... that will entail both subtle and not-sosubtle effectsonthe transportation needs ofthe population.6 Transportation Researchers have paid increasing attention to the transportation patterns and ... clients are sensitive to how much transportation assistance they receive in terms ofhow often they leave home and what destinations they are able to reach They also respond to land use characteristics, ... the geographic information systems (GIS) portion of this work along with other critical assistance; Shiela Staska ofthe Contra Costa IHSS program for sharing the Contra Costa Caseload Management,...
... usage pattern and evolutional dynamics of HBV as well as the relationship between codon usage pattern of HBV and its host Result Synonymous coodn usage in HBV The C% and U% were higher than A% and ... was calculated based onthe data ofthe synonymous codon usage frequencies of human cell The codon usage bias of HBV suggests that some synonymous codons are not chosen equally and randomly Genetic ... relationship based on synonymous codon usage in HBV The PCA detected the first principal component (f1’) which can account for 23.65% ofthe total synonymous codon usage variation, andthe second...
... ofthe National Academy of Sciences and was on their Commission on Life Sciences He was a member ofthe National Cancer Advisory Board ofthe National Cancer Institute (1976-82) His many awards ... Davies and Monro.91 d Contrera et al.92 140 drugs are in both the FDA and PDR databases Misconceptions About Environmental Pollution, Pesticides andthe Cause of Cancer 17 APPENDIX TABLE V Ranking ... in the HERP calculation are averages calculated by taking the harmonic mean ofthe TD50s ofthe positive tests in that species from the Carcinogenic Potency Database Average TD50 values, have...
... gains if the managers ofthe acquiring bank are able to run the consolidated bank after the merger as efficiently as they ran the acquiring bank before the merger 6 to total assets ratio, and ... the merger, 2) the acquired bank or banks during the available years before the merger, and 3) the consolidated bank during the available years after the merger All ofthe efficiency levels and ... interval the appropriate years after the merger for the consolidated entity andthe appropriate years prior to the merger for both the acquiring andthe acquired bank separately.” If a bank acquired...
... the concept of corruption in a way that constitutes a break of law or of standards of high moral conduct Jacob Van Klavaren (1954, p.25) defines corruption as the exploitation ofthe public And ... corruption as a deviant behavior associated with a particular motivation, namely that of private gain at public expense Van kKlavaren see corruption as the exploitation ofthe public There have been ... Dictionary USA- United States of America ABSTRACT The essay demonstrates that high scale corruption may have very harmful effectson economic and political development Corruption as one of the...
... Tarragona, Spain) Nursery production of containerised P pinea 819 Table II ANOVA significance levels for the factors inoculation (A) and type of substrate (B), and interaction between them (AB) ... not only the growth ofthe seedling but also their physiological status by enhancing the photosynthetic capacity [11] and by increasing the uptake of water and nutrients, and their accumulation ... production [36] The quality ofa substrate for conifer production is directly related with its water retention capacity andthe porosity [18], and usually a mixture of equal parts of sphagnum peat and...
... seedling The different sampling dates were: at transplanting (day 0), at the beginning of root regeneration (day 13), andon days 27 and 41 The significance oftheeffectsof lifting and time and their ... through decreased stomatal conductance and increased allocation of N As a consequence, C assimilation, carbohydrate concentration, and N availability for new growing components were decreased in lifted ... between N concentration and CO2 assimilation capacity is weaker in conifers than in other species due to lower rates of photosynthesis anda smaller range of N concentration than in non-coniferous...
... neuronal excitability and pharmacological responsiveness after TBI These studies, therefore, support the hypotheses that TBI alters the constituent proteins ofthe GABAAR and that these alterations ... Diltiazem, an L-type VGCC blocker, and DZ, a GABAAR agonist, had statistically identical effectsonthe expression of GABAAR subunits α1, α3, and γ2, normalizing γ2 and significantly increasing ... greatest change for the greatest number of subunits (24 h) was chosen for pharmacological manipulation The NMDA receptor antagonist MK-801, the L-type VGCC antagonist diltiazem, or the GABAAR agonist...
... experiment andthe analysis and interpretation ofthe data All authors have read and approved the final manuscript Acknowledgments The contributions of Mr Steve Johnson for assistance with the surgical ... percentage stance times ofanda gait symmetry variable of approximately 0.5 Ashift in either of these variables would indicate ashift away from balanced, symmetric gait For the statistical analyses ... and vertical impulse relative to pre-operative, sham, and contralateral controls; and, the application of sTNFRII largely ameliorated theeffectsof NP placement alone Hence, gait metrics that...
... secondary maxima The further away from the main maximum, the secondary one is the smaller But in the case of absence of an external magnetic field, there are only two maxima of nonlinear absorption coefficient ... the NAC ofa strong EMW in compositional superlattices in case of confined phonons, in this section, we will evaluate, plot and discuss the expression ofthe NAC for the case ofthe GaAs − Al0.3 ... specific ofthe GaAs − Al0.3 Ga0.7 As compositional superlattices II CALCULATIONS OFTHE NONLINEAR ABSORPTION COEFFICIENT OFA STRONG ELECTROMAGNETIC WAVE BY CONFINED ELECTRONS IN A COMPOSITIONAL SUPERLATTICE...
... interactions between parents and other adults, the microcontext of interactions between parents and children, the macrocontext ofthe neighborhood one lives in andthe availability of basic educational ... such analysis is that of Gortmaker (37) He estimated models for infant mortality based on data collected by the National Center for Health Statistics in the National Natality and National Infant ... representative of all areas, they are of limited use in inferring the character of relationships at the national level Many studies examine aggregate data (24, 80), for example determining the statistical...
... Sele Onthe Adriatic side, the largest river plains are those ofthe Tavoliere in Puglia andthe Piana di Sibari in Calabria Onthe islands there are the plain of Catania in Sicily and that ofthe ... Tyrrhenian side ofthe Italian peninsula these consist mainly ofthe lower Valdarno, the Ombrone section ofthe Maremma, the Pontine Marshes andthe Campanian plains ofthe Garigliano, Volturno and ... million years ago, with the withdrawal ofthe sea andthe filling up ofthe great Po depression the shape ofthe present-day Italian region and particularly the peninsula and islands began to gradually...
... evaluation ofthe volume and quality of prescriptions of analgesic drugs in a large administrative data base in collaboration with local Italian Health Authorities has been started to testthe feasibility ... describe the characteristics ofa large sample of cancer patients in terms of case mix (patients characteristics), pattern of care (pharmacological and non-pharmacological treatments) and relevant ... trial for the patients' safety and according to the World Medical Association Declaration of Helsinki andthe European and Italian Good Clinical Practice guidelines, as well as to establish and...
... five ofthe 16 devaluations, the residuals ofthe balance of - payments equation in the year of devaluation are positive and at least one standard error in size None ofthe negative residuals are ... E EFFECTSOF DEVALUATION T h e pattern ofthe I-esiduals for the trade balance contrasts sharply with the pattern for the balance of payments The average balance of payments residuals are negative ... devaluation has clearly inlproved the balance of payments T h e contrasting pattern of response to devaluation for the trade balance andthe balance of payments is also apparent within the individual...
... are available in the literature.10,11 It is reported that the ratio ofthe silica source to the surfactant ratio andthe pH ofthe synthesis gel can greatly influence the characteristics ofthe ... Characterization of regular and plugged SBA-15 silicas by using adsorption and inverse carbon replication and explanation ofthe plug formation mechanism J Phys Chem B, 107(10), 2205–2213 Chareonpanich, ... mesopores was dominant The highest surface area and pore volume were shown for the SBA-15 samples synthesised at a TEOS/TCP ratio of 1.52 (S1) About 66.3% ofthe surface area of this sample was contributed...
... concentration of 10 µg/plate for TA 98 strain, sodium azide (Sigma-Aldrich, USA) at a concentration of 1.5 µg/plate for TA 100 and TA 1535 strains, and ICR 191 at a concentration of 0.1 µg/plate for TA ... Tsuda H, Shimizu CS, Taketomi MK, Hasegawa MM, Hamada A, Kawata KM, Inui N Acrylamide; induction of DNA damage, chromosomal aberrations and cell transformation without gene mutations Mutagenesis ... weights gained after administration of acrylamide were measured and compared Rats were sacrificed by decapitation, and testes were removed and weighed After isolation of left epididymis from each testis,...
... ofthe year, the germination rate and resulting T50 was calculated andthe data onthe temporal distribution of germination was completed Both the data on germination rates and T50 data (the ... allelopathic substances and allow germination of its seeds that, onthe other hand, are not damaged by fire and so have a natural germination rate of close to 100% Therefore, it can be said that the fire ... ofthe seeds of Q ilex significantly affected, in this case by inhibition 3.2 Germination rates at the end ofa year of incubation The germination rates of Q robur and Q pyrenaica after a year...