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... Root, Journal of the American Statistical Association 431 Donaldson, T and Preston, L., 1995 The Stakeholder Theory of Corporation: Concept, Evidence and Implications, Academy of Management Review, ... Fulfillment of the Requirements for the Degree of Bachelor of Business (Accounting) Hons Otc 2010 Declaration of Originality and Word Count DECLARATION I declare that this graduation project is based on ... (2000) Corporate Nirvana Is the Future Socially Responsible? London, Industrial Society Elkington, J (2001) The Chrysalis Economy How Citizen CEOs and Corporations canfuse values and value creation

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... analysis, fatigue behavior of steel weldment Introduction: Welding fabrication is one of the most common joining procedures of metallic structure The vast majority of component fatigue failures take ... Institute of Australia, 2006 6-Zoran D.Perovic, The Weld Profile Effect On Stress Weldments, /Expert Concentration th 15 Factors International Conference (Trends in Research in The Development of Machinery ... (material of micro-cracks on slip bands, coalescence of micro cracks and finally propagation of a main crack Many influence factors complicate the subject The behavior of different materials and the effect

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... additional stress-concentration factor due to eccentricity tolerance (used for plate connections only), K ta is the additional stress-concentration factor due to angular mismatch (used for plate connections ... full-penetration welds in one pass on materials up to 1-in thick, depending on laser power and weld speed, with no filler and preparation as simple as precision cutting of the edges. In addition, distortion ... ascertain the stress concentration factor... stressconcentration factor of the actual welded geometry is accounted for in the analysis For the sake of discussion, a modification of the factor A

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... high IDs conditions could not be consi dered as a concatenation of discrete units. Discussion The a posteriori analysis of the errors showed a signif i- cant effect of ID on the ratio of unsuccessful ... of a target contact corresponds to the end of a hand movement whereas Table 2 Effects of ID on temporal parameters of hand movements during reciprocal pointing Temporal parameters ID values Effect ... location encoding [13-15] and (ii) the control of the final phase of the movement on the basis of visual information about relative target and hand locations [9,16,17]. Surprisingly, the effect of

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... G Figure Thioflavin-S labeling in coronal brain sections Thioflavin-S labeling in coronal brain sections A, B show hippocampus and C, D show cortex of 4-month-old mice; A, C are control mice, ... microglia according to soma sizes in 4-month-old control and TGF-β1 mice fed for months with control chow, or chow containing pioglitazone or ibuprofen; B) Evolution of microglia activation with ... reduction of glia activation caused by pioglitazone and the lack of effect on the thioflavin-S-labeled deposits Conclusions: i) TGF-β1 over-expressing mice may not be an appropriate model of Aβ-elicited

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... density of the foam may be caused by the destruction of crosslinks by the expansion of the gas during the decomposition of the blowing agent. Effect of Blowing Agent Concentration 20 0.15 ... Concentration (phr) Average Cell Size (mm) Figure 3: Effect of blowing agent concentration on average cell size. Effect of Blowing Agent Concentration 22 Figure 4: Micrographs of natural ... Agent Concentration (phr) Number of Cells Per Unit Volume (cm -3 ) Figure 2: Effect of blowing agent concentration on number of cells per unit volume. 0 0.5 1 1.5 2 481012 Blowing Agent Concentration

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... independent on moisture conditions. The reasons of low spruce growth in 1999 are unclear. Probably it can be explained by influence of anomalous environmental conditions during the summer of 1998 ... natural spruce regeneration, too. The increasing dependence of dS r on DBH (i.e. small growth of small trees) in aspen for growing season of 2000 (wet weather conditions) corresponded to the observed ... year. One of the reasons of such differences is a possible methodological error: if the actual tree growth is close to zero, the corresponding annual ring is practically invis- ible on the cores

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... ("sum of longest diameter and diameter diagonal to it” divided by 2) of at least mm greater than the negative control was considered evidence of sensitization Sensitization to at least one food ... suggest that modifications of gene expression and function may be more important [5,6] Such modifications of gene expression are thought to result from gene-environment interactions occurring before ... possible confounding effect of correlated variables, multivariable regression was used to explore the predictive effect of each variable, adjusting for all potential confounders Assessment of interaction

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... three different parts of the world The findings showed no consistent effect of age on PTSD Therefore, it was concluded that PTSD depended upon the social, economic, cultural, and historical context ... the HTQ score does withhold more information Thus, the results based on the dimensional approach might be more differentiated This might add some consideration to the ongoing discussion of the ... entire lifespan of PTSD distribution The inclusion of participants beyond the age of 80 would touch on something new and concurrently bring diversity into the range of the population examined Future

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... models by downregulation of both autoimmune and inflammatory components of the disease The aim of this study was to characterize the protective effect of VIP on bone erosion in collagen-induced ... development of treatments for RA Introduction local bone and cartilage destruction and loss of bone mineral density [7] This condition in mice mimics many of the clinical and pathological features of ... inflammation and osteocartilaginous resorption via stimulation of osteoclastic mediators [4,5,9,10] A better understanding of the pathogenesis of bone erosion in RA relates to the discovery of osteoclast-mediated

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... coefficient of variation for embryo production simulated was 0.50 His results showed a small effect of variation in family sizes on rates of response and inbreeding The reduction in response by including ... rate of inbreeding decreased by 4% (Models1 and 2) The effect of the coefficient of variation of embryo yield on the rate of inbreeding was notable By increasing the coefficient of variation by ... accuracy of selection (correlation between the true breeding values and selection criteria of the candidates for selection); 3) genetic selection differentials (difference between the mean values of

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... biomechanical effects of shoes on the gait of children Of the two previously published reviews of the effects of children’s shoes, one was published in 1991 [11] and the other focused only on children’s ... flexion/extension, inversion/eversion and abduction/adduction in respect to the proximal segment, while resultant motion of the hallux was reported in two dimensions, primarily flexion/extension ... than reporting change scores between intervention and control conditions and change score standard deviation/error This reporting practice prohibits the application of less conservative statistical

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... bone marrow cell migration played a role in the development of pulmonary hypertension To demonstrate the effect of CXCR4 shRNA delivery on bone marrow cell migration, we investigated expression ... to demonstrate the relationship between bone marrow cell migration and the development of pulmonary hypertension Therefore, this is the first study to show that migration inhibition of bone marrow ... transplantation of bone marrow cells without shRNA, BMC+S-RNA = transplantation of bone marrow cells with scrambled shRNA, BMC+ CXCR4 = transplantation of bone marrow cells with CXCR4 shRNA Effect of CXCR4

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... University Hospital, Kangwon National University School of Medicine, 17-1 Hyoja3-dong, Chuncheon, Kangwon 200-947, South Korea Full list of author information is available at the end of the article Lee ... located on the surface of type II cells [64] Therefore, suppression of IL-8 receptors by IL-10 may contribute to the prevention of additional type II cell death Third, the effect ... controls. For the study of preincubation of rIL-10, the cellsculturedinanidentical manner were treated with rIL-10, a t a concentration of 300 ng/ml for 1 h before hyperoxia exposure. The concentration

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... study showing a correla- tion between the first sensation of non-noxious heat and the onset of cutaneous vasodilatation, and that the vasodilatation correlates better with the sensation of heat compared ... perfusion and a stimulating effect on tissue regeneration. However, no studies have described the effects on equine tissue perfusion. The aim of the present study was to investigate the effect of ... increased perfusion. To the best of our knowledge, no study has been performed on the effects on blood perfusion of defocused CO 2 laser treat- ment in horses. Therefore, comparisons can only be made

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... 7 of 12 effect on the RNA splicing event being monitored [46-48]. Consequently, our observation of marked differ- ences in e ffect of i ndividual CLKs on HIV-1 is one of the first demonstrations ... the effect of CLK overexpression and drug treatments on HIV-1 gene expression, replication, RNA accumulation, and splice site selection AB contributed data on the effect of chlorhexidine ... dramatic * Correspondence: alan.cochrane@utoronto.ca 2 Dept. of Molecular Genetics, University of Toronto, Toronto, Ontario, Canada Full list of author information is available at the end of the

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... ethoxylate nonylphenol OH n Kinetics of ATRP  The rate of monomer consumption in the propagation step is provided by :  Equation (2) express the steady-state assumption for the concentration of propagating ... addition of Cu(0) Keq = 9.37×10-7 Recommendations  Investigate the effect of the others factors on ATRP such as initiator,temperature, reaction time,…  The effect of factors on ATRP of n-butyl ... increased with the length of the alkyl group of monomers  The polymerization rate followed the order MA > n-BA > n-OA III Results & Discussion The effect of ligand on reaction time Set I (mol) CuBr2...

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... the discussions it may be concluded that the overall percentage of unsaturation or saturation may not be sole authority to decide cetane number of a biodiesel The contribution of long straight ... Chemical Properties on Biodiesel Fuels on Injection, Combustion and Exhaust Emission Characteristics in a Direct Injection Compression Ignition Engine, International Journal of Engine Research, ... addition G Knothe observed that the cetane number also depends on the position of the double bond in monounsaturated fatty compounds and increases if the double bond move towards one end of the...

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... EGFP mRNA or a non-targeting (NT) siRNA at a final concentration of 10 nM Fluorescence was measured 24 h after transfection The mean and standard deviation are shown for each condition Asterisks ... dependence of silencing, to ensure that the differences among the siRNAs that we observed at 10 nm were within the dose-responsive concentration range (Fig S1) Effect of TRBP or Dicer knockdown on the ... in the presence of TRBP, actually becoming the most active of all the siRNAs under these conditions (Fig 2A) In contrast, after knockdown of Dicer, only the silencing efficacy of 396-AG was significantly...

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... stability strongly depends on anion concentration; this highlights the primary role played by the anion–protein interactions in A-state stabilization Competition among anions To better define the effect ... methionine coordination to the heme iron [25] Electronic absorption monovalent anions (the effect of perchlorate is illustrated in Fig for comparative purposes) The changes in the Cotton effect ... compilation ª 2006 FEBS F Sinibaldi et al Anion-modulated structure of cyt c A-state A B Fig Effect of sulfate (s) and selenate (.) concentration on the heme pocket environment [and on the strength of...

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