the lexus and the olive tree

... Mexican bonds and stocks, and put the money either under their mattresses or into the safest U.S bonds they could find So the declines in Brazil and the other emerging markets became the transmission ... easier for the reader to identify and digest, and I have used the year since the book was originally published in April 1999 to gather more evidence and to update and expand the book with all the technological ... Arbitrage 17 The Lexus and the Olive Tree 29 And the Walls Came Tumbling Down 44 Microchip Immune Deficiency 73 The Golden Straitjacket 101 The Electronic Herd 112 Part Two: Plugging into the System...

Ngày tải lên: 30/11/2013, 19:03

... category and so on), usage examples from the treebank and links to other dictionaries Acknowledgements We thank the treebankers, Takayuki Kuribayashi, Tomoko Hirata and Koji Yamashita, for their ... over the parse derivation trees, with the current node, two grandparents and several other conditioning features A preliminary experiment showed the correct parse is ranked first 69% of the time ... Entry for the Word doraiba “driver” (with English glosses) ¯ grammar in tandem with the treebank, as part of our research into natural language understanding Treebanking the output of the parser...

Ngày tải lên: 20/02/2014, 12:20

... pmol and 4.9 pmol for the Tyr183Phe and Asp125Asn mutants, respectively At these protein concentrations, there is a reasonable linear relationship between the absorbance and the enzyme activity The ... and the Tyr183 hydroxyl group, and between its amide nitrogen atom and Asp125 In the mutants, the hydrogen bond of the amide nitrogen with the Asp125 side chain is not possible anymore, and the ... colloidal chitin and the enzyme influences the active site properties The cause of these differences is not known Km and kcat measurements of hevamine and mutants Comparison of the steady-state...

Ngày tải lên: 22/02/2014, 04:20

... sites, the motherland of the olive is the island of Crete, according to others Southern Caucasia, Iran, Origin and History of the Olive the Atlas Mountains in North Africa, Lower Egypt, the Sudan ... feral forms to the wild -olive We believe that feral forms cannot be called “oleaster” due to their origin from the domesticated olive State of the art on the olive tree The olive tree contributes ... peoples and Nature [38] The distribution of the olive tree around the Mediterranean basin goes in latitude northern and southern [39,40] and in elevation higher than the distribution of the oleaster...

Ngày tải lên: 05/03/2014, 22:20

... 2000) Another 3.1 Time The parser has an theoretical time bound, where is the number of words in the sentence to be parsed, is the number of nonterminal categories in the grammar and is the number ... the empirical exponents, we turn to the actual traversal counts, which better illuminate the issues at hand Figures (a) and (b) show the traversal curves corresponding to the times in figure The ... interesting fact is that the saturation of a span is, for the treebank grammar and sentences, essentially independent of what size sentence the span is from and where in the sentence the span begins Thus,...

Ngày tải lên: 17/03/2014, 07:20

... P. cactorum, and to verify the effect of water stress on the stem lesion development caused by P cactorum The article deals with the outcomes of these first infection experiments MATERIAL AND METHODS ... SE – standard error injuries and sealed with Parafilm The control plants were treated in the same manner with sterile agar plugs There were 20 plants in each infection treatment and in the control ... by host species and by interaction of host species and isolate identity, too The effect of the host species and the interaction was statistically highly conclusive (P < 0.000) The effect of isolate...

Ngày tải lên: 07/08/2014, 10:21

... blocks at the end of June and in the two remaining blocks at the end of August, 2003 On each occasion, the sky was clear and the measurements were made between 11.00 h and 13.00 h The seedling ... with permethrin, there were no differences between the tree species in the L20 treatment In the L5 and L15 treatments, there were no differences between tree species concerning the number of seedlings ... removal; and (3) to evaluate the feeding preferences and the impact of pine weevils on planted broadleaved and Norway spruce seedlings Table I Stand data and light environments at Åkulla in 2003 The...

Ngày tải lên: 08/08/2014, 00:21

... during the morning and the beginning of the afternoon, allowing a high transpiration rate (4.8 and 3.9 mmol m–2 s–1 for maple and ash trees, respectively, in June, figure 1a) In ash trees, the water ... Acer opalus (᭝) trees growing on the dry river site (c, d) The values of the maximal transpiration (mmol m–2 s–1) are given in parenthesis The full symbols represent the values of the xylem water ... opalus and Fraxinus excelsior trees growing in the valley of the Drac river The experiments were carried out in the last days of July 2000 Data are the means of ten determinations (± SD) from two trees...

Ngày tải lên: 08/08/2014, 14:21

... certain number of trees within a population, and they are originated by the sudden decrease of the competition intensity with the surrounding trees [27] The disappearance of one or more trees due to ... any tree species either In this work, the individual and combined effects of climate and disturbances on the radial growth of these species were analyzed in a forest of the Cantabrian lowlands, ... least a core appropriate for the objectives of the study Cores were air dried, mounted, sanded, and the tree ring series were dated following the standard procedures [40] The ring-width series of...

Ngày tải lên: 08/08/2014, 14:21

... from the apex and leaves did not decrease the extent of dormancy; on the contrary, the intensity of bud dormancy was increased by September and October treatments The inhibited state of the lateral ... responsible for the shallow dormancy exhibited by these buds Nevertheless, the potential for these buds to grow out remained weak These results are in agreement with the hypothesis developed ... ment Behaviour of other buds on the stem was hardly affected by this treatment Effects of pruning and pinching (Fig b and c) the treatments done in September and October modified the course of bud...

Ngày tải lên: 09/08/2014, 02:21

... phytohormone concept and the considerable progress realized in cytophysiology and biochemistry prompt the following remarks about the regulation of cambial dynamics: 1) the properties of cambial ... cells, particularly the pattern of membrane transport, may change during the annual growth cycle of the tree; 2) the sensitivity of cambial cells to a phytohormone may be low if the regulator is ... towards the lower half of the bent stem This hypothesis is supported by experiments showing that exogenous IAA induces or suppresses tension wood formation, when applied to the lower and upper...

Ngày tải lên: 09/08/2014, 02:21

... parameters from the individual trees to the entire stand was based on the basal area of the sample trees in proportion to the distribution of basal areas for the stand, as in the case of the foliage ... might reflect the rather dense stand (with little light penetrating to the lower part of the crown) before the last thinning of the stand in 1993 At present the stand is rather sparse and open, allowing ... 15 and 70 % of the sum of squares for the largest and the smallest sam2 ple tree, respectively R values ranged from 0.52 for the smallest and the largest trees to exponentially = = 0.74 for the...

Ngày tải lên: 09/08/2014, 04:20

... designed the initial project, with subsequent contributions by the other authors GB conducted the experiments and wrote the initial version of the manuscript GD and PH contributed to olive cpDNA ... appearance of the same substitution (see also [18]) Understanding the molecular variation at these non-synonymous sites would deserve the design of an experiment to test their origin and their adaptive ... analyses The bootstrap values are given on each branch (when superior to 50%), the first corresponding to the MP analysis and the second (in brackets) to the ML analysis The Forsythia europaea and...

Ngày tải lên: 11/08/2014, 11:20

... hypotheses for the root of theeutherian tree Three phylogenetic hypotheses for the root of theeutherian tree (a) Tree 1: basal Afrotheria (b) Tree 2: basal Xenarthra (c) Tree 3: basal Boreotheria, ... analysis, three possible trees among Afrotheria, Xenarthra, and Boreotheria were examined: tree was basal Afrotheria, tree was basal Xenarthra, and tree was basal Boreotheria, or Afrotheria/Xenarthra ... brackets, and the differences in the log-likelihoods of alternative trees from that of the ML tree ± standard error were estimated using the formula of Kishino and Hasegawa [28] Numbering of the trees...

Ngày tải lên: 14/08/2014, 08:20

... [2] The MFscore and the BPscore assess the similarity of the molecular functions and biological processes, respectively, annotated to two proteins or protein families The funSim score and the ... generate queries and further process their results A batch file with commands can be used to query GOTaxDB or, alternatively, the query commands are read from the standard input Furthermore, it is ... RNA, to the database may expand the application scenarios of the GOTax platform deposited research SMART database [8], and the PANTHER database [25] combine proteins, protein families, and the taxonomy...

Ngày tải lên: 14/08/2014, 20:22

Ngày tải lên: 27/10/2014, 16:22

... pomace Before the extraction process, the process of distillation of the pomace oil separates the hexane from the oil and allows the sale of the pomace oil in the economic market In Table the inventory ... RDF and of coal combustion In the literature there are several studies on the de-oiled pomace In particular, [4] and [5] analyzed the use of the olive oil industry waste as fuel to obtain thermal ... the period of olive- oil production, and there are different quantities each year due to different harvests of the trees The best advantages are the limited costs of pomace as a raw material and...

Ngày tải lên: 05/09/2013, 16:10

... and then they were laid in carts, and the horses dragged them out of the wood Where did they go to? What became of them? In spring, when the swallows and the storks came, the Tree asked them, ... happen now!’ And the lights burned down to the very branches, and as they burned down they were put out one after the other, and then the children had permission to plunder the Tree So they fell ... moment; then they shouted that the whole place re-echoed with their rejoicing; they danced round the Tree, and one present after the other was pulled off ‘What are they about?’ thought the Tree...

Ngày tải lên: 14/12/2013, 08:15

... rising from the spot, and when these had passed, there stood the little brother, and he took the father and little Marleen by the hand; then they all three rejoiced, and went inside together and sat ... his father’s house The father, the mother, and little Marleen were having their dinner ’How lighthearted I feel,’ said the father, ‘so pleased and cheerful.’ And I,’ said the mother, ‘I feel so ... another, and then together again, as it might be someone clapping their hands for joy After this a mist came round the tree, and in the midst of it there was a burning as of fire, and out of the...

Ngày tải lên: 21/01/2014, 03:20

... gives further support to the utility of treebank grammars and to the compaction method For example, compaction methods can be applied within the DOP framework to reduce the number of trees Also, ... 20 Percentage 40 of 60 the 80 corpus i00 Figure 2: Compacted Grammar Size next 10% added and the resulting set again compacted, and then the rules for the next 10% added, and so on Results of this ... shown by the following rules, of which (8) and (9) can each be used to parse the other, so that whichever is addressed first will be eliminated, whilst the other will remain B + C The idea of...

Ngày tải lên: 08/03/2014, 05:21