... and rang the bell.
f. The next morning the Woodman was called into the Throne Room.
g. They all followed the Soldier and found themselves in beautiful
green rooms.
h. They followed the Guardian ... carried
on walking, they found themselves in the middle of a poppy field,
and the smell ofthe flowers made Dorothy, Toto, and the Lion very,
very sleepy so they couldn’t sleep any more. The Scarecrow ... Toto, and the Lion felt very sleepy and couldn’t walk anymore.
The Queen told her new friends that if they called the mice, they would come.
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8. I fell in love
9. in the direction ofthe noise...
... hills, until they realised that they
knew neither the way back to the Winkies’
Castle nor to the Palace of Oz. They were
so tired that they could hardly walk.
‘Why don’t we call the field ... a little girl like you would
melt me so easily!’
Within a minute only the silver shoe and
the key to the Lion’s cage were left ofthe
Witch. Dorothy picked these up and ran to
tell the Lion ... brains, the Lady answered:
‘Very well. If you help Dorothy kill the
Wicked Witch ofthe West, I will give you
brains so good that you will be the wisest
man in the Land of Oz. ’
The Scarecrow left...
... Tin Man
5 The Cowardly Lion
6 The River
7 The Field of Sleep
8 The Queen ofthe Field Mice
9 The Emerald City
10 The Great Wizardof Oz
11 The Wicked Witch ofthe West
12 In the Power ofthe Wicked ... time."
"Then I will take you to his Palace," the green man said.
The Emerald City ofOz was a wonderful place. All the
buildings were made of green marble
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, with windows made of
green glass. ... "I'll call the field mice!"
So the girl blew the whistle that the Queen ofthe field
mice had given her. In a few minutes, the little mice were
everywhere.
"How can we help you,...
... sum total of being open to all The Gifts of Life results in living
a life of Grace. This Gift manifests with the simple joy and
abundance never farther away than the celebration ofthe person ... Gifts of Life and of Christmas to cut through the shifting
shadows of all which may distract you. Therein you’ll find a life of
grace filled with all 12 Gifts and many more.
Click ...
a oneness with the rest ofthe world. And yet, why is it we are so
drawn to the attractions ofthe latest toy … the noise ofthe loudest
hawker … the charms ofthe most alluring seduction?...
... in the bHLH domain is
well conserved within the Twist-related bHLH subfamily, to
which dHAND and eHAND belong [6]. The activity of
some of these bHLH family proteins might also be r egulated
by ... expression level of dHAND-Asp-X was lower than
those of others in the absence of E47. But in the presence of
E47, the expression level of this mutant was equivalent to
wild type dHAND or other mutants ... residues in the cells
(Fig. 1C). These results indicate that the Akt signal m ay pos-
itively modulate the phosphorylation status of dHAND.
We further examined whether Akt directly phosphory-
lates...
... perpendicular to the former, crossing the crown ofthe head to the
nape ofthe neck. At each temple a heavy tuft is allowed to hang to the bottom ofthe
lobe ofthe ear. The long hair ofthe strip ... him. The materials of which
the leggins ofthe Seminole are usually made is buckskin. I saw, however, one pair of
answer ofthe white man was equally frank: “Mat-te-lo, when Indian kill Billy, ... boots. The blanket is not often
worn bythe Florida Indians. Occasionally, in their cool weather, a small shawl, ofthe
kind made to do service in the turban, is thrown about the shoulders. Oftener...
... of objective measures: SLs
= SL policy in simulation; SLr = SL policy with real
users; RLs = RL policy in simulation; RLr = RL policy
with real users.
allows us to target the experiments to the ... Comparison of Results
We finally test whether the results obtained in sim-
ulation transfer to tests with real users, following
(Lemon et al., 2006a). We evaluate the quality of
the simulated learning ... from
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The ratings are normalised as some ofthe questions were
on different scales.
a small amount of Wizard- of- Oz data, and we evalu-
ated the result with real users. The use of WOZ data
allows...
... selection because,
when bundled, the negative correlation between the costs of these
products reduces the overall variation ofthe costs ofthe bundle with
individual attributes (health and longevity) ... depends on the individual’s
survival prospects. Naturally, these prospects also affect the value of
an annuity to the individual’s expected lifetime utility. Other examples
where personal characteristics ... that the cost ofthe hypothetical bundle was lower by 3 to 5
percent compared to the cost of these products when purchased sepa-
rately. They also found that bundling increases significantly the...
... textbook
for actuaries:
These are usually effected to avoid the disappointment that is often felt in
the event ofthe early death of an annuitant. The calculation of yield closely
follows the method used ... type of annuity is sold at a common price available to all potential
buyers. In this kind of pooling equilibrium, the price of each type of
annuity is equal to the average longevity ofthe buyers ... out of equilibrium, we follow the standard
assumption that the sign ofthe price of each good changes in the opposite
direction to the sign of profits from sales of this good.
The following assumption...
... be held by individuals for any length of time
and that their future stream of returns is fully specified at the time of
purchase or sale. We continue to denote the annuities held by individuals
during ... functions.
A group of individuals who share a common survival function will
be called a risk class. We shall consider a population that, at later
stages in life, consists of a number of risk classes. Uncertainty ... the arrival of risk-class
information yield a predetermined flow of returns which, in equilibrium,
reflect the expected relative weight of different risk classes in the
population.
Because of their...
... first-best
allocation are obtained through the revaluation of long-term annuities.
The stochastically dominant risk class obtains a windfall because the
annuities held by individuals in this class are ... respect to their future risk class by purchasing
long-term annuities early in life. In equilibrium these annuities yield at
every age a rate of return equal to the population average of risk class
rates ... increases survival
probabilities at all ages: ∂ F (z,α)/∂α ≤ 0. Individuals can affect the level
of α by investing resources, whose level is denoted by m(α), such as med-
ical care and healthy nutrition....