... but there are things we just cant disagree on: Guys are moer low maintenance, transparent and they carry with them very little drama We, on the other hand, can be finicky, passive aggressive and ... “ unless one of these things is at play” Once one of these is activated, then the male/female friendship can absolutely exist in perpetuity And here goes: 1- You’re taken If either of you are ... come by And however you may see this post, please, always give a thought or two about their feelings Peel the layers, strip it all down to the very basic qualities of the friendship, and you’ll...
... implementation of theGlobal Fund grant, and in Zambia roles and responsibilities were ill-defined betweenthe NAC, MoH, other ministries and CSOs, andbetween various subnational structures and actors ... outlined in theGlobal Fund guidelines such as oversight and monitoring and evaluation: they primarily existed to agree and sign Global Fund proposals, and met infrequently In Zambia, USAID andthe World ... internal validity of the synthesis The synthesis involved: Initial reading of all study reports and summaries of findings by the first analyst from the London team; The London and Dublin teams met...
... neutrophil–endothelial cell interactions in the tissues The E-selectin binding between neutrophils and endothelial cells is attenuated in vitro by protein C [143] It has been speculated that the ... integument of the animal, and it seals off the injured area from the remainder of the crab’s open circulatory system The animal will often clot off and sacrifice an entire extremity (they have seven ... more appendages to spare and they will grow back) and thereby avoid a potentially lethal systemic infection The clot reaction walls off the injured site and contains the inevitable microbial...
... discharged from the ICU to ward, but not to their homes To increase the collaboration between intensivists and GPs, the present study aimed at assessing the opinions of GPs about their relationships ... city, and distance between their office andthe nearest university hospital ICU In addition, information concerning the number of patients per year, the way medical information related to the patient ... during the patient ICU stay (frequency andthe aim of these meetings) The frequency of reception of an ICU report was estimated GPs' wishes Materials and methods The present study was approved by the...
... IKDCs and CD16 cells within the leukocyte family, we used the microarray data from the original reports aimed at characterizing these cells and compared them to the data from several other leukocyte ... closer to the other cell populations from the same species within the same leukocyte family This is clearly illustrated for the T cell populations as mouse CD4 and CD8 T cells cluster together and ... mouse and human pDCs cluster together and apart from cDCs (Figure 3) Importantly, when analyzing the DC datasets alone, mouse CD8α and human BDCA3 cDCs on the one hand, and mouse CD11b and human...
... without which the thesis will fall Dr Chai gives life to the thesis, is always full of ideas, and at the same time extremely caring and understanding But most importantly, their trust and patience ... Burt (1997) The theories of network ties is important in the studies of knowledge sharing because the identities and interpersonal relationshipsbetweenthe knowledge contributor and recipients ... knowledge because therelationshipsbetweenthe source andthe recipients are less arduous and more intimate (Szulanski 1996) Complex knowledge is usually more tacit in nature, and therefore requires...
... higher the levels of R&D efforts and training within a firm are, the more the firm will be able to create and exploit - 14 - Chapter Literature Review novelty”(pp.31), and on the other hand the ... for biotechnology startups, the larger the alliance network size, andthe more ‘efficient’ the network, the higher the performance They reasoned that the larger size and more efficient network ... organizational structures and compensation policies (the more similarity, the more fluent the transfer process); and 3), proportion of the shared problem set (the larger, the easier the learning) This...
... developing, and critiquing the interface of law and accounting The thesis examines the increasing call for accounting information in law andregulation by interrogating the use, presentation, and reception ... concept, the thesis illustrates the role of cost at methodological, technical, and political levels, andthe challenges that this poses for telecommunications regulationThe thesis articulates the ... chapter details the shift from the market-based, light-handed regulation to the current sector-specific regulationThe chapter notes the limits of economic theory which include the challenges...
... grow quickly and others not That is, the variation in the dependent variables comes from both the time series andthe cross-sections, and some pooling of data is necessary to address the questions ... data, and note significant deviations betweenthe PWT 6.0 and PWT 5.6 results The PWT 6.0 data contain more observations than the PWT 5.6 data, but when matched with the data for other variables the ... and liberalization, on the one hand, and growth and growth volatility, on the other, were tradeoffs in democracies We explore briefly both lines of inquiry as a guide to further research 13 The...
... family Very often, the person who takes such a stand will command the respect of their peers—many of whom may wish that they too could make a similar commitment Nonetheless, such a stand can also generate ... primarily from the narrow focus on organizational goals and objectives to the exclusion of personal goals and objectives In other words, if all that matters is the organization's goals, there is simply ... organizations compete for a limited resource The success of one means that it tends to get more of the resource, which then reduces the success of the others The resource could be limited dollars to...
... 1–32 The definitions of household in the SCF and in the Surveys of Consumers are consistent enough to allow for comparisons In this article, we use the terms family and household interchangeably The ... ‘‘Saving and Financial Planning: Some ´ Household Financial Management: The Connection between Knowledge and Behavior and more research on budgeting and cash-flow management is needed Data from the ... questions covering consumer attitudes and expectations andthe respondents’ socioeconomic and demographic characteristics.34 In the November and December 2001 surveys, the Federal Reserve Board commissioned...
... their investigation As well, they adequately reported on the content of the interventions, the statistical analytic decisions, andthe dates of recruitment and follow-up, and they addressed their ... information regarding the intervention itself, the statistical analyses performed, andthe methodology and adequate discussion of the generalizability of the results and how they fit in the context of ... the statistical methods used, detailing of the flow of participants through the study and their baseline characteristics, and an interpretation of the results as they fit in the context of other...
... has termed the Matthew effect, with the better readers reading more and therefore increasing their exposure to print, and consequently their word recognition skills and their fluency and speed ... whom had received their research funding from the ARC, to discuss and review their work in the reading area As noted by Pratt and Coltheart7, the issues covered andthe emphases of the different ... administrators andthe public These concerns include the social factors related to the development of literacy, including the early development of literacy in the home and preschool environment, and the...
... receipts and payments (the credit terms on sales and purchases are the same so that a =~) andthe firm buys just in time so inventory is zero and YI =O operating cash cycle (0) is cet Then theand ... because the sales contract determines both the timing and amount of the cash inflows (and often related cash outflows) andthe recognition of earnings The sales contract specifies when and under ... process for sales, the signs of the predicted relations and correlations (other than earnings changes) andthe results are essentially unchanged The relation between sales and cash flow from...
... during the first h The flux through these enzymes was mainly regulated through the change in Vmax The contribution of their interaction with their substrate(s) and product(s) to theregulation of their ... SYBR Green PCR Core Kit (Bioke, Leiden, The Netherlands), pmol of each primer (Isogen, De Meern, The Netherlands or Biolegio, Nijmegen, The Netherlands) and lL of cDNA template (equivalent to ... hence the name ‘hierarchical’ The relative contribution of changes in the interaction of the enzyme with the rest of metabolism is reflected in the metabolic regulation coefficient qm Together the...
... because the latter depends on (a) the structural integrity of the vascular bed of the penis; (b) the endothelium lining the cavernosal arteries andthe helicine arterioles, as well as the endothelium ... lining the lacunar spaces of the corpus cavernsoum; and (c) the endocrine milieu that regulates the fibroelastic properties of the penis via tissue maintenance and remodeling The evidence Obesity and ... contribute to endothelial dysfunction and microvascular disease and reduced androgen levels; (b) the insult on the endothelium resulting in endothelial injury and reduced NO synthase activity and NO production,...
... uniform charge The same analysis has been used for the interaction between Cyt f and plastocyanin [1], and for an in-depth discussion of the advantages and limitations of the Watkins model the reader ... cyanobacteria at the time of chloroplast origin had poorly defined interactions between Cyt f and plastocyanin and/ or plastocyanin and photosystem I, and subsequently the nature of the interactions in the ... charge (K53A), and three neutralized or inverted the charge on R93 (R93A, R93Q, R93E), a residue situated close to the charge cluster that includes D44 and K53 and at the edge of the hydrophobic...
... familiar with the strong racial feeling that existed betweenthe English andthe Welsh, andbetweenthe English andthe Irish If the Lowlanders of Scotland felt towards the Highlanders as Mr Hill ... prosecuting the claim of homage, andthe continuance of hostilities is really explained by the ill-will between March and Douglas andthe old feud betweenthe Douglases andthe Percies In June, 1402, the ... must exclude the islands, which were largely inhabited by Norsemen Both the Hebrides andthe islands of Orkney and Shetland were outside the realm of Scotland The names of Macbeth and "the gentle...
... example and then used to generate a prediction for the leftout example The meta-classifier is trained using the predictions of the base-level classifiers as features, andthe true label as given by the ... (Culotta and McCallum, 2004) is used H- CRF also computes the Monge Elkan distance (Monge and Elkan, 1996) betweenthe relations predicted by O- CRF and R1CRF and includes the result in the feature ... consider the task of open extraction, in which the goal is to extract relationships from text when their number is large and identity unknown We then consider the targeted extraction task, in which the...