... 114 List of Figures Figure 3.1 – Price Index Graphs of 19 Securitized Real Estate Markets Figure 3.2 – Price Index Graphs ofReal Estate Securities Funds Figure 3.3 – Price Index Graphs of Market ... construction ofglobalreal estate securities 1.3 Research Data This research utilizes monthly returns from January 1994 to January 2004 (ten years) of 19 globalreal estate securities indexes and four real ... diversification, and consequently, for a more precise measure of risk MPT dictates that given estimates of the returns, volatilities and correlations of a set of investments and constraints on...
... characteristics of the MWNTs and overall morphology of the films are critical for FE This is also important because both structure and morphology of CNT films strongly depend on growth techniques and related ... Synthesis of SWNTs is, however, a high-temperature process and sometimes requires additional postsynthesis processing for FE measurements On the other hand, controlled and low-temperature growthof ... motivation of the present study was to investigate the effect of substrate morphology on the growthof CNT films by an MPECVD process and investigate their comparative FE properties and structure–morphology...
... Variant Fig The values (mean and standard deviation) of stand volume (open triangles) and volume of mean stem (grey circles) of spruce stands in Machov experiment at the age of 41 years (2007) Comparison ... 1981) The aim of our study was to detect possible effects of stand segmentation (using skidding tracks of different width) on the growthand development of experimental Norway spruce stands The analysis ... variant 3–3.5 m and variant 4–5 m The actual (present) width of tracks was determined by means of surveyed positions of trees (and their rows) and reconstructed axis (centre) of the track in...
... a road along the axis of the plot with compacted soil However, the assessment of bulk density of soil did not confirm this assumption There are patches of high and low soil density, maybe resulting ... beech stands Consequently, soil moisture is high along the southern side of the trial plot, whereas in the centre the soil suffers from water deficit A close coincidence of temperature and soil moisture ... case of temperature regime descriptors and soil moisture, this is obviously due to the effect of shading The trial plot is immediately surrounded by an adult beech stand (~ 110 years, mean stand...
... control stands (C1 and C2) in July 1994 All plant species 50 A Boncina et al Figure Development of stand basal area of the thinned (T1 and T2) and control (C1 and C2) stands were recorded and their ... 1980 and 1991 for the thinned (T1 and T2) and the control (C1 and C2) subplots Figure Evolution of the population of crop trees in the thinned stands (T1 and T2) in the period 1980–2001 Effects of ... prices of beech timber and small price differences between beech timber of different quality The objective of this study was to examine the effects of two types of selective thinning on beech stands...
... quantity of spores that can be obtained from one basidioma and the ease of application of this type of inoculum makes of it a method particularly well suited for large-scale inoculation of containerised ... higher in R roseolus and S verrucosum treatments, and the concentration of Fe was unaffected (Figs 2c, 2d and 2e) When substrates were compared, the concentration of K in needles of seedlings was ... order to check the effect of the factors: (a) inoculation with spores of the five ectomycorrhizal fungi and (b) type of substrate, on mycorrhization and development of P pinea seedlings Seedlings...
... weed competition and mobility of fertilizer It is also commonplace in silviculture for trees to exhibit a different pattern of edge growthand conformation (lack of straightness of timber, poor ... covers an area of 200 and forms part of the south Cameroonian plateau with an average altitude of about 400 m The vegetation is transitional in type between that of Cesalpiniaceae forest and a semi-deciduous ... forest of Sterculiaceae and Ulmaceae (Letouzey, 1968) The climate exhibits seasons, namely rainy and dry (with one long and one short of each type) The annual rainfall is about 205 mm and the...
... amount of N remobilised from stems or the seasonal growthof new tissues Increasing the N supply in the first experiment increased the growthof the new tissues (leaves, roots and stem extension) and ... upon the amount of N remobilised from stems for the spring growthof leaves Other studies have suggested that the growthof the plant is mainly a function of the initial levels of N reserves, ... Discussion and Conclusion Internal N cycling within deciduous trees has components: the remobilisation of N from perennial woody tissues for spring growthand the withdrawal of N from leaves (and roots)...
... marker of cell damage and protein breakdown in critically ill septic patients The study hypothesis is to determine the role of serum 20S proteasome at early diagnosis of sepsis and its correlation ... diagnostic and prognostic markers separately and as both of them together to determine their correlation The present study monitored serum levels of 20S proteasome, it was increased in both septic and ... 13,590.00 4170.00 16.92 0.478 0.649 Table Correlationof survival and percentage of total apoptotic lymphocytes in the sepsis and non-sepsis groups Percentage of apoptotic lymphocytes Alive Died Mann-Whitney...
... localization of each of the significant and suggestive QTL was obtained using the bootstrap technique [13, 24] with a total of 10 000 samplings RESULTS 3.1 QTL for growth traits The overall means and standard ... The physical distance of this SNP on GGA1 The genetic distance of this SNP identified by Cri-Map Restriction endonucleases Means and standard errors (SE) of estimated additive and dominance effects, ... effect on growth from d of age on and during the entire growth period In addition, this explained more than 20% of the residual phenotypic variance for adult body weight, and about 35% of the difference...
... inoculation) and treated sample 2.2.3 Effect of medium pH and cultural temperature on growthand feather degradation of Bacillus pumilus K8 To investigate the optimum assay pH and temperature on growthand ... results and then select appropriate culture time RESULTS AND DISCUSSION 3.1 Effect of medium pH and cultural temperature on growthand feather degradation of Bacillus pumilus K8 The effects of pH and ... 2.2.7 Effect of time course on growthand feather degradation by Bacillus pumilus K8 RESULTS AND DISCUSSION 3.1 Effect of medium pH and cultural temperature on growthand feather degradation...
... Effect of medium pH and cultural temperature on growthand feather degradation of Chryseobacterium indologenes K14 2.2.4 Effect of different carbon sources and carbon concentrations on growth ... 2.2.6 Effect of feather concentrations on growthand feather degradation of Chryseobacterium indologenes K14 2.2.7 Effect of time course on growthand feather degradation of Chryseobacterium ... concentrations on growthand feather degradation of Chryseobacterium indologenes K14 10 3.3 Effect of different nitrogen sources and nitrogen concentrations on growthand feather degradation of Chryseobacterium...
... activities of the company such as ensuring profitability, growthand development of the entire company, achieving the objectives of the company on sales growth, profit, personnel development and others ... as the port of entry, the names of the importer and exporter, a detailed description of the goods, the quantity of the goods, the value of the goods, the currency, and the country of origin Specific ... objectives and broad policies of the company - Preparing strategic plans and policies for the company - Controlling and cooperating the activities of all departments The Deputy Director of Finance and...
... demultiplexing; framing and error-handling; parameter marshalling and demarshalling; and operation dis- software by allowing decoupled suppliers and consumers, asynchronous event delivery, and distributed ... concurrency mechanisms for real- time processing, such as the real- time threads of Mach [19] and real- time CPU scheduling priorities of Solaris [16] However, QoS research at the network and OS layers has ... role of a mediator between ibility of tightly coupled software can substantially increase consumers and suppliers The Event Channel manages object the effort and cost of integrating new and improved...
... multivariate measure offorecast accuracy, namely the trace of the forecast error covariance matrix 4.1 4.1.1 Overall forecast performance GDPgrowth Consider the RMSE for GDPgrowth Over the full ... paper are those of the authors, and not necessarily those of the Bank of England The authors would like to thank Simon Priceand an anonymous referee for their insightful comments and useful suggestions ... Sargent and co-authors on the evolving dynamics of US inflation is a often cited example of this literature In particular, Cogley and Sargent (2002), Cogley and Sargent (2005) and Cogley, Primiceri and...
... differences in price levels and may therefore under- or overstate the real value of an economy’s output and the standard of living of its residents In fact, the prices of many goods and services ... depend on the reliability of the expenditure weights and the price data and how well the goods and services that were priced represent the consumption pattern andprice levels of each participating ... cumulative share ofglobal population, percent 80 90 100 (Countries are in the order of increasing realGDP per capita; area of each rectangle corresponds to the share in globalGDPof the corresponding...
... fall of 2008 and winter of 2009 As a result of this research the RWC staff decided to the following: • Create video profiles of servicemembers and veterans from a variety of ranks and branches of ... DoD and civilian outlets Assessment of the Content, Design, and Dissemination of the Real Warriors Campaign • Social Media The number and types of individuals connecting with the campaign and ... video profile, or story of a servicemember who has sought help, has been viewed and the number and types of organizations downloading and using the profiles These metrics were analyzed by RAND staff...
... evaluated Calibration standard curve and linearity of dilution Due to the lack of a standard reference material, calibration standard curves were not evaluated for quantification of cellular IFNγ response ... be both accurate and precise with % recovery between 80–120% (analyst had a 123%) and % CV < 20%, respectively (Table 3) Calibration standard curve and linearity of dilution A standard curve was ... stimulated with irrelevant peptide and HIV had very low background signal and % CV was high, as expected Accuracy, spike and recovery, and LOQ Due to the lack of a reference standard material to establish...