... portions ofthe highway system, 41 Map of National Highway System in the 50 states, the District of Columbia, and Puerto Rico, 46 Miles of road and use of roads in urban and rural portions ofthe ... scientific and engineering research, dedicated to the furtherance of science and technology and to their use for the general welfare Upon the authority ofthe charter granted to it by the Congress ... Academy of Sciences to secure the services of eminent members of appropriate professions in the examination of policy matters pertaining to the health ofthe public The Institute acts under the responsibility...
... responsibility, andthe environment The debate is often cast in terms of shareholder versus stakeholder At least in ideology and legal frameworks, the United States andthe United Kingdom have given the ... most weight to the idea that shareholders are the owners ofthe corporation, the board of directors is their representative and elected by them, andthe objective function ofthe corporation ... the market and other players about the value of their plans and strategies But first they need to become value managers themselves, and to understand what value they are creating and why Page...
... clear indication ofthe inadequacy of adopting a strategy of training and employing mid-level cadres in the absence of strategies to strengthen and improve other aspects ofthe health environment ... community as one ofthe main motivating factors [31] The mid-level providers were slightly more positive about their work relationships andthe degree of control they have over their practice There are ... improve the motivation and retention of these mid-level cadres, we must begin measuring and monitoring the key factors within their work environment that affect their performance The role of organizational...
... responsibility, andthe environment The debate is often cast in terms of shareholder versus stakeholder At least in ideology and legal frameworks, the United States andthe United Kingdom have given the ... most weight to the idea that shareholders are the owners ofthe corporation, the board of directors is their representative and elected by them, andthe objective function ofthe corporation ... the market and other players about the value of their plans and strategies But first they need to become value managers themselves, and to understand what value they are creating and why Page...
... which have works of art (sculptures or statues or other works of art) displayed in a prominent public place andthe cities have paid the artists a very large amount of money for these works of art ... to the food)? FQ (This question might include: the packaging andthe origin ofthe food) • What are the possible results if all (or the majority of) the people were not very concerned about the ... does the weather (or, the seasons) effect people's work? (Does it place any restrictions on work) ? FQ • (Similar to above) What are the advantages and disadvantages of working in the summer and...
... discussion ofthe rise ofthe concept of fetal rights and fetal protectionism can be found in Daniels, 1993.) After a brief discussion ofthe social construction of maternity and paternity, I analyse the ... coverage ofthe issue, and since news stories began suggesting the relation on fetal health ofthe combined eVects of poverty, addiction and exposures to workplace and environmental toxins The precise ... Studies of male reproductive health and toxicity have Between fathers and fetuses concentrated primarily on the eVects of occupational and environmental exposures of men and less on the eVects of...
... 6), andthe finding that the electrophoretic mobility ofthe phosphorylating kinase corresponds to that ofthe a subunit of CK2 (Fig 9) However, other experiments aiming to detect the b subunit of ... donor (Fig 8A), the inhibitory effects of heparin and DPG (Fig 8B), the fact that purified CK2 can phosphorylate bS631 and cT599 (Fig 7A), the presence ofthe a subunit of CK2 in the active cytosolic ... aCK2 to the C tail of ENaC and phosphorylation of a conserved serine in the b subunit The cellular role of this event awaits further studies ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS We thank D W Litchfield ofthe University...
... in the caption of graphics whose message was judged to convey the entity with the minimum value and in the caption of graphics pear on the bars and sometimes next to them, andthe heading for the ... nouns in the caption, andthe presence of a verb or adjective class in the caption The Intention Recognition Module then analyzes the XML file to build the appropriate Bayesian network; the current ... in224 tended message ofthe graphic will be an important component ofthe initial summary, and hypothesizing it is the goal of our current work Evidence about the Intended Message The graphic designer...
... norms and regulations based on the experts’ classifying knowledge.21 Government (the project ofthe rulers) and mentality (the state of mind ofthe ruled) then fuse, as both begin to perceive the ... for the micro-processes of agency and governance that have loomed large in theworkof other theorists of national and imperial power.16 The empire whose emergence Hardt and Negri ambitiously prophesy ... Borlaug and other plant biologists Their work was sponsored in part by the Rockefeller Foundation For accounts ofthe scientific and social dimensions ofthe Green Revolution, see Lily E Kay, The...
... extracellular ligands in the pericellular environment [15] (Fig 2) The remaining portion ofthe membranebound receptor loses its ability to bind ligands, and can be further processed by the presenilin ... environment (mainly between Leu403 and Val404) ofthe phospholipid bilayer ofthe membrane [17] In turn, there is decreased plasma membrane targeting ofthe transcriptional cofactor calcium ⁄ calmodulin-associated ... Fig Schematic ofthe four vertebrate syndecans Syndecans-1 and -3 core proteins are larger than those of syndecan-2 and -4, and can bear both heparan and chondroitin sulfate chains The GAG chains...
... sorrowful Then when Juliet shot herself in the head, it was really dramatic, as you heard the sound ofthe shot To summarise the two films, all I can say is that I loved them both, because they are ... are so different, but if I had to choose, I’d choose the Luhrmann version, starring Claire Danes and Leonardo DiCaprio, just because I loved the ending ...
... Georgia andthe intentions of NATO andthe United States in Central Asia At the same time, in the aftermath ofthe wars in Afghanistan and Iraq, it is clear that the United States and other Western ... the Soviet Union andthe North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) were engaged in a dangerous confrontation The end ofthe Cold War, the collapse ofthe Warsaw Pact, andthe dissolution ofthe ... Russia lined up together against the U.S., United Kingdom, and other western European players (and over the heads ofthe “new Europeans”) By autumn 2003, the fruits of these diverse and divisive maneuvers...
... counteracting ability ofthe osmolyte does not arise from the stabilization ofthe native state but arises primarily from the destabilization ofthe unfolded state ofthe protein in the presence of osmolyte ... larger bundles of FtsZ protofilaments in the presence of TMAO compared with the control (Fig 6) The widths ofthe bundles of FtsZ Fig Effects of TMAO on denaturant-induced perturbation ofthe far-UV ... 64 and 82% ofthe total FtsZ were pelleted in the absence and presence of 0.8 m TMAO, respectively Electron microscopy analysis ofthe FtsZ assembly reaction showed the formation of thicker and...
... andthe convergence ofthe biological with the mechanical all reflect and stimulate shifts in the understanding ofthe nature of life Although the cultural practices of breeding andthe use of ... processing steps, and there is great flexibility in the number of steps andthe sequence in which they are undertaken They can process an ever-expanding range of types of inputs and can produce ... because the logics may be so different from what we know Of course globalization and many ofthe impacts ofthe information economy are the result of vast increases in the scope and scale of activity...
... choice and loading ofthe NM is a compromise between the required efficiency ofthe converter andthe market price ofthe NM However, the application of noble metals for the treatment of exhaust ... examined The comparison of catalytic activity ofthe obtained mixed oxide catalysts with the noble catalysts under the same condition is also the purpose ofthe study Nguyen The Tien 36 Synthesize and ... 2.3.2 The analysis ofthe reactants and products The temperature program ofthe analysis method of GC and retention time of some related chemicals are shown in Table 2.8 and Table 2.9 Analysis of...
... provide lots of room for families and their gear Their size gives them an image of safety The popularity of SUVs has revived the economy ofthe upper Midwest and has helped power the American ... corners in the design and manufacturing ofthe Explorer andthe tires, and for doing little for several years as some of their employees learned of problems with the tires Yet terrible as the tire-related ... force of impacts Their extra height made them prone to tipping over The combination of their height, stiffness and lack of crumple zones made them unusually deadly to their own occupants and to the...
... wrinkles and microfibrils in the outer layers ofthe fibre wall structure (Figure 1a) The surface structure of chemical pulp Figure Structure of wood pulp fibres (a) Note the network of microfibrils ... the microfibril, the macrofibril andthe lamellar membrane In theworkof Maier [13], the term “elementary fibril” was reported to have a diameter of 3.5 nm and was applied following the terminology ... fraction of nanofibrils and (3) the morphology ofthe nanofibrils in an MFC material Provided that a given MFC is composed of an appropriate fraction of individualised nanofibrils, the MFC will...
... Degradation ofthe structure ofthe negative plates The second aim of this work was to investigate the in¯uence of expanders on the energetic and skeleton structures of NAM and on the degradation ... of expanders as well as the structure ofthe NAM, which in turn determines the capacity ofthe plate The in¯uence of temperature on the cycle life of negative plates containing the expanders ... of negative plates with the new expanders UP-393 and UP-414 The new expanders UP-393 and UP-414 are experimental products of Borregaard LignoTech (Norway) The results ofthe ECE-15 tests of the...
... ABCA1 andthe PS exposed on the surface ofthe phagocyte PSRp denotes the protein encoded by the psr gene, which is found within the nucleus Although the mechanistic details of PS appearance on the ... animals The first report ofthe effects of deletion ofthe psr gene in mammals came from the laboratory of Richard Flavell [14] These investigators concluded that the protein encoded by the gene ... targets, and perhaps to engulf them as well, notable in view ofthe conclusion (mentioned above) that the PS receptor does not contribute to the tethering step of engulfment [12] The second piece of...