... pair of divergent selection lines, the average response (m) per generation of selection was estimated by the regression coefficient ofthe mean on generation number, andthe observed response ... element from the prr25.7 BWC clone (O’Hare, ern personal communication) RESULTS Response to selection The evolution ofthe mean andthe variance ofbodyweight in each sex is shown in figures and 2, ... regression of cumulated response on cumulated selection differential over the first generations (Gl to G3), all replicates and directions of selection were pooled The mean ofthe h estimated was the...
... the strongest effecton predicting the failure of femoral components (P=0.002) and that thebody mass index had a significant effecton it (P=0.02) According to the full and reduced regression ... take place as a result ofthe following thermal osteonecrosis ofthe underlying bone [2, 10] Both of these complications are unique to hip resurfacing procedures and neither occurred in stemmed ... patients In the multi-variable regression model, only T-score andbody mass index showed significant effects onthe failure rate of femoral components Patients with a lower T-score and a higher body...
... emissions at the expense of increase in smoke, CO and unburned HC emissions The aim ofthe current study is to investigate theeffectof EGR on performance parameters and exhaust emissions of an ... Journal of Energy and Environment (IJEE), Volume 2, Issue 3, 2011, pp.477-490 481 Results and discussion The results and discussion based ontheeffectof EGR rates on engine performance and emission ... to the reduction in oxygen concentration in the combustion chamber [5,16,24,25,26] The NOX emission increased with increasing biodiesel amount in the blends In addition, the NOX emission of JBD...
... part of several tens percent of HC andthe last one whereas can only reach several hundreds of gauss Thus, the increasing of Co-concentration led to the increasing of anisotropy property of ferrites ... was synthesized successfully by co-precipitation method X-ray diffraction study shows the presence of cubic spinel The increase of Co2+ ion concentration yields the monotonic increase of MS, ... addition of Co2+ ion content, which may be attributed to the ionic radii of constituent ions causing increase in lattice parameter andthe densities of pure cobalt ferrite (5.29 g/cm3) and pure...
... 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...
... hydrogen bonds to be formed between the base G4 andthe sidechain of Asn122 In the second model (Fig 1B) the structure ofthe hexanucelotide is, onthe whole, unchanged andthe majority ofthe interactions ... Electron density of RTA R213D in the vicinity of residue 213 The backbone and sidechains ofthe R213D substitution are shown as stereo images in thick ball and stick andthe position ofthe Arg213 ... 122 The backbone and sidechains ofthe N122A substitution are shown as stereo images in thick ball and stick andthe position ofthe Asn122 side-chain ofthe wild-type enzyme is overlayed and...
... 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 ... served as consultant to the U.S Treasury andthe Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) on tax competition issues and has been a member ofthe executive committee ofthe New...
... paid little attention and are more important than what they seem to be Some ofthe issues that should be further considered are: Theeffectof noise on unambiguous words; the reasonable intervals ... into account that neither the behaviour ofthe tagger (given by u, t, p) nor the errors in the test corpus (given by c) are the same on ambiguous and unambiguous words Nevertheless, this is an ... sections we will show how this uncertainty in the evaluation m a y be, in some cases, larger than the reported improvements from one system to another, so invalidating the conclusions ofthe comparison...
... sentence-combining and syntax One study focused on sentence-combining and punctuation, one on syntax, punctuation and sentence-diagramming, and one on punctuation alone Theeffectof grammar ... investigated the teaching of both sentence-combining and syntax One study focused on sentence-combining and punctuation; one on syntax, punctuation and sentence-diagramming; and one on punctuation alone ... teaching onthe one hand, and language awareness arising from the use of language in speech and writing onthe other It is interesting to note that in the evaluation ofthe pilot ofThe Key Stage...
... company, the survey questions can be same for both of them to find out theeffectof monetary incentive on their effort and task performance Survey questions only continue to be conducted if and only ... believe that they will act onthe interest ofthe company Onthe other hand, it is not easy to mediate these relationships If there is not any mechanism to reconcile these complex relationships, ... effectiveness and awareness of monetary policies in the workplace The second objective is obtained from the questionnaire The research will give the common test about the application of monetary incentive...
... Economic Theory One approach to understanding the impact of pollution on health would be to assume that everyone is unaware ofthe amount of pollution in the air Therefore, ambient levels of ... pollution and health, making it difficult to identify theeffectof pollution on health.11 To understand the empirical implications of such actions for estimating theeffectof pollution on hospitalizations ... causal effectof pollution on health This paper focuses on developing an empirical strategy for measuring theeffectof pollution on health Specifically, I look at theeffectof air pollution on...
... ppm The effects of added Cu on biomass are the same way ofthe effects onthe height of 115 N.X. Cu / VNU Journal of Science, Earth Sciences 24 (2008) 113‐117 3.2 Relationship between content of ... 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...
... corpus andthe neuro-QA questions themselves, we opted for a combination of both data types as training corpus in the initial version ofthe online text prediction application Currently, a demonstration ... spierdystrofie Conclusions In Section 1, we asked two questions: (1) “What is theeffectof text type differences onthe quality of a text prediction algorithm?” and (2) “What is the best choice of training ... data themselves, evaluated in a leaveone-out setting (359 times training on 358 questions and evaluating onthe remaining questions) There is some variation among methods in the size and type of...
... enhances the recombination rate ofthe photoformed electrons and holes The photocatalytic activities of Vis-TiO2/Ti/Pt or NaOH(5)Vis-TiO2/Ti/Pt were investigated by the separate evolution of H2 and ... transformation of Vis-TiO2 thin film into the inactive TiO2 nanowires having high surface areas Fig shows theeffectofthe hydrothermal treatment onthe XRD patterns of Vis-TiO2/Ti The intensity ofthe ... for the separate evolution of H2 and O2 from water with a solar energy conversion efficiency of 0.23% The hydrothermally treated Vis-TiO2/Ti/Pt could, thus, be considered a unique photofunctional...
... approximation ofthe combined distributional effects ofthe income tax measures andthe repeal ofthe estate tax Data sources The data in the tax model come from the 1996 public-use file produced by the ... the gradual phase-in of most of its major provisions, which changes the distribution ofthe benefits ofthe legislation over time Many ofthe major provisions aimed at high-income taxpayers the ... credit, the child and dependent care credit, the limitation of itemized deductions, the personal exemption phaseout, the AMT, as well as the standard deduction, 15% bracket, and EITC provisions for...
... from one ofthe cytochromes P450 with known three-dimensional structure and determination ofthe sidechain conformations based on information about the backbone secondary structure andthe side ... observed, whereas the aldosterone synthe- Fig Computer model ofthe three-dimensional structure ofthe human CYP11B2 The view is focused onthe investigated amino acids andthe heme-group ofthe P450 ... cytochrome P450 [23], and as the conversion of a multitude of compounds might be due to the high variability in the SRS ofthe family P450s [35], amino acid 112 of CYP11B1 and CYP11B2 may therefore be...
... 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...
... 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, ... wealth group leads to similar conclusions with the response being 16 % of average total per-capita consumption and 34 % of average food consumption Consequently, the additional expenditures due to ... 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...
... Most of these theories are based onthe company's internal structure andthe impact of internal factors ofthe company and they are based on assumption of stability of economic factors and variables ... market There are several factors that may have effecton this relationship Onthe other hand, several factors (economic and accounting) may influence the composition and structure ofthe capital ... of macroeconomic variables represent the economic situations of country, we motivated to investigate the effects of changes in economic situation on financial decisions and composition of financial...