survey analysis of pages 8386 8392 e zanutto and a gelman pdf

... used to eliminate the image of the experimenter Before that, and also immediately after, reference measurements were taken in a clearing which was large enough to provide a reliable reference ... between the tree basal area, the height to the base of the crown and the total leaf area was established Finally, this latter relationship was used to calculate the total leaf area in the two surveyed ... diameter at breast height , bh D the total height, the height to the base of the live crown and the diameter and age of all branches The total leaf area of these 26 trees was determined using a...

Ngày tải lên: 08/08/2014, 14:21

... Minlam Asset Management Peter Johnson, Managing Partner of Developing World Markets Wim Van Looveren, Financial Analyst at Incofin Ximena Escobar de Nogales, Head of Social Performance Management ... Guarantees represent less than 0.5% Equity and debt microfinance assets increased at approximately the same rate during 2010, 17% and 18%,5 respectively These rates represent a slowdown in the ... total microfinance assets held by MIVs as of the end of 2010 As the universe of MIVs continues to expand, this percentage has dropped each year At the end of 2005, the survey assessed data from...

Ngày tải lên: 16/03/2014, 17:20

... include a considerable element of comparison and may be characterized as a comparative approach The intercultural approach pays a considerable attention to the relations between the learners own ... United States of America, Australia, Canada, New Zealand and Ireland In fact, as the statistics show, information about the United Kingdom and the United States of America has the most coverage ... place (21%) in the table compared with other types of references Passages about the Vietnamese culture cover the broader area of culture and provide students with knowledge of Vietnamese geography...

Ngày tải lên: 07/09/2013, 12:58

... for a good management of qualitative and quantiative data because there is a fact that data not only prove 29 theories, they are able to generate and supplyment theory as well Below are the main ... Vietnamese 4.2.3.1 Similarities From the data analysis, it can be seen that most of English and Vietnamese EECs have the same layout Very often the main parts in a contract are: name of the parties, ... procedures for data analysis: - The data analysis was based on the quantitative and the qualitative data to point out the main layout, lexical choice and syntax of the Vietnamese and English Economic...

Ngày tải lên: 26/11/2013, 13:26

... done with my greatest effort and to the best of my knowledge and understanding However, mistakes and inadequacies seem to be unavoidable because we not have enough time and reference materials ... year) between (name of the employer), hereinafter referred to as “…” and (the name of the union), hereinafter referred to as “…” WHEREAS, … NOW THIS AGREEMENT WITNESSETH that the parties hereto ... (Signature and Seal) Full name of the representative Full name of the representative 4.2 LEXICAL FEATURES OF ECAs AND VCAs 4.2.1 Archaic Words In ECAs we can find such archaic words as: “hereinafter”,...

Ngày tải lên: 26/11/2013, 13:30

... Types of reference Personal reference Demonstratives reference Comparative reference Substitution Substitution items Pronoun One Ones The same Adverbials Process adjuncts Do So Not Types of substitution ... Contrastive analysis of Cohesive devices in English texts and those in Vietnamese ones Table of contents Page Acknowledgements Table of contents Part A: introduction I II III IV V Reasons for ... General features 1.2.2 Specific features of the text The concept about cohesion-coherence in text 2.1 Cohesion in text 2.2 Coherence in text The relationship among : cohesion - coherence- text...

Ngày tải lên: 12/12/2013, 00:03

... will answer the question “do goodies wear hoodies?” In the UK, teenagers can‟t wear a hooded top because they are banned Teachers and many people believe that teenagers who wear hooded tops often ... unit is about an interesting theme It supplies for learners a large of vocabulary and grammar There are many reading texts and basing on these reading texts, learners have the chance to know about ... contexts are presented - Teenager: This is a noun which is formed from the adjective “teenage” (age between 13 and 19, connected with people of this age) The suffix “-er” is added to create “teenager”...

Ngày tải lên: 14/12/2013, 16:45

... bonehead, a meathead, a fat head, 22 meaning a person whose head has no brain inside The unique way people name objects and phenomena is a fact that easy to understand, and in the perception of ... effective and interesting way because they contain not only the literal meanings but the figurative and expressive meanings as well They are an integral part of a language and they make the language ... head of steam 16 (in place names) a headland For example: Beach head 17 A main division in a lecture, an essay, etc For example: A meeting arranged under five heads 1.2.2 the word head in Vietnamese...

Ngày tải lên: 20/12/2013, 18:33

... Mongeau perform a meta-analytic review of fear appeal literature They investigate the relationships between message manipulations-perceived fear, perceived fear-attitudes, and perceived fear-behaviors, ... different strengths of fear appeal messages Furthermore, the meta-analyses suggest that the stronger the fear appeal, the greater the attitude, intention, and behavior change The present meta -analysis ... value greater than the overall mean, and a negative z score indicated a value less than the grand mean (The representation of the values for each of the cells of the studies is available from the...

Ngày tải lên: 05/03/2014, 22:21

... the nearest human sequence, one dramatically reduces the number of available sequences (Table 1) Such sequences are ideal primers ⁄ probes for identification of dengue because of their decreased ... changes away from the nearest human sequence Despite this low average, there are several genomes that have a higher number of human-blind sequences then would be expected In AF289029, 30 of the ... available software packages [23,24] based on the distances between the patterns observed on the microarray (Fig 6) The trees generated clearly separate DENV-1 strains from the remainder of the...

Ngày tải lên: 23/03/2014, 11:20

... These experimental data suggest that loops a8 , and may be associated with receptor binding, but the interaction between Cry1Aa toxins and BtR175 has not been examined to date Recently, we have ... R311C-S, 5¢-ATACTGATGTGCATTGTGGCTTTAATTATT-3¢; R3 11C-AS, 5¢-AATAATTAAAGCCACAATGCACATCAGT AT-3¢; S373C-S, 5¢-AATTATACTTGGTTGTGGCCCAA ATAATCA-3¢; S373C-AS, 5¢-TGATTATTTGGGCCACA ACCAAGTATAATT-3¢; N376C-S, ... oligomerization, their ratios were quite small We then examined the N-terminal sequence of the oligomeric band using S373C, and obtained the two sequences GIFGP and GPSQW These are sequences from...

Ngày tải lên: 29/03/2014, 22:21

... variety as mentioned above Mature T4 seeds were then harvested in October 1998, with 32% humidity They were dried at low temperature, cleaned to eliminate the refuse of the ears and bad grains, and ... peptide-N-glycosidase A (PNGase A) from almonds were purchased from Roche Molecular Biochemicals (Meylan, France) All other reagents were of highest quality available Peptides and glycopeptides generated by ... MALDI-TOF Glycopeptides and the corresponding peptides, generated from the glycopeptides by N-glycosidase A treatment, were also analysed by MALDI-TOF and ES-MS same elite inbred maize variety...

Ngày tải lên: 31/03/2014, 07:20

... case these parameters were not met Correlation were evaluated with Pearson and Spearman tests and a way ANOVA test was performed to check influence of preservation techniques and solutions Statistical ... the sample Histopathological studies Serial ultrason-guided percutaneous biopsies were performed at day and M1 and larger tissue samples were collected at month after sacrifice Samples were either ... Figure month Outcome Survival was measured and represented by a Kaplan-Meier plot (A) Function was determined: Creatinemia (B) and proteinuria (C) Representative images of Sirius Red staining of...

Ngày tải lên: 18/06/2014, 19:20

... than lower levels of a function or to endorse positive than negative health states An item that measures a higher level of function should have a lower mean than one that measures a lower level ... where happiness and a healthy mental state were central to the concept of vitality When evaluating a Chinese translation, Chang et al[27] suggested that the vitality and mental health items could ... scales to produce culturally more appropriate scales with clearer delineation between these concepts For Thai people, who like Vietnamese and mainland Chinese are predominantly Buddhists, a healthy...

Ngày tải lên: 18/06/2014, 19:20

... PD analysis can be applicable to DRC at the receiver We consider a deliberately clipped OFDM symbol [3] or an OFDM symbol which operates in the saturation area of an amplifier Note that these kinds ... performance degradation, while out -of- band radiation reduces spectral e ciency Filtering methods can reduce out -of- band radiation, but also introduces peak regrowth of OFDM signals and increases ... expression of the characteristic function of the time domain samples of M-QAM/OFDM symbols As an example, theoretical discrete PD for both QPSK and 16-QAM cases is derived The discrete nature of...

Ngày tải lên: 18/06/2014, 22:20

... and then average values on each investigated linear or angular parameter were used for the following analysis As it is well known, the repeatability of the measurement can be described (characterized) ... normalized (the procedure of division of the meaning of each linear parameter on the meaning of the transverse diameter of the femoral diaphysis) In this case, the deviation of the measurement becomes ... moreover, that there are no strong correlations between the angle and linear parameters in all of the aforementioned classes To our best knowledge, this indicates that the above-stated angle parameters...

Ngày tải lên: 20/06/2014, 00:20

... case these parameters were not met Correlation were evaluated with Pearson and Spearman tests and a way ANOVA test was performed to check influence of preservation techniques and solutions Statistical ... the sample Histopathological studies Serial ultrason-guided percutaneous biopsies were performed at day and M1 and larger tissue samples were collected at month after sacrifice Samples were either ... Figure month Outcome Survival was measured and represented by a Kaplan-Meier plot (A) Function was determined: Creatinemia (B) and proteinuria (C) Representative images of Sirius Red staining of...

Ngày tải lên: 20/06/2014, 03:20

... PD analysis can be applicable to DRC at the receiver We consider a deliberately clipped OFDM symbol [3] or an OFDM symbol which operates in the saturation area of an amplifier Note that these kinds ... performance degradation, while out -of- band radiation reduces spectral e ciency Filtering methods can reduce out -of- band radiation, but also introduces peak regrowth of OFDM signals and increases ... expression of the characteristic function of the time domain samples of M-QAM/OFDM symbols As an example, theoretical discrete PD for both QPSK and 16-QAM cases is derived The discrete nature of...

Ngày tải lên: 20/06/2014, 04:20

... the analysis of secondary structure of proteins reveal increased amount of beta sheet in necrotic area of carcinoma as compared to alpha helix [24] Moreover the bands in the protein region are ... tissue appears as a broad shoulder in the spectrum of malignant tissue The spectral shifting and increased intensity of phosphate bands become clearer in the second order derivative spectra of the ... counterparts in all the cases studied The malignant ovarian tissue spectra appeared to be more complicated as compared to normal ovarian tissue spectra The spectral assignments were based on literature...

Ngày tải lên: 20/06/2014, 07:20

... the formulation, the behavior of a practical ADC with channel gain and modulation sequence level mismatches present can be analyzed, and it is apparent why some schemes are sensitive to mismatches ... (or at least approximate) a delay in the signal frequency band of interest The main problem in practice is that the overall scheme is subject to channel gain, offset, and modulation sequence level ... still severe Another limitation is that the reduced sensitivity seemingly requires a number of channels that are a power of two For Hadamard matrices of other orders, extensive searches by the authors...

Ngày tải lên: 22/06/2014, 19:20