sharing the lighter side of life

... rumblings of thunder we could hear the low sough and moan of the wind in the trees outside of the stockade, like the suppressed wail of human beings in pain; then would come a flare of flickering ... was then the county-seat of Union county, but the name did not suit the people, and the title of the county was changed to Davis Late at night we retired, making our beds on the soft sides of ... abundance of clear and good water The stockade had two gates, the main entrance being on the north side and the other through the eastern fence or wall The guardhouse was opposite the main gate, the...

Ngày tải lên: 29/03/2014, 23:20

... two, and then tell the entire story of that theme: the history of salt; the fragility of democracy; the use and misuse of punctuation This book has no such unifying theme We did consider, for ... Most of their theories sounded perfectly logical It was the roaring 1990s economy, they said, that helped turn back crime It was the proliferation of gun control laws, they said It was the sort of ... some about life- and-death issues The answers may often seem odd but, after the fact, also rather obvious We will seek out these answers in the data—whether those data come in the form of schoolchildren’s...

Ngày tải lên: 17/10/2013, 18:20

... revenue Unlike the busy lifestyle of fulfilling orders taken through a Web site, the passive-revenue lifestyle lets the site the work, not you 19 20 Part I: Meeting the Other Side of Google Google ... controlled their costs and tracked their returns) In time, the advantages of eBay’s system got the attention of midsize brick-and-mortar stores, which now operate eBay outlets as an essential part of their ... Part I: Meeting the Other Side of Google In the next two years, online businesses might want to diversify their marketing efforts, reaching for recognition on other platforms besides Google’s...

Ngày tải lên: 24/10/2013, 08:20

Ngày tải lên: 28/02/2014, 20:18

... itself both at the level of the immediate chromatin environment of the intergenic region, and also at the level of topological status of the DNA as a result of transcription of the adjacent genes ... DnaC [14] Rather the role of ATP in the reaction is to serve as a switch that controls the activity of the helicase The ATP bound form of DnaC severely inhibits the helicase activity of DnaB and ... by unwinding of this intrinsically less stable region of duplex [6] A further level of complexity arises from the fact that DnaA is a member of the AAA+ family of ATPases This class of protein...

Ngày tải lên: 07/03/2014, 21:20

... around the world The immediate trigger of the crisis was the end of the housing booms in the United States and other countries and the associated problems in mortgage markets, notably the 206 ... pay off their credit card balances As in the case of nonprime home mortgages, LCFIs ignored the risks of nonprime credit card loans because they could securitize most of the loans However, the ... and 2007.180 The rapidly growing significance of the U.S financial services industry provides further evidence of the impact of the credit boom The financial services industry’s share of total domestic...

Ngày tải lên: 25/03/2014, 10:26

... functions of Ó FEBS 2004 b-arrestins, or by modulating the activity of protein kinase C, which can activate Raf isoforms at the apex of the ERK1/2 module (reviewed in [42]) Redox regulation at each of ... effects of pharmacological inhibitors of ERK1/2 activation can be established, as contributions of glial cell derived cytokines or vascular effects of the inhibitors are not a factor However, the ... not a factor However, the possibility of other kinases also being affected by the inhibitors cannot be excluded Molecular manipulation of select components of the ERK1/2 signaling pathway will be...

Ngày tải lên: 30/03/2014, 13:20

... but, when they come to the bumps in the road, they have in place the team and the skills to maneuver around the danger zone First, in Part I, we discuss the hard realities of life in the modern ... WELCOME TO THE PROJECT MANAGEMENT JUNGLE 11 Attempting to create successful project teams through the use of squishy-sounding words like these is often derided as the use of soft skills But the ability ... little understanding of the real concerns and issues of the local employees Discussion with peers at other sites revealed much the same feeling After the calls, many of the attendees at Tom’s...

Ngày tải lên: 05/04/2014, 01:27

... Professor of the History of Science and Medicine at the University of Chicago Among his publications are Darwin and the Emergence of Evolutionary Theories of Mind and Behavior, The Meaning of ... all of the major works of Humboldt, as well as a great many of the minor ones, and, of course, he always had Goethe by his side. 15 The Aesthetic Science of Humboldt, Kant, Schelling, and Goethe ... his father discussed with him the nature philosophy of Goethe and the religious views of Friedrich Schleiermacher, who had been an intimate of the family and even presided over the baptism of Haeckel’s...

Ngày tải lên: 08/04/2014, 00:20

... them navigate the twists and turns of the financial universe That effort was the genesis of a loyal community that remains to this day, and it was then I realized the power of the Internet, the ... enjoyed the California weather, I was a New Yorker at heart, and I wanted to be closer to the other side of my family CHAPTER • BAGEL BOY 17 My lone goal was to be on the other side of the cash ... fraternity life, and did the types of things that college kids wanted to I had it all, yet I wanted more, the fatal flaw of a classic overachiever 22 THE OTHER SIDE OF WALL STREET The Ace of Spades...

Ngày tải lên: 20/05/2014, 14:03

... I.1 What’s the Dark Side? I.1.1 Why the Dark Side? I.1.2 Who Cares About the Dark Side? I.1.3 How Dark is the Dark Side? I.1.4 What Else is on the Dark Side? I.1.5 Ethics and the Dark Side I.1.6 ... start of the race The analysis of the failure of the project concludes the following: “Study after study reveals that sprinters have the most problems in the fractions of a second around the start, ... opposing group of professors never lost the desire to stop the project.) The Achilles’ heel of the project was the conceptual conflict between the anonymity of the feedback and the security against...

Ngày tải lên: 31/05/2014, 01:41

... make sure we don’t get on the wrong track or try to too much We’re always thinking about new markets we could enter, but it’s only by saying no that you can concentrate on the things that are really ... Eat your ownpoint where you can dogfood Get to a and will use it yourself Launch.better The sooner, the ... Priority Severity Impact LOE (Estimated) LOE (Actual) Browser/OS Relationships Keep it Redundant with the resolving comment Keep it Captured implicitly Captured implicitly Always “yesterday” Priority...

Ngày tải lên: 03/06/2014, 13:50

... years It was the mother who answered the questionnaire in 92.52% of the sample, and it was the father in 7.48% of the sample No parent in the patient group refused to participate in the study, ... questionnaire in 89.5% of the sample, it was the father in 4.57% of the sample, and it was someone else in 6.28% of the sample Distribution of all participants in terms of gender and age group ... Score, the mean is computed as the sum of the items divided by the number of items answered in the Emotional, Social, and School Functioning Subscales The sequential validation procedure of the...

Ngày tải lên: 18/06/2014, 19:20

... of the time Some of the time All of the time Knee pain present at night: None of the time Some of the time All of the time Knee pain worse on movement: None of the time Some of the time All of ... practice The lack of standardisation in the choice of instruments limits the generalisability of results Furthermore, of the five instruments included in the review that were based on the views of ... considering changing their job because of their knee, however three of the results are statistically significant, the largest differences being found for the activity limitations scale Of the...

Ngày tải lên: 18/06/2014, 19:20

... scores of the DQOL were moderately correlated with the D-39S (except sexual functioning) and the RAND-12 Magnitudes in the correlations of all DQOL domains with the physical relevant domains of the ... among domains of the DQOL with the D-39S and the RAND-12 As described in the Introduction, because the DQOL essentially measures satisfaction and impact of diabetes treatment, whereas the D-39S measures ... discriminant validity of the DQOL against the D-39S and the RAND-12 In general, domain scores of the DQOL were moderately correlated with the D-39S (except sexual functioning) and the RAND-12 PHC and...

Ngày tải lên: 18/06/2014, 19:20

... the ED and at the time of follow-up (FU) Another consideration is validity: the strength of the association between the candidate instrument and other relevant outcomes (construct validity) The ... correlated with the PedsQL™ total scores at FU, with the exception of caregiver missed work or school (Table 1) The negative direction of the correlation reflects that the longer the duration of fever ... analyzed by means of a paired t-test The effect size was then calculated by dividing the overall mean change in score by the standard deviation of the score at baseline As a point of reference, an...

Ngày tải lên: 18/06/2014, 19:20

... Finally, there was no report by the patients or guardians of any lack of comprehension regarding the questions The lack of validation studies on assessment scales of the quality of life among ... individuals off treatment Therefore, the occurrence of illness implied limitations and difficulties The analysis of the Corrected Item-Total Correlation proved the satisfactory homogeneity of the instrument ... treatment on the quality of life of patients Moreover, decisions for the implementation of improvements in public healthcare may be adopted based on the impact of interventions on quality of life [1]...

Ngày tải lên: 18/06/2014, 22:20

... cross-cultural adaptation, the group of specialists stated that the concept of the impact of childhood cancer on the quality of life of the families used for development of the original instrument was ... Page of (page number not for citation purposes) Health and Quality of Life Outcomes 2008, 6:35 the health-related quality of life of parents/guardians The score is computed as the sum of the 20 ... illness, the assessment of the heath-related quality of life of parents and families could contribute toward their healthcare needs [3,21,22] This study presents the reliability and validity of the...

Ngày tải lên: 18/06/2014, 22:20

... of exact fit With large samples, there is considerable power to reject the null hypotheses, even though the model may fit the data well Therefore, other goodness of fit indices should be considered ... Comparisons to the mean scores of the other subscales within the present study to those of the previous PedsQL™ school study [3], the mean scores on the social functioning scale of both healthy ... as the sum of the items divided by the number of items answered (this accounts for missing data) The physical health summary score is the same as the physical functioning subscale To create the...

Ngày tải lên: 18/06/2014, 22:20

... development of the study question to the revision of the final manuscript Each of the four authors has made a significant contribution at each phase of the study AQLQ12+ Standardised version of the Asthma ... quality of life and clinical asthma in the two age groups Even if this is not the reason, the tendency is so small that it not sufficient to suggest lack of validity of the AQLQ12+ in adolescents The ... The results of this analysis suggest that the AQLQ12+ is valid for measuring asthma-specific quality of life in adolescents 12–17 years The similarity of the measurement properties of the AQLQ12+...

Ngày tải lên: 20/06/2014, 15:20