... concentrations of these materials present in the artery wall, and in atherosclerotic lesions, are unknown The role of glycation andthe two facets of glycoxidation in generating modified LDLs and lipid-laden ... receptor-blocking experiments The rates of uptake of both the lipid and protein components are not matched by the rate of cellular metabolism of these species, resulting in the accumulation of both unmodified ... pathogenesis [2] An early and persistent feature ofthe atherosclerotic lesion is the presence of lipid-laden (foam) cells in the intima ofthe artery wall, arising from cholesterol and cholesteryl ester...
... implementation for timeseries analyses of pollution and health delayed the review ofthe National Ambient Air Quality Standard (NAAQS) for PM, as thetimeseries findings were a critical component ofthe evidence ... vary the number of degrees of freedom in the smooth functions oftimeand temperature Based upon these calculations, we develop a bandwidth selection strategy for the smooth functions oftimeand ... that fits the additive ˆ model involving the smooth terms in the semi-parametric model (1) The total number of degrees of freedom in the smooth part ofthe model is defined as the trace ofthe additive...
... real data and to evaluate the estimation procedures in each of these scenarios The definition ofthe scenarios relies on the timescales at which confounding occurs andthe strength ofthe concurvity ... to the GCV-PM10 method, which chooses the degrees of freedom on the basis ofthe pollution series rather than the mortality series Concurvity is another factor that we must account for and Professor ... in multicity timeseries studies of air pollution and mortality The complexity ofthetimeseries data requires the application of sophisticated statistical models that are capable of estimating...
... Furthermore, the mean of four short timeseriesof 256 points was shown to provide a better estimate of H than a single timeseriesof 1024 points The results ofthe reliability analysis ofthe ... due to the method used to analyse thetimeseriesThe SDA method provides two estimations ofthe Hurst exponent, for the short-term (HS) and long-term (HL) regions ofthe log-log plot of Δt and ... Estimations ofthe Hurst exponent are then obtained from the graph of Δt by 2 in log scale by calculating the slope ofthe short-term (HS) and long-term (HL) regions ofthe curve The equations...
... estimated as the number of peaks ofthe TFD slice T(t0 , f ) By searching and counting the peaks of each TFD slice, we end up with a set of numbers The number corresponding to the maximum ofthe histogram ... order to group the halves (or parts) ofthe actual components together This is performed in the third and last phase ofthe algorithm Algorithm gives the details ofthe second phase The classification ... peaks in the time- frequency plane That is, the frequency andtime occurrence ofthe highest peak are obtained first Then, we look for the next highest peak in the nearest neighborhood ofthe previous...
... time is seen as interlocking grids of relations, technologies and strategies aimed at the control oftimeand colonization ofthe future For instance in Ennew’s (1994: 126) critique ofthe “timetabling ... can expand time while guilt can prolong it All these senses and sensibilities oftime can influence the experiences, practices, and even the actual mobilities of migrants as their notions of ‘visit’ ... the whole jumble of cultural forms and practices that constitute and create everyday life andthe meanings by which people understand themselves in the world”, it is important to understand these...
... proposed that engaging with the literature on children, youth and families advances our understanding ofthe social and cultural geographies of education In their paper, they foreground existing ... subjectivities, and aims to construct a more grounded, intimate, and accountable rendering ofthe globalizing spaces of education In centering students at the heart ofthe everyday, quotidian, and transnational ... geographies of education migration, geographers have expounded on the power of space and place in producing, differentiating, and maintaining the sociointeractions and relations of these young...
... aspect under the perfect has the effect of asserting that the beginning ofthe event time is included in the PTS The question of whether the end ofthe event time is included in the PTS or not ... (12b), the left boundary ofthe PTS is asserted to precede the beginning ofthe event timeandthe right boundary ofthe PTS is not asserted to be included in the event time Examples such as the ... imperfective, andthe added neutral - relate the event time to the reference time, whereas the perfect relates an interval of evaluation (the PTS), a reference timeof sorts, to the reference time introduced...
... educational, and other municipal services and infrastructure The programming approach to city officials will require strong advocacy based on an understanding ofthe system of land tenure in vigor andof ... to improve the health of these children The report tries to deal with the questions of what is different about the living situations and life chances of these children (compared with the “average” ... children and 11% of rural children), and 7% suffered from diarrheal disease (6.1% of urban children and 7.8% of rural children) in the two weeks preceding the survey • The Manshiet Nasser survey of the...
... repricing time or maturity of bank assets and liabilities and analyze how the reaction of stock returns varies with the size of this mismatch and other bank characteristics, including the usage of interest ... difference between the civilian unemployment rate andthe estimate ofthe (time- varying) NAIRU based on the FRB/US model; inflation as measured by the four-quarter difference ofthe log ofthe GDP price ... andthe option-implied volatility on the S&P 500 (VIX) 28 Because of large T the average bank is in the panel for more than 35 quarters the bias ofthe OLS estimator, owing to the presence of...
... contradictory to the conclusions ofthe Final Document ofthe Moscow Meeting ofthe Conference on the Human Dimension ofthe CSCE and in breach of Article 19 ofthe International Covenant on Civil and Political ... or the economic well-being ofthe country, for the prevention of disorder or crime, for the protection of health of morals, or for the protection ofthe rights and freedoms of others Finally, the ... for the outbreak of conflicts andof their prevention, settling and dealing with their aftermaths The development of democratic institutions andthe protection of human rights are among the OSCE’s...
... )70 °C The areas ofthe gels corresponding to the released strand and to the nonunwound substrate were cut out and 32 P radioactivity counted Alternatively, the films were scanned andthe radioactivity ... of 1.5–5.5 lM) ofthe helicase activities of HCV, WNV and Suv3(D1–159), but not JEV The tetrachlorobenzotriazole TCBT is only a weak inhibitor ofthe HCV enzyme, and a moderate inhibitor ofthe ... inhibition ofthe unwinding reaction by the HCV enzyme was observed when the DNA substrate concentration exceeded 15 pM (not shown) The responses ofthe helicase activities ofthe other three...
... put the two charts together, we see how they track each other Sometimes the price moves ahead ofthe earnings per share and sometimes it is the other way around But over time they move together ... case of let’s sit back and hope for the best Then there are others who deliberately not want to know anything about the activities ofthe company They want to study the “pure” movement ofthe ... Investor There are two key features ofthe growth in sales and earnings: the rate of growth andthe stability ofthe growth Conscious Investor provides proprietary tools to measure both of these...
... understating ofthetimebehavioroftheseries Fig.1 shows timeseries plot of selected timeseries air pollution concentration This Figure shows different timebehaviorof air pollutants For example, the ... fluctuations of air pollutants The different time correlation behaviorofthe pollutants is further discussed in section 3.3 Timeseries results The first step in timeseries analysis is to draw timeseries ... pollution time R Modarres and A Khosravi-Dehkordi The autocorrelation functions ofthe selected timeseries also show different time stationarity oftheseriesThe autocorrelation functions of them...
... participant; it is the “open” space ofthe window, andthe agent by which Six reads This light illuminates the head and hand of Six, the sword hilt upon the table, andthe pile of books, the top one ... one ofthe five performances of Medea in the autumn of 1647 Noting the theatricality ofthe costumes andthe similarity ofthe architecture to the Stadsschouwburg, J Konst posited that Rembrandt’s ... resistant courts of Renaissance Italy, and that the new processes flourished in Germany andthe Netherlands.14 book culture 25 The Netherlands was the most literate country of Europe in the seventeenth...
... Motherhood, accessed at http://web.unfpa.org/mothers/facts.htm Guttmacher Institute, Facts on the Sexual and Reproductive Health of Adolescent Women in the Developing World UNFPA, State ofthe ... Development www.prb.org THETIME IS NOW: INVEST IN SEXUAL AND REPRODUCTIVE HEALTH FOR YOUNG PEOPLE Guttmacher Institute, Facts on the Sexual and Reproductive Health of Adolescent Women in the Developing ... “Antecedents of Adolescent Initiation of Sex, Contraceptive Use, and Pregnancy,” American Journal of Health Behavior 26, no (2002): 473-85 Cynthia B Lloyd and Barbara S Mensch, “Marriage and Childbirth...
... previous periods The middle panel shows thevolatilityofthe bond rate over 12 months This is computed at the date t as the standard error oftheseries over the interval [t-12, t] Andthe bottom ... concerning among others the length ofthe window, the number of lags or the real rate level hypothesis rr and results are reported in the …rst eight rows of table For all these results, the ten-year ... the German series due to the central place ofthe German policy in the European Monetary System before the launch ofthe ECB and because the German bond rates remain the benchmark for the long-term...
... sufficient to pay back the principal and interest of all loans andthe dividends of shareholders over the life ofthe contract The unitary charge as a whole constitutes the cashflow from the public to ... Passport Agency waived a further £275,000 compensation (“in the interest of good working relationships over the 10 year life ofthe project”82) and at thetimeofthe NAO review the Agency was discussing ... staff and IT maintenance Due to their timing, these events andthe subsequent cancellation ofthe deal in February 2001 not form part ofthe NAO inquiry which is limited to the steps Siemens and the...