... Birkhoff, one ofthe first American mathematicians of note, suggested a formula for the complexity of an image, and proposed it as an aesthetic measure And in 1938, Rashevsky, the father of mathematical ... Figure The top graph shows the frequency distributions ofthe number of sheep (on the vertical axis) against their fractal dimension (on the horizontal) The bottom graph shows the sum ofthe ratings ... categories: on the top in Fig is the number of sheep of that dimension (bins are 0.05 wide), on the bottom is the sum total of ratings of sheep of that dimension In short, we find that sheep of AFD between...
... effect of depression on the mental aspect of QoL went through the mediator of pain, and over 72% ofthe effect was direct When depression was the mediator, depressive symptoms accentuated the negative ... and 25% ofthe effect was direct Statistically, the mediation of depression (Model 4: 75%) exerted the strongest effect (cf Model 1: 28%) These findings offer insights to the current understanding ... as: Wong et al.: The differential mediating effects of pain and depression on the physical and mental dimensionof quality of life in Hong Kong Chinese adults Health and Quality of Life Outcomes...
... , from [1] there exists a neighborhood of x persisting in the Fatou set for large n Therefore the original sequence satisfies J(fn ) → J(f ) The proof of Theorem is complete Proof of Theorem Since ... n→∞ s→∞ the proof of theorem is complete Open Question I not know any example satisfying the hypothesis of Theorem Acknowledgments I am grateful to the referee andthe editor for reading the first ... prove the theorems; the proof is divided into parts Let f , fn be rational functions We have the following lemma; see [1] Lemma 3.1 If fn → f algebraically, then J(f ) ⊂ lim inf J(fn ) Proof of Theorem...
... suggests that the negotiation andthe agreement are related to the diversity and intensity ofthe values and interests ofthe participants Values ofthe participants in the dispute included independence, ... auditors and changes the structure ofthe development of accounting standards Ironically, the U.S Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) andthe accounting profession debated many ofthe same ... accounting profession andthe SEC sought to work together to resolve the growing independence issue For instance, the joint development by the SEC andthe AICPA oftheIndependence Standards Board (ISB)...
... including the discussion ofthe reasons for the lack ofindependence problem in Egypt The following section then will discuss the model andthe hypotheses used, followed by the data analysis and findings, ... findings, then finally the conclusion Auditor independenceandthe impact on audit quality The auditor independence is the cornerstone ofthe auditing profession It is defined as the refusal ofthe auditor ... quality The application of mandatory rotation in the Egyptian context where there the problem ofthe lack of auditor independence is really clear is suggested so as to overcome the consequences of the...
... the social (re)production of everyday social relations, practices, and affects, andthe ways in which a variety of spaces and times participate in the making, routinizing, and/ or disrupting of ... literature gathers insights from a range of theories on the embodied, the emotional, andthe non-representational to draw attention to the sociality and materiality of everyday life These include ... the whole jumble of cultural forms and practices that constitute and create everyday life andthe meanings by which people understand themselves in the world”, it is important to understand these...
... subjectivities, and aims to construct a more grounded, intimate, and accountable rendering ofthe globalizing spaces of education In centering students at the heart ofthe everyday, quotidian, and transnational ... geographies of education migration, geographers have expounded on the power ofspaceand place in producing, differentiating, and maintaining the sociointeractions and relations of these young ... Spatio-Temporal Production of Proximate and Distant Lives 6.1 Introduction 6.2 The Times and Spaces of Intimacies: the Story/Strategy of Aulia 6.3 Doing Intimacy I: Information and Communication Technologies...
... past the countercultural rebellion ofthe 1960s andthe Vietnam War into the thaw ofthe 1970s and then to the renewed chill that started in the late 1970s and lasted into the 1980s For thespace ... the post-Apollo drawdown and then the remilitarization ofspace that culminated in the Strategic Defense Initiative And then there is that central event ofthe last half century, the end ofthe ... James Fletcher canceled the Grand Tour The cancellation surprised fans ofthe Grand Tour at theOf ce of Management and Budget, who abandoned their usual hard fiscal line and offered funds for a scaled-back...
... gains back the control ofthe dialogue and initializes the current history vector Two types ofvector initializations are possible here If the user is already know by IRIS, it will load the last ... decide whether IRIS should ask the user for the meaning of such a term If IRIS decides to ask for the meaning ofthe term, the control ofthe dialogue is passed to the vocabulary learning module ... combining the two scores The dialogue management module randomly selects one ofthe top ranked utterances and prompts back to the user the corresponding reply (from the dialogue database) to the wining...
... student in the National University of Singapore In my Masters thesis, I am studying the memories ofthe wet market as a disappearing spaceand „heritage space from the perspective of history and heritage ... with your mother, andthe activities ofthe elderly men and Nepali vendors who gathered there Why have you chosen to remember the wet market in the above ways? What kind of emotions and reflections ... student in the National University of Singapore In my Masters thesis, I am studying the memories ofthe wet market as a disappearing spaceand „heritage space from the perspective of history and heritage...
... constituents ofthe micro-level culture of Bedok Market – the kinds of socialities, and dramaturgical ingredients that comprise what I call the theatre of buying and selling in this space Hence, ... Framing the narratives ofthe disappearing marketplace 101 5.2 Of hardship and resignation: the hawkers’ narrative 103 5.3 Of inconvenience and resignation: the customers’ narrative 109 5.4 Of formal ... out to the five heritage bloggers who have shared their memories of vanishing/vanished marketplaces and spaces in Singapore, and their ideas of nostalgia and heritage My engagements with the bloggers...
... furthermore, facilitated a juxtaposition ofthe sensory environments ofthe wet and supermarket: differences in the physical layout; the kinds of products sold and presentation of these; andthe ... Bedok Market in terms ofthe physical layout ofthe stalls and foods sold, the hawkers‟ personalities, andthe flows of people and activity throughout the day A map ofthe stalls is affixed to ... into the social networks and structures that organize the marketplace These include the structure of auctions in Tsukiji, andthe roles of auction houses, auctioneers and traders; the dynamics of...
... 100-fold andthe lifespan ofthe complex by 10-fold, as judged by koff The physiological chaperone cycle probably consists ofthe rapid binding ofthe N-terminus ofthe partner, regardless of whether ... enthalpy, independent ofthe buffer used in the experiment, and another term representing the contribution ofthe proton ionization ofthe buffer, which is multiplied by the number of protons that ... hypothesize that the protonated state ofthe chaperone initiates this cycle, whereas the deprotonated state occurs upon completion ofthe maturation process ofthe partner The nature ofthe signal...
... loop of antibody fragments (A) Replacement ofthe candidate location in NCS for grafting with the CDR loop of VHH (B) Insertion ofthe CDR 1-containing loop ofthe heavy chain in Fv into the candidate ... into the CDR and CDR loops in the light chain (CDR L1 and CDR L2) to study the potential of Fv as a scaffold protein for grafting They investigated deviations in the amino acid sequences ofthe ... from a different species [23–25] The success ofthe series of studies shows that the stable framework structure of Fv enables the transfer of function by means of CDR replacement Barbas et al...
... corresponding to the anomeric resonances ofthe 4-keto (compound B) and gem-diol (compound C) forms of GDP-6-deoxy-d-lyxo-hexos-4-ulose (Fig 4B) On thebasisof integration ofthe anomeric signals, the 4-keto ... both the P aeruginosa and A thermoaerophilus RMD sequences have gaps in the region ofthe RR loop, and in the His6-RMDAt structure, the b2–b3 loop is notably shorter than in GMD The truncation of ... shown in aqua and light sand, respectively; the APPR portion ofthe cofactor (dark gray) andthe ligand analog GDP-DMan (light gray) are represented as space- filling models Termini and secondary...
... is reduced by the stacking of Od1 in between the plane ofthe thiourea moiety andthe Ca of G190 Hence, the undefined orientation ofthe N103 amide Od1 and Nd2 atoms may reflect the repulsive forces ... by the K103N mutation The electron density for Cc ofthe K103N mutant structures is well defined but the quality ofthe map does not allow assessment ofthe orientation ofthe amide plane There ... composed ofthe backbone carbonyls of K102 and G191 andthe side chain of D192 Ó FEBS 2002 The HIV-1 RT K103N mutant and inhibitor efficacy (Eur J Biochem 269) 1673 Fig Orientation and Conformation of...
... issues of law and gender, and criminology Professor Robyn Martin is Professor of Law at the University of Hertfordshire, and has taught at the University of Hong Kong andthe University of Bristol ... of public health law Understandings of health have changed, and are continuing to change These changes are challenging the prioritising ofthe role of medicine in the xli Law andthe Public Dimension ... fluid, and increasingly educated The individual is no longer the grateful recipient ofthe commodity of health from the State, but rather an agent of health, and responsibility for the attainment of...
... integrative unity ofthe organism [1-4, 6, 10, 11]), and understand the criterion of death (irreversible loss of all functions ofthe brain, including the brainstem), andthe empirical state ofthe brain ... responses The strengths ofthe survey include the development methodology, and unambiguous nature of most ofthe questions In addition, the striking similarity of our results to those of other surveys ... Acknowledgments There was no source of funding for this project AJ had full access to all the data in the study and takes responsibility for the integrity ofthe data andthe accuracy ofthe data analysis...
... formula and a linear time algorithm for computing the metric dimensionof a tree They also obtain an upper bound for the metric dimensionofthe d-dimensional grid, showing that to compute the metric ... from v0 and relabel them with its position in the order beginning with “1”; The Step ofthe algorithm is a variation ofthe linear time algorithm by Hopcroft and Tarjan [16] to check whether two ... of V (G H) The projection of S onto G is the set of vertices u ∈ V (G) for which there exists a vertex (u, v) ∈ S The projection of S onto H is defined analogously A column of G H is the set of...
... because the history of scientific theories is the history ofthe abandonment of old hypotheses andofthe keeping ofthe newly formulated ones For example, when a law f (x, B) derived from theoretical ... manner of contrasting the hypotheses r andthe conclusion about the value of r is subjective the rules =- r ; - OPTIMUM ESTIMATION We shall now examine another aspect ofthe question ofthe rule of ... posing the rule ofthe most probable value: choose the hypothesis i B having the largest posterior probability, with the risk of error given by the sum ofthe probabilities ofthe hypotheses...