... agent to control the mesoscale structure of metal oxides [16–20] The cooperative assembly route was originally developed for the synthesis of mesostructured silica where the simple and effective ... ratios of alcohol/water is consistent with XRD results well The magnetism ofthe samples prepared in pure water and in alcohol/water media is also investigated, as shown in Fig The value of saturation ... magnetization of samples a, b, and c is 75.4 emu/g (Fig 3a), 39.2 emu/g (Fig 3b), and (Fig 3c), respectively The magnetism results also match XRD and TEM results well Based on the values of saturation...
... When the timber is harvested for shortterm gain and profit, the medicinal plants and other sustainable resources that thrive in the delicate ecosystem are destroyed LabourandtheLabourandthe ... social andlabour dimension of environmental conservation and sustainable development, (ii) to strengthen the relationship between UNEP andthe world oflabour in addressing the integration of an ... the Trade Union Assembly on Labourandthe Environment / WILL 2006 and this publication The Trade Union Assembly on Labourandthe Environment / WILL 2006 The Trade Union Assembly on Labour and...
... therefore the enthalpy ofthe solid As a result of hydration ofthe solid, changes in the shape and symmetry ofthe unit cell alter the entropy ofthe solid These changes in the enthalpy and entropy ... solution, and on the other hand, the viscosity ofthe solution increases Both factors decrease the 27 diffusion rate ofthe molecules in solution and lower thetransformation rate Thetransformation ... changes in the free energy and chemical potential ofthe solid Finally, the modification ofthe 11 chemical potential changes the fugacity and therefore the thermodynamic activity ofthe solid...
... type of program, level, and other variables (Day and Bamford ,2002) 16 The level of global understanding required varies with the student's language proficiency, the nature ofthe texts, and other ... must arrive at a profound and detailed understanding of logical arguments, the rhetorical arrangement, the pattern ofthe 14 text, the attitude and purposes ofthe writer and his linguistic means ... mentioned above is the summary ofthe general characteristics of extensive reading it provides including the issues related to the amount ofand primary purpose of reading andthe role of learners in...
... that the frequency ofthe use ofthe speech act of refusal by the Australian NSs of English was different from that by the VLEs Although the VLEs andthe Australian NSs of English employed the ... competence, the speech act of refusal to invitation andthe rationale ofthe study The chapter ends with information on the structure ofthe thesis Chapter reviews previous studies on the speech act of ... provided the background and theoretical framework for the present study The specific issues ofthe study, including the aims, the research questions ofthe study, the data collection method, the data...
... optimize the efficiency ofthe drive In this work, we will show how an extension ofthe Park transformation will lead to the 'jxeudo-dq" components ofthe electric variables The electric equations of ... Compensation ofthe cogging torque The cogging torque T results ofthe interaction between , the rotor magnets andthe stator slots It depends only on the rotor position and has to be compensated by the ... a, b or The total fluxes a can be split in fluxes self-induced by the stator currents andifluxes due to the permanent magnets ofthe rotor : where L, and M, are the self-inductance andthe mutualinductance...
... between the pre-school class andthe school The repercussion of this is that the child care andthe school now have the same responsible authority, i.e., the Ministry of Education andthe Board of ... the purpose of this thesis is to explore the potentials and alternative goals for change and development ofthe present school pedagogy and classroom practice that integration ofthe school and ... teach their children to read The same was true for masters; they were responsible for their servants’ reading skills The object ofthe study was the Christian creed and particularly the Lutheran...
... contribution ofthe systematic factor andthe regulation to the total timely variation ofthe exposure is 17.24% and, therefore, 82.76% ofthe variation is due to idiosyncratic effects These effects ... disentangle the contributions ofthe systematic factor andofthe regulation One can expect some correlation between the regulatory variables outi (t) and out2i (t) on the one hand, andthe variables ... instance, the duration, andthe weighted sum ofthe positions’ duration is a measure ofthe bank’s exposure to interest rate risk (See, for instance, Sierra and Yeager (2004)) The main problem of these...
... The biggest change has been in the importance of so-called megabanks, those that hold more than $100 billion of assets At the end of 1999, there were eight of these giant companies Together they ... broaden the array of products they offer online, making available services such as insurance and brokerage that they either produce themselves or market on behalf of other companies As serious as these ... branches for many of their banking services Will thetransformationof banking now under way hurt consumers by raising the price or reducing the quality of these services? Or will the changes benefit...
... applications ofthe Rudebusch-Wu model illustrate the range of issues that such a macrofinance model can address The first of these is an exploration ofthe source ofthe Great Moderation the period of reduced ... is, they have essentially assumed the expectations hypothesis Assessing the variability as well as the level ofthe term premium, andthe relationship between the term premium andthe macroeconomy, ... solved and responses given Quarters ofthe term premium andthe other variables ofthe model to economic shocks can be computed Figures and show the impulse response functions ofthe term premium and...
... trend in the income (before taxes) share ofthe top 0.1% (the top solid line in the figure) andthe top 0.01% (the lower dashed line) since 1945.32 Under both definitions ofthe top ofthe income ... Share of Income of Top 0.1% Share of Income of Top 0.01% Source: Piketty and Saez Note: The vertical axis is the share of total income The observed relationship between the top tax rates andthe ... at the top ofthe income distribution are currently at their lowest levels since the end ofthe second World War The results ofthe analysis suggest that changes over the past 65 years in the...
... was the revolt of women against housework in Europe andthe US, and later the rise of feminist movements across the planet, in the 1980s and 1990s that triggered the most radical rethinking of ... immediate was the refusal ofthe slogans ofthe Marxist left, such as the ideas ofthe "general strike" or "refusal of work," both of which were never inclusive of house-workers Over time, the realization ... collapse ofthe birth rate and increase in the number of divorces could be read as instances of resistance to the capitalist discipline of work The personal became political and capital andthe state...
... downstream-located genes ofthe pil cluster could not be excluded, and therefore the question of whether the products of pilM, pilN, pilO and pilW each play a role in natural transformationand piliation ... that the nonconserved PilW protein is implicated in the assembly and stability of PilQ multimers at the inner membrane and transport of these subassemblies to the outer membrane The presence ofthe ... biogenesis ofthe DNA translocator and ⁄ or is involved in the stabilization of PilQ and PilA4 proteins in the outer membrane Moreover, the absence of any PilW-like proteins in the transformation...
... OR\P HQ W The REMI Models ofthe Southern California Economy For all ofthe reasons noted above, estimating the impacts of LAX Master Plan EIS/EIR Alternatives on theeconomyof Southern California ... the growth of a metropolitan economy like that ofthe five-county Southern California region They directly employ thousands of workers and produce millions of dollars per year in taxes and other ... enplanements and deplanements and tons of air cargo loaded and unloaded at the airport These relationships change over time in response to changes in the structure ofthe economy, the nature ofthe industries...
... by the Nordic countries, in particular Finland and to some extent Sweden; the second by the US andthe UK, andthe third by Australia Biotechnology governance in Sweden and Finland The Scandinavian ... state The paper compares three cases of governance ofthe biotechnology sector: Finland and Sweden, the USA andthe UK, and Australia The aim is to integrate research on innovation systems (the ... core theme in the understanding ofthe role ofthe state in the knowledge-based economy (innovation driven economy, learning economy, etc.) has been to foster entrepreneurial networks in and around...
... structure are found at the end of strand D andthe beginning of strand E, i.e a further loss in D and a stabilization in E ofthe local b-structure geometry Compared with wt b2m, the cK58-b2m molecule ... heterogeneity The proton chemical shifts ofthe alternative conformer (I2) of cK58-b2m are compared with the corresponding values ofthe natively folded form of cK58-b2m in the graph The two conformers ... because ofthe ambiguous assignment of residues from these regions ofthe molecule Conformational heterogeneity of cK58-b2m and dK58-b2m The whole NMR dataset for cK58-b2m and dK58b2m revealed the...
... 90–15) and 255 (M+ – 131) The loss of mass 131 results from the scission ofthe C1–C2 and C4–C5 bonds Figure 4C illustrates mass spectra of isolated 7-DHP-MO-TMS, andthe synthesized standard The ... (Invitrogen), andthe isolation of RNA followed the manufacture’s protocol The synthesis of first-strand cDNA was performed using the Superscript preamplification system (Invitrogen) Either lg of total ... spectrum ofthe biotransformation product is in agreement with that ofthe chemically synthesized standard (Fig 5) and with data from the literature [41] Thus, the two angular methyl groups (18-CH3 and...