... remunerated, and more, by the increased sale of the public lands, the increase of population, and the consequent increase of the revenue from the custom-house And the rest are required by the great duty ... questioning the certainty of the great things that are to be done there hereafter, it is no presumption to express the belief that the expenses of that mail are hardly paid by the postage onthe ... consumption one-third; the falling of tea one-sixth, increased consumption one-half; the falling of silks one-fifth, doubled the consumption; of coffee one-fourth, trebled it, and of cotton goods onehalf...
... MIβGESCHICK1: The chief problem of previous theses on Intercultural Theatre is that definitions are conceived only in the form of the object, or of contemplation They are not usually conceived subjectively ... in the course of the given It is contingent upon chance encounters and the reaction to them The narrative then takes up the form as (absolute) presentation Presentation then is the inter-connection ... And one of the many Artauds who saw Balinese Theatre at the Paris Colonial Exposition is more than a viewer of Balinese Theatre at the Paris Colonial Exposition In what ways are they more? The...
... this kind cannot provide much more than the main points relating to the issues References, therefore, are provided for those who wish to pursue thesubject further Welsh-medium and English-medium ... apparent if the work is read silently since the writer will often ‘read’ what should be there rather than what is actually onthe page Reviewing the text and identifying: • whether or not the ... other relevant references and websites, including that of the National Association for Able Children in Education (NACE) which publishes guidance materials relating to the more-able learner One...
... Internet, and the distance between researcher and subject is widened even further when the researched community consists of hundreds or more anonymous or pseudonymous members Are there models in the physical ... is the process of informed consent, which recognizes the autonomy of research subjects by sharing with them the power of 12 Reid, E “Informed Consent in the Study of On- line Communities: A reflection ... into the group The faceless nature of online interactions may not always allow for this course of action Finally, there is the nature of the consent form and the validity of the process In the...
... that there were no visible artifacts Procedures Following EMG preparation, the subjects were instructed to perform repetitions of the following three sets of exercises: 1) MVIC knee extension at ... each subject received a verbal explanation and a demonstration of the testing activities and practice trials were performed to ensure thesubject' s comprehension and safety After familiarization, ... (Table 1, Figure 5) There were no significant differences between gender with respect to the EMG activity of the VMO, VLL and VLO muscles among the three types of exercise tested Figure neutral...
... improve these estimates in the regular Sobolev spaces that were considered in 14 , that is without the help of the “weight” However this result has intuitive meaning Theorem 7.2 tells us there is ... dendritic domains These and related questions are under investigation Further more we also believe that we can consider questions regarding existence of mild and strong solutions to the system, which ... be demonstrated if further regularity of the solutions can be shown This question is also currently under investigation The other more practical question is to consider other forms of the parameter...
... representation does not require any nonlinear color conversion, therefore reducing the subsequent artifacts The main expected benefit is a reduction of the amount of level lines while preserving the image ... node contains the entire image The sons of the top node are the connected components CCE extracted in the father color set Then, after computation of the color subsets, a component CCE can be replaced ... (see conclusion of Section 3) Section will show some validation results which compare the robustness of the topographic maps to illumination changes VALIDATION We now compare our representation...
... did we manage in the crisis? Look forward "We give a high priority to a solid balance sheet and a high level of liquidity We are convinced that we can emerge from the current economic cycle stronger ... stabilized the overall entrepreneurial risk by actively lowering the financial risk Entrepreneurial Risk definition1): Holcim assessment ER = MR + PR + FR Global financial crisis increased entrepreneurial ... than before, and that the 'post-crisis Holcim' will be a better company than the 'precrisis Holcim'." Excerpt of the Shareholder's letter of the annual report 2008, Rolf Soiron, Chairman of the Board...
... vertex configurations) We are only interested in the configurations such that the arrows at the top and at the bottom are pointing out and the arrows at the left and the right are pointing in Here we ... arrows at the left and the right are pointing in and at the bottom and the top are pointing out On figure we draw all the possible configurations at n = There are once again configurations of size ... has one and only one onthe first row and onthe last row It is natural to classify ASMs according to their position Therefore, we count the ASMs of size n with the first in the ith position and the...
... tests were performed, since the blood concentration of the drugs reaches a maximum 1-2 h after consumption After a 2-week washout period, the same experimental procedures were repeated, but subjects ... possible upon hearing the infrequent high-pitched tones Event-related potentials were recorded under an oddball paradigm The stimuli consisted of a 1,000 Hz tone burst (frequent non-target stimulus) ... pair and the subjects recall the other word Three sets of immediate memory testing and one set of delayed recall testing were administered Statistical analysis Two-way repeated measures analysis...
... written the summarised ideas of his contribution to the ESOF conference and helped in the writing of the paper bringing all the ideas together MGRF organised the conference and led the writing of the ... Organisation; 1990 WHO/FAO: Diet, Nutrition and the Prevention of Chronic Diseases: Report of a Joint WHO/FAO Expert Consultation In Diet, Nutrition and the Prevention of Chronic Diseases: Report ... solutions Is consumer choice driving global or national trends in population weight gain, and underlying the independent consumption decisions of millions of people, or are there other, less visible,...
... baseline to months, 38% had a decrease of their weight, 36% had a stable weight and 26% had an increase of the weight in the SfW group The corresponding figures for the control group were 26%, 33% ... possibly contributed to the modest change in SWN score in the SfW group Most of the above mentioned differences between the two groups were controlled for in the logistic regression analyses (weight, ... increase after months), using the Chi-square test The response rates at month were estimated in the SfW and control groups, as well as their between-group difference and 95% confidence intervals...
... ∆POP by the authors) and the respiratory variation in arterial pulse pressure recorded with an arterial catheter The strength of the study is that it takes into account the variation in the ‘pulse’ ... no competing interests References Limitations of pulse oximetry waveform interpretation The following weaknesses may limit the extent of the conclusions that may be drawn from the study [11]: ... wave rather than that in the peak of the wave By reflecting the pulsatile changes in absorption of infrared light between the light source and the photo detector of the pulse oximeter, the ‘pulse’...
... score visualization onthe surface of gp120 (the internal portion and the CD4 binding region) dN/dS score visualization onthe surface of gp120 (the internal portion and the CD4 binding region) ... are subject to substitutions as well as mutational load, which involves random mutations and therefore potentially many nonsynonymous substitutions, we inferred the sites under selection for the ... visualization onthe surface of gp120 (the 'silent' face of the molecule) dN/dS score visualization onthe surface of gp120 (the 'silent' face of the molecule) Visualization of the dN/dS score (the...
... targeted; further studies are required to ascertain the way in which this should be undertaken Competing interests The authors declare that they have no competing interests References The current paper ... after correction for APACHE II score and inotrope/vasopressor requirement although the potential benefits are very high, so are the risks Interventional approaches in this population are beset with ... troponin T (cTnT) assays were performed Tests were performed additionally, and blinded to ICU staff, if not ordered on clinical grounds Only one patient had an index diagnosis of MI Patients were...
... to the extent candidates are compared, as in the case of norm-referenced tests, on only the domain-relevant constructs included in the measurement instrument devised for the purpose In the real ... items before any are used onthe operational test The research issue addressed here thus considers empirical evidence of the accuracy of the subjective approach currently used, and directly examines ... In the case of the experimental test, four of these passages were used Each of the passages had five items that tested readers’ comprehension of the passage content The themes sampled on the...
... primary and secondary DENV infections, as well as their contribution to DENV neutralization (40) They reported the presence of EDIII-reactive antibodies in both the primary and secondary DENV-immune ... sera Whereas the EDIII-reactive antibodies in the primary immune sera were serotype-specific, the antibodies in the secondary immune sera were directed against a cross-reactive epitope on EDIII ... triggers the conformational changes in the E protein, resulting in the fusion of the viral and host cell membranes (Figure 1) After fusion, the virus undergoes disassembly to release the positive-sense,...
... 0.0005s The results of deflection response and stress at the midpoint of the hole edge (point A) are shown in Figures 5, Case 2: The shell has no hole: Results in Figures and respectively are deflection ... of the influence level of these factors to the dynamic response of the mentioned shell The results of the paper can be used as a reference for the calculation and design of similar structures, ... increasing the radius r will increase the displacement and stress at the calculated point At this time, the vibration of the structure increases rapidly (Figure 13) x 10 2.5 4.4 The Effects of the...
... language there is no common situation as there is in face-to-face interaction The situation, therefore, must be interfered from the text Naturally, readers only pay attention to the contents or ... This relation is performed through the lexical reiteration, synonym substitution In another word, the topic is reported at the headline and remained at the topic sentence - Let us consider the ... Content features of the topic sentence It is the topic sentence that decides the whole structure of the news If its content cannot create a certain connection to the readers, they would stop their...