... despite their background Many women found that, for the first time, they had a controlling power They could have a second role alongside that of wife or mother, and by 1944, seven and a half million ... in the documentaries of the early 1940s Nonetheless, the film made cinema audiences sit up once again and pay attention to the fact that they needed to remain united in order to win the war The ... production whose nationalistic themes reflected the propagandist themes desired by the government Here was the hope for the future, a utopia hat never really stayed for very long To conclude,...
... the 2001 values from the U.S Census Bureau and forecasts and projections for inflation from the Congressional Budget Office The cost of the child tax credit and EITC includes the outlay component ... rates, the 10% bracket, the child tax credit, the child and dependent care credit, the limitation of itemized deductions, the personal exemption phaseout, the AMT, as well as the standard deduction, ... rates, the 10% bracket, the child tax credit, the child and dependent care credit, the limitation of itemized deductions, the personal exemption phaseout, the AMT, as well as the standard deduction,...
... written onthe distinction between law onthe one hand and li, the rites or rituals representing the norms of Confucian virtue, onthe other Studies of traditional Chinese law commonly begin by contrasting ... of the Mura, 58 Constitutions and Codes: The Making of the Contemporary Legal Order, 67 The Meiji Transformation, 67 Reform and Reaction, 72 The Civil Code Controversy, 75 The Meiji Constitution ... Reconsidered, 77 II Cohesion with Conflict: The Containment of Legal Controls Lawsuits and Lawyers: The Making of a Myth, 83 Adaptation, Revision, andthe Rediscovery of Tradition, 85 81 x Contents...
... glycopeptides only, and Stenotrophomonas maltophilia, sensitive to ofloxacin only Polymicrobial wound contamination also included contamination with fungi (for instance, Candida albicans as well as non-albicans ... dressing changes These procedures are conceptually simple and common standard [18] In the interim between surgery and secondary closure, with or without skin grafting, we demonstrate the effective use ... transfer and triage at Cologne-Bonn Military Airport Detailed information on triage and initial care in the disaster region [8,9] and medical aspects associated with the airlift to Germany have been...
... 3.1 Effect of reducing the electrode size on electropolymerization reaction The size of the electrode andthe architecture of the electrochemical cell have a large effectonthe kinetics of the ... Photograph of the chip employed andthe scheme giving their dimensions andthe procedure for multi-detection analysis andthe geometry of the chip integration influences the sensitivity and selectivity ... (2D) and three-dimensional (3D) In the instantaneous nucleation mechanism the number of nuclei is constant and they grow in their former positions onthe bare substrate without the formation of...
... Commission on Professional Accounting Education was established and co sponsored by the AICPA, the American Accounting Association, the Federation of Schools of Accountancy andthe National Association ... WorldCom represents the largest bankruptcy in U.S history and comes onthe heals o f the Enron scandal Through its well know brand MCI, WorldCom is the second largest long-distance phone company In ... profession has also been hurt by the recent scandals at Enron Corporation and WorldCom (Blackburn, 2002) The profession has taken the brunt o f criticism for the events at Enron in what amounts to the...
... skills And every manager and executive Table IV Comparison between online and traditional MBA Comparative dimension Online MBA Traditional MBA Price The same for both the online and traditional ... comparison/contrast of the content in traditional and electronic marketing planning courses (Smith, 2001) The online MBA acceptability Since the distance MBA graduates have been onthe market for only ... the traditional one (20-30 students), because the instructor has to contact each one, and monitor student participation and level during the course For the students it is also costly, since they...
... the contribution of Virginia Bond, Gill Walt and Lucy Gilson Research collaboration was supported by the Evidence for Action research consortium at the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, ... a further strain onthe day-to-day running of the ART programme Mentoring andthe secondment of GHI staff to the public sector In addition to training, the PEPFAR implementing organizations in ... provided resources for these meetings, their organization and arrangements are the responsibility of the district focal person, in addition to his or her clinical workload The rationale for making...
... exchange of long wave radiation Ln (MJ.m-2.day-1) between vegetation and soil onthe one hand, and atmosphere and clouds onthe other, can be represented by the following radiation law [3, 10, 17]: ⎛ ... Assimilation System) information AVHRR provides information on globe land classification at 30 s resolution [13] Fig 2.b shows the vegetation classification at 30 s resolution for the Nong Son catchment ... results of monthly potential evapotranspiration From the land cover data and vegetationrelated parameters in the Nong Son catchment, andthe monthly meteorological data at the Tra Table Monthly average...
... Army convert the resource inputs they receive into institutional outputs that they then deliver to external operational and nonoperational users These users apply the institutional outputs they ... accessioning, and shortterm acquisition services to the operating force What Effective Alignment Means The ACP andthe APS summarize senior leadership views of how the operational and institutional ... questions for RAND to answer illustrates the profound challenge that the Army leadership faces in its ongoing efforts to improve the alignment of the operational and institutional portions of the...
... characterizing the thermal denaturation of Tk-RNase HII andits derivatives The melting temperature (Tm) is the temperature of the mid-point of the thermal denaturation transition The difference in the ... greatly reduced when the concentration of the metal ion exceeds the optimum, suggesting that metal ions are inhibitory at high concentrations The pH- and salt-dependencies of the Sc-RNase H2* activity ... determine the dissociation constant, KD, the concentration of the protein injected onto the sensor chip was varied in the range 20–100 nm for Tk-RNase HII and Tk-G10A; 30–150 nm for Tk-G10S; and 20–100...
... prepared in the same condition exhibited considerable absorption in visible light regions, while UV-TiO2 thin films exhibited absorption only in the UV region (l < 380 nm) Vis-TiO2/Ti were then reacted ... Vis-TiO2/Ti/Pt and NaOH(X)-Vis-TiO2/Ti/Pt The container consists of two water phases separated by a TiO2 thin film and proton-exchange membrane (Na on film) Prior to the reaction, the reaction cell was ... two aqueous solutions, as shown in Fig A Na on film is also mounted onthe H-type glass container to provide the electrical connections which allow the electron transfer between the two separated...
... sHsp The primary structure of the a-crystallin domain of human sHsp is very conservative andthe loop connecting the b5 and b7 strands is shorter than the corresponding loop connecting the b5 and ... of the proteins analyzed The amplitude, position andthe width of the protein peaks were not dependent onthe transient heating These data suggest that the wild-type HSP22 andits mutants belong ... a-helix content and a high content of unordered and b-structures Mutation K137E had no dramatic effectonthe far-UV CD spectra and a blue shift of only 2– nm was observed in the position of the negative...
... calculated The monomers of p-gMDH were also superimposed and a pairwise comparison was done The results are shown in the plot The solid line is r, the standard deviation, at each Ca position andthe ... the precursor and mature forms A comparison of the steady state parameters was made to test theeffect of the N-terminal extension onthe catalytic reaction The v0 values were obtained from the ... intermediates The binding of substrate is believed to draw the loop further into the active site andthe conformational change may be necessary for catalysis [16] The second conformational variation occurs...
... variable and y is the value of the function Airy functions - solutions of the Airy equation The equation has two linearly independent solulions, conventionally taken as the Airy integral functions ... the correlation distance, N is the length or the series The argument of the autocorrelation function is the correlation distance k andthe function value at k expre\\e\ the average correlation ... which then allows the decoupling of the motion of the nuclei and electrons motion See also Born-Oppenheimer approximation Aharonov-Rohm effect adhesion - the property of a matter to cling to another...
... manipulations of atoms These are transfer on- or near-contact, field evaporation and electromigration The transfer on- or near-contact is conceptually the simplest among the atomic manipulation processes ... where k is the correlation distance and N is the n=1 length of the series The argument of the autocorrelation function is the correlation distance k, andthe function value at k expresses the average ... supposes the tip to be moved toward the adsorbate until the adsorption well onthe tip and surface sides of the junction coalesce That is, the energy barrier separating the two wells is gone and the...
... of the baby boomers die Yet theJapanese government andthe two major parties have given little thought to predicting long-term trends in the supply of and demand for medical practitioners in the ... in theJapanese population and age distribution proposed additional increase in the student quota will cause a doctor surplus Through computer simulation, we projected thefuture increase in the ... persons) Comparison of the two scenarios Figure 10 compares the two scenarios’ results in terms of the numbers of medical doctors per 1000 persons throughout the projection period Discussion The...
... perfusion It also targets muscle tissue, specifically the thenar muscle SDF monitors the capillaries and venules (not arterioles), but this device monitors the actual flow and perfusion and their ... conceiving the study, acquiring and managing the data, analyzing the data and interpreting the results, drafting and revising the manuscript, and approving the manuscript in its final form RA, KK, and ... managing the data, revising the manuscript, and approving the manuscript in its final form RT contributed to analyzing the data and interpreting the results, revising the manuscript, and approving the...
... dielectric constant at room temperature and 10 kHz for the PVDF/CNT original composites for a given concentration and a shift of the percolation threshold to higher concentrations Onthe other hand, ... to the reduction of the surface conductivity of the CNTs due to the oxidation process [8], and is similar for all the functionalized composites Further, the increase of surface area due to the ... functionalization treatment certainly causes surface defects onthe CNTs that also reduced electrical conductivity The increase of agglomerations for the treated samples should not have, onthe other...
... non-resonant excitation brings to light the sensitizing effect of Si-np towards Nd3+ ions The evolution of the integrated PL intensity of the Sinp PL band andthe 920-nm PL peak is shown in the ... http://www.nanoscalereslett.com/content/6/1/161 function of the Nd concentration andthe annealing temperature in relation with their microstructures The Nd-doped silicon-rich silicon oxide (SRSO) thin layers were synthesized ... with the one of Si-np Reminding that the PL measurements were done under non-resonant excitation, this behavior underlines the strong coupling between Si-np and Nd 3+ ions, and, accordingly, the...