... to learn thou-sands of Chinese characters. The official agents in Taiwan and China, respectively, chose 5401 and 3755 characters as important basic characters in national standards. Consequently, ... e.g., “賣” and “讀” are pronounced as /mai4/ and /du2/, respectively. In contrast, the pro-nunciations of “匋”, “淘”, “陶”, and “啕” are /tao2/. Pronunciations of specific substrings in words of alphabetic ... learners of various alphabetic languages (Jared et al., 1990; Ziegler and Goswami, 2005) andof Chi-nese, e.g., (Lee et al., 2005), and is important for both young readers (Ho and Bryant,...
... the Department of State, and other institutions devoted considerable resources to trying to understand and prepare for what was perceived to be a new and uniquely demanding set of challenges.is ... creation and exploitation of fear through violence or the threat of violence in the pursuit of political change”13—no terrorists, their political rhetoric and propaganda notwithstanding, have ... SECURITYPOPULATION AND AGINGPUBLIC SAFETYSCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGYSUBSTANCE ABUSETERRORISM AND HOMELAND SECURITYTRANSPORTATION AND INFRASTRUCTUREWORKFORCE AND WORKPLACEThe RAND Corporation...
... prevalence of gout in theUSA ranges between 0.5–2.8% in men and 0.1–0.6% inwomen [2]. The prevalence rises to 4.4% of men and 1.8% of women over the age of 65 [4]. A two-fold increase inincidence of ... arthritis, xanthomatosis, and amyloidosis.The definitive diagnosis of gout is made by examination of synovial fluid aspirated from the joint. Joint aspirationis of prime importance in order to ... assessing patients witha history of gout. Patient education is very important and patients who have had a previous attack of gout should bemade aware of common signs and symptoms, treatmentprotocols...
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... Essay Topic: Talk about the importanceof newspaperThe newspaper, today, plays a vital role in human affairs. Its importance has not been diminished by the appearance of the radio ... the main source of information. The newspaper has become the main source of information about local and foreign affairs. Though the radio and television convey important news and messages quicker ... carry and it could be read at any time during the day. Further, the permanence of the printed word helps one to refresh one’s memory of certain facts and incidents reported in the past.The importance...
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... traders. Asin the analyses of Biais, Hillion, and Spatt (1995) and Hollifield, Miller, and Sandås (1999),we cannot ascertain the effects of such unobservable orders, but their importance in automatedsystems ... endowment of shares, and hence the type of an arriving trader is a random variable Z, a particular real-ization of which is t. The random variable Z has a cumulative distribution F(.) and density ... based on an individual’s type and the terms of trade offered, the agentdecides how large a trade to make. As the analysis of VW shows, and this paperconfirms, the terms of trade determined by equilibrium...
... 74% of the cases;residue 186 an Asn in 87% of the cases; and residue 334 aHis in 80% of the cases [3]. In addition, residue 54 is a Pro in89% of the cases. The importanceof the identity of ... investigate the importanceof the shutter regionfor the unique types of RCL insertion in PAI-1, we have nowundertaken a number of substitutions in the shutter region and b strand 5A of PAI-1 and studied ... part of b strands3A and 5A and the N-terminal part of a helix B is thereforereferred to as the shutter region [2]. By high resolution X-raycrystal structure analysis of the native form of the...
... the ratio of total debt to the sum of total debt plus book value of equity.17 Two additional sources of variation between privately held and publiccompanies are firm growth and profitability. ... productivity and performance.The Center fosters the development of a community of faculty, visiting scholars and Ph.D.candidates whose research interests complement and support the mission of the ... measure the quality of the legal system and enforcement (i.e., efficiency of the judicial system, rule of law, and corruption index). SIZE is the book value of total assets at theend of the fiscal...
... terms of reducing time and cost through electronic collaboration (E-collaboration) and project management. The concept and value of E-collaboration and project management, and its strengths and ... management is “the manner of implementation, of expertise, paraphernalia, knowledge and modus operandi to an extensive range of activities for the fulfillment of prerequisite of the specific project” ... are those of design, procurement, planning and production (Bashir, 2008; Carter, 1997; Clift and Vandenbosch, 1996; Griffin, 1997; Roemer and Ahmadi, 2010; Selvaraj et al., 2009; Tan and Vonderembse,...
... promotion and progression of tumors is consid-ered to be a new and promising approach in cancerprevention [39–41]. However, the development of effec-tive and safe agents for the prevention and treatment of ... IVP, VIP and OWP) reducedproliferation of the carcinoma cell line HT29 dose-dependently with IC50values between 100 and 200 lm and IC80values between 200 and 300 lm, whereas theIC50 and IC80values ... previously in ourlaboratories [26,50] and contain mainly procyanidins.OWG and OWP are composed of species that are solublein both ethyl acetate and water, and the rest of the frac-tions (G for grape,...
... with (i) a mixture of A115 and F23, (ii) a mixture of A115 and F23, (iii) Y353 and (iv) A115.Table 5. Kinetic and stability parameters for purified WT and mutant CPUs. The T1 ⁄ 2 of activity at 37 ... instability of CPU is likely to be of major importance for the in vivo down-regulation of its activity, but the under-lying structural mechanisms of this fast and spontaneous loss of activity of CPU ... of their model of humanCPU, that the two consecutive I at positions 204 and 205 are exposed to the surface, and because they arequite unique to CPU, might be ofimportance for theprocess of...