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Revised version for the consideration of Contact Committee of the Heads of the SAIs of the European Union docx

Revised version for the consideration of Contact Committee of the Heads of the SAIs of the European Union docx

... Mazur), with additional and special assistance from the Cour des comptes of France (Anne-Marie Boutin and Christophe Perron); and ã SIGMA (Nick Treen and Harry Havens), and with appreciated contributions ... audit in accordance with professional standards and applicable regulatory and legal requirements, and to enable the issuance of an auditor’s report that is appropriate in the circumstances. ... system of quality control designed to provide it with reasonable assurance that the SAI and its personnel comply with professional standards and applicable regulatory and legal requirements, and...

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Báo cáo sinh học: " Estimation of variance components of threshold characters by marginal posterior modes and means via " pptx

Báo cáo sinh học: " Estimation of variance components of threshold characters by marginal posterior modes and means via " pptx

... approximation, and severe biases of variance and covariance estimates have been reported (Gilmour et al, 1985; Hoeschele et al, 1987; Hoeschele and Gianola, 1989; Simianer and Schaeffer, ... replicates), as random and normally distributed, or as random and drawn from a proper uniform distribution. Genetic groups were always fixed and sires or animals were random. The ... of 200, biases of and discrepancies among estimators were strongly reduced (design IV-F) and negligible for design VI-F with the mean as the only fixed effect and an...

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PHYSICS AND POLITICS OR THOUGHTS ON THE APPLICATION OF THE PRINCIPLES OF ''''NATURAL SELECTION'''' AND ''''INHERITANCE'''' TO POLITICAL SOCIETY pptx

PHYSICS AND POLITICS OR THOUGHTS ON THE APPLICATION OF THE PRINCIPLES OF ''''NATURAL SELECTION'''' AND ''''INHERITANCE'''' TO POLITICAL SOCIETY pptx

... the age of Shakespeare and Beaumont and Metcher, and that of Donne and Cowley, or Pope.' And then, in a kind of vexed way, Wordsworth goes on to explain that he himself can't and won't ... ages, as well as of nations; and as we have full histories of many such periods, we can examine exactly when and how the mental peculiarity of each began, and also exactly when and how that mental ... writers of an age, without thinking of it, give to the readers of the age the sort of words and the sort of thoughts—the special literature, in fact—which those readers like and prize. And not...

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ISSUED UNDER THE AUTHORITY OF DIRECTOR-GENERAL OF POSTS, INDIA AND SECRETARY TO GOVERNMENT OF INDIA DEPARTMENT OF POST MINISTRY OF COMMUNICATIONS & INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY pdf

ISSUED UNDER THE AUTHORITY OF DIRECTOR-GENERAL OF POSTS, INDIA AND SECRETARY TO GOVERNMENT OF INDIA DEPARTMENT OF POST MINISTRY OF COMMUNICATIONS & INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY pdf

... an arrears of land revenue or in any other manner; (d) the transfer and conversion of savings certificate s and the fees to be levied in respect thereof; (2) Notwithstanding anything contained ... account standing at a Sub Savings Bank, a deposit may be made at the Sub Savings Bank or at the relevant Head Savings Bank or at any of its Sub Savings Banks. (3) In the case of an account standing ... standing to the credit of subscriber in the Fund in the event of his death and the cancellation or change of such nomination. (9) The issue of duplicate of any document issued as evidence of...

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Báo cáo khoa học: Sequences and structural organization of phospholipase A2 genes from Vipera aspis aspis, V. aspis zinnikeri and Vipera berus berus venom Identification of the origin of a new viper population based on ammodytin I1 heterogeneity docx

Báo cáo khoa học: Sequences and structural organization of phospholipase A2 genes from Vipera aspis aspis, V. aspis zinnikeri and Vipera berus berus venom Identification of the origin of a new viper population based on ammodytin I1 heterogeneity docx

... (vp0016B10VAZ and vp0016C06VAZ, DDBJ/EMBL/GenBank accession no.s AY243574 and AY243577, respectively) and V. a. aspis (vp0015F11VAN and vp0015C10VAN, DDBJ/EMBL/GenBank accesion no.s AY243575 and AY243576, ... ammo- dytins I1 and I2 and ammodytin L genes of V. am. ammo- dytes, the VP7 and VP8 genes of V. palaestinae,andthe PLA2 genes of Crotalinae snakes (Trimeresurus flavoviridis) were also of similar length ... promoters. Analysis of venom gland PLA2 cDNAs is currently underway to determine which of these genes are expressed. The presence in the neurotoxic snake of two ammodytin I1 isoforms (In and Ia) and of...

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Báo cáo Y học: Chimeric receptor analyses of the interactions of the ectodomains of ErbB-1 with epidermal growth factor and of those of ErbB-4 with neuregulin potx

Báo cáo Y học: Chimeric receptor analyses of the interactions of the ectodomains of ErbB-1 with epidermal growth factor and of those of ErbB-4 with neuregulin potx

... ErbB-1 and EGF, using a heterobifunctional reagent, showed that the N- and C-terminal parts of the ligand are cross-linked to domains I and III, respectively, of the receptor [19,22]. The b sheet of EGF ... group is composed of the ligands that bind to both ErbB-1 and ErbB-4, such as betacellulin, heparin-binding EGF, and epiregulin. The binding of ligands to the extracellular region of receptors causes ... resolved by 10% SDS/PAGE and were immunoblotted with an antibody specific to the active, doubly phosphorylated form of ERK. Membranes were stripped and reprobed with an anti-ERK Ig to control for...

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UNIQUENESS OF POSITIVE SOLUTIONS OF A CLASS OF ODE WITH NONLINEAR BOUNDARY CONDITIONS RUYUN MA AND pdf

UNIQUENESS OF POSITIVE SOLUTIONS OF A CLASS OF ODE WITH NONLINEAR BOUNDARY CONDITIONS RUYUN MA AND pdf

... motivated by the work of Erbe and Tang [3, 4, 5]andis based on the shooting method and the Sturm comparison theorem. The rest of the paper is organized as follows. In Section 2, we state and prove some ... studied by several authors, see Dunninger and Wang [2], Wang [11] and Wang and Jiang [12] for some references along this line. However for the uniqueness problem of second order ODEs, even in the linear ... conditions case, very little was known, see Ni and Nussbaum [9], Fu and Lin [6] and Peletier and Serrin [10]. To the best of our knowledge, no uniqueness results of positive solutions were established...

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The Project Gutenberg EBook of General Investigations of Curved Surfaces of 1827 and 1825 pot

The Project Gutenberg EBook of General Investigations of Curved Surfaces of 1827 and 1825 pot

... of the lines. II. The orientation of any plane whatever can be represented by the great circle on the sphere, the plane of which is parallel to the given plane. III. The angle between two planes ... constant along each of the lines of the one system; and q variable, p constant along each of the lines of the other system. Any point whatever on the surface can be regarded as the intersection of ... friedrich gauss These formulæ give the angle ψ. In like manner, for the calculation of the angle φ, series for r cos φ and r sin φ are very elegantly developed by means of the partial differential...

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Báo cáo y học: "Autoimmune targeting of key components of RNA interference" doc

Báo cáo y học: "Autoimmune targeting of key components of RNA interference" doc

... serum (lane 3), human anti-Su sera (lanes 4 and 5), and mouse anti-Su serum (lane 7) compared with normal human serum (NHS) and pre-immune mouse serum (PIM) (lanes 2 and 6, respec- tively). Lane ... disruption of the anergy of autoreactive lymphocytes per- turb the delicate balance of non-self-antigen and self-antigen recognition [1]. The disequilibrium between pro-inflammatory and immunosuppressive ... were stained with human anti-Su serum (H100) and anti-GW182 monoclonal antibody (4B6). Bar, 10 àm. (bottom) Hep-2 cells were stained with mouse anti-Su (9310B) and human anti- GW182 (H20) sera....

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Báo cáo y học: "Pancreatic and psoas abscesses as a late complication of intravesical administration of bacillus Calmette-Guerin for bladder cancer: a case report and review of the literature" ppt

Báo cáo y học: "Pancreatic and psoas abscesses as a late complication of intravesical administration of bacillus Calmette-Guerin for bladder cancer: a case report and review of the literature" ppt

... report Open Access Pancreatic and psoas abscesses as a late complication of intravesical administration of bacillus Calmette-Guerin for bladder cancer: a case report and review of the literature Miguel ... history of back pain, anorexia, generalized weakness and a 47-pound weight loss. He had previously undergone two transurethral resections for high-grade transitional cell carcinoma of the bladder and ... carcinoma since 1976, and has been reported to eradicate disease in more than 70% of patients with in situ and stage I disease. To the best of our knowledge, we report the first case of disseminated...

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Báo cáo y học: " Laugh Yourself into a Healthier Person: A Cross Cultural Analysis of the Effects of Varying Levels of Laughter on Health"

Báo cáo y học: " Laugh Yourself into a Healthier Person: A Cross Cultural Analysis of the Effects of Varying Levels of Laughter on Health"

... determined standards, and an affective com- ponent, emotional well-being, is defined as the bal- ance between pleasant affect and unpleasant affect. (30) Life satisfaction included satisfaction of occupa- tion, ... demographics, laughter, life- style, and subjective well being consisting of life sat- isfaction and emotional well being, and an assessment of health dimensions. Components of the Survey Demographics ... were a total of 730 participants between the ages of eighteen and thirty-nine years. 366 participants were from Aurangabad, India (AUR), and 364 participants were from Mississauga, Canada (MISS)....

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