... globulus a) Effectoftemperatureon germination capacity of an unsorted lot b) Effectoftemperatureon germination rate of an unsorted lot c) Effectoftemperature and seed size on germination capacity ... d) Effectoftemperature and seed size on germination rate e) Effectof water potential on germination capacity of seed size class at 25 ºC f) Effectof water potential on germination rate of ... spite of this, the response of eucalypt seeds in the nursery is normally quite low Eucalypt seed research has focussed mainly on germination responses of one particular species to only one or...
... fact of considering only one ofthe channels in the regression (either the change, which given the MASTER THESIS: THEEFFECTOF EDUCATION ON ECONOMIC GROWTH negative correlation, would lead to ... male individuals go in the same direction than with the whole population, confirming thereby my previous results Conclusion The literature onthe effect of education on economic growth is far from ... specially the definition of human capital In order to measure the impact of this misspecification, the authors analyze two specifications for the regression of economic growth on human capital : • One...
... pricing on their loans along with the risk profile The nominal interest rate ofthe loan is one ofthe loan characteristics recorded in the STBL The respondent banks also indicate whether the interest ... is the log ofthe dollar amount ofthe capital infusion The columns reflect the stratification ofthe data into three subsamples of banks based on their size: large (total assets > $10 Billion), ... solely the responsibility ofthe author(s) and should not be interpreted as reflecting the views ofthe Board of Governors ofthe Federal Reserve System or of any other person associated with the...
... of Economics His current research is onthe empirical impact of taxation on international production and location decisions of multinational firms jason yackee Jason Yackee is an assistant professor ... contain variations onthe concept ofthe “social function of property.” Typically BITs contain a stricter form of protection for investors in case of expropriation or deprivation of operating rights ... under the law or in the courts ofthe host state The answer ofthe proponents of BITs is that the criticism may be true, but the object ofthe exercise is precisely to give additional protection...
... in the middle ofthe pack in terms of efficiency 4.4 Latency in Erroneous Response Complimenting accuracy ratios are timings of erroneous response and speed of completion, measuring the duration ... with the lowest aggregate aesthetic rank, averaged the highest rate of task abandonment and was among the lowest in latency of erroneous response More than half of all participants abandoned their ... 2007 The original purpose of this research was to increase the awareness ofthe positive role and purpose of aesthetic in the design of data visualization techniques This paper focused onthe effect...
... conceivably also contribute to the conformational stability of holo-lMb Consistently, they are maintained over the 1.5 ns ofthe simulation (Fig 2) A comparison ofthe hydrogen-bond distances in ... conformations Conclusions The comparison of apo- and holo-lMb by MD simulations reveals a dramatic effectofthe heme cofactor, which is seen to stabilize native Mb-like folded conformations of ... timescale ofthe simulation Therefore, we can conclude that the native-like fold is not even a metastable conformation of this protein To compare the unfolding ofthe individual helices of apolMb, the...
... and the variation of initial rate with the concentration ofthe second substrate is then used to estimate kcat and the Km for the variable substrate However, the assumption that a concentration ... Questions onthe possible function of BVR-A in cyanobacteria parallel a major re-evaluation ofthe function of BVR-A in mammals Once considered to play a role solely in the elimination of excess ... plotted against the concentration of inhibitory product and the inhibition constant for the intercept effect (Kii) was determined from the intersection onthe inhibitor concentration axis For pH...
... effectonthe probability of a year with at least one day, the mean effecton days conditional on any days, and the smearing factor To calculate theeffectof a variable onthe probability of a year ... variance ofthe log of those factors to get the variance ofthe log ofthe estimated effects on total days Residuals and predictions for log(days) are independent by construction Proof that the first ... probabilities to estimate the factor needed to transform the standard deviation ofthe coefficient in the original equation to the standard deviation ofthe impact on population probabilities For...
... Questionnaire The questionnaire consists of 28 questions on a five-point scale This indicated that the whole spectrum ofthe five-point scales was utilized in the reflection of quality of life ofthe ... weeks The control group received the same amount of traditional remedial rehabilitation activities under the supervision of qualified professionals so as to neutralize theeffectof staff’s additional ... Participants in the intervention group, however, received one hour practice of qigong, twice a week, under the supervision of a qualified practitioner, on top ofthe basic rehabilitation activities The Eight-Section...
... comparison ofthe U.K and U.S health systems 32 It is also hard to attribute these results to the content of these additional years of education One might worry that the quality of these additional ... that they not contain any education information Hence, while we can use them to estimate the effects of these law changes on education, we cannot use them to estimate the effects of education on ... ofthe additional education induced by the law changes on other measures of health and health behaviors A The Impacts ofthe Compulsory Schooling Changes on Education To examine the effect of the...
... being one ofthe most widespread and commonly planted crops, the regressions look at the relation between the incidence of drought and the price of rice reported by the households in the second, ... drought incidence The major part of studies onthe micro-level consequences of health shocks rely onthe survey respondents’ subjective perception of what they consider an adverse weather shock and ... exceed the cumulative total 1000 mm The southern regions as well as the region around the province of Hue can be seen to have had more rainfall than the northern part or the southern coastal regions...
... the obesity equation, theeffectof childcare decreases from 0.016 to 0.010 and the interaction effects decreased only by 0.001 with the exception ofthe interaction effect for the child ofthe ... obesity if a set of instruments satisfies the criteria of validity and relevance of instruments The first condition is of a strong rather than weak correlation of exclusion restrictions with an endogenous ... function ofthe number of dependents in the household; however, for sake of simplicity, we assume that the mother has only one child in this model ˆ The child’s adiposity is a function ofthe time...
... due to the inhibition of renal tubular secretion of creatinine by acyclovir, and not entirely the result of decreased GFR To the best of our knowledge, theeffect [8] of acyclovir onthe renal ... seeding All transepithelial transport studies were conducted on confluent cell monolayers At the time of commencement ofthe transport experiments, the growth medium from the cell culture chamber ... Canada) The acyclovir concentrations used in the experiments are representative of concentrations of acyclovir that are found in the plasma and hence, are the concentrations which creatinine may...
... deviation ofthe ranging error for each condition, as well as the frequency ofthe condition (number of configurations belonging to the condition over the total number of configurations considered) The ... target locations in the grid Clearly, a pair of devices can be in non-LoS (NLoS) condition depending on their relative locations within the topology ofthe environment MODELING OFTHE RANGE MEASUREMENT ... estimates the ranges to these beacons, from which it determines its position The accuracy of rangeonly localization systems depends mainly on two factors The first is the geometric configuration of the...
... 2-mm thick representations of each core, one to show the cross section view and the other to show the longitudinal view of incremental growth The cross section cuts ofthe samples were used for ... increased the variation of wood density among individual trees and the progenies of second-generation selfing had the largest variation (figure 3) The increase of 0.5 Wood density 2.2 Sampling of increment ... than in the outcrossed population Furthermore, variation among-trees was smallest in the outcrossed population at all ages After age 13, the variation among-trees in the S1 and S2 populations was...
... understand, they may lose the control over the information and have to take the risk of misunderstanding the information However, the incomplete product advocacy can significantly increase the effectiveness ... were about an eplay cell phone, and the contents included the photographs of e-play cell phones and the descriptions of cell phone function with or without terminology The six terminologies including ... (1988) The moderating effectof prior knowledge on cue utilization in product evaluations Journal of Consumer Research, 15, 253–264 Rao, A R., & Sieben, W A (1992) Theeffectof prior knowledge on...
... Correlation ofthe dipole moment with the Hammett constants ofthe substituents It is evident from the table II that electron-donating substituents onthe phenyl ring increase the pKa of anilines ... Fugure Correlation of QN with the Hammett constants ofthe substituents According to the table 2, electron-donating substituents decrease the dipole moment of compounds and electron-withdrawing ... d(CN) The accompanying loss of electron density from the amino nitrogen atom decreases the pKa ofthe amino group Conversely, electron-donating substituents favor pyramidal sp3 hybridization at the...