... traversed in the later stages of their portage the same ground. Teas picked early in the spring began arriving at Canton in October; the bulk ofthe crop reached the city during November, December, ... DocumentPage 152 Canton and Macao The south China City of Canton lies in the latitude of Calcutta, Mecca, and Havana, on the left bank of the Canton River seventy-five miles from the sea. Between city ... make the same experiment and arrive at the same result.* Whatever the reason, however, bythe second half ofthe eighteenth century the Chinese were in firm possession ofthe technique of smoking...
... b) There has, therefore, to be a linkage between the amount ofthe loan and the tenure ofthe loan. It is, therefore, suggested that for loans not exceeding Rs. 15,000, the tenure ofthe loan ... irrespective ofthe amount ofthe loan. However, the larger the loan, the larger the amount ofthe repayment installment, and a large installment may strain the repayment capacity ofthe borrower ... is often used to record fictitious repayments and thus hide the actual level of delinquencies. 9.11 One ofthe ways by which the problem of Ghost Borrowers canbe minimized would beby better...
... of ubiquinone between the RCand the cytbc1in the presence of mutatedPufX protein The role ofthe PufX protein in facilitating the ubiquinone/ubiquinol exchange between the QBsite ofthe ... point canbe made in the light of our results. The presence in vitro of a less stabledimer in the mutant PufXD2)7neither affects the photo-synthetic capability ofthe bacteria nor the efficiency ... ambiguous the attribution of the PufXD2)19strain to the wild-type or the PufDXcluster.Isolation ofthe photosynthetic complexesfrom the mutant strainsAs described previously [16], the photosynthetic...
... special education of " ;the Blacks and the people of color." In 1801, however, a schoolwas kept the first day ofthe week by one ofthe members ofthe Society, who instructed them gratis inreading, ... said to be incompetency and liability to abuse their office andinfluence to the injury ofthe laws and peace ofthe country. The elimination ofthe Christian teachers of the Negro race, and the ... as their peculiar needs demanded. In the agricultural sections the first duty ofthe teacher ofthe blacks was to show them how to get their living from the soil. This was the final test of their...
... children is known from the literature [4,11,21,25].Thepsychosocialsupportofthefamilyshouldbethepart ofhealth care of chronically ill children. In light of the apparent limitations of parents’ assessments ... and 42 (8%) of unknown gender.It was the mother who answered the questionnaire in89.5% ofthe sample, it was the father in 4.57% of the sample, and it was someone else in 6.28% ofthe sample.Distribution ... Scoresare computed as the sum ofthe items divided by the number of items answered (this accounts for missingdata). If more than 50% ofthe items in the scale aremissing, the Scale Score is not...
... test whether one instrument may be used combined with another to better capture compre-hensive diabetes HRQOL.In testing the usefulness of diabetes HRQOL instruments, the selection of psychometric ... measure somewhat different concepts of HRQOL. For example, the D-39 measures the concepts of physical functioning and psychosocial well-being associ-ated with diabetes including the domains of energy ... Magnitudes in the correlations of all DQOL domains with the physical relevant domains of the D-39S (diabetes control and energy/mobility) wereslightly larger than with other domains ofthe D-39S(social...
... The low internal consistency may be related to the small number of items that compose the subscale [22]. Furthermore, Alpha Coefficient values may be influenced bythe level of schooling in the ... threescores canbe obtained: the total score; the score referringto physical health (score ofthe physical functioning sub-scale); and the score referring to psychosocial health (combined scores ofthe ... foreach question ofthe instrument to measure the degree of agreement of each pair of observations. The criteriadescribed by Landis & Koch [12] were considered in the interpretation of agreement:...
... significant differenceon the social functioning scale between healthy andunhealthy children. Comparisons to the mean scores of the other subscales within the present study to those of the previous ... wasintended bythe developer ofthe scale [15]. Thus, the assumptions about both the quality ofthe measures andutility ofthe rating scale in facilitating interpretable meas-ures should be tested ... utilization of HRQOL measuresmay assist in the evaluation ofthe healthcare needs of aschool district, and results canbe used to inform publicpolicy, including the development of strategic healthcareplans...
... gasping for the first week of postnatal age in piglets. After the first week of postnatalage, the duration ofthe phrenic neurogram burst significantly increases and the patterns during the early ... phases of phrenic neu-rograms in 2 of 3 piglets in the mid-group. We suspect thata reduction in the number of dendrites per cell after 2weeks of maturation could be responsible for the failure of ... during eupnea and the mean total energies below andabove 150 Hz during gasping. The mean ratio ofthe totalenergies above and below 150 Hz for the early and latephases ofthe phrenic neurogram...
... well as the proportions of respondentsreporting impairment in the 5 EQ domains. The magni-tude and significance ofthe ORs for the EQ-5D domains,as well as the sign and significance ofthe regression ... completed by 1,622 adults, randomlyselected from the Registry oftheHealth Authorities ofthe city of Bologna, Italy. The primary carephysician of each subject was contacted to report on the subject's ... describes quality of life in a manner similar to the description ofthe bene-fits of a life insurance policy, where different monetarybenefits are placed on the loss of various limbs. Althoughthe...
... member states" f. Adoption ofthe order of business g. Adoption ofthe minutes ofthe meeting ofthe Standing Committee (17 November 2006, San Marino) 2. Progress report ofthe ... Honouring of obligations and commitments by Albania (Doc. 11115) Co-rapporteurs ofthe Committee on the Honouring of Obligations and Commitments by Member States ofthe Council of Europe (Monitoring ... member in the Chair: Mr Miguel Barceló Pérez (Spain, EPP/CD)) a. Examination of credentials (Doc. 11124) b. Election ofthe President ofthe Assembly c. Election ofthe Vice-Presidents of...