the importance of current research and theory in child development

... the public firm indicator in some of the analyses but without changing the tenor of the results. The Importance of Reporting Incentives: Earnings Management in European Private and Public Firms* David ... rule of law, and corruption index). SIZE is the book value of total assets at the end of the fiscal year (in EUR thousands). We use the natural log of the size variable in the analysis. Financial ... on the role of institutional factors and market forces in shaping firms’ incentives to report informative earnings. To empirically illustrate the importance of reporting incentives, we examine...

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... disregard of the increased utility of precoordinated strings of subject terms, and catalog browse displays of them The problem with any discussion of such issues lies in the complexity of their interrelationships. ... under -the- hood programming, etc. The paper considers the need for, and requirements of, education of researchers; and it examines in detail many of the glaring disconnects between theory and practice ... whole can indeed be indicated by a combination of individual index elements (“Finance” AND “public” AND “Greece” AND “Athens”), researchers have much more difficulty thinking up all of the terms...

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... main chains and 1-4 branchings, and the more common 1-3 main chains and 1-6 branchings. 18 This frac- tion also is highly active in vitro and in animal models of cancer, although activity in these experimental ... hospitals in Shanghai, Beijing, and other areas in China, with a total 189 patients. The double-blind study used the same doses and test materials as the previous study, and ex- amined PSP against the ... en- ter the oral cavity, they can be sampled by the LC present in the oral mucosa, and then by dendritic cells in the stomach and intestines. After glucan materials are absorbed and cir- culate to the...

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... progress in our knowledge of the bio- synthesis of DIMs and PGLs, the in vivo functions of these FadD proteins in this pathway remain to be established and ⁄ or completed. For instance, the involvement ... to promote the transfer of the p-HB moiety onto PKS15 ⁄ 1 [16,18]. To examine the involvement of FadD29 in the bio- synthesis of DIMs and PGLs, we took advantage of the existence in the laboratory of ... be controlled in vivo by specific interactions between FadD29 and PKS15 ⁄ 1 on the one hand, and FadD26 and the FasI system on the other hand. Further inves- tigations, including protein interaction...

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... recklessness? These and other questions are the starting-point for a theory of authorial ethics which will be further developed in a forthcoming book on the interanimating thought of Emmanuel Levinas and Jacques ... dislodges the discretion – if not heresy – of paraphrase. Likewise, the passages describing the intersubjective light of understanding in the Phaedrus and the Seventh Letter remain entirely illuminating ... best dis- cerned in the refusal of a plan; the governing intent in the abandon- ment of intent to in nite variety, discursive fecundity. The relations between the deontological and the consequential...

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... m M Bicine buffer 7.0–8.5). The pH stability of Sfbgly50 was checked by incubation in the same buffers for a time equal to the assay time and then determining the activity remaining at the optimum ... [10,12]. Nevertheless, it is not possible to assume that the same is occurring in the mutant R97M, because there is no data on the interactions between the substrate and the arginine residue. Finally, another ... clearly increased. Actually, the substitution of R97 by methionine or lysine resulted in the same increment in the pK a of E399 (Table 2). Therefore, M97 and K97 are equally effective in stabilizing...

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... coastal environments by industrial and domestic effluents. In Proceedings of the Workshop on the Current State and Development of Marine Sciences in Tanzania. Institute of Marine Sciences, 11 ... and Vingunguti). Over 80% of the households in the city use pit latrines and septic tanks. These frequently overflow, especially during the rains, contaminating water sources thus increasing ... River. Mwandya (1996) determined the concentrations of heavy metals Pb and Cd in the soft tissues of Saccostrea cucullata in Ocean Road beach and Msimbazi Creek. Other studies in include that of...

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... resources in the ongoing negotiation of so- cial life). As the role of habitus and practice in the expression of taste has been 18 Ethnogenesis and the Archaeology of Identity THE ARCHAEOLOGY OF ETHNOGENESIS Race ... points to the importance of the exercise of power in negotiating social identity. Neither primordialism nor in- strumentalism can account for the persistence of ethnic distinctions in certain historical ... overde- termination is one of the ways that volatile identities come to appear inevitable and intractable. In that sense, using the concept of overdetermination risks a certain slippage, in that the...

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... minimum values in summer and maximum values in winter [43], have also been linked to frost hardiness in the stem tissue of Cornus sericea [3], in the leaves of Euca- lyptus gunnii [4] and in the ... (determination of an index of injury) was suitable to reveal the periods of frost hardening (in late autumn) and dehardening (in late winter; Fig. 3). Compared to the control trees, the frost hardiness ... defoliation). The freezing injury was determined as the slope b of the linear relationships between the log values of rela- tive conductivity (RC; %) of the incubation solution and the duration of bark...

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... resistance to the action of aerosols is the result of the strength of the structures protecting the leaf, and increases with sclerophyllia and with the thickness of the cuticle. ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS The ... sam- ples and deposits When interpreting the results of the chemi- cal analysis of rainwater and deposits it is necessary to bear in mind the interactions between the matrix and ... near the coast and 2-3 km inland. Samples of bulk deposits were taken from pine trees (Pinus pinea L) from the section of the crown exposed to the sea and also from the...

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