leading from the top

... 1.40 children, the wives from China were distinguished as having the lowest fertility level among those from the top five source countries The LTFRs for the foreign wives from the other source countries ... wives from the top five source countries 0.04 children for the Indonesians to 0.12 children for the Thais and the Filipinas The decrease for the Thais resulted mainly from shifting probability from ... foreign wives from the top five source countries effect for the Indonesians and the Filipinas The deficits for the Chinese and Vietnamese wives required further investigation, because they were inconsistent...

Ngày tải lên: 05/03/2014, 16:20

... although these, of course, bring their own challenges In View from the top, The Economist Intelligence Unit (EIU) examines the areas of risk featured at the top of boards’ agendas in the short ... boards have learnt from past experiences, which areas of risk are at the top of their agendas, and to what extent they and their companies are managing these effectively Source: The Economist Intelligence ... to risk In the aftermath of the global financial crisis, the survey of board members from across the world’s largest global corporates explored which areas of risk feature at the top of board...

Ngày tải lên: 04/12/2015, 00:19

... consumers In other words, competition gives the consumers the best values for their money When the competitors enter the market from all sides, consumers will get more benefits from that competition ... 2.3.2 Benefits for consumers from the competition Competition is the precondition of free-enterprise system since the more businesses are competing with each other, the more products or services ... capture the tastes of consumers to manufacture the high competitiveness products in terms of design, quality and price in order that the enterprises can maximize market share for their products on the...

Ngày tải lên: 24/10/2013, 22:35

... added The filters were then counted for both 3H and 45Ca2+ The amount of [3H]glucose trapped on each filter was used to calculate the wetting volume and was subtracted from the total Ca2+ bound to the ... represent the drug but the boron atom and phenyl rings were held rigid at the ab initio optimized geometry Partial charges for the drug were obtained from the Gaussian calculation and derived from ... addition, The cooperativity of Ca2+ binding to the ATPase was also altered by 2-APB The Hill coefficient changed from 1.6 ± 0.2 in the absence of 2-APB to 0.9 ± 0.1 in the presence of mM 2-APB These...

Ngày tải lên: 31/03/2014, 23:20

... the conception, design and coordination of the SHIELD study and helped to draft the manuscript KF performed the statistical analysis and drafted the manuscript All authors read and approved the ... each) The mean index score for low-risk respondents was significantly higher than the mean for the high-risk group (p < 0.001) EQ-5D dimensions Examination of each of the dimensions of the EQ-5D ... respondents, without clinical or laboratory confirmation These limitations are the same for most survey-based methodologies Conclusion The EQ-5D results from the SHIELD survey show that respondents with...

Ngày tải lên: 18/06/2014, 22:20

... navigation options along the top and bottom of the page When visitors come to the end of an article, don’t make them scroll all the way back up to the top to get to their next destination Most ... Have them visit your home page Ask them to tell you what the site is about; then ask them to browse around and click what interests them Observe the pages they go to and which navigation links they ... Remember, the best way to place an ad in a newsletter is in the editorial content, separated from any other ads the newsletter may be carrying The better the content and the fewer ads in the newsletter,...

Ngày tải lên: 28/06/2014, 12:20

... participant’s top ten list The total and, hence, the overall importance of each suggested area was calculated from both the ranking priority awarded to it by the expert panel members and by the number ... included in the top- ten list of all participants This process allowed the top five priorities, as suggested by the expert panel, to be identified using simple mathematical equations within the Excel ... partly by the extra time spent on the accident site by the latter, as mentioned in several review articles [27,30,61] While the focus of the debate has been on treating the patient at the accident...

Ngày tải lên: 13/08/2014, 23:20

... of them But I could not endure their taunts; I could not give in to them with the ignoble readiness with which they gave in to one another I hated them from the first, and shut myself away from ... against the obscurantists Then the band would play a march, an amnesty would be declared, the Pope would agree to retire from Rome to Brazil; then there would be a ball for the whole of Italy at the ... few years they became repulsive Even at sixteen I wondered at them morosely; even then I was struck by the pettiness of their thoughts, the stupidity of their pursuits, their games, their conversations...

Ngày tải lên: 29/04/2016, 21:52

... been the case with the Maghreb, the Levant or the northern shore of the Mediterranean The Great Eurasian Plain The low-lying land that stretches almost without interruption from Britain to the ... belt This is the belt that stretches from Iberia and the Maghreb in the west to the Himalayas in the east Any Eurasian population to the north must have dispersed from this area Its southerly position ... another Yet, there are many examples in the literature of the spread of populations and species, which is a part of the dynamics of the natural world It seems unlikely that, in the history of the...

Ngày tải lên: 21/09/2012, 10:46

... investors saw their assets decrease in value For example, the German index, the DAX, suffered the most, 20 TLFeBOOK falling by 58.4% in the period 1999—2002 and the average fall across the five countries’ ... regardless of when the risk (or the contract) runs to, or whether the risk continues into the next accounting year; earned premiums: the portion of premium income that corresponds to the current accounting ... Spain and the UK, the penetration of the bancassurance channel in these countries is not uniform Across the five countries, the market share of life assurance distribution owned by the bancassurance...

Ngày tải lên: 19/10/2012, 16:16

... reduce the generalizability of the results, and the findings may therefore not apply to the general population The present study and the study by Gjesdal and Bratberg [10] are to our knowledge the ... for these analyses Methodological issues The DWECS/DREAM study provides data from a large representative sample of the Danish working population Further, selection bias is minimized from the ... disability pensioned, emigrated or died They were excluded from the study, as they were no longer under risk of disability pension in the follow-up period from 1994 through 2004 This left a total...

Ngày tải lên: 26/10/2012, 10:03

... action of CY in the stomach in this study was due to the activation of p53 and therefore leading to the suppression of the c-Myc/ODC pathway All these findings could explain the mechanism of ... restore their normal immune response (Fig 1) The present findings suggest that AP has immunostimulatory effect which can accelerate the recovery from leukopenia induced by CY and thereby shortens the ... drives the cell cycle from G0 to G1 [27] Furthermore, c-Myc is known to induce the transcriptional activity of ODC gene [29], which is involved in polyamine synthesis It is likely that the cell...

Ngày tải lên: 02/11/2012, 10:19

... Coherence Tomography in ocular toxoplasmosis • Usefulness of vitrectomy in the treatment of ocular toxoplasmosis • Update on the treatment of ocular toxoplasmosis We hope that this special issue will ... interesting to readers and provides researchers with timely update on various topics in this important field Conflict of Interest The authors have declared that no conflict of interest exists http://www.medsci.org...

Ngày tải lên: 03/11/2012, 11:11

... (on the other side of the hedge) Good-morning Ballested (turning round) Hallo! Good-morning (Hoists up flag) That's it! Up goes the balloon (Fastens the ropes, and then busies himself about the ... Under the verandah a flagstaff In the garden an arbour, with table and chairs Hedge, with small gate at the back Beyond, a road along the seashore An avenue of trees along the road Between the ... Ballested She has wandered hither from the sea, and can't find her way out again And so, you see, she lies there dying in the brackish water Lyngstrand Ah, I see Ballested The mistress of this house...

Ngày tải lên: 06/11/2012, 14:13

... from the other side of the counter It was a bitter, sour aroma, like the smell of my dad’s work jumpers in summer When I wash Dad’s work clothes I feel the sweat cling to me for the rest of the ... it’s way too expensive), but most of the time I just wolf down the cereal and slurp the milk from the bowl I quickly stuck on the same clothes I’d had on the night before I’ve got pretty simple ... have been outta here I returned the DVD discs to the shelf in the back of the store In Blockbuster all the DVDs were kept in their covers on the shelf Not at the Video Saloon We didn’t have any...

Ngày tải lên: 06/11/2012, 16:13

... the sound of a strange, grating voice "Welcome to the Conquest! Before you lay the Valley of Mexico and the island/city of Tenochtitlan; the jewel of the New World!" Surprised by the voice, the ... wind currents down the side of the mountain When they reached the valley floor and neared the shoreline of the lake, a giant clamor caught his attention The water surrounding the city was literally ... continued their flight across the water The rhythms of drums, the blare of horns and conch shells, and the firing of musket and cannon intermingled to rake their senses But when they reached the city...

Ngày tải lên: 06/11/2012, 17:33

... whether other people feel such enjoyment? I will explain; the enjoyment was just from the too intense consciousness of one's own degradation; it was from feeling oneself that one had reached the ... how to revenge themselves and to stand up for themselves in general, how is it done? Why, when they are possessed, let us suppose, by the feeling of revenge, then for the time there is nothing ... to the very act of revenge Apart from the one fundamental nastiness the luckless mouse succeeds in creating around it so many other nastinesses in the form of doubts and questions, adds to the...

Ngày tải lên: 07/11/2012, 09:09

... carbons at 74.1 The side chain of was connected from the spin-system of the 1H-1H COSY and was further confirmed by the long-range correlations in the HMBC spectrum as shown in table All the NMR data ... ( 49.6)/C-10 ( 36.9) in the HMBC spectrum and by the spin-coupling of proton H-11 ( 3.88, ddd, J = 5.8, 10.7, 10.7 Hz) [6] The carbonyl group was assigned to C3 from the cross peaks of protons ... derevative of In the other hand, the ESI spectrum of exhibited ion peaks at m/z 515 [M-H2O+H]+, 497 [M-2H2O+H]+, 479 [M-3H2O+H]+, corresponding to the molecular formula of C32H52O6 The NMR assignments...

Ngày tải lên: 07/11/2012, 15:53

... isolated from Silybum marianum (L.) Gaertn [6] The ESI mass spectrum of was taken confirming the molecular formula of C25H22O10 of from the appearance of an ion peak at m/z 483 [M+H]+ in the positive ... [M-H]+ in the negative spectra All NMR assignments of were made carefully from HSQC and HMBC and from the comparison with those of as shown in table The H-C long-range correlations in the HMBC ... corresponding to the molecular formula of C25H22O10 From the above data, compound was determined to be 108 silychristin, which was first isolated from Silybum marianum (L.) Gaertn cultivated in the North...

Ngày tải lên: 07/11/2012, 15:53

... upgrading others Over half of the CEOs in the Baldrige survey, for example, believe that they (and their peers) need to improve their skills in the following areas “a great deal.”1 ➤ The ability ... Compounding the importance of answering this question is the fact that the events we’ve just described are only the most public and egregious examples of “quality failures” out there today Many others, ... effective problem resolution—all at the same time,” he says “We get the maximum benefit from all of these if they work in a strategic way to support one another.” Meanwhile, an aftermarket manufacturer...

Ngày tải lên: 07/02/2013, 09:46