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... finish the book by the end ofthe month.” Will I write the plan by the end ofthe month, or is the plan to finish the book by the end ofthe month? If your text requires less thinking on the readers’ ... comes up, users focus their attention on the center ofthe window where they read the body text before they bother looking over headerbars or other navigational elements The guys at 37signals ... improper understanding when they have read only part of them.8 Readers try to make sense of sentences before they reach the period at the end Some sentences can mislead the reader Consider the first...
... substantial part ofthe ‘glue’ of this book Chapter provides an introduction to the Internet andtheWebandthe foundations ofthe WWW technologies that are necessary to understand the rest ofthe book, ... aspects ofthe Internet We use Web every time we refer to the World Wide Webandweb when we refer to a broader class of networks or other kinds of networks, i.e webof citations As the Internet ... study oftheWeb graph in Chapter Chapter studies the Internet andtheWeb as large graphs It describes, models, and analyzes the power-law distribution ofWeb sizes, connectivity, PageRank, and the...
... federation None of these are possible with REST, as they require capabilities outside the scope oftheHTTP protocol A Brief Introduction to theWeb API None ofthe aspects and advantages of using ASP.NET ... method on the service looks the same—when looked at from the point of view oftheWebAndthe service doesn’t look and feel very Web- like For example, whether fetching task 123 or task 456, the URI ... (e.g., the state ofthe Task andthe permissions ofthe current user) Therefore, it is imperative that the list of links be dynamic There’s another important reason for using a collection of links...
... methods they should be mindful of their own safety andthe safety of others, including parties for whom they have a professional responsibility To the fullest extent ofthe law, neither the Publisher ... (generally after the first scene) • At the end ofthe movie (a closing title sequence) • At the beginning and at the end ofthe movie (an opening and closing title sequence) At the beginning ofthe movie ... repeat the credits ofthe opening titles (the talent credits ofthe opening titles are reorganized either in order of appearance or alphabetically) and then display the below -the- line full crew and...
... form ofthe interactive story will probably be like theevolutionofthe form for the novel, the stage play, the feature film, andthe symphony It is the creation of a major new kind of art, and ... more and more capable of putting users into virtual worlds, the role they play andthe point of view they have in those worlds affects the quality ofthe experience (Not to mention the design and ... papyrus and moving on down through the printing press, the movie projector, andthe television set, often replaced performers and their ability to play to the immediate audience The creator of the...
... disputes involving widows and other vulnerable women as well as the land rights The land and property rights of women and orphans of women returning to their natal homes and those of orphans Chapter ... analysis ofthe livelihood challenges faced by women and orphans in the context of HIV and AIDS as well as community responses to the pandemic Chapter Five then pulls together the main findings ofthe ... premised on the fact that a married woman does not own or control the main means of production, namely land, and that any produce from the land therefore belongs to the ‘owner’ ofthe land, the man...
... Yang Lili and Wu Yayun, for their friendship andthe happy days we have been together Finally, I would like to thank my parents, my sister and brother for their love, understanding, and patience ... FUNCTION AND DIACHRONIC EVOLUTIONOF CHINESE EXTENDED MIDDLE CONSTRUCTION 蔡淑美 CAI SHU MEI (Ph D, NUS) 新加坡国立大学中文系 博士学位论文 A THESIS SUBMITTED FOR THE DEGREE OF DOCTOR OF PHILOSOPHY DEPARTMENT OF CHINESE ... literature review on the current research of this construction, and briefly outline the organization of my dissertation The central claim of chapter two is that, although there exists disagreement...
... grew much warmer, thereby preventing freezing and accelerating surface “weathering” Except for Oxygen, almost all ofthe Earth’s atmosphere today Evolutionofthe Earth Process and Equation” its ... created the “ozone layer” high in the atmosphere, which blocked solar uv from reaching the ground and made it possible for plants and animals to survive above the ocean surface.) Evolutionofthe ... about 1% (by volume) Evolution ofthe Earth and its Atmosphere 2.5 billion years ago – 600 million years ago: ♦ Slowly but steadily, the evolutionary process and photosynthesis continued ♦ Multi-celled...
... compares the studied network with randomized versions of it with the same size and degree distribution The so-called Z-score quantifies the difference between the studied network and an ensemble of randomized ... functions, and topological features retain functionality and phylogeny However, the nature ofthe connections between these factors needs to be understood at the level ofthe protein domain The global ... from any other If dmin (Pi, Pj) is the length ofthe shortest path connecting proteins Pi and Pj, then L is defined as: Compared with pure random ER and SF networks, biomolecular webs show the characteristic...
... and Ardipithecus ramidus Given the fragmentary state of these remains, andthe difficulties inherent in their comparison, there is much discussion as to the validity of their hominid status The ... operation, there is no way of determining which level of analysis is the most relevant to the study ofthe neural correlates of aesthetic preference Additionally, the evolutionary emergence of such ... that there is greater space filled by axons and dendrites This picture of a mosaic of primitive and derived aspects ofthe organization ofthe human orbitofrontal cortex was also the result of...
... which encodes the first two structural motifs, and hence the N-terminal domain ofthe protein, just as in the genes for cS and cA–F However, the second half ofthe gene has the structure of a b-crystallin ... mammalian evolution These changes illustrate the way in which gene families may expand, contract and adapt They may also help us understand the functions ofthe c-crystallin family in vision and elsewhere ... encoding the two motifs ofthe C-terminal domain The crygn gene is thus a hybrid of b and c crystallin gene structures, apparently an intermediate in theevolutionofthe c-crystallins from the b-crystallins...
... evaluation, since the nature ofthe data is different from that ofthe QA dataset Most ofthe questions asked over theWeb target named entities like specific car brands, places and actors There is usually ... books and reliable Web data For some questions, the exact answer is the only possible one (e.g., the height of a person), while for others it is only the center of a distribution (e.g., the weight ... directly target the acquisition of numerical attributes from theWeband attempt to deal with ambiguity and noise ofthe retrieved attribute values (Aramaki et al., 2007) utilize a small set of patterns...
... SDS/PAGE and in 2D PAGE (Figs and 2; Table 1) The N-terminal amino acid sequences (see above) allow the assignment ofthe HcA clone to the major sequence ofthe upper hemocyanin band in the SDS/PAGE ... regions andthe entire 3¢ untranslated regions The standard polyadenylation signals (AATAAA) andthe poly(A)-tails of different lengths are present in each clone The open reading frames ofthe five ... comparison ofthe patterns ofthe SDS, native and 2D electrophoresis, we assign HcA and HcB to the a and b polypeptides (that could not be separated in [14]), respectively, HcC to the c subunit, and...
... structure, and that some ofthe subunits of PDH, OGDH and OADH are related The functional and evolutionary relationships between the subunits of these enzymes are somewhat complicated In a nutshell, the ... consists of 11 different enzymes [3,6]), the glycolytic/ gluconeogenic pathway [3,6], andthe two different pathways of isoprenoid biosynthesis [7] Recently, theevolutionofthe biosynthetic pathway ... compartmentalized in the glyoxysomes of plants [31], the single exception being aconitase, which is localized in the cytosol [32,33] Here we investigate theevolutionofthe enzymes ofthe pyruvate dehydrogenase...
... genes On the other hand, the lack of growth ofthe wildtype strain on D-allitol and L-iditol may either be due to a lack of uptake of these hexitols, or due to a lack of lad1 expression by these ... interpretation of these data first requires the determination ofthe 3D structure of Lad1 The at least 10-fold higher kcat/Km values of Lad1 for the pentitols L-arabinitol and xylitol than for the various ... oxidation of galactitol by Lad1 raised the question of whether other hexitols would be similarly oxidized at C4 by the enzyme We have therefore investigated the substrate and product specificity of the...