why everything suffers from comparison
Why Copying LIS from a Developed Country Does Not Work for a Developing Country?
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18/10/2013, 14:15
... ả ệ ố ấ ể From Pharaohs to Geoinformatics FIG Working Week 2005 and GSDI-8 Cairo, Egypt April 16-21, 2005 ộ TS – Applied SIM and SDI Trung Tran and Don Grant TS9.6 Why Copying LIS from a Developed...
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what governments maximize and why the view from trade
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12/07/2014, 14:19
... distinct from simpler measures We are ultimately interested in the deeper question of why governments behave as they What explains the variation in the estimates of a across countries? Why some ... If so, why? And why in richer countries we observe the opposite? These are the questions to which we devote the remainder of the paper Explaining the variation in a: Theory To explain why a varies ... the fundamental question of why governments behave as they 48 These, and the other results from the sensitivity analysis described below, are available upon request from the authors 35 Conclusion...
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conard - unintended consequences; why everything you've been told about the economy is wrong (2012)
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01/11/2014, 15:58
... borrowed from the bank’s depositors Modern finance exaggerates this mistake Today, in its simplest version, a home owner borrows from a mortgage broker that borrows from a bank that borrows from ... increased from 1.2 percent per year to 2.0 percent per year, almost a 70 percent increase (see Figure 1-1) Most of the increase in U.S productivity came from an increase in know-how and not from an ... doubled in value from the mid1990s to its peak in 2007 while the Dow grew 370 percent over the same period from 3,800 in 1995 to 14,000 in 2007 The price of oil rose sevenfold, from $18 to $125...
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Comparison of Methods for the Extraction of Bioflocculants from Activated Sludge
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05/09/2013, 09:08
... been reported regarding the screening for flocculants from natural activated sludge, which is a complex microbial system A strong flocculant from natural activated sludge might economically provide ... extraction method for bioflocculants from the microbial cell surface Materials and Methods Activated sludge samples Activated sludge samples were collected from an aeration tank of the Obihiro-South ... flocculants exist: first, a material is released into the culture broth, and the flocculant is obtained from the filtrate of the culture broth; and second, a cell surface material associated with the...
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More Show Me How: Everything We Couldn't Fit in the First Book Instructions for Life from the Everyday to the Exotic Perfect Paperback
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15/01/2014, 12:15
... ft (30 cm) 2½ ft (75 cm) ft (60 cm) in (15 cm) Cut two discs from plywood Cut a hole the size of a leaf-blower nozzle Cut a circle from a plastic tarp in (5 cm) Seal tarp to disc with duct tape ... from wine glasses tied together with string The couples’ parents are honored with a tea ceremony 306 celebrate chinese new year’s day 185 construct a cardboard chaise ×3 ×12 Cut chair shape from ... your bottom tightly Give one-word answers Have your lawyer present 74 rig a cat-feeding device Why feed kitty the boring old way? A few short hours and some household odds and ends is all it...
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Tài liệu Báo cáo khoa học: Three-dimensional structures of thermophilic b-1,4-xylanases from Chaetomium thermophilum and Nonomuraea flexuosa Comparison of twelve xylanases in relation to their thermal stability pdf
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20/02/2014, 23:20
... structures of CTX and NFX allowed us to make detailed comparison of 12 xylanases, five from thermophilic organisms This gives a more reliable comparison of the enzyme structures in relation to their ... is obvious that the comparison of amino acid contents suffered from the low number of sequences and thus, statistical methods were not used to analyze the data However, this comparison may still ... endo-1,4-b-xylanase II from Trichoderma reesei: two conformation states in the active site EMBO J 13, 2493–2501 Torronen, A & Rouvinen, J (1995) Structural comparison of two ¨ ¨ major endo-1,4-xylanases from Trichoderma...
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Why Boys Fail Saving Our Sons from an Educational System That’s Leaving Them Behind ppt
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14/03/2014, 21:20
... W H Y B O Y S F A I L This page intentionally left blank Why Boys Fail Saving Our Sons from an Educational System That’s Leaving Them Behind Richard Whitmire Foreword by ... be sought Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data Whitmire, Richard Why boys fail : saving our sons from an educational system that’s leaving them behind / Richard Whitmire p cm Includes ... the end he was true to his word He put in the hours, and his tutors split the teaching of everything from phonemic awareness to ionic bonds (they may have missed a meeting or two!) He read the...
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How and Why Do Small Firms Manage Interest Rate Risk? Evidence from Commercial Loans pot
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15/03/2014, 10:20
... Commercial banks Commercial and savings banks Comparison source of finance Loan is from non-bank financial institution Funding is a corporate bond Loan is from a mortgage company Effect of ‘funds ... comparison source of finance listed Estimate in column is from Table of Faulkender (2005) Since this is a table of summary statistics, no standard error is available Estimates in column are from ... owner questions This smaller sample is the reason why the owner variables are excluded from the initial regressions 19 estimates are presented from a baseline regression that excludes owner wealth,...
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Why Organizations Thrive Lessons from the Front Lines for Nonprofit Executive Directors ppt
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18/03/2014, 03:20
... who view themselves in isolation Why should you embrace your role in the network? And how you embrace it? Let’s start with the why question: What benefits flow from embracing your role in the ... benefit from an “excel at one thing first” strategy is it helps an organization stay focused I’ve watched several groups that have appeared to follow a “we’ll be the best at everything from the ... received training from us because I felt we’d get more candid responses and the report would have greater credibility with funders I’m positive we learned more from that report, from which we fine-tuned...
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Accuracy of Clinical Signs in the Diagnosis of Pulmonary Tuberculosis: Comparison of Three Reference Standards Using Data from a Tertiary Care Centre in Rwanda doc
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22/03/2014, 18:20
... for model comparison, a formal test of the difference in L between the models should be performed, or criteria as BIC or AIC should be used BIC: Bayesian Information Criterion for model comparison ... and Spe of disease characteristics with an LCA strategy [17,27,28] In patients for whom results from at least diagnostic TB tests are available, LCA can distinguish two subgroups: “patients with ... Innovations, Belmont, MA) We included in the analysis only variables that showed Se + Spe > in the comparison with culture (direct microscopy, cavities, apical infiltrates, HIV infection, haemoptysis...
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Báo cáo khoa học: Comparison of functional properties of two fungal antifreeze proteins from Antarctomyces psychrotrophicus and Typhula ishikariensis ppt
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22/03/2014, 21:20
... purified AFP from an ascomycete collected in Antarctica (AnpAFP) We believe that comparison of the biochemical characteristics between AnpAFP and TisAFP will provide crucial Antifreeze protein from ascomycetous ... TisAFP from the culture medium and cloned the genes TisAFP did not exhibit any similarity in primary structure with other AFPs and therefore it was considered to be a representative AFP from eukaryotic ... (TisAFP8) when cooled at 0.05 °CÆmin)1 from )0.2 to )0.3 °C These images show the process of rapid growth of the ice crystal, which is completely different from the elongation of AnpAFP and fish...
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Báo cáo khoa học: Structural diversity of angiotensin-converting enzyme Insights from structure–activity comparisons of two Drosophila enzymes docx
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23/03/2014, 11:20
... from the IC50 value obtained by measuring initial rates of hydrolysis of the fluorogenic substrate Abz-YRK(Dnp)P (5 lM) in the presence of different concentrations of MKRSRGPSPRR b Estimated from ... lines the substrate-binding channel, a change from predominantly negative charges in ANCE to positive charges in ACER (Fig 2) To gain insight into why BK peptides bind with higher affinity to ANCE ... (Cl1 and Cl2) are known from the structure of human tACE [27], but no Cl– anions were identified in the crystal structure of ANCE [28] The ˚ Cl2 Cl–-binding site of tACE, 10 A from the catalytic zinc,...
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Báo cáo khóa học: Structural and functional comparison of 15S- and 15R-specific cyclooxygenases from the coral Plexaura homomalla potx
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23/03/2014, 12:20
... as a generous gift from J Sanchez, SUNY, Buffalo, NY [1-14C]Arachidonic acid was from Amersham Pharmacia Biotech Hydroxyeicosatetraenoic acid (HETE) and PG standards were from Cayman Chemical ... Arbor, MI, USA) Enzymes, unless otherwise specified, were from Fermentas (Vilnius, Lithuania) PCR cloning and sequence analysis RNA was extracted from P homomalla following a previously published protocol ... novel COX cDNA from the S-variety of P homomalla was cloned by RT-PCR using primers that exactly matched the first 27 nucleotides and the last 27 nucleotides of the 15R-COX ORF from P homomalla...
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Báo cáo khóa học: Comparison of native and recombinant chlorite dismutase from Ideonella dechloratans pot
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23/03/2014, 12:20
... transferred from a SDS/PAGE gel to a polyvinylidene difluoride membrane (ProBlott, Applied Biosystems, Stockholm, Sweden) by electroblotting After staining with Ponceau S, appropriate portions were cut from ... can be excluded from the N-terminal sequencing reported in our earlier work [15] In the present work, the C-terminal sequence was also investigated, and found to be that predicted from the gene ... was only possible obtain in about 70% purity Tryptic digests were therefore prepared from proteins blotted from SDS gels to Ó FEBS 2004 Native and recombinant chlorite dismutase (Eur J Biochem...
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Estimating the Internal Rate of Return on an MBA: A Comparison of the Return from Top-Ranked & Second-Tier Programs potx
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31/03/2014, 01:20
... evaluate the MBA from a specific university as an investment that pays dividends over a lifetime of employment The dividend from the degree is the additional salary that results from the degree, ... is derived This type of analysis can be used to evaluate MBA programs The average return from an MBA from various schools, which would compare the investment of two years of tuition and fees, ... should realize that moving from a low cost area to a high cost area while holding living standards constant will reduce the return to their specific MBA investment The benefit from the MBA is not simply...
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Báo cáo khoa học: Thioredoxin reductase from the malaria mosquito Anopheles gambiae Comparisons with the orthologous enzymes of Plasmodium falciparum and the human host pdf
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31/03/2014, 07:20
... and restriction enzymes were purchased from MBI Fermentas and Applied Biosystems, precast polyacrylamide gels from Bio-Rad and molecular mass standards from Amersham Pharmacia Biotech Antibiotics, ... gambiae TrxR-1 The A gambiae trxr-1 gene was PCR cloned from genomic DNA as well as from the cDNA of adult insects In the case of the amplification from genomic DNA, the bases coding for the first five ... enzyme assays, and other chemicals were from BioMol, Fluka, or Sigma All compounds were of the highest available purity Purification of authentic A gambiae TrxR from insect cells A gambiae cells (cell...
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Báo cáo Y học: A comparison of the urea-induced unfolding of apo¯avodoxin and ¯avodoxin from Desulfovibrio vulgaris potx
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31/03/2014, 15:20
... effects of denaturant on the ¯avodoxin and apo¯avodoxin from D vulgaris are surprisingly different from those reported for the protein from D desulfuricans [10] MATERIALS AND METHODS Preparation ... Preparation and estimation of ¯avodoxin and apo¯avodoxin Flavodoxin from D vulgaris was obtained as the recombinant protein that was puri®ed from extracts of E coli [13] Apo¯avodoxin was prepared by acid ... (5.024 kJ mol)1) and Kden (25.25 M) in urea were obtained from [19] These values represent the behaviour of an ÔaverageÕ protein, determined from the solvent-excluded side chains of 55 proteins in...
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Báo cáo Y học: Comparison of starch branching enzyme I and II from potato ppt
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31/03/2014, 23:20
... II from wheat [25] and SBE I from potato [26] The activity assay shown in Fig was performed in 90 mM phosphate To investigate the effect of phosphate, increasing concentrations of phosphate from ... Immunological comparison of the starch branching enzymes from potato tubers and maize kernels Plant Physiol 90, 75 –84 Blennow, A & Johansson, G (1991) Isolation of a Q-enzyme with Mr 103000 from potato ... maize isoforms, which both reduced the lmax from 530 nm to about 490 nm [15,16] Although this suggests that there may be a difference between the enzymes from maize and potato, the divergent results...
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a universe from nothing why there is something rather than nothing
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05/06/2014, 11:24
... addressing the question of why there is something rather than nothing: The answers that have been obtained -from staggeringly beautiful experimental observations, as well as from the theories that ... is moving away from you It turns out that the same phenomenon occurs for light waves as sound waves, although for somewhat different reasons Light waves from a source moving away from you, either ... visible spectrum, while waves from a source moving toward you will be compressed and appear bluer Slipher observed in that the absorption lines from the light coming from all the spiral nebulae...
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a universe from nothing - why there is something rather than nothing - lawrence m. krauss
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11/06/2014, 12:02
... are all described accessibly in A Universe from Nothing, and they suggest that not only can something arise from nothing, something will always arise from nothing With his characteristic wry humor ... addressing the question of why there is something rather than nothing: The answers that have been obtained from staggeringly beautiful experimental observations, as well as from the theories that ... is moving away from you It turns out that the same phenomenon occurs for light waves as sound waves, although for somewhat different reasons Light waves from a source moving away from you, either...
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