... indicate the 5¢-ter-minus of 33 clones isolated after 5¢-RACE. (B)Primer extension analysis of fgl2 mRNA. The left side ofthe figure is the sequence ladderusing the same primer and the pM166 ... indicates the nucleotide thatis matched to the band present in the primerextension reaction on the right. The sequence of the primer is 5¢-CCTCCACCGCTCGGCAGGCAGCGAGGACGG-3¢. The laneson the right ... activity ofthe Sp1/Sp3 interaction or the Sp1/Sp3/Ets-1 interaction by approximately 90% and 80%, respectively. Mutation of the Ets-1 binding site (mut5) also blocked the effect of Ets-1 in the...
... soul. No one of these is better or holier than the other; all are alike desirable, and no one of the three body, mind, or soul can live fully if either of the others is cut short of full life ... have had them. Do not think of them at all. Do not tell ofthe poverty of your parents, or the hardships of your early life; to do any of these things is to mentally class yourself with the poor ... 2006 The Secret LLC All rights reserved. attention upon the common, the ordinary, the poor, and the squalid and mean; and your mind takes the form of these things. Then you will transmit these...
... over the Internet anonymously.At the end ofthe day, computer crime is a lot cheaper for the badguy than other kinds of crime, if the bad guy has the technicalskills to pull it off. And there ... users get to the end ofthe free period, theyoften do not renew. There are many reasons for this, but com-monly people ignore the nagging pop-up balloons in the Taskbar,and then either don’t ... over. There’s alot the bad guy can do to use a victim’s computer to make money,without the victim having to know that the bad guy’s on there. The less intrusive a bad guy is, the better off he...
... phones. Similar to the present findings, the results ofthebythe Statistical Office of Finland showed that 30% ofthe elderly women used washing machines, whereas 7% of men used these electrical ... devices were in perfect line with the level of perception ofthe elderly.From the results ofthe present study, it is evident that the use of new technologies by the elderly population significantly ... 5.9% of participants reported that they were aware of all the services and capabilities of ATMs. The reasons to avoid using ATMs were the difficulty of handling the keyboard, the lack of knowledge...
... exacerbation ofthe bias may result (Todd and Wolpin, 2003). The use of a fixed effect estimator, on the other hand, may lead to the significant loss of degrees of freedom, reduction in the variability ... the coefficients for the interaction of both the <12 years and 12 years of schooling, and the magnitudes of these coefficients more than cancel out the positive reference-group effect. The ... head ofthe family unit and his wife. In each wave ofthe PSID the respondent was asked about his/her current employment status. If the status was “working now”, then the respondent was asked the...
... tends to mitigate the effects of adverse selection because,when bundled, the negative correlation between the costs of theseproducts reduces the overall variation ofthe costs ofthe bundle withindividual ... insurance. Expected costs of medical insurance, for example, depend on the health characteristics of the insured. Of course, the value of such insurance to the purchaserdepends on the same characteristics. ... absence of lump-sum taxes, the governmentwishes to raise revenue by means of distortive commodity taxes, and the theory develops the conditions that have to hold for these taxesto minimize the...
... totalconsumption in the second period. The second term is the sum of the expected utilities of two surviving individuals, while the third is the expected utility of one survivor. The budget constraint ... postponement of eligibility for “normal” SS benefitsseems to be primarily motivated bythe long-term solvency needs of the SS systems rather than by consumer welfare considerations. The above analysis ... remainsconstant (figure 5.2). The reason for the difference in the pattern of optimum retirementis straightforward. Without discounting, the importance of a marginalincrease in the length of life does not...
... bc,while others moved more quickly up the main waterways until, at about 1000bc, they reached the eastern edge ofthe equatorial forest in the broad area of the great East African lakes. There they ... fatalto cattle. Bythe first half ofthe second millennium bc, cattle were herdedclose to the top ofthe Niger bend and on the southern shores of Lake Chad.Shortly afterwards, the first strong ... Small quantitieswere grown on the southern shores of Lake Chad by 1200 bc and in the north of modern Burkina Faso shortly thereafter.Most strikingly, bythe middle ofthe second millennium bc,domesticatedmillet,...
... power.12And for the most part, the initiators of totalitarian rulepursued their aims in the name of some grand moral imperative – the Aryan domination ofthe sub-human races ofthe world or the Wnalestablishment ... themselves, at the very least in the eyes of their supporters,as legitimate interests, arguing not just the contingent existence of theirdesires but the rightness and justness of their claims ... determine theirmoral justiWability or lack thereof. Whether the wartime allies did enoughto assist victims ofthe Nazi holocaust; whether America should havedropped the atomic bomb on Japan; whether...
... in![Footnote: Instead of naming the hotels (= mansions) ofthe great noblemen, Julia names the hotels (= inns) ofthe time. She thus shows where the countess had studied the aristocracy.] COUN. ... Madam, that of all the famous court gallants not one failed to come to my door and pay his respects to me. I keep in my casket some ofthe letters sent me, and can prove by them what offers I ... tax-gatherer are but poor lovers for a great countess like you. COUN. They are men whom one treats kindly in the country, in order to make use of when the need arises. They serve to fill up the...