biometrics and behavior in mosquito repellent assays

... 2.8% Nominal growth Note: Regional Summary for APAC is based on Australia, China, Hong Kong SAR, India, Indonesia, Korea, Malaysia, New Zealand, Philippines, Singapore, Taiwan, Thailand, and Vietnam ... HAVE STRONG ONLINE BROWSE-TO-BUY CORRELATION RATES THE ABOVE CHART: GLOBAL AVERAGE - ONLINE BROWSING AND BUYING INTENTIONS IN THE NEXT MONTHS Source: Nielsen Global E-commerce study in 2014 16 Copyright ... Top 3; Q.26 Household Income Source and Main Income Source (N=700); Q.27 Income Allocation (N=700); Q.14a Spending (N=700) Top Box Agree + Strongly Agree; “Product Origin” understood to mean...

Ngày tải lên: 08/12/2016, 20:02

... biomass of the giant reed and maintain the wetland potential is proposed as shown in Fig 10 In this method, the above-ground part of the giant reeds that will remain the following year are cropped ... lighting for the initial 72 hr, and afterward a 10-h light/14-h dark lighting cycle was repeated To confirm the effects of declines of temperature and day length on phosphorus transport in leaves, ... waterway (Fig 7) In this simulation, the loading phosphorus concentration and water loading rate were assumed to be 2.5 mg-P/L and 0.6 m/day, respectively, based on data contained in the literature...

Ngày tải lên: 05/09/2013, 09:38

... competing influences of delays in the age of marriage and a rise in the percent initiating sex outside marriage In Table 2, we show trends over the past twenty years in the percent marrying, having ... Family Planning 32(4):285-301 Mensch, Barbara S., S Singh, and J Casterline 2005 Trends in the timing of first marriage among men and women in the developing world Pp 118–171 in The Changing Transitions ... for boys and girls and that this trend is likely to continue as overall school participation and attainment rates continue to rise in response to rising rates of return to schooling and more...

Ngày tải lên: 13/02/2014, 10:20

... engage in more risky behavior than before This can in theory result in a net increase in their infection risk Indeed, in the ANRS study, most indicators of sexual risk behavior were higher in the ... showing declines in several risk behaviors to 1996, especially strong in the capital, but less movement afterwards The changes in behavior are thought to explain declining incidence in the 90s in Zambia ... reductions in profitability and in the incentives of firms and households to invest and to save; and more generally, the deterioration in the functioning of a range of public and private institutions...

Ngày tải lên: 05/03/2014, 16:20

... Yihua Shi and Jucheng Yang Chapter Basic Principles and Trends in Hand Geometry and Hand Shape Biometrics 77 Miroslav Bača, Petra Grd and Tomislav Fotak Chapter Genetic & Evolutionary Biometrics ... network, including the entity identifiers generation scheme and relevant key distribution solution Chapter 12 introduces a new, interesting and important research and development works in the skin ... number of neurons The input and output neurons generally have linear activation functions and the hidden (middle) layer has nonlinear functions In the training phase, the input and target output...

Ngày tải lên: 05/03/2014, 22:20

... Online -Behavior and Interests not statistically significant over Interests BOW, online -behavior, and lexical-stylistic features combined did best achieving accuracy of 77.45% and 80.88% in 1979 and 1984 ... change increase increase increase increase increase increase decrease fluctuates N/A N/A N/A N/A Table 1: List of all features used during classification divided into three categories (1,2) online behavior ... AIM and weblogs coincide with the earlier shifts at 1977 and 1979, SMS messaging coincide with both the earlier and later shifts at 1979 and 1982, and the social networking sites, MySpace and...

Ngày tải lên: 07/03/2014, 22:20

... Hyan-Jung Lee, and Hyung-Il Lee 379 Finding the Best Ways to Combine Online and Offline Shopping Features Awn M Levin, Irwin P Levin, and C Edward Heath 401 20 Consumer Behavior in Online Auctions: ... Research in Advertising, and the International Journal of Internet Marketing and Advertising In 1999, the Direct Marketing Educational Foundation selected Phelps as the Outstanding Direct Marketing ... examine decision making within the context of e-branding strategy Levin, Levin, and Heath examine the advantages and disadvantages of online and offline shopping and discuss situations when strategic...

Ngày tải lên: 15/03/2014, 04:20

... Barrett; in France, Nathalie Bajos and Sandrine Durand; in Great Britain, Kaye Wellings; in Sweden, Maria Danielsson, Christina Rogala and Kajsa Sundström; and in the United States, Jacqueline E ... according to the age the b Throughout this report we focus primarily on data and findings from Great Britain (including England, Wales and Scotland) In some cases, data are specific to England and ... education and training, job skills, access to job and training opportunities, the impact of geographic location and discrimination In general, in western European countries, and to some extent in Canada,...

Ngày tải lên: 22/03/2014, 12:20

... Interestingly, yeast growing in a colony undergoes cyclic changes in metabolism, from acidic to alkaline [46] Furthermore, alkali-producing colonies can entrain colonies in the acidic phase and ... function and is obtained by a hierarchical cascade of signals Many different signaling pathways might finally be involved in the entrainment of the individual oscillator of peripheral cells to the main ... diffused in all disciplines of natural (and not only) sciences In biological studies over recent decades, it has become more and more clear that clocks are deeply involved in governing many aspects...

Ngày tải lên: 30/03/2014, 04:20

... September 2000 and July 2001 The two-stage stratified cluster sampling design was planned by Statistics Finland The sampling frame comprised adults aged 30 years and over living in mainland Finland This ... community-dwelling older adults and those living in long-term care settings Conclusion The self-report of seasonal changes in mood and behavior and of poor illumination indoors seem to be relevant indicators ... mental well-being They may therefore stimulate further research aiming at designing optimal working and living environments in terms of lighting conditions Current indoor lighting standards are...

Ngày tải lên: 18/06/2014, 19:20

... Germany) and J.T Baker (Deventer, The Netherlands) For chemical analysis, standard stock solutions of the analytes and the internal standards were prepared both in methanol and hexane and stored ... temperature of 280°C Injection volume was μL The oven temperature was programmed from 90°C (held for min) to 220°C at 15°C min-1 (held for min) and finally to 280°C at 6°C min-1, keeping the final temperature ... water within (held for min) and then turned to 0% water within (held for min) Finally, the mobile phase changed back to the initial adjustment within Flow rate was set constantly at 0.2 mL min-1 The...

Ngày tải lên: 20/06/2014, 20:20

... Mediterranean conifer stands and landscapes Crown fire behavior prediction in Aleppo pine stands can be useful in fire management, fire prevention planning or in decision making during actual fire suppression ... The CFL and CBD of Aleppo pine stands were found positively correlated with the stand basal area As the size and/ or the stem density of the trees in a stand increases, the CFL and CBD also increase ... Wilson and Baker [83] used the midpoint between the minimum CBH from the ground and the average live crown height for calculating crown fire initiation risk in multi-layered stands Sando and Wick...

Ngày tải lên: 07/08/2014, 16:20

... technique are now used routinely (Webber, 1987; Webber and Painter, in preparation) However, methods for assessing pollen viability in vitro and relating the results to seed set remain rudimentary The ... at -20 °C in evacuated containers (see Webber, 1987; Webber and Painter, preparation) Storage period for each pollen varied and ranged from 1-5 yr In vitro in lot viability assays Germination Media ... (1974) for determining significant response differences at the 95% confidence level For pollen lots germinating in the 50% range, 300 grains were observed and for lots germinating either > 90%...

Ngày tải lên: 08/08/2014, 23:22

... impulsivity in a developing Cluster B personality disorder A current follow-up study has included a personality screening In summary, our findings indicate that high numbers of detained adolescent ... excellent and concurrent validity and inter-rater agreement was reported to be high [31,32] The introductory interview was left out because most items were administered by means of an introductory interview ... of the Ministry of Justice, which imposed strict conditions in terms of confidentiality, appropriate handling of information and the participants' assent for participation and for contacting the...

Ngày tải lên: 13/08/2014, 18:21

... measures 11 specific morning or evening behaviors (e g getting up and out of bed, doing or completing homework, sitting through dinner) The evening and morning subscores comprise and items, respectively ... difficulties in the evening Again, ratings then remained stable until week 24 Correlation of WREMB-R evening and morning subscores and the respective GIPD scores for the evening and morning items ... of Evening and Morning Behavior- Revised a Post-baseline parent-rated GIPD scores were considered only if rated by the baseline rater ficulties as being similar in the morning and the evening Until...

Ngày tải lên: 13/08/2014, 18:21

... home and internalizing and externalizing problems (r = 52, p < 01) Additionally, a significant correlation between violence experienced in neighborhood or school and internalizing and externalizing ... Other influences than the implemented intervention, including a change in the instructional system and treatment of PTSD, may have led to a decline in violence as well as to a decline in PTSD ... months Mental health: Concerning the mental health of the children, internalizing and externalizing problems, PTSD, and depression were assessed Internalizing and externalizing problems: The self-evaluation...

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