effects of general purpose machines on task productivity

... indication of the effects of education and health on labour productivity In the case of education, it is likely that on average across the community, the effect of a person’s level of education on ... reasonable indication of the contribution of education to labour productivity The effects of illness on labour productivity are more complicated, and wages may be a less reliable indicator of ... these conditions had the largest effects on workforce participation 26 EDUCATION, HEALTH AND WAGES Table 5.2 Marginal effects of target health conditions on hourly wages Target condition Percentage...

Ngày tải lên: 14/02/2014, 09:20

... Rice yield of T3 is 0.35 ton/ha higher than that of C This means that one kg of MMC helps generate 0.7 kg of rice With the total input of 500 kg of MMC for one of rice, additional 350 kg of rice ... yield of T3 is 0.43 ton/ha higher than that of C This means that one kg of MMC helps generate 0.86 kg of rice With the total input of 500 kg of MMC for one of rice, an additional 430 kg of rice ... P2O5 + 75 kg of K2O + 500 kg of MMC Treatment (T2): 50 kg of N + 90 kg of P2O5 + 75 kg of K2O + 500 kg of MMC Treatment (T3): 100 kg of N + 90 kg of P2O5 + 75 kg of K2O + 500 kg of MMC RESULTS...

Ngày tải lên: 06/08/2014, 19:20

... radiation-independent drug effects and enabled assessment of the relationship of this variable to radiationdependent effects Conclusion Measurement of radiation responses over a wide range of doses ... radioprotective effect of the drug in this population Conventional analysis of the effects of DNA repair modifiers upon clonogenic survival is limited to quantifying the magnitude of change of a single ... comparison of the parameters in the treated and untreated experiments As a consequence, quantitative assessment of the effect of modifiers of DNA repair upon four distinct components of the radiation...

Ngày tải lên: 13/08/2014, 16:21

... tendency of integration of the global economy, English is one of the effective communicative tools for everybody The role of English is considered to be very important in the fields of economics, ... collected by means of three sets of questionnaires, one on the teachers and the others on the students in pre – improvement stage and post – improvement one The questions are of the three – kinds: ... Instrumentation one: A set of questionnaires answered by the students in pre – writing stage The questionnaires were designed with questions to elicit from students the information about the situation of...

Ngày tải lên: 07/09/2013, 13:58

... the effects of air pollution policies on overall demand for fossil fuels and on the choice of fuels (coal, oil, gas), nor have we considered the effects of caps on black carbon or organic carbon ... multiple, regionally variable and partially-offsetting, effects of BC on absorption and reflection of sunlight, reflectivity of clouds, and the strength of lower tropospheric convection (Wang, 2004) ... 4.1 Effects on concentrations 4.2 Effects on ecosystems 4.3 Economic effects 10 4.4 Effects on temperature and sea level 11 Summary and Conclusions...

Ngày tải lên: 17/02/2014, 22:20

... comparisons for each object consisted of the 14 pairs of opposite-facing comparisons at the same position, the 42 pairs of left-facing comparisons at different positions (the permutations of positions ... variance on the positions of the centers of the objects indicate a main effect of facing direction (F (1, 9) = 6.99, p < 0.03), but not of instructional condition, F (1, 9) < 1, or their interaction ... out of the frame, violating these conventions to convey feelings of isolation, loneliness, and/or longing Although such considerations are beyond the scope of the experiments we report in this...

Ngày tải lên: 07/03/2014, 17:20

... segment Q into a sequence of concepts Each concept can possibly span multiple words Let S = s1 , s2 , , sk , , sm be one of the possible segmentations comprising of m segments, where i sk ... the context of voice local search, users expect overall system response time to be similar to that of web search Consequently, the relatively long ASR latency leaves no room for a slow parser On ... measure the parsing performance in terms of extraction accuracy on the two non-filler slots: SearchTerm and LocationTerm Extraction accuracy computes the percentage of the test set where the string identified...

Ngày tải lên: 08/03/2014, 21:20

... Australian and New Zealand Environment Conservation Council Trust Fund and the New South Wales Environment Protection Authority (now Department of Environment and Conservation) This work also was supported ... fruit production, rely heavily on various chemicals, insecticides, herbicides, conditioners, and defoliants [49] Concentrations up to ␮g LϪ1 of endosulfan [50] and 0.24 ␮g LϪ1 of chlorpyrifos ... conductivity [23] Concentrations of chemicals used in the tests (Table 1) were based on the lethal concentration at 50% values obtained by conducting acute tests over a period of 96 h at various...

Ngày tải lên: 14/03/2014, 20:20

... reproduction purposes only Nonprofit Hospitals Statute Prevents State Agencies From Considering Community Benefits When Granting Tax‑Exempt Status, While the Effects of Purchases and Consolidations on ... Corporations Code Section 5031, a corporation is considered an affiliate of another corporation when the latter controls the former or when both corporations are under common control As part of our ... ORGANIZATION AS A RESULT OF PRICE CHANGES OWNER OR PARENT ORGANIZATION ACQUIRED HOSPITAL TYPE OF ACQUISITION YEAR OF ACQUISITION DURING YEAR BEFORE ACQUISITION* DURING YEAR OF ACQUISITION* DURING...

Ngày tải lên: 15/03/2014, 23:20

... Reconstitution experiments with transfection of ADAM10 in ADAM17) ⁄ ) embryonic mouse fibroblasts [55] suggested only a minor influence of ADAM10 on neuregulin-1 shedding, but any positive proof ... Neuregulin isoforms in dorsal root ganglion neurons: effects of the cytoplasmic domain on localization and membrane shedding of Nrg-1 type I J Neurosci Res 84, 1–12 34 Hu X, Hicks CW, He W, Wong P, ... C (2008) Effects of neuronspecific ADAM10 modulation in an in vivo model of acute excytotoxic stress Neuroscience 152, 459–468 Nave KA & Salzer JL (2006) Axonal regulation of myelination by neuregulin...

Ngày tải lên: 16/03/2014, 04:20

... depending on the concentration The addition of DiS-C3(5) £ 10 lM caused deceleration of mitochondrial oxygen consumption but > 20 lM caused acceleration These actions of DiS-C3(5) on Ó FEBS 2004 ... acceleration and deceleration of oxygen consumption were observed, depending on the concentration of the dye At higher concentrations such as 50 lM, DiS-C3(5) caused acceleration of mitochondrial ... protective effects of DiS-C3(5) at a low concentration on the spontaneous induction of mitochondrial PT was also confirmed by observing mitochondria by TEM (Fig 8) The disappearance of the inner mitochondrial...

Ngày tải lên: 16/03/2014, 18:20

... modification of histones, via acetylation, methylation and phosphorylation [15–18] Acetylation by histone acetyltransferases (HATs) occurs on specific lysine residues on the N-terminal tails of histone ... expression of a protein(s) required for induction of the Timp-1 gene Time course of TSA action upon PMA- and TGF-b1-induced Timp-1 expression The time course of induction of Timp-1 gene expression ... obvious effect on basal expression of Timp-1, only on induced gene expression In conclusion, this is to our knowledge, the only described instance of HDAC inhibitors having opposite effects on the same...

Ngày tải lên: 16/03/2014, 18:20

... concentration of curcumin was 1.77 ± 1.87 lm [49] In another rat study, daily oral consumption of a glyconated form of catechin resulted in a serum concentration of 34.8 ± 6.0 lm [50] The amount of EPCG ... 10 s of the experiment, followed by injection of QUIN (in HBSS) Fluorescent readings were subsequently taken for an additional 90 s Negative controls included injection of only HBSS solution without ... human neurons (A) Representative trace of intracellular Ca2+ induced by QUIN (150, 550 and 1200 nM) (B) Quantified amplitude of neuronal response to QUIN at the aforementioned concentrations (*P...

Ngày tải lên: 22/03/2014, 21:20

... errors of commission versus omission (action versus inactions) and conversational norms Figure presents an outline of our conceptual framework 677 Figure THE EFFECTS OF SELF-CONTROL REGRET ON CONSUMER ... Effects of Judging Others’ Regret on Personal Choice Method Ninety-one respondents (train station travelers) were randomly assigned to one of three conditions: (1) a near-past choice condition ... Effect of a Delay Between Choice and Consumption on Consumption Enjoyment,” Journal of Consumer Research, 31 (3), 502–510 Ofir, Chezy and Itamar Simonson (2007), “The Effect of Stating Expectations...

Ngày tải lên: 29/03/2014, 20:20

... [24–26] The aim of this study was to investigate the antioxidant effects of PycnogenolÒ on redox enzymes, with emphasis on the regulation of TrxR Results Effects of PycnogenolÒ on cellular TrxR ... Inhibition of enzyme activity of PycnoB Fig Determination of ROS production ROS production was detected using CM-H2DCFDA after h treatment with 10 lgÆmL)1 PycnogenolÒ alone or in combination with ... based on use of a lung carcinoma cell line, we strongly believe that the action of PycnogenolÒ is a general mechanism and not only applicable in our model cell system, as the antioxidant effects of...

Ngày tải lên: 30/03/2014, 02:20

... (1994) Condensation of supercoiled DNA induced by MnCl2 Biophys J 67, 1678– 1681 25 Luck G & Zimmer C (1972) Conformational aspects and reactivity of DNA Effects of manganese and magnesium ions on ... activation of the plasminogen system leads to proteolysis of histone H1 of necrotic cells when incubated in the presence of murine serum [3] Proteolysis of histone H1 renders internucleosomal regions ... spleen A Fig Detection of DNase1 and DNase1l3 in murine serum and tissues by DPZ (A–C) Modified DPZ under reducing conditions (D) Conventional DPZ under non-reducing conditions (see Materials and...

Ngày tải lên: 30/03/2014, 02:20

... content standards Three years later, the National Council on Economic Education (NCEE) led a coalition of organizations (including the National Association of Economic Educators, the Foundation ... information on the conditions of implementation and impacts of the programs being evaluated IES evaluation reports not include conclusions or recommendations or views with regard to actions policymakers ... improvement of the quality of student understanding of personal finance and economics” (U.S Department of Education 2001) The National Council on Economic Education (recently renamed the Council for Economic...

Ngày tải lên: 31/03/2014, 05:21

... biological action of the peptide Finally, the effect of the tryptophanyl substitution at position 16 on the biological activity was confirmed for the native GGN4 Consistent with the results of the C-terminally ... the C-terminal part The disordered conformation in the C-terminal region of D24)37 GGN4 is probably due to the break of the peptide bond at position 23 In contrast, the finally selected structures ... The present structural investigations of the GGN4 analogues not only contribute to a better understanding of the structure–activity relationships of this group of antimicrobial peptides with a...

Ngày tải lên: 31/03/2014, 09:20

... compensation contracts through percent changes in fair value of options as a percent of total compensation This measure conveys an incomplete picture of the economic consequences of recognition because ... proportion of option compensation My paper differs in three ways First, I examine the terms of compensation contracts 10 (e.g., the number of options granted, contractual length and moneyness), ... structure of compensation by analyzing time series changes in the terms of option contracts and for substitution towards other forms of compensation I focus primarily on changes in the number of option...

Ngày tải lên: 03/06/2014, 01:05

... as detailed below Generation of monocyte-derived DC (Mo-DC) and evaluation of DC endocytic activity CD14+ monocytes were purified by negative selection (Monocyte Isolation Kit II, Miltenyi Biotec, ... activation/differentiation antigens Control cultures consisted of immunogenic DC differentiated with GM-CSF and IL-4 under serum-free conditions The phenotypic and functional features of the DC-like ... [11] Bonanno et al Journal of Translational Medicine 2010, 8:114 http://www.translational-medicine.com/content/8/1/114 Page of 15 Figure In vitro monocytic release of bioactive IL-12p70 Monocytes...

Ngày tải lên: 18/06/2014, 16:20