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... Harmon C, O’Sullivan V, Walker I The impact of income and education on the schooling on their children IZA Working Paper No 1496, 2005 Contoyannis P, Jones AM, Rice N The dynamics of health in the ... is a function of parental education, S, measured as the ages at which the mother and father left full-time education,26 and the (log of) household income Yh27 (and, in some specifications, we have ... variable, for mothers and fathers, has a very strong and negative effect on schooling, and the smoking status of grandparents also have strong, negative effects on the schooling of both parents...

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... beginning of a combat mission (“start -of- mission capability”) and the reliability of that equipment over the course of the mission (“during-mission reliability”) While the usefulness of these measures ... responding to the commands of his battalion commander At a certain level of losses at each echelon of command, the leader may elect to change the course of action or request a changed course of ... on the number of shooters The data from the two scenarios support that notion Nonetheless, we also conclude from the rather close agreement of the two γ values derived from the open-terrain and...

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... cies in Conversational Speech In Proceedings of the Conference on Computational Linguistics and the 44th Rich Transcription Fall Workshop annual meeting of the Association for Computational Jeremy ... model to the log-linear optimisation algorithm The boolean indicator features consist of the following groups of features operating on words and their edit status; the latter indicated by one of three ... producing the 25-best list for the reranker The log figure of merit is the sum of the log language model probability and the log channel model probability plus 1.5 times the number of edits in the sentence...

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... understanding of the embodied simulation account of esthetic experience, as well as the relevance of the present data to prior work on expertise and aesthetics We conclude with consideration of possible ... underlying the understanding and imitation of action Nat Rev Neurosci 2, 661–670 Rizzolatti, G., and Sinigaglia, C (2010) The functional role of the parietofrontal mirror circuit: interpretations and ... and 10.19 mm from the maximum of the left middle temporal cluster found in the present study Nonetheless, we also advise caution in the interpretation of any of our occipitotemporal activations...

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... whether the child is carried on the |9 Addressing the Impact of Household Energy and Indoor Air Pollution on the Health of the Poor Implications for Policy Action and Intervention Measures mother's ... Addressing the Impact of Household Energy and Indoor Air Pollution on the Health of the Poor Implications for Policy Action and Intervention Measures Strengthening evidence, monitoring and evaluation ... Health Organization Addressing the Impact of Household Energy and Indoor Air Pollution on the Health of the Poor Implications for Policy Action and Intervention Measures Table of Contents Preface...

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... division of the patients based on the expression levels of MTSS1 yield a significant correlation with overall survival; (F) A three-way division of the patients based on the expression levels of ... in collection of the tissue samples ZZ helped to draft the manuscript YY participated in the design of the study LZ participated in the design of the study WJ conceived of the study, and participated ... intercellular junctions of epithelial cells Thus, MTSS1 appears to contribute to the integrity of epithelial sheets, which may provide an explanation for why the loss of MTSS1 in certain epithelial tumours...

Ngày tải lên: 18/06/2014, 19:20

... division of the patients based on the expression levels of MTSS1 yield a significant correlation with overall survival; (F) A three-way division of the patients based on the expression levels of ... in collection of the tissue samples ZZ helped to draft the manuscript YY participated in the design of the study LZ participated in the design of the study WJ conceived of the study, and participated ... intercellular junctions of epithelial cells Thus, MTSS1 appears to contribute to the integrity of epithelial sheets, which may provide an explanation for why the loss of MTSS1 in certain epithelial tumours...

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... ICT, and by the condition (thalassemia, SCD, MDS) Figure provides an overview of the hypotheses for the impact of infusion ICT on the QoL of patients with iron overload In thalassemia, the impact ... emotional functioning [16] The objective of this study was to assess the literature for the impact of iron overload and infusion Iron Chelation Therapy (ICT) on patients' QoL and to assess the availabil- ... ascertain the direct impact Nevertheless, even with the aforementioned caveats, our results indicated that the impact of infusion ICT on QoL is high There is a need for easier oral iron chelation therapy...

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... inhomogeneity of the emotion-related states within one turn can be observed The emotional homogeneity is defined as the proportion of raw labels, that is, the decisions of the five human labellers on the ... [22] The algorithm EURASIP Journal on Audio, Speech, and Music Processing Table 2: Mapping of the emotion labels on the word level onto emotion labels for chunks: distribution of the emotion categories ... Size of the vocabulary for the different training and test subsets of the FAU Aibo Emotion Corpus; training on the balanced subsets of Ohm, testing on the unbalanced subsets of Mont Number of word...

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... since they take up and immobilize this element in plant biomass and undecomposed litter Consequently, the swards of grasses were demonstrated to mitigate the acidification of soil solution and the ... differences in nutrient contents with the exception of phosphorus in Ah horizon There was significantly more phosphorus in Ah of PP soil With the exception of magnesium, the content of nutrients rapidly ... (horizon L) and Ah horizon under Picea pungens and of humification horizon (H) under Calamagrostis The thickness of all humus layers together was significantly higher in CV (Table 1) Process of the...

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... responsible for study conception and design CG and GKH were responsible for acquisition of data SMB and RB analyzed and interpreted the data SMB drafted the manuscript SMB, MJJ, ME, GKH, CG, and ... relevance and need further evaluation in the context of protocol-driven tightglycemic control Competing interests The authors declare that they have no competing interests Authors' contributions SMB and ... the association of both a discrete episode of hypoglycemia, the severity of hypoglycemia, and BG variability on ICU and hospital mortality by multi-variable logistic regression analysis for the...

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... properties, and the conditions at the time of acquisition influences the potential and quality of land cover and land use change detection Despite the wealth of existing change detection research, there ... modification and conversion as two basic process characteristics: Modification is the subtle change affecting the character of one land cover without impact on its classification Conversion is the ... bands of one single pixel and their difference, case A – late change 91 Fig 3.4.3: Comparison of normalized and non-normalized time series of spectral bands of one single pixel and their...

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... emissions will often reduce emissions of other harmful pollutants Studies on concentrations of individual 35 I Air Pollution and the Health of New Yorkers: The Impact of Fine Particles and Ozone ... school and work absences and reduce their quality of life Concentration-response functions Estimated concentration response functions vary among scientific studies because: Concentration-response ... 2,900 600 O3=ozone * Based on 2005-2007 data on air pollution, mortality and illnesses I Air Pollution and the Health of New Yorkers: The Impact of Fine Particles and Ozone Introduction and Background...

Ngày tải lên: 06/03/2014, 16:20

... the concentration variables Yn, the full system is rendered strongly nonlinear through the nonlinear dependence of the effective rate constants (Eqn 3) on the enzyme concentrations and the conservation ... thermodynamic aspects of complex multisite phosphorylation on the one hand, and the specific and versatile regulation of protein activation required in signaling pathways on the other Results Mathematical ... also on the dissociation constants for the kinase–target and phosphatase–target interactions To be specific, the dissociation constants of the various phosphorylation states of the target for the...

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... evaluation, I can see that ABC can’t improve performance of plant by itself, and one of the ways to see overall impact of ABC is the implementation of WCM TABLE OF CONTENTS Page Declaration of Originality ... facilitate the initiation of WCM implementation Cooper and Kaplan (1991) also conclude that the understanding of cost variability sources of plant managers and so, can manage the demand of resource and ... better by concentrate in product lines and know the exact impact of the changes in the production mix and profits in production activities So, Cooper and Kaplan conclude that the advantages of ABC...

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... the Vietnamese consumers consist of high education background, but only few of them understand CSR and most of them are still confuse or not understand CSR The reason may be the CSR is new concept ... calculate the result of survey show that there are 35% of respondents choose “strongly agree" and "agree", it meet the result of the question about when respondents not understand the concept of CSR and ... objectives The purpose of this project is to give the definition of CSR and its concepts and studies Through this definition of CSR and its concepts and studies, we will have a view of CSR in the world...

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... is the CSR? -  The definition of CSR The theories of CSR What is the finance performance?  What is the relationship between CSR and finance performance?  The role of CSR to increase profit of ... maximization‘ Jensen states, ―Enlightened value maximization utilizes much of the structure of stakeholder theory but accepts maximization of the long run value of the firm as the criterion for ... and coordination and therefore less expense are required in monitoring and enforcing such contracts (Jones, 1995) The failure of the corporate system and its ability to continue as a going concern...

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... relative to the market’s expectation of the cash rate The cost of long-term wholesale debt continues to place upward pressure on banks’ funding costs, as still nearly one-fifth of bonds outstanding ... also fallen since the onset of the financial crisis, as the amortisation of the outstanding stock of residential mortgage-backed securities (RMBS) has exceeded new issuance Furthermore, Australian ... about one-fifth of banks’ funding, and is priced mainly off 1-month and 3-month bank bill rates Prior to mid 2007, bank bill rates closely tracked the market’s expectation for the cash rate with the...

Ngày tải lên: 29/03/2014, 01:20

... disabling and painful comorbid condition has a stronger impact on QoL than hypertension Individualized care of patients with chronic conditions should consider both improving QoL and controlling ... number of comorbid conditions The most common comorbid conditions reported were hypertension and osteoarthritis with osteoarthritis having remarkable more impact on quality of life than hypertension ... suffering from one or several chronic conditions care should focus on the best possible management of the disease and additional impairments on daily life instead of recovery and health [2,20]...

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