payments and their impacts on efficiency

... vacancies or confined within quantum dots in nanocrystals region On the other hand, the excited electrons can transfer from the valance band to the new levels that exist upper of the conduction band introduced ... comprising titania and alumina, and its realization within the present films is notable consideration that no attempts were made to control the size of the nanocrystals Conclusions Fig Optical Raman ... distance between the substrate and the target was about cm The silicon substrates were ultrasonically cleaned by acetone and de-ionized water Afterward the silicon substrates were immersed in...

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... urbanization and greening policies 61 5.2.2 Concentric and directional landscape analyses and change intensity 62 5.2.3 Interpretation of landscape indices 63 CHAPTER SIX: THERMAL ENVIRONMENTAL ... study, comprising the concentric and directional landscape metric analysis and change intensity analysis, derivation of LST and its relationship with land use change, and the measurement of urban ... system largely conformed to the Anderson classification standard (Jensen, 2005) and the Chinese land use system (Chinese Current Land Use Classification, 2007) For thermal environment change analysis,...

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... 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...

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... not end in consonants (except some nasal and voiceless stop consonants), so this may result in the omission of - s plural and third person singular and past tense marker-ed These phonological ... made between “syntactic and lexical modes of communication” on one hand, while maintaining that balance between “conservative and ambitious syntactic use” on the other hand (p 23) Willis (1996) ... (picture description and comparison, phone-messages, discussion question, narrative), and different proficiency levels (low and high) She found that planning led to greater accuracy and complexity...

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... terms of EFVF and EFNF (in terms of tense, subject verb agreement and pronouncing morpheme-s in plurality ) Conclusions and Suggestions  Group planning prior to individual presentations is really ... Chapter one : Introduction • Chapter two : Literature review • Chapter three: Research design • Chapter four : Data analysis • Chapter five : Findings • Chapter six : Discussion and Conclusion Scope ... Elementary Non-major  Time  Investigation : 10 weeks :  English students in 4th year of Chinese Department at MSA - Nature of group work - Relationship between group work and individual presentation...

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... 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...

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... in the EU and Canada has been slower consumption growth Since 1991, US consumption of fluid milk, cheese, and butter is up 11%, while consumption in the EU is only up 9%, and Canada is only up ... Consumption trends in butter aren’t as clear cut as in fluid milk and cheese EU15 consumption is the only one that shows a clear trend, and it is down The focus on low-fat diets in the 1980s and ... programs on the number of dairy farms, their size, milk prices and volatility, consumption growth, consumer prices, imports and exports, the processing industry, and government expenditures Among...

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... Netherlands Westney, D.E (1993) Institutionalization theory and the multinational corporation, In: Ghoshal, S and Westney, D.E (eds.), Organization theory and the multinational corporation, St ... sustainability impacts of business on society, especially of multinational corporations (OECD, 2001) The sustainability concept is determined by three components: a social, economic, and environmental one ... free and easy-to-use tool for businesses and organizations to map their water use and assess risks relative to their global operations and supply chains (WBCSD, 2007) Six important questions for...

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... 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...

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... the Congress on Practices of the Consumer Credit Industry in Soliciting and Extending Credit and their Effects on Consumer Debt and Insolvency Submitted to the Congress pursuant to section 1229 ... several months Regulation of Revolving Consumer Credit Depending on its charter, a financial institution that conducts credit card lending is subject to supervision and regulation by one or more ... concerns about whether consumers have enough information to make good decisions and avoid unexpected costs and whether some practices and products of issuers affect consumers unfairly These concerns...

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... Centre for Economic and Policy Research University of Economics and Business, Vietnam National University Hanoi WP-05/2009 Regional Integration in East Asia and Its Impacts on Welfare and Sectoral ... regional cooperation framework Unlike WTO where concession is made on an MFN basis, regional FTAs are discriminating against nonmembers and could cause welfare loss for some members and most non-members ... on impacts on specific countries Major economic players in regional FTAs such as China, Japan, Korea, Thailand and Singapore attract most of the attention However, studies on impacts of regional...

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... trademarks, and are used only for identification and explanation without intent to infringe Library of Congress Cataloging‑in‑Publication Data The delivery of regenerative medicines and their impact on ... culture based on innovation (Australian Government Department of Innovation, Industry, Science and Research 2009) on the other The reports are consistent in their emphasis on education, strong government ... commissioned by the federal government addressed the relationship between health and biomedical research and investment on the one hand (Australian Government Department of Health and Aging 1998), and...

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... and ring core layer removal sectioning X-ray diffraction neutron diffraction ultrasonic magnetic methods  ASTM has standard test methods for the hole-drilling method and for X-ray diffraction ... & Their Effects 47 SUMMARY & DOS AND DON’TS IN DESIGN  Relaxation of residual stresses can result from plastic deformation and also from thermal stress relief  The magnitude and distribution ... determination and relaxation from simple to complex applied load histories are best obtained using the local notch strain analysis as described in Section 7.3  Loading in one direction only, as...

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... standards and other pronouncements‖ (Miller et al., 1994, p 58) Miller, Redding and Bahnson also indicate that one component of due process is the solicitation and collection of comment letters on selected ... accounting standards are essential to the efficient functioning of the economy because decisions about the allocation of resources rely heavily on credible, concise, and understandable financial ... the FASB, the organization is a nonprofit corporation with a mission to ― establish and improve standards of financial accounting and reporting for the guidance and education of the public, including...

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... and conventional longitudinal change could be attributed to recall bias rather than response shift While this was the case during the investigation at hand, the relative contribution of response ... Wider implications For an individual patient, inappropriate implementation, continuation or cessation of a health intervention may occur if a decision is reached based on clinical reasoning flawed ... Authors' contributions SM contributed to research idea conception, planning of research processes, data analysis and manuscript preparation, as well as manuscript review, appraisal and editing TH contributed...

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... Benayahu, D Aronov, G Rosenman, The effect of surface treatment on the surface texture and contact angle of electrochemically deposited hydroxyapatite coating and on its interaction with bone-forming ... are magnification, tilting angle, and resolution Since the maximum pixel resolution of the machine is limited, different magnifications, and tilting angles have been used to reconstruct every ... glass micropipettes and their effect on biological studies Nanoscale Research Letters 2011 6:401 Submit your manuscript to a journal and benefit from: Convenient online submission Rigorous peer review...

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... function if and only if f is a solution function of the cubic functional equation f x y f x−y 2f x y 2f x−y 12f x 1.6 Jun and Kim proved that when both X and Y are real vector spaces, a function ... quadratic operators on the function space Xλ and provided more general results regarding their norms In , Jung investigated the norm of the cubic operator on the function space Zλ A function f : X→Y ... from the Euler-Lagrange-type cubic and the Pexiderization of the Euler-Lagrange-type cubic functional equations 1.7 and 1.8 A Najati and A Rahimi P P Definition 1.2 The operators C1 , C2 : Zλ...

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... residual monomer content could be reduced when the polymerization time was extended Dogan et al.9 studied the effects of varying polymerization times and temperatures on the residual monomer content ... 35.37 Miettinen and Vallittu8 compared the residual monomer content released from heat-cure and self-cure denture base materials and concluded that the selfcure materials released considerably more ... Usanmaz, A (1995) The effect of preparation conditions of acrylic denture base materials on the level of residual monomer, mechanical properties and water absorption J Dent., 23, 313–318 Jagger, R.G...

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... focused on their clinical relevance Future investigations aiming at population- and disease-based screenings should provide new and important insights on panallergens and their contribution to ... participated in its design and discussion ME wrote the introduction, participated in the design and discussion, and coordinated and drafted the manuscript All authors read and approved the final ... denaturation and gastric digestion, they cannot cause sensitization via the gastrointestinal tract In fact, consumption of raw foods by profilin-sensitized patients leads to reactions that are...

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