... gold-standard Yet, the assessments ofthe two aspects were often the same—readability/fluency ofthe sentence is important for understanding the sentence Only after the assessor has understood the ... better understand which factors are predictive of good fluency The distribution of fluency scores in the dataset is rather skewed, with the majority ofthe sentences rated as being of average fluency ... with the idea that these are qualities ofthe translations that are independent of each other Fluency was judged directly by the assessors, while adequacy was meant to assess the content of the...
... umbellatum These species used germination as a regeneration mechanism and both of them take advantage ofthe empty spaces to germinate and increase cover as well as the space they occupy [7] The beneficial ... variable (tables II and III) In the case ofthe seeds of Pinus sylvestris and Halimium alyssoides, temperature is also significant Finally, the interaction between the time andthe temperature was ... effects of thermal shock on the seeds of these species have been widely studied [36] However, in this study, cutting and ploughing also had a significant positive effect on the germination of these...
... the first five days in the conservative survivors or the LT or death cases On the other hand, the transition ofthe ALT-LDH index during the same period differed between the two categories: the ... retrospectively the correlation between the serum ALT-LDH ratio ofthe patients suffering from acute liver injury and who had had the possibility of developing ALF and their outcomes, and evaluated the predictive ... struggle to cure the patients after fulfilling the ALF criteria Of course, a new strategy is required to prevent the progression ofthe disease The difficulty in predictingthe prognosis of ALF is mainly...
... disorder Like the pervasive effects of culture, distortion of consciousness lies at the heart of both the individual experience of mental disorder andthe effect of it on the embedding ofthe individual ... or the other ofthe teams, or separate counts ofthe number of bounce and areal passes During the game, a figure in a full gorilla suit appears, faces the camera, beats its breast, and walks off ... [11] Invoking the spirit ofthe Shannon-McMillan Theorem, essentially the zero-error limit ofthe Rate Distortion Theorem discussed in the Mathematical Appendix, allows definition of an adiabatically,...
... consecutive years Three ofthe team of six reference sires (the three oldest sires in the team) were replaced every year in terminal sire breeds, and two (randomly chosen) ofthe team of three were replaced ... two years of PrP selection and then approximately halved every four years None ofthe 100 replicates for those scenarios targeting only the sires (i.e S1R and S1RW ) led to the loss ofthe VRQ ... the 15 years of PrP selection, for the first years of selection and for the last 10 years of selection When compared with the scenario where selection was only on the performance trait (NS), the...
... volume of 0.1 ml) to 1.5 mm for the 0.3 ml volume, and a depth of 5.0 mm for ml ofthe vector preparation All of these depths were well beyond the diffusion limit of relevance to the adsorption of ... is the concentration of active virus at time t, VAO is the initial concentration of active virus, and Kd is the virus decay rate constant}, the half-life ofthe vector was in the 8–9 hr range The ... in the processes ofthe transduction pathways of MoMLV based retroviral vectors and lentivirally derived vectors During the transduction process, the rate of collision between the virions and the...
... Bush, and Barack Obama and on those they chose to serve in their cabinets and in the Executive Office in the White House and to run regulatory agencies, including the Federal Reserve andthe Securities ... leveraged (the ratio ofthe loan to the true value ofthe asset is very high) But the belief that the price ofthe bubble asset will rise even further leads to even laxer lending standards, magnifying ... branch to the supervision of c the Office ofthe Comptroller ofthe Currency (OCC).7 The Three I’s—deology, interests, and institutions— re imi a pediments to successful policy making and government...
... limit on the supply ofthe tranches that were most in demand the AAA tranches—because the starting points ofthe rating models were predictions ofthe rate of default on the entire pool Had the rating ... concerned about the default risk ofthe banks as they were about the default risk of Fannie and Freddie As we discuss toward the end ofthe chapter (when we consider the ‘‘too big to fail’’ theory as ... with the analyses then on offer At the time, there were (understandably) only hypotheses that lacked evidence, and many of them, while equally plausible, contradicted each other Additionally, there...
... below the CEO—both to expand their knowledge ofthe company and CEO succession candidates, and to increase other top-level executives’ exposure to the thinking ofthe board andthe board process The ... final responsibility for the functioning ofthe firm Most important, it sets the rules ofthe game for the CEO The job ofthe board is to hire, fire, and compensate the CEO, and to provide high-level ... Chairman ofthe Board It is common in U.S corporations for the CEO also to hold the position of Chairman ofthe Board The function ofthe Chairman is to run board meetings and oversee the process of...
... Most of them seemed too closed, to be friendly and warmhearted, and welcome us They told us everything they did in Vietnam and they thought about Vietnam in their travels Therefore, they helped ... about Vietnam tourism, what they hope and what they see? Then, teachers and students may know clearly about the fact of tourism in Vietnam It will help students have the right acknowledge about ... see, there is a vacation for the Western countries at this time Therefore, they spend more time and money for travelling, and for relaxing in some Southern Eastern Asian countries: Thailand,...
... network There is a flow of resources within the network Points of Difference: • SN theorist (and early marketing researchers) seek to describe individual actors and their relations/patterns of connections ... buyers and sellers improve the likelihood of a transaction? – How does the value of information moderate the effect of social structure on relationship outcomes? • Typical Methods – Surveys and ... thought and practice? • • How does the marketing perspective compare to the sociological perspective? What are the three key perspectives of SNT that have influence marketing theory and practice?...
... as the principle ofthe figurative synthesis, i.e., ofthe forms of intuition; space and time are themselves conceived as synthetic unities, and spontaneity, the absolute synthetic activity ofthe ... must be the transcendental synthesis of imagination This synthesis is an action ofthe understanding on the sensibility; and is its first application – and thereby the ground of all its other applications ... that “logic, then, has for its presupposition the science of appearing spirit, which contains and presents the necessity and, accordingly, the demonstration ofthe truth ofthe standpoint that...
... The new structuralist argument rests, therefore, on the contentions that the intermediation ofthe formal sector is not full and that informal sector resources, and not the other components of ... significant in the case of Kenya and Rwanda It is negative but not significant in the case of Zimbabwe, positive and statistically insignificant in the cases of Morocco and Tanzania We turn now to the subject ... restructure the debate on financial liberalization and to articulate the arguments against the financial liberalization theory It puts into focus some ofthe worries, criticisms and limitations of the...
... a member of WTO, the MFN status with the US would contribute significantly to the inflow of FDI The authors then used their estimate to simulate the effect ofthe BTA on the inflow of FDI into ... within the manufacturing, while during the early part of 1990s, the majority of FDI inflows were in oil and mining sector, by the end ofthe last century and early this century, light and heavy ... analysis, therefore it deserves some elaboration The source of information on the dependent variable is taken from the GSO and MPI The number of investment projects andthe amount of FDI during...
... test at the beginning ofthe school year The group of student was selected to be the target population of this research firstly because ofthe relative number of males and females in the group ... remember andthe new words After some time, I usually forget the meaning and use ofthe words.” “If I see the words in the exercises many times, andthe teacher explains the new words, then I can ... underline the new words in the reading text or write down the new words in a notebook Then I ask the teacher for the meaning and write down the meaning; sometimes look up the meaning ofthe new...
... elegance and dirt, grace and chaos, friendship and anger The narrow, shop-lined, oddly angled streets determined by the traffic of feet and wagons over the course of centuries The streets ofthe Old ... presents the reason for travel As it is shown in the chart, the percentage of reason for beauty and others reason are equal, occupy 42% in total Andthe number of tourist choose Vietnam for cheap and ... most ofthe tourists like northern of Vietnam with 50% According to our interview, we asked question about the reason why you like northern of Vietnam, most of them told us that because they...
... determine the roles of these DHSs on the transcription of Ig-b gene and on the maintenance ofthe active chromatin state Results Generation of DT40/Cre cells with a long deletion in one allele ofthe ... autoradiogram ofthe Southern hybridization Position ofthe probes, the size and position of restriction fragments hybridizable with the probe, and exon ⁄ introns are shown as in Fig 2A Positions ofthe ... in the Na channel gene and in the first intron ofthe Ig-b gene Furthermore, the acetylation status of H3 and H4 histones was examined [15] In the present study, 10 DT40-specific DHSs found in the...
... only the reporter gene situated on the same side, relative to the boundary, ofthe construct However, when the combination ofthe PTS andthe boundary is placed 3¢ to one ofthe reporter genes, the ... outside the region defined by the promoters ofthe two reporter genes (3¢ to one of them, Fig 4, bottom), the PTS is able to overcome the enhancer blocking effect ofthe boundary, and restricts the ... later than in the case ofthe histone gene cluster [10] This difference in the timing of somatic pairing perhaps reflects the difference between the complexities ofthe regulation ofthe two systems:...
... the KpnI and XhoI sites in the vector and KpnI and SalI sites in the PCR2.1 clones ofthe promoter fragments All promoter constructs were sequenced to confirm their orientation and to verify their ... fgl2 mRNA The left side ofthe figure is the sequence ladder using the same primer andthe pM166 clone as template Arrow indicates the nucleotide that is matched to the band present in the primer ... are indicated in the top ofthe panel Supershift, ss-Sp1 and ss-Sp3, were shown in presence of anti-Sp1 and anti-Sp3 Ig Cold and mutated competitors are indicated at the top ofthe figure probe...
... discussion ofthe thermotropic phase behavior of Myr2Gro-PGro and other members ofthe homologous series of linear saturated PGs, see Zhang et al [24] The addition of mol percent of one ofthe three ... decreases in the order GS14 > GS10 > GS12, as does the temperature andthe relative magnitude ofthe new endotherm or endotherms induced by the addition ofthe peptide However, the magnitude ofthe effects ... conformation There is good evidence from studies ofthe interaction of GS and its analogs with bacterial cells that the destruction ofthe integrity ofthe lipid bilayer ofthe inner membrane is the primary...