... HEALTH AND ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT the Interaction of Education, Fertility, and Growth,” Review of Economics and Statistics 91, no (2009): 52-65; and Douglas Almond and Janet Currie, “Killing Me Softly: ... Population”; Almond et al., “Long-Term Effects of the 1959-1961 China Famine: Mainland China and Hong Kong”; Almond and Mazumder, “Health Capital and the Prenatal Environment: The Effect of Maternal ... a broad array of methods and conclusions Large cross-national data sets provide estimates of associations between RH interventions and economic outcomes Countryspecific studies often exploit...
... overall management of cases with a congenital primary lymphedema [14] Conclusions Assessing the impact of the duration and severity of the condition in relation to age, sex and occupational status as ... chronic illnesses and conditions Assessing not only the severity of the physical limitation but also the related psychosocial dimensions and quantifying the burden of this complex condition over ... as influential determinants to personal perceptions of well-being deserves further discussion General practitioners can monitor the long-term impact of chronic disorders through their daily practice...
... the control of viral DNA replication (ori) and viral gene expression The arrows indicate the positive and negative strands according to the direction of viral transcription (24) monitoring of patients ... diagnosis of BKVAN requires evaluation of a renal biopsy with demonstration and confirmation of the polyomavirus cytopathic changes by IHC and ISH [41] BKVAN is characterized by the presence of polyomavirus ... into three regions: the early, the late, and the transcriptional control region (TCR) The first region codes for the small and large T-antigens (t-Ag and T-Ag), the second region codes for the...
... consumption of PS and carbohydrates resulted in a reduction of perceived stress and improved golf performance [5] Additionally, supplementation of 200 mg per day has been shown to induce a state of ... correct calculation, number of correct calculations, and number of mistakes were recorded If an incorrect calculation was made, subsequent calculations were deemed correct based on the new starting ... performed sets of 10 repetitions at 70% of their pre-determined 1RM for SQ, LP, and LE Participants were allowed a 90 second rest between sets and a 180 second rest between exercises This exercise...
... Depression in the Piura, Cajamarca, Amazonas and San Martin Regions is the major structural and physiographic break of the Andes consisting of a complex systemof relatively low ridges, basins and ... altitude of the Andes in this region causes fragmentation of montane habitats and introduces a complex mixture of environments (Cadle 1991) The lowest point of the Huancabamba Depression is the ... Piura Region, with an elevation of 2,145 m a.s.l This point forms both a biogeographic corridor between the lowland of the Pacific coast in the West and the Amazon basin East of the Andes, and a...
... observation of the juxtaposition of the members of the meaning, semantic properties, lexical field, definitions of metaphor sentence and in finding ways and means of building larger and more and classification ... organization of related words and expression into a system Parker and Riley [53, p.103], Plag [55, p.10], words can be classified which shows their relationship to one another” into single words and ... norminal groups, verbal groups and adjectival definitions and classifications of metaphor have been focused on groups Semantically, we have relied on the theories of many linguists, such 2.3.7...
... erroneous On the contrary, by poisoning and relaxing the vessels of the gums, it may impair the healthy condition of the vessels belonging to the membranes of the socket, with the condition of which, ... gratification of appetites, regardless of others, is the strongest feature of barbarism We see then, even as a dictate of refinement, that the use of tobacco should be abandoned; and it has been abandoned ... change of organization, at one period on the burning sands of a Numidian desert, at another among the ice-bergs of a Greenland winter exhibits in the most convincing light the extent of this wonderful...
... set cut-off Doped Si nanocrystals 2.1 Single-doped Si nanocrystals We resume, here, the effects of size and shape of Si-nc on the incorporation of group-III (B and Al), group-IV (C and Ge) and group-V ... Now, we discuss the results for the absorption and emission spectra The Si-nc excitation has been studied considering the excited state as the electronic configuration in which the HOMO contains ... dependence of the emission spectra both on the nanocrystals size andon the impurities positions reveals once more the possibility of tuning the optical response of Si-nc Many-body results tion |Cexc(re,...
... sandy soils under the control, sandy under the cattle manure, sandy on the top horizon (0 - 22 cm) and sandy-clay on the sub horizon (22 - 55 cm) under the poultry manure The clay contents were ... due to the manures which has three roles of organic matter sources, of protection of the soil against erosion andof increase in the activity of earthworms which reduce water runoff (Hole et al., ... practice of the fallow which is less and less possible with the strong pressure on the cultivable soils, the manures offer alternatives more interesting for a continuous and long-term exploitation of...
... financial situation of the parent bank and/ or the macroeconomic conditions in the home country worsens On the other hand, the financial diversification theory suggests that the profitability of the subsidiary ... impact on the credit growth pattern of the CEE countries Due to the financial integration of the CEE countries towards the Economic and Monetary Union (EMU) the spread between domestic and Euro ... membership to the monetary union On the way to their next destination, i.e the monetary union, the CEE countries have been experiencing similar macroeconomic conditions as that of the EMU-5 The...
... optimized quantity of substitution function of Ag+ [19] However, stress of lattices structure on both 3SZO and 5SZO NWs is very impressive because a lot of Ag interstitials and Ag substitutions are existed ... Eoeun dong, Yuseong-gu, Daejeon 305-333, Republic of Korea 4Department of Semiconductor Engineering, Cheongju University, Cheongju, 360-764, Chungbuk, Korea Authors’ contributions KW conceived ... characterization of acceptor/donor impurities and is helpful in understanding the optical and electrical performances of the materials We focused on the temperature-dependent PL measurements of various...
... addition, we experienced with our laboratory milling system that the head rice yield was also highly dependent on settings and length of operation of the rice mill We had to make many repetitions of ... Effect of tempering time on HRY at drying temperature of 800C and 900C for 2.5 and 3.0 Reference HRYs of A10 and OM2717 were 54.5% and 43.26%, respectively (triangular dot) 84 Table Main effects and ... Post-harvest Technology' Taweerattanapanish A, Soponronnarit S, Wetchakama S, Kongseri N, Wongpiyachon S, (1999) Effects of drying on head rice yield using fluidization technique Drying Technology...
... readings of voltage drops at different portions of the sample Result and Discussion FTIR Studies Characterization Fourier Transform Infrared Spectroscopy Functionalization of MWCNTs and conversion of ... duration and prolonged use between 200 and 350 °C without much deterioration in mechanical and other properties Polyimides are produced by the condensation reaction of an aromatic dianhydride and ... which degradation starts ** Temperature at which wt% of the material has degraded Fig Effect of MWCNTs contents on the electrical conductivity of the MWCNTs/polyimide nanocomposites Conclusion...
... from the weight of the samples before and after swelling as follows: Gel fraction ẳ W2 =W1 1ị where W1 is the initial weight of the polymer and W2, the weight of the insoluble portion of the polymer ... As, qr, and qs are deswollen weight of the sample, fraction insoluble, sample weight, weight of the absorbed solvent corrected for swelling increment, density of rubber, and density of solvent, ... curves correspond to predominant singlestep degradation with well-defined initial and final degradation temperatures and may be a result of a random chain scission process Normally addition of particulate...
... in Section In Section 4, blind and semiblind techniques are investigated Simulation results are given in Section Finally our conclusions are drawn in Section Notations We use upper (lower) bold ... the choice of α in the first part of the simulations (ii) Semiblind direct equalization For semiblind direct equalizer estimation, we consider a SIMO system with Nr = receive antennas We assume ... [4] I Barhumi, G Leus, and M Moonen, “Per-tone equalization for OFDM over doubly-selective channels, ” in Proceedings of the IEEE International Conference on Communications, vol 5, pp 2642–2647,...
... in the level of the domestic portion of high-powered money, the portion of high-powered money directly under the control of the monetary authorities T h e effect of this variable on the trade ... fiat money is not perceived as net wealth, that nominal money balances are only a small fraction of total wealth, or that there are only small reactions to changes in the value of monetary wealth ... than affecting the size of the portfolio, and thus net wealth, devaluation causes a simple excess demand for money and excess supply of bonds T h e ratio of money to bond holdings is then returned...
... strongest one for stachyose, the weakest for fructose (Tab II) Weaker, but still significant correlations were detected between I–30, on the one hand, and N and C:N, on the other In January and ... reduction in the concentrations of sugars (particularly those of raffinose and stachyose) and, perhaps, through an additional reduction of the concentrations of N compounds, repeated defoliation ... correlations between N or C:N, respectively, and I–30 were not very tight, and although N and C:N did not contribute much to explain the variation of the multiple correlation among chem- ical components...
... However, at the end of 16 d of culture a much higher concentration of microelements Mn, Cu, Fe, B, Al and Zn was observed in leaves of explants growing on agar (fig 4) Only Naphthoquinone content ... Determination of mineral content A digestion method was used for inorganic cation analysis Approximately 50 mg of dried leaves (at 80 °C, over 48 h) were mineralized by the consecutive addition of ml concentrated ... Micropropagation of hybrid walnut trees (Juglans nigra x Juglans regia) through culture and multiplication of embryos Ann Sci For 46 suppl, 113116 PC (1983) Effects of agar brand and concentration on the...
... fertilization was accompa:2 nied by a decrease in leaf area and a reduction in shoot growth, which is very unusual and may have resulted from the timing of the nutrient application The accumulation of ... photosynthesis at 250 jlmol-m- PPFD and s’ dark respiration were measured after a wk adaptation period as the slope of C0 concentration over time in the whole chamber (Gaudillere and Mousseau, 1989) During ... the end of July, 62% of the enriched plants ceased growth as compared with 37% of the controls The early onset of yellowing and the stopped terminal bud growth indicates earlier senescence of the...
... thickness of mm, a mm interslice gap, one excitation, a field of view (FOV) of 11 to 12 cm, and a matrix of 256 pixels × 192 pixels; and coronal and axial spinecho fat-suppressed proton density-weighted ... from the axis of rotation, thus increasing the functional lever arm of the quadriceps as well as changing the direction of pull of the quadriceps mechanism A longer patellar tendon decreases the ... alignment, preferably in more functional positions than supine and non-weight-bearing, and in longitudinal evaluations We thank the participants and staff of BOKS This study was supported by...