... If, on the other hand, the integrator is too 16 Space Command Sustainment Review: Improving theBalance close to the demand side, current operations may always be given first priority, and not ... reporting authority RAND MG518-2.4 the Air Force On the demand side at the COCOM level, a J3/5 organization could gather these space-system needs and requirements and prioritize them This organization ... weather systems and GPS, provide services for public and government uses The Air Force provides GPS and weather services as public goods and bears the full costs of sustainment for all users The...
... profiles and in their distribution in the central nervous system and periphery Y1, Y2 and Y5 are the best characterized NPY receptors, andthe majority of NPY functions are associated with them Supporting ... that the antiosteogenic pathways of leptin and of the Y receptor proceed via distinct mechanisms The similarity between ob ⁄ ob and Y2) ⁄ ) mice regarding their bone phenotype, together with the ... marrow stromal cells and osteoblasts [40,46–48], despite the absence of the other Y receptors (Y2, Y4, Y5 and y6) [40,46] In addition to the presence of NPY-immunoreactive fibers andthe presence of...
... conceived the study and participated in its design and coordination LBS and EJH drafted the manuscript All authors read and approved the final manuscript Competing interests The authors declare that they ... shown as a mean and standard error from independent experiments At a dose of Gy of g-rays, there is a statistically significant difference betweenthe double hemizygous andthe other genotypes ... the 300 known cancer genes [34] Many of these genes maintained their hemizygous status in the tumors that developed as a result of their hemizygosity In general, the only difference between the...
... no other means of achieving balanceThe question then is not whether this occurs, but how and where? If balance is not achieved within the synthetic and degradative reaction sequences in their ... rate The equilibrium constant betweenthe two forms reflects their ratio in the cell at the steady state In this way, the rates of the irreversible and independent mechanisms of synthesis and ... action andthe conservation of mass, the equilibration of complementary forms of the same protein molecule sets and balances its rate of synthesis and degradation The difference between proteins and...
... service quality of the delivered service and then decided whether they were satisfied or not If they were satisfied, this would contribute to their behavioral intentions On the other hand, affective ... increase demand, which in turn will increase the market share (Hoch, Drèze and Purk 1994) On the other hand, price increase can lower the attractiveness and utility of the product, which can then lead ... OBJECTIVE AND STRUCTURE OF THE THESIS This paper aims to find out what will exert more influences on customers’ choices, quality, price or thebalancebetween quality and price - value Furthermore, the...
... grow quickly and others not That is, the variation in the dependent variables comes from both the time series andthe cross-sections, and some pooling of data is necessary to address the questions ... data, and note significant deviations betweenthe PWT 6.0 and PWT 5.6 results The PWT 6.0 data contain more observations than the PWT 5.6 data, but when matched with the data for other variables the ... and liberalization, on the one hand, and growth and growth volatility, on the other, were tradeoffs in democracies We explore briefly both lines of inquiry as a guide to further research 13 The...
... family Very often, the person who takes such a stand will command the respect of their peers—many of whom may wish that they too could make a similar commitment Nonetheless, such a stand can also generate ... primarily from the narrow focus on organizational goals and objectives to the exclusion of personal goals and objectives In other words, if all that matters is the organization's goals, there is simply ... organizations compete for a limited resource The success of one means that it tends to get more of the resource, which then reduces the success of the others The resource could be limited dollars to...
... 1–32 The definitions of household in the SCF and in the Surveys of Consumers are consistent enough to allow for comparisons In this article, we use the terms family and household interchangeably The ... ‘‘Saving and Financial Planning: Some ´ Household Financial Management: The Connection between Knowledge and Behavior and more research on budgeting and cash-flow management is needed Data from the ... rate because they pay off their balances in full each month, but they may want to compare other fees, terms, and features Percentage of respondents reporting saving practices in the 2001 Survey...
... their investigation As well, they adequately reported on the content of the interventions, the statistical analytic decisions, andthe dates of recruitment and follow-up, and they addressed their ... information regarding the intervention itself, the statistical analyses performed, andthe methodology and adequate discussion of the generalizability of the results and how they fit in the context of ... the statistical methods used, detailing of the flow of participants through the study and their baseline characteristics, and an interpretation of the results as they fit in the context of other...
... has termed the Matthew effect, with the better readers reading more and therefore increasing their exposure to print, and consequently their word recognition skills and their fluency and speed ... whom had received their research funding from the ARC, to discuss and review their work in the reading area As noted by Pratt and Coltheart7, the issues covered andthe emphases of the different ... administrators andthe public These concerns include the social factors related to the development of literacy, including the early development of literacy in the home and preschool environment, and the...
... receipts and payments (the credit terms on sales and purchases are the same so that a =~) andthe firm buys just in time so inventory is zero and YI =O operating cash cycle (0) is cet Then theand ... because the sales contract determines both the timing and amount of the cash inflows (and often related cash outflows) andthe recognition of earnings The sales contract specifies when and under ... process for sales, the signs of the predicted relations and correlations (other than earnings changes) andthe results are essentially unchanged The relation between sales and cash flow from...
... because the latter depends on (a) the structural integrity of the vascular bed of the penis; (b) the endothelium lining the cavernosal arteries andthe helicine arterioles, as well as the endothelium ... contribute to endothelial dysfunction and microvascular disease and reduced androgen levels; (b) the insult on the endothelium resulting in endothelial injury and reduced NO synthase activity and NO production, ... lining the lacunar spaces of the corpus cavernsoum; and (c) the endocrine milieu that regulates the fibroelastic properties of the penis via tissue maintenance and remodeling The evidence Obesity and...
... used to determine the effect of ionic strength on theactivation enthalpy, entropy and free energy No significant difference was observed betweenthe thermodynamics of the NaCl and MgCl2 dependencies ... cyanobacteria at the time of chloroplast origin had poorly defined interactions between Cyt f and plastocyanin and/ or plastocyanin and photosystem I, and subsequently the nature of the interactions in the ... in [1] and in this paper) Although the curves are shallow, making extrapolation more difficult, andthe number of datapoints is smaller than in the case of the interaction between Cyt f and plastocyanin...
... by their interaction: that is to say, the hypothetical sum of the value of their two ventures in isolation from one another is higher than the sum of their values given their interaction The ... of the ADA, provide someone to facilitate communication betweenthe client andthe lawyer if the lawyer cannot sign, without charging the client the cost of hiring a sign interpreter unless there ... Chief Justice Rehnquist and Justice Powell, believed the distinction betweenthe lost entitlements in Hodel and Andrus was unduly slender to sustain and therefore argued that Andrus should be limited...
... familiar with the strong racial feeling that existed betweenthe English andthe Welsh, andbetweenthe English andthe Irish If the Lowlanders of Scotland felt towards the Highlanders as Mr Hill ... true Scots and "the English of the Lowlands" Do we, then, find any racial antagonism betweenthe Highlands andthe Lowlands? If Mr Freeman is right in laying down the general rule that "the true ... must exclude the islands, which were largely inhabited by Norsemen Both the Hebrides andthe islands of Orkney and Shetland were outside the realm of Scotland The names of Macbeth and "the gentle...
... example and then used to generate a prediction for the leftout example The meta-classifier is trained using the predictions of the base-level classifiers as features, andthe true label as given by the ... (Culotta and McCallum, 2004) is used H- CRF also computes the Monge Elkan distance (Monge and Elkan, 1996) betweenthe relations predicted by O- CRF and R1CRF and includes the result in the feature ... consider the task of open extraction, in which the goal is to extract relationships from text when their number is large and identity unknown We then consider the targeted extraction task, in which the...
... lost in about 45 The substitution of either Na+ for K+ or acetate for Cl– ions, as well as the inclusion of 0.1 mgÆmL)1 BSA did not increase the stability of the protein and slowed the reaction rate ... slow release of the cleavage products from the protein The amplitudes of the initial burst (2.78 and 2.83 nM) gave a ratio of DNA/protein of 0.94 : As will be discussed further, these data indicate ... RNA The assay of 5A was repeated with and without nM AnCOBDP9 pre-RNA and with KCl at 50, 100 and 150 mM Note that increasing KCl concentration slows the cleavage of the DNA substrate in the...
... banks to their customers, therefore they have effects on the behaviour of borrowers and consequently on the real economy On the other hand, prices set by banks influence their profitability and soundness ... parentheses Daggers ‡ and † denote significance at the 5% and 10% levels, respectively For the LR tests we report the degrees of freedom of the chi-square statistics in parentheses andthe corresponding ... regimes and lag in the first-differences of the variables12, with regime shifts in the intercept, the autoregressive parameters andthe error variance (MSIAH(2)-VECM(1)) The estimates of the MS-VECM,...