vulnerability and the ability to recover varies between communities

... although the results are significant at the 5% level only for short tenure 15 To address the question of whether there is a change in the relation between tenure and accruals across the pre- and post-SOX ... i.e., the discretionary accruals were adjusted by the discretionary accruals of the firm with the closest ROA and in the same industry and year as the sample firm Over the full sample and pre-SOX ... 1A: There is no difference in the relation between auditor tenure and the frequency with which discretionary accruals allow firms to meet or beat earnings forecasts between the pre-SOX and the...

Ngày tải lên: 06/01/2015, 19:42

... contributed to the interpretation of the findings and revised the manuscript GM , contributed to and revised the manuscript SB contributed to conception, interpretation of data, and revised the manuscript ... supernatant than the control cells In these cells IFN-b secreted to the supernatant reached the maximum yield hours post-stimulation and declined rapidly to a low level for the rest of the experiment ... production rather than the signalling from the IFN receptor Expression of IFN-b in response to poly I:C To determine whether the reduction of IFN-b production was caused by the suppression of the expression...

Ngày tải lên: 11/08/2014, 21:21

... protein expression and function is highly variable Roles have been described in the secretion, stability and oligomerization of proteins [38,39], the bioactivities of enzymes [40] and the binding affinities ... the triple mutant fractionated with a lower molecular mass than the wild-type protein, and either the single or double mutants This lower molecular mass form appeared to be the same size as the ... proteins HLA-A2 and HLAB7 suggest that it is fully functional in the absence of glycosylation [45] Despite the sequence and structural similarities between the two proteins, therefore, we observed...

Ngày tải lên: 06/03/2014, 22:21

... understanding of the medical information provided to them 8-11 • But none of these can document whether a particular patient understands the one form they need at the moment This leaves it up to the ... 18 Brandes W, Furnas S, and McClellan F Literacy, Health, and the Law: An Exploration of the Law and the Plight of Marginal Readers within the Health Care System: Advocating for Patients and Providers ... whether materials will be attractive and understandable enough to be used by the intended audience • The Suitability Assessment of Materials1 and the Medicaid Checklist2 assess how readable and...

Ngày tải lên: 22/03/2014, 15:21

... imitation outweighs the benefit gained from the additional innovation On the other hand, the period is too short if rents disappear so rapidly that the loss of future innovations outweighs the immediate ... political and institutional conditions for sustained and rapid improvements in living standards? This question goes to the heart of many current debates on the role of markets and the State during the ... industrial success include the capacity of the State to pragmatically monitor and to make judgment about the performance, and the capacity to reallocate the subsidies and assets of non-performers,”...

Ngày tải lên: 09/04/2014, 00:24

... data analysis and manuscript writing AJS participated in the conception and design of the study and final approval of the manuscript Competing interests The authors declare that they have no competing ... Prof Peter W Andrews lab, University of Sheffield for the supply of the embryonal carcinoma cell line 2102Ep Thanks also to Dr C Allegrucci and Dr S.Loughna for reviewing the manuscript The work ... 100% against the NCBI BLAST sequence of Oct4 (figure and table 1) Results obtained for both freshly isolated and cultured c-kit + cells illustrated the high level of homology between the c-kit +...

Ngày tải lên: 11/08/2014, 07:21

... addressed the task and conveyed relevant information They also consider whether the test taker has effectively synthesized and summarized the information in the integrated tasks Raters evaluate if the ... grammar and vocabulary) and the completeness and accuracy of the content The independent writing essay is scored on the overall quality of the writing: development, organization, and appropriate and ... institutions may choose to use the standard-setting process for the Speaking and Writing sections only, and then use the score comparison tables to set standards for the Reading and Listening sections...

Ngày tải lên: 10/12/2013, 05:15

... state In other words, because they are intended to protect individuals and they allow them the liberty to conduct their lives in their own and various ways, they recognise and protect the existence ... all the good traditions of the ancient statehood of the lands of the Czech Crown and the Czechoslovak statehood, determined to build, protect, and develop the Czech Republic in the spirit of the ... largely unexpected and unpredicted by both the Western and the Eastern blocs With the Cold War and especially after the Soviet repression of the Hungarian revolution in 1956 and the Prague Spring...

Ngày tải lên: 18/02/2014, 11:20

... health and biodiversity, including impacts on forests, grasslands, and wetlands; and • The growth and use of cultivated invasive or noxious plants and their impacts on the environment and agriculture ... receive the RIN associated with that purchase If they not choose to purchase biofuels, then they can purchase the RIN instead and meet the RFS mandated level If the demand for biofuel is low, they ... scientific and engineering research, dedicated to the furtherance of science and technology and to their use for the general welfare Upon the authority of the charter granted to it by the Congress...

Ngày tải lên: 19/02/2014, 09:20

... planning and cooperation at the local, state, and national level and as certainly will demand coordination, planning, and funding by public and private means Second, the historical schism between the ... three main areas: the directives, and the Occupational Health and Safety Act, in particular, the roles of the joint health and safety committees and the Ministry of Labour The third area, infection ... Abert The States and the Metropolis, Patricia S Florestano and Vincent L Marando 11 Changing Bureaucracies: Understanding the Organization before Selecting the Approach, William A Medina 12 Handbook...

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Ngày tải lên: 23/03/2014, 05:23

... Analysis of thermal stability of G-quadruplexes The results shown in Fig clearly demonstrate that the number of G-tetrad in quadruplex is the determining factor for the thermal stability of both ... Fig 5A The variability of the cisplatin mode to bind with G-rich sequences is vast; in principle, there is the possibility to bind within each guanine, to form intrastrand and interstrand bifunctional ... by platinum atoms either welds together contiguous guanine residues and stabilizes the G-quadruplex or the occupancy of N7 hydrogen bonds destabilizes these structural motifs The suggestion that...

Ngày tải lên: 23/03/2014, 06:20

... work, how delighted they were with the changes they were making Then they’d leave, and I’d be left scratching my head wondering how to find another client like that One problem with therapy? My clients ... to the same shape I picked up the phone, over and over I rang and rang and rang all day I went to meetings I wrote proposals I was messed around I persisted 11 I closed a sale Then another Then ... branding, advertising, pricing and promotions Sales is about closing the deal It’s the bit where you explain to people what they’ll get, how you will help them, and then ask them for money Sorry if...

Ngày tải lên: 23/03/2014, 17:21

... implied expression of ideas concerning the spiritual, Do you know the unconscious and the how the first abstract mind Fernand Léger, The Railway Crossing, 1919 The Art Institute of Chicago painting ... momentarily, then quickly went up to this enigmatic painting in which I could see nothing but shapes and colours and the content of which was incomprehensible to me.” The answer to the riddle came ... centre that the use of the cart hinges We make a vessel from a lump of clay; It is the empty space within the vessel that makes it float Thus, while the visible has advantages, It is the invisible...

Ngày tải lên: 03/06/2014, 16:38

... or nearly so The wind will blow the machine out from the base of the tower and the weight will be sustained partly by the upward pull of the rope and partly by the lift of the wind The counterbalance ... into the labyrinth, the next penetrating further, and so on, until the very centre is reached and success is won In the hope, therefore, of making the way easier to others, I have set down the ... tunnel as the ‘goesinta’ and the other end as the ‘goesouta.’ An old one-cylinder gasoline engine (that also turned other tools in the shop, such as our lathe) supplied the power to turn the fan...

Ngày tải lên: 08/06/2014, 08:51

... international standing Moreover, there are (c) significant implications for the international system as a whole On the one hand, a legitimate intervener might improve the standing of the UN and promote the ... Humanitarian Intervention and the Responsibility to Protect  The ECOWAS, the UN, and the US intervention in Liberia in 2003 after the renewal of fighting ˆ  The French and UN intervention in Cote ... when there is a major humanitarian crisis within its borders, regardless of whether there is a fit between the majority of the population and the government (a minority may be suffering the crisis).24...

Ngày tải lên: 10/06/2014, 21:42

... with their use or on the information their capture conveys about the prowess of the hunter With these models foraging theory has carried us beyond the gastric” (Zeanah and Simms 1999) and into the ... constraints In the diet breadth model constraints include things like the size of the forager, the hunting and gathering technology used, and the distribution and caloric value of the targeted ... environment and among themselves These models iterate a cycle in which the agent collects information from the environment, and then acts in some fashion that changes the agent and environment The agent-based...

Ngày tải lên: 11/06/2014, 13:54

... Define the growth and developing possibility of germinated macadamia trees in the pure cropping 2 OBJECTIVES AND CONTENT OF THE RESEARCH 2.1 Assess and select macadamia varieties in the group The ... garden 3.2 The growth of Grafted Macadamia intercropping methods : (Chart 11) in : the 3.3 The growth of Germinated Macadamia in the Pure cropping methods : (Chart 12) 3.1 Assess and select the macadamia ... originating from Thailand 3.2 Assess the possibility of growing and developing of Grafted macadamia in the intercropping methods Chart 11: The growth of Grafted Macadamia in the Intercropping Methods...

Ngày tải lên: 21/06/2014, 06:20

... When the seasons changed and the soil began to crack and the wadis ran dry, Ahmed’s father and his wives would dismantle their aqals, pack up their few belongings, and with their livestock and ... children dying before their fth birthday The mothers carry their children ten kilometers, and they’re dead in their arms before they get to the clinic—they’re dead in their arms, or they’re in a coma.” ... not saying the only way for the rich and the poor to live together is if the rich cut their living standards by half, give up their cars, understand modern life is a false contrivance and a false...

Ngày tải lên: 20/07/2014, 21:23

... strengthening the hypothesis that they play a significant role in water absorption Lenticels could also play a major role in the oxygenation of shoots via import of O2 into xylem sap, and then in the ... modifications of the sucrose degradation and of the fermentative metabolism pathways [20, 38] These modifications contribute to the maintenance of energetic status and redox potential of cells in the reductive ... easily separated from the main roots Adventitious roots were identified as the white and plagiotropic lateral roots inserted on the main-stem or at the basis of the tap-root, and were harvested separately...

Ngày tải lên: 07/08/2014, 16:20