... but an increasing number permanent By 3500 BC much ofthe chalkland of southern and eastern England was open, while much ofthe rest of Britain was a mosaic of clearings for cultivation and pasture, ... were confined to southern Britain, where they accounted for as many as onetenth ofthe forest trees The forest: predominant tree species at the beginning ofthe neolithic montane grassland and hazel ... disappeared in England and only remained as a major element inthe forests ofthe eastern Scottish Highlands, where as many as 40 per cent ofthe trees were pines The birch too was in retreat and only...
... ages inthe entire males, but tended to increase inthe castrates The divergence in body weight between XH and XL, the testis weight selected lines, consistently decreased with age, as was the case ... results ofthe single trait selection indicate a positive genetic correlation between the traits, with index there was a substantial direct response of sd inthe index and correlated responses ofthe ... analyses have therefore, to minimise their number, been based on divergence between high and low lines There were responses ofthe same order inthe index lines, ie about sd inthe index itself,...
... weight (Eisen and Johnson, 1981) The present experiment was designed to evaluate the efficacy of selection on testis size asan indicator of degree of maturity, with the aim of changing the relation ... because changes in embryonic survival were small The HH, LL index lines showed less correlated response in litter size than the single trait lines, the HL, LH index lines almost none The data ... given in table III, with contrasts summarised in table II The differences in litter size (ie number of live embryos) were largest inthe testis weight single (XH-XL) and index lines (HH-LL), and...
... 40-point increase inthe pain subscale ofthe EORTC QLQ-C30 was associated with a 27% increase inthe rate -of- dying hazard [27] Similarly, Efficace et al found that a 10-point worsening inthe pain ... of life during chemotherapy for advanced breast cancer between patients receiving intermittent and continuous treatment strategies The findings indicated that changes inthe quality of life index, ... potential of providing valuable outcomes to further support clinical decision-making [9] As suggested 'the main advantage of this line ofresearch is that of potentially providing clinicians with...
... part ofthe annual ring, was also determined However, the number of latewood vessels per unit area was determined at the border ofthe annual ring RESULTS AND DISCUSSION Statistical analysis ofthe ... remained more or less constant with any further increase ofthe cambial age of growth rings Increase inthe earlywood vessel lumen diameter inthe outerwood was significant compared with that in ... increase inthe lumen diameter and inthe number of vessels per unit area was observed (table III) However, an increase inthe diameter of latewood vessel lumina inthe outerwood zone, in comparison...
... research knowledge into practice for the purpose of understanding, validating, enhancing or changing practice RU consists of both the use of products ofresearch and use oftheresearch process ... about the influence of organizational context on the routine implementation of EBP are limited in general and in nursing specifically [33] Much ofthe prior researchin nursing has consisted of surveys ... "leadership" inthe form of all managers within the nursing department as well as clinical resource and/or specialty nurses, members ofthe quality management structure (within and outside of nursing), institutional...
... ray ofthe dislocated elbow was not performed in view ofthe pain and the obvious clinical appearance confirming the diagnosis A check x-ray following the reduction confirmed relocation ofthe ... dynamic structures -the muscles crossing the elbow joint [6] Recent studies continue to develop our understanding ofthe role and importance ofthe primary and secondary stabilizers ofthe elbow Disruption ... ofthe LCLC and the importance of each component and the surrounding soft tissues and the mechanism of poster lateral rotatory instability (PLRI) continue to be investigated and debated Additional...
... bosselated mass, not related to the ulcer, was noted occupying the head and neck ofthe pancreas There was no evidence of local invasion A biopsy ofthe pancreatic mass was taken The patient’s ... diagnosis of multiple myeloma was made immediately following the diagnosis ofthe plasmacytoma ofthe pancreas The typical presentation of extramedullary plasmacytomas ofthe pancreas includes ... assisted inthe revision ofthe manuscript JP was a major contributor inthe writing ofthe manuscript and provided guidance through the process All authors read and approved the final manuscript...
... examination were normal (No other pathology was obtained.) In laboratory findings, values for C-reactive protein of 1.99 mg/dl, alanine transaminase of 26 U/litre, aspartate transferase of 14 ... was involved inthe management ofthe patient as well as writing the case reports ST took the photographs AG and MME were involved inthe correction ofthe manuscript as well as general supervision ... obliterated while the anterior and posterior segments ofthe upper lobe were destroyed In addition, one ofthe cysts inthe lower lobe was ruptured During surgery, lobectomy ofthe upper lobe ofthe right...
... perceive the Science of Life It is my great pleasure to thank Benoist, Yoann, and Audrey inthe Toxicology team as well asthe Mullerians and members ofthe BMGG: Thomas, Marie, David, and all others ... testing model Inspired by the promising applications ofthe zebrafish embryo model in toxicology research, with the objectives of developing analysis techniques and applying them in testing of ... housekeeping genes based on their amplification profile inthe different conditions Relative quantification ofthe other genes was performed usingthe Ct method [64] and presented as fold-change in...
... TASKS OFTHERESEARCHThe study consists ofthe following tasks: 1) To research into the definition and reasons for assessing students and principles of assessing students 2) To study theoretical ... development of students It is the process of defining, selecting, designing, collecting, analyzing, interpreting, and using information to increase students’ learning and development (Erwin, 1991) Assessment ... towards the Benefits ofUsing Portfolios as a Mean of Assessing their Writing Development Question 1: What are students’ perceptions ofthe benefits ofusing portfolios as a mean of assessing writing...
... ABSTRACT The purpose of this study is to investigate students’ perceptions of benefits ofusing portfolios as a means of evaluating their learning process in a translation course and find out the ... Students’ Perceptions ofUsing Portfolios as a Means of Evaluation inan English Foreign Language Translation Course, a Case Study at the Faculty of Foreign Languages, Hanoi Pedagogical University ... Foreign Languages, Hanoi Pedagogical University Number As a result, most of students have positive attitudes and motivations towards the effects ofusing portfolios in their learning process; therefore...
... in a Microsoft SQL Server database The cache is easily programmable by using code Inthe latest release ofthe NET Framework supplied with Visual Studio 2005, Microsoft has further enhanced ASP.NET ... rendered as HTML to allow them to operate correctly in any HTML-compliant browser Microsoft has also extended many ofthe standard HTML controls as well, allowing you to manipulate them in your ... displaying, editing, and maintaining data from a database Options for caching client state using cookies on the client's computer, in a special service (the ASP.NET State service) on the Web...
... other and from that the people develop Therefore, studying language helps us understand the nature as well as characteristics of it Language conveys meaning One ofthe dominant meaning of language ... different in each language Therefore, there are many different ways of understanding and defining modality Many researchers are interested in studying modality One ofthe authors who are interested in ... Non- linguistic contexts include : the type of communicative event; the topic; the purpose ofthe event, the setting including location, time of day, season of year and physical aspects of the...
... what the word is It, therefore, can be seen that the two processes are both important for learners in understanding the language since both of them can offer keys to determining the meaning of ... test, the teacher worked as a cassette player and examiner The marking was done with the same way of assessment and then was analyzed in turn The class with English songs in teaching process was ... important as it helps to find out the disadvantages ofusing songs in teaching listening skill Answering this question, students spoke out any things ofthe songs that made them fail to improve their...
... inthe system is the sum ofthe T2NDCs In practice this is not quite true since the Bank of Canada is also a participant inthe LVTS and acts as a drain of liquidity in Tranche Specifically, the ... developed as a way of ranking web pages for use in a search engine by Sergey Brin and Larry Page.5 Inthe Google PageRank system, the ranking of a web page is given by the weighted sum ofthe rankings ... procedure to rank banks inthe Canadian Large Value Transfer System (LVTS) In doing so, we obtain estimates ofthe payment processing speeds for the individual banks These differences in processing speeds...
... ofthe senior tranche and the sum ofthe claims ofthe senior and mezzanine tranches, the holders ofthe mezzanine tranche get the entire excess ofthe return over the claim ofthe senior tranche ... tranche and share it according to the shares ofthe mezzanine tranche that they holds If the return on the mortgage portfolio exceeds the sum ofthe claims ofthe senior and mezzanine tranches, the ... a role inthe various banking crises ofthe late eighties and early nineties, in particular the crises inthe Scandinavian countries and in Switzerland.18 The experience of German banks with...
... entering the ostium ofan infundibulum Scanning Scanning electron micrograph showing a hamster oocyte cumulus complex, colorized blue, entering the ostium ofan infundibulum The outer and inner ... within the ranges found in active and passive human smokers (mainstream = 72.8 and sidestream = 14.9 ng cotinine/mL) produced blebbing ofthe oviductal epithelium at the ultrastructural level and ... periphery Pick-up of a human oocyte cumulus complex has been observed in vivo using transvaginal hydrolaparascopy and involves adhesion ofthe complex to the tumescent fimbria ofthe infundibulum...
... phrase queries issued against a Web search engine (Google) usingthe following patterns: “inf l1 THAT * inf l2 ” “inf l2 THAT * inf l1 ” “inf l1 * inf l2 ” “inf l2 * inf l1 ” where: inf l1 and inf ... The first two patterns are subsumed by the last two and are used to obtain more sentences from the search engine since including e.g that inthe query changes the set of returned results and their ... vector ofthe testing example and each ofthe training examples’ vectors If there was a unique most similar training example, we predicted its class, and if there were ties, we chose the class predicted...
... (DP-4) usingthe folds in Greene and Resnik (2009), where training and testing data come from different websites for each ofthe sides, as well as 10-fold cross-validation performance on the entire ... redundancy in perspective classification.We first investigate retention of only N best features, then elimination thereof As a proxy of feature quality, we use the weight assigned to the feature by the ... Words and Echoes: Assessing and Mitigating the NonRandomness Problem in Word Frequency Distribution Modeling In Proceedings ofthe ACL, pages 904–911, Prague, Czech Republic Ian H Witten and Eibe...