... Academy of Engineering in providing services to the gov-
ernment, the public, andthe scientific and engineering communities. The Council is administered jointly by both Academies
and the Institute ... quality of
the individuals it brings together and its effectiveness in integrating their combined judgment. The endurance and
continuing refinement of Techcast suggests it is becoming more useful ... design and integration rather than supplying low-cost labor for assembly
and manufacturing.
Further changing the global landscape is the increasing number of foreign students who come to the United...
... geological engineering,
hydrological engineering, and Earth-related parts of petro-
leum engineering and mining engineering. The rapid expan-
sion of nanotechnology, biotechnology, and information
technology ... gather and evaluate
information and to prepare its consensus report. The first two meetings
were open meetings and were held in September 2003 in Washington,
D.C., andin November 2003 in Irvine, ... complex urban infrastructure from surface to
underground while minimizing the impact on the population living in
the vicinity andthe disruption in service to those using the existing
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ing his new girlfriend around town, calling her after midnight and hanging
up. Then there wasthe evening Lisa showed up at the girlfriend’s house,
drunk, pounding on her door and screaming ... get the habits
right.”
In the past decade, our understanding of the neurology and psychology of
habits andthe way patterns work within our lives, societies, and organiza-
tions has expanded in ... started thinking about my ex-husband, and how hard it would
be to find another job when I got back, and how much I was going to hate
it and how unhealthy I felt all the time. I got up and knocked...
... thing in common, that
is the speaker’s search for or assertion of something they are uncertain about.
As a result, the speaking contexts play a vital role in interpreting and translating
these ... early as the 18
th
century, studies on comparing and contrasting
linguistics became popular thanks to the emergence of new lands, new
communities, andnew languages. Sine 1970s, comparing and contrasting ... reverse
the position of the tag to the beginning of the question (Thiêm, 2004). The tags
can be put at the beginning or function as a new sentence to indicate the
speaker’s emphasis. In addition,...
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Interesting ... of the use of games in vocabulary
teaching and learning
teaching and learning
1.5. Advantages of the use games in
1.5. Advantages of the use games in
vocabulary teaching and learning
vocabulary ... Vocabulary in language teaching and learning
1.2. Vocabulary in language teaching and learning
1.3. Approaches to language teaching and their
1.3. Approaches to language teaching and their
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... levels inthe country. Similarly, given their role in poultry rearing, women
should also be encouraged to be actively involved in training programs andin dissemination of
information regarding ... wealth. According to this method of
matching, the two groups—which include the treatment group of households representing the result of the
HPAI-induced supply -and- demand shocks andthe control ... (in agriculture,
mining, manufacturing, services, and so on), income from livestock and crop sales, and remittances, rent
income, and other reported income. On average, poultry (live bird) and...
... 1691-3078
(39%), the rest of them – in households of several
individuals. In Timisoara the majority of the elderly
live in couples, the size of other households is about
the same, but the proportion of the ... their community
residents, than it is in Latvia.
Both the elderly in Dumbravita and those in
Jelgava feel well in their homes, and they like
their apartments or houses. In Jelgava 73% of the ...
believe that they need no help in their household
work, but 25% of them need it in cleaning up their
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Figure...
... (PHA) inNew Zealand is following inthe footsteps of
the UK government by calling on the food and drinks industry in September 2004 to
provide better nutritional information on product labels in ... eating and drinking, this can be anything from how much sugar and fat the
product contains to the glycaemic index.
Despite the high level of interest innew diet concepts such as Atkins, nearly ... options and marketing streams based on a firm understanding of the major
consumer health concerns influencing purchasing decisions and eating habits.
Identifying the main health-related issues influencing...
... P17511) and CeMT2 (Uniprot P17512). The coordinat-
ing and putative coordinating residues are highlighted (Cys in grey shadow, His and Tyr in bold) andthe total content in each peptide is indicated. ... terminal cys-
teine with histidine inthe metallothionein a and b
domain maintains its binding capacity. Eur J Biochem
259, 519–527.
R. Bofill et al. C. elegans CeMT1 and CeMT2 metallothioneins
FEBS ... bonds.
In vivo andin vitro Cd(II)-binding abilities of
CeMT1 and CeMT2
Unlike the results obtained for Zn(II) coordination,
the biosynthesis in Cd-supplemented cultures of the
two wild-type CeMT1 and...
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willreflecthowthesearedistributed. In fact, the Gini
indexisrelatedto the Lorenzcurve:itis the sizeof the
areabetween the curve andthe equaldistributionline–
expressedasaproportionof the wholeareabelow the
equaldistributionline. The higher the Giniindex the
greater the disparities.Anothermeasureofdistribution
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isderivedslightlydifferently and has the advantagethat
itcanbesub-dividedintodifferentcomponents.
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MDG ... cover and infant and child mortality. The
education indicators, including gender equality in
education,showlowvariation;asdoindicatorsrelating
towater and sanitation. The Theilindexalsogenerally
followsthispattern.
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Figure I-9 – Progress in expanding access to basic sanitation
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... measured in the
postprandial stage [3].
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distribution of LSR mRNA and protein in murine organs,
and whether this distribution was c ompatible with the
alleged ... ntestine and kidney). To explore
the role of LSR in vivo,theLSR gene was inactivated in 129/
Ola ES cells by removing a gene segment containing exons
2–5, and 129/Ola-C57BL/6 m ice b earing the ... cholesterol and TG that were carried in apo B48-
containing lipoproteins resembling remnants. Nevertheless,
in LDLR-deficient mice the increase in TG levels was much
smaller than that obtained in RAP...