... owners, the firm is more likely to have a Big auditor as oneor both auditors In addition, two Big auditors are more likely to be used thanone Big auditor (paired with a non-Big auditor) as international ... title, there is evidence that two Big auditors arebetterthan one, and that one Big auditor is betterthan none, although there is no evidence that firms are valued more highly in the French stock ... costlier than a single-auditor approach Even though two Big auditors appear to be betterthanone Big auditor (paired with a non-Big firm), and one Big auditor appears to be betterthan none, as...
... √2 times betterthan the unilateral animals (Figure 2) Perhaps two physically separated olfactory organs provide inputs that are less noisecorrelated than inputs from a single receptor organ The ... dual olfactory inputs to chemotaxis The green box indicates the release of a puff of odor Stereo olfactory cues are more important for humans and other animals with olfactory organs that are well ... olfactory processing has also been reported in a few other invertebrate species [6] The importance of this bias for odor processing and olfactory behavior remains unclear (a) Chamber for behavioral...
... which are more disreputable than others Its honorable choices are to tax now to pay for current spending, or to issue bonds (IOUs) today, and collect taxes tomorrow (or the day after tomorrow) ... beings in the private sphere of their lives—housework, child care, or do-it-yourself projects done for yourself or for your family, rather than for money (Economists describe this arbitrary demarcation ... WE AREBETTERTHAN THIS EDWARD D KLEINBARD WE AREBETTERTHAN THIS HOW GOVERNMENT SHOULD SPEND OUR MONEY Oxford University Press is a department of the University of Oxford It furthers...
... Displacement Vector r r For a particle that changes postion vector from r1 to r2 we define the displacement r r r r vector ∆r as follows: ∆r = r2 − r1 r r The position vectors r1 and r2 are written ... Vector r The position vector r of a particle is defined as a vector whose tail is at a reference point (usually the origin O) and its tip is at the particle at point P Example: The position vector ... → ( ) Note: Unlike velocity, the acceleration vector does not have any specific relationship with the path The three acceleration components are given by the equations: dv ax = x dt ay = dv y...
... men More than half of all our eminent lawyers, ministers, and doctors are women; there are more women in Parliament than men, and in the public offices, such as banks, & c., all the clerks are ... quite a tone of pride “She is a member of Parliament, you see, and a very rising one too Women make very good legislators but for one thing, and that is, for a 36 paltry victory over a rival, or to ... story of Rip Van Winkle was written, having one s main character fall asleep for a long, long time has been a common literary device for getting him from one era into another, more future one...
... news corpora and WordNet used in previous work for binary semantic class classification (Snow et al., 2005) We extract two sets of candidate-related pairs from these corpora, one restricted and one ... relationship and coordinate pairs: more than 80% of instances with some relationship are predicted to be coordinates, and most of the rest are predicted no relationship It seems that we are only distinguishing ... surprising that performance would be so poor The metaclassifier achieved 71% accuracy This is significantly betterthan random or majorityclass baselines, and close to our 78% interannotator agreement...
... target for the treatment of neurological disorders Nat Struct Biol 9, 22–26 Sambrook J, Fritsch EF & Maniatis T (1989) Molecular Cloning: a Laboratory Manual, 2nd edn Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory, ... nuclear localization for the mSMOl isoform (Fig 4) Taken together, these results consistently substantiate the hypothesis that these two structural regions are mandatory for the nuclear localization ... performed according to the method of Laemmli [20] Expression of mSMOa, mSMOl and mSMOlD isoforms in murine neuroblastoma N18TG2 cells All experiments were performed using a pool isolated from three...
... inapplicability For instance, none of the alternative relations 'an investigator of corruption' (the correct one) or 'researcher of corruption' (the incorrect one) was observed in the parsed corpus In ... words and word senses varies significantly among different languages For instance, the English words 'sign' and 'seal' correspond to a very large extent to two distinct senses of the Hebrew word ... between word senses However, within corpora of a single language it is possible to identify automatically only relations at the word level, which are of course not useful for selecting word senses...
... addition, for each study participant, a short questionnaire was completed by a counsellor or doctor on the same day that an informed consent was obtained Questions were aimed at identifying factors ... virological success rate of 86% and improvement in weight-for-age z-scores were observed for children on ART for more than 24 months These satisfactory results offer reassuring evidence that good clinical, ... Thus, there is an urgent need for access to affordable pediatric formulations for the developing world In the multivariate model, the only significant risk factor for treatment failure after 24...
... development data set are given in Table 6, for the two corpora used in our experiments The speaker diarization error rates (DER) for both the multimodal corpora used is also shown in Figure 14 Reasonable ... correspondence Often, several phonemes share the same viseme Thirty two visemes are required in order to produce all possible phoneme with the human face If the phoneme is distorted or muffled, the viseme ... audio-visual speech recognition on the AMI meeting database and the GRID corpus Reasonable improvements in performance are noted when compared to the performance using unimodal (acoustic speechor visual...
... matroids of rank oneortwoare Rayleigh the electronic journal of combinatorics 12 (2005), #N8 Proposition 2.2 If M has rank at most two then ∆M{e, f } E(M) Consequently, M is Rayleigh for all distinct ... whether or not every matroid of rank three is Rayleigh Here we show that this is indeed the case Theorem 1.1 Every matroid of rank three is Rayleigh In contrast to this theorem there are several ... shorthand for “yc > for all c ∈ E” We require the following facts from [1] Proposition 2.1 (Section of [1]) The class of Rayleigh matroids is closed by taking duals and minors Sketch of Proof For...
... for one stand The treatment regime for one stand can be summarized as, “cut the fifth strip in period three. ” To formulate land accounting constraints, which require at most one treatment for ... either a twocut system with a preparatory-removal cut cycle, or a three- cut system with a preparatory-establishment-removal cut cycle, which progress from windward to leeward Under the three- cut ... relationships For example, the connectivity of old growth forests must be maintained to protect corridors that constitute critical habitat for certain wildlife species In such a case, it is important...
... efficacy criteria are critical to the longterm success of hand hygiene promotion, a worldwide priority challenge for patient safety [7] Competing interests The authors declare that they have ... hospital Ann Intern Med 1999, 130:126130 World Health Organization: WHO Guidelines for Hand Hygiene in Health Care (advanced draft) Geneva: World Health Organization; 2006 Pittet D, Sax H, Hugonnet ... geographical regions Long-term monitoring of practices is also critical [7,8] Compliance in this study cannot be compared with previous reports, including our own [2,6,7], for several reasons In particular,...
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... as MSC are multipotent Once we were able to show that pericytes behave like MSC, we posed the question if pericytes are more than just MSC The three cell types were therefore compared for pericytic ... structure (Figure 2) The networks are usually formed within to 12 hours and serve as a rapid test for the pro-angiogenic or inhibitory effect of drugs and biological factors (Kleinman, et al., 2005) ... was performed for all three cell types All of the markers except for and Tie2 have been routinely used for identifying pericytes in vivo or in vitro, while Tie2 is a receptor that plays important...
... will be applied for Reynolds stresses identification u and v are horizontal and vertical component of velocity and x and y are the horizontal and vertical coordinates Profiles are calculated by ... downcomer The liquid velocities are generally higher than in bubble columns, especially in the case of external loop airlift reactors for which the range may be one to two orders of magnitude higher ... modified bubble columns Bubble columns are used as reactors in which oneor several gases are brought into contact and react with the liquid phase or a component suspended in it (Deckwer, 1992)...