... Hypothesis 1: The Effect of Land Use Variables on Consumer Mobility………81 Hypothesis 2: The Effect of Land Use Variables on Provider Travel Challenges 95 Hypothesis 3: The Effect of ... ii Abstract The Effects of Land Use on the Mobility of Elderly and Disabled and Their Homecare Workers, andthe Effects of Care on Client Mobility: Findings from ... who have low incomes and are female andof color They have examined the relationship between land useand transportation They have begun to take seriously the contributions ofand problems faced...
... likely because ING Barings is also the fifty per cent owner ofthe Netherlands Post With the Postbank andthe Netherlands Post under the same ownership, the two institutions can again tap the synergies ... fees, and taxes, and for the receipt of pension, social insurance, and welfare benefits Postal savings for the people The introduction of savings accounts at post offices followed the rise ofthe ... Savings andthe Provision of Financial Services widely seen as part ofthe agenda of Germany’s commercial banks to force the privatization and then take over the Landesbanks Even though the Sparkassen...
... statements, and memoranda have dealt with the status, function, andthe (il)legality oftheuseand possession of this category of ‘weapons of mass destruction’,1 and almost all of them agree ... on the illegality oftheuseof nuclear weapons In operative para 1, the Assembly declared: ‘(a) Theuseof nuclear and thermo-nuclear weapons is contrary to the spirit, letter and aims ofthe ... United Nations and, as such, a direct violation ofthe Charter ofthe United Nations; (b) Theuseof nuclear and thermo-nuclear weapons would exceed even the scope of war and cause indiscriminate...
... expected for the (111) plane of cubic zinc blend CdTe [50] We have previously shown that although the presence of gelatine during the synthesis ofthe QDs can influence the rate of QD growth and QY ... degradation ofthe QDs without the presence ofthe PC12 cells, we carried out a number of experiments to analyse the effect of co-incubating the QDs with only the cell culture medium (Figure and 6) ... ones Analysis of these responses at 48 and 72 hours reinforce the importance ofthe QD surface environment andthe protective nature ofthe gelatine at this concentration While the surface gelatine...
... INTRODUCTION This initial part stated the problem andthe rationale ofthe study, together with the aims, objectives, the scope ofthe study, andthe overview ofthe rest of this research paper Above ... in the virtue ofthe changes in the monarch In the innovation of this new form of prose, there appeared a remarkable number of writers and their works They were coined to emphasize not only the ... contained the rationale, aims and objectives, methodology and scope ofthe study, Part Two went into further details ofthe historical and social background; andthe newness of language use in Jane...
... contained the rationale, aims and objectives, methodology and scope ofthe study, Part Two went into further details ofthe historical and social background; andthe newness of language use in Jane ... attention to the main characters‟ leading conversations in the three volumes which helped expose the cherish love andthe theory of „pride‟ and „prejudice‟ – the main themes ofthe novel Amongst the three ... for themselves with ambition and wit”; and „Pride and Prejudice‟, the novel about marriage, was said to be the best of them all „Pride and Prejudice‟ was coined to construct the frame of the...
... patterns of tidally influenced movements Spatial Habitat UseThe spatial distribution of detections recorded over the years ofthe study revealed that most ofthe habitat use was focused within the ... Wassaw Island to the north and Ossabaw Island to the south Within Ossabaw Sound, Raccoon Key separates the mouths ofthe Ogeechee and Little Ogeechee rivers into the South Channel and North Channel, ... important for the species (White and Garrott 1990; Rogers and White 2007) Atlantic Tripletails are observed seasonally in the bays, sounds, and estuaries ofthe northern Gulf of Mexico andthe U.S...
... shell developed from their ribs and spine The upper half ofthe shell, the carapace, typically consists of 50 bones and is joined to the plastron (the lower half) via a bridge andthe bones are typically ... residential, industrial and commercial purposes The business, civic and cultural districts were located within the southern-central part ofthe city andthe rest ofthe island was divided into multiple ... biology andecologyof red-eared sliders in the wild in Singapore in order to make an assessment ofthe potential impacts on the local environment and in other parts of Southeast Asia; and b)...
... most ofthe other coral reef primary producers From the examples in Fig 2.1, the NPP of T maxima and T squamosa are respectively ~74.1 and ~47.7 higher than the lowest NPP presented—that ofthe ... (1999), there are 53 fringing reefs and 73 patch reefs around Singapore’s southern islands Most of these reefs are 15 m or shallower in depth (Chou, 1985), and because they are sheltered, they are ... by the photosynthetic efficiency of their symbiotic photoautotrophic zooxanthellae (Jantzen et al., 2008; Yau and Fan, 2012) Secondary production, on the other hand, is strongly influenced by the...
... Underwood and Fairweather, 1989) ‘Supply-side ecology was regarded by Young (1987) and Underwood and Fairweather (1989) as a renewal ofthe understanding ofthe role of recruitment in ecology, rather ... ofthe Bay of Panama (though it was a very detailed study ofthe entire community) and Sutherland (1990) studied demography regulation of barnacles on a single headland on the Pacific coast of ... the East Coast of Peninsular Malaysia 18 Figure 2.12 Breakwater at East Coast Park on the southern Coast of Singapore 19 Figure 2.13 Rocky shore on St John’s Island ofthe southern Coast of...
... -Assess the yield in the U.S market on the modified BRE ofthe emerging Market credit, then add the sovereign yield spread Finally, compare the resulting required yield with the yield in the market ... Rate One can measure the cumulative mortality rate (CMR) over a specific time period (1,2,…, T years) by subtracting the product ofthe surviving populations of each ofthe previous years from ... cumulative defaults 10 Marginal and Cumulative Mortality Rate Equation MMR(t) = Total value of defaulting debt in year (t) total value ofthe population at the start ofthe year (t) MMR = Marginal...
... coordinates of Latitudes 70 20ʹN and 70 05'N and Longitudes 20 30'W and 2010'W (Figure 1) with a total area of 3.6ha and occupies 7.3% ofthe University Campus The purpose ofthe establishment ofthe ... during the period This was used on the assumption that the trees were randomly distributed The counts were done on the 7th day of each month ofthe study period andthe same observers were used ... this thesis entitled “ASPECTS OFTHEECOLOGYOF FRUIT BAT (Eidolon helvum) IN THE UNIVERSITY OF ENERGY AND NATURAL RESOURCES, SUNYANI” is the results of my own original work and that no part of...
... the food stocks, andthe mood ofthe garrison The tactics ofthe Daily Mail captured the attention ofthe nation; the newspaper dramatized the situation ofthe town by emphasizing the danger that ... examine both the role ofthe press in the formation of public opinion about imperialism andthe role ofthe press in the formation ofthe concept of public opinion itself Mafeking Night marks the powerful ... powerful beginning ofthe New Journalism at the same time as it marks the beginning ofthe end ofthe New Imperialism The coincidence of these occasions arises from the nature ofthe South African...
... of individual, hand-to-hand combat Grand strategy, on the other hand, remained the preserve of Tiw.11 In India, too, much the same phenomenon was apparent in the role of Indra, the chief ofthe ... eagle feathers, in the territory ofthe enemy (or in the house ofthe enemy chief, or in the enemy’s chief city or temple).50 Other methods of indicating the outbreak of war have included the seizure ... testimony both to the warlike character ofthe Greeks and to their feeling of cultural unity, the cities ofthe Amphictyonic League of Delphi agreed that, in the event of war, the combatant states...
... creating and advancing liquidity to producers; along the circuit, the financial system governs the supply and demand of funds and, at the end ofthe process, it determines the condition for the closure ... affected by the creation anduseof fiat-money Crucial to this purpose is the functional separation that the theory operates between banks and firms The macroeconomic focus ofthe theory, however, ... institutions and strengthen the complementarity between the formal andthe informal sectors The poorest people of rural and urban societies live beyond the frontier of formal finance, or outside the formal...
... zero even at the 95% level in Canada, Finland, the Netherlands, Norway, Sweden, Switzerland, the UK andthe US Moreover, while in some countries, (including Finland, the UK andthe US) residential ... also for these countries the existence of cointegration could not be rejected We therefore specify the VAR models in the level ofthe variables Nevertheless, we neither impose the number of cointegrating ... Japan, the Netherlands, Norway, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland, the UK andthe US The sample starts in 1986 in order to avoid the more turbulent, higher inflation period that ended in the first half of...
... kinds: + The change of consumer-demand modal, market andthe attitude to the availability and diversity of goods + The pressure of reducing cost + The development of Information technology + The pressure ... supervision andmanagementofthe Department of Transport and Public Works of Ho Chi Minh City State-owned corporations under other central government ministries are also another type of port management ... The Association has the role of coordinating the activities ofthe members in order to protect the interests ofthe members and improve the position of Vietnam in the international freight forwarding...
... the amount consumed in lians (50g/lian) per unit of time A lian is the unit of weight in China equivalent to 50 g The reproducibility and validity ofthe FFQ was assessed in a random sample of ... For other participants the average ofthe baseline and follow-up FFQ data were used in the analyses The average daily intake of individual food items (g/day) was combined to compute intake of red ... knowledge there are no other reports of a direct link between poultry consumption and risk of diabetes or of interactions between poultry consumption and BMI andthe risk of type DM Red meat consumption...
... than the level of HLA-DR in the cell lysates (5ul of a in 10 dilution, from x 106 PBMC) The shed HLA-DR therefore seemed to represent a small fraction ofthe total HLA-DR ofthe cell, however the ... expression of both the percentage of monocytes expressing HLA-DR andthe density of HLA-DR expression have been observed as a feature of sepsis [4;5;7;8;22-25] Only recently have the possible ... express HLA-DR on their surface [3] To assess the relative contribution of shed to total HLA-DR, the sHLA-DR in the plasma was compared to the total HLA-DR present in cell The level in the plasma (40ul...
... where the consequences of infection can be very severe, while the risk of living with one’s beloved cat is practically nill References Angulo FJ, Glaser CA, Juranek DD et al Caring for pets of immunocompromised ... with the human immunodeficiency virus Clin Infect Dis.1994;18:14-24 Han K, Shin DW, Lee TY, et al Seroprevalence of Toxoplasma gondii infection and risk factors associated with seropositivity of ... women in Korea J Parasitol 2008; 94: 963-965 Grant S and Olsen CW Preventing zoonotic diseases in immunocompromised persons: the role of physicians and veterinarians Emerg Infect Dis 1999; 5: 159-163...