... If, on the other hand, the integrator is too 16 Space Command Sustainment Review: Improving theBalance close to the demand side, current operations may always be given first priority, and not ... systems and tools, and training and education RAND Project AIR FORCE RAND Project AIR FORCE (PAF), a division of the RAND Corporation, is the U.S Air Force’s federally funded research and development ... platforms and commandand-control centers from a command perspective They were interested in whether existing support philosophies and approaches could be Space Command Sustainment Review: Improving the...
... profiles and in their distribution in the central nervous system and periphery Y1, Y2 and Y5 are the best characterized NPY receptors, andthe majority of NPY functions are associated with them Supporting ... that the antiosteogenic pathways of leptin and of the Y receptor proceed via distinct mechanisms The similarity between ob ⁄ ob and Y2) ⁄ ) mice regarding their bone phenotype, together with the ... have revealed the presence in bone of neuropeptides of sensory, sympathetic and glutaminergic types However, despite these early descriptions linking the bone to the nervous system, the first clear...
... conceived the study and participated in its design and coordination LBS and EJH drafted the manuscript All authors read and approved the final manuscript Competing interests The authors declare that they ... shown as a mean and standard error from independent experiments At a dose of Gy of g-rays, there is a statistically significant difference betweenthe double hemizygous andthe other genotypes ... the 300 known cancer genes [34] Many of these genes maintained their hemizygous status in the tumors that developed as a result of their hemizygosity In general, the only difference between the...
... no other means of achieving balanceThe question then is not whether this occurs, but how and where? If balance is not achieved within the synthetic and degradative reaction sequences in their ... rate The equilibrium constant betweenthe two forms reflects their ratio in the cell at the steady state In this way, the rates of the irreversible and independent mechanisms of synthesis and ... action andthe conservation of mass, the equilibration of complementary forms of the same protein molecule sets and balances its rate of synthesis and degradation The difference between proteins and...
... service quality of the delivered service and then decided whether they were satisfied or not If they were satisfied, this would contribute to their behavioral intentions On the other hand, affective ... increase demand, which in turn will increase the market share (Hoch, Drèze and Purk 1994) On the other hand, price increase can lower the attractiveness and utility of the product, which can then lead ... the relationship between purchase intention, service quality, pricing strategy and customer value After the review, the research gap, together with the research questions, is identified Hypotheses...
... grow quickly and others not That is, the variation in the dependent variables comes from both the time series andthe cross-sections, and some pooling of data is necessary to address the questions ... data, and note significant deviations betweenthe PWT 6.0 and PWT 5.6 results The PWT 6.0 data contain more observations than the PWT 5.6 data, but when matched with the data for other variables the ... and liberalization, on the one hand, and growth and growth volatility, on the other, were tradeoffs in democracies We explore briefly both lines of inquiry as a guide to further research 13 The...
... family Very often, the person who takes such a stand will command the respect of their peers—many of whom may wish that they too could make a similar commitment Nonetheless, such a stand can also generate ... time and money trying to devise clever programs for developing leadership in our organizations and ignore a structure that already exists, and which is ideal for the job The more I understand the ... puts it, with their members The essence of this compact is the organization's commitment to support the full development of each employee, andthe person's reciprocal commitment to the organization.5...
... their finances Because the Survey of Consumers is a phone survey, a true–false–uncertain format was adopted for the knowledge quiz rather than the multiple-choice format used in many of the other ... ‘‘Saving and Financial Planning: Some ´ Household Financial Management: The Connection between Knowledge and Behavior and more research on budgeting and cash-flow management is needed Data from the ... rate because they pay off their balances in full each month, but they may want to compare other fees, terms, and features Percentage of respondents reporting saving practices in the 2001 Survey...
... description of the statistical methods used, detailing of the flow of participants through the study and their baseline characteristics, and an interpretation of the results as they fit in the ... their investigation As well, they adequately reported on the content of the interventions, the statistical analytic decisions, andthe dates of recruitment and follow-up, and they addressed their ... information regarding the intervention itself, the statistical analyses performed, andthe methodology and adequate discussion of the generalizability of the results and how they fit in the context of...
... has termed the Matthew effect, with the better readers reading more and therefore increasing their exposure to print, and consequently their word recognition skills and their fluency and speed ... whom had received their research funding from the ARC, to discuss and review their work in the reading area As noted by Pratt and Coltheart7, the issues covered andthe emphases of the different ... administrators andthe public These concerns include the social factors related to the development of literacy, including the early development of literacy in the home and preschool environment, and the...
... receipts and payments (the credit terms on sales and purchases are the same so that a =~) andthe firm buys just in time so inventory is zero and YI =O operating cash cycle (0) is cet Then theand ... because the sales contract determines both the timing and amount of the cash inflows (and often related cash outflows) andthe recognition of earnings The sales contract specifies when and under ... process for sales, the signs of the predicted relations and correlations (other than earnings changes) andthe results are essentially unchanged The relation between sales and cash flow from...
... because the latter depends on (a) the structural integrity of the vascular bed of the penis; (b) the endothelium lining the cavernosal arteries andthe helicine arterioles, as well as the endothelium ... significant relationship between ED severity and MetS parameters, except for hypertension They hypothesized that the relationship between MetS and ED severity is not clear-cut and that it may be ... contribute to endothelial dysfunction and microvascular disease and reduced androgen levels; (b) the insult on the endothelium resulting in endothelial injury and reduced NO synthase activity and NO production,...
... cyanobacteria at the time of chloroplast origin had poorly defined interactions between Cyt f and plastocyanin and/ or plastocyanin and photosystem I, and subsequently the nature of the interactions in the ... site are relevant, and these can be represented by a disc of fixed radius and uniform charge The same analysis has been used for the interaction between Cyt f and plastocyanin [1], and for an in-depth ... in [1] and in this paper) Although the curves are shallow, making extrapolation more difficult, andthe number of datapoints is smaller than in the case of the interaction between Cyt f and plastocyanin...
... by their interaction: that is to say, the hypothetical sum of the value of their two ventures in isolation from one another is higher than the sum of their values given their interaction The ... of the ADA, provide someone to facilitate communication betweenthe client andthe lawyer if the lawyer cannot sign, without charging the client the cost of hiring a sign interpreter unless there ... Chief Justice Rehnquist and Justice Powell, believed the distinction betweenthe lost entitlements in Hodel and Andrus was unduly slender to sustain and therefore argued that Andrus should be limited...
... familiar with the strong racial feeling that existed betweenthe English andthe Welsh, andbetweenthe English andthe Irish If the Lowlanders of Scotland felt towards the Highlanders as Mr Hill ... true Scots and "the English of the Lowlands" Do we, then, find any racial antagonism betweenthe Highlands andthe Lowlands? If Mr Freeman is right in laying down the general rule that "the true ... must exclude the islands, which were largely inhabited by Norsemen Both the Hebrides andthe islands of Orkney and Shetland were outside the realm of Scotland The names of Macbeth and "the gentle...
... example and then used to generate a prediction for the leftout example The meta-classifier is trained using the predictions of the base-level classifiers as features, andthe true label as given by the ... (Culotta and McCallum, 2004) is used H- CRF also computes the Monge Elkan distance (Monge and Elkan, 1996) betweenthe relations predicted by O- CRF and R1CRF and includes the result in the feature ... consider the task of open extraction, in which the goal is to extract relationships from text when their number is large and identity unknown We then consider the targeted extraction task, in which the...
... the only protein with which one can biochemically assay both DNA endonuclease and RNA maturase activities in vitro This investigation provides the first step in the study of the relationship between ... lost in about 45 The substitution of either Na+ for K+ or acetate for Cl– ions, as well as the inclusion of 0.1 mgÆmL)1 BSA did not increase the stability of the protein and slowed the reaction rate ... slow release of the cleavage products from the protein The amplitudes of the initial burst (2.78 and 2.83 nM) gave a ratio of DNA/protein of 0.94 : As will be discussed further, these data indicate...
... in Egypt 23 UNFPA and IPPF Evaluation: Egypt Country Report betweenthe bride's father andthe groom, or the groom's father, and revolve around economics and compatibility In the ASCE survey, ... rights and provide youth with the services and information they need and deserve As EFPA was still in the planning phase during the evaluation the plan did not yet specify how they will implement these ... national and international goals, and to determine whether and to what extent the MOHP applies the ICPD recommendations and other commitments to international agreements At the same time, UNDAF (and...