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... follow-ing his new girlfriend around town, calling her after midnight and hangingup. Then there wasthe evening Lisa showed up at the girlfriend’s house,drunk, pounding on her door and screaming ... get the habitsright.” In the past decade, our understanding of the neurology and psychology ofhabits andthe way patterns work within our lives, societies, and organiza-tions has expanded in ... started thinking about my ex-husband, and how hard it wouldbe to find another job when I got back, and how much I was going to hateit and how unhealthy I felt all the time. I got up and knocked...
... thing in common, that is the speaker’s search for or assertion of something they are uncertain about. As a result, the speaking contexts play a vital role in interpreting and translating these ... early as the 18th century, studies on comparing and contrasting linguistics became popular thanks to the emergence of new lands, new communities, andnew languages. Sine 1970s, comparing and contrasting ... reverse the position of the tag to the beginning of the question (Thiêm, 2004). The tags can be put at the beginning or function as a new sentence to indicate the speaker’s emphasis. In addition,...
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... levels inthe country. Similarly, given their role in poultry rearing, women should also be encouraged to be actively involved in training programs andin dissemination of information regarding ... wealth. According to this method of matching, the two groups—which include the treatment group of households representing the result of the HPAI-induced supply -and- demand shocks andthe control ... (in agriculture, mining, manufacturing, services, and so on), income from livestock and crop sales, and remittances, rent income, and other reported income. On average, poultry (live bird) and...
... 1691-3078(39%), the rest of them – in households of several individuals. In Timisoara the majority of the elderly live in couples, the size of other households is about the same, but the proportion of the ... their community residents, than it is in Latvia.Both the elderly in Dumbravita and those in Jelgava feel well in their homes, and they like their apartments or houses. In Jelgava 73% of the ... believe that they need no help in their household work, but 25% of them need it in cleaning up their Figure 1. Number of individuals inthe households of the elderly in Latvia and RomaniaFigure...
... (PHA) inNew Zealand is following inthe footsteps of the UK government by calling on the food and drinks industry in September 2004 to provide better nutritional information on product labels in ... eating and drinking, this can be anything from how much sugar and fat the product contains to the glycaemic index. Despite the high level of interest innew diet concepts such as Atkins, nearly ... options and marketing streams based on a firm understanding of the major consumer health concerns influencing purchasing decisions and eating habits. Identifying the main health-related issues influencing...
... P17511) and CeMT2 (Uniprot P17512). The coordinat-ing and putative coordinating residues are highlighted (Cys in grey shadow, His and Tyr in bold) andthe total content in each peptide is indicated. ... terminal cys-teine with histidine inthe metallothionein a and bdomain maintains its binding capacity. Eur J Biochem259, 519–527.R. Bofill et al. C. elegans CeMT1 and CeMT2 metallothioneinsFEBS ... bonds. In vivo andin vitro Cd(II)-binding abilities ofCeMT1 and CeMT2Unlike the results obtained for Zn(II) coordination, the biosynthesis in Cd-supplemented cultures of the two wild-type CeMT1 and...
... indicatorwillreflecthowthesearedistributed. In fact, the Giniindexisrelatedto the Lorenzcurve:itis the sizeof the areabetween the curve andthe equaldistributionline–expressedasaproportionof the wholeareabelow the equaldistributionline. The higher the Giniindex the greater the disparities.Anothermeasureofdistributionthatcanbeusedis the Theilindex.4Thisgivesresultslargelyparalleltothoseof the Giniindexbut the indexisderivedslightlydifferently and has the advantagethatitcanbesub-dividedintodifferentcomponents.Thisreportassumesthatimprovements in region-wideMDG ... cover and infant and child mortality. The education indicators, including gender equality in education,showlowvariation;asdoindicatorsrelatingtowater and sanitation. The Theilindexalsogenerallyfollowsthispattern.Figure ... MDGs in Asia andthe Pacific: where we standFigure I-9 – Progress in expanding access to basic sanitation Note: Inthe high income countries of the region the proportion of population using an...
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