china s rulers avoid falling prey to the leninist extinction

... other nation It has vast holdings of U .S treasury bonds and its factories fill the shelves of the world s big-box stores China not only has the bomb, but it also maintains a special relationship ... of imperial China was a man) In China s imperial system, in contrast to many other monarchical ones, the successor to the emperor was not necessarily his eldest son As a result, intense political ... rewards and punishments The Daoists and Legalists, though disagreeing with one another on many things, agreed that the emphasis that Confucius put on the study of dusty classics was misguided The...

Ngày tải lên: 10/06/2014, 21:36

... symptoms of PFPS are poorly correlated As thus contrary to popular belief, the existence of patellar malalignment in subjects with PFPS is uncertain or suggests otherwise.[2-11] However, these ... normally distributed Pearson correlation and regression analysis by curve estimation was preformed to demonstrate the association between the measurements of patella tilting and the measurements of ... computed tomography on both knees in extension, with the quadriceps relaxed as well as contracted according to Gigante 's methods [15] The subject was placed in the supine position and a series of...

Ngày tải lên: 20/06/2014, 01:20

... decisions Several investigators pointed out the differences in professional values of nurses and physicians related to the dying process [18,19] According to the patient s condition and prognosis, ... patients Table shows the distribution of characteristics of the intensivists, nurses and families All 155 physicians answering the questionnaire were intensive-care specialists All families were ... prognosis was associated with more willingness to withdraw life-support Whether a better comprehension of prognosis would change such willingness is beyond the scope of the present study We have shown...

Ngày tải lên: 14/08/2014, 07:21

... was 15 minutes The parental questions were designed to assess comparable constructs to the girls’ focus groups and focused on issues that might have prevented the girls from attending; parents ... whether the girls set goals to increase their commitment during the intervention; 2) whether the sessions were enjoyable; and 3) the characteristics of the teacher These themes are discussed below ... helped to reduce the prevalence of smoking among secondary school students [33] Rather than utilising the best behaved or most studious pupils as the peer leaders, ASSIST used the opinion makers as...

Ngày tải lên: 14/08/2014, 08:20

... farm-year-season classes The number of litters per parity class is reported in Table Different subsets of genotyped sows were used for the different association analyses carried out Sequencing of the ... interspersed parities increases Although different parities should be considered as different traits, the lower number of genotyped dams compared to the total number of sows requires the use of simpler ... was greater than that of sows grouped in the third class (ESR1 AA/RBP4 22 and ESR1 BB/RBP4 11) The results of our joint association analysis allow us to corroborate more precisely the results...

Ngày tải lên: 14/08/2014, 13:21

... down the answer to the specific question, was seconds or less*.1 When the slideshow was over, there were instructions on the computer screen stating that subjects were to await further instructions ... attribute and audiovisual identifiers presented to them in the slideshow The students were informed that the purpose of the activity was to test the ability of secondary school students to remember new ... instructions Response booklets were then distributed to subjects On page of the response booklet, subjects were given two minutes to answer a set of four IQ questions printed on the first page of the...

Ngày tải lên: 08/11/2015, 16:39

... services to SMEs, lenders, creditors and users of the published financial statements Companies House statistics show that the majority of SMEs take up the financial reporting concessions available to ... by the previous study (Collis, 2003) There are several possible reasons for this, such as the unforeseen postal strikes and the necessity of conducting the survey during the holiday season to ... the issues are of little relevance to them due to their small size These sorts of problems and the lack of availability of up -to- date lists of small businesses are cited as the main reasons for...

Ngày tải lên: 18/02/2014, 01:20

... purified to apparent homogeneity as assessed by SDS/PAGE (not shown) and subjected to sequence analysis The N-terminus of the inhibitor consisted of a single sequence (GSKGPLDQLEKGGE), irrespective ... Therefore, the determination of the sequence position of sulfated tyrosine residues appears to be impossible by classical mass spectrometric peptide sequencing techniques However, in the case of the ... oligosaccharides (H S Conradt & M Nimtz, unpublished observations) It remains to be established whether the amounts of sLex containing oligosaccharides synthesized by the liver are accomplished...

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Ngày tải lên: 12/06/2014, 11:36

... problems but also solutions and seemed to have some motivation to solve the problems and to provide better services for HIVpositive women seeking PMTCT services Discussion "Although ARV is sufficient ... of them took medication because the others turned out not to need prophylaxis after closer assessment of their exposure Prevention of HIV transmission became a good excuse for health workers to ... it 's appropriate to divide tasks among different hospitals But we also need to link all hospitals In practice, the linkage is loose: that makes difficulties for patient access to services It is...

Ngày tải lên: 18/06/2014, 17:20

... signals the presence of misclassification problems In retrospect, the Pedersen et al [1] study was the first human health study to raise the hypothesis of soluble nickel 's carcinogenicity in the scientific ... process classification rules in both studies made it impossible to distinguish respiratory cancer risk among the key roasting-smelting and electrolysis departments (Table 4); and even assigned nasal ... risk estimates did not account for the prior risk of lung cancer (from smoking or off site risky work exposures to asbestos, pesticides, etc.) by removing the first 15–20 PYRs since first exposure...

Ngày tải lên: 20/06/2014, 00:20

... performed using the SPSS11.0 system for windows The effects of different groups were assessed with a one-way analysis of variance(ANOVA) followed by a Fisher LSD post hoc test Signifcance was assumed ... pellets, found proteoglycan synthesis increased 150– 180%, 250–315%, or 375–425% over their controls respectively at weeks The pellets also increased synthesis of collagen Type II in response to ... nutrients by diffusion in bulk flow patterns[1] As a result, NP tissue is prone to degenerate A central feature of NP degeneration is loss of tissue cellularity It has been suggested that apoptosis...

Ngày tải lên: 20/06/2014, 00:20

... breeds The figure was showed the strong effects of ecosystems and suggested the alternatives for region, which are suitable for each ecosystem to avoid infected diseases There were also relationships ... 10 sows (only 1.6%) and 20 sows (0.5%), so we can think how many sows farmers in this areas can raise for project models, in strategies, we advise them to raise in their system from 10 sows depend ... pig systems These farmers are pioneers in adapting structures, handling practices and management to let pigs really be pigs They are reducing their hogs' physical and psychological stress to make...

Ngày tải lên: 21/06/2014, 06:20

... decomposition (if the 2000 processors are splitted into groups of 32 processors, each group being assigned to the processing of 2000/32 sources) and the computational cost of the two methods is of the ... and other related engineering disciplines The topics range from basic SAW theory, materials and phenomena to advanced applications such as sensors actuators, and communication systems As such, ... FD stencils The governing idea is to discretize the differential operators of the stiffness matrix with different second-order accurate stencils and to linearly combine the resulting stiffness...

Ngày tải lên: 27/07/2014, 23:25

... species richness (S) , Shannon s diversity index (H’) and Simpson s diversity index (D) – were assessed using t-tests Species richness (S) was calculated as the number of species recorded at the sampled ... our study, the values of species richness, Simpson s diversity index (S) and Shannon s diversity index (H’) for seedlings, saplings and overall trees were greater in the logged forest than in the ... of saplings, 15 species of poles and species of large trees (Table 2) With respect to tree density, for saplings, poles and overall trees, the numbers per hectare of pioneer species (such as S...

Ngày tải lên: 07/08/2014, 03:22

... Reductions in stomatal conductance (Gs) in response to water deficits may also enhance the sensitivity of the photosynthetic apparatus to high irradiances, leading to photodamage to photosystem II ... mainly photorespiration, was estimated using the equation [33]; Pdiss = (ETRPSII – Agross)/ ETRPSII (4) where Agross = A + Rn The dissipation of electrons via non-photosynthetic processes was calculated ... this study and others [30] that Gm could limit photosynthesis to a comparable extent as Gs in seedlings exposed to water deficits However, there are difficulties in the assessment of Gm, when seedlings...

Ngày tải lên: 08/08/2014, 00:22

... before use To study the effect of seed size on germination, seeds were sized using screens of different square mesh apertures: 1.2, 1.5, 1.7, and 2.2 mm, and divided into different groups (sizes to ... minutes in a dessicator at room temperature, then weighed again to determine the loss of water suffered by the seeds Seed imbibition rate was monitored at 10º and 23 ºC by measuring the increases ... control that was moistened with distilled water Based on results from the temperature experiments conducted previously, and because E delegatensis seeds are less affected by moisture stress when germinated...

Ngày tải lên: 08/08/2014, 14:22

... changes in the expression of various thymic factors have been shown to occur during this process This is associated with the increased susceptibility of aged individuals to infectious diseases (10, ... Med Sci 2010, play and active role in thymic tissue loss rather than simply increasing as a consequence of thymic loss by some other as-of-yet undescribed mechanism Based on these findings, studies ... adipocytes were observed in the subcapsulary region of the organ (not shown) and fibroblastoid cells were visualized inside the thymic parenchyma These fibroblastoid cells were observed connected to the...

Ngày tải lên: 08/08/2014, 18:20

... position of the leafs and inside the open fields as the lenses (figure 1) To minimise the NMU and to avoid unnecessary radiation doses given to the OAR, the DR should be as low as possible Thus the choice ... transmitted and scattered radiation dose does not effect the patients with SCCscalp as much, whereas the OAR were mostly located outside the end position of the leafs In these cases the choice of the LV ... histograms Impact of different maximum leaf speeds and dose rates on the dose volume histograms Dose volume histogram (relation of absolute volume to delivered dose) for the chiasm and brain stem...

Ngày tải lên: 09/08/2014, 09:22