... 176 APPENDICES 178 x ABBREVIATIONS AFTA : Asia Free Trade Area ALTE : The Association of Language Testers of Europe APEC : Asia Pacific Economic Group ASEAN : Association of South ... learning atmosphere Britain, Australasia, an North America Tertiary, secondary, and primary English language education in the countries, not including BANA vi TABLE OF CONTENTS Page ABBREVIATIONS ... South East Asia Nations BANA : Britain, Australasia, an North America CEF : Common European Framework CLT : Communicative Language Teaching COLT : Communicative Orientation of Language Teaching
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... explain a set of deeper and more fundamental and accurate roles that are related to these major imbalances What the Answer to the Purpose of Life Question Has to Fulfill There are many popular answers ... the same type of imbalances on a daily basis, which makes them feel that there is no new, important and influential imbalance to resolve that can have a huge influence on the world — taking them ... accurately and fully answer the question of the purpose of life related to this Earth reality, the answer has to fulfill the reason of why we have to encounter the location-based negative characteristics
Ngày tải lên: 10/09/2022, 11:27
Báo cáo lâm nghiệp: "The effects of lifting on mobilisation and new assimilation of C and N during regrowth of transplanted Corsican pine seedlings. A dual 13C and 15N labelling approach" docx
... through decreased stomatal conductance and increased allocation of N. As a consequence, C assimilation, carbohydrate concentration, and N availability for new growing components were decreased in ... the relationship between N concentration and CO 2 assimilation capacity is weaker in conifers than in other species due to lower rates of photosynthesis and a smaller range of N concentration ... The significance of the effects of lifting (L) and time (T) and their interaction (T × L) were assessed by a two-factorial variance analysis (ANOVA), and are indicated for the different variables;
Ngày tải lên: 08/08/2014, 01:22
Báo cáo khoa học: "The influence of fire on the seed bank in the soil of a Quercus faginea forest (NW Spain)" pot
... edaphic humidity is concerned and mix with the holm oaks in an area that has a basic soil with a similar percentage of sand, slime and clay and a lack of organic material. ... in the Mediterranean region: phytoclimate IV (VI) 1 according to the Allue classification [1]. In the area the yearly mean temperature is 11.7 °C and the annual mean rain- ... than the control. The number of germinated seeds was also high- er in the burnt area than the control and more abundant in the surface stratum than the deeper one
Ngày tải lên: 08/08/2014, 14:21
Báo cáo toán học: "On the number of subsequences with a given sum in a finite abelian grou" pptx
... Mathematics, National Taiwan University, Taipei 10617, Taiwan 2 Taida Institute for Mathematical Sciences, National Taiwan University, Taipei 10617, Taiwan 3 National Center for Theoretical Sciences, ... [14] A. Geroldinger and F. Halter-Koch, Non-unique factorizations, Combinatorial and Analytic Theory, Pure and Applied Mathematics, vol. 278, Chapman & Hall/CRC, 2006. [15] A. Geroldinger, Additive ... aspect of non-unique factorizations: the Narkiewicz constants, International Journal of Number Theory, to appear. [13] W.D. Gao and J.T. Peng, On the number of zero-sum subsequences of restricted
Ngày tải lên: 08/08/2014, 14:23
Báo cáo khoa học: "Delineation in thoracic oncology: a prospective study of the effect of training on contour variability and dosimetric consequences" potx
... INTRODUCTION: The variability among radiation-oncologists in the delineation of GTV for lung cancer has already been described [1-4]. These variations are a major source of error in the planning and ... delineation had been done under exactly the same conditions, with the same tools and the same clinical information as the residents; the contours were done after a training session on lung radiation ... similar conditions by 9 groups of senior radiation oncologists during a training course organized by the Association for Continuing Education in Oncology- Radiotherapy (AFCOR, Association de
Ngày tải lên: 09/08/2014, 09:21
Báo cáo sinh học: " A simulation study of the effect of connectedness on genetic trend" potx
... planned connections are usually hard to establish, at least at the beginning, a rather small amount may be sufficient because they are rapidly... cooperation or a mixture of both An appropriate ... seven generations: generation of animals, genetic evaluation, selection of sires, and computation of connectedness criteria. The evaluation step used FSPAK software (Perez-Enciso ... within-subpopulation assortative matings. Table I shows the parameters used in the simulation. The connections among subpopulations were initially nonexistent and were gradually generated
Ngày tải lên: 09/08/2014, 18:22
báo cáo khoa học: " Is globalization healthy: a statistical indicator analysis of the impacts of globalization on health" doc
... itself on a global scale Among the visible manifestations of globalization are the greater international movement of goods and services, financial capital, information and people In addition, there ... an environmental pathway Hence, many of these approaches primarily emphasize the economic and institutional side of globalization, defining globalization in a rather narrow way Labonte and Schrecker ... relationship between globalization and health Hence, contemporary globalization is defined as the intensification of crossnational interactions that promote the establishment of trans-national
Ngày tải lên: 11/08/2014, 14:21
Báo cáo y học: " The switch from conventional to atypical antipsychotic treatment should not be based exclusively on the presence of cognitive deficits. A pilot study in individuals with schizophrenia" pps
... Generation Test [CIG]). 8) Motor Speed (Finger-Tapping Test in unimanual and bimanual conditions). The variable years of education was used as a measure of premorbid intelligence. Data analyses Data ... were the only variables differing between that reached statistical significance, they were entered as covariates in these analyses. Pearson correlations were calculated among the clini- cal, treatment, ... Hospital of Valencia approved the research protocol. Clinical assessment The clinical evaluation of each patient was rated accord- ing to the Positive and Negative Symptom Scale (PANSS) [31,32] and
Ngày tải lên: 11/08/2014, 16:22
Báo cáo y học: " A biochemical hypothesis on the formation of fingerprints using a turing patterns approach" pps
... Lagrangian formulation, the calculation was always done in the initial reference configuration. Therefore, the solution for system (8) and (9) began with the discretization of the variables U 1 and ... Colombia Full list of author information is available at the end of the article Abstract Background: Fingerprints represent a particular characteristic for each individual. Characteristic patterns are ... computational physics 2003, 190(2):478-500. 17. Madzvamuse A, Thomas RDK, Maini PK, Wathen AJ: A numerical approach to the study of spatial pattern formation in the Ligaments of Arcoid Bivalves.
Ngày tải lên: 13/08/2014, 16:20
Báo cáo y học: "Impact of the factor V Leiden mutation on the outcome of pneumococcal pneumonia: a controlled laboratory study" ppsx
... expressed as percentage of the total surface area The average of 10 pictures was used for analysis Statistical analysis Data are expressed as box-and-whisker diagrams depicting the smallest observation, ... mechanisms that influence the outcome of pneumococcal pneumonia and sepsis Severe infection and inflammation have been closely linked to the activation of coagulation and downregulation of anticoagulant ... in a survival study Results: The FVL mutation had no consistent effect on activation of coagulation in either the presence or absence of ceftriaxone therapy, as reflected by comparable lung and
Ngày tải lên: 13/08/2014, 21:21
Báo cáo sinh học: "A microsatellite-based analysis for the detection of selection on BTA1 and BTA20 in northern Eurasian cattle (Bos taurus) populations" doc
... regarding the demo- graphic and mutational models on which they are based, as well as on uncertainty associated with the robustness of the approaches. The recent increased availability of large ... a factor of 3 because the variance in repeat number and the heterozygosity of a population measure different aspects of the variation at a locus. Thus, com- binations of any two of the three ... populations. A more detailed description of the estimation of D′ can be found in [39]. The statistical significance of the observed association between pairs of alleles under the null hypothesis of
Ngày tải lên: 14/08/2014, 13:21
ferris et al - 2009 - the effect of crosslisting on corporate governance - a review
... Madura and Subrahmanyam (2007) describe the governance improvements for a set of Italian firms that submit to stricter monitoring and transparency standards of the Borsa Italiana Black and Khanna ... a careful assessment of the trade-off between the value of the control that is sacrificed and the increase in share valuation that typically follows from additional shareholder protections and ... shares Among these considerations are the desire to obtain investment capital at a lower rate, achieve a higher share valuation, enjoy increased liquidity and market depth for its shares, and
Ngày tải lên: 06/01/2015, 19:49
The effects of games on helping high school English learners retain word meaning = Hiệu quả của trò chơi trong việc giúp học sinh THPT ghi nhớ nghĩa từ vựng
... dog chased the cat vs The cat was chased by the dog Categorial meaning: is actually one part of grammatical meaning which words derive from being a member of one category rather than another Words ... often taught by the grammar-translation -2- approach, that is at the time for vocabulary, a vast amount of teaching time is consumed by explanation and definition, classroom blackboards are often ... Connotation, on the other hand, refers to the associations that are connected to a certain word or the emotional suggestions related to that word The connotative meanings of a word exist together
Ngày tải lên: 30/03/2015, 14:32
On the sparsity of signals in a random sample
... ON THE SPARSITY OF SIGNALS IN A RANDOM SAMPLE JIANG BINYAN NATIONAL UNIVERSITY OF SINGAPORE 2011 ON THE SPARSITY OF SIGNALS IN A RANDOM SAMPLE JIANG BINYAN (B.Sc. University of Science and ... selection 12 1.2 Covariance selection 13 In Chapter 3 of this thesis, we aim at estimating the sparsity of the population covariance matrix If the sparsity of the population covariance ... estimating a covariance matrix becomes much more difficult Fortunately, the covariance matrix or concentration... sparse concentration matrix, and Rothman et al (2008) obtained the rate of
Ngày tải lên: 09/09/2015, 18:53
Investigation of the effects of serum amyloid a on human endothelial cells implications in atherosclerosis
... pathological basis of CAD, is now regarded as a chronic inflammatory disease of the vascular wall. Many inflammatory proteins are elevated in CAD and correlated with future coronary events. One of such ... responses, possibly contributing to vascular inflammation The same group also demonstrated that the increased serum levels of SAA contributed to the sustained accumulation and activation ... production but also the SAA-induced MMP-10 secretion. Conclusions- This study investigated the direct impact of SAA on atherosclerosis. SAA led to endothelial proinflammation, dysfunction, procoagulation
Ngày tải lên: 14/09/2015, 13:15
The impact of development on the export quality of a country an empirical analysis of chinese imports
... Israel Japan Jordan Kuwait Laos Lebanon Macau Malaysia Maldives Mongolia Nepal Oman Pakistan Philippines Qatar Saudi Arabia Singapore Sri Lanka Syria Thailand Turkey UAE Yemen Vietnam China Taiwan ... Nigeria Malta Rwanda Sao Tome and PrincipeNorway Poland Senegal Romania Sweden Switzerland Estonia Latvia Lithuania Georgia Armenia Azerbaijan Belarus Kazakhstan Kyrgyzstan Ecuador Grenada Guatemala ... Uzbekistan Canada Slovenia USA Croatia Bermuda Czech Republic Australia Slovakia Fiji Macedonia Bosnia-Herzegovina Vanuatu Antigua and Barbuda New Zealand Papua New Guinea Argentina Solomon Islands
Ngày tải lên: 12/10/2015, 17:36
The meaning of life: A very short introduction
... life has meaning, and so has that bit, so what meaning do all the various bits add up to?’ But it does not follow from the fact that the parts have meaning that the whole has a meaning over and ... were harnessed to the needs of the economy, the more they abandoned the business of investigating fundamental questions; so the more the Tarot touts, pyramid pushers, avatars of Atlantis, and ... regard the meaning- of- life question as being itself meaningless. This is the case that meaning is a matter of language, not objects. It is a question of the way we talk about things, not a...
Ngày tải lên: 11/01/2014, 18:45