... prediction of genetic values is done on a national scale and artificial insemination is organised into regions, as is the case for instance for the Montbéliarde and Holstein cattle breeds in France ... ratio of one male for twenty females, and mating occurred randomly Whatever the design, the offspring stayed in their dam’s flock, so connections, when occurring, were only ensured by link sires By ... in Table V These levels of connectedness concern the direct effects: only the sires can have offspring in different flocks Connectedness from a maternal viewpoint is only the consequence of connectedness...
... effect of genotype on rooting of conifer cuttings According to our results and those mentioned by Wickson and Thimann (1958) it is assumed that an antagonism exists within buds between uxin and ... us encouraging results on induction and rooting of fascicle shoots gation: a) production of a large number of propagules; and b) development of conditions for their successful rooting and estab- ... factors affecting rooting of fascicle shoots are the genotype and the typeof cuttings As regards genotype, some clones root readily and others poorly, regardless of the cutting typeand hormone level...
... quality of work life and organizational commitment, and their impact on job performance within the context of Vietnamese business organizations in generally and within Vietnamese banking sector in ... satisfaction of economic and family needs The satisfaction of social needs and satisfaction of esteem are presented by the concept “Belonging needs” The satisfaction of actualization needs, satisfaction ... UNIVERSITY OF ECONOMICS HO CHI MINH CITY International School ofBusiness Tran Ngoc Tuan THE IMPACT OF QUALITY OF WORK LIFE AND ORGANIZATIONAL COMMITMENT ON JOB PERFORMANCEOF EMPLOYEES IN THE VIETNAMESE...
... privatization Therefore, the perception of declining state interests in overall economy is not reached 4.2.3 Result of the moderating effect of dominant ownership on relationship of D/E and firm performance ... Result of the moderating effect of State-dominant ownership on relationship of D/E and firm performance Similarly, the moderating effect of SDO on relationship of D/E and firm performance is running ... the relationship of the control variable of firm size and firm performance Table 12 Regression result of moderating effect of private-dominant ownership on relationship of D/E and firm performance...
... Roy, F Horlin, Ph De Doncker, On the link layer performanceof narrowband body area networks, in Proceedings of the Second International Conference on Emerging Network Intelligence (EMERGING 2010), ... on the wireless body area network applications and channel models, in Proceedings of the 2008 Second International Conference on Future Generation Communication and Networking (FGCN ‘08), Hainan ... in indoor scenarios than the corresponding ones, as shown in Figure 11, in outdoor scenarios This can be explained by the presence of a reflections off the limbs and the surrounding objects Indeed,...
... tightbinding model and top -of- barrier model The first section provides an in- depth discussion on tight-binding theory in calculating dispersion value and then goes on to highlight the advantage of ... conduction band profile along the x-axis The positive x is defined from top of barrier to drain 2.5 Combining Tight-binding and Top -of- barrier Model for Simulation Finally, after providing the rationale ... effects of material and orientation on performance, and (b) exploration of device performanceof various cross-sectional shapes (circular, square and triangle) and NW size (3 nm, nm, nm and 10 nm) in...
... grouping of functions, decision - making, co – ordination, control and reward – all these are fundamental requirement for the continued operation of an organization The quality of an organization’s ... two main types: function and division “A function is a set of people who perform the same types of tasks or hold similar positions in an organization.” “A division is a group of functions created ... Supporting foundation degrees 1st ed., London: BPP Professional Education, Aldine House, Aldine Place, pp 64 EDEXCEL HNC & HND BUSINESS, (2004) Mandatory Unit 3: Organizations and Behavior Supporting...
... seedlings grown in p/pb than in p/v (Fig 2f) DISCUSSION Figure Effect of inoculation and the typeof substrate on the concentration of nutrients in needles of containerised P pinea seedlings p/v = ... obtain mycorrhizal P pinea seedlings produced in container The high quantity of spores that can be obtained from one basidioma and the ease of application of this typeof inoculum makes of it ... non-inoculated control plants One-month-old seedlings were inoculated with 10 mL of the target spore suspension of the corresponding fungus The final inoculum concentration was of 106 spores per seedling...
... obtained by counting a minimum of 100 mast cell profiles in tongue, skin and heart as well as skeletal muscle Using 100 X magnification all mast cell profiles that fell within a grid area of 1.35 ... manifestation of the reperfusion injury Idstrom [12] utilised a period of 2, and h cold 25°C hind limb ischaemia in rats and one hour reperfusion to measure damage and recovery of adenine nucleotides Consistant ... high up on the thigh to induce a short warm (36°C) ischaemia of 70 minutes duration followed by a long reperfusion period of 24 h, in order to assess the impact of reperfusion injury on different...
... 2007), andin the USA by ∼37% between 1970 and 1996 (EPA, 2000) Also in developing countries, facing increasing urbanization, mobilization and industrialization, air pollution has become a major concern ... varying chemical composition The microphysical aging of aerosols, determined by the growth of aerosols by coagulation, condensation of gas-phase sulfate on pre-existing aerosol particles andby ... distribution as well as changes in the aerosol and oxidant composition The inuenceof changes in the aerosol composition are reflected in the changes of the microphysical aging time of BC and POM...
... CsA -type drugs may induce a special conformation adopted by Pgp only in the presence of these drugs The first possibility would be confirmed if the same conformational state could be induced by nonsubstrate ... Pgp-specific The consequences of Vi, BeFx and AlF4 treatments on UIC2 binding were also examined It was shown previously by Druley et al [30] that Vi prevents UIC2 binding even on vinblastine-treated ... transport function without preventing UIC2 binding In our experiments, different Pi analogues affected Pgp function and conformation in live cells As the nucleotidebinding domains of Pgp not seem...
... themselves, evaluated in a leaveone-out setting (359 times training on 358 questions and evaluating on the remaining questions) There is some variation among methods in the size andtypeof buffer used ... corpus and the neuro-QA questions themselves, we opted for a combination of both data types as training corpus in the initial version of the online text prediction application Currently, a demonstration ... domain- and text type- specific data is sparse?” By training and testing our text prediction algorithm on four different text types (Wikipedia, Twitter, transcriptions of conversational speech and...
... the inuenceof the chromophore moiety on cyclization-efficiency, and to establish TioS T-TE as a general catalyst for the ligation and cyclization of the quinoline- and quinoxaline -type class of ... Detection of the macrocyclic product indicated a strong inuenceof this position on the ligation and cyclization reaction In the assembled native thiocoraline, the sulfhydryl groups of l-Cys3 ... characterization of a prototypical thioesterase responsible for the iterative assembly of the quinoline- and quinoxaline -type class of chromodepsipeptides, capable of macrolactonization and macrothiolactonization...
... peptide binding, resulting in shifts to larger angles (inset to B) and binding at higher concentrations resulting in shifts to smaller angles Binding to the SM-rich domain is shown in (B) and to ... equilibration for 15 h Other conditions were as in Fig (B) Plot of PWR spectral shifts induced by Ab binding to the bilayer with an increasing concentration of added peptide The data were fit by a single ... constants and spectral shifts as given in Table Initial insertion into the SM-rich domain was followed by incorporation into both microdomains Spectral simulation and structural modeling The purpose of...
... for phosphatidylinositol 3-kinase in the activation of glycogen synthase and mitogen-activated protein kinase by insulin in rat adipocytes: comparison of insulin and protein kinase C modulators ... the involvement of PtdIns3K in Erk activation was the A20 B-cell line, which is explained by the role of PtdIns3K in activating Btk and PLCc, and subsequently activation of Erks [33] One of the ... phosphorylation of raf by PKB, which can contribute to an inhibition of raf and thus inhibition of Erk activation [24,25] Intriguingly, these studies have shown that this inhibition is observed in differentiated...
... information on admission diagnosis, indication for surgery, preoperative condition, designation of surgeon andtypeof surgery We also assessed the competence of the two types of professionals that ... overall pattern was also noted Table 1: Typeof operation and category of surgeon (C/S = caesarean section) Typeof operation Clinical officers Medical officers C/S only C/S + subtotal hysterectomy ... general condition 24 hours after operation in relation to category of surgeon Total Alive and well Alive and unwell Stillbirth Early neonatal death No information Total The profile of patients...
... To investigate the therapeutic potential in the treatment of disc degeneration, we investigated the effects of TGF-β1 and IGF-1 on the proliferation of human NP cells in single or combination by ... proliferation and matrix synthesis, maintain cell phenotype in vitro[13] Osada et al[14] demonstrated the generation and expression of IGF-1 mRNA in the bovine NP cells The study showed an autocrine/paracrine ... proliferation and stimulate matrix production, especially for individuals in the early stage of degeneration found by MRI examination[16] An[17] reported that the intradiscal administration of osteogenic...
... influence on migration Increasing non-livestock income by 10% would decrease the probability to migrate by 0.08% This study captured the influence of cattle rustling on migration by use of two dummy ... migration in search of pasture and water by one tribe into areas that belong to other tribes often causes conflict between pastoralists Besides, livestock movements into grazing lands and watering points ... information in an involuntary decision-making context (Ducey 2001) Pastoral risk management involves making choices/decisions in the face of uncertainties Most of such choices/decisions, including migratory...
... (1973): Principles and applications Part II – Theories of drainage and watershed runoff Wageningen, International Institute of Land Reclamation and Improvement Hartman Z (1995): Draining of forest ... extremes in the progress of time Unlike them we dealt with dividing the runoff into components using the analysis of hydrograph by separation its recession limb and determining only the runoff constituents ... amount of precipitation minus interception, infiltration, evaporation and storage losses (Hrádek 1988; Kemel 1996) First, the effects of drainage treatment and stand growth on changes in runoff...