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... “art theorists… define the criterion of what the [aesthetic] experience is expected to be; scientists… provide a test of whether this criterion is fulfilled.”2 Or consider the case of neuroaesthetics ... neuroaesthetics This new branch of empirical aesthetics is often defined as the study of the neural processes underlying aesthetic experience In other words, the job of neuroaestheticians is to discover ... in his article (this issue), the scientific study of aesthetics can be traced back to the beginning of experimental psychology and the work of Gustav Theodor Fechner in the second half of the...

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... in the chart equal to the product of the inside probability of the item and its prior probability Any item with a score less than 10 −5 times of that of the best item is pruned from the chart What ... seen, there may be several distinct derivations that generate the same parse tree The probability of a parse tree T is thus the sum of the probabilities of its distinct derivations Let tid be the ... the ATIS portion in the Penn Treebank (Marcus et al 1993), it is extremely time consuming This is mainly because the number of random derivations that should be sampled to reliably estimate the...

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... should be used throughout, the level and type of empirical analysis, and the target readership of the book Our final goal is a compromise that seeks to translate the academic content of this book ... nature of this study and how individual cases might diverge from the overall patterns this analysis reveals The models and theories in this book are intended to raise important issues, synthesize ... numerous academic theories, and provide some of the first empirical evidence on a range of questions surrounding development assistance and the environment The compilation and analysis of the PLAID database...

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... gift of the GC/MS portion of the instrumentation to The University of Montana-Missoula Chris Wrobel engineered the TD/GC/MS facility at the University of Montana Michelle and Bryon Taylor, Matthew ... secreted by the mandibular glands of the hive worker population [26–50] Many of these compounds are released as alarm and hive defense signals Constituents of the Koschevnikov gland, also used for ... & Francis 38 G.C Smith et al 53 Butler, C.G and Calam, D.H (1968) Pheromones of the honey bee – the secretion of the Nasanoff gland of the worker J Insect Physiol 15, 237–244 54 Boch, R and Morse,...

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... medium-, and low-risk products Each stage of the procedure leads to either an assessment of the risk (and therefore classification in one of the risk categories previously mentioned) or to further ... assess the potential risks of the plant protection product on the survival and behavior of bees They are requested when the risk is considered as high (QHO and QHC Ͼ 50, or in the case of significant ... to the reliability of the tests requested and their feasibility The assessment of the effects of plant protection products is based on the calculation of the Hazard Quotient, which in turn is...

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... acquisition phase of the CPE assay Statistical comparisons of treated and untreated groups at the maximum value of the CR during the acquisition phase reveal sublethal effects of chemicals on the memorization ... influence components of the learning process such as the acquisition and/ or the recall of the learned response In an ecological context this type of exposure corresponds to the case of bees newly involved ... which can be the target of neurotoxic compounds in particular The deleterious impact of pesticide spraying on the foraging activity and on the behavior of bees on the crop and around the hive, as...

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... develop a functional histochemistry of CO in honey bee brain that allowed the analysis of the short-term effect of cholinergic ligands including IMI on the metabolism of the different brain structures ... the aphid Myzus periscae [6] The dual agonist/antagonist effects of IMI on CO histochem- © 2002 Taylor & Francis Neuronal effect of imidacloprid in the honey bee 99 istry could be linked to the ... reported as immobility as the locomotor activity of the honey bee in the same square was very low, if nonexistent Otherwise, the honey bee was moving around The effect of the drug on locomotor activity...

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... contaminants in the lagoon and the bees This is in agreement with the findings of the statistical analysis that indicated that the lagoon is the primary source of contamination for the bees Similarly, ... trends were seen in the lagoon and the bees for all the contaminants This further supports the hypothesis that the bees were receiving the majority of their © 2002 Taylor & Francis 146 T.K Haarmann ... the redistribution of tritium within the study site is easier to understand Because the levels detected in the flowers were consistently less than those present in the bees, and because the lagoon...

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... the bark of the youngest branches and the needles of fir and spruce trees in search of food Honeydew is the secretion of these insects The results of electrical conductivity measurements and pollen ... of cesium pollution [22, 23] Honey bees and their products have been used as indicators and monitors of a variety of environmental pollution because of their ability to reflect the immediate environmental ... by-product of the atmospheric testing of thermonuclear weapons during the period extending from the 1950s to the 1970s It was distributed globally within the stratosphere and deposited as wet fallout and/ or...

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... parts of the information Conversely, with HCA, all the information of the data matrix is displayed through two dendrograms: one for the variables and another for the objects Therefore, the comparison ... analysis of French acacia honey 251 Analytical method Prior to the preparation and chemical analysis of the honeys, the samples were coded and randomized to avoid identification of their location and ... Publishers, Dordrecht, The Netherlands, pp 211–233 Colombo, A.G and Premazzi, G (1990) Workshop on Indicators and Indices for Environmental Impact Assessment and Risk Analysis Luxembourg, Of ce...

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... 13.1 The aim of this chapter is to summarize major studies carried out to date, and to discuss the potential problems posed by the use of this new technology The reader is also referred to other ... [23] The most studied are the Bowman–Birk, the Kunitz, and the potato PI; fewer plant cysteine PIs have been characterized and cloned to date The mode of action of serine and cysteine PIs at the ... response of the insect to the presence of these inhibitors will be essential This could be achieved by co-expressing PIs of different types and/ or improving the affinity of introduced PIs for the target...

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... conclusion, there are two possibilities to avoid risk for honey bees: the nonexpression of the toxin in the tissues bees feed on, or the innocuousness of the toxin for bees The risk assessment of the ... from the top of the flower visited on the plant), or the type of behavior (exploration of the flower, foraging for nectar, scratching of stamina, pollen pellet gathering, cleaning, etc.) The mean ... correlated with the amount and sugar composition of the nectar, and with the residues of herbicide or the amount of pat protein potentially detected in the nectar and pollen These analyses are...

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... pathogenesis and pathogen time-courses The number of components [7,36] that can be modeled is smaller than in discrete models because of the increase in the number of parameters The state of the variables ... characteristics of the host-pathogen interactions and give useful insight into the pathogenesis of the infections Among the models which aim to describe most of the immune components important in the ... 1), the deterministic (noise-free) framework is most frequently used at the cellular level As the number of components included in a model increases, so does the number of parameters, and the...

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... is a city or region, rather than a country) To make this conversion, you will need the age distribution of deaths to estimate YLL, and the age distribution of onset of disease, duration of disease ... closer to the higher ratio of 0.65 reported in the USA and elsewhere Thus, this ratio is used in a sensitivity analysis of the estimated effects Mortality data from the Thailand Ministry of Health ... examine whether there is a threshold The second method is direct and uses statistical tests that carefully model the shape of the concentration response function Both approaches indicate there is no...

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... articles and book chapters in these areas She is a fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science, and past president and fellow of the Society for Risk Analysis Her advisory ... capita and CO2 emissions per unit of GDP With emissions of 145 metric tons of CO2 per $1 million of GDP, the city has the second lowest levels in the Index and is well below the Index average of ... support for the use of public transport, and all but one encourage the public to use green means of getting around, as well as providing green public transport vehicles The presence of most of these...

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... strongest positive impacts of microfinance (Bateman 2010) Synthesise what these studies tell us about: a  The impact of microfinance on the incomes of the poor b  The impact of microfinance on wider ... this study therefore retains its status as a high quality evaluation This decision is discussed further in section 5.4 what is the impact of microfinance on poor people? sy n thesis Synthesis ... (2004) what is the impact of microfinance on poor people? sy n thesis 4.2 Synthesis of evidence of effectiveness Below, we first summarise the directions of effect (i.e positive and negative impacts)...

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... creation of a valid, useful knowledge and evidence base for quality and safety This will require improved conceptions of the nature of quality and safety issues, an understanding of the mechanisms ... these teams are established, the barriers and facilitators to establishing and implementing teams and team initiatives, as well as the strength of the evidence about the impact of team initiatives ... description of how quality and safety teams were established, implemented and/ or the impact of teams and their initiatives on provider, patient, and/ or system outcomes; or description about barriers and/ or...

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... is to recognize the dose distribution as the root of this bias, and validate the ability to accurately calculate the dose distribution under different polychromatic conditions Validation of the ... eliminated, and UV systems would be designed and operated safely based on their actual measured performance When the challenge organism is not the same as the target organism and does not have the same ... terms of log reductions of microbes of given UV-resistance eliminates the issue of a dose distribution Typically regulatory targets for drinking water and reuse water are expressed in terms of log...

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... Services (AMS) This is yet another approach businesses should use when assessing cloud value AMS is the paradigm where a predefined level of demand is managed internally and the remainder augmented ... with cloud services The apothegm is ‘Own the base and rent the peak’ Conclusion The customer’s overall cloud health starts with an assessment of value The assessment of value of cloud services ... a comparison against other cloud providers The comparison of cost between traditional IT investment and cloud services must be avoided Such a comparison is not even apples-to-oranges rather fruits-to-vegies...

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