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... animals in the pens have been investigated in an attempt to isolate the cause of fighting Thermal stratification and temperature inversions in the pens can force the turtles into a single plane of water, ... from the general population early in the stocking phase, fighting can be reduced or even © 2003 CRC Press LLC 434 The Biology of Sea Turtles, Vol II eliminated among the remaining turtles Often, ... between the two engaged turtles and other turtles in the pens If the aggressive turtle is not removed at the circling phase, and fighting escalates to the surface, all the turtles in the pen,...

Ngày tải lên: 12/08/2014, 05:21

... obtaining the interaction terms reduces the correlation between each of the variables and the interaction term without affecting the coefficients of interest The dependent variable in this investigation ... above The dashed line is obtained with the subset of points shown in each plot The title indicates which group is presented in each of the four plots The coefficient estimates for the effects of ... crosssectional investigation, one of the indicators of the repression syndrome is highly likely to capture part of the influence of the other indicators Let us turn to a “liberalization cycle.” From the...

Ngày tải lên: 24/10/2012, 08:50

... that the balance of expression of members of the Myc/Max/Mad network of proteins (see Fig 1) may dictate the response to loss of Myc (Walker et al 2005) In mice, the effects of deletion of the ... deletion of c-myc leads to a transient failure to form normal numbers of crypts in the small intestine, but in long-term experiments the mice maintain a normal epithelium in the absence of c-Myc ... TRRAP binds to a highly conserved domain in the amino-terminus of Myc proteins (MycboxII), and Myc controls acetylation of its target genes in a MycboxII-dependent manner Mutations in this domain...

Ngày tải lên: 25/10/2013, 21:20

... model these taxes using the same approach as Turnovsky (1996) The income of the private agent is taxed at rate However, because income from corruption is by definition illegal income, the income of ...  k1 t  where the first term in the brackets is the marginal utility of k1t and the second is the marginal product of k1t The private agent accepts the public agent’s choice of k1t and consequently ... SIMULATION RESULTS Some initial insights into the choice of an optimal tax structure can be obtained by observing the effects on welfare of changes in one tax rate, holding the other tax rate constant...

Ngày tải lên: 23/12/2013, 06:17

... model these taxes using the same approach as Turnovsky (1996) The income of the private agent is taxed at rate However, because income from corruption is by definition illegal income, the income of ...  k1 t  where the first term in the brackets is the marginal utility of k1t and the second is the marginal product of k1t The private agent accepts the public agent’s choice of k1t and consequently ... SIMULATION RESULTS Some initial insights into the choice of an optimal tax structure can be obtained by observing the effects on welfare of changes in one tax rate, holding the other tax rate constant...

Ngày tải lên: 16/01/2014, 16:34

... size of innovations γ will shift the RR curve up, resulting in an increase in steady-state growth, whereas an increase in the saving rate s will shift the KK curve to the right, resulting in an increase ... vt The left-hand side is the income you could get from selling the stream for the price vt and investing it at the rate of interest rt The right-hand side is the expected return from retaining ... housing in Singapore Hsieh also argues that, instead of estimating TFP growth using the Solow residual method, we should use the ‘dual’ method, which consists of estimating the increase in TFP...

Ngày tải lên: 17/02/2014, 10:20

... most of the variation in the dispersion of earnings is explained by the dispersion of skills.8 Other studies have also concluded that skills have an increasing impact on the distribution of income.9 ... of measurement error into the growth analyses in the same way as it did in the analysis of individual earnings The leading role of cognitive skills Since the mid-1960s, international agencies ... to 18% in Singapore and the Republic of Korea and 22% in Taiwan (China) with an international median of 5% in the sample When the share of students above the two thresholds is entered in the growth...

Ngày tải lên: 20/02/2014, 19:20

... back on investment so as to equate the marginal post-tax rate of return with the marginal financing cost The indirect effect of unions on investment arises from the higher financing costs owing to ... to the effects of a 30 percentage point increase in the corporate income tax International evidence on unions and investment is rather limited In studies examining the effects unions upon investment ... organizing and bargaining The recent experience in the U.S was not always the case, nor need it represent the current experience in other countries The important point here is that the role of unions...

Ngày tải lên: 21/02/2014, 00:20

... bureaucracy, the level of corruption, the role of the state-owned enterprises in the economy, an index of the strength of property rights, an index of the costs of business regulation, a measure of the ... ascertaining the consistency of GMM estimates The speci"cation test we use is the test of overidentifying restrictions introduced in the context of GMM by Hansen (1982) and further explained in Newey ... lower the costs of researching potential investments, exerting corporate control, managing risk, mobilizing savings, and conducting exchanges Theory further suggests that, by providing these...

Ngày tải lên: 06/03/2014, 19:20

... of lack of relevant data They used the education of the total labor force in a state for the measurement of the quality of the labor force of individual industries within the same state But the ... number of men and e1 the proportion of the workers in the lth category of labor services, one may write the index of the total labor input in the form: L = —+—+ H N — Thus, to eliminate errors of ... L4 be the quantity of input of the Ith labor service, measured in man- hours The rate of growth of the index of total labor input, say L, is: i — —— L — where v1 is the relative share of the lth...

Ngày tải lên: 06/03/2014, 21:20

... success in term of statistic to khow real problems to used these data for further rubber research and development Material and Methods -Surveys rubber plantations in the Northeast region : 19 provinces ... mil.ha Recent rubber planting areas (in 2004) more constraint both land and environment than rubber plantations in the past such as low soil fertility unsuitable soil physic rainfall average only 1,000-1,200 ... Background of Rubber Plantation in Non-traditional area Since year 1989; Thai government policy has expanded rubber plantation to non-traditional area Background of Rubber Plantation in 2004; expanded...

Ngày tải lên: 08/03/2014, 10:20

... effects of specific micronutrients An extensive review of these hypotheses and of the design and interpretation of such trials is given in the first IARC Handbook of Cancer Prevention10 Review of the ... that a high fat intake may increase the levels of cytotoxic free fatty acids or secondary bile acids in the lumen of the large intestine However, the results of observational studies of fat and colorectal ... through the colon, thus diluting the gut contents and perhaps reducing the absorption of carcinogens by the colonic mucosa40 Fermentation of fibre (and resistant starch) in the large intestine produces...

Ngày tải lên: 15/03/2014, 01:20

... than in the past If the influence of financial investors in commodity markets rises, then the procyclical nature of their activity could raise volatility in affected markets Similarly, the use of ... the level observed in Latin America could generate an increase in the stock of domestic credit to the private sector of about 12 percent of GDP and in international finance of about percent of ... value of developing-country initial public offerings, or 32 percent of the number of deals, and the operation of mutual funds and other investment vehicles allowed individual and institutional investors...

Ngày tải lên: 15/03/2014, 11:20

... sub-branches of SiNWs are all terminated by Si bulbs, making them di€erent from those SiNWs reported before [5,6] The average diameter of the main branch of SiNWs is in the range 40±60 nm, and that of the ... sub-branch of SiNWs is 30±40 nm The bulb on the tip of the sub-branch is less than 100 nm in diameter The sub-branch SiNW is thin and normally curved at the region close to its connecting point with the ... to the surface of two particles are not formed individually in the gas phase ®rst and then deposited on the surface of the particles Instead, they are nucleated directly from the surface of the...

Ngày tải lên: 16/03/2014, 15:06

... collect the white fog due to the hydrolyzation and oxidation of ZnCl2, and maintain a pressure of 2–0.3 Pa in the tube The morphology, size, and crystal structure, of the SiONWs were determined using ... was in the area examined Analyzing Figs 3(a) and (b) using the EDX spectrometer’s own computer program, the chemical compositions are 48.77 at% of O, 41.87 at% of Si, 8.66 at% of V, 0.74 at% of ... Hence, the white fog may contain SiOx, Cl2, HCl, ZnOx, ZnCl2, and zinc oxychloride, with little amount of VO2 Since vapor pressure of VO2 is low even at high temperature, and the melting point of...

Ngày tải lên: 16/03/2014, 15:19

... rate of 0.5°/min in the 2h range of 20–80°; The atomic force microscope (AFM) image was obtained by a Molecular Imaging Picoscan II instrument in tapping mode The sample was prepared by depositing ... was in the range of 5–10 nm, and most of the particles aggregated together The weak diffraction rings in the SAED pattern suggested that these particles were not well crystallized (inset of Fig ... indexed to the [001] zone of rhombohedral hematite (inset of Fig 2b) The crystallization of the nanodiscs was also evidenced by the well-resolved peaks in XRD pattern (Fig 2c), in which all the...

Ngày tải lên: 20/03/2014, 13:08

... of the plan Since these plans were in existence independently of the Olympics, the role of the Olympics in the plan would merely accelerate their implementation The goals of the Olympics in relation ... little inner-city housing and a predominance of single detached housing, whether in dominantly white areas or the crisis-driven erection of shacks in informal settlements For example, one of the ... (1994); in a society wracked by the pain and turmoil of the past as revealed in the hearings of the Truth and Reconciliation Commission throughout 1997 (the peak of the bid period); and in a society...

Ngày tải lên: 23/03/2014, 13:20

... Turbulence Training Say Goodbye To Long, Slow Boring Cardio And Start Incinerating Maximum Fat In Minimum Time With Killer Workouts You Can Do In The Privacy Of Your Own Home In 45 Minutes Or Less ... diets Solving The Bullying Problem An EBook(R) That Offers Solutions To Parents And Victims Of Bullying The Pitbull Guide The Best Selling Pitbull Training And Care EBook(R) On The Internet / ... by performing regular exercise Control of Diabetes: Weight loss helps in preventing and treating diabetes The effective treatment of this disease is influenced by the obesity of an individual...

Ngày tải lên: 24/03/2014, 00:20

... germ cells, in the bulge of the hair follicle, the bone marrow, the crypt of an intestinal villus, and the subventricular zone of the brain (reviewed in [10]) It is still a matter of investigation ... and function of cadherins b-Catenin binds to the cytoplasmic domain of type I cadherins, linking cadherins through a-catenin to the actin cytoskeleton [24, 26, 27] 1.2.2 Wnt Signaling Regulates ... expansion of HSCs in an immature state, indicating an involvement of the canonical Wnt pathway in this process [40] On the other hand, applying soluble inhibitors that prevent Wnt proteins from binding...

Ngày tải lên: 03/04/2014, 12:05