origins of complex societies in southwest asia

... properties of accounting earnings: international evidence Journal of Accounting and Economics 29, 1-52 Ball, R., A Robin, and J Wu, 1999 Properties of accounting earnings in four East Asian countries ... net earnings divided by the market value of equity at the beginning of the year SIZE = the natural logarithm of the market value of equity in millions of U.S dollar at the beginning of the year ... logarithm of the market value of equity in millions of U.S dollar at the beginning of year t for firm i Qit = the market value of equity divided by the book value of total assets at the beginning of...

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... domains of both proteins are shown in cyan with ADP indicated in red The helix-turn-helix (HTH)-containing DNA binding domain of DnaA is in green and the winged helix (WH)-containing domain of ... position of the origin of replication in Pyrococcus, providing the first experimental proof of a localized origin of replication in the archaea [52] Interestingly, in a situation reminiscent of that in ... status of chromatin can in uence timing of origin firing in budding yeast More specifically, it has been demonstrated that deletion of the histone deacetylase, RPD3, results in earlier firing of origins...

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... form in the core language engine Proceedings of the ACL, 1989 [2] D Appelt Planning English referring expressions Artificial Intelligence 26, 1985 [3] C Balkanski Modelling act-type relations in ... [6] M Dalrymple The interpretation of tense and aspect in English Proceedings of the ACL, 1988 [7] D Davidson The logical form of action sentences In N Rescher (ed), The Logic of Decision and Action ... simplified theory of tense representations and constraints on their composition Proceedings of the ACL, 1990 [5] L Creary NFLT: A language of thought for reasoning about actions, 1983 working paper [6]...

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... surgery In recent years, the concept of biological osteosynthesis has gained a reputation in fracture treatment Minimally invasive plate osteosynthesis (MIPO) techniques minimize the extent of soft ... Stabilisation of acute femoral fractures in Paget's disease Int Orthop 1999, 23:283-285 12 Ramos L, Santos JA, Devesa F, Del Pino J: Interlocking nailing with the Seidel nail in fractures of the humeral ... disorganized in structure, and weakened Pathological fractures are the most common complication of Paget's disease, and the treatment of such fractures is challenging An increased rate of complications including...

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... arousing Disclosing personal information is beneficial both from a physiologic and physical point of view Jensen [15] examined the effect of music in 85 students within a disclosure setting The ... of pitch, intensity and tibre Music has the additional element of rhythm, which is time-dependent Simple units of sound combine into highly complex patterns [20] Basic units of sound containing ... human beings with data concerning their environment An interconnection exists between physics and psychology of hearing Blowing of the wind, sea waves, birds singing are more than audible sounds;...

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... research of change processes [17,19] Descriptions of the cases, i.e., interventions All three interventions are complex in nature, including several active ingredients In addition, the interventions ... implementation of complex interventions The aim of this project is to evaluate systematically implementation fidelity and possible factors influencing fidelity of complex interventions in health and ... used to attract individuals to the intervention? What constituted barriers to maintaining involvement of individuals? - interviews with those who recruited the participants - interviews with...

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... ensure blinding of the clinical trial Available online http://ccforum.com/content/12/2/210 Blinding Blinding, defined as attempts to keep trial participants, investigators or assessors unaware of ... bias in clinical trials [28] It may not be possible to conduct a RCT evaluating a complex intervention or process -of- care in a blinded fashion As blinding is largely designed to avoid bias in the ... unaware of the intervention used in each patient can also limit bias Analysis The primary analysis of most trials evaluating complex interventions does not differ from that of trials involving single...

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... through integrative modeling of mRNA expression and transcription factor binding data BMC Bioinformatics 2004, 5:31 Chen G, Jensen ST, Stoeckert CJ Jr: Clustering of genes into regulons using integrated ... 283 interactions belong to complex regulons of at least two regulators Only 83 of these 283 interactions (29%) were actually found co-expressed in our modules In contrast, of the total of 663 interactions ... showing the number of overlapping interactions between Venn Diagramof RegulonDB, CLR, SEREND and DISTILLER Venn Diagram showing the number of overlapping interactions between the networks of RegulonDB,...

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... brain or used by the brain in explicit object categorisation Still, a lot of uncertainty remains concerning the amount of diversity and overlap in response tuning of individual neurons within ... occur in the brain, remains fragmented It seems that neuronal processing speed slows down with age due to a variety of physiological changes occurring in the aging brain, including myelin degeneration, ... SLOWDOWN IN VISUAL PROCESSING SPEED Aging has been associated with a decline in cognitive abilities and one of the indicators of this decline is a decrease in processing speed Many older people often...

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... change of aircraft Singapore is a good example of a Sixth Freedom hub as SIA brings traffic from Australia into Singapore and then onwards to Europe ii Interlining or Alliance Hubs o Interlining ... Analysis of Air Hubs in Southeast Asia through the synthesis of diverse and complex linkages eminent in this highly dynamic system (Ong, 1995) This is especially pertinent in the era of globalization ... especially in the light of increased regional competition by states to become the dominant air hub in Southeast Asia Finally, I seek to situate my findings in the broader socio-economic context of the...

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... and mining contributes significantly to national income In contrast, the role of mining is virtually insignificant in Uzbekistan and is minimal in Kyrgyzstan As we indicate below, these varying ... dominance of foreign direct investment in mining alongside a persistent deficit in the current account The negative value of the residual in Mongolia in such a context suggests the possibility of ... in the current account Further, the size and nature of the residual is also likely to be associated with income distribution A review of income distribution in terms of percentage shares of income...

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... spectra of the instantaneous spatial intensity profiles, completing the information given by direct imaging.[38] There are many other kinds of active mixers using principles of periodic flow switching, ... generating secondary flows in microfluidics by means of introducing timedependent forces into the system This sort of mixers Figure Schematic drawings of selected passive and active micromixing principles ... laminar flow is dominant in the flow fields.[31] Therefore, molecular diffusion often dominates mixing mechanism in these devices The difficulty lies in inefficient mixing by pure diffusion in...

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... the city wall was the sine qua non of the city, defining city limits in both the physical sense and in the realm of meaning However, the great maritime cities of Southeast Asia from Melaka to Aceh ... the city In addition, the translations have had the effect of replacing the indigenous term with a new term that brings with it additional sets of meanings never intended in the original, as ... in Southeast Asian History” Review of Indonesian and Malaysian Affairs, 24, 2, (1990): 103 An early common approach in Western schools of urbanism was the use of formalist definitions involving...

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... formation of ()-hinokinin starts with the enantioselective dimerization of two coniferyl alcohol units mediated by a dirigent protein, resulting in (+)-pinoresinol Subsequently, (+)-pinoresinol is ... lignan ()-hinokinin (Fig 4) Some of them, e.g., hinokinin were shown to possess immunosuppressive activity (Ramos et al., 2006) Beyond, hinokinin is considered to be a potent agent, e.g., against human ... uncontrolled harvesting, limited cultivation, and insufficient attempts of replacement of the plants result in depletion of wild stock, extinction of endangered species, and shrinking of biodiversity...

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... number of samples taken in Korea In the case of Tokyo and in the Philippines, urban runoff from roads on rainy days contributes to the increase in metal concentration in the sediments of receiving ... roadside deposits than those in sediments in the receiving watersheds in the case of Tokyo and Philippines Effect of heavy traffic was observed by dividing Tokyo samples into minor street samples and ... 2.4 0.54 22 Discussion Most gasoline were unleaded in 1980 in Japan, in 2001 in the Philippines and in 2001 in Vietnam The core sample analysis of the sediment in Tokyo Bay shows the peak concentration...

Ngày tải lên: 05/09/2013, 09:08

... financial institutions in less than optimal ways So far, few studies have investigated in detail individual financial institutions in East Asia (one study is Laeven, 1999) Using individual institution ... 100% In terms of number of nonbank financial institutions, our coverage is 4.0% in Indonesia, 81% in Korea, 54.9% in Malaysia, 27.5% in Thailand and 5.3% in the Philippines In terms of total assets, ... East Asia financial crisis a good event to investigate the role of these connections in causing and resolving financial institutions’ distress Furthermore, the general causes of the East Asian financial...

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... important role in the restructuring of weak banks and finance companies, including through the infusion of new capital COST OF FINANCIAL SERVICES IN ASIA An analysis of the impact of internationalization ... with the degree of internationalization more important indirectly in terms of influencing the quality of the financial system than in terms of directly affecting the optimal degree of capital account ... supporting institutional framework, i.e., the regulatory and supervisory functions of the state (including the screening of the entry of new financial firms) and the use of the market in disciplining...

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... an understanding of the system of land tenure in vigor and of the positive and negative political stakes involved in recognizing illegal settlements and providing them with certain municipal ... states that rates of TB are nine times higher in the slums of Manila than in nonslum areas, without specifying an age group.28 Incidence of diarrhea (in adults and children) in these same slums ... settlements of Metro Manila appears alarming, although no study was found that directly addressed under-fives in slums An oft-quoted finding of the Philippines Department of Health is that IMRs in Manila’s...

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