long duration experiment in the integrated unit

... Care” INTRODUCTION Confronted with rising long- term care needs due to an increasingly ageing population, the European Union is supporting the Member States in their efforts to improve health and long- term ... Shopping Getting in and out of a bed or chair Light housework 7% 4% 4% C ooking\ preparing meals 4% Moving around at home 3% Bathing or showering 3% Dressing and undressing 3% Taking care of finances ... the future, how they expect and prefer to be taken care of should the need arise and how they think they will finance their future long- term care In the last chapter, we look at the extent to which...

Ngày tải lên: 05/03/2014, 18:20

... Poisoning the Well: How the EPA is Ignoring Atrazine Contamination in Surface and Drinking Water in the Central United States An Atrazine Primer Atrazine is a selective herbicide ... chemicals Poisoning the Well: How the EPA is Ignoring Atrazine Contamination in Surface and Drinking Water in the Central United States Recommendations for Protecting Human Health and the Environment ... atrazine as well as the presence of atrazine in drinking water Under the Safe Drinking Water Act (SDWA), the EPA has determined that no more than parts per billion (ppb) of atrazine (as a running...

Ngày tải lên: 15/03/2014, 10:20

... perspectives in archaeology enrich knowledge about the lives of people in the past and their interactions with people in other gender groups in their communities The early gender studies in archaeology ... are subdivided into those activities relating to acquiring and processing food; making and repairing tools, clothing, and buildings; and maintaining social relations For each step in an activity, ... gender in the native Southeast as its main topic We hope that it will contribute to further archaeological interests in and inquiries about gender in native Southeastern societies Our inspiration...

Ngày tải lên: 11/06/2014, 13:10

... ‘R,’” Southern Speech Journal 9: 102–6 Phliponneau, Catherine (ed.) 1995 Sociolinguistic Studies and Language Planning: Proceedings of the XVIth Annual Meeting of the Atlantic Provinces Linguistic ... “Investigating variation and change in written documents,” in Chambers, Trudgill, and Schilling-Estes (eds.), 67–96 forthcoming The English dialect heritage of the Southern United States,” in ... pronoun in Southern dialect?” American Speech 59: 51–9 Rickford, John R 1974 The insights of the mesolect,” in DeCamp and Hancock (eds.), 92–117 1975 “Carrying the new wave into syntax: the case...

Ngày tải lên: 24/07/2014, 09:21

... $70,000 a year,” in her words In selling mailing lists over the telephone, she finds the strategy of switching into a southern-sounding way of talking and interacting to be particularly useful ... southern-sounding speech King may well sound southern in other contexts too, for other reasons, including ones such as those discussed above These examples illustrate just four points on a continuum ... southern style in her bid to “sound southern.” The resources of southernness are available to these women because of where they are from: they have heard people sounding like Southerners all their...

Ngày tải lên: 24/07/2014, 09:21

... literacy in two working-class communities in the Piedmont Carolinas, Heath (1983) suggests that children in the white community were trained to tell personal narratives in somewhat the same way in ... about them, by outsiders and insiders This idea structures much discourse about Southerners, whether the Southerners in question are from the coastal or the mountain South and whether they are ... “playback” phase in which she asked Southerners to comment on the meanings of these address terms while watching clips of the film Like Ching, she found that the core meaning was the expression...

Ngày tải lên: 24/07/2014, 09:21

... tormenting,” as in The parents were mommucking their children Meanwhile, on the island communities of the Chesapeake and in southern Appalachia it refers to “making a mess,” as in He was mommucking ... up in the pronunciation of the state name, with northern Louisiana favoring four syllables beginning [luz-] and southern Louisiana favoring five syllables beginning [luiz-] The people of southern ... declining since the last quarter of the nineteenth century, when the oldest cohort of LAGS informants was born The use of preterit come and plural verbal -s seems to have begun to decline in the...

Ngày tải lên: 24/07/2014, 09:21

... shifting in the South, both the ordering of the changes and whether chain shifting is the mechanism taking place at all here What she found was that while the back movements were in place, the ... large-scale immigration of Northerners to Atlanta and Dallas may be in uencing the speech there, so they may no longer Vowel shifting in the southern states 129 share the features of their nearby core areas ... (thirteen) In general, African Americans avoid the sound changes observed in the white community, so it should not be surprising that the Southern Shift is not taking place in the black community On the...

Ngày tải lên: 24/07/2014, 09:21

... their urban network ties The data from Springville further suggest that as verbal -s is lost it initially disappears in the first singular, next in the third plural, and lastly in the third singular ... evidence of interest in the southern second-person pronoun has appeared on the internet There was a flurry of mail on the American Dialect Society mailing list in 1995 and again in 1999–2000 There were ... task There is still much to The phonology of English in the South 125 know about the phonology of English in the southern United States and many ways of looking at the many ways of sounding southern...

Ngày tải lên: 24/07/2014, 09:21

... communities themselves and the looser dynamics of de facto segregation on them could hardly be as effective in the hinterland communities as in the coastal communities in fostering divergent linguistic ... later In the case of language, speakers are very accommodating Dispersing individuals in a metapopulation find it easier to accommodate the locals in adopting their speech habits than to maintain their ... perspective, some of the newcomers, who come by installments, interbreed with the locals Their offspring, who inherit the founder traits, increase the number of their transmitters to offspring of some...

Ngày tải lên: 24/07/2014, 09:21

... of the Jim Crow laws in the hinterland of the Southeast in the late nineteenth century History suggests that, although discrimination was in place since the first English–African encounters in ... certain minority variants which entered the southern United States with the first Early Modern English speakers remained in use as variants in southern idiolects for many generations, and then in the ... the above version of the Divergence Hypothesis, I capitalize here on the evidence provided by the socioeconomic history of the United States Linguistic evidence is rather indirect, lying in the...

Ngày tải lên: 24/07/2014, 09:21

... so in these letters they describe the business of running the plantation and the routine events like planting, the state of the crops, the weather, diseases among slaves, and so on What is interesting ... Texas In contrast, north of the “fall line,” the line where the flat bottomlands start to rise to the interior hills and mountains, the Piedmont and mountain area of the interior is known as the ... plural indicative be in the Court Minute Books in entries for the years 1575–7 (interestingly, the same point in time when verbal -s makes its first appearance in this archive, although it was in...

Ngày tải lên: 24/07/2014, 09:21

... the interdisciplinary intersection of discourse analysis, sociolinguistics, and critical theory and is the author of five books including Qualitative Methods in Sociolinguistics (2000), The Linguistic ... 91): In America the great majority of Scotch-Irish landed in Delaware or Pennsylvania and soon headed to frontier areas, reaching the interior of Virginia in the 1730s and the Carolinas in the ... that the South is the most distinct speech region in the United States,” points to the difficulty in identifying a set of phonological features that delimit southern speech, even with the salience...

Ngày tải lên: 24/07/2014, 09:21

... damage to the crop pines Consequently, these three sites were not included in the analyses involving the VC treatment; however, these sites were used for analyses involving only the examination ... applied in the spring of the year installed The combined VC and fertilization treatment was the same used for the individual treatments but applied together Height and diameter of planted pines ... However, the combined treatment (VC and fertilization applied together) was greater than the response to either single treatment at four of the five sites in year two and both sites in year four The...

Ngày tải lên: 08/08/2014, 01:21

... intense deer browsing are acting in concert to prevent adequate oak canopy recruitment CONCLUSION The rise in oak dominance in the eastern United States at the beginning of the Holocene epoch ... logging and fire during this century promoted Acer and Prunus invasion into the Quercus understories While logging and other disturbances promoted oak during the 19th century, logging in the ... hills originating from ancient shorelines in portions of the Carolinas, Georgia, western Florida and southern Alabama and Mississippi Dominant species on the more xeric sites include Pinus elliotii,...

Ngày tải lên: 08/08/2014, 18:21

... countries in the 1990’s upon the advent of treatment in those settings However, the experience in Africa will be distinct in at least two important ways First, the scope of the problem in terms ... that we locate as the new second curve in the long- wave event of HIV Looking ahead The advent of ART in resource-poor settings has marked a dramatic shift in the epidemic giving rise to Nixon ... access to ART in Southern Africa marks the dawning of a new era in the history of HIV as vast numbers of people living with HIV may expect to live far longer [5] Indeed, the clinical, immunologic...

Ngày tải lên: 11/08/2014, 14:21

... SCAP-HQ Combines the patient’s feeling about the amount of privacy where they live, the way things are in general between them and their family, and the protection they have against being robbed ... Combines the patient’s feeling about the way they spend their time, the amount of fun they have, and the amount of friendships in their life General life satisfaction SCAP-HQ The patient’s feeling ... emergency services) to be included in the cluster analysis at each time point In addition to characterizing patients by sustained favorable long- term outcome in the second step of the analysis, cluster...

Ngày tải lên: 11/08/2014, 15:22

... sequences In order to establish consistency and to minimize the risk of contamination during the procedure, three individuals independently performed the nested PCR experiments using independently ... retroelements (IAPs) Together with our data, these findings highlight the difficulty of avoiding DNA contamination in clinical samples and the risk of testing contaminated samples as XMRV-positive ... experiments TS, SH, GT and YI designed the experiments, analyzed the data and wrote the paper All authors read and approved the final manuscript Competing interests The authors declare that they...

Ngày tải lên: 13/08/2014, 01:20

... 38) The resulting phosphorylation of eIF2α during ER stress reduces protein synthesis, lowering the influx of nascent polypeptides into the stressed ER 10 binding to the protein kinase domain ... heme-binding protein expressed predominantly in erythroid cells (51, 52) HRI contains two heme-binding sites, one in the N-terminus, and a second located in an insert region in the middle of the ... dsRNA-binding domains (dsRBDs), while the protein kinase domain is located at the C-terminus During virus invasion, binding of double-strand RNA to the dsRBDs brings two PKR molecules in close...

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