... (11) These include: the microcontext of the interactions between parents and other adults, the microcontext of interactions between parents and children, the macrocontext of the neighborhood one ... lives in andthe availability of basic educational and health services for children, the macrocontext of neighborhood and job opportunities for adults, andthe macrocontext of formal and informal ... used more nonverbal cues than white mothers One limitation of these studies was that they did not control for social class differences Thus, some of the effects described as ethnic differences...
... standards; (2) monitoring and verification standards; and (3) registration and enforcement systems GHG Emission Reduction Accounting Standards Accounting standards address the actual quantification ... on other programs for accounting and verification rules The Climate Group (based in London), the International Emissions Trading Association, andthe World Economic Forum are currently developing ... secondary environmental and social benefits Although the very first carbon offset project was voluntary, much of the work to establish real markets for carbon offsets has been done in the context...
... Ozone stations, two ozone sonde locations, solar radiation/UV stations and regional precipitation chemistry stations Common to many other countries, he noted that there was strong competition ... detail the key contributions They include the World Calibration Centre for Ozone, Carbon Monoxide and Methane, the QA/SAC Switzerland, andthe World Optical Depth Research and Calibration Centre ... is the support of the WMO/UNEP Scientific Assessment of Ozone Depletion andthe publication of the Antarctic Ozone Hole Bulletins He suggested a Global Aerosol Watch based onthe example of the...
... that they not contain any education information Hence, while we can use them to estimate the effects of these law changes on education, we cannot use them to estimate the effects of education on ... of the additional education induced by the law changes on other measures of health and health behaviors A The Impacts of the Compulsory Schooling Changes on Education To examine the effect of the ... education In that case, identification strategies that rely on relatively weak assumptions, such as regression discontinuity designs, may be especially fruitful The only other regression discontinuity...
... exceed the cumulative total 1000 mm The southern regions as well asthe region around the province of Hue can be seen to have had more rainfall than the northern part or the southern coastal regions ... details the empirical strategy and section introduces the panel data and outcome variables, as well asthe measure of drought Section presents the results with implications on health insurance and ... equation (2) The relevance of the instrument will be benchmarked by the explanatory power of the first stage regression As for the exclusion restriction, the identifying assumption is made that...
... assumptions about the character and conditions of moral reasons PART I REASON, DESIRE, ANDTHE WILL How to Argue about Practical Reason What are the comparative roles of reason andthe passions ... Chapters and continue the focus onthe general connection between motivation and normativity, but they approach the connection from the other direction Here the question is not about the role ... takes the assumption to describe a genuine condition on practical reasons for action ⁴⁸ The terminology is confusing because both Williams’s ‘internal reasons theory’ and his ‘external reasons theory’...
... population Both of these PRO measures were developed prior to the current emphasis onthe involvement of patients at the concept elicitation and item generation phases [25], and neither was originally ... wording, and comprehension of the item Participants were then asked to provide other feedback onthe measures, such as their relevance to FM, and offer suggestions for improvement Measures The Sleep ... interview (and thus asked of only 16 of the 20 participants) The question asked participants, if only one of the two measures could be administered to FM patients, which should be chosen Fifteen of the...
... markers, CFSE assays can provide information on proliferation of distinct, functional cell subpopulations (by comparison, conventional 3H-thymidine assays only quantify overall proliferation and not ... which provides information onthe composition of cell populations based on expression of detectable markers, allowing monitoring and separation of distinct functional cell populations and imaging ... S100A9, and M-CSF can promote the expansion of these myeloid cells and block their differentiation into DCs Depletion of MDSCs in murine tumor models can inhibit tumor formation and metastasis and...
... United Nations General Assembly: Final report of the Ad Hoc Committee on a Comprehensive and Integral International Convention onthe Protection and Promotion of the Rights and Dignity of Persons with ... implementation of the CRPD andthe Optional Protocol, the CRPD Committee of Experts should also be lobbied to include HIV/AIDS in guidelines for implementation, monitoring and reporting onthe convention ... to establish baseline data and a consistent evidence base on disability and HIV/AIDS Conclusion The issue of HIV/AIDS and disability is one that has been inadequately recognized and addressed...
... population Both of these PRO measures were developed prior to the current emphasis onthe involvement of patients at the concept elicitation and item generation phases [25], and neither was originally ... wording, and comprehension of the item Participants were then asked to provide other feedback onthe measures, such as their relevance to FM, and offer suggestions for improvement Measures The Sleep ... interview (and thus asked of only 16 of the 20 participants) The question asked participants, if only one of the two measures could be administered to FM patients, which should be chosen Fifteen of the...
... (00 and 11) and explained only 16.32% of the observed variation (Fig 1) The populations from the zone of sympatry were distributed between the two groups, andthe population of St-Dyé (S5) was ... Carol Baskin, Marc Masimbert and two anonymous reviewers for helpful comments onthe manuscript and discussions, Francina Langa and Jérôme Artus (Pasteur Institute) for the use of their thermocycler, ... populations (10.6% frequency in the total sample) Its frequency was 20% in the populations from zones of sympatry Onthe other hand, F19Lg was present at very high frequency in F excelsior populations...
... mycorrhization in nursery are the fertilisation and irrigation regimes andthe characteristics of the potting substrate [4, 10] Aeration, pH and cation-exchange capacity are important aspects to be considered ... also their physiological status by enhancing the photosynthetic capacity [11] and by increasing the uptake of water and nutrients, and their accumulation in the seedling tissues [3, 8] Environmental ... vermiculite before their application Inoculation with these fungi was carried out by mixing the vermiculite containing the spores with the potting substrate to reach a final concentration of 107 spores...
... interpolation ) The residents could modify the image contrast and sagittal or coronal reconstructions as needed For each delineation session, the residents were asked to draw the GTV onthe CT scan Each ... delineation had been done under exactly the same conditions, with the same tools andthe same clinical information asthe residents; the contours were done after a training session on lung radiation ... Gy) after the course No significant difference was found Two dosimetries were then constructed: the first usingthe contour of the expert, the second the contour from the group with the lowest...
... this information with caution as most of the proposed mechanisms are based on in vitro The uptake and subsequent actions of β-glucan on immune cells Figure The uptake and subsequent actions of ... circulating granulocytes, monocytes or macrophages via the complement receptor (CR)-3 The immune response will then be turned on, one of the actions is the phagocytosis of the monoclonal antibody tagged ... aqueous solution, β-glucans undergo conformational change into triple helix, single helix or random coils The immune functions of β-glucans are apparently dependent on their conformational complexity...
... “Recombination-dependent replication”, the section on “Interrelationship between replication, recombination and repair”, andthe “Conclusions and perspectives"; JRB wrote the first draft of the section on “Overlap ... bubble-migration synthesis [89] In bubble-migration synthesis, the 3’ invading end in the D-loop is extended by DNA polymerase asthe junction at the back of the D-loop undergoes branch migration in the ... by the discovery of the mobile group I introns and their associated endonucleases Intron mobility involves the generation of a DSB within the recipient (initially intron-free) DNA by an intron...
... progression of the leading strand polymerase, allowing for the assembly and coordination of lagging strand synthesis Once gp41 helicase is assembled onto the replication fork by gp59 protein, the ... protein The primosomal proteins include the gp41 hexameric helicase, the gp61 primase, andthe gp59 helicase loading protein The RNaseH, a 5’ to 3’ exonuclease and T4 DNA ligase comprise the activities ... comprising the elongation phase The bacteriophage T4 encodes all of the proteins essential for its DNA replication Table lists these proteins, their functions and corresponding T4 genes Through the pioneering...
... compares to only 20–30% in the control groups of recent trials Pneumonia was the commonest cause, responsible for 50% of cases, with sepsis identified asthe cause in a further 20–30% Astonishingly, ... presented from the Third International Consensus Conference on ARDS (unpublished data), held in Barcelona late last year The decision as to how to change the defining criteria for this condition remains ... receiving noninvasive ventilation (NIV) resembled pictures of a NASA astronaut! However, it was reported to be well tolerated for prolonged periods, and significantly reduces the complications associated...
... nucleocytoplasmic distribution In contrast, other Vpr mutants with substitutions in the third α-helix or in the C-terminal flexible basic region of the protein, such as Vpr-W54R, -R80A and -R90K, were concentrated ... located onthe same face of the first α-helix (Fig 2D) The connection between these two residues is favored by the formation of a hydrogen-bonding network through the O19/NH23, O23/NH27 and O27/NH31 ... of the cell cycle at the G2/M transition, an induction of apoptosis andthe transactivation of the HIV-1 LTR as well as host cell genes (for review, see Ref [17] Although the exact contribution...
... been based on simple measurements of sound levels, whereas the influence of other room acoustic conditions, such as reverberation and reflection patterns, have not been paid enough attention The ... [52] Two conditions are important for the selection of guidelines of behaviour modification: they must be easy to implement and they must not diminish the safety of the patients Both noise and light ... enabled Cureton-Lane and Fontaine to determine that noise was the strongest indicator of sleep state The louder the noise was, the greater the awaking possibility of the children in the pediatric...