... controversy exists whether these are the patients who have early-stage disease and would benefit from detection or whether these are the patients who have indolent forms of prostate cancer Therefore, recommendations ... phenomenon, the other problem was the lack of calibration against a universal standard In an effort to standardize PSA methods, the World Health Organization (WHO) developed a standard, the WHO (90:10) ... Differences between test and comparison methods were estimated at 2.5, 4.0, and 10.0 ng/mL (2.5, 4.0, and 10.0 µg/L) for tPSA and 15%, 20%, and 25% for percentage of fPSA Relative differences...
... proteins Significant differences in the degree of functional divergence betweenthe pairs in the two categories (complex and non-complex) are observed No significant differencebetweenthe semantic distances ... infer that thedifferencebetweenthe duplicate sets is most probably a result of the different strengths of constraint imposed by dosage and balance effects on the gene products, that is they are ... since the duplication [12] Second, and more important, is the need to determine whether the function(s) of the genes are different, similar, or identical Clearly, the most accurate measure of whether...
... fail the project A college student might fail the class and be suspended for a year In some colleges and universities, a student or professor caught plagiarizing might be told to leave and never ... long as where the material came from is identified Any material copied word-for-word is supposed to appear inside quotation marks Where people get in trouble is when they try to claim other people's ... quotation marks Where people get in trouble is when they try to claim other people's words as their own IN THE NEWS in VOA Special English was written by Nancy Steinbach I’m Steve Ember ...
... weighted average of the real interest rate andthe real exchange rate, where the weight on the exchange rate, !, depends solely on the elasticities of aggregate demand to the exchange and interest rate ... appreciation The interest rate hike puts a limit to the increase in aggregate demand, while also being instrumental to the strengthening of the exchange rate via the UIP schedule The latter strengthening ... line with the backward-looking nature of et in (15) The initial interest rate increase o¤sets the excess demand in the goods market and thereby the in‡ ationary pressures stemming from the shock...
... pg), C elegans (0.10 pg), and P dumerilii (0.89 pg) There are, however, many exceptions to the correlation between an organism’s morphological and functional complexity andthe absolute size of its ... gene structures Despite the fact that marine annelids and humans have the same number of introns, commonly in the same positions, the importance of these introns for the host cells could be different ... al [17] have recently reviewed the process of intron gain and loss They and others have demonstrated that intron evolution is not a simple stochastic process, and that a number of biological...
... The presentation has parts: – ROAD – THE WEATHER – FOOD AND DRINK – LEMON TEA AND SIDEWALK COFFE – DAILY ACTIVITIES PART ROAD IN HANOI IN SAIGON Hanoi is famous for old roads , small alleys and ... tables, no chairs, seats are the sidewalk, the walkways under green trees The Saigonese love singing and music Coming here on the weekend Choose a corner to sit in the part,drink coffee,chat with ... WEATHER HA NOI Click to edit Master text styles Second level Third level Fourth level Fifth level In winter months cold and dry usually cloudy and foggy and less rain IN SUMMER HOT , HUMID AND...
... change the errors in the formula for failure into the disciplines required in the formula for success? The answer is by making the future an important part of our current philosophy Both successand ... future? The answer is simple: They are so caught up in the current moment that it doesn't seem to matter The problems andthe rewards of today are so absorbing to some human beings that they never ... aware of our errors in judgment and more aware that each error really does matter Now here is the great news Just like the formula for failure, the formula for success is easy to follow: It's...
... over the change in the 10-year Treasury bond yield, the change in slope (defined as thedifferencebetween 10-year and 2-year Treasury bond yields), the convexity, the change in leverage, the ... slow the economy Therefore, we may conjecture that the relationship between default risk and interest rates is sensitive to some measure of where the economy is in the business cycle and/ or other ... BBB and maturities ranging from intermediate to long-term They find the relation between credit spreads and interest rates (level and slope) differ based on the maturity, credit ratings, and the...
... general statement about the relative strengths of SHãããO and NHãããS On the other hand, it would be fair to claim that the CHãããO H-bond is weaker than either of the other two Note, however, that ... from the NHãããS H-bond Rather than the CS antibond, the SS s* orbital is the recipient of charge in the next minimum m, this time extracted from both the N lone pair andthe CO p* orbital An Nlp ... CHãããO The pattern changes when the H of the SH group is replaced by a second methyl group in CH3SCH3 The enhancement of the S atoms proton-accepting ability strengthens the NHãããS H-bond to the...
... three-digit random numbers and served under identical conditions to the trained descriptive testing Consumers ranked the three cheeses in their order of preference, and then evaluated them using ... compared with the other cheeses (7- and 12-month) The 12-month-ripened cheese had the lowest mean score of liking of 5.75, which is categorized as between “like slightly” and “neither like nor ... attribute and did not follow the same or similar trend, the data produced led to nonsignificant differences These irregular trends in the interaction among panelists could mean that the panelists...
... performance and thus stock price decreases is not conducive to stockholder theory and implies that in agency theory there is a conflict of interest betweenthe CEO andthe shareholders they represent Other ... in the null and alternative forms Statistical analysis allows the researcher to either accept or reject the null hypotheses The null and alternative hypotheses for this study are: H01 (null) There ... stockholder theory and agency theory as the foundation for its approach and consequently is limited by the theory itself According to Veliyath and Bishop (1995), agency theory predicts that there is...
... changes in the level andthe slope I measure the level of the Treasury term structure with the three-month Treasury bill yield, denoted YT,104, t , and measure the slope with the spread betweenthe ... relation between yield spreads andthe slope of the Treasury term structure is weaker, andthe thirty-year yield no longer summarizes the relevant information in the term structure The hypothesis ... rating and maturity band The x ~4! test of equality of bs, i, m,1 and bs, i, m,2 across the three sectors is reported in the final column of Table II The x test does not reject the hypothesis...
... companies from the rest of the pack They are in a position to view their marketing mix in the form of 4+1P and 1R, and thereby customize their offerings to the rural market Further, to ensure ... wells, handpumps and ponds For the first in the history of advertising - these were branded Special stickers were put on the handpumps, the walls of the wells were lined with advertising tiles and ... is the application of the marketing concepts and not the concepts themselves that need to be looked at Often, in the rural marketplace it is the application of these concepts which differs the...
... reason, the research focuses on understanding the value of the corporate culture, in particular, understanding the relationship betweenthe corporate culture andthe innovation of management accounting ... this thesis can become a reference to help further develop a successful corporate culture for the company 1.2 Research objectives The study concentrates on the concepts of corporate culture andthe ... company Therefore, this research aims to: i Systematize the basic issues of corporate culture andthe management accounting innovation ii Understand what is the relationship betweenthe corporate...
... binding GST-IjBa in the presence and absence of ATP, andthe value of a indicates whether the binding of one substrate (ATP) affects the afnity of the enzyme for the other substrate (GST-IjBa) [59] ... wells andthe plates left to incubate for 15 The plates were inverted to remove the detergent after the 15 incubation period andthe wells were washed twice with wash buffer by inverting the plates ... vitro and in silico analysis of the data The plot shows nuclear NF-jB oscillation in the original model and in the updated model with newly measured kr1, ka1 and kd1 for IKKIjBa complex (D) In the...
... of the organization andthe licensing practice of the pool.55 Surprisingly enough, however, at this level the Commission tends to ignore the link betweenthe exclusivity and standardization, and ... on the combination of the principles that, on the one hand, the market of reference for the territorial exercise of national intellectual property is the entire Internal Market, and, on the other, ... of the exclusive rights that both the partners contributions to andthe results of the R&D cooperation (the so-called background andthe foreground knowledge) may be identied, delimited, and...
... spectra and in the rest of the mutants the probe was not significantly affected by the sTF–FVIIa complex formation As the purpose of our study was to map the interaction between FXa and sTF in the ... sTF andthe effect of the modified sTF–FVIIa complex on FX activation In another study [17], these authors also examined the interaction between FXa and sTF–FVII in a similar way by observing the ... with sTF in the quaternary complex Residues E99 and L104 are located in the TF1 domain, and T197 is situated in the N-terminal portion of the TF2 domain, i.e close to the TF1 domain at the level...
... with the differences discussed in the text 27 The 17 in the sample of movers The key is that Plantinga and Bernell study nlsy79 respondents between 1996 and 2000, rather than between 1988 and ... four years after they move, so thedifference in results is not due to differences in the time elapsed since the move Given that both our study and theirs use the nlsy79, thedifference in results ... particular First, the physical characteristics of the built environment, such as the separation between residences andthe ease with which one can walk between them, and second, the neighborhood...