... into shore, and near at hand rose the thick body of the Galena Long boats and flat boats went hither and thither across the blue waves: the grim ports of the men of war were open andthe guns frowned ... and were disposed to cringe and prevaricate The women were not generally handsome; their face was indolent, their dress slovenly, and their manner embarrassed They lopped off the beginnings and ... tea, on the premises, andthe salt before us was the last in the dwelling The Captain promised to send them both coffee and salt, and Fogg volunteered to bring the same to the house, whereat the...
... effects, the average treatment effect andthe treatment effect on the treatment no longer coincide andthe coefficient on the contract dummy identifies the average treatment effect The magnitude and ... if they had purchased inputs and sold their output at market prices and not contracted with the integrator Let σ i denote the standard deviation for the ith producer These are calculated from the ... once again the mean and standard deviation of returns Let si denote the standard deviation of the simulated series for the ith producer Also let sc denote the mean standard deviation for the group...
... forward the orientation and tasks for the period thereafter The major setbacks for the economy in the end of 1980s and early 1990s were the protracted economic embargo imposed by the US while the ... of the state; iii) to enhance foreign economic efficiency on the basis of expanding economic cooperation to the countries in the region andthe world; and iv) to democratize all fields of the ... pattern of income and consumption of the people in the country These breakdown calculations would further help people understand the way the people spend on their food, non food items As the breakdown...
... banks to their customers, therefore they have effects on the behaviour of borrowers and consequently on the real economy On the other hand, prices set by banks influence their profitability and soundness ... parentheses Daggers ‡ and † denote significance at the 5% and 10% levels, respectively For the LR tests we report the degrees of freedom of the chi-square statistics in parentheses andthe corresponding ... pass-through in the Eurozone by separately estimating error correction models for the periods before andduringthe crisis, assuming that the turmoil period starts in the last months of 2007 andthe beginning...
... [12,41] Therefore, MLL1 and H3K4 trimethylation have been shown (by our laboratory and others) to be colocalized in the euchromatic regions of the nucleus, and this is probably because of their ... probably via the involvement of p53 and p21 MLL1 and H3K4 methylation are critical for Hox gene regulation duringthe cell cycle In order to understand the molecular mechanism of the differential ... indicates the critical roles of MLL1 and H3K4 trimethylation in differential Hox gene expression duringthe cell cycle To further confirm the importance of MLL1 in the regulation of HoxA5, HoxA7 and...
... literature search and in the preparation of the manuscript SJY contributed in the review of the manuscript YC was the statistician for the original study, and helped interpret the data for the current ... for the fluoxetine group and 61.8% for the placebo group; after year, they were 45.9% for the fluoxetine group and 72.0% for the placebo group Mean (SD) residual insomnia scores among duringthe ... MDD Therefore, the purpose of the present study was to explore the impact of residual sleep disturbance on the Page of risk of relapse of MDD duringthe continuation/maintenance treatment with the...
... [11,12] These OHRQoL differences andthe reason for them have not been reported on There is a need to determine the shortened measure’s validity and properties in larger and more diverse samples and ... may account for the differences in the Northland and Otago communities, with over two-thirds of the Northland sample (but fewer than the one-fifth of the Otago sample) being Māori The case for construct ... elucidating these requires further exploration of the face and content validity of the measure in different populations Further population-based research is required in order to further explore the cross- cultural...
... to 'remove the gloves' The education and infection control team simulated every step of the dressing and undressing to ensure safety and clarity, and then scripted and photographed the process ... tachycardia, and ventricular fibrillation) We timed how long it took the first person to don the PPS The other four trainees observed After the simulation we debriefed the entire group and discussed and ... defibrillation, airway management and infection control The group then observed two educators describing and demonstrating the dress-up andthe dress-down method for the PPS Next, the group was divided into...
... day and per cubic metre of filtered air, at two-hour intervals duringthe day The pollen counts duringthe two seasons were comparable, in terms of both the pollen peak andthe duration of the ... inflammation in the blood, nose and lower airways both before andduringthe pollen season Our results highlight the close relationship between the upper and lower airways in both allergic diseases and support ... completing the inhalation, the subjects were instructed to "huff" and cough into the container The mucus clods were aspirated with a 2-ml syringe and collected The entire sputum clod was weighed and...
... USA) duringthe study period The primary goal of this study was to validate the hypothesis that the diameter of the right IJV is greater than the left one, and secondary to determine the cross- sectional ... mm/1.2 mm interval Thereafter, the diameter and cross- sectional area of the left and right IJVs were measured at the level of the cricoid cartilage (Figure 1) The level of the cricoid cartilage ... [2,3,5,7-9] The patients' age, sex, and indication for CT scan were recorded The thoracic CT scans andthe maximal diameter and cross- sectional area of the IJVs were measured and analyzed by the same...
... random occasions, usually family gatherings When measuring time occurs the grandchildren stand against the board, a line is drawn at the top of their head, andthe date of the line is noted The ... over the last 19 years the heights of Raya Cooper and Moses Cooper At various times the child would stand against the board and their height would be measured by drawing a line and dating the ... all of the growth patterns of the individual components, the growth law would be the weighted sum of these growth patterns As the cytoplasm is by far the major component, the other parts of the...
... confirms and quantifies the important difference between the Meishan andthe most widely used French breed, the Large White, for growth and fattening traits These differences tend to disappear in crossbred ... traits through the environment provided by the dam duringthe gestation and suckling periods Finally, the knowledge of the crossbreeding parameters for growth between Large White and Meishan breeds ... genetic type and sow parity random sow within genetic type effect, with mean and known variance or demonstrated that the interactions between genetic type andandthe regressions on dam and litter...
... from the application layer as a substitute for the queue length, the routing protocol can now measure the traffic load of a flow more accurately On the other hand, the routing metric obtained from the ... I will carry over the spirit of self-motivation and independence, which they taught me during my study Without their help, I would not be able to finish my PhD study and this thesis would have ... thankful duringthe rest of my life Last but not the least; I would like to thank my parents, for their support and encouragement throughout my years of studies They have guided me both in study and...
... across the Russian Plain duringthe Briansk Interstadial with the southern limit of the range of a number of Arctic plants being 1200 km further south than today (and a further 600 km during ... Italy the forest expands during warm phases but never to the extent reached during an interglacial, creating a mosaic landscape of forest and grassland (Watts et al., 2000) The extent and location ... kyr) that has been the coolest and most variable period and that which saw the arrival of Moderns into Eurasia andthe extinction of the Neanderthals It was characterised by the climate variations...
... present during instrumental analysis The MQLs were determined as the greater of either the coincident peak mean plus 10 standard deviations, or the concentration of the lowest-level calibration standard ... work We also thank John Holmes and his colleagues at the Friends of the North Fork of the Shenandoah River for their efforts in the deployment and retrieval of the passive samplers References ... andthe YES assay The procedures used for preparing SPMD samples for analysis were similar to previously published approaches (Alvarez and others, in press; Petty and others, 2000) Briefly, the...
... positions and sequences used to amplify pri-miR9-1, 9-2 and 9-3 Arrows indicate the position and orientation of the primers Bold font represents the sequence of mature miR9* and italic fonts the sequence ... miR9-1PN5_Fluc, were amplified using the primer pairs listed in Table 1, and then sequenced to determine the orientation of the fragments in the reporter vector These constructs were then transfected into P19 ... sense and antisense strands of the piRNA hairpin are involved in formation of the piRNA-interacting complex (piRC) and function in the transcriptional gene silencing of retrotransposons and genetic...
... the fitting and correspond to the values obtained for the isolated domains The uncertainties of the parameters correspond to the standard errors obtained in the fittings Reproducibility of Tm and ... equations using the following set of parameters: a linear heat capacity function for the native state, Cp(N); the enthalpies andthe heat capacities of the unfolded state, DHU and DCpU, and of the aggregate, ... affected by their detachment from the remainder of the protein Domain A, on the other hand, is destabilized by 9–10 °C when excised from the rest of the chain Visual inspection of the crystal...
... mainly use the MPQA 2.0 corpus (Wiebe et al., 2005) We adhere to the definition of opinion holders from previous work (Wiegand and Klakow, 2010; Wiegand and Klakow, 2011a; Wiegand and Klakow, ... however, they are only evaluated on the entire MPQA corpus The only cross- domain evaluation of opinion holder extraction is reported in (Li et al., 2007) using the MPQA corpus as a training set andthe ... classifiers (RB) The main difference towards CRF and CK is that it is an unsupervised approach not requiring training data We re-use the framework by Wiegand and Klakow (2011b) The candidate set...