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... interpretation of the results for each measure, one supplemental question was added after completion of the fourth interview (and thus asked of only 16 of the 20 par- ticipants). The question asked ... concept elicitation or item generation phases. Therefore, the objective of this study was to evaluate the impact of FM on participants, including their sleep, and to test the content validity of these two sleep ... each interview. The interviews started with a general discussion regarding the impact of FM on participants' lives and then moved to a discussion about the impact of FM on the par- ticipants'...

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... concept elicitation or item generation phases. Therefore, the objective of this study was to evaluate the impact of FM on participants, including their sleep, and to test the content validity of these two sleep ... each interview. The interviews started with a general discussion regarding the impact of FM on participants' lives and then moved to a discussion about the impact of FM on the par- ticipants' ... information they pro- vided to their physicians about the consequences of their nocturnal FM pain. These findings, along with the brevity, ease of use, and daily recall period provide further support for...

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... characterization of the promoter region of the gene and the associated transcriptional factors. Therefore, delineation of the transcriptional regulation of human DNASE1 may provide clues to the mechanisms ... that of pGL3–basic vector and was half that of pGL3–promoter vector. These findings demonstrate the promoter activity of the 5Â-anking region of exon 1 in DNASE1. Deletion of the upstream end of the ... splicing junction between exon 1a and a portion of exon 1. The thick straight lines represent the intron sequence. +1 indicates the position of the transcription start site of exon 1. Dashed v-shaped...

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... empirical evidence. The honesty of naăve falsicationism demanded the testing of the falsiable and the rejection of the unfalsifiable and the falsified. Finally, the honesty of sophisticated falsificationism demanded ... demanded the acceptance of only what was proven and the rejection of everything unproven. Neojustificationist honesty demanded the specification of the probability of any hypothesis in the light of the ... same time offering an evolutionary form of natural religion.⁷⁴ The ‘agnostics’ could present themselves on the one hand as opponents of immoderate religious movements and on the other as opponents of...

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... Payments and the Digitization of Money will Change Everything…Or will it? 5 MOBILE SHOPPING? 26 From Theory to Action: The work of SapientNitro 2 Business Transformation ... the days of consumers being “dumb” at point of sale Consumer empowerment to the max. 6 Using our phones as shopping and payment devices is big… … and getting BIGGER. 20 6. There ... in the retail experience. 28 Thanks Donald Chesnut, dchesnut@sapient.com , @D_Chesnut Alex Sion, asion@sapient.com , @ASion1 22 8. The mPayment landscape is diverse, and...

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... securitisation implies stronger effects of monetary policy on the economy and on residential property prices (CGFS 2006). On the other hand, Tsatsaronis and Zhu (2004) conjecture that the prevalence of ... large literature on the estimation of panel regressions and the inconsistency that can arise in that context. Much of that literature deals with the bias of the fixed effects 19 The price puzzle ... that the transmission mechanism of monetary policy depends on the institutional characteristics of the financial system, we go on to split the sample of countries into two groups depending on their...

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... look at the whole income and asset portfolio rather than solely the poultry income, thereby providing a more accurate measure of the impact of the disease. If one looked only at the impact of HPAI ... either the logistic function or the standard normal cumulative distribution function (the probit function) (Greene 1997b). The mean and variance of the ZINB are (18) , To test whether the ... scales. The duration of the livelihoods impacts of these shocks are assumed to be one year. This is because the variables used to derive the impacts of these shocks (which include whether or not the...

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... year of college. This assumption implies a linear relationship between the log of earnings and the number of years of education. 15 Second, we assume that the cost of an additional year of education ... model. It captures the effect of existing knowledge on the production of new knowledge. There is no constraint on the range of θ. If past knowledge offers the necessary foundation upon which to discover ... question of “why advanced economies … can continue to grow in the long run despite the workings of diminishing returns in the accumulation of physical and human capital.” 36 Extensions of these...

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... Regardless of whether one agrees with revisionist assumptions or not, the issue that concerns me is whether they had an important and concrete impact on policy assump- tions and choices. In the first ... expanding wealth put it in the position to bear more of the costs of maintaining the alliance. Traditionalists saw these contributions as one way to silence the growing number of critics in the ... this book. 25 Traditionalist Views and the Emergence of Revisionism Clinton and Japan eventually becoming adopted as core policy assumptions of the US government, and then exerting a concrete impact on a key...

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... an important role in the education of the human population regarding the risk of infection. Knowledge of the parasite’s biological charateristics, life cycle and trasmission routes is nec- essary ... feces (approximately 2% of the cat population at any given time) contaminates the litter box. If the cat is allowed outside, it can contaminate the soil or water in the environment as well. Litter ... represent any risk for infection with Toxoplasma gondii. Cats are the definitive host of T. gondii; they are the only animals that pass oocysts in their feces. They become infected by eating...

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