... interpretation ofthe results for each measure, onesupplemental question was added after completion of the fourth interview (and thus asked of only 16 ofthe 20 par-ticipants). The question asked ... conceptelicitation or item generation phases. Therefore, the objective of this study was to evaluate the impactof FM on participants, including their sleep, and to test the content validity of these twosleep ... eachinterview. The interviews started with a general discussionregarding theimpactof FM on participants' lives and thenmoved to a discussion about theimpactof FM onthe par-ticipants'...
... conceptelicitation or item generation phases. Therefore, the objective of this study was to evaluate the impactof FM on participants, including their sleep, and to test the content validity of these twosleep ... eachinterview. The interviews started with a general discussionregarding theimpactof FM on participants' lives and thenmoved to a discussion about theimpactof FM onthe par-ticipants' ... information they pro-vided to their physicians about the consequences of theirnocturnal FM pain. These findings, along with the brevity,ease of use, and daily recall period provide further supportfor...
... characterization ofthe promoterregion ofthe gene andthe associated transcriptionalfactors. Therefore, delineation ofthe transcriptionalregulation ofhuman DNASE1 may provide clues to the mechanisms ... that of pGL3–basic vector and was half that of pGL3–promoter vector. These findingsdemonstrate the promoter activity ofthe 5Â-ankingregion of exon 1 in DNASE1. Deletion of the upstream end ofthe ... splicing junction betweenexon 1a and a portion of exon 1. The thick straight lines represent the intron sequence. +1 indicates the position ofthe transcriptionstart site of exon 1. Dashed v-shaped...
... empiricalevidence. The honesty of naăve falsicationism demanded the testing ofthe falsiable and the rejection ofthe unfalsifiable andthe falsified. Finally, the honesty of sophisticated falsificationismdemanded ... demanded the acceptance of only what was proven andthe rejection of everything unproven. Neojustificationist honestydemanded the specification ofthe probability of any hypothesis in the light ofthe ... sametime offering an evolutionary form of natural religion.⁷⁴ The ‘agnostics’ could presentthemselves onthe one hand as opponents of immoderate religious movements andon the other as opponents of...
... Payments andthe Digitization of Money will Change Everything…Or will it? 5 MOBILE SHOPPING? 26 From Theory to Action: The work of SapientNitro 2 Business Transformation ... the days of consumers being “dumb” at point of sale Consumer empowerment to the max. 6 Using our phones as shopping and payment devices is big… … and getting BIGGER. 20 6. There ... in the retail experience. 28 Thanks Donald Chesnut, dchesnut@sapient.com, @D_Chesnut Alex Sion, asion@sapient.com, @ASion1 22 8. The mPayment landscape is diverse, and...
... securitisation implies stronger effects of monetary policy onthe economy and on residential property prices (CGFS 2006). Onthe other hand, Tsatsaronis and Zhu (2004) conjecture that the prevalence of ... large literature onthe estimation of panel regressions andthe inconsistency that can arise in that context. Much of that literature deals with the bias ofthe fixed effects 19 The price puzzle ... that the transmission mechanism of monetary policy depends onthe institutional characteristics ofthe financial system, we go on to split the sample of countries into two groups depending on their...
... look at the whole income and asset portfolio rather than solely the poultry income, thereby providing a more accurate measure oftheimpactofthe disease. If one looked only at the impact of HPAI ... either the logistic function or the standard normal cumulative distribution function (the probit function) (Greene 1997b). The mean and variance ofthe ZINB are (18) , To test whether the ... scales. The duration ofthe livelihoods impacts of these shocks are assumed to be one year. This is because the variables used to derive the impacts of these shocks (which include whether or not the...
... year of college. This assumption implies a linear relationship between the log of earnings andthe number of years of education.15 Second, we assume that the cost of an additional year of education ... model. It captures the effect of existing knowledge onthe production of new knowledge. There is no constraint onthe range of θ. If past knowledge offers the necessary foundation upon which to discover ... question of “why advanced economies … can continue to grow in the long run despite the workings of diminishing returns in the accumulation of physical andhuman capital.”36 Extensions of these...
... Regardless of whetherone agrees with revisionist assumptions or not, the issue that concerns meis whether they had an important and concrete impacton policy assump-tions and choices.In the first ... expanding wealthput it in the position to bear more ofthe costs of maintaining the alliance.Traditionalists saw these contributions as one way to silence the growingnumber of critics in the ... thisbook.25Traditionalist Views andthe Emergence of Revisionism Clinton and Japan eventually becoming adopted as core policy assumptions ofthe USgovernment, and then exerting a concrete impacton a key...
... an important role in the education ofthehuman population regarding the risk of infection. Knowledge ofthe parasite’s biological charateristics, life cycle and trasmission routes is nec-essary ... feces (approximately 2% ofthe cat population at any given time) contaminates the litter box. If the cat is allowed outside, it can contaminate the soil or water in theenvironment as well. Litter ... represent any risk for infection with Toxoplasma gondii. Cats are the definitive host of T. gondii; they are the only animals that pass oocysts in their feces. They become infected by eating...