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... related and strongly point to the importance of changes in the surface properties of the PLB membrane. The obvious candidates for the driving forces in the case of the pH-dependent changes are either ... is summarizedinFig.14. The relationship between spectral changes in POR and structural changes in PLB The existence of a correlation between the presence of the cubic membrane structure of the PLB and the presence ... POR kinase therefore still remains unclear. The main line of evidence for the existence of a POR- phosphatase is the observation by Wiktorsson et al. [9] of an inhibition, by NaF and ATP, of the loss of...

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... show themselves as they are. But “con-frontation” also means that we position ourselves as diff erent from the Other. The Auseinandersetzung is an encounter of the Self and the Other, and we ... alert the reader to these problems throughout the book, but I nevertheless venture forth. The main focus is thus on lan- guage and on the logos of dialogue, and on the supposed Nothingness as the ... characteristics: the distinction between the sensuous and the non- sensuous since the time of Plato. The outcome of this distinction can be seen throughout the history of Western philosophy, as the abstracting...

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... consistent with the report of Borsberry and Dobson [2]. Furthermore, the delay of 8 days to first service in cows with retained placenta was similar to the results of Erb et al . [17]. On the other hand, the ... related to the occurrence of retained placenta [6,35,47]. The effect of retained placenta was much greater on the interval from calving to conception than the effect on the delay in the interval ... Risk factors and effects 55 placenta among individual farms were compared using the chi-square test. Evaluation of the effect of retained placenta on the occurrence of reproductive and metabolic...

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... question on the amount consumed in lians (50g/lian) per unit of time. A lian is the unit of weight in China equivalent to 50 g. The reproducibility and validity of the FFQ was assessed in a random ... of type 2 DM in four prospective studies [3;5-7]. The available data on the association between meat intake and the risk of type 2 DM are limited to four health professionals cohorts and the ... cross-sectional study and thus, may not be directly generalizable to the general population. To better understand the relationship between the intake of meat and the risk of type 2 DM we prospectively...

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... operated by the CPA ã acts as the holder of deposit accounts of the federal government, the directly clearing members of the CPA, international organizations such as the IMF, and other central ... chief executive officer and chairman of the Board of Directors) ã the senior deputy governor, ã the deputy minister of finance, and ã twelve outside directors 15 - 20 The Case for Independence ... Structure of the Bank of Canada I ã Responsibility for the operation of the Bank rests with a Board of Directors, which consists of fifteen members: ã the governor (currently Mark Carney, who is the...

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... line of credit, 2) the breadth of the relationship (whether it extends to deposits and other services), 3) the size of the borrowing firm and its outside finance options, 4) the structure of the ... measure the strength of the relationship (i.e., how to proxy for the value of information obtained through the relationship). Most of the studies specified the duration of the relationship as the ... differences in the concentration of the banking industry, the fragility of the financial systems, bankruptcy rules, and other factors that affect the collection and use of information by banks.29 V. The...

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... statements, and memoranda have dealt with the status, function, and the (il)legality of the use and possession of this category of ‘weapons of mass destruction’, 1 and almost all of them agree ... in the context of the implementation of the principles and rules of the law applicable in armed conflict.’ The present work analyses this conclusion, focusing on the question of whether or not the ... been regarded as the cornerstones of mod- ern physics, namely the law of the conservation of mass and the law of the conservation of energy. In fact, these principles are two phases of one single...

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... reasonable standard deviation compared to income, and a low coefficient of variation. The other samples have large standard deviations and coefficients of variation, which raise questions of their ... attract the attention. First, a marked difference is apparent between liquor and tobacco on the one hand, and the other items on the other. The number of households that spend on liquor and tobacco ... qualitative level, history of technology will be analysed to assess the time lag between the availability of the constituent technologies and the appearance of the innovation of the cinematograph....

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... circumstances. The accumulation of these tested laws of change - of cause and effect - makes up the knowledge base that is the body of scientific theory. Through the testing of predictions- hypotheses, ... Neither the patient nor anyone else, in or out of a courtroom, can falsify the claims a clinical professional makes about the working of the mind. Without observation of the phenomena of ... mounting the witness stand as a psychological expert to pronounce diagnoses, prognoses, and needed courses of future therapy. Given the state of the art of mental diagnosis and treatment, the...

Ngày tải lên: 29/03/2014, 00:20

... The Emergence of Cultural Studies and the Crisis of the Humanities STUART HALL If I address the crisis of the humanities in the face of the problem of social ... marginal kind of existence there. Nevertheless, Leavis saw himself committed to the project of tending the health of the language and the national culture, of nurturing the refined ... postmodernist and the poststructuralist debates, can 22 The Emergence of Cultural Studies and the Crisis of the Humanities himself has so far abjured the construction of a list in the...

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... en- ter of Sun Yat-Sen University. All the patients under- went radical surgery, and none of them had undergone either chemotherapy or radiotherapy before the collec- tion of the samples. The histopathologic ... Committee of our institution. Patients were informed of the investiga- tional nature of the study and provided their written informed consent. Follow-up of patients Follow-up was provided to all of the ... 9:88 http://www.translational-medicine.com/content/9/1/88 Page 6 of 6 These results also refute the randomized distribution model of mast cells in cancer tissues suggested by Ribatti [20]. The reason that this kind of non-rando- mized distribution of mast...

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... en- ter of Sun Yat-Sen University. All the patients under- went radical surgery, and none of them had undergone either chemotherapy or radiotherapy before the collec- tion of the samples. The histopathologic ... Committee of our institution. Patients were informed of the investiga- tional nature of the study and provided their written informed consent. Follow-up of patients Follow-up was provided to all of the ... MCC stroma , the count of tryptase-positive mast cells in the cancer stroma of the primary colon tumor; MCC adjacent , the count of tryptase-positive mast cells in the normal mucosa adjacent to the colon...

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... logic, and were true to their “authentic selves” rather than to what others thought they ought to be, then they would ultimately choose good over evil. This rather optimistic view of atheism was the ... like to think they’ve cast off the lodestone of God altogether, the father of evolutionary theory himself, Charles Darwin, was a far cry from the full-blooded scientific atheist he is often portrayed ... Rise of Homo sapiens: The Evolution of Modern Thinking (2009), Coolidge and Wynn point out that a conspicuous clue to the Neanderthals’ theory -of- mind abilities, or rather their absence, is the...

Ngày tải lên: 11/07/2014, 00:01

... exceeded the circumference of the crown.  is au- thor reported that the width of spruce root systems in the Hronec locality was wider by 94 cm than the width of the crown. On the other hand, K ... a lower degree of correlation between the crown width and the parameters of root plates. Similarly, a lower degree of correlation was found out between the crown length and the particular ... ratio) and the width of root plates in Norway spruce trees growing in well-drained sites. However, we observed only a weak correlation between the width and length of the crown and the root...

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