... about themselves and their society; h o w they voted andthe nature of their politics; h o w businesses operated and treated their workers; and h o w the American economy was con nected with the ... explanation and background to make the story accessible to the specialist andthe generalist, the y o u n g andthe old S o m e o n e need not have lived through all these events to grasp their significance ... September 11, 2001; andthe two wars in Iraq (1991 and 2003) Looking abroad, these scholars might include other developments: the rise of Japan as THE GREAT INFLATION ANDITSAFTERMATH a major...
... 2001) The most obvious and most easily documented one is thermal stress Corals are exposed during local summertime to temperatures near the upper limits of their thermal tolerances (Jokiel and ... used, in which the stations (i.e the transects) were the blocks and survey date was the fixed factor (see Aronson and Precht 1997) The assumptions of parametric statistics, normality and homogeneity ... windward flank of the Channel Cay shoal down to 8–9 m depth (Stations and 3) On the leeward flank (Station 2), sand and some coral heads were brought from the narrow platform at the top of the reef down...
... those of their employer (the principal) and so act in their own interest rather than in the interest of the employer The Principal–Agent Problem for Regulators and Politicians Regulators and politicians ... Office of the Comptroller of the Currency has over the national banks The regulatory responsibilities of the FSLIC were given to the FDIC, andthe FDIC became the sole administrator of the federal ... both the Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System andthe directors of the FDIC, as well as the approval of the Secretary of the Treasury, are required Furthermore, FDICIA requires that the...
... a brief theory and recent history of the US crisis andthe recession in the first, introductory chapter, the discussions in the second chapter turn to the area of the financial crisis and recession ... inventories The following situation may develop: The projected demand may be equal to the physical demand The expected demand may be higher than or lower than the real demand If the estimated demand ... around the world A number of figures visualize the recent development of GDP, inflation, and unemployment in the USA, the UK, and European countries Then, it applies theories such as the quantity theory...
... Approaches to Decision Theory 244 The Topology of Fear andthe Value of Life 246 How People Value Their Lives 246 Gerard Debreu andthe Invisible Hand 247 The Axiom of Choice and Rare Events 248 ... ✐ ✐ ✐ ✐ The Global Financial Crisis andItsAftermath ✐ ✐ ✐ ✐ ✐ ✐ ✐ ✐ ✐ ✐ ✐ ✐ ✐ ✐ ✐ ✐ The Global Financial Crisis andItsAftermath Hidden Factors in the Meltdown EDITED BY A ... curiosity about the content of this book, and our hope that they find insight and instruction The editors are most thankful to the CME Group andthe Center for Risk Management at the Quinlan School...
... English andits Vietnamese equivalents? - What are the pragmatic features of the adjective Warm in CHAPTER LITERATURE REVIEW AND THEORETICAL English andits Vietnamese equivalents? 1.5 SCOPE OF THE ... works and their Vietnamese equivalents, examines how they are used and then describes them Warm-hearted AP 3.3.3 RELIABILITY AND VALIDITY Adverb +Warm Warm and + As +Warm+ as + Noun Reliability and ... English and as temperature, weather, emotion, idioms its equivalents in Vietnamese 1.6 ORGANIZATION OF THE STUDY 2.2 THEORETICAL BACKGROUND The thesis includes five main chapters, references and...
... staining), and that the inhibition of PPasecatalyzed PPi hydrolysis by these inhibitors, is likely to prevent the synthesis of the new cuticle from the hypodermis and/ or ecdysis of the old cuticle ... hypodermis, andthe longitudinally oriented somatic musculature The ecdysis of an old cuticle and deposition of the components of a new cuticle that are synthesized in the hypodermis and are secreted ... parasites and their soluble extracts used in the assay system We observed that during in vitro cultivation, the L3 could not develop and molt to L4 in the presence of inhibitor, even at the end when the...
... the respective plasmid used on the top andthe markers are labeled on the left Arrows indicate specific gene products translated product Furthermore, VBARP-S exhibited protein products of 49 and ... were synthesized and purified using the Qiagen siRNA Tool Kit Based on the initial results, siRNA spanning nucleotides 143–154 (from the ATG) was identified that blocked the VBARP RNA synthesis ... many of the tested human primary cells Understanding the functions and identifying the other regulatory proteins involved in antiapoptotic functions regulated by VBARP will shed new light on the...
... privileges to the said premises appertaining and all the profits thereof with the right, title and interest in Law and Equity, to have and to hold the said acre of land, to him the said John Wesly and ... Missiquash became the parish of Westmoreland, in the county of Westmoreland Fort Cumberland was in this district, and between Fort Cumberland andthe old township of Cumberland, andthe still older ... Fort," and efforts have been made to enclose the grounds and make them more presentable The Acadians were still to be dealt with Whether they should remain in the country and in the possession of their...
... says that aesthetic experience will bear the edifice of the art of the beautiful and of the art of living The entire question of the ‘politics of aesthetics’—in other words, of the aesthetic regime ... understand the principle of its efficacy, and of its various and antithetical mutations How can the notion of ‘aesthetics’ as a specific experience lead at once to the idea of a pure world of art and ... reveal the same basic emplotment of an and, the same knot binding together autonomy and heteronomy Understanding the ‘politics’ proper to the aesthetic regime of art means understanding the way...
... The younger ones andthe girls passed theirs in the saddle They would scatter in groups over the plains to investigate distant objects, then race back, and with song and banter join husband and ... force, drove them onward, leaving the women and children to await their return Messrs Eddy and Graves got their animals to water on the night of the twelfth, andthe others later As soon as the poor ... the fire and laid their attenuated forms upon them The flames leaped up the trunk, and burned off dead boughs so that they dropped on the snow about them, but the unfortunates were too weak and...
... B2 , C2 are the reflections of this point in the midpoints of the sides of ABC Therefore, the triangles ABC and A2 B2 C2 are centrosymmetric B2 A2 A1 C B1 C2 A B C1 Fig Note also that the center ... ONE PROPERTY OF THE JERABEK HYPERBOLA ANDITS COROLLARIES 55 Statement Let P be a point on the Euler line of ABC, A1 B1 C1 be the circumcevian triangle of P , and A2 , B2 , C2 be the reflections ... Proof It suffices to apply homothety of center the centroid of ABC and coefficient − to the configuration of the previous claim Statement Let O, I be the circumcenter and incenter of ABC An arbitrary...
... implies that the graph ∂ G is well-defined.) For instance, ∂ (Pn 2Pm ) is the disjoint union of n − copies of the path Pm and m − copies of the path Pn The reason for calling the graph ∂ G the derivation” ... graphs G and H is the graph with vertex set V (G) × V (H) in which the vertex (a, x) is adjacent to the vertex (b, y) whenever ab ∈ E(G) and x = y, or a = b and xy ∈ E(H) It is easy to see that the ... ui be the corresponding vertex in G∗ Then G∗ is obtained from the disjoint union of G∗ and G∗ , where for each u of G0 the i vertices u1 and u2 are joined by an edge (Note that, since the cover...
... land use further fragment agriculture and forest land and increase its separation effect Lipský (2000) stated that overall changes in the landscape, and especially in the manner of land use, are ... When looking at the accelerating biological and cultural degradation of landscapes, there is a need for better understanding of the mutual interaction between the landscape andthe urbanization ... its functional properties Any changes in a landscape structure (in space and time) change the course energy-material flows in the landscape, affect the permeability and habitability of the landscape,...
... recruits in the transects of PRP andthe three central curves illustrate the Kfunction for the random spatial distribution of trees andits 95% reliability interval When the black line of the tree ... gradient and southwestern exposure It is mostly rather an open spruce stand with pronounced spatial and age differentiation From the aspect of the small forest development cycle the stand is at the ... pollution and forest management) on the condition and development of the Krkonoše Mts forests The numbers and distribution of natural and combined regeneration recruits are mostly sufficient from the...
... calculate the overall means and standard deviations (sd) for the sapwood andthe outer andthe inner heartwood The coefficients of variation (CV%) were used to describe the variation among the trees ... puteana, and concluded that the mass loss in the periphery part of the heartwood was lower than that in the centre of the heartwood The other marked difference between the outer andthe inner ... in the average mass loss and in the average concentration of heartwood phenolics between the sapwood andthe outer and inner heartwood, as well as by the dependence between the mass loss and the...
... emphasises the varying hardness of the wooden tissue andthe needle traces become visible as small “pins” (figure 2) They are arranged in diagonal lines according to the phyllotaxis of the needles The ... Variation of foliation and growth variables Boxes represent values between the lower andthe upper quartile including the median, while the whiskers show the range (min–max) Dots (°) and asterisks (*) ... more and more by proventive shoots, competition for water and nutrients lowers the supply of regularly formed shoots and therefore results in a lower number of needle primordia On the other hand,...
... family genes of the mitochondrial pathway, andthe TRAIL (TNFSF10) gene of the death receptor signaling pathway [22], furthermore, in our previous study, the genes (SPP1 and CREBBP) of the TGF-b pathway ... 0.995) The amplification efficiencies of BCL2L1 andthe b2M control gene were 95.30% and 95.16%, respectively, andthe melting curves are shown in Figure 2C PCR products from the b2M control gene and ... conception and design laboratory study XH, SHC, QS, LJY, and BL performed the laboratory technique process andthe laboratory analyses LYZ, SXG and XD were responsible of the patient’s treatment and...
... interventions that target the children than interventions targeting the elderly In this way the criteria and their weights were the same for every health intervention, and ranking consistency was ... the DCE results, we calculated the interventions’ probability of being selected, by Page of combining the performance of interventions on each criterion andthe importance of that criterion The ... across contexts and over time, but does not solve the more fundamental problem that views of stakeholders, and therefore their expressed weights, may diverge This is acknowledged by the ‘Accountability...