... 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 theother 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...
... contrast to CD14, TLRs have greater ligand specificity for the microbial structures and they can detect and discriminate between types of bacteria andother microbial components Gram-positive ... 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 ... 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...
... At the conclusion of the test, the seedlings were carefully removed and their root growth determined by considering the white roots that grew outside the plug in the perlite medium Then, the ... these stations, whereas the temperature was corrected for altitude differences by the determination of the difference between mean monthly temperatures betweenthe station andthe site (using the ... in July and December in the first year (2004) and December in the second year (2005) These variables were computed from records from the weather station network located in the vicinity of the sites...
... evolution between years in the relative periodicity of root and shoot growth of walnut seedlings Since there was no relationship between root bud dormancy and growth, the reasons for the cessation ... particular relationshipsbetween a climatic factor (for example, temperature) and growth, conserving the same ranges as those obser- Discussion and Conclusion References The results show that there ... the 10 plants; taking as ’individuals’ the measurement dates studied: on The sowing yr analyses provided very similar figures, andthe same was true for both 2nd yr analyses The results for the...
... function, which takes the value if condition A is true and otherwise Next, consider the joint distribution of the continuous phenotypes and of the liabilities of the binary characters The unknown liabilities ... a component pertaining to the bth binary trait (rb,b), vectors containing the covariance components betweenthe bth trait and all other traits (r–b,b and rb,–b), andthe residual covariance matrix ... i ‘‘fixed’’ and random effects, except liability to the disease, li), and ei is the 342 X.-L Wu et al residual term Then, the difference between means of production between sick (1) and healthy...
... alcR and aldA expression not exceed their basal, noninduced levels (results not shown) These data thus show that there is no correlation betweenthe inducing capabilities of a ketone andthe structurally ... resolved directly in the gel as described in Materials and methods The zymograms are presented as the negatives (B) Northern analysis of the induction of aldA and alcR in the presence of ethanol ... have therefore investigated whether or not the esters and lactones (intramolecular esters) corresponding to the above ketones induce the alc genes Transcript analyses show that whereas the ester...
... , (1.12) where the symbol En is interpreted to mean that En must be replaced by En when we expand the one on the left These numbers are classical and important in mathematics and in various places ... q-deformed fermionic certain and annihilation operators andthe literature given therein [6–18] The expression for the Iq (g) remains the same, so it is tempting to consider the limit q → −1 That is, ... follows Definition 2.8 For s ∈ C Then ∞ lw (s,χ | z) = (−1)n χ(n)wn (n + z)s n =0 (2.16) The relation between lw (−k,χ | z) and Ek,χ,w (z) is given by the following theorem Theorem 2.9 For k ∈ N, one...
... groundwater The groundwater level strongly modifies the root system parameters and consequently, there arises a question how it influences therelationshipsbetweenthe aboveground andthe belowground ... exceeded the circumference of the crown This author reported that the width of spruce root systems in the Hronec locality was wider by 94 cm than the width of the crown On theother hand, Konôpka ... correlation betweenthe root plate width andthe dbh than betweenthe root plate depth andthe dbh His results partially correspond to our results because we have not found out any correlation between the...
... monspessulanum species which was cultivated at the arboretum of the Campus Theother site, known as “La Bastille”, is located in a low mountain stand in the extern zone of the North-western Alps (45° 12’ N, ... cavitation The VCs of the six species of Maple are grouped together in Figure It is possible to differentiate, according to their The combined results of the specific conductivities andthe vulnerability ... individual trees in the mountain stand were compared with a tree of the wet site (closed symbols) The linear relation between Kmax andthe stem diameter is given by the regression coefficient R2 Analysis...
... count the total number of tracheids and (ii) to measure the cell wall thickness Based on these figures, with the support of one simple geometric modeland by the mean of the expected value for the ... the cell walls thickness of the S2 (the richest in cellulose) and S1 layers, are strongly and weakly thicker than in the EW, respectively while the S3 layer andthe primary wall have almost the ... especially in the earlywood The calculated apparent densities of (tracheids, rays and canals) walls vary between 880 in the EW and 1140 kg/m³ in the LW andthe apparent densities of the tracheids walls...
... of the two halfues boards and of the four standard samples There is no relationship betweenthe top and bottom samples, nor betweenthe trunk MOE andthe bottom samples 3.4 Relationshipsbetween ... relationship between MOE andthe pol parameters The part of the ring most involved in these relationships is, for the trunk MOE, the transition zone between early and latewood andthe first part of the ... relationship betweenthe MOE andthe parameters of the polynomials calculated The results are shown in table VII This table also gives the results of the regression analysis betweenthe MOE andthe density...
... to imagine and test physical models based on hypotheses about therelationshipsbetween local MOE and local wood density, and then compare them to the statistical models of our study These results ... earlywood-latewood limit Another explanation for the lack of accuracy of the models describing the MOE-density relationship is that the mathematical shape and/ or the parameters of the models used to outline ... level (not the same not therelationshipsThe clone 1453 model is completely different from theother four The MOE of this clone is negatively (and significantly, P < 0.05) related to Dhi and Ene,...
... Inconsistent findings betweenthe PFPS and control groups indicate that pathology may play a role in the relationship between static foot posture and dynamic function The fair association between pronated ... metatarsal, and base of fifth metatarsal The rearfoot segment was formed by three markers bisecting the heel (distal, wand, and proximal), and markers placed on the lateral calcaneus and sustentaculum ... form the thigh and hip segments: lateral aspect of the femur (5 cm wand), the anterior superior iliac spine, andthe sacrum (see Figure 1) A relaxed standing calibration trial was then captured...
... international trade andthe food safety arena by the World Trade Organisation (Campos 1998), the OIE, the Codex Alimentarius Commission andthe EU These organisations are recognising the need for good ... zoonotic agents, on theother hand, have gained attention only in recent years and mainly in Scandinavian countries Additionally, the systems that are in place for residue and zoonotic agent monitoring ... example, in the International Animal Health Code (Anonymous 1999b) Clearly, there are many different types of MO&SS and there is no easy way to assess their quality Nevertheless there is a need...
... 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 ... direct contact between GPs and intensivists First, most patients are transferred to the ICU from another department Hence, the GPs are not involved in the ICU admission process Second, the patients ... 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...
... Importantly, when analyzing the DC datasets alone, mouse CD8α and human BDCA3 cDCs on the one hand, and mouse CD11b and human BDCA1 cDCs on theother hand, clustered together and shared a conserved ... [31,54] and Plac8 (C15) [55] Second, although mouse and human cDCs clustered together, the two cDC subsets of each species appeared closer to one another than to the subsets of theother species ... observed between mouse and human conventional DC subsets, although a partial functional equivalence is suggested between mCD8α and hBDCA3 cDCs on the one hand versus mCD11b and hBDCA1 cDCs on the other...
... 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 ... whereby members of the community voluntarily share information with others because they believe that the knowledge they gain from the community should belong to the community and therefore should ... 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 theother 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 ... knowledge to the focal firm However, though the link between network structure and innovation was examined in both studies, they did not explicitly modelthe association between network structure and...
... 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 ... ∆Capital(s-1) Models 3.1 and 3.3 report the base model results for PWT 6.0 and PWT 5.6 data, respectively Models 3.2 and 3.4 add current account indicators to the models for PWT 6.0 and PWT 5.6 ... 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...
... the present study we found no correlation between MCP-1 and radical levels and a negative correlation between ICAM-1 and these levels The lack of a positive correlation between radicals and these ... along the anterior border of the sternocleidomastoid muscle A 1-mm catheter was inserted via the facial vein into the jugular vein and advanced up to the level above the skull base, andthe facial ... of the degree of damage to brain tissue Hence, we can only interpret the associations betweenthe markers studied andthe free radical levels and factors related to atherosclerotic disease Furthermore,...