journeys on graphs and their implications

... main production and consumption regions of pulp and paper They consist of North America, Europe, South America and Asia – these regions cover ca 90 % of world’s production and consumption (6) End-user ... Discussion on the results 70 70 71 73 75 Industry consolidation and its effect on profitability 6.1 Current level of consolidation 6.2 Consolidation and pricing 6.3 Feasibility of increased consolidation ... life- cycle and innovation 2.5 Theories on industry consolidation 2.6 Theories on globalization and emerging markets 2.7 Previous research on the topic 2.8 Summary of key theoretical concepts, previous...

Ngày tải lên: 18/03/2014, 02:20

... a support graph, and let O be a configuration, we call configuration space, and we denote by CCFG(G,O), the set of all configurations reachable from the initial configuration O On this set, we define ... version of CFG, by considering that a configuration can be transformed into another one by transferring chips from one vertex along one of its outgoing edges However, the firing of a chip along one ... tq, and aqi = otherwise Denote by e[q] the unit p-parts vector, where the position q is equal to 1, and the others are equal to We constate that if configuration b is obtained from configuration...

Ngày tải lên: 12/02/2014, 17:20

... Health concerns Increased demand for walking and cycling, for both transport and recreation Environmental concerns Some declines likely due to energy conservation and emission reduction programs ... importance and greater barriers to young people’s drivers licensing Health and environmental concerns Consideration in Conventional Analysis Generally considered Generally considered Fuel prices and ... Davis, Tony Dutzik and Phineas Baxandall (2012), Transportation and the New Generation: Why Young People Are Driving Less and What It Means for Transportation Policy, Frontier Group (www.frontiergroup.org);...

Ngày tải lên: 23/03/2014, 10:20

... experiments hold implications for both the generation and interpretation of spoken utterances A system could indicate its confidence in its message with silent pauses, fillers, and intonation, and users ... requires using additional words, and therefore is more costly in typed than spoken utterances Questions, on the other hand, require only different intonation or punctuation, and so are equally ... starts and repetitions on the processing of subsequent words in spontaneous speech J of Memory & Language, 34, 709-738 Goodwin, C (1981) Conversational Organization: Interaction between speakers and...

Ngày tải lên: 31/03/2014, 04:20

... common bits Counter examples to Valiant’s shift conjecture We have restated Valiant four conjectures as propositions about the behaviours of the information defect under shift and permutations Consider ... International Conference on Communications, Circuits and Systems (ICCCAS), June 2004 Best Paper Award, Communication Theory [7] P Pudlak, V Rodl, and J Sgall Booean circuits, tensor ranks, and communication ... functions to the information network N (the output nodes o1 , o2 , , on get assigned the specific functions assigned to the nodes J in GN ) Conversely, any attempted solution to N can be converted...

Ngày tải lên: 07/08/2014, 15:22

... propagation of signals along neuronal processes and the transmission of signals from neurons or receptor cells to their targets is mediated by the action of ion channels The neuronal ligand- or ... exact position may not necessarily be conserved The conservation pattern also suggests that a chain of positions leading out on either side from the ligand- interactions Conclusions refereed ... highly conserved positions in the LBD are in the conserved strands, and when mapped onto the structure of ACHB, they correspond to the positions stabilizing the hydrophobic core of the β-sandwich...

Ngày tải lên: 14/08/2014, 14:21

... monooxygenase (sMMO) sMMO is expressed during growth under low copper–to–biomass conditions and utilizes NADH and H+ as the electron donor This enzyme is a complex of three components (i) non-hemehydroxylase ... that of usual diets based on the data on heat production and   27         energy retention Also BPM is safe because the production bases on non-pathogenic bacteria and the heat treatment in ... sediments… contained MOBs Most cultured methanotrophs are mesophilic and neutrophilic, favoring moderate temperature (~25oC) and pH (pH 6-7) conditions (Hanson & Hanson, 1996) However, investigation of...

Ngày tải lên: 15/05/2015, 00:37

... strongest between G and PyFc1 and the lowest between gold and PyFc1 This is reasonable because PyFc1 can stack onto G strongly and to a less extent, glassy carbon PyFc1 has no π-π interactions ... absorption coefficient Δα Different mechanisms exist for NLO properties, such as nonlinear absorption (multiphoton absorption, reverse saturable absorption (RSA)), nonlinear refraction (electronic ... the large band gap between S1 and S2, the intersystem crossing between S1 and S2 is largely prohibited Therefore, we can only see one peak (corresponding to S2-S0 transition) and one small shoulder...

Ngày tải lên: 30/09/2015, 14:23

... Thessaloniki, an observation confirming this conclusion, since Athens is located southern and evidently the temperatures observed are higher This conclusion is further confirmed by the comparison ... cooling demands is 28.5% and for Thessaloniki 13.2% Obviously, directly proportional to the energy demand for heating and cooling is the fuel (diesel oil) and electricity consumption and hence ... climate and consequently the estimation of energy demands and CO2 emissions In the case the above mentioned trends are confirmed, the climate input data used in energy behavior calculations and for...

Ngày tải lên: 05/09/2013, 16:10

... or expression of the folk which contains above all wisdom, truth, morals, experience, lessons, and advice concerning life and which has been handed 14 down from generation to generation" (Proverbs ... Examples: Have a bee in one's bonnet (He has bee in one's bonnet.) 18 II Similarities and differences between English and Vietnamese idioms and proverbs The distinction between idioms and proverbs 1.1 ... including alliteration, rhyme, and parallel structure, repetition of key words or phrases, and strong imagery  Proverbs are often used metaphorically and it is in understanding their metaphorical...

Ngày tải lên: 11/12/2013, 23:48

... very own room (L.G Alexander, 1988, 81) Note: In certain expressions on my own” and “by my self” On my own and by myself both mean “alone”: On my / your His / her / its Our /their myself / yourself ... addition, I mention common mistakes made by Vietnamese learners and some suggestions in order to help learners understand them when using English possessive determiners and some solutions are ... Pre-modification of noun phrase  Definition: Pre-modification is a component preceding the head and modifying the head in a noun phrase We start this section by quoting a definition from the Longman...

Ngày tải lên: 11/12/2013, 23:53

... concept, an abstract thing, we have significative denotation and when it is an individual object we have demonstrative denotation 1.4.2 The connotational meaning (connotation) The connotational ... because of their connotation So, connotation can be considered as an additional meaning to denotation CHAPTER TWO: AN INVESTIGATION ON WORDS FROM NAMES IN ENGLISH Words are used literally and figuratively ... attention on grammatical structure and only focus on the meaning of new words without paying much attention to their origins Furthermore, due to the limitation of the knowledge and time, I only...

Ngày tải lên: 11/12/2013, 23:57

Ngày tải lên: 29/01/2014, 10:43

... Houses and 254 Remittances Recipients) World Bank (2000): Conflict and Change in Kosovo Impact on Institutions and Society World Bank (2006a): Global Economic Prospects Economic Implications of ... institutions contacted comprised 17 major banks, direct banks, 52 credit unions, 52 savings banks and 12 money transfer operators (MTOs) Many institutions were contacted both by questionnaire and ... German Technical Cooperation International Labour Organisation International Monetary Fund International Organisation for Migration Kreditwesengesetz (Banking Act) Money Transfer Operators Society...

Ngày tải lên: 16/02/2014, 11:20

... and operated by the colony Their total cost is not far from $60,000,000, and their net annual revenue is about two and one-half per cent of the capital invested The colony of Queensland has only ... twenty-five a month, and rose to fifty on extraordinary occasions In those days coaches were very heavy and without springs, and travelers not unfrequently cut short their journeys for want of conveniences ... between London and Liverpool, 203 miles, in less than 21 hours; and between London and Holyhead, 261 miles, in less than 27 hours In spite of these improved facilities, the transportation of merchandise...

Ngày tải lên: 17/02/2014, 02:20

... and SB SU and SG yield low precision, high recall alignments In contrast, SI yields very high precision but very low recall SA and SB attempt to balance these two measures but their precision ... (source-to-target and vice versa) with default configurations The combined alignments that are used in this paper are as follows: Union of both directions (SU ), Intersection of both directions (SI ), ... Banerjee and Alon Lavie 2005 Meteor: An automatic metric for MT evaluation with improved correlation with human judgments In Proceedings of Workshop on Intrinsic and Extrinsic Evaluation Measures...

Ngày tải lên: 20/02/2014, 11:21

... their functional implications 3089 Risk-associated BRCA1 mutations and their functional implications spontaneous recombination or ‘hyper-recombination’, they showed that transfection of MCF7 cells ... compilation ª 2010 FEBS 3095 Risk-associated BRCA1 mutations and their functional implications Hamilton TC (1996) Microscopic benign and invasive malignant neoplasms and a cancer-prone phenotype ... BRCA1 mutations [28] Truncation mutant mRNAs may avoid decay by translation re-initiation at a methionine codon downstream of the premature stop codon [29], and consequently, may contribute aberrant...

Ngày tải lên: 06/03/2014, 22:21

... tyrosine sulfation and N-glycosylation under conditions that allowed partial inhibition of these modifications After dialysis, the conditioned medium was fractionated on heparin–Sepharose with a linear ... tunicamycin at the concentrations indicated in the figure legends After h, fresh medium containing the same concentration of the glycosylation inhibitor was added Three days later, the conditioned medium ... ultrafiltration module and dialyzed against 10 mM Tris/HCl, mM EDTA, 10 lM phenylmethanesulfonyl fluoride, mM NaCl, pH 7.4 The following isolation procedures included fractionation on heparin–Sepharose and...

Ngày tải lên: 08/03/2014, 22:20

... Homecare Council to provide a unified front The unionization of these homecare workers means that one can generalize about their working conditions and their relationships with clients more than if ... clients’ mental functional capacity—memory, orientation, and judgment and physical functional capacity for housework, errands, meals, indoor movement, personal care, and respiration Consumers also must ... arrive on time, their job performance, and their sense of well being (Johnston, 1996) Similarly, race and residential location together affect mode choice Findings from the 1995 Nationwide Personal...

Ngày tải lên: 14/03/2014, 17:20

... alcohol oxidation and ketose reduction; KiNADH and KiNAD are dissociation constants for NADH and NAD+; and KmRO and KmROH are Michaelis constants for ketose and polyol Note: in the random bisubstrate ... number, E and S are the molar concentrations of enzyme and substrate, Km is an apparent Michaelis constant, and KiS is a substrate inhibition constant E was obtained from the protein concentration, ... concentrations on the thermodynamic boundary conditions for the action of AfM1PDH and AfM2DH were examined The allowed concentration ranges were comprehensive: 5150 lm NADH; 0.0110 mm Fru; and...

Ngày tải lên: 14/03/2014, 23:20