... important of the
many inputs which evoke the complex concept of globalisation. Robertson,
continuing his sketch of historical phases of globalisation,
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writes of the ‘uncer-
tainty phase’ of globalisation, ... to creating some sort of
order from the chaos of globalisation (although lacking the beauty of one of
Mandelbrot’s fractal patterns) . What does law contribute to, or reflect of, this
pattern?
2.2 ... appropriated
the global image of the white coat of the medical profession to bolster the pres-
tige of the witch doctor.
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These general patterns reveal a complexity of partic-
ularistic manifestations...
... per year.
Source: Author’s calculation based on data of VHLSS 2002.
One of leading concerns of consumption analysis is examining patternsof household consumption
cross-regions. Relying on empirical ... Here, education is measured in number of schooling year of household head. There are
some clear breakdowns of consumption level at number of schooling year of 9, 12, 15, 16, 18, and 21.
It’s ... like Vietnam of which consumption occupies a large share of aggregate demand.
1.2 FOCUS AND SCOPE OF THE THESIS
This thesis focuses on the demand side of the household consumption, of which household...
... Department of Clinical Epidemiology, Predictive Medicine and Public Health,
University of Porto Medical School and Institute of Public Health of the
University of Porto (ISPUP), Al. Prof. Hernâni ...
Portugal
2
Department of Clinical Epidemiology, Predictive Medicine and Public Health,
University of Porto Medical School and Institute of Public Health of the
University of Porto (ISPUP), Porto, ... Region Health Administration
Public Institute: Global Burden of Disease in the Northern Region of Portugal. 2011.
Changing patternsof cardiovascular diseases and
cancer mortality in Portugal,...
... importance of the intestinal
barrier in the process of oral prion infection, this find-
ing might help clarify the entry and routing of PrP
Sc
in
the early steps of infection. Our observations of a ... intestine of zebra-
fish larvae call for evaluation of the potential prions
uptake of mammalian origin by the fish intestine.
Comparison of zebrafish prp1, prp2, and prp3
developmental expression patterns
The ... Transcripts of this gene and PrP
C
are present in
a large variety of adult peripheral tissues [18–20].
In contrast, there is a paucity of data on the spatio-
temporal expression of prion proteins...
... described.
Introduction
The extraction oftemporal information from
news offers many interesting linguistic
challenges in the coverage and
representation oftemporal expressions. It is
also of considerable practical ... third (7 of 21, 5 of which
were of type TIME) of all missed time
expressions came from numeric expressions
being spelled out, e.g. “nineteen seventy-
nine”. More than two thirds (11 of 16) of the
time ... presence of a day of the week
expression (“Monday” thru “Sunday”) in the
same sentence
FW: “today” is the first word of the sentence
POS1: part -of- speech of the word before
“today”
POS2: part -of- speech...
... the 11 years
of follow-up. In terms of indicators of social relationships, widowhood is a
strong predictor of mortality for Taiwanese elders but not for Mainlanders.
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.
Journal of Population ... for the
old often takes the form of living together. Another included indicator of
social relationships is widowhood. Both of these are dichotomous
measures, where 1 equals the name of the variables ... adolescence of
this cohort of elders. This is especially true among the Taiwanese sub-
sample. Almost 50% of them are illiterate. So, a plausible explanation of
why low education is not predictive of...
... with
$ 10 mL of standard food medium. Flies of the RA group
were transferred to vials containing $ 10 mL of 1% agar,
which provides a source of water but not nutrients. For
determination of any cumulative ... coefficients of variation ranged from
10% to 13% for stress duration of 0.25–6 h, and then
increased to 28% for 9 h of cold stress. As often
observed in animals, the phenotypic variability of a
trait ... and recovery
phases. The temporal gene expression of adults was analyzed during 9 h of
cold stress at 0 °C and during 8 h of recovery at 25 °C. Increased expres-
sion of some, but not all, Hsp...
... molecular mass of 14 406 Da and an isoelectric point
of 6.59. With the exception of some Fabp10s, which
have an isoelectric point of 8.8–9.0, all other FABPs
have isoelectric points of approximately ... detection of fabp6 gene transcripts by in situ
hybridization of an antisense riboprobe to sections of adult zebra-
fish. Panel 1 shows the distribution of fapb6 transcripts in the distal
region of the ... distribution and binding activities
of FABPs and regulation of FABP genes, including
FABP gene knock-out experiments [8], our under-
standing of the physiological function(s) of these pro-
teins remains...
... lung of rats injected with high-dose of
vitamin A over a period of 5 days, the overexpression of
c-Jun, produced a significant increase in the cyclin D1
expression, a positive regulator of G
1
–S ... buffer and stored at )20 °C in aliquots of 1 mL
(sample named as ÔinputÕ).
The immunofractionation of RAR–DNA complexes was
performed by addition of 10 lgÆmL
)1
of RARc antibody
(Santa Cruz Biotechnology, ... the pattern of
p53 and c-Jun gene expression showed in Figs 2 and 3.
Immunoprecipitation of complex RAR–DNA
To elucidate the mechanism of this pattern of expression,
the binding of RAR to c-Jun...
... river and consist mainly of very fine sand and silt
(Arno, 1964).
Soil formation is also a reflection of the length of time the soil has been
developing (Arno, 1964). Soil age is indicated by ... soil profile. A well-
developed soil profile reflects the environment under which it formed. The character of
the soil profile is influenced by external factors of climate (precipitation and temperature), ... field-check for evaluating the validity of soils maps to represent the surficial
geology of the study areas. The localities of 248 point stations out of a total of 301 in the
study areas determined...
... rate of growth of output is
greater than the rate of growth of employment in a particular sector. The second term of the right
hand side of equation (4) represents the effect of sectoral employment ... via a set of decomposition exercises on the
evolution of real output and sources of aggregate demand. The deterioration of fiscal balances of the
state constitute the thematic background of this ... any, on the levels of profit margins
(mark-ups) and also on the behavior of sectoral investments. Econometric results reflect a pattern of
sluggishness of the existing levels of mark-ups in Turkish...
... in-
creasing the size of the risk pool. Further, this may occur
with a different lag than that between exposure and
death out of the risk pool. Hence, the direction of the
effect of an air pollution ... from depleting the pool of
critically ill people, air pollution increased the size of the
pool over longer time scales by increasing the intensity
of illness in general. None of these studies provided ... association of air pollution at multiple lags
simultaneously, providing a direct estimate of Figure 1.
Because air pollution is generally correlated, putting a
large number of lags of a pollutant...