... sea urchin 80 70 60 50 40 2003 30 2004 20 10 0 10 20 30 40 50 Density of sea urchin (ind m-2) 70 50 60 U pinnatifida (Line 1) U pinnatifida (Line 2) Sea urchin (Line 1) Sea urchin (Line 2) 50 ... flow conditions preventing the migration and/or grazing by sea urchin even with their high abundance in the outer bay In contrast, in the inner areas (Line 2) where U pinnatifida no longer occurred, ... urchin were 212 and 365 ind per belt transect in 2003 and 2004, respectively, but both populations of sea urchin in Line were less than those in Line We also found that the absence of U pinnatifida...
... Isolated Individual 2.1 Importing Rights Without the Corresponding Restrictions 2.2 Individualistic Humanity (a) Focusing on Autonomy and Self-Determination (b) Individuals Fighting Against the ... identified as specialising in post- communist legal developments Those lawyers who have shown an interest in this area have rather done so by extending a pre-existing interest in a specific branch ... fresh interest and, indeed, this caused a welcome excitement in the academic community The scale of the changes affecting virtually all academic disciplines opened dazzling research perspectives—in...
... to examine aspects of family life in South Africa in light of the transformation in the society’s social structures since the democratic transition in 1994 We begin this task by examining the ... being in place This distinction between the normative and concrete aspects of the family institution was clearly in his mind when Adegboyega (1994) outlined the following assumptions: The dominance ... [according to the UN definition] which provide for their own housekeeping but which live in the same dwelling are counted as one household in the dwelling unit definition (1995: 116) In South...
... examine the importance of borrowing constraints in a model that incorporates the insight that both schooling choices and returns to schooling will be in uenced by borrowing constraints Using ... role for family income in accounting for schooling enrollment Does this mean that short run credit constraints are operative in the college-going years? Not necessarily Family income in the adolescent ... family income on schooling attainment and he interprets this result as evidence of no credit constraints.15 Conclusion In this paper we examine arguments about the strength of credit constraints in...
... banking system including a number of participating banks, microfinance, and non-bank financial institutions • Do ministries and state enterprises maintain multiple, independent deposit accounts in ... as interim managers (as in Bosnia and Kosovo) or within the framework of a donor–host-government financial-control pact (as in Liberia21) In other post- conflict states, post- conflict period in ... payments In later phases of recovery, maintaining a firm policy against tax exemptions and “incentives” will remain important A broad, uniform definition of the base for tariffs, VAT, and income...
... estrogen receptor b Endocrinology 139, 4252–4263 19 Shilling, A.D & Williams, D.E (2000) Determining relative estrogenicity by quantifying vitellogenin induction in rainbow trout liver slices ... Molecular Cloning A Laboratory Manual, 2nd edn Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory press, Cold Spring Harbor, NY 25 Hogan, B., Beddington, R., Costantini, F & Lacy, E (1994) Tail bleeding In Manipulating the ... reduced in ArKO mice and the loss of mineralized cancellous bone was evident in the distal metaphysis of the femur in ArKO mice (Fig 6A) Dietary BPA prevented ArKO mice from bone lossin a dose-dependent...
... saw no increases in maternal mortality during this period in the Port-au-Prince area, but experienced a slight increase in infant death The program also saw an increase in births in its institutions ... GHESKIO provided 57 trainings on family planning, educating 5,682 persons living in the camp on the use of contraception, preventing STIs, and sexual violence 68 Providing services in camps allows women ... infections and forced sex Several symptoms related to sexually transmitted infections, including chronic pelvic pain, excessive vaginal discharge, discolored vaginal discharge, burning or pain...
... that inflate fertility during the early phases of the transition (see preceding section) 19 In addition, three other factors—rising age at childbearing, involuntary infertility, and competing ... as well as delays in age at first marriage and first birth These interrelated trends will not be examined in detail here, but in several instances they play key roles in explaining fertility trends; ... a decline in the cohort quantum leads to changes in the cohort's mean age at childbearing that not represent true tempo effects Ignoring this effect—as Ryder does in much of his writing—therefore...
... to examine aspects of family life in South Africa in light of the transformation in the society’s social structures since the democratic transition in 1994 We begin this task by examining the ... being in place This distinction between the normative and concrete aspects of the family institution was clearly in his mind when Adegboyega (1994) outlined the following assumptions: The dominance ... [according to the UN definition] which provide for their own housekeeping but which live in the same dwelling are counted as one household in the dwelling unit definition (1995: 116) In South...
... considerable restructuring and shedding of labour in major industries such as mining As a result, with declining employment, growth in labour inputs alone could not have added to the growth in real output ... frequently in an uncertain than in a certain environment, generating more rather than less frequent bursts of investment expenditure In this case, increased uncertainty may be associated with higher investment ... change in gross domestic product ‘Change in rights’ is defined as the change in an index of political rights.24 ‘Uncertainty’ refers to the index of political instability employed in the investment...
... expect diversity in the factors involved in choosing an electoral system, and in the nature of the initial electoral choices Yet in all cases perceptions of electoral institutions were inflected with ... electoral reform here, while the old elite retained its dominance in the remaining nine republics, including Russia and Ukraine All in all, the communist system provided a large measure of common ... in the degree of readiness to experiment with reform, in the extent to which changes were elite-led, in the timing of change, and in the identity of leading pro-reform actors The distinguishing...
... States—History Political parties— Russia (Federation)—History Political parties—Ukraine—History Baltic States—Politics and government—1991– Russia (Federation)—Politics and government—1991– Ukraine—Politics ... Argentina and Bolivia are included in the second group of countries, where “parties have become increasingly accepted as the main route to governing” (ibid., 14) However, in Table 1.6 of Mainwaring ... Systems in Post- Soviet Countries independents in a national parliament is employed as an indicator of autonomy Chapter extends the analysis by investigating patterns in the formation of the cabinet...
... study in post- Soviet Ukraine, 1989–2009 / Ararat L Osipian p cm Includes bibliographical references and index ISBN 978–0–230–61824–4 Human capital—Ukraine Economic development—Ukraine Ukraine—Economic ... Market in Ukraine and other NIS Macroeconomic and Social Indicators of the Former Soviet Bloc 3.3.1 Population Income in Ukraine 3.3.2 Dynamics of Personal Income and Consumer Price Index in Ukraine ... the economic implications of learning by doing saying: It is by now incontrovertible that increases in per capita income cannot be explained simply by increases in the capital-labor ratio Though...
... activities for those involved in training in industry and commerce, in both the public and the private sectors Teaching and Training in Post- Compulsory Education is not intended as a textbook ... Individual Learning Account individual learning plan Institute for Learning and Teaching in Higher Education Institute for Public Policy Research intelligence quotient Internet service provider information ... technology Initial Teaching Award Learning and Skills Industrial Training Board local authority lifelong learning Lifelong Learning UK Learning and Skills Council Learning and Skills Network Learning...
... the Linn Cove Viaduct Transverse Post- Tensioningin the Top Slab of Box Girder Transverse Post- Tensioningin Diaphragms Vertical Post- Tensioningin Diaphragms Transverse Post- Tensioningin Deviation ... individuals involved in the installation or inspection of post- tensioning work for post tensioned concrete bridges including post- tensioning systems, materials, installation and grouting of tendons ... Span-By-Span Construction Interior Span Post- Tensioning for Span-By-Span Construction Post- Tensioningin Hammerhead Piers Post- Tensioningin Straddle Bents Post- Tensioningin Cantilever Piers Precast...
... minutes, including the preparation time for the patient The post processing time was less than minutes including uploading, calculation and reporting In off-line analysis, only straight walking ... pathophysiology of freezing of gait in Parkinson’s disease Mov Disord 2008, 23(Suppl 2):S444-S450 Ustinova KI, Fung J, Levin MF: Disruption of bilateral temporal coordination during arm swinging in patients ... dis-coordination of left-right stepping seen in the present study? Impairments in bilateral coordination of rhythmic arm swinging in stroke patients were previously reported and attributed to instability...
... M, Fontaine R, Boissy P: Wearable wireless body area sensor networks for increased telepresence in geriatric telerehabilitation applications IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology Magazine 2007, ... than for a single session, which estimates are in turn more precise than estimates for individual activities Similar findings have been reported in the literature on physical activity in the population ... while samples below equal zero In C, temporal density is obtained by filtering binary signal with a rolling window of 10 sec Then, all samples above 0.5 (dotted line) is cumulated to give the...