... 1 THE ECONOMIC CONSEQUENCES OF AGEING POPULATIONS A COMPARISONOF THE EU, USAND JAPAN TABLE OF CONTENTS INTRODUCTION AND OVERVIEW CHAPTER 1: DEMOGRAPHIC TRENDS AND FORECASTS 1960-2050 1.1 Economic ... in the level and composition of savings, in the behaviour of consumers and investors and even, in certain circumstances, in changes in the rate of technical progress, all of which must be taken ... terms of historical demographic precedents An exhaustive analysis of past and expected population changes is beyond the scope of the present paper Consequently, following a short discussion of both...
... in winter and early spring, and viral infections in the mother during the second and third trimesters of gestation A strong association between hypofrontality and negative symptoms of schizophrenia, ... item and sub-scores for positive, negative, and 16 global psychopathological symptoms: delusions, formal thought disorders, hallucinations, agitation, grandiosity, suspiciousness/persecution, and ... passivity and apathy, difficulty in abstract thinking, lack of spontaneity and flow of conversation, and stereotyped thinking (N1 to N7); and health concerns, anxiety, guilt, tension, mannerisms and...
... (adjective) and (adjective) It is getting hotter and hotter (Trời ngày nóng) His voice became weaker and weaker (Giọng nói ngày yếu) Đối với tính từ dài: more and more adjective The storm became more and ... beautiful Harry is older than William Alice is more careful than her brother III Thể so sánh (Comparison of Equality) Bằng: as adjective as Không bằng: not so (as) adjective as This garden is as ... hôm qua) David is not so (as) careful as Kathy (David không cẩn thận Kathy.) IV Thể so sánh (Comparison of Inferiority) less adjective (than) It is less cold today than it was yesterday Ngày hôm...
... the mid- and tall-sized cylinders have diameters of 3.0 cm, heights of 2.5 and 3.7 cm, and masses ofand 12.5 grams, respectively (see Figure 2) We measured the dimensions and masses of the parts ... 0:5] in step sizes of 0.1, and we examined vibration amplitudes of 0.06 and 0.1 cm Each experiment consisted of a suite of 500 trials for a fixed set of parameter values for each of the three initial ... of 0.4 and 0.5 Figure shows the probability that a part in the Lengthwise (LT) orientation will land in each of the UB, LT, and LB orientations for various combinations of Slope angles and restitution...
... ecologically based practices that virtually prohibit the use of antibiotics and hormones in the cow herd and the use of synthetic chemicals in the production of cattle feed Organic milk production systems ... producers usually begin as operators of conventional dairies that go through what can be a challenging and costly transition process Many changes in such areas as animal husbandry, land and crop ... the costs ofand returns to organic milk production and how they differ from the costs and returns of conventional production However, the prior research is limited in terms of the scope and the...
... comparative study of the performances between the order FOC and the DTC: TABLE II COMPARISONOF FOC AND DTC SCHEMES FOC DTC Transformation Dynamics Robustness Present high Robust Void high Robust Speed ... V4 θ , τ ,φ φ =1 φ=0 IV COMPARISONOF STATIC AND DYNAMIC PERFORMANCE In this section, static and dynamic performances of FOC and DTC schemes are obtained by simulation using the MATLAB/ Simulink ... especially down with frequency of modulation B Test of Strength for Reversing Rotation of the Machine To test the robustness of both technical command at the reverse direction of rotation, it introduced...
... specific standard require otherwise 12:21 Page 26357 bd IFRSUS GAAP: 26357 IFRSUSGAAP bd 18/9/08 12:21 Comparisonof IFRSs andUSGAAP IAS/ IFRS Topic IFRSs USGAAPIFRS Recognition of share-based ... on the face of the income statement 11 Page 11 26357 bd IFRSUS GAAP: 26357 IFRSUSGAAP bd 18/9/08 Comparisonof IFRSs andUSGAAP IAS/ IFRS Topic IFRSs USGAAPIFRS Matrix form of organisation ... amount of the property, plant, and equipment used to produce the inventory 13 Page 13 26357 bd IFRSUS GAAP: 26357 IFRSUSGAAP bd 18/9/08 Comparisonof IFRSs andUSGAAP IAS/ IFRS Topic IFRSs US GAAP...
... stoplist of words with high overall corpus frequency2 Once significant words are marked in a text, clusters of significant words are formed A cluster has to start and end with a significant word, and ... number of words in the cluster Sentences can contain multiple clusters In order to compute the weight of a sentence, the weights of all clusters in that sentence are added The higher the weight of ... words must separate any two significant words (we chose n = 3, cf Luhn (1958)) Then, the weight of each cluster is calculated by dividing the square of the number of significant words in the cluster...
... it has been used in the ®eld of catalysis for oxidation reactions of hydrocarbons [7] MoO3 has a bandgap of 3.2 eV and electrical resistivity at room temperature is of the order of 1010 O cm ... CO and was selective only to NO2, i.e having a response of 2.3 and a time response of 60 s to ppm of NO2 as shown in Fig 4.5 Ethanol vapor sensing The sensors where exposed to 100±600 ppm of ... oxide of MoO3±WO3 exhibited an exceptional response to ethanol trading off response time and stability as shown in Fig Table shows the response comparisonof the three sensors tested, made up of...
... (PharMingen) was used as described previously [22] Materials Two frozen samples of the S-variety of P homomalla collected in the Bahamas (at Sweetings Cay and Cat Island) were obtained as a generous gift ... Oxygenation of unsaturated fatty acids by the vesicular gland of sheep J Biol Chem 242, 5344–5354 Kulmacz, R.J., Van Der Donk, W.A & Tsai, A.L (2003) Comparisonof the properties of prostaglandin H ... Hamilton, R.D & Rhuland, L.E (1972) Occurrence of esters of 15S-prostaglandin A2 and E2 in coral J Am Chem Soc 94, 2122–2123 17 Light, R.J & Samuelsson, B (1972) Identification of prostaglandins in the...
... acetone, vortexed and centrifuged at 10 000 g, 15 and then resuspended in 20 lL of M urea in 0.4 M NH4HCO3, pH Water was added to a volume of 80 lL Trypsin (4 lg) was added, and the sample was ... out using PROFOUND (Proteomics), searching NCBINR, version 2002/11/27 All chemicals were analytical grade In silico enzymatic digestion of the protein sequence and calculation of the mass of each ... concentrations of species giving rise to high- and low-spin signals were estimated as described in [27] and [28], respectively Results Electrophoresis of proteins and tryptic peptides We have previously...
... Introduction of Accounting Standards applying to "Inventories” COMPARISONOF IAS AND VAS 2.1 2.2 General Provisions Contents of the Standard CONCLUSION AND SUGGESTION ... Within the scope of this report, the aim of this paper is to discuss about the comparisonof Accounting Standards applying to “Inventory” of IAS and VAS to find the similarities and differences ... of studying and researching, our group has synthesized the knowledge of the rules and principles from the two systems of International Accounting Standards (IAS) and Vietnamese Accounting Standards...
... of Zambia, Lusaka, Zambia 4College of Medicine, University of Malawi, Blantyre, Malawi Department of Global Health Development, Faculty of Public Health and Policy, London School of Hygiene and ... components, and efforts by usand by the Global Fund [4] to track funds to the district and facility level, were unsuccessful Therefore, establishment of a causal chain and reliable attribution of health ... Zambia Only 52% of all health workers and 24% of doctors live and work in rural areas where two thirds of Zambians reside [23], and there are high vacancy rates and a rapid turnover of staff in rural...
... Emotional exhaustion at T2 was predicted by neuroticism, frequency of lack of leader support, severity and frequency of time pressure, severity of physical demands and severity of operational demands ... p < 05) Musculoskeletal pain at T2 was predicted by being female, older age, neuroticism, frequency of lack of co-worker support and severity of physical demands After adjusting for musculoskeletal ... job-related emotional exhaustion from T1 to T2 Severity of physical demands was found to predict higher levels of emotional exhaustion and musculoskeletal pain at T2, and importantly, was found...
... (Clontech) anti-V5 F igure Comparisonof E6-mediated ubiquitination of p53 and MAGIComparison of E6-mediated ubiquitination of p53 and MAGI3 Panel A p53 ubiquitination in nuclear and cytoplasmic extracts ... transfected cell lines [26] The fusion of GFP to the N-terminal of E6 therefore enabled the detection of E6-GFP by immunofluoresence and Western blot analysis using anti-GFP antibodies since antibodies ... the presence of the same amount of substrate p53 It is noteworthy that it was possible to detect different p53 levels in the presence and absence of the various E6s and therefore comparisons between...
... and cautious use of the VAS is useful and appropriate [16] Different approaches, considering preferences of different population subgroups, have been used to elicit the "values" of various health ... R: Evaluation of index and profile measures of health status in a randomized controlled trial: comparisonof the Medical Outcomes Study 36-Item Short Form Health Survey, EuroQol, and disease specific ... respondent effect was random and the measure effect was fixed [32] Both the adjusted and unadjusted SG utility scores were examined separately Interpretation of the strength of agreement using ICC scores...
... findings, and commenting on drafts of the paper RJH participated in the interpretation of data, writing the paper and commenting on the drafts of the manuscript MP participated in the interpretation of ... Bitzer et al.: A comparisonof conventional and retrospective measures of change in symptoms after elective surgery Health and Quality of Life Outcomes 2011 9:23 Submit your next manuscript to BioMed ... Scores range between and 27 for HSCL and between and 24 for GSCL, with a high score corresponding to high intensity of symptoms/impairment At T0, the preoperative status of all patients was assessed...
... design of the study and revised the drafted the manuscript AC conceived and coordinated the study, participated in its design and drafted the manuscript All authors read and approved the final manuscript ... variability of VRS formulations both in the number of response categories and in the labels attached to these categories, support the use of NRS which is applied with more standardized formats (usually ... cultures and languages [3,30,39] The 0-10 NRS has greater sensitivity than the VRS and achieves an adequate level of discrimination [22] The use of VRS is usually supported by its easy of administration,...
... size of × μm and the mature BMDCs (L) in the scanning size of × μm; F and M, Enlarged view of the center of the immature BMDCs (F) and the mature BMDCs (M) in the same scanning area of × μm; G and ... comparisonof both immature and mature BMDCs Thus, the foregoing results would be helpful for profoundly understanding the morphologic properties and functional foundation of both immature and mature ... visualize and quantify nanostructures of them AFM images included single and multiple BMDCs, two and three dimensions, low and high resolutions, cell height profile and histogram, topography, and roughness...