... network The function of these gateways is to packetize the voice signal on the originating end of a call so that it can be transported over an IP network At the terminating end ofthe call, another ... growing market we often find that it changes month by month All four of these are, however, carrying millions of minutes each of IPT on their networks Despite the entry of other players, Delta ... Probe's ongoing analysis of bandwidth to the home and small office, and all ofthe associated terminal equipment, standards, and other issues surrounding the take off of residential multimedia,...
... all were, in the words ofthe former vice chairman ofthe Joint Chiefs of Staff (JCS), Admiral William Owens, “either ruled out by the context ofthe battle or were ineffective in the confined littoral ... For its part, the F-14 involved in the incident was operating from the carrier USS Saratoga in the central Mediterranean Sea One goal ofthe exercise was to test the ability ofthe Air Force ... of forces in the region that preceded the war 13 14 Combat Pair: TheEvolutionof Air Force–Navy Integration in Strike Warfare and the six weeks of fighting that ensued thereafter, the Navy did...
... two ofthe rings face in the opposite direction in the membrane to the other two, forming the same pattern as in the AFM surface representation of Fig 2A By comparison with the 3D structure ofthe ... compensate the negative charge on the rotor The freed positive charge on the stator attracts the next negative charge on the rotor, thus leading to rotation ofthe ring As most ofthe c rings ... distributed along the horizontal axis ofthe rotor [8] A positive charge on the stator attracts one ofthe negative charges on the ring and thus keeps the ring in place [34–36] However, the system is...
... leading to the failure of 160 members ofthe New York Stock Exchange) Toward the end ofthe period, glimmers of deregulation and technology advances laid the groundwork for the beginning of financial ... notable at the end of 1998 was the creation ofthe financial behemoth, Citigroup, that challenged the separation of banking and insurance under the then-in-effect Glass-Steagall Act THE MASSIVE ... INCEPTION AND THE EARLY STAGES (1970 TO 1997) During the latter part ofthe twentieth century, four forces worked together to drive the separation between the past and the present businesses of financial...
... knowledge about their evolution is basic to understand theevolutionof aesthetic preference itself A comprehensive understanding oftheevolutionofthe human brain, as well as of certain specific ... number of reinterpretations ofthe archaeological record have recently questioned the place and time ofthe appearance of modern human cognition They have shown that the revolution hypothesis ... there is no way of determining which level of analysis is the most relevant to the study ofthe neural correlates of aesthetic preference Additionally, the evolutionary emergence of such a capacity...
... different regions ofthe eye The expression of cN in the central regions ofthe lens, fiber cells that were laid down before birth, is consistent with the familiar pattern of expression ofthe principally ... encoding the two motifs ofthe C-terminal domain The crygn gene is thus a hybrid of b and c crystallin gene structures, apparently an intermediate in theevolutionofthe c-crystallins from the b-crystallins ... polypeptide capable of completing the C-terminal domain ofthe protein Currently there is no evidence for expression of canonical cN in primates This leaves open the question of whether the gene for...
... effect on A) There is no significant effect ofthe age ofthe firm It is clear that the size ofthe firm in total assets is the key determinant ofthe amount of advertising Large firms have the financial ... extension ofthe familiar Gibrat process See also Davies and Geroski (1997, p 385) depending upon the extent ofthe persistence of market shares The sum ofthe effects on the future market shares (the ... 0.080 Note: The table presents the number of firms, the number of entrants (Ent), the number of firms which exited (Ext), the number of firms with market share (S) in excess of 5%, the Herfindahl...
... respectively [29] The overall analysis, examining the topology ofthe phylogenetic tree and the position of each gene inside the cluster, was informative regarding the orthology relationships ofthe distinct ... vertebrate enzymes The most significant difference between the amphioxus and the other retinal reductases was, nevertheless, their preference for the NADH cofactor To our knowledge, these are the first SDR ... on the cytosolic side ofthe membrane [38,39] Amphioxus RDH did not show positively charged amino acids at the N-terminus ofthe signaling sequence, but rather contained the L24ERGR motif at the...
... forsook the haunts of men The other equally important cause was the change wrought by Christianity The brotherhood of man, the care ofthe body, the gospel of practical virtues formed the essence of ... obstruction ofthe bowels the opening ofthe abdomen, removal ofthe obstructed portion and uniting the ends ofthe intestine by sutures After the death of Alexander, Egypt fell into the hands of his ... elaborated the view ofthe pneuma, one form of which he believed came from the inspired air, and passed to the left side ofthe heart and to the arteries ofthe body It was the cause ofthe heart-beat...
... consequence ofthe physical laws of our universe and the subatomic structure ofthe oxygen atom As we shall see in Chap 2, the existence of oxygen atoms is in turn a necessary result oftheevolutionof ... Thus, the higher the pH value, the lower the proton concentration and therefore the degree of dissociation of water This behavior of water depends strongly on the temperature, the higher the temperature ... copy of a particular part ofthe DNA from the cell nucleus to the cytosol This serves as a matrix for the synthesis of proteins, composed of amino acids Thus, proteins express the potential of the...
... ancestral host of Achryso- chroides Regarding the effect of taxa sampling on the reconstruction of reproductive strategies, although the biology of most species in other parts ofthe world is less ... due to explicable causes Second, we examine theevolutionof host choice Recently a phylogeny was constructed ofthe genus Phyllonorycter that includes all the (British) hosts ofthe Achrysocharoides ... comprise a third of known species of this genus Regarding the effect of taxa sampling on the reconstruction of ancestral host use, most of our species are European, reflecting the most detailed...
... 12/22/11 2:07 PM 12 THEEVOLUTIONOF CELLS IS THERE LIFE OUT THERE? The presence of life somewhere else in the universe is not just the stuff of science fiction Astrobiology is the branch of science that ... Note the base pairs of nucleotides that make up the “rungs” ofthe ladder in the structure of DNA CBBL_EvolCells_F2_IBT.indd 23 12/22/11 2:08 PM 24 THEEVOLUTIONOF CELLS (R) serves as the sugar ... thought of as two chains of nucleotides that are lined up to form a ladder The sugar-phosphate units ofthe chains form the sides ofthe ladder, while the projecting base pairs link in the middle...
... and the laws of thought Then you may verify the hypothesis of pauperism, the hypothesis of inequality of conditions, the hypothesis of universal association, the hypothesis of happiness, the ... OFTHE RESPONSIBILITY OF MAN AND OF GOD, UNDER THE LAW OF CONTRADICTION, OR A SOLUTION OFTHE PROBLEM OF PROVIDENCE % The Culpability of Man.—Exposition ofthe Myth ofthe Fall % Exposition of ... to the republic, when I am seeking for the meaning and content ofthe idea of God; and that the tradesmen ofthe university will impute to me the impiety of demonstrating the non-value of their...
... benefited from the comments and suggestions ofthe participants ofthe workshop ‘Economic Theory and the Practice of Consumption: Evolutionary and other Approaches’, organised by the University of Cassino ... analysing the shape ofthe growth pattern ofthe quantity of cinema consumed and expenditure on cinema The time ofthe take-off will be estimated quantitatively (and its timing compared with the qualitative ... combined with the idea that when this would be shown the audience would see the movement because ofthe persistence of vision, was important to cinema The notion ofthe persistence of vision is...
... economic In the years following the Civil War, a parade Guidance: A Product ofthe American Conscience of new states joined the Union Most of these were carved out ofthe great heartland ofthe continent ... During the closing years ofthe nineteenth century, the civilized world replied affirmatively to the age-old question, Am I my brother's keeper? Society had accepted the theory ofthe brotherhood of ... around the beginning ofthe 20th century These were the forces and events that energized the "spirit ofthe times" from whence came the ideas and ideals ofthe pioneers of what eventually became...
... likely, as the c ring is rather stable, and the use of Triton X100 should not lead to removal of c1 only The basic biochemical properties ofthe complete enzyme are similar to those ofthe enzyme ... depending on the batch This is in the same range as the one determined previously with the incomplete enzyme [25] Next, we compared the enzymatic properties ofthe complete enzyme with those ofthe preparations ... one assumes the same number of hairpins in V0 and F0, the rotor of V1V0ATPases has only half the number of ion-binding sites This is seen as the reason for the apparent inability of V1V0-ATPases...
... ofthe subsequent testing of hypotheses on different types of goods But it is of dubious value in more concrete studies and it removes any attention from theevolutionofthe characteristics of ... this reason the transaction might be rejected If the buyer, on the other hand, have credence in the seller, then the evaluation ofthe credence characteristics is quite straightforward: the claims ... the benefit of doubt, before the customer finally decides to exit the relationship and/or to advice others not to buy “pigs in pokes” from the seller The behaviour ofthe customers means that the...
... most of what is called art film—is designed to suppress awareness ofthe presentational aspects ofthe film while promoting the narrative The units of film are the act, the sequence, the scene, the ... as Shot The autocorrelation ofthe length of a Shot with itself (Lag 0) is always 1.0; autocorrelations ofthe length of Shot with the lengths of Shots (Lag 1) and more distal shots are of more ... wipe The user then accepted or rejected the candidate, and the process continued with the next If the user felt that content ofthe six images was discontinuous from one candidate transition to the...
... with the result of Shibata et al [21] The presence of PsbV in C paradoxa is consistent with the presence ofthe psbV gene in the complete sequences ofthe cyanelle genome [24], in which the psbU ... detect the presence of PsbU in these algae which plays a role in optimizing the availability of Cl– cofactors for water oxidation [5,29] This may be due to the high species-specificity ofthe antibody ... sequencing of whole plastids and genomes of a number of photosynthetic organisms Recently, De Las Rivas et al [15] summarized the nature and composition ofthe extrinsic proteins of different...