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... complex background as fast as possible Meanwhile, the system randomly assigned a background and morph category for each volunteer, and checked if such combination was previously assigned to less ... background matching A possible asymmetry in relationship between background matching and disruptive colouration was noted by Wilkinson and Sherratt (2008), i.e that poor background matching may ... simulation was presented to human volunteers as a computer game, in which they were requested to find the morph from the background as fast as possible The program was written in JAVA as a Windows...

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... enough keys • if adjacent child node has at least t keys, move separating key from parent to child and closest key in adjacent child to parent • if no adjacent child nodes have extra keys, merge ... removing a key from a node with children, need to rearrange keys again • if child before or after removed key has enough keys, move closest key from child to parent • if neither child has enough keys, ... Review: Hash tables • Hash table (or hash map): array of linked lists for storing and accessing data efficiently • Each element associated with a key (can be an integer, string, or other type) • Hash...

Ngày tải lên: 25/04/2013, 08:07

... financial service, and consumer products industries, as well as in the nonprofit and governmental sectors As a recognized educator he has trained thousands of project managers over the past 23 years, ... courses and enhanced, hands-on exercises offer practical skills and tips that you can immediately put to use Our expert instructors draw upon their experiences to help you understand key concepts and ... and scope, PRINCE2 has added quality (as a distinct factor), along with benefits and risk—to produce six constraints PRINCE2 employs these six “tolerances”—its term for these constraints as key...

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... Nigeria as elsewhere Maintaining these characteristics as the program extends nationally will require attention to technical standards as well as to political and budgetary support Training and retraining ... Nigeria as elsewhere Maintaining these characteristics as the program extends nationally will require attention to technical standards as well as to political and budgetary support Training and retraining ... include activities such as peer education, mass media, social marketing, youth-friendly services, and policy dialogue and advocacy School and livelihood opportunities complement and reinforce these...

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... Peasants benefited from the low-tax and rent policy as well as a new taxation system Under the new system, a land-based tax and asset-based tax were collected in the summer and autumn In the declining ... preceding dynasty, the Ming, was due to three land tax increases imposed in its last stages of rule.2 At least in theory, emperors See Bernhardt (1992) Zelin (1984: 113) 20 Peasants and Taxation ... India’s “vast and sprawling state apparatus was even more ambiguously situated in space between predatory and developmental states.” It was in part meritocratic and in part deeply corrupt and tied...

Ngày tải lên: 19/02/2014, 08:20

... office and with others The PE is treated as if it had bought and sold goods from and to its head office and had borrowed money and paid interest, rent, management fees and the like, in each case ... Taxation and Technology Transfer: Key Issues United Nations New York and Geneva, 2005 Technology Transfer and Taxation: Key Issues NOTE The term "country" as used in this publication also refers, as ... developing countries), as in the case of Ireland, rather than restricting them to activities carried out in the home country, as is usually the case Technology Transfer and Taxation: Key Issues References...

Ngày tải lên: 19/02/2014, 08:20

... different truncated Ptas, containing the last 326 amino acids in the case of Pta-F1, the last 352 amino acids in the case of Pta-F2, and the last 470 amino acids in the case of Pta-F3 (Fig 2) ... hexameric native Pta, as none of the truncated Ptas was able to assemble as a hexamer (Fig 3B) Specifically, the P-loop NTPase domain is important for native hexameric stabilization, as Pta-F3 did not ... spectrum (not shown) was practically the same as those obtained for the other truncated Ptas Kinetic characterization of E coli Pta and truncated Ptas The three truncated Ptas displayed Pta catalytic...

Ngày tải lên: 06/03/2014, 11:20

... Concept of Stochastic Images 33 1.4.1 Stochastic Fields as Generators of Stochastic Images 34 1.4.2 Correlation and Covariance Functions 38 1.4.3 Homogeneous and Ergodic Fields ... the image processing environment, briefly comments on hardware and software exploited in medical imaging and on processing aspects of image archiving and communication, including principles of image ... Enabling Digital Assets Security and Other Applications, Mauro Barni, Franco Bartolini Biosignal and Biomedical Image Processing: MATLAB-Based Applications, John L Semmlow Broadband Last Mile Technologies:...

Ngày tải lên: 06/03/2014, 12:20

... TBBT, and a number of related benzotriazoles and benzimidazoles, at the NTPase/helicase sites of HCV and the related viruses Japanese encephalitis virus (JEV) and WNV, as well as the human NTPase/ ... containing most of the ATPase and helicase activities ( 80%) were pooled and used to investigate the enzyme properties The JEV NTPase/helicase was expressed in E coli [31] and purified according ... lM, 235 lM and 4.2 lM for WNV, HCV, JEV and Suv3(D1–159) NTPase/helicases, respectively, and 4.7 pmol of DNA substrate (concentration of nucleotide base) as described in Materials and methods...

Ngày tải lên: 08/03/2014, 02:20

... generated from Asian countries, with China and Vietnam ranking as the first and third global producers Among the top ten Asian producers, Vietnam experienced the fastest growth between 1985 and 2005, ... one thousand hectares and it was reported that the total aquaculture area and productivity have increased 2.1 and 2.5 times, respectively, compared to that in 1996 A similar tendency was also ... farming activities and has a large potential for increased aquaculture production (MoFI, 2005) The culture systems include pond, fence and cage culture of catfish (Pangasius) as well as several indigenous...

Ngày tải lên: 13/03/2014, 18:58

... examiners classify problem assets, the savings association must recognize such examiner classifications in subsequent reports to OCC Based on the evaluation and classification of its assets, each ... control; and The savings association and its operating subsidiary are generally consolidated and treated as a unit for statutory and regulatory purposes Please refer to 12 C.F.R Parts 159 and 116 ... obligations of third parties i Key Differences between National Bank Regulatory Requirements and Federal Savings Association Regulatory Requirements I GENERAL POWERS AND OPERATIONAL REQUIREMENTS Lending/Investment...

Ngày tải lên: 15/03/2014, 10:20

... were several big displays of new releases as soon as you walked in, just a few feet from the cashier This was fine as long as the store was empty, but if customers were in line, their bodies ... the health and beauty aisle of a supermarket at 10:37 A.M A Science Is Born 15 on a Wednesday morning She has a handbasket, not a shopping cart, and has already selected store-brand vitamin ... Massachusetts mall This was the first mall store owned by ~s particular company, and so management was eager to see the results Based solely on total sales, our client was pleased overall, and...

Ngày tải lên: 15/03/2014, 15:16

... subsequent product demand (Morwitz and Schmittlein 1992, Dickie et al 1987, Urban et al 1983, Jamieson and Bass 1989), and actual purchases often bear a weak association with stated purchase intentions ... the empirical basis for the standard rational choice claims derived from the work of Olson is quite thin.” Green and Shapiro conclude that, at least as far as collective action and voting behavior ... who are interested in increasing customer demand for their products 17 Figure Reducing Free Riders: Mechanisms and Lessons for Green Marketers Goal Increase Customer Demand for Renewable Energy...

Ngày tải lên: 16/03/2014, 01:20

... that has no significant effect on plasma cholesterol levels and the R46L variation, a naturally occurring variant associated with hypocholesterolemia [31] and reduced plasma PCSK9 [22] As shown ... Rivier JE & Fischer WH (1994) Monitoring protein kinase and phosphatase reactions with matrix-assisted laser desorption ⁄ ionization mass spectrometry and capillary zone electrophoresis: comparison ... vivo in human plasma; (b) in the case of the propeptide, phosphorylation is decreased in the naturally occurring ‘loss-of-function’ R46L and A53V PCSK9 variants; and (c) decreasing the level...

Ngày tải lên: 16/03/2014, 06:20

... different behavior of gold and indium on Si(1 1) has been described and analyzed An explanation based on differences of solubilities of surface atoms in gold and indium and on the different surface ... bare and oxidized substrate as well as on the surface tension of the liquid metal alloys has been presented Silicon nanowires have been grown via VLS mechanism with the use of gold and indium as ... rate of metal and silicon evaporation On the other hand, very regular nanowires in [1 1] direction were obtained on the samples where gold was used as solvent (Fig 6) In this case, we found unambiguous...

Ngày tải lên: 16/03/2014, 15:17

... 271) PKA was purified from bovine heart as previously described [11] PKG and cGMP were purchased from Promega; MAPK, CaMKII, and calmodulin from Upstate; and CK1, CK2, and Cdk1 from New England Biolabs ... inhibitor-1 and DARPP-32 were generated as previously described [13,14] Recombinant tyrosine hydroxylase was kindly provided by P Fitzpatrick and C Daubner, Texas A&M University Purified histone H1 and ... Activities and some properties of 5¢-nucleotidase, adenosine kinase and adenosine deaminase in tissues of vertebrates and invertebrates in relation to the control of the concentration and the physiological...

Ngày tải lên: 16/03/2014, 18:20

... (which was 4.9 mm and mLặmin)1, for the case of CoA, and mm and 1.7 mLặ min)1, for the case of dephospho-CoA), the aliquots were analysed as described above In parallel, luminometer based assays ... luciferase and acyl-CoA synthetases, our achievement is not as strange as it seems to be and supports the theory that nowadays rey luciferase evolved from an ancestral acyl-CoA synthetase [1] ... the presence and in the absence of PPase (Fig 8) As expected, the decay was more pronounced when higher concentrations of ATP and LH2 were used and even more pronounced when PPase was simultaneously...

Ngày tải lên: 16/03/2014, 23:20

... 7.4, 2.2) Scheme PEP carboxylase, and enolase Compounds 2a–e, 2g–i and 3c are new, and for that reason their synthesis and characterization is also reported, as well as an improved method for the ... UÆmL)1 of pyruvate kinase and mM MgCl2 or 0.05 UÆmL)1 of pyruvate kinase and mM MnCl2 PEP carboxylase activity was determined in a coupled assay with malate dehydrogenase, as described previously ... pyruvate kinase/L-lactate dehydrogenase assay Obviously, this methodology was not applied with compounds 1b–e (also 1f and 2f when Mn2+ was present) as they are good inhibitors of pyruvate kinase In...

Ngày tải lên: 18/03/2014, 01:20

... was >99% (Sigma–Aldrich Co., Inc., USA) The Nafion® solution was obtained from Aldrich (USA) and the concentration was wt.% in a mixture of lower aliphatic alcohols and water The TEOS (98%) as ... the flow rates of saturated air and dry air, and ‘f’ was the coefficient of this system which was dependent on temperature and flow rate The homemade simple apparatus has been developed for producing ... stability and optical transparency of the composite films The IR spectrum of the hydrated titanium dioxide [h-TiO2 ] shows a large broad band between 3250 and 3490 cm−1 and narrow bands at 1641 and...

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