... efficiently, the reputationalcapital of an agent must equal the present value of the stream of future profits, or franchise value, of her business.The concept of reputational capital is meaningful ... Structural implications of CTFCircuit theoryof finance (CTF) bears important implications in terms of financial marketstructure, microeconomic imbalances, and the role of saving for economic ... on the basis of verifiable and tested information. Information providers might be eitherprofit or non-profit outfits.Providers of customized information might operate for a profit and sell...
... Realization of Social Context( Source: Halliday& Martin 1993:25) 3 Levels of Context The interpretation of social context includes two levels of communication: genre (context of culture) ... of units at the next rank below, and so on, until we arrive at the units of the lowest rank, which have no internal constituent structure. Rank is thus a theoryof the global distribution of ... alternative ways of construing reality, and interpersonal metaphor, which offer alternative possibilities of expressing modal meanings (metaphors of modality), or exchanging commands (metaphors of mood)....
... Speaking Activities 111.4. Motivation 121.4.1. Definition of Motivation 121.4.2. Types ofMotivation 13Chapter two Research Methodology 152.1. Practical Situation of Teaching and Learning English ... year non -major English students at Pre-Intermediate level of Proficiency at Hanoi University of Industry” is submitted in partial fulfillment of the requirements for the degree of Master of Arts ... Rationale of the study 1II. Aims of the study 2III. Reseach questions 2IV. Scope of the study 2V. Methods of the study 2VI. Design of the study 3PART TWO: DEVELOPMENT 4Chapter one Literature...
... g.Applications of Conformality to Particle Phenomenology.It is assumed that the Lagrangian is nearly conformal. That is, it is the soft-breaking of a conformal theory. The soft breaking terms ... frontierproblems of science.Global Foundation Board of TrusteesBehram N. Kursunoglu,Global Foundation, Inc., Chairman of theBoard,Coral Gables.M. Jean Couture, Former Secretary of Energy of France, ... physics of the 20thCentury. After its first two decades theconferences have been placed in the hands of younger and promising physicists. The 1999 meeting was the last conference of the millennium....
... Science of ArtA Neurological Theoryof Aesthetic ExperienceWe present a theoryof human artistic experience and the neural mechanisms that mediateit. Any theoryof art (or, indeed, any aspect of ... cluster of features becomes perceptually salientTHE SCIENCE OF ART 22 nitude of an SCR to caricatures of women (or indeed, to a Chola bronze nude or aPicasso nude) with the SCR to a photo of a ... proposes a list of ‘Eight laws of artistic experience’ — a set of heuristics thatartists either consciously or unconsciously deploy to optimally titillate the visual areas of the brain. One of these...
... the viewpoint of members of the peer group as well. This would be a further reason why the social value of the consumption of drugs was below the private values of individuals. Of course, if ... conviction of illegal suppliers obviouslydepend on the extent of the difference between the social and private value of consumption of illegalgoods, but they also depend crucially on the elasticity of ... use of drugs.Gary S. BeckerDepartment of EconomicsUniversity of Chicago1126 East 59th StreetChicago, IL 60637gbecker@uchicago.eduKevin M. MurphyGraduate School of BusinessUniversity of...
... provides an analysis of VP ellip- sis in the context of a theoryof discourse structure and coherence, using an extension of Discourse Rep- resentation Theory. The resolution of VP ellipsis is ... number of properties. Parallelism is characterized in terms of a co-recursion in which the similarity of properties is defined in terms of the similarity of arguments, and the similarity of arguments ... defined in terms of the similarity of properties. 1 Two fragments of discourse stand in a parallel re- lation if they describe similar properties. Two prop- erties are similar if two corresponding...
... 8859-1***START OF THE PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK HINTS TOWARDS THE FORMATION OF AMORE COMPREHENSIVE THEORYOF LIFE.****Hints Towards the Formation of a More Comprehensive TheoryOf Life*Hints ... magnetic, electric, and galvanicfluids, which is offered as a proof of the existence of a vital fluid, is as much a matter of doubt as that of thevital fluid itself."5. "It is singular, ... spiracula of the grade next below, and the lungs of thestep next above, both extremes of which seem combined in the structure of birds and of their quill-feathers;but above all, the convexity of the...
... of translucency of noodles made from the soft, low-FSV wheat flour and the soft, high-FSV wheat flour (9.25% protein) were 39.75 and 43.75%, respectively. The mean levels of translucency of ... boiling time and the degree of starch swelling (Crosbie 1992). Accurate measurement of the color of boiled noodles necessitates the use of a method that minimizes the effect of variation on final ... tested was made from a soft, high-FSV soft wheat flour giving translucency of 47.50% at 11.50% protein (Fig. 2). Translucency increased linearly with protein for the two soft and one hard wheat...
... smallpropensity for formation of short helices, transiently,and the chain as such is highly dynamic.Structure of the core of the oligomersBecause of the large size of the core of the oligomer,the ... the core formation.Out of these, a segment of 17 residues containing two short stretches of helical preferences has been identifiedto belong to the amino-terminal region of the GED.The CD data ... probe the forces governing the association of the helices in the core of the oligomer, we calculatedthe electrostatic potential of the surfaces of the two long helical segments predicted from...
... theabsence of PsbL, the assembly of CP43 and thus theformation of stable intact PSII core monomers is severelyimpaired. None of the other PSII proteins were found freeafter 2D BN-PAGE of DpsbL ... tinyamount of PsbE; Fig. 3), indicating no general disassembly of PSII core complexes during electrophoretic separation.Further, the presence of a small amount of PsbO detectedby immunoblotting of ... of DpsbF.Oftheinternal antenna proteins of PSII, the assembly of CP47possibly also occurs cotranslationally because no freeprotein was found in the membrane, whereas the assemblyprocess of...
... number of the diversesuperfamily of GPCRs, not least among the prostanoidreceptor subfamily of GPCRs [53]. The EP3subtype of thePGE2receptors is one of the most heavily spliced among all of ... investigate themolecular basis of the differential expression of TPa andTPb isoforms. Our initial aim was to map the patterns of exon usage in the 5Â UTR of the major TP transcriptsexpressed ... genecontains two promoters P1 and P2 located 5Â of E1 and E1b,respectively.Herein, we investigated the molecular basis of the differ-ential expression of the TP isoforms by characterizing the5Â UTR of...
... day of January, 1885,in relation to the management and conduct of the office of district attorney of the United States for thesouthern district of Alabama."The incumbent of this office ... That the exclusion of ChineseA Compilation of the Messages and Papers of the Presidents 68 Thursday, the 3d of September, being the anniversary of the signing of the treaty of peace at Paris ... reckless disregard of duty andthe interests of the Government developed on the part of some of those connected with the service made achange of superintendency and a few of its other officers necessary....