site and mate choice in seabirds an evolutionary approach

... card, etc, while changing to a CPU from a different company would require re-purchasing those components Splitting apart the random coefficients into a mean and variance term and assuming that αi is ... they’ve held every since Figures and tell the story of a rapidly and significantly changing market In June 2006, Intel and AMD both offered products throughout the quality spectrum In many parts of the ... Berry, S, and A Pakes, 2007, The pure characteristics demand model, International Economic Review Berry, S, and J Waldfogel, 1999, Free entry and social inefficiency in radio broadcasting, The RAND Journal...

Ngày tải lên: 18/02/2014, 07:20

... 3-point scale ~0–2! according to the extent to which it applies to the inmate The mean and standard deviation of PCL-R total scores ~which can range from to 40! for the entire sample were 25.1 and ... could read and recognize all of the words No participants experienced any difficulty reading or understanding the word lists ~see below! We paid each inmate $5.00 for the PCL-R interview and $10.00 ... in connotation, and were selected from the 7-point pleasantness ratings given in Toglia and Battig ~1978! Words rated as more that 1.3 SD above or below the mean pleasantness rating were defined...

Ngày tải lên: 19/02/2014, 18:20

... embedded and gradually, in their time, emerge Mother–infant mutuality contains and influences the capacity for (2) belonging to (and acceptance by) a social group, (3) finding and making meaning, ... richness and depth of a rendering and which opened my understanding of the subject more deeply and expanded my internal truth and understanding of the world with its possibilities 28 THE HEALING ... undiluted paint, the flowing rivers of water colors, the messiness of charcoals and graphite, and the dirty-ness of our hands and brushes and paint on the floor, the textures of paper and linens and...

Ngày tải lên: 01/06/2014, 10:52

... long-lasting, fundamental change and rapid change to respond to an emergency – a tension common in most countries in sub-Saharan Africa Stopgap measures must go hand -in- hand with long-term systemic interventions ... continued effort to build leadership and management capacity at all levels; ▪ professionalizing HR departments and units and ensuring that HR staff have input into strategic decisions and HR innovations ... options A business model with responsive and flexible procedures was adopted, and local Kenyan organizations with proven capability and experience were identified and contracted to develop and implement...

Ngày tải lên: 18/06/2014, 17:20

... Therefore, the channel order must be estimated beforehand In this paper, we estimate the channel order based on (12) Since An Evolutionary Approach for Blind Channel Estimation the subchannels may ... diagram of the proposed approach is illustrated in Figure It can be seen that the proposed GA has an inner and an outer loop The criteria in (23) and (24) in the inner loop guarantee that a global ... research interests are in genetic algorithms, speech processing and recognition, data compression, and networking Wei Gang was born in January 1963 He received the B.S., M.S., and Ph.D degrees in 1984,...

Ngày tải lên: 23/06/2014, 01:20

... variance (two-way ANOVA) of main effects (Stocklot and Site) and interactions on survival and growth performance of Aleppo pine during the first (Jul-04 and Dec-04) and the second (Dec-05) years since ... hole openings and planting, was done manually by the same team in all the sites between January 15 and February 20, 2004 Field performance was assessed during 2004 (July and December) and 2005 (December) ... PAC -Dec and DP1 ), strongly biased by rain events in Enguera and Tous at planting, showed poor and contradictory correlations with survival and growth DISCUSSION Both seedling and site quality...

Ngày tải lên: 07/08/2014, 16:21

... professionals and managers with an eye to determining the defining features of the intervention While improving and reorganizing elderly care in modern health systems has become a priority in order ... of information confirmed and complemented data gathered through interviews and focus groups Data ordering, analysis, and definition of the key features of an intervention in elderly care All individual ... patient safety and continuity of care JAMA 2007, 297:831-841 Flottorp S, Oxman A: Identifying barriers and tailoring interventions to improve the management of urinary tract infections and sore throat:...

Ngày tải lên: 11/08/2014, 05:21

... http://www.virologyj.com/content/7/1/186 administration [15] Thus HCV genotyping research is necessary in clinic, including transfusion medicine Although HCV genotyping was once performed in China, the infection character and genotype ... noted, donors were mixed infection (1b and 2a) and donors’ infection genotype was not clarified Furthermore, we compared 1b and 2a subtypes infection between donors and clinic confirmed patients ... and 2a subtypes infection was no difference in these two groups (Fig 3A) These data indicated that most of the local anti-HCV reactive donors infected with 1b and 2a subtypes virus Since 1b and...

Ngày tải lên: 12/08/2014, 04:20

... large and widespread attacks And there have been real and significant cases of data loss The New York Times recently reported on a successful attack involving hundreds of computers in government and ... [http://www.google.com], which maintains a cache of the most recent crawling of most pages it indexes, and the Internet Archive [http://www.archive.org], which goes further and maintains an archive of the web’s ... hosting; and provide central authentication, enabling distributed collaborations Finally, and most importantly, one can never fully prevent successful attacks and it must be assumed that in the...

Ngày tải lên: 14/08/2014, 14:22

... power in the alpha-band (as well as in the theta-band) and the driving performance exhibits a rough linear relation suggesting that changes in the cognitive state are reflected in the EEG power in ... have computed the correlation between power (in alpha- and theta-bands) and driving error and also the correlation between MD∗ (MDA and MDT) and driving error Table summarises the correlation values ... have found that OZ is an effective channel and the power spectra in the theta-band and alphaband have good discriminating power We have derived three models: one based on alpha-band spectrum, one...

Ngày tải lên: 21/06/2014, 22:20

... completed in 1999 included: • • • • • • Shrimp farming in Bangladesh; Lake fisheries in Uganda; Water sector in Romania; Forestry sector in the Philippines; Automobile sector in India; and the Mining ... participatory approach was followed in developing and implementing Nepal’s EIA guidelines, recognizing the EIA process is multidisciplinary and demands intersectoral cooperation and coordination This approach ... production in Nigeria; Forestry in Tanzania; and Fisheries in Senegal These studies are described and analysed in UNEP (2002a) 1.3 Need and rationale for an integrated assessment New impetus and directions...

Ngày tải lên: 28/06/2014, 12:20

... and 4,9 days for double a population Host range includes plant species in family Euphorbiaceae, species in family Rhamnaceae and species in family Rosaceae (Ian and Marlene, 1992) Hui and Jian ... distribution and economic importance of fruit fly Oriental fruit fly B dorsalis was first recorded in Taiwan in 1912 Since then it was found in many other regions in Asia and Pacific including India, ... treatment and hot vaporization treatment; - Cultivation method: change planting season, field sanitation, early harvesting (Allwood, 1996; Khandelwal and Nath, 1978; Susanto and Tati, 1971; Vijayseganran,...

Ngày tải lên: 16/10/2014, 19:53

... Brazil and South Korea have enforced a mandatory rotation rule for the audit company In Austria, Canada and Spain, a mandatory company rotation rule was enforced, but subsequently abandoned (…) in ... Sarbanes-Oxley Act in the US, the Spanish Financial Law was passed in 2002 as a reaction to corporate financial scandals An amendment was included during the Law’s approval process including ... qualifications into a single variable could cause misleading results Audit regulation in Spain With the main goals of enhancing transparency and making financial statements more comparable internationally,...

Ngày tải lên: 06/01/2015, 19:42

... intended in terms of involvement in decision making, in analysis of results and in general in diffusion of a more managerial thinking Moreover the way in which governments introduce innovations and ... possible and wished and that using a methodological pluralism in analyzing accounting, instead of remaining within boundaries of a single research perspective, could improve our understanding of ... occurred in MAS aiming at absorbing external influences and transferring these influences within all organization - and in particular on interpretative scheme – thus supporting the obtainment of...

Ngày tải lên: 10/12/2016, 13:33

... cell lysate was retained as an input sample and FLAG-immunoprecipitations were performed on the remainder *Indicates bands resulting from IgG; arrows indicate bands of interest In (B–D), cell lysates ... inhibitor in vitro by Bain et al [19] Harmine inhibits purified DYRK1A in the nanomolar range, with DYRK2 and DYRK3 inhibited  10-fold less potently, and little or no inhibition by lm harmine of a panel ... including malarial infection and Parkinson’s disease [42] Harmine and related b-carbolines have cytotoxic activity towards human tumour cell lines in culture [43], suggesting a possible use in...

Ngày tải lên: 30/03/2014, 02:20

... Triple malignancy in a single patient including a cervical carcinoma, a basal cell carcinoma of the skin and a neuroendocrine carcinoma from an unknown primary site: A case report and review of ... contributions MM was involved in the analysis of the data and the literature research, and he also wrote the manuscript SB helped with the patient management and revision of the manuscript TM helped ... modifications and revision of the manuscript MG helped with the analysis of the data HE approved the treatment and analyzed the literature data All authors read and approved the final manuscript Competing...

Ngày tải lên: 10/08/2014, 23:20

... adopting in the construction industry Moreover, since driving sustainability in the private sector requires more effort and persuasion to developers, engineers and contractors, setting minimum standards ... (2008), organizations need financial resources to implement the various sustainability programs and to pay and train sustainability staff In addition, organizations need educated and trained individuals ... review on sustainability adoption in organizations and sustainability in the construction industry It also presents a review on sustainability in the Singapore construction industry and finally reviews...

Ngày tải lên: 02/10/2015, 17:15

... octopamine, tyramine and caffeine So African Med J 2008; 98: 372-373 Sander LC, Putzbach K, Nelson BC, et al Certification of standard reference materials containing bitter orange Analyt Bioanalyt Chem ... aurantium has been due, at least in part, to a lack of understanding of the differences in the pharmacokinetic and pharmacological properties between p-synephrine and m-synephrine (phenylephrine) ... or caffeine usage Subjects in the present study ingested 39 mg of p-synephrine and 528 mg of caffeine the day before testing followed by ingestion of an additional 13 mg p-synephrine and 176...

Ngày tải lên: 25/10/2012, 11:10

... the water surface profile and velocity distribution well in simple channels, and the predictions of the model in main channel of compound meandering channel were also in general agreement with ... in the past, including studies on depth-averaged models in Cartesian coordinates, generalized curvilinear coordinates and studies on the effect of bottom curvature It analyzes these methods and ... hydraulic engineering problems as follows: McGuirk and Rodi (1978) studied the side discharge into an open channel and its re-circulating flow field by using a depth-averaged model Kalkwijk and De...

Ngày tải lên: 06/11/2012, 10:35