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... further analysis of the magnitude of the demand differences between products consumed today and the potential demand for organic products in the Transkei and the Ciskei is presented in Figure and ... was drawn randomly from rural and urban locations in the two main regions of the Eastern Cape, namely the former Transkei homeland area and the former Ciskei homeland area By means of structured ... marked increases in the future demand of all organic products This augurs well for the growth of the organic industry in the Eastern Cape and in South Africa in general The findings of this study are...

Ngày tải lên: 14/02/2014, 03:20

... interpretation of data and drafted the manuscript GAB participated the coordination and acquisition of the study and helped draft the manuscript ES participated in the acquisition of the study and helped ... consistency The internal consistency for the two HRQL composite scores was for the PCS 0.88 and 0.85 (pre PI-ART and follow-up, respectively) and for the ECS 0.91 and 0.89 (pre PI-ART and follow-up, ... for up to two years after the start of the trial [33] After the introduction of PI-ART, improvements in depressive symptoms and mental health was reported in a shorter time period, i.e after up...

Ngày tải lên: 20/06/2014, 15:20

... 2003: 32) The basic claims of the cognitive account of metaphor, developed by Lakoff, Johnson and Turner (Lakoff and Johnson 1980, Lakoff 1987, Lakoff and Turner 1989, Lakoff 1993), and elaborated ... establishment and maintenance of the interpersonal relationship between the speaker and the listener and affect the fulfillment of the goal of the verbal interaction Verbalization and grammatical ... refers to the consideration of meaning in an incongruent way at the level of the organization of the discourse The most congruent form of joining two ideas is An investigation into the role of metaphor...

Ngày tải lên: 07/11/2012, 14:44

... aspect under the perfect has the effect of asserting that the beginning of the event time is included in the PTS The question of whether the end of the event time is included in the PTS or not ... makeup of the Perfect participle 285 ing for the perfect - a combination of the meaning of [PERFECT] in Asp1 and the meaning contribution of a viewpoint aspectual projection The semantic role of the ... (12b), the left boundary of the PTS is asserted to precede the beginning of the event time and the right boundary of the PTS is not asserted to be included in the event time Examples such as the...

Ngày tải lên: 18/10/2013, 14:15

... levels of sophistication The customers connect with both the product and the partnership between them and the builder The employees understand the product and connect to the meaning of their job The ... president of the company is the number-one advocate of the vision Without a public display of emotion of the vision, the business plan will have a stillbirth The president or leader of the business ... COMPANY OF THE FUTURE The second part of the visioning process is the vision statement This is a statement that captures the essence or spirit of how you describe the organization of the future...

Ngày tải lên: 24/10/2013, 09:20

... educational, and other municipal services and infrastructure The programming approach to city officials will require strong advocacy based on an understanding of the system of land tenure in vigor and of ... children and 11% of rural children), and 7% suffered from diarrheal disease (6.1% of urban children and 7.8% of rural children) in the two weeks preceding the survey • The Manshiet Nasser survey of the ... nontenured residents) within and around Cairo were created in the last decade The inhabitants are among the poorest of the poor in Greater Cairo.44 The results of sociological and other urban studies are...

Ngày tải lên: 12/02/2014, 12:20

... fitting of further shells of scatterers Although the EXAFS data were admittedly noisy, they FEBS Journal 277 (2010) 2531–2542 ª 2010 The Authors Journal compilation ª 2010 FEBS S Zeitoun-Ghandour ... and (D) result from expression in the presence of the respective metal ion; sample (B) was obtained by expression in presence of Zn(II) and reconstitution of the apoprotein with Cd(II) )Met and ... sequenced genome contains only two metallothioneins CeMT-1 and CeMT-2 [23] The encoded proteins bear the hallmarks of metallothioneins, i.e they are small and cysteine-rich, and their expression is induced...

Ngày tải lên: 16/02/2014, 15:20

... contradictory to the conclusions of the Final Document of the Moscow Meeting of the Conference on the Human Dimension of the CSCE and in breach of Article 19 of the International Covenant on Civil and Political ... or the economic well-being of the country, for the prevention of disorder or crime, for the protection of health of morals, or for the protection of the rights and freedoms of others Finally, the ... for the outbreak of conflicts and of their prevention, settling and dealing with their aftermaths The development of democratic institutions and the protection of human rights are among the OSCE’s...

Ngày tải lên: 18/02/2014, 00:20

... concentrations of these materials present in the artery wall, and in atherosclerotic lesions, are unknown The role of glycation and the two facets of glycoxidation in generating modified LDLs and lipid-laden ... receptor-blocking experiments The rates of uptake of both the lipid and protein components are not matched by the rate of cellular metabolism of these species, resulting in the accumulation of both unmodified ... pathogenesis [2] An early and persistent feature of the atherosclerotic lesion is the presence of lipid-laden (foam) cells in the intima of the artery wall, arising from cholesterol and cholesteryl ester...

Ngày tải lên: 19/02/2014, 02:20

... the basic or looped characteristics, as peptide V, a mimetic of loop 2, located between the C-end of the a-helix and the beginning of the first b-strand, was inactive Two peptides consisting of ... identified two subsites on this molecule comprising Ôresidues in the protruding domain consisting of the type VI b-turn and the first part of b-strand 3Õ (i.e the b-hairpin loop and part of the adjoining ... in favour of the critical importance of the loop sequence bridging the two common b-strands of defensins in their biological activity Our hypothesis is that this protruding part of the molecule...

Ngày tải lên: 20/02/2014, 11:20

... )70 °C The areas of the gels corresponding to the released strand and to the nonunwound substrate were cut out and 32 P radioactivity counted Alternatively, the films were scanned and the radioactivity ... of 1.5–5.5 lM) of the helicase activities of HCV, WNV and Suv3(D1–159), but not JEV The tetrachlorobenzotriazole TCBT is only a weak inhibitor of the HCV enzyme, and a moderate inhibitor of the ... inhibition of the unwinding reaction by the HCV enzyme was observed when the DNA substrate concentration exceeded 15 pM (not shown) The responses of the helicase activities of the other three...

Ngày tải lên: 08/03/2014, 02:20

... case of let’s sit back and hope for the best Then there are others who deliberately not want to know anything about the activities of the company They want to study the “pure” movement of the ... put the two charts together, we see how they track each other Sometimes the price moves ahead of the earnings per share and sometimes it is the other way around But over time they move together ... Investor There are two key features of the growth in sales and earnings: the rate of growth and the stability of the growth Conscious Investor provides proprietary tools to measure both of these...

Ngày tải lên: 14/03/2014, 19:20

... participant; it is the “open” space of the window, and the agent by which Six reads This light illuminates the head and hand of Six, the sword hilt upon the table, and the pile of books, the top one ... one of the five performances of Medea in the autumn of 1647 Noting the theatricality of the costumes and the similarity of the architecture to the Stadsschouwburg, J Konst posited that Rembrandt’s ... resistant courts of Renaissance Italy, and that the new processes flourished in Germany and the Netherlands.14 book culture 25 The Netherlands was the most literate country of Europe in the seventeenth...

Ngày tải lên: 17/03/2014, 18:19

... agents about the structure of the economy and the policymaker preferences Hence, these two features increase the sensitivity of in‡ ation expectations and of the term structure of interest rates ... after the exclusion of the 5% of observations at the two extremities of the sample, they test for a change in the constant parameter in (4.2), the other parameters remaining constant We then focus ... concerning among others the length of the window, the number of lags or the real rate level hypothesis rr and results are reported in the …rst eight rows of table For all these results, the ten-year...

Ngày tải lên: 22/03/2014, 23:20

... sufficient to pay back the principal and interest of all loans and the dividends of shareholders over the life of the contract The unitary charge as a whole constitutes the cashflow from the public to ... schemes is low risk and the remaining 10% is higher risk The overall cost of finance is the sum of these costs of finance There are two main types of senior debt, bank financing and bond financing.36 ... staff and IT maintenance Due to their timing, these events and the subsequent cancellation of the deal in February 2001 not form part of the NAO inquiry which is limited to the steps Siemens and the...

Ngày tải lên: 23/03/2014, 04:20

... in the gradients of 600~1000m; rarely occurred in elevations beyond 1200 m •1980 -2010: the proportion of rubber plantations area in the elevation of 600-800m decreased, while increased in the ... showed the similar trend Change pattern (1980 -2010) : The proportion gradually declined on the flat and north aspects, while rose continually on the south aspect, and decreased firstly then increased ... based on analysis of spectral, texture, and other characteristics • Total classification accuracy was 82.5%, the accuracy of mature rubber forest and young rubber forest were 92.50% and 76.42% Rubber...

Ngày tải lên: 23/03/2014, 21:21

... row and column) and Jk is its barycenter By convexity, Jk is the maximizer of the entropy over Bk and the minimizer of the 2-norm By the same token, the permutation matrices are minimizers of the ... prove Theorems and given Proposition Proof of Theorems and A random graph G(n, m) may contain some loops and multiple edges Writing q = q(G(n, m)) for the number of such blemishes we see that their ... Mk (R) the space of all k × k matrices over R and let F be the subspace of Mk (R) consisting of all matrices X = (xij ) for which the sum of each row and each column is The dimension of F is...

Ngày tải lên: 29/03/2014, 07:20

... affect the exporter’s profitability, it can affect the probability of loan default and, correspondingly, the value of the loan and the profitability of the bank 15 The estimates of exchange rate exposure ... percent of the U.S firms and only about percent of the Japanese firms At the daily frequency, the number of banking firms for which we can reject the hypothesis This represents 30 percent of the ... construct estimates of the exchange rate sensitivity of the equity returns of the U.S bank holding companies and compare them to those of the Japanese banks We find that the stock returns of a significant...

Ngày tải lên: 29/03/2014, 13:20

... In the analyses of landscapes, the distance from the bottom of the picture to the location of the horizon was measured.4 In the analyses of portraits, we measured the ratio of the area of the ... Ratio in Percentage of the Height of the Horizon to the Height of the Entire Frame and the Average Ratio of the Area of the Face to the Area of the Entire Frame for Paintings of People in a Scene ... in the laboratory, a photograph of the model standing against a wall, a photograph of the model sitting on a chair in the atrium of the building, and a photograph of the model standing in the...

Ngày tải lên: 30/03/2014, 16:20