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... proportion to R&D input The elasticity should increase as the quality of inputs to the R&D process improves and the spillovers stemming from the R&D activities of other actors in the region become ... Dichotomous variables having the value if the respective establishment was located in a certain region and the value otherwise, indicated differences with regard to the constant term of the knowledge ... activity The relatively high values for this indicator found in Slovenia and Saxony are very likely caused by the special necessity to modify the products supplied that accompanies the transition to...

Ngày tải lên: 16/03/2014, 03:20

... the previous chapter, mostly they can cope with these if they have to Usually they simply Herbivores are fussy ea ters 17 avoid the parts of the plants that contain these substances Rather, they ... turn to eating soft, milk-ripe ones before they lay their eggs; and they feed them exclusively to their nestlings Another Australian parrot, the galah, in the wheat belt of Western Australia does ... what about the predators? This leaves us with the other factor said to be preventing herbivores eating all the plants: predation Predators are believed to be such efficient regulators of their herbivorous...

Ngày tải lên: 22/03/2014, 19:20

... pointed to the ways that the research literature focuses on the perceived interactional conduct of shared decision-making, and the use of DSTs at the expense of other areas of their implementation The ... insisting on the transfer of such responsibility may cause distress – the problem of abandonment [42] and the difficult of mandatory versus optional autonomy [43,44] Exogenous factors that affect the ... between the actors We also gained insight into the exogenous factors that impact on the micro-interaction, and so gained a much broader understanding of the elements that need to be aligned to enhance...

Ngày tải lên: 11/08/2014, 16:21

... significantly Why then poor people not use them ? It seems to be difficult to persuade the poor to use them, and to ensure that those who have been persuaded continue to use them The problem seems to be ... considerable prices to avoid it They pay from 10 to 12 Rupees for a litre bottle ( US$ 0.20 to US$ 0.30 ) and a 20 litre carboy bottle sells for 35 to 55 Rupees ( US$ 0.80 to US$ 1.20 ) 1.3 WHY THE POOR ... miles to fetch water Why, then, are POUs needed, if piped water is the solution ? The poor may still have to wait for many years until they get connected to the piped water system But, even then,...

Ngày tải lên: 07/03/2014, 00:20

... in the first year Besides the professors, the TA’s of the courses you are taking in your first year are also an important part of the first year life Don’t hesitate to talk to them Go to their ... it is usually the case that more specialization in mathematics is also needed In a nutshell, we say that the more mathematics, the better; however, one should not fall into the trap of confusing ... and must combine talents not often found together He must be mathematician, historian, statesman, philosopher—in some degree He must understand symbols and speak in words He must contemplate the...

Ngày tải lên: 08/03/2014, 05:20

... Marion and Sam kissing and the fact that they are lying half unclothed on a bed together This stresses the ploy to render the audience to wrongly think the movie's theme is of sexual ecstasy ... atmosphere and an element of suspense Also, the lack of music enables the audience to think more for themselves as to what the theme of the scene is and what will occur to conclude it Norman's facial ... 'cool' Also, Janet Leigh, doesn't, if truth be told, have the qualities anymore to be the 'girl every man wants' So, to bring it all together, the supposed thriller film, today, would be without...

Ngày tải lên: 21/03/2014, 22:04

... by the proceedings of the Roundtable, it is important to contextualise the discussion in order to highlight the strategic importance of the event and to place the Roundtable within the trajectory ... designed to bring the debates of the Roundtable to a wider audience Thus, the heart of the document will focus on the Roundtable itself, presenting with as much accuracy as possible the tenor of the ... gran found the terrified woman, a little bruised, clothes torn, but otherwise okay, and brought her into the house She spent the night on the couch, fed, warm, and no questions asked There were...

Ngày tải lên: 23/03/2014, 09:21

... deliberates on the issue whether FIIs set direction to the market RESEARCH OBJECTIVE: To know whether FIIs are the cause or effect of the rise or fall in the Indian stock market LITERATURE REVIEW: The waves ... the market conditions, definitely, with a motive to increase their gains Because of their size of investment in any market, they have the ability to make or break the fortunes of any market The ... appear to affect the FII flows The beta of the Indian market with respect to S&P 500 index seems to affect the FII flows inversely, but the effect disappeared in the post-Asian crisis period There...

Ngày tải lên: 25/03/2014, 11:00

... (migrants tend to gravitate to Australian cities) One third of allied health students wanted to work overseas within a year, with another 46% wanting to leave Australia within five years: a total of ... likely to never want to work in a town of fewer than 10,000 people than those of either Australian or European ethnicity Over half of the European and Asian students in the sample wanted to work ... in the Northern Territory or the Kimberly region of Western Australia (WA) On the other hand, just 4% of students were willing to work in the south-eastern corner of WA Within NSW, the north...

Ngày tải lên: 18/06/2014, 17:20

... participants [35,40] As the pada lacked a common space, the girls and the mothers groups met in the house of the pada worker, and the boys and fathers groups met in the house of the angan- http://www.jiasociety.org/content/12/1/35 ... has AIDS then it can happen to us. " When we go to the doctor and get an injection, if it is not sterilized then we can get it We go to the barber and if an old blade is used and if there is blood ... process, and the right to refuse with no penalty A total of 48 individuals were approached to participate in the study and 46 (96%) consented to participate in the study and completed the focus groups...

Ngày tải lên: 20/06/2014, 08:20

Ngày tải lên: 21/07/2014, 11:51

... addition to allowing accurate staging, the splenectomy was believed to debulk the disease mass and offer a more precise target for radiotherapy The advent of computed tomography brought about the ... one of the important roles of FNAC is the exclusion of metastatic squamous carcinoma as this requires an alternative therapeutic approach There is a question as to the accuracy of FNAC in the diagnosis ... previously been questioned [7] The lymphomatous process may involve the node focally and may not involve all the nodes that appear to be enlarged Other factors that influence the diagnostic specificity...

Ngày tải lên: 09/08/2014, 07:21

... shed into the joint and activate the inflammatory cascade via the NALP3 inflammasome [18,19] Hence, any explanation of why gout targets the foot must link these pathological processes to the specific ... (Figure 3) Conclusion The striking predilection of gout for the first MTPJ appears to be multi-factorial in origin and arises from the unique combination of the susceptibility of the joint Roddy ... has therefore been suggested to account for the occurrence of gout at cooler distal joints such as the foot-ankle complex However, this theory does not account for the preference of gout for the...

Ngày tải lên: 10/08/2014, 21:24

... alpha was used to test the reliability of the scale [17] The alpha values were 0.81 (the Nurse), 0.87 (the Setting), 0.86 (the Research) and 0.83 (the Presentation) In the present study the alpha ... data gathered from nurses [6] The scale is composed of 29 items The respondents were asked to rate to which extent they perceived each item as a barrier to the use of research findings The respondents ... relation to research use The purpose of this study was therefore twofold: to describe RNs' perceptions of barriers to, and facilitators of, research utilization and to examine the validity of the...

Ngày tải lên: 11/08/2014, 05:21

... alpha was used to test the reliability of the scale [17] The alpha values were 0.81 (the Nurse), 0.87 (the Setting), 0.86 (the Research) and 0.83 (the Presentation) In the present study the alpha ... data gathered from nurses [6] The scale is composed of 29 items The respondents were asked to rate to which extent they perceived each item as a barrier to the use of research findings The respondents ... relation to research use The purpose of this study was therefore twofold: to describe RNs' perceptions of barriers to, and facilitators of, research utilization and to examine the validity of the...

Ngày tải lên: 11/08/2014, 16:21

... Redlands, Cato) to calculate the distance of the residential address to the nearest major road with more than 10,000 cars/day A distance of 50 m to the nearest major road was used as cutoff to reflect ... to the study design the women who had their lung function tested lived to a larger extent in rural areas and related to that they were to some extent healthier and smoked less than those in the ... and advised on the statistical analysis and commented on the manuscript HEW commented on the manuscript UG was co-investigator of the mortality follow-up and commented on the manuscript JH was...

Ngày tải lên: 12/08/2014, 15:20

... [4] Thus, if the muscle is to become so stiff that it fails to respond to a DI, it must take a relatively long time to attain that frozen contractile state [4] The issue of time also comes into ... considerations of cytoskeletal plasticity The cytoskeleton of ASM is continuously adapting to its dynamic microenvironment, and these cytoskeletal-remodeling events seem to play out over a wide ... were caused by an inability of DIs to dilate constricted airways, as opposed to an increased responsiveness of the airway itself [5] Remarkably, Salter had come to the much the same conclusion...

Ngày tải lên: 12/08/2014, 18:20

... was that one used a homologous challenge with the Tat Bru sequence in both the vaccine and in the SHIV [104] while the other used a heterologous challenge with the Tat Bru sequence in the vaccine ... microtubules, which then induce mitochondrial membrane permeabilization resulting in the release of critical pro-apoptotic intermembrane space effectors into the cytosol such as cytochrome c, apoptosis-inducing ... would not likely be exposed to a homologous virus infection However, it is not clear why the investigators in the same experiment used a homologous Gag and Env [105] Over the last 20 years, HIV-1...

Ngày tải lên: 12/08/2014, 23:21

... anti-mediator therapies may vary according to the nature of the infection Differences in the response to therapeutic intervention The nature of the infecting organism is critical, primarily for the ... factors such as exotoxins influence the manifestations, morbidity and mortality of sepsis Furthermore, the nature of the pathogens influences the mechanism of the host response and therefore the ... factors: nuclear factor-κB, activator protein-1, and interferon response factor-1 All three factors result in the upregulation of genes for proinflammatory cytokines such as tumour necrosis factor...

Ngày tải lên: 13/08/2014, 10:20

... sufficient to make the correct choice on the basis of the antibiogram It is also mandatory to consider timely administration of the right dose at the right schedule, according to the pathophysiological ... continuous infusion was independently associated with lower mortality rates compared with intermittent infusion (25% versus 54.2%; P = 0.02) Continuous infusion may be the best way to maximize the ... of the in vitro bacterial susceptibility is but one of the pieces needed to solve correctly the ‘antimicrobial therapy puzzle’ (Figure 1) [5] Particular attention should also be given to the...

Ngày tải lên: 13/08/2014, 16:20