouds were evaporated from below, and ... the impactors may have come from the asteroid belt region between 2.0 astronomical units (AU, the mean distance from Earth to the sun) and 3.5 AU Alessandro Morbidelli of the Observatory of the ... deduced the thickness of the Martian crust: roughly 40 kilometers under the northern plains and 70 kilometers under the far southern highlands The crust is especially thick (red) under the giant...

Ngày tải lên: 12/05/2014, 16:27

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household liquidity and financial innovations evidence from the survey of consumer finances

household liquidity and financial innovations evidence from the survey of consumer finances

... Reproduced with permission of the copyright owner Further reproduction prohibited without permission Reproduced with permission of the copyright owner Further reproduction prohibited without ... permission Reproduced with permission of the copyright owner Further reproduction prohibited without permission Reproduced with permission of the copyright owner Further reproduction prohibited without ... permission Reproduced with permission of the copyright owner Further reproduction prohibited without permission Reproduced with permission of the copyright owner Further reproduction prohibited without...

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