... comparison ofthe U.K and U.S health systems 32 It is also hard to attribute these results to the content of these additional years of education One might worry that the quality of these additional ... ofthe additional education induced by the law changes on other measures of health and health behaviors A The Impacts ofthe Compulsory Schooling Changes on Education To examine the effect ofthe ... from the effects of an additional year of education at other parts ofthe education distribution They may also be very 12 different from the effects of an additional year of education for students...
... being one ofthe most widespread and commonly planted crops, the regressions look at the relation between the incidence of drought andthe price of rice reported by the households in the second, ... Data on drought incidence The major part of studies onthe micro-level consequences of health shocks rely onthe survey respondents’ subjective perception of what they consider an adverse weather ... figure constitutes the largest effect possible in the data, i.e., going to the extremes ofthe drought distribution, a change of one standard deviation in the severity of drought (0.21) causes the...
... delineation had been done under exactly the same conditions, with the same tools andthe same clinical information as the residents; the contours were done after a training session on lung radiation ... borders of tissue, The first family of indices is based on volume ratios: the volume ratio (VR) between the volume ofthe student andthe volume ofthe expert, the common delineated volume (CDV) and ... expansion ofthe GTV andthe PTV was a geometric expansion ofthe CTV Groups had no instructions regarding the size ofthe margins to apply The observers were not allowed to adapt the CTV to the...
... comparison ofthe medium alone-treated DCs (ContDCs) vs taxol-treated DCs (TaxolDCs) Fig Increased cytokine production in TaxolDCs The supernatants ofDCs were harvested from culture and used for ... medium alone-treated DCs (ContDCs) These results suggest that taxol may protect DCs from cytokinewithdrawal-induced cell death The enhanced cytokine production ofDCs treated by taxol The TaxolDCs ... with μg/ml of taxol produced higher amounts of both cytokines than the ContDCs, at 24, 48 h of incubation time (Fig 2) However, the taxol concentration used was critical for the level of cytokine...
... reduced the levels of proSP-C and mature SP-C and IFN-g increased the level of proSP-C Hence, the effects of IL-13 and IFNg on SP-C did not depend onthe differentiation factors that were used for the ... Verification of these findings with other culture conditions in human ATII cellsand results with rat ATII cellsThe results above were all done with adult human ATII cells cultured with d of TGFa and ... Therefore, the aim of this study is to investigate the IL-13 and IFN-g effectonthe expression ofthe surfactant proteins using primary human adult ATII cells in monolayer culture in vitro The experiments...
... solely the responsibility ofthe author(s) and should not be interpreted as reflecting the views ofthe Board of Governors ofthe Federal Reserve System or of any other person associated with the ... change in the risk of loan originations The inclusion ofthe bank fixed effects (bank i) and time fixed effects (quarter t) produces a difference-in-differences estimate oftheeffectofthe TARP ... pricing on their loans along with the risk profile The nominal interest rate ofthe loan is one ofthe loan characteristics recorded in the STBL The respondent banks also indicate whether the interest...
... Science and Urban Economics andthe Canadian Journal of Economics His current research is onthe empirical impact of taxation on international production and location decisions of multinational ... defeat the object and purpose ofthe agreement See Article 18 ofthe Vienna Convention onthe Law of Treaties.”) In addition to the international law obligation not to defeat the object and purpose ... the political, economic and legal contexts of each period He also discusses broadly the evolution ofthe content of BITs as well as the legal enforceability of their substantive provisions, and...
... reflected the concentration in soil The contents of Cu in plant increase upon the rates of Cu application, especially at the high rate of Cu above 100 ppm It can be said that the increase of rate of ... (eds.), Health and environmental assessment of contaminated sites, Proceedings ofthe Fifth National Workshop onthe Assessment of Site Contamination, National Environment Protection Council Service ... accumulation in plant ppm % 2.8 100 3.2 115 5.2 190 8.5 308 The data in Table show the effects of Cu concentration in soil onthe growth rate of Brassica juncea L The height of plants reaches the highest...
... Questionnaire The questionnaire consists of 28 questions on a five-point scale This indicated that the whole spectrum ofthe five-point scales was utilized in the reflection of quality of life ofthe ... allocated into the intervention and control groups respectively The mean age was 72.9 (SD ¼ 9.5) for the intervention group and 76.3 (SD ¼ 8.4) for the control group The Chinese version ofthe Geriatric ... definition to qigong, but it is possible to identify the common features of qigong (Brown and Knoferl, 2001) There are three main features of qigong: postures and movement, state of mind, and breathing...
... advocacy, the information consumers could not fully understand, they may lose the control over the information and have to take the risk of misunderstanding the information However, the incomplete ... were about an eplay cell phone, andthe contents included the photographs of e-play cell phones andthe descriptions of cell phone function with or without terminology The six terminologies including ... small and there was only one experiment object; future research should improve on these two aspects and continue to build the theory In addition to consumer product knowledge, consumer lifestyle and...
... Based onthe inclusion and exclusion criteria, only nine of these studies met the criteria as being randomised controlled trials In these studies, the definition of “tight” glycaemic control ... measures they reported were the effects of glycaemic control on biochemical markers of inflammation, and thus were not combinable with the other identified studies Two ofthe studies contained ... between studies: the proportion of diabetic and non-diabetic patients; definitions of “tight” and “normal” glycaemic control during and/ or after surgery; andthe method of measuring the outcome measures...
... by the circulating granulocytes, monocytes or macrophages via the complement receptor (CR)-3 The immune response will then be turned on, one ofthe actions is the phagocytosis ofthe monoclonal ... citation purposes) Journal of Hematology & Oncology 2009, 2:25 http://www.jhoonline.org/content/2/1/25 β-glucan1is one ofthe key components ofthe fungal cell wall Figure β-glucan is one ofthe ... NK cells express CR3 and it was shown that opsonization of NK cells coated with iC3b leads to an increase in the lysis ofthe target The beta chain ofthe CR3 molecule (CD18) rather than the...
... experiments on ethylene and seed germination, and fruit shape mediated by SUN HX conducted the Northern blots and together with JH and DL the transcript profiling analysis CR and TM conducted the floral ... result of increased biosynthesis and reduced catabolism, the sensitivity to the hormone may decrease as a result of reduced expression ofthe receptor GA biosynthesis genes ofthe GA 20-oxidase and ... Ethylene8sensitivity of fruit andthe corresponding seed viabilEthylene sensitivity of fruit andthe corresponding seed viability The ethylene response and seed germination rate is plotted as a function of days...
... legislation andthe Standard Operating Procedures ofthe Department of Anaesthesia, Critical Care, Pain and Resuscitation The sponsor organisation for the trial is Heart of England NHS Foundation Trust ... adequacy of chest compression depth, compression and ventilation rates andthe duration of interruptions in CPR Post-event debriefing: Post-event debriefing will focus onthe importance ofthe quality ... design The use ofthe initial control phase at all sites enables within-site comparison of each intervention with standard care, while the inclusion of Solihull as a control site allows the estimation...
... Report ofthe Committee onthe Financial Aspects of Corporate Governance London, U.K.: Gee Cahan, S 1992 Theeffectof antitrust investigations on discretionary accruals: A refined test ofthe political ... investigation ofthe contribution of power Auditing: A Journal of Practice & Theory 12 (Spring): 24–49 ———, and ——— 1998 Organization and economic explanations of audit committee oversight Journal of ... the effectiveness of these practices on a cross-section of firms during the same period and increase the power of our tests by limiting the symbolic display of conformity associated with mandatory...
... depends onthe variety of soybean used andthe preparation conditions of soymilk Coagulation being the most important step in tofu making, it depends onthe concentration and temperature of soymilk, ... quantitatively for their isoflavone content The results of analysis onthe isoflavone contents in these products if available could be further utilized in calculating the daily intake of isoflavones for ... gelation mechanism of tofu They suggested the gelation of tofu as a two-step process The first step, being the protein denaturation by heat andthe second being the hydrophobic coagulation accelerated...
... tendons ofthe hand Following a full transection, there is a spontaneous retraction ofthe cut tendon ends In the Achilles tendon of both a rat and rabbit model, the gap formed by the retraction ... ….108 5.3.2 TheEffectof Cell Source onThe Cell-Polymer Interaction………………… 109 5.3.3 TheEffectof Substrate onThe bMSCs Adhesion And Proliferation……… 110 5.4 The Efficacy of bMSCs and Knitted ... muscle, the grouping of gastrocnemius, the soleus, andthe plantaris muscle to the calcaneus bone As organs, tendons consist of three parts: the muscle attachment region, the substance ofthe tendon...
... Study theeffectof dark – light cycle on Spirulina sp chlorophyll and carotenoid production Objectives: Testing and comparing theeffectof illumination time 12/24 and 24/24 hour onthe growth of ... 3.3 Theeffectof dark – light cycle on Spirulina sp chlorophyll and carotenoid production 13 3.4 The growth recovery of Spirulina sp 18 CONCLUSIONS AND SUGGESTIONS 20 4.1 Conclusions ... especially, pigment production The purpose of this research was determination theeffectof pH, dark – light cycle and light colour onthe growth and pigment production of Spirulina sp The results showed...
... literature is the fact of considering only one ofthe channels in the regression (either the change, which given the MASTER THESIS: THEEFFECTOF EDUCATION ON ECONOMIC GROWTH negative correlation, would ... estimates comparable among them One ofthe main conclusions of his work is that the mincerian regression adjusts quite well the data and that the correlation between return to schooling and GDP per capita ... male individuals go in the same direction than with the whole population, confirming thereby my previous results Conclusion The literature onthe effect of education on economic growth is far from...
... maximum of mg/L of phosphorus from the influent phosphorus concentration of mg/L However, the phosphorus concentration in effluent was less than 0.2 mg/L in Run2-2 Onthe other hand, Fe content in the ... that the amount of coagulant in the activated sludge was decreased by the removal of excess sludge after the cease of coagulant addition (Mishima and Nakajima, 2003c) Onthe other hand, the relationship ... respectively These results showed that the removal ofthe organics and nitrogen were effectively done in each reactor and Fe addition had no negative effecton them Table - Synthetic wastewater CH3COONa∙3H2O...