the adoptions are depending on the decision of pa

... till the end of 2008, and the percentage of the contribution of one market to the total number of IPOs in the three markets (Singapore, Hong Kong and mainland China) According to the table, the ... of criteria focus on testing firms’ profitability while another one focuses on market capitalization Hong Kong Stock Exchange has one profit test, one combination test on market capitalization ... possess the discretion to the listing location can make the decision for the benefit of security liquidity or for the benefit of insider trading Thus the strictness of listing standards, mainly on...

Ngày tải lên: 16/10/2015, 15:34

... Both parents are black) - Both parents are white - Both parents are Hispanic - Both parents are of “other” race/ethnicity - Mother = white, Father = non-white - Mother = black, Father = non-black ... observational data, one needs to rely on the behavior of the non-participants in the sample to construct the counterfactual outcome However, since welfare participation is voluntary, the participation ... their outcomes are taken as driven only by their treatment status (i.e the “causal” effect of parental separation on children whose parents separated) The Propensity Score of Parental Relationship...

Ngày tải lên: 12/02/2014, 11:20

... as a constraint on the pair x, 31 Semantically, we treat S(x,31 ) as satisfiable if we can assign the denotata of the pair x, 31 to at least one of the relations denoted by members of S On this ... sense, then the output contains the meet of their respective relation names expressions The truly new consequences derived by meet_rule/4 are then added to the remaining agenda (Cs) with another ... NewCons were merely appended to Cs, we could have two constraints on the same pair of nodes in the agenda at once, either of which may be less tightly constrained than the result of merging the...

Ngày tải lên: 23/03/2014, 20:21

... correlation and measurement error In addition to considering the impact of parental education and income on parent or self-reported child health, we also investigate their impact on chronic health conditions ... affect only mothers’ education Table also presents the estimates of the parameters of the parental characteristics in the household income equation Many of the variables are significant in the log ... indicating whether the child has a chronic health condition are reported Robust standard errors are in parenthesis All specifications include mother’s and father’s age at the time of the child’s...

Ngày tải lên: 28/03/2014, 09:20

... parent-teacher relationship, teacher’s perception of the parent, the extent of parental involvement at home and the parent’s endorsement of the school 6.10.1 The participants in the study were parents, teachers ... heretofore and to index the quality of the involvement In consequence they assessed the degree of parent-teacher contact, the extent of parental involvement in school, the quality of the parent-teacher ... section on research on the processes of parental involvement it can be said that the impact of parental involvement arises from parental values and educational aspirations and that these are exhibited...

Ngày tải lên: 02/06/2014, 09:37

... (the emphasis of ) treatment in these patients Therefore, the aims of this study were to assess whether the HRQoL is decreased in orofacial pain patients as compared to the general population, ... the effect of duration of pain on HRQoL Methods and materials Sample Patients were recruited from the department of Oral and Maxillofacial Surgery of the University Medical Center Groningen The ... group consisted of 95 patients consecutively consulting the TMD/Orofacial Pain section for their orofacial pain problems The inclusion criteria were age over 16 years, no language barrier, and the...

Ngày tải lên: 20/06/2014, 16:20

Ngày tải lên: 21/06/2014, 01:20

... approximate rational expressions for the MGF of the Weibull RV based on the knowledge of its moments We then use these expressions to evaluate the performance of linear digital modulations over flat ... different values of γ Clearly, there is a perfect agreement between both expressions It is now of interest to inspect the accuracy of the PA for noninteger values of m For the sake of comparison, we revert ... m/2, γ) is the MGF of the SNR per branch, is a properly chosen constant in the region of convergence in the complex s-plane, and SNRMRC is the total SNR, which is equal to the sum of the branches...

Ngày tải lên: 22/06/2014, 22:20

... h e patterns of the average residuals of the non-1967 devaluations are essentially the same as the patterns when the 10 1967 devaluations are included T h e conclusions of the paper are therefore ... improvement is small compared with the deterioration of the trade balance in the year of devaluation or succeeding years On the other hand, there is clear evidence of the balance of payments improving ... residuals of the balance of - payments equation in the year of devaluation are positive and at least one standard error in size None of the negative residuals are that large In contrast, for the trade...

Ngày tải lên: 23/07/2014, 15:28

... Controls consisted of two additional plants treated in a similar way but with plugs of PDA only At the end of the experiment isolations were made from all the plants to confirm the presence of the pathogens ... inoculation (31 May-6 June) An early symptom of canker formation was the darkening of the bark In the fourth week (6-13 June) chlorosis of the leaves appeared, and the plants began to decline after the ... transformation was needed for the DE data ANOVA tests of both variables showed a significant (P < 0.05) interaction between the inoculation treatment and the period of the assay Because of the interaction,...

Ngày tải lên: 08/08/2014, 18:21

... perspectives: the treating therapist (THER), the team of therapists concerned with the patient (TEAM), and the patient him- or herself (PAT) The team of therapists concerned with the patient performed ... compared to the difference score CGI-S dif in terms of effect sizes To rate a patient’s condition on the CGI-I clinicians first have to remember the patient’s condition at admission and then contrast ... interpretation of the data MB participated in the design of the study and the statistical analysis RJ and MP participated in the design of the study and coordinated the data acquisition SG has...

Ngày tải lên: 11/08/2014, 15:22

... Serum concentrations of HTs (upper panel), BLyS (middle panel), and APRIL (lower panel) for each patient Horizontal bars depict median values for each serum donor group: healthy donors (blue squares), ... preference for either the A B or the AB forms of the heterotrimers In contrast, the immunoassay described in the current study was designed to detect both the A2B and AB2 forms of the heterotrimers, ... samples from patients with SLE and RA used in this study, levels of BLyS, APRIL, and heterotrimer were elevated in patients with SLE, compared with the sera of healthy donors The detection of a single...

Ngày tải lên: 12/08/2014, 12:20

... than the immunomodulatory effects of this therapy [22] This patient remains a candidate for low-dose corticosteroids Con’s response Katherine G Craig and Keith R Walley While the foundations of the ... pro/con debates are remarkably similar, the resulting recommendations are not Dr Ritacca and colleagues suggest that “appropriate supplementation of corticosteroids [be] part of the regimen of ... view appropriate supplementation of corticosteroids as part of the regimen of supportive care Even if subsequent studies not confirm a mortality reduction, ‘fewer days of vasopressor dependence’...

Ngày tải lên: 12/08/2014, 18:21

... shift in the population of bacteria present in the nasopharynx The aim of the present experiment was to evaluate the influence of consecutive systemic enrofloxacin administrations on the presence ... modifications Pharmacokinetic analysis was performed using MW/Pharm software (version 3.60, Medi Ware, Utrecht, The Netherlands) The plasma concentrationtime profile could be adequately fitted to a one ... Unfortunately, the obtained values rely on the plasma concentrations and not on concentrations measured in the nasopharynx Nevertheless, several studies dealing with pharmacokinetics of fluoroquinolones...

Ngày tải lên: 12/08/2014, 18:22

... selective decontamination of the digestive tract Selective decontamination is attractive as it may allow the use of prophylaxis without the risk of inducing superinfections through the use of long-term ... achieve decontamination of the gastrointestinal tract for the purpose of possibly decreasing bacterial inoculation of the necrotic pancreatic tissue via translocation [8] One hundred and two patients ... (totaling 192 patients), the use of antibiotics for routine pancreatitis was shown to be of no apparent benefit [9–11] At this juncture there is no definitive, level one, data supporting the use of intravenous...

Ngày tải lên: 12/08/2014, 19:22

... amplitude of stationary vibrations decreases If the constant p strives for - j- (2 < + j /c —b 2y 2) t then the amplitude /ọ o f the stable vibration vanishes On the extinguishing o f param etric ... guyen van Dao 226 We assume that CO and V are incommensurable Then, with the resonant condition (2.2), the solution of the system (2 ) can be written in the form: / I - 93Ị , o tc o s Ịy (2.7) ... —4 — cos ^ — y 2J The stationary values of /9 are given by the formula ues formula: (3.4) If a constant force ^ y0 affects coordinate y , then we have the equations of motion: X + Ấ\x = n [ -...

Ngày tải lên: 08/04/2015, 15:30

... in mind the application of the asvmptotic method [4, 5] of nonlinear mechanics or construction of the approximate solution of Eqs (1.5), we ưansĩorm them into the standard form by means of formulae ... When one proceeds aloiiíỊ a straight line, which is parallel to the axis a and cuts the resonant curve, and crosses from the region w < to the region w > , then, at the point of intersection of the ... frequency of the electrical circuit (parametric resonance) Tile results of an experiment conducted arc in conformity with the theoretical analysis Introduction • Fquntions of Motion Ị Let us consider...

Ngày tải lên: 08/04/2015, 15:30

... structure Considerable reduction of the rate of oxidation of the metal occurs after the growth of the first monolayer, although the process does not stop there Once the metal is separated from ... also the vacancy diffusion mechanism on passivation and breakdown of the oxide film The model considered the significance of the vacancy concentration gradient on ionic transport and determined these ... breakdown of the passive film on stainless steels are mainly controlled by ionic and electronic transport processes Both these processes are in part controlled by the electronic properties of the oxide...

Ngày tải lên: 16/09/2015, 15:55

... Breast
cancer
incidence
in
Singapore
is
rising.
We
have
noticed
over the past
years
 of treating
breast
cancer
that
there are differences
amongst the ethnic
groups.
This
 thesis
proposes
that
there are ethnic
differences
in the effect of parity on breast
 ... This
was
followed
by the identification of BRCA2
in
1995
(16).
Mutations
in
these
 genes are more
common
among
Ashkenazi
Jewish
women,
where the population
 frequency of the common
founder
mutations
is
estimated
to
be
2.5%
(17;
18).
In
 ... seen
between the highest
and
lowest
quartiles of soy
isoflavone
consumption.
 23
 
 
 Ionizing
Radiation
 From
historical
observations,
an
excess of breast
cancer
was
observed
in
persons
 exposed
to
ionizing
radiation
from
sources
such
as
radiotherapy
to the thymus
or
for
...

Ngày tải lên: 05/10/2015, 21:29

... Vietnam? What are the factors influencing the making decision of parents in choosing international schools system in Ho Chi Minh City What are suggestions for the parents to make a good decision in enrolling ... logical reasoning, there are the conclusions that all parents have come to in making a good decision for children Absolutely, the best education is one of the very first important concerns Because ... International Schools System The needs and the wants of parents and children A Objectives of the study: Identify the needs and wants of parents and children in education forwards the international...

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