... important of themany inputs which evoke the complex concept of globalisation. Robertson,continuing his sketch of historical phases of globalisation,23writes of the ‘uncer-tainty phase’ of globalisation, ... to creating some sort of order from the chaos of globalisation (although lacking the beauty of one of Mandelbrot’s fractal patterns) . What does law contribute to, or reflect of, thispattern?2.2 ... appropriatedthe global image of the white coat of the medical profession to bolster the pres-tige of the witch doctor.33These general patterns reveal a complexity of partic-ularistic manifestations...
... per year.Source: Author’s calculation based on data of VHLSS 2002.One of leading concerns of consumption analysis is examining patternsof household consumption cross-regions. Relying on empirical ... Here, education is measured in number of schooling year of household head. There are some clear breakdowns of consumption level at number of schooling year of 9, 12, 15, 16, 18, and 21. It’s ... like Vietnam of which consumption occupies a large share of aggregate demand.1.2 FOCUS AND SCOPE OF THE THESISThis thesis focuses on the demand side of the household consumption, of which household...
... Department of Clinical Epidemiology, Predictive Medicine and Public Health, University of Porto Medical School and Institute of Public Health of the University of Porto (ISPUP), Al. Prof. Hernâni ... Portugal 2 Department of Clinical Epidemiology, Predictive Medicine and Public Health, University of Porto Medical School and Institute of Public Health of the University of Porto (ISPUP), Porto, ... Region Health Administration Public Institute: Global Burden of Disease in the Northern Region of Portugal. 2011. Changing patternsof cardiovascular diseases and cancer mortality in Portugal,...
... importance of the intestinalbarrier in the process of oral prion infection, this find-ing might help clarify the entry and routing of PrPScinthe early steps of infection. Our observations of a ... intestine of zebra-fish larvae call for evaluation of the potential prionsuptake of mammalian origin by the fish intestine.Comparison of zebrafish prp1, prp2, and prp3developmental expression patterns The ... Transcripts of this gene and PrPCare present ina large variety of adult peripheral tissues [18–20].In contrast, there is a paucity of data on the spatio- temporal expression of prion proteins...
... described.IntroductionThe extraction oftemporal information fromnews offers many interesting linguisticchallenges in the coverage andrepresentation oftemporal expressions. It isalso of considerable practical ... third (7 of 21, 5 of whichwere of type TIME) of all missed timeexpressions came from numeric expressionsbeing spelled out, e.g. “nineteen seventy-nine”. More than two thirds (11 of 16) of thetime ... presence of a day of the weekexpression (“Monday” thru “Sunday”) in thesame sentenceFW: “today” is the first word of the sentencePOS1: part -of- speech of the word before“today”POS2: part -of- speech...
... the 11 years of follow-up. In terms of indicators of social relationships, widowhood is astrong predictor of mortality for Taiwanese elders but not for Mainlanders..120.Journal of Population ... for theold often takes the form of living together. Another included indicator of social relationships is widowhood. Both of these are dichotomousmeasures, where 1 equals the name of the variables ... adolescence of this cohort of elders. This is especially true among the Taiwanese sub-sample. Almost 50% of them are illiterate. So, a plausible explanation of why low education is not predictive of...
... with$ 10 mL of standard food medium. Flies of the RA groupwere transferred to vials containing $ 10 mL of 1% agar,which provides a source of water but not nutrients. Fordetermination of any cumulative ... coefficients of variation ranged from10% to 13% for stress duration of 0.25–6 h, and thenincreased to 28% for 9 h of cold stress. As oftenobserved in animals, the phenotypic variability of atrait ... and recoveryphases. The temporal gene expression of adults was analyzed during 9 h of cold stress at 0 °C and during 8 h of recovery at 25 °C. Increased expres-sion of some, but not all, Hsp...
... molecular mass of 14 406 Da and an isoelectric point of 6.59. With the exception of some Fabp10s, whichhave an isoelectric point of 8.8–9.0, all other FABPshave isoelectric points of approximately ... detection of fabp6 gene transcripts by in situhybridization of an antisense riboprobe to sections of adult zebra-fish. Panel 1 shows the distribution of fapb6 transcripts in the distalregion of the ... distribution and binding activities of FABPs and regulation of FABP genes, includingFABP gene knock-out experiments [8], our under-standing of the physiological function(s) of these pro-teins remains...
... lung of rats injected with high-dose of vitamin A over a period of 5 days, the overexpression of c-Jun, produced a significant increase in the cyclin D1expression, a positive regulator of G1–S ... buffer and stored at )20 °C in aliquots of 1 mL(sample named as ÔinputÕ).The immunofractionation of RAR–DNA complexes wasperformed by addition of 10 lgÆmL)1 of RARc antibody(Santa Cruz Biotechnology, ... the pattern of p53 and c-Jun gene expression showed in Figs 2 and 3.Immunoprecipitation of complex RAR–DNATo elucidate the mechanism of this pattern of expression,the binding of RAR to c-Jun...
... river and consist mainly of very fine sand and silt (Arno, 1964). Soil formation is also a reflection of the length of time the soil has been developing (Arno, 1964). Soil age is indicated by ... soil profile. A well-developed soil profile reflects the environment under which it formed. The character of the soil profile is influenced by external factors of climate (precipitation and temperature), ... field-check for evaluating the validity of soils maps to represent the surficial geology of the study areas. The localities of 248 point stations out of a total of 301 in the study areas determined...
... rate of growth of output isgreater than the rate of growth of employment in a particular sector. The second term of the righthand side of equation (4) represents the effect of sectoral employment ... via a set of decomposition exercises on theevolution of real output and sources of aggregate demand. The deterioration of fiscal balances of thestate constitute the thematic background of this ... any, on the levels of profit margins(mark-ups) and also on the behavior of sectoral investments. Econometric results reflect a pattern of sluggishness of the existing levels of mark-ups in Turkish...
... in-creasing the size of the risk pool. Further, this may occurwith a different lag than that between exposure anddeath out of the risk pool. Hence, the direction of theeffect of an air pollution ... from depleting the pool of critically ill people, air pollution increased the size of thepool over longer time scales by increasing the intensity of illness in general. None of these studies provided ... association of air pollution at multiple lagssimultaneously, providing a direct estimate of Figure 1.Because air pollution is generally correlated, putting alarge number of lags of a pollutant...