capturing the patterns of behavior

... Pakistan, the loan size is not as per the expectation of the borrowers who requires the loan majorly for the inventory storage enhancement of the business Majority of the total respondents in both the ... respondents insisted that they are at the mercy of the MFIs and they not have any idea about the merits of the loan products They will have higher satisfaction and confidence if the said MFIs are supported ... part of every society and shapes the wants and behaviors of individuals The influence of culture on behavior varies from country to country; therefore MFIs have to be very careful in analyzing the...

Ngày tải lên: 06/09/2013, 05:48

... similar vein, the Sapeurs of the Congo have appropriated the global image of the white coat of the medical profession to bolster the prestige of the witch doctor.33 These general patterns reveal ... and the rise of the state 6.1 The birth of the state 6.2 Legal diversity and universality in the emerging European states 6.3 The decline of the Christian commonwealth 6.4 The arrival of the ... and the proper domain of the United Nations Many commentators write of the decline of the nation-state, in the face of the transference of national sovereignty to such structures as the UN, the...

Ngày tải lên: 21/09/2012, 10:54

... wake at a.m., but nap for two hours or so in the early afternoon Thus the influence on one's sleep pattern is worthy of consideration when choosing an occupation ...

Ngày tải lên: 04/10/2012, 10:02

... with ethanol at a final concentration of 10%, then transported to the laboratory of UT at 4oCstored Then, each of the samples were divided into two One of them was for DNA extraction and was washed ... affected the activities of nitrite oxidizing bacteria - 31 - Journal of Water and Environment Technology, Vol.5, No.1, 2007 Figure Behavior of nitrate and nitrite at the end of the aerobic tank Behavior ... general, the higher concentration of primers can lead to the formation of primer dimers Also, the cost of the chemicals should be minimized if the same quantitativeness can be achieved The results...

Ngày tải lên: 05/09/2013, 09:38

... out, the importance of these commitment mechanisms is illustrated by the fact that their breakdown foreshadowed the end of the community Other means of bringing about collective behavior on the ... as the value of their degrees decreased While students may not like the discipline imposed on them by tough professors, they want tough professors to help them maintain the reputation of their ... however, the Chinamen told him to butt out, that they owned the barge, they earned more money the faster they got the cargo up the river, and they had hired the brute with the whip to eliminate the...

Ngày tải lên: 17/12/2013, 15:18

... modifying the values in the data row, and thus the dataset In short, the data row holds the original state of the Customers row, whereas the class-level variables hold the current state At the moment, ... to add code to the click event of the Retrieve button to use the constructor, as well as a method that copies the values of the object to the form's text boxes Listing 9.25 shows the code behind ... class, or you could have the CCustomer class "inherit" all of the code in the CCustomerData class You've probably done the former before, so try the latter In the declaration of the CCustomer class,...

Ngày tải lên: 24/12/2013, 06:17

... enhancing behaviors Skill development is more likely to result in the desired healthy behavior when practicing the skill is tied to the content of a specific health behavior or health decision The ... year.29 These statistics are alarming and disturbing for the health of the nation The good news is that research has revealed that health risk behaviors that contribute to the leading causes of death ... Medicaid Services, Office of the Actuary, National Health Statistics Group; U.S Department of Commerce, Bureau of Economic Analysis; and U.S Bureau of the Census 11 Soni A Personal health behaviors for...

Ngày tải lên: 14/02/2014, 13:20

... understanding of and accommodate the target's MOAs and the trade-off of free choice and externalities The potential for success of the three sets of tools is derived from the target's assessment of the ... necessary On the individual's side of the ledger, apathy is a strong source of power The greater the value of the exchange for one side, the more power can be brought to bear by the other through ... after they are discovered, but others need the incentives of a marketing exchange or the coercion of law to be maintained When the target of critical mass consists of the entire community, the...

Ngày tải lên: 18/02/2014, 02:20

... Audience), the specific desired behavior change goal, the benefits you will offer (see Benefits), and the interventions that will influence or support the behavior change Place One of the “Four P’s of ... Barriers) the audience members face in making the desired behavior change Price leads you to plan interventions that reduce the costs of the desired behavior or increase the costs of the competing ... and how it affects the desired change? ® Taken together, will the overall mix of interventions reach enough of the target audience often enough to have the desired impact? ® Is the overall mix feasible...

Ngày tải lên: 18/02/2014, 02:20

... families accounts for most of the care burden, support for the old often takes the form of living together Another included indicator of social relationships is widowhood Both of these are dichotomous ... study, the two ethnic groups of elders, Mainlanders and Taiwanese, differ in one key feature: migration experience The move of Mainlanders to the island of Taiwan in the aftermath of the Chinese ... between the two ethnic groups is found (in terms of the predictive value of the presence of any serious conditions related to mortality) That is, the association between the presence of any serious...

Ngày tải lên: 05/03/2014, 18:20

... of adoption of the focal practice within each of the two groups, and the last column presents a significance test of the differences between them As before, the data are for the fiscal year of ... determine the quality of the relationship they have with the firm Panel C shows the frequency of adoption of 11 related practices: six of these are strongly and significantly different across the two ... number of these policies in the early to mid-90s.9 We label this set of firms as the High Sustainability group This group had adopted by the mid-90s on average 40% of the policies identified in the...

Ngày tải lên: 06/03/2014, 20:21

... reinforcement of the usability of the Semantic Base Hypothesis for language analysis Our further work will emphasize both the refinement of the clustering methods and the linguistic interpretation of the ... in rows The first step of the evaluation process is to fill in the cells with the semantic roles the given suffix can code in the context of the verb We consider the clusters correct, if the corresponding ... source in the environment of movement verbs Both cases having the same semantic role, the decision between them is determined by the semantics of the corresponding NP These cases code an other semantic...

Ngày tải lên: 08/03/2014, 03:20

... toward the heme The mutation from the nonpolar residue Phe35 to the polar residue Tyr35 makes slight changes in the side chain conformation of this residue The shift of the Ca atom of Tyr35 of the ... displays the conserved conformation in the structures of the Phe35fiTyr mutant and of the wild-type protein as well as other mutants However, the conformation of the latter is flexible CD spectra of thermal ... Fig shows the electron density of Tyr35 and the heme group in the Phe35fiTyr mutant The overall structure of the Phe35fiTyr mutant is basically the same as that of the wild-type Tb5 The r.m.s deviation...

Ngày tải lên: 08/03/2014, 10:20

... assign the present value of the head of the skeleton slope to the list being built up Then recurse down the phonetic list but net the slope, so as to assign the same value to the next element in the ... as the marker, not the auxiliary (2) Find the length of the selected skeleton slope (3) Perform an integer division on the length of the phonetic list by the length of the slope (3) If, in either ... to the length of the sentence (3) Find the stressed word(s) in the sentence (a) If the element in the phonetic list is a phone and the value of the sentinel variable has not been exceeded, then...

Ngày tải lên: 09/03/2014, 01:20

... people The seed for the writers’ workshop as we now know it was planted at the end of the nineteenth century at the University of Iowa The result was the Iowa Writers’ Workshop, which is one of the ... founded as a kind of “friends of Kent Beck” organization,* but of cially we were aimed at the goal of promoting the ideas of the architect Christopher Alexander—especially the idea of patterns and ... If the others are strangers, then the results are unpredictable This is the crucial point in the early arc of improvement The wrong reaction can cause the fledgling maker to quit and then stop The...

Ngày tải lên: 14/03/2014, 21:20

... Furthermore, the group coordinated a five-member disaster response team that consisted of officials from both USAID and the Of ce of Federal Disaster Assistance The team evaluated the extent of the ... are the consequences of the hazard, but clearly not of the singular action of the hazard Hazards become disasters only in the context of a specific society with particular vulnerabilities and the ... hazard The term disaster refers to the consequences of the hazard, and, particularly to the intersection of the hazard with the underlying vulnerabilities and capacities that shape the health of...

Ngày tải lên: 14/03/2014, 21:20

... methylmalonyl-CoA alone, there was no evidence for the methylmalonyl derivative of the chain-extension ACP, despite the presence of the free thiol form of the domain The nature of the diketide adduct ... suppression of iteration and the maintenance of fidelity of reduction In the presence of all the (natural) substrates required for diketide synthesis on the DKS, the relatively high level of loading of ... determine the extent of loading on the domains of module and its attached TE domain MS analysis of the KS1 fraction showed that the active site was fully loaded with propionate The absence of the free...

Ngày tải lên: 16/03/2014, 03:20

... signal in epithelial cells at the base of the villi In colon, Aldh1 gene activity was detected in the upper parts of the crypts of Lieberkuhn, whereas the lower ¨ parts of the crypts, the submucosa ... observed in the epithelial cells of the tongue and esophagus, in the gastric glands and at the base of the villi in jejunum The apparent signal in the outer keratinized layer of the tongue and ... [21] In the light of these observations, the detoxification systems in the epithelial lining of the GI tract deserve further investigation as to their possible etiological roles for forms of PD...

Ngày tải lên: 16/03/2014, 11:20

... three binary indicators: whether the mother died early, whether the father died early and whether the mother and the father where present when the individual was aged 10 The extracted principal component ... mediating effects of health behaviors While the former only include the effects of current or lagged behaviors, the latter takes into account the contribution of the entire history of behaviors This ... where X is a vector of controls, B the vector of behaviors, ε is the error term, i denotes the individual, c the country, t the year of the interview, g gender, and b is the birth cohort Following...

Ngày tải lên: 22/03/2014, 14:20

... enhancing behaviors Skill development is more likely to result in the desired healthy behavior when practicing the skill is tied to the content of a specific health behavior or health decision The ... year.29 These statistics are alarming and disturbing for the health of the nation The good news is that research has revealed that health risk behaviors that contribute to the leading causes of death ... Medicaid Services, Office of the Actuary, National Health Statistics Group; U.S Department of Commerce, Bureau of Economic Analysis; and U.S Bureau of the Census 11 Soni A Personal health behaviors for...

Ngày tải lên: 22/03/2014, 15:21