... ancillary costs not have the same access to these services as those who can pay these additional costs Obstacles Accessing Obstetric Care When Tamara, the 17-year-old who wishes she had access to family ... November 1994 and June 1999, there were 500 registered cases of sexual harassment, 900 cases of sexual abuse and aggression against adult women, and 1,500 cases of sexual violence against girls between ... comes to the effectiveness and use of aid, and the ability to monitor progress, is a shared interest To this end, recipient countries and donors should establish mutually agreed frameworks that...
... countries of Asia which emerged in a course of our research and brainstorming sessions with experts The second section presents IFA s findings and discussion on institutional arrangements and assessment ... assessment of institutional capacities and implementation results, as well as on success and failures of institutions in the countries under study The third section reflects discussion and results of ... emphasis on losses of life and famines from crop failures to losses of property and investments These distinctions reflect changing perceptions and beliefs about societies’ relationship to nature...
... (A) 2D STD TOCSY and (B) conventional TOCSY spectrum of PDTRP in complex with SM3 The strongest STD signals originate from protons of Pro1, Asp2 and Thr3 The signals of Arg4 and Pro5 visible in ... X-ray structure analysis the closest distance of a protein ˚ proton to the Asp2-b/b¢ proton is 2.7 and 3.4 A, respectively This relay proton contributes to the observed cross relaxation rate of Asp2-b ... corresponds to about 36% of the interaction of the full peptide with the binding cavity of SM3 The sizes of the surfaces were determined using distances between ligand ˚ atoms and protein atoms of less...
... coverslips Fig shows images representative of many fields observed in each case Freshly isolated cytoskeletons from untreated cells contained minor amounts of Glu-microtubules (Fig 2A), whereas Tyr-microtubules ... microtubules COS cells were grown on glass coverslips and treated with effectors as in Fig After isolation, cytoskeletons were incubated for h at 37 °C and processed for double immunofluorescence using ... microtubules is necessary for their detyrosination, the alternative possibility that nonassociated carboxypeptidase also catalyses detyrosination is supported by findings in the present study Our findings...
... returns file for information on shares outstanding and each decrease in shares outstanding (adjusted for stock splits and reverse splits) was treated as a stock repurchase The amount of cash distributed ... τ is specified as common dividends per share ex date, adjusted for stock splits and stock dividends over time That is, dt+ τ does not include cash distributions from stock repurchases as these ... non-cash terminal distribution per share, all adjusted for stock splits and stock dividends Tracking subsequent dividends on non-cash distributions is difficult so the assumption is that securities...
... Kaiser-Meyer-Olkin s measure of sampling adequacy (KMO) was used to assess the usefulness of a PCA KMO ranges from toand should be well above 0.5 if variables are interdependent and a PCA is useful ... specific months involves the splitting of the set data, hence less statistical power and possible incoherency of results Moreover, if the time series displays strong seasonality (as with most meteorological ... be obscured because of delays in the response of variables to specific factors To overcome these problems, we used several time-series modelling approaches that yielded similar results We first evaluated...
... Karlsson I, Russell J (1990) Comparisons of yellow cypress trees of seedling and rooted cutting origins after and 11 years in the field Can J For Res (20), 37-42 Keiding H, Olsen HC (1965) Assessment ... breast height (BHG) (only in experiment 2), frequency of basal sweep (%BS), stem straightness (SS) a notation with scores was used (1 = very poor, straight stem) - and frequency of crooked stems ... discarded before analysis Analysis of data Experiment Statistical methods used were Spearman rank correlations between ortet performances and rooting traits of clones and comparison of means...
... (1 Standard Deviation /S. D.) of the spatial dispersion of local respondents' residence locations To illustrate the compactness of the distribution, almost all (99.73% or S. D.) local respondents ... cycling, to access the clinic The distribution of Tai Po District 's residents was reflected by the mean centre and standard distance of the residential buildings of the district As illustrated ... Infectious Diseases, The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Prince of Wales Hospital, Shatin, Hong Kong and 2Institute of Space and Earth Information Science, The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Shatin,...
... of disease first proposed by Engel in the 1970 's [120] Stress as a mechanism of system wide disease It seems reasonable to examine physiological systems involved in the processing of symptoms ... system wide disorders such as: behavior/mood disorders of substance abuse and depression [59,60]; cardiovascular disorders such as hypertension, atherosclerosis and cardiovascular disease [61]; metabolic ... glucocorticoid levels, and impaired suppression of cortisol in depressed patients and found that many exhibited symptoms of increased glucocorticoid tone as discussed above, such as central obesity, menstrual...
... interventions from grieving family members To address this challenge, countries such as France and Spain have passed legislation allowing ‘presumed consent’ for preservation Therefore, preservation measures ... Department of the City of New York It is supported by the US Health Page of (page number not for citation purposes) Resources and Services Administration (HRSA) grant # R380T08761 The opinions expressed ... out -of- hospital UDCD programs are active The results reported by Fieux and colleagues in this journal, and the continuing success of the Madrid and Barcelona out -of- hospital UDCD programs, demonstrate...
... first one or by pooling several generations of offspring If possible, the mating scheme should be designed to ensure genetic ties across genotypes for the investigated gene Model is less sensitive ... gene This, of course, also sets limits to the type of material that may be analysed andto the efficiency of the analysis The need for statistical models that may separate single gene associated ... magnified in small, closed populations of animals with high reproductive rates The obvious solution to this problem will be to restrict the analysis to comparisons of sibs or inbred lines segregating...
... committees of potential successor audit clients This concern was presented in several ways, but consistently came up in discussions with this high -level group of partners See testimony of Brian ... semi-structured interviews with partners, and develops a model of direct and indirect effects of mandatory rotation and related hypotheses based on these discussions The third section discusses ... that goes against the intent of the new risk assessment standards [designed] to gain an enhanced understanding of clients’ business.’’ Also consistent with this concern, one partner stated, ‘‘Learning...
... English idioms with colors, at the same time, seeks the sources of such mistakes To supply some suggested implications for teaching and learning method, and some activities and exercises that ... warmth and peace, red represents east and success, while black represents west and problems 15 CHAPTER 2: ENGLISH-VIETNAMESE CROSS-CULTURAL UNDERSTANDING AND USE OF IDIOMS WITH COLORS AND FINDINGS ... English idioms Suggestions for teaching, learning and recommended types of exercises to help students to master English idioms are touched upon Suggestions for teaching and learning idioms and...
... completion of this PhD thesis possible: My supervisor, Associate Professor Lim Sai Kiang, for her encouragement, guidance and unreserved support from start to finish Members of my thesis advisory committee, ... cardioprotective exosome was restricted to hESCderived MSCs, we derived MSCs cultures from various tissues of firsttrimester aborted fetuses These MSCs were highly expandable, displayed typical MSC surface ... details please refer to Supplementary Materials and Methods LC MS/MS analysis Proteins in ml of dialyzed CM or NCM were analysis by LC MS/ MS using standard protocols with some modifications; for...
... Acknowledgements I would like to express my utmost gratitude to my project supervisor Associate Professor Ooi Ban Leong, for being so approachable and his numerous suggestions on my research topic I ... Acknowledgements i Table of Contents ii Summary vi List of Tables ix List of Figures x List of Symbols xv List of Acronyms xvi Introduction 1.1 Large-Scale Fresnel Zone Problem and Pseudo-Spectral ... Moreover, PSTD method is not capable of modeling small scatterers whose dimension is smaller than the grid size In orderto overcome these limitations and expand the scope of PSTD s applications, two...
... performance MOSFETs because of process issues and the maturity of market Recently, their scaling speeds have almost been synchronous with the MOSFETs because of the tremendous increase of the demand from ... spectroscopy (XPS) and time -of- fight secondary ion mass spectroscopy (TOF-SIMS) and the amount of residue was consistent with the volatile points of the etch by-products High temperature was effective ... N, Hf and Si of as deposited and annealed HfON films with thickness of ~100 Å on Si substrate The results were obtained by monitoring O 1s, N 1s, Hf4f and Si2p peaks of XPS The anneal was performed...
... was halved by 2008 However, progress has been uneven across regions Uneven progress across the Bank s regions, but (for the first time) progress in all regions Dramatic progress in East Asia ... updated version of the Bank s website PovcalNet will be released, which will allow public access to the primary data, to replicate these estimatesandto make estimates for selected countries and alternative ... still poor by the standards of middle-income developing countries, and certainly by the standards of what poverty means in rich countries There has been less long-run progress in getting over...
... 2 Fixed Point Theory and Applications The special issue contains 38 papers accepted Most of the papers touched on all applications of Kirk s fixed point theorem Mohamed A Khamsi Tomas Dominguez-Benavides ... touched on all applications of Kirk s fixed point theorem Mohamed A Khamsi Tomas Dominguez-Benavides ...
... differential forms can be used to describe various systems of PDEs andto express different geometric structures on manifolds For instance, some kinds of differential forms are often utilized in studying ... NY, USA, 1983 S Ding, “Norm estimates for the maximal operator and Green s operator,” Dynamics of Continuous, Discrete & Impulsive Systems A, vol 16, supplement S1 , pp 72–78, 2009 A Banaszuk and ... for these composite operators with singular factors In paper 11 , they keep working on the same topic and derive global estimates for the singular integrals of these composite operators in δ-John...
... This resulted in a mismatch of worker mix to local health and service delivery needs, with a general shortage of physicians and physician assistants, and a relative excess number of nurses and ... valuable insight into the prevalence of psychiatric illness and its relationship to the war [17] Surveyors found that 44% of participants had symptoms of post-traumatic stress disorder, 40% met ... sector, as contributions to the situation analysis, and the policyand planning process Monrovia; 2010 41 Liberia Institute of Statistics and Geo-Information Services (LISGIS): Human Resources...