c the styles of journalism and political debate

... thin concepts and thick judgements offer a fusion of empirical content and reason-giving consequences Thick ethical concepts are concepts such as brutality and cowardice Thin concepts, because of ... to avoid difficulties in the case of successful reduction If a discourse is successfully reduced to another, are its sentences, couched in the canonical vocabulary of the reduced discipline, still ... how this form of political liberalism can accommodate key emphases taken to be the exclusive preserve of the communitarian, centrally the concepts of citizenship and of civil society The result...

Ngày tải lên: 11/06/2014, 09:44

... more democratic structures, less corruption, etc – have significantly lower transaction costs.10 Finally, we assess the economic significance of the impact of political risk on transaction costs ... that the efficiency of judicial system variable loses explanatory power in the presence of either CIFAR or Political Risk In contrast, the CIFAR index and Political risk scores 12 significantly ... political structures within the country For example, Treisman (2000) argues that the prevalence of corruption is related to the country’s historical, cultural, economic and political characteristics...

Ngày tải lên: 31/10/2014, 12:03

... all of the cells of the immune system, including B cells for the circulation and the lymph nodes and spleen; T cells for the thymus; and macrophages and dendritic cells The complex cell production ... Center for Science and Society, Institute for Genomics and Bioinformatics, Schools of Biological Science, Social Science, Social Ecology, Medicine, Humanities, and Information and Computer Science, ... both scienti c and political advances move quickly, and stem cell research and its political, scienti c, and ethical climate are changing rapidly It is because of this debate that we have compiled...

Ngày tải lên: 11/06/2014, 12:52

... also cloned the cDNA encoding rabbit fast skeletal TnI from the back muscle of rabbit by RT-PCR using the primer set, RTnI1F (5¢-CAAACCTCACCATGGGAGAT GAAG-3¢) and RTnI181R (5¢-CCCCGGAGCCGGATCC CCAGCCCC-3¢) ... 232–292), combinations of the forward and reverse primers, ATnI1F (5¢-CATATCACCATGGGTTCCCTTG-3¢) and ATnI292R (5¢-CTTGATTTGGATCCTTTAAGGTA TAGC-3¢), ATnI1F and ATnI128R (5¢-GTTCCGGATC CTATCTTCTGGCTTCC-3¢), ... volumes of M urea solution and then run on SDS ⁄ PAGE Lanes a and d, in the absence of both TnC and Ca2+; lanes b and e, in the presence of TnC and the absence of Ca2+; lanes c and f, in the presence...

Ngày tải lên: 20/02/2014, 01:20

... 5¢-GGTTGCCAGCATCC AGAGTACTGGTGGCATCGTCC-3¢ and for TAP2 the complementary primers 5¢-GGATGAGGCTACCAGTAC TCTGGACGCCGAGTGCG-3¢ and 5¢-CGCACTCGGC GTCCAGAGTACTGGTAGCCTCATCC-3¢ All primers were purchased ... used the complementary primers 5¢-GGATGAGGCTACCAGTGC TC TGGACGCCTAG TGCGAGCAGGC-3¢ and 5¢-GCCTGCTCGCACTAGG CGTCCAGAGCACTGGTAGCCTCATCC-3¢ All TAP constructs were transfected into T2 cells by electroporation ... CAGGGCACTGGTGGCATCGTCC-3¢ and complementary primers 5¢-GGATGAGGCTACCAGTGCCCT GGATGCTGGCAACC-3¢ and 5¢-GGTTGCCAGCATC CAGGGCACTGGTAGCCTCATCC-3¢ for 2V1 The resulting TAP constructs were cloned into the EcoRI site of...

Ngày tải lên: 20/02/2014, 02:21

... 565 The Corpus For creating SentiCorpus-PT we compiled a collection of comments posted by the readers of the Portuguese newspaper Público to a series of 10 news articles covering the TV debates ... automatically constructing a domain-specific corpus, to be used in the automatic classification of movie reviews The authors selected a collection of movie reviews where user ratings were explicitly ... on the 2009 election of the Portuguese Parliament These took place between the 2nd and the 12th of September, 2009, and involved the candidates from the largest Portuguese parties The whole collection...

Ngày tải lên: 20/02/2014, 05:20

... of CytOX V [10,32] The regulation of genes CytOX5a and CytOX5b, coding for the two isofoms Va and Vb, parallels that of genes CYC1 and CYC7, which encode iso-1 and iso-2 of yeast cytochrome c, ... the absence of differential regulation of a speci c nuclear gene coding for the subunits of CytOX, changes in the microenvironment of the cell may induce alterations in the catalytic efficiency ... nonspeci c and toxic effects in animals To ascertain that the effects of these agents, on the catalytic activity and subunit composition of CytOX were related to their hypoxia-speci c effects, we...

Ngày tải lên: 20/02/2014, 23:20

... with the notion of microfinance displacing the public sector as the provider of public goods and services Politically it gives rise to equity concerns when the public sectors of developing countries ... illustrate the conflict between inherent economic goods characteristics and societal choices, briefly consider the example of education Access to instruction, classrooms and materials is perfectly excludable ... subsequent theoretical analysis of the characteristics of water and sanitation points to the importance of their publicgoods characteristics, which reflect ways water can be used as well as the societal...

Ngày tải lên: 16/03/2014, 09:20

... policies on the finance of HE Higher Education Finance in the 1960s and 1970s In the 1960s the economics of education was in its infancy as a branch of economics, and the concepts of human capital ... however, they believe the choice of the precise mix depends more on the practical and social constraints of a given society and on the political process than on the rational views of researchers and ... concept of cost-sharing (the subject of the next section), as well as the concept of education as investment 21 The Concept of Cost-Sharing in Higher Education The idea that since the benefits of...

Ngày tải lên: 17/03/2014, 08:20

... cell culture on the fidelity of replication of HCV We tested the impact of long-term in vitro culturing on CIMM-HCV sequences Samples of PCLB-T4a and PCLBT4b, which had been cultured for months and ... 313 The sequences in that region are ACCCCCCCUCCCG, where the A was in position 119 The additions and deletions we are reporting here occur in the C' s proximal to A As shown in Figure 8A, the ... transmissions, and retransmissions of HCV JGP performed the clinical work, recruitment of patients, and procurement of specimens DR, MOA, RSB, DB, and NC performed the molecular work Acknowledgements The California...

Ngày tải lên: 20/06/2014, 02:20

... forms of the parent acids Carboxylic acids in cells, including LACTIC ACID, CITRIC ACID, and FATTY ACIDS like PALMITIC ACID and OLEIC ACID, have been neutralized and exist in cells only as their conjugate ... Mexico and the Mayans of Central America Chocolate CANDY originated in 1847 The candy contains 50 percent sugar, roasted cocoa, and cocoa FAT, which is a saturated fat Usually the darker the chocolate, ... acid Pyruvic acid is shortened to acetic acid and the carbon atom is removed as CARBON DIOXIDE An activated form of acetic acid called acetyl COENZYME A is used to synthesize FATTY ACIDS and CHOLESTEROL...

Ngày tải lên: 02/07/2014, 14:20

... flora The uptake via colostrum of speci c antibodies against actinobacilli present in the oral cavity of the mare would provide the foal with protection against infection with these strains The ... The aim of this study was to establish whether speci c antibodies against actinobacilli present in the oral cavity of healthy mares could be detected in their serum and colostrum and if such antibodies ... flora of the oral cavity and, although a common site for actinobacilli, this is only one of many reservoirs for opportunistic pathogens that can infect the newborn foal The presence or absence of...

Ngày tải lên: 12/08/2014, 15:20

... between the SOFA score and CRP and PCT concentrations were calculated Since PCT concentrations were not normally distributed, PCT data were analyzed using four categories of the SOFA to which patients ... concentrations within the four groups of increasing categories of the SOFA score are shown in Figs and Median of PCT concentrations significantly increased with increasing SOFA score levels of the patients ... Age, Chronic Health Evaluation; PCT, procalcitonin; CRP, C- reactive peptide Figure Plasma concentrations of the corresponding C- reactive protein (CRP) concentrations of patients within four categories...

Ngày tải lên: 12/08/2014, 18:20

... such as occurrence of bleeding The incidence of major bleeding was low and within the expected range for therapeutic dose enoxaparin alone One of the two cases of severe bleeding occurred in the ... thrombolytic drugs, surgical or catheter embolectomy, occurrence of allergic reactions, diagnosis or heparin-induced thrombocytopenia type (HIT-2), other types of thrombocytopenia, worsening of symptoms ... endogenous activated protein C, despite a high level of coagulation activation and presence of intact endothelium • Treatment with therapeutic dose enoxaparin reduces the level of coagulation activation,...

Ngày tải lên: 14/08/2014, 07:21

... Although the audience of CASS or RCBH research was largely limited to state officials or other academics, when the research focus of the Northeast project became controversial and the focus of regional, ... research, such as the Northeast project, was often inseparable from political developments and served to achieve a specific political agenda The geo -political context behind the China’s Northeast ... important document that presented the State’s conception of the Chinese nation and set the tone for political, economic and social direction in post-Mao China The preamble of the 1982 Constitution...

Ngày tải lên: 13/10/2015, 15:57

... to accommodate large numbers of communicating processors, they add the characteristic NUMA remote memory access delay The difficulties in keeping cache contents consistent through such switches ... individual CPUs accessing the bus through a cache Cache contents are synchronized Write operations by one CPU will either update or flush the appropriate cache blocks visible to other CPUs Access times ... the use of tasks and threads A task is the basic unit of resource allocation It includes a paged virtual address space and protected access to system resources such as processors and communication...

Ngày tải lên: 12/09/2012, 15:05

... answer: The two decades between 1975 and 1995 brought significant changes in the representation of women in Freedonia's work force, according to the graphs In 1975, for example, some 300 000 men and ... worked in the communications sector Twenty years later, though the number of men remained unchanged, the number of women rose to 550 000 A similar situation was seen in the wholesale and retail ... gains in both the finance/banking industries and in the defence-related public sector Whereas some 125 000 women worked in finance and banking institutions in 1975, the number increased to 450...

Ngày tải lên: 04/10/2012, 10:02

... administrative aspects [29] These aspects profoundly affect the implementation, performance, and efficacy of such systems Third, acceptance of the cultural changes associated with the introduction of RRS ... deal with critical illness Critical care physicians and critical care nurses can theoretically deliver such expertise anywhere in the hospital within minutes The field of critical care medicine has ... era of ‘evidencePage of (page number not for citation purposes) based medicine’, the efficacy of the MET and utility of the RRS have been criticised for lacking sufficient high-quality evidence...

Ngày tải lên: 25/10/2012, 10:35

... draws focuses from 20% of the teachers and 14% of the students Types of text are chosen to be the focus of 20% of the teachers and 5% of the students The same amount of the students (5%) concentrate ... overview of the theoretical background of the research It is concerned with the issues relevant to the topic of the research: reading and reading comprehension, classification of reading, the importance ... outside the classroom to update them and meet the demand of their work Being aware of the great importance of ESP in the teaching career, the students’ study and their future jobs, teachers at the...

Ngày tải lên: 07/11/2012, 14:50

... 1.1 Communicative Language Teaching (CLT) 1.1.1 Concept of CLT 1.1.2 Characteristics of CLT 1.1.3 Conditions of Applying CLT 1.1.4 Using CLT in Teaching Speaking Skills 1.1.5 Factors Affecting CLT ... made The thesis consists of three main parts: the introduction, the development, and the conclusion The introduction - gives rationale for the study and sets up the aims, scopes and methods of the ... deals with the research methodology which covers participants, the settings of the study, the data collection methods, the data analysis, and the findings and discussions Chapter offers some...

Ngày tải lên: 07/11/2012, 14:50