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Benefitting Whom? For-Profit Education Companies and the Growth of Military Educational Benefits potx

Benefitting Whom? For-Profit Education Companies and the Growth of Military Educational Benefits potx

... flowing to the for-profit schools outpacing the overall revenue growth of those schools, the military revenue growth of the companies is also outpacing the spending growth in the VA and DoD education programs Between 2009 and 2010, the total ... veterans, and their spouses, these legislative changes create worst excesses of the for-profit a large new pool of potential students that are critical industry: manipulative and for the type of growth ... receive from the Department of Defense and the Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) The information provided reveals enormous growth in the amounts of money flowing from both the DoD and VA educational...

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CONSTITUTIONS IN CRISIS Political Violence and the Rule of Law pptx

CONSTITUTIONS IN CRISIS Political Violence and the Rule of Law pptx

... Gerard Braunthal of the University of Massachusetts, and Peter Euben of the University of California at Santa Cruz all read parts of the work and offered advice John Fairleigh of the Queen's University ... appreciation of the limits of constitutionalism as a basis for political community Hence questions of whether and when the constitution governs are also questions of the limits (and perhaps of the different ... life of the nation; the President must define and explain to Congress and the people the nature of this threat; the perception of the emergency, the judgment that the life of the nation is truly...

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Tài liệu Finance and the Sources of Growth pptx

Tài liệu Finance and the Sources of Growth pptx

... cannot reject the null hypotheses of the appropriateness of the instruments and the assumption of no serial correlation of the differenced error terms The results seem to indicate that there is a ... is the nominal interest rate and p the inflation rate The inflation rate is the average of the current and year-ahead inflation Terms of Trade Old and young dependency ratios are the shares of ... relationship between economic growth and the assortment of economic indicators, we use natural logarithms of the regressors in the regressions of GROWTH, CAPGROWTH, PROD1, PROD2 and PROD3 17 development...

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Tài liệu Báo cáo khoa học: MicroRNA-23a promotes the growth of gastric adenocarcinoma cell line MGC803 and downregulates interleukin-6 receptor pdf

Tài liệu Báo cáo khoa học: MicroRNA-23a promotes the growth of gastric adenocarcinoma cell line MGC803 and downregulates interleukin-6 receptor pdf

... a candidate target of miR-23a miR-23a expression level 20 growth activities at the same time points (Fig 2A) To detect the effect of miR-23a on the long-term and independent growth activity of ... and colony formation assays confirmed the active role of miR-23a in the growth promotion of malignant cells The fundamental function of miRNAs is to regulate their targets by direct cleavage of ... of the tumor types were confirmed by pathologic analysis The experiments were undertaken with the understanding and written consent of each subject The study methodologies conformed to the standards...

Ngày tải lên: 18/02/2014, 04:20

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Tài liệu Global Change and the Function and Distribution of Wetlands ppt

Tài liệu Global Change and the Function and Distribution of Wetlands ppt

... environmental change because of the resistance of pollens and spores to decay, and their ubiquity and abundance (Traverse 2008) Wetlands are excellent sources of pollen and spores and like macrofossils, ... archive of the species that grew in and near the wetland If the rate of organic matter accumulation exceeds the rate of decomposition in such a wetland environment, then a temporal component to the ... history of these regions demonstrates the inter-connectedness of the low and high latitudes, and the global nature of the Earth’s hydrologic cycle Our case studies provide glimpses of wetland ecosystems,...

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Tài liệu Báo cáo Y học: The effects of ring-size analogs of the antimicrobial peptide gramicidin S on phospholipid bilayer model membranes and on the growth of Acholeplasma laidlawii B ppt

Tài liệu Báo cáo Y học: The effects of ring-size analogs of the antimicrobial peptide gramicidin S on phospholipid bilayer model membranes and on the growth of Acholeplasma laidlawii B ppt

... discussion of the thermotropic phase behavior of Myr2Gro-PGro and other members of the homologous series of linear saturated PGs, see Zhang et al [24] The addition of mol percent of one of the three ... decreases in the order GS14 > GS10 > GS12, as does the temperature and the relative magnitude of the new endotherm or endotherms induced by the addition of the peptide However, the magnitude of the effects ... conformation There is good evidence from studies of the interaction of GS and its analogs with bacterial cells that the destruction of the integrity of the lipid bilayer of the inner membrane is the primary...

Ngày tải lên: 21/02/2014, 01:21

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Open Cultures and The Nature of Networks doc

Open Cultures and The Nature of Networks doc

... or the other, this was an issue of relevance only to specialists The lack of education restricted the number of producers and consumers of cultural objects and hence the size and influence of the ... Cultures and the Nature of Networks 27 and over the means of distribution with the Internet, the last area they still control is the content that they own Within a framework of cheap and efficient ... version of the space of flows, the maritime world of long distance trading, is still very present 72 The Status of Objects in the Space of Flows The space of flows - now and then - consists of three...

Ngày tải lên: 05/03/2014, 22:20

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Credit Growth and the Effectiveness of Reserve Requirements and Other Macroprudential Instruments in Latin America pdf

Credit Growth and the Effectiveness of Reserve Requirements and Other Macroprudential Instruments in Latin America pdf

... Colombia, and Peru 24 The cumulative dummy captures changes in the rates of the RRs and therefore, facilitates the comparison of changes to the RR regime across countries However, the variable ... the motives and use of RRs across the world 4 partly reflects the sectoral and targeted nature of many of these other macroprudential instruments and also their less active use over the cycle ... against the wind”: (i) raising RRs during the upswing phase of the cycle to contain excessive credit growth and the associated build up of vulnerabilities and (ii) lowering them during the downswing...

Ngày tải lên: 06/03/2014, 04:21

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Assessing and Managing Rapid Credit Growth and the Role of Supervisory and Prudential Policies docx

Assessing and Managing Rapid Credit Growth and the Role of Supervisory and Prudential Policies docx

... to the borrower, the purpose and use of the loans, their sectoral composition and concentration, the currency denomination, and the maturity and other conditions of the loans In terms of the ... guided by the nature of the risks associated with the nature of the credit growth (see Table for a mapping from various features of the credit growth to different types of risks, and Table for the ... affected by a number of factors, including the openness of the capital account, the degree of euroization of the economies, the adequacy of monetary instruments and the effectiveness of monetary policy...

Ngày tải lên: 06/03/2014, 08:20

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Making the Poor Pay for Public Goods via Microfinance Economic and Political Pitfalls in the Case of Water and Sanitation docx

Making the Poor Pay for Public Goods via Microfinance Economic and Political Pitfalls in the Case of Water and Sanitation docx

... Denmark, Australia and the Netherlands The predicted full cost of the various latrine options (and the size of the loans) was between 40 and 160 euros, though households complained that the costs were ... context of neoliberal restructuring and the rise of the vision of fragmented entrepreneurial development Section discusses the characteristics of the water and sanitation sector and examines the ... is the synthesis of water marketisation and microfinance expansion Mader: Making the Poor Pay for Public Goods via Microfinance Underlying the idea of using microfinance for water (and other...

Ngày tải lên: 16/03/2014, 09:20

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Investigation of au and in as solvents for the growth of silicon nanowires on si(1 1 1)

Investigation of au and in as solvents for the growth of silicon nanowires on si(1 1 1)

... following the effects of different diffusion coefficients of gold and indium on silicon, the solubility of substrate atoms in the two metals, the surface tension of gold and indium and the surface ... insertion of the sample into the UHV chamber in spite of the preceding HF-dip There are hints in the literature [11] that deposition of gold onto a thin layer of SiO2 on Si(1 1) favors the decomposition ... diagrams; top: In–Si and bottom: Au–Si Since the state of the substrate surface after desorption and the vacuum conditions are the same during evaporation of gold and indium, the different liquid–solid–vapor...

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a theory of political obligation membership commitment and the bonds of society jul 2006

a theory of political obligation membership commitment and the bonds of society jul 2006

... coalition of mother and son within the family of father, mother, and son One would suppose, however, that the larger the group, the more likely its inclusion of smaller groups within it.35 Finally, and ... State of a certain kind) ought to obey the laws and directives of the of cials of that State? This, in broad terms, is the problem of political obligation, which concerns whether and when there ... that they are tied in a special way to their government While they complain loudly and often, and not without justification, of the shortcomings of government, they feel that they are nonetheless...

Ngày tải lên: 11/06/2014, 01:32

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Báo cáo hóa học: " Treatment combining RU486 and Ad5IL-12 vector attenuates the growth of experimentally formed prostate tumors and induces changes in the sentinel lymph nodes of mice" doc

Báo cáo hóa học: " Treatment combining RU486 and Ad5IL-12 vector attenuates the growth of experimentally formed prostate tumors and induces changes in the sentinel lymph nodes of mice" doc

... ZAG impacts the mobilization of fat stores and breakdown of body fat supporting another indication for the inclusion of RU486 in therapy Thus, the use of RU486 in prostate cancer therapy could ... immunity and protecting against the spread of tumor cells into the draining TSLN While most of the anti-tumor effect is clearly the result of the proinflammatory response induced by the Ad5IL-12 ... RU486 systemically and influence the local effects of IL-12 could limit some of the toxic effects of IL-12 and offer a general strategy to aid in the activity of other localized proinflammatory...

Ngày tải lên: 18/06/2014, 16:20

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Báo cáo nghiên cứu nông nghiệp " Biofertiliser inoculant technology for the growth of rice in Vietnam: Developing technical infrastructure for quality assurance and village production for farmers " pot

Báo cáo nghiên cứu nông nghiệp " Biofertiliser inoculant technology for the growth of rice in Vietnam: Developing technical infrastructure for quality assurance and village production for farmers " pot

... participants in the project of more than to The majority of the staff producing biofertiliser in the project were women and the Vietnam Women’s Union played a strong role in providing acceptance of the technology ... commercial products and for their effectiveness in the field The main beneficiaries of the improved technology are rice farmers, who obtain improved yields of rice and more income and the workers in ... methods of biofertiliser production and the use of simple field tests To carry out research on carrier materials for biofertilisers and methods of ensuring high numbers of inoculant microbes The...

Ngày tải lên: 22/06/2014, 13:20

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the future of money how mobile payments and the digitization of money will change everything docx

the future of money how mobile payments and the digitization of money will change everything docx

... generation of real-time, insight driven, shopping and financial tools End of the days of consumers being “dumb” at point of sale Consumer empowerment to the max 19 There are a variety of hurdles ... phones Financial inclusion 24 Mobile Payments and the Digitization of Money will Change Everything…Or will it? 25 From Theory to Action: The work of SapientNitro 26 Q&A 27 Thanks Donald Chesnut, ... enable the “check-out” process to occur in-aisle, at home, anywhere As a result, mPayment will challenge and redefine– long-standing assumptions of how stores are designed 18 The arrival of mobile...

Ngày tải lên: 28/06/2014, 17:20

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Báo cáo sinh học: "Drug-therapy networks and the prediction of novel drug targets" docx

Báo cáo sinh học: "Drug-therapy networks and the prediction of novel drug targets" docx

... targets [6] In the analysis and visual representation of drug-therapy and drug-target networks, the weight of the links (such as the number of drugs binding to both of two linked targets in the drug-target ... increase the number of novel drug targets and improve the approval rate of new drugs When thinking about the possible network representations of diseases, drugs and drug targets, the elements of the ... hydrophobicity and the ability to form hydrogen bonds, reduce further the number of drug candidates that can be given orally, which is the method normally desired [7] The analysis of the drug-target...

Ngày tải lên: 06/08/2014, 18:21

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Báo cáo lâm nghiệp: "Diversity of endomycorrhizal fungi and their synergistic effect on the growth of Acacia catechu Willd." pot

Báo cáo lâm nghiệp: "Diversity of endomycorrhizal fungi and their synergistic effect on the growth of Acacia catechu Willd." pot

... mind, the present study was undertaken to determine the effect of double and triple inoculation (co-inoculation) of AM fungi with other rhizospheric microflora on the growth performance of A catechu ... seedlings They found that arbuscular mycorrhizal fungi helped withstand the water stress and also improved the growth of the seedlings In the present study, a soil-based inoculum was used for all the ... from the results that all the inoculations had a higher P content of shoots and roots than the control P content of roots was higher than P content of shoots in all the inoculated seedlings of...

Ngày tải lên: 07/08/2014, 04:20

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Báo cáo lâm nghiệp: " Influence of a planting hole application of dolomitic limestone powder and basalt grit on the growth of Carpathian birch (Betula carpatica W. et K.) and soil chemistry in the air-polluted Jizerské hory Mts." pptx

Báo cáo lâm nghiệp: " Influence of a planting hole application of dolomitic limestone powder and basalt grit on the growth of Carpathian birch (Betula carpatica W. et K.) and soil chemistry in the air-polluted Jizerské hory Mts." pptx

... increased the concentration of exchangeable K; probably as a consequence of silicate weathering In the 0–10 cm horizon of the limestone variant, the increased content of exchangeable Ca and Mg is ... layers (0–10 and 10–20 cm), liming reduced the quantity of exchangeable P while the application of basalt increased it substantially The liming reduced the content of exchangeable K in the 0–10 cm ... though, the Ca contents were lower The application of both the basic amendments augmented the proportion of exchangeable Mg in the 0–10 cm zone Slight increases in the Mg content as a result of the...

Ngày tải lên: 07/08/2014, 10:22

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Báo cáo lâm nghiệp: " Effects of ectomycorrhizal inoculation and the type of substrate on mycorrhization, growth and nutrition of containerised Pinus pinea L. seedlings produced in a commercial nursery" docx

Báo cáo lâm nghiệp: " Effects of ectomycorrhizal inoculation and the type of substrate on mycorrhization, growth and nutrition of containerised Pinus pinea L. seedlings produced in a commercial nursery" docx

... enhancing the photosynthetic capacity [11] and by increasing the uptake of water and nutrients, and their accumulation in the seedling tissues [3, 8] Environmental conditions marked by the Mediterranean ... prevented the formation of mycorrhizas The relatively high pH value (7.7) of the substrate could have reduced the efficacy of all fungi tested Since most of them are acidophilous, both the germination ... required by the fungus [11, 35] The lack of stimulation of seedlings growth by the fungi could also be influenced by nursery practices like the fertilisation levels, the type of substrate, or the container...

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