... denying that what counts as culture is often ambiguous and that the state has a hand in shaping cultural identity, just as it has a hand in shaping identities based on race, class, nationality, and ... Justice/Cultural Justice, coedited with Barbara Arneil, Monique Deveaux, and Rita Dhamoon; and Diversity and Equality I am grateful to my co-editors andto all the contributors to these volumes ... which to reveal bias, inequality, and partiality that masquerade as fair decisions and neutral principles Institutions with the capacity to assess when identity claims legitimize entitlements are...
... adjuvant alternative, to Freund’s complete adjuvant and may be of value in immunization against visceral leishmaniasis” (Leishmania infantum was the bacteria they used in this experiment) At the Tokyo ... had a zero total mortality rate, compared toa full 29% mortality rate for the ones who got the placebo!!! A zero mortality rate! The doctors said macrophages are key to immunity, and glucans are ... be up-regulated by both oral and parenteral administration of oat beta glucan and these enhanced responses may play an important role in providing resistance to bacterial and parasitic infection...
... a public health advisory warning patientsand healthcare professionals of this serious drug interaction, and advised that the concomitant use of fluticasone and ritonavir be avoided, unless the ... Hospital of Eastern Ontario, Ottawa, Ontario, Canada 2University of Western Ontario, London, Ontario, Canada 3McMaster University, Hamilton, Ontario, Canada 4University of Calgary, Alberta Children’s ... hypothalamus and pituitary gland, which leads to decreased secretion of CRH and ACTH and, in turn, reduced production and secretion of cortisol This negative-feedback loop allows the HPA axis to...
... English language The author would also like to thank his parents for their constant support and care Abstract This thesis introduces a novel approach tothe analysis and control ofa portfolio of ... “good” given his application characteristics andthe probability ofa cardholder being “bad” given his application characteristics, to be a linear combination ofthe characteristic variables Let ... multivariate Gaussian distributions The decision rule is then a quadratic expression of x, called quadratic discriminant analysis (QDA) The outputs ofthe discriminant analysis are the estimations of the...
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... gray, and dark gray, respectively The direction of view is approximately perpendicular tothe helical axis in panels Aand B, andis parallel tothe helical axis in panels C and D rapid exchange ... spectra of NATA (a and b) and D16W-D24)37 GGN4 (c and d) in water (a and c) and in 10 mM SDS micelles (b and d) were measured with an excitation wavelength of 280 nm positioned among the acyl chains ... GGN4 analogue with both the C-terminal 14 residue truncation andthe substitution ofthe aspartic acid at position 16 by tryptophan, showed antimicrobial activity comparable to that of native...
... then the Riemann integral andthe Lebesgue integral coincide 1.8 Random variables and their distributions 1.8.1 Random variables and vectors Loosely speaking, a random variable isa numerical translation ... variables 5.4 Independence of linear and quadratic transformations of multivariate normal random variables 5.5 Distribution of quadratic forms of multivariate normal random variables 5.6 Applications ... number of sets then itisa σ-algebra Consequently, an algebra of subsets ofa finite set Ω isa σ& algebra However, an algebra of subsets of an infinite set Ω is not necessarily a σ& algebra A counter...
... then the Riemann integral andthe Lebesgue integral coincide 1.8 Random variables and their distributions 1.8.1 Random variables and vectors Loosely speaking, a random variable isa numerical translation ... variables 5.4 Independence of linear and quadratic transformations of multivariate normal random variables 5.5 Distribution of quadratic forms of multivariate normal random variables 5.6 Applications ... number of sets then itisa σ-algebra Consequently, an algebra of subsets ofa finite set Ω isa σ& algebra However, an algebra of subsets of an infinite set Ω is not necessarily a σ& algebra A counter...
... kidney and ureter stones and was also used to disintegrate gallstones as well as pancreatic stones and stones in the salivary glands Early lithotripters required the patient to be immersed in a misshapen ... to be carried out into the characteristic physical parameters ofthe shock wave field The temporal and spatial pressure distribution isthe most important of all criteria, as all other quantities ... that the focal point is located well clear ofthe therapy head This allows the shock waves to penetrate deep into the tissue, and thus the treatment of obese patients as well – particularly important...
... probably fair to claim the antithetic estimator will take twice the time to simulate than the standard estimator With this assumption, the antithetic estimator will reduce the variance if it has ... J¨ackel [Kah0 5a] , Zhu [Zhu08], Halley, Malham and Wiese [Hal09] and Glasserman and Kim [Gla09] Broadie and Kaya [Bro06] discuss a sampling approach which can simulate realisations from the Heston model ... option The spread ofthe 500 estimates around the mean is smaller for the antithetic variate approach than the standard approach, both in the full range and inter-quantile range However, the reduction...
... equally with any other life, whatever the quality that life has If the person whose life itis values it, then itis worth the same as any other valued life, both to that person and, for example, ... a child who is not disabled, and that parent chooses to bring to birth a disabled child, the parent is choosing to bring disability into the world He argues that itis morally wrong in such a ... it can either exist deaf or not exist at all Harris talks of ‘depriving it [the deaf child] of one of its senses’ (Harris, 200 0a: p 99) The ‘deaf’ embryo is not denied anything by not being able...
... that these NC mutations cause a defect in the late step of Gag assembly The fact that NC ZF mutants have lost, at least in part, their high binding affinity for the viral RNA [76] and also for the ... Ejtehadi HD, Freimanis GL, Ali HA, Bowman S, Alavi A, Axford J, Callaghan R, Nelson PN: The potential role of human endogenous retrovirus K10 in the pathogenesis of rheumatoid arthritis: a preliminary ... reverse transcription ofthe incorporated multispliced viral RNAs A fraction of this viral DNA was found to be functional since it directed Tat synthesis and LTR activation in human cells [72] These...