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... in the intervention group, however, received one hour practice of qigong, twice a week, under the supervision of a qualified practi- tioner, on top of the basic rehabilitation activities. The ... 12 weeks. The control group received the same amount of traditional remedial rehabilitation activ- ities under the supervision of qualified professionals so as to neutralize the effect of staff’s ... definition to qigong, but it is pos- sible to identify the common features of qigong (Brown and Knoferl, 2001). There are three main fea- tures of qigong: postures and movement, state of mind, and...

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... domestic and international tax issues, and is the author of International Tax as International Law: U.S. Tax Law and the International Tax Regime (2007) and U.S. International Taxation: Cases and ... public and private. He is the author of a major treatise on International Economic Law, as well as casebooks and textbooks on confl ict of laws and aviation law and a series of teaching books on international ... with a further liberalization of FDI laws and regulations and the strengthening of the international investment law system; however, there are signs of a backlash against FDI that make the regulatory...

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... information includes the identity and location of the institution, the date the institution received TARP funds, and the amount of the funds received. None of the banks which we identified as “non-TARP” ... risk-taking based on the dollar amount of the capital infusion. The TARP process of capital replenishment allowed the Treasury to determine the amount of a bank’s capital infusion based on the bank’s ... pricing on their loans along with the risk profile. The nominal interest rate of the loan is one of the loan characteristics recorded in the STBL. The respondent banks also indicate whether the...

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... estimates of the effects of the law changes on mortality. Finally, we report our estimates of the effects of the additional education induced by the law changes on other measures of health and health ... relationship between birth cohort and educational attainment. The inclusion of the vector X can, potentially, reduce the residual variation in the outcome, thereby improving the precision of the estimates. ... information on quarter of birth). For each dataset, we present separate regression discontinuity estimates of the effect of the reform on the fraction of individuals of each birth cohort appearing in the...

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... output in the year of the survey. With paddy rice being one of the most widespread and commonly planted crops, the regressions look at the relation between the incidence of drought and the price of ... with the response being 16 % of average total per-capita consumption and 34 % of average food consumption. Consequently, the additional expenditures due to drought-related illness can pose a non-negligible ... 2012). From the viewpoint of economic and social policy, it is important to obtain a better understand- ing of the short-term consequences of drought for health conditions and economic outcomes...

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... this: The second part of the diagram shows how the code bits would be set when one of the TCP entities wants to indicate the end of the session to the other TCP entity. The FIN bit is set to the ... provide the connection-oriented functions. As an illustration of this, in the example of the web client-server interaction above, Ethernet and IP operate in a connectionless fashion. Therefore, ... some cases, a connectionless protocol will implement one or two of the functions. One of the most important concepts in data communi- cations is how connection and connectionless protocols are...

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... explanation of the increase in measured profit efficiency from megamergers may be the specification of the profit finction. The standard profit function takes prices and fixed netputs as given and ... time-consuming for firms to change the size of their asset portfolio because of the size of their markets and/ or because of regulatory restrictions on their expansion. In this event, the ... efficiency model in equations (1) and parameters of the model. The level of profit efficiency the ratio of predicted profits to maximum or optimal profits on the frontier (7r/7r0) was measured...

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... distribution of PLD and the conse- quences of priming and activation were determined using immunoprecipitation and Western blot analysis of neutro- phil cytosol and membrane fractions using the pan-PLD1/2 antibody ... in a small up-regulation of agonist- stimulated PLD activation [6,8,23], the underlying mecha- nisms and the relationship between this event and the functional consequences of priming have not ... the secretory and oxidative responses, we examined the differential effects of the immediate PLD products, PtdOH and DAG, on these processes. Butan-1-ol leads to the preferential formation of...

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... International Conference Information Visualization (IV'07) 0-7695-2900-3/07 $20.00 â 2007 The Effect of Aesthetic on the Usability of Data Visualization Nick Cawthon and Andrew Vande Moere The ... speed of completion, accuracy rate, task abandonment and latency of erroneous response. Our findings demonstrate a correlation between latency in task abandonment and erroneous response time ... applicable. Our hypothesis is that aesthetic will have an effect on extending the latency of task abandonment and duration of erroneous response time. This is potentially important because these factors...

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... side-chains of Arg45 and Lys96 (Fig. 8). These interactions conceiv- ably also contribute to the conformational stability of holo-lMb. Consistently, they are maintained over the 1.5 ns of the simulation ... in the first 0.5 ns of MD simulation, triggering the unfolding of helix E and the subsequent global unfolding of the structure. In holo-lMb, the shielding effect of the heme and the engagement of ... native-like conformations. Conclusions The comparison of apo- and holo-lMb by MD simu- lations reveals a dramatic effect of the heme cofactor, which is seen to stabilize native Mb-like folded confor- mations...

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