... scales The duration ofthe livelihoods impacts of these shocks are assumed to be one year This is because the variables used to derive the impacts of these shocks (which include whether or not the ... one of these studies collected data on the number of poultry kept by the sampled households in the study year and, in the case of Kenya, Nigeria, and Ghana, on the number of poultry sold and the ... that affect the size ofthe poultry flock they manage are estimated The second part ofthe ZINB model for the study countries is presented in the Appendix in Table A.2 For details ofthe country-level...
... cleavage ofthe c-phosphate does occur in the NBD with the mutation at the IC [36,38,39] Moreover, these and other studies suggest that the IC residues are involved in the formation ofthe NBD ... activates the attacking water molecule that cleaves the terminal phosphate of bound ATP In the latter model, the IC is part of a catalytic dyad, along with the histidine residue ofthe H-loop, ... sequence contacts the c-phosphate ofthe bound nucleotide across the dimer [15] and the aromatic residue ofthe A-loop Abcb1a catalytic mechanism stacks against the adenine moiety of bound nucleotide...
... familiar motif Here the roots come from the Copts of Egypt who had acquired them from the Levant Neither the Greeks nor the Romans used the interlace much in their sculptures For these human figures, ... ofthe status ofthe abbey, would have made use of those observations and thus spread the use ofthe motif King Solomon’s Knot At the crossing ofthe church of Jou sous Montjou, in the Haute Auvergne ... repertoire of church sculptors By the end ofthe century they were common place The use of geometric patterns and foliate designs continued but these were often 38 relegated to the margins of main...
... both at the level ofthe immediate chromatin environment ofthe intergenic region, and also at the level of topological status ofthe DNA as a result of transcription ofthe adjacent genes Origins ... forms of DnaC [14] Rather the role of ATP in the reaction is to serve as a switch that controls the activity ofthe helicase The ATP bound form of DnaC severely inhibits the helicase activity of ... these ORB elements, like DnaA boxes in bacteria, are conserved features of a number of archaeal originsof replication and this has allowed the prediction ofthe localization of replication origins...
... role of players in the game and the NU’s reluctant steps to open professionalism, the chapter details the helplessness ofthe sport in the face ofthe tidal wave of soccer in the early 1900s The ... schools The chapter moves on to discuss the spread of rugby from the public schools to the north of England and links the rapid growth ofthe sport to the sense of civic pride that prevailed among the ... about the levels of violence in the game in the early years ofthe NU All of these topics were dealt with briefly in the original edition but the new edition presents the opportunity to explore them...
... to gather the participants’ basic information, such as the scores of their College English course2 in the first semester, and the other intending to illicit the learners’ retrospection upon their ... achievement need proofs from other studies To address the lack, the present study undertakes an investigation ofthe role of metacognitive knowledge in the English writing of 120 non-English major ... address the lack, this paper aims to investigate the role of metacognitive knowledge in the English writing of Chinese EFL learners, in the hope of shedding some light on the teaching and learning of...
... Therefore, assuming the central hypothesis in this paper holds true, that the spread of scheduling was the genesis of modern project management’; then the 50th anniversary ofthe start ofthe project ... time or the management ofthe work ofthe ‘projects’ By the 18th century the professions of (design) Engineer and Architect had evolved into professional societies and those who built the projects ... traced back to the Protestant reformation ofthe 15th Century and most ofthe ideas implicit in the early days of our profession (from the 1960s to 1980s) are firmly rooted in the ideas of Scientific...
... around the world The immediate trigger ofthe crisis was the end ofthe housing booms in the United States and other countries and the associated problems in mortgage markets, notably the 206 ... and 2007.180 The rapidly growing significance ofthe U.S financial services industry provides further evidence ofthe impact ofthe credit boom The financial services industry’s share of total domestic ... pay off their credit card balances As in the case of nonprime home mortgages, LCFIs ignored the risks of nonprime credit card loans because they could securitize most ofthe loans However, the...
... suggests that cathepsin K is a new member ofthe kininase family Both the kininogenase activity of cathepsin L and/or the kininase activity of cathepsin K may be favored by the generation of an acidic ... components, which reduces the pH ofthe pericellular environment of macrophages [20] This raises the question ofthe dual behaviour of kininogens complexed with CP While concentrations of cystatins C, ... sites were identified, one at the Gly384Phe385 bond and the other at the Arg389-Ser390 bond, which is consistent with the unique ability of cathepsin K among mammalian cathepsins to accomodate Pro...
... affect the expression ofthe disorder,” the group concludes in the Journal ofthe American Medical Association The lead author ofthe study, the larg- The lifetime risk of depression (defined as the ... out the New York Times for handing out blame in 1991 on the basis of a condemnatory draft report by theOf ce of Research Integrity (then theOf ce of Scientific Integrity) ofthe Department of ... fourth ofthe time D-dark did (the rest ofthe time the photon left the interferometer the same way it came in, giving no information) The firing of D-dark was the interaction-free detection of the...
... depending on the complexity ofthe model (the more complex the model, the better the fit), the size ofthe sample (the larger the sample, the poorer the fit), and violations ofthe multi-variate ... related to the number of publications that an author has at the time ofthe publication ofthe anomaly and the number of years the author has been in the field Moreover, the profitability of an anomaly ... statistics ofthe responses to the survey and the demographics ofthe respondents to the survey The number of responses are presented in the first column The second column contains the breakdown of useable...
... to the work, to defend the existence ofthe void; to explain the nature of time and of corporeal substance; to justify the posits ofthe moving earth, the stabile sun, and the multiplicity of ... the desire for pleasure as a prompting ofthe devil Epicurean cosmology and philosophy contradicted the Christian theses ofthe uniqueness ofthe world, the special status of men vis-`-vis other ... take away the fear of death and the dread of hell was appealing in the face ofthe ferocity ofthe clerics and the horrifying Calvinist doctrine of arbitrary election that had infiltrated the Protestant...
... a mug, is the color ofthe mug relevant to the meaning, or the fact that the pitcher is inches high, or that the pitcher is held in the left hand and the mug in the right? Many ofthe arguments ... number of trials they learned the correct order in which the switches were to be thrown For present purposes, the interesting part of their data consisted of subjective reports ofthe development of ... imagery They spontaneously noted that by the time they could pull the eight switches with no errors they had formed a kind of kinesthetic image ofthe pattern that the eight switches formed They...
... accompanied the troops and enlarged their impact, as did the crews and of cers aboard the ships of war Their presence was an overwhelming and often hostile addition to the town As ofthe census of 1765, ... linked the town to the mainland to the northeastern corner, where the Charlestown ferry landing stood The bulk ofthe population resided either in the North End or the South End, which together ... Calloway The Scratch of a Pen: 1763 and the Transformation of North America Richard Labunski James Madison and the Struggle for the Bill of Rights Sally McMillen Seneca Falls and theOriginsof the...
... eVect ofthe communication act is the making of a mental representation If that is the case, then the eVect of one of these monkeys giving the call usually associated with the presence of a leopard ... traversed on the frames of wax represents a distance of several tens or even hundreds of metres outside the hive; the vertical direction represents the direction ofthe sun; the direction ofthe central ... of Xight, performed outside the hive When the dance is done in the darkness ofthe hive, the replacement ofthe angle ofthe sun by the bee’s alignment, vertical rather than horizontal, say, or...
... intelligence of cers in the field and policymakers in Washington.34 It is the nature ofthe business: journalists usually place individuals at the heart ofthe story rather than examining the forces ... Clinton of cials were at battle stations.41 The national security advisor, the FBI director, the director of central intelligence, the attorney general, the secretary of state, Pentagon of cials, the ... to the end ofthe Cold War and the rise ofthe terrorist threat, and they achieved some important operational successes THE DIFFERENCE BETWEEN CHANGE AND ADAPTATION The conceptual flaw in these...
... hell, the bodhisattva explains, they will be told by the henchmen of Yama, the lord of death, that one ofthe causes of their suffering is the fact that they failed to make offerings to the alms ... different epithets ofthe god For example: the creator ofthe universe, the sustainer ofthe universe, the eternal puru˚a, the stable one, the presiding deity of Dharma 14 Elsewhere in the purå¶a, ... renders the term vy£ha as the “magnificent display” ofthe wondrous qualities ofthe land of Sukhåvatƒ.6 This meaning might easily be attached to the use ofthe term in the titles of other Mahåyåna...
... such a pale view ofthe natural universe, ofthe human race, ofthe people close to them, and of themselves (because we must assume that their theory knows no exceptions)? Do they not see that, ... fish with their paddling feet, all birds profit when they together scoop up the fish Because ofthe instant payoff, this kind of cooperation is widespread Reciprocal altruism, on the other hand, ... overlooks the outdoor enclosure of twenty chimpanzees The group is as close-knit as any family can be; they are together day and night, and several ofthe adults were born into the colony One of these...
... assessment the calculated means ofthe observed data should be the same irrespective ofthe pattern of missingness [11] The null hypothesis is that the data are MCAR If the data are not MCAR, the mean ... mask the differences of mean values by moving the mean ofthe non-dropouts into the direction ofthe mean ofthe dropouts Ridout's logistic regression method Diggle [15] proposed a method of testing ... and the null hypothesis is that the dropouts are missed at random At each assessment a test is based on the difference in the mean ofthe values ofthe individuals who continue to stay in the...