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... found in southern ones There is a significant divide between old and new member states on the one hand and northern and southern member states on the other hand There are various reasons for these ... fostering and initiating research in this field They pursue this goal for example by supporting research projects in their respective nations In the context institu-of ICT for the independent living ... maintain an altogether autonomous living This includes freedom of moving, the ability to reach things or to train the body It furthermore is an essential need for a person’s well-being and independency

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... MYTHS: IN THE BEGINNING According to Genesis (The Holy Bible, 1999) in Western culture, In the beginning God created the heavens and the earth .God createdman in the image of Himself; in the image ... the scarcity of Chinese women in America at the beginning of the20th century, they helped to unify and recreate family through theircooking, caretaking, and healing They maintained their bonds withfamily ... against an interfering mother-in-law The figure of the mother in Chinese stories is often benevolent and supportive.Several classic Chinese stories speak of a mother’s influence on herson, and

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... than the extrinsic sig-nal alone This indicates that the intrinsic sigsig-nal inhibits the extrinsic signal, i.e., there is a crossinhibition The larger the value of Se the stronger the inhibition ... tM As for tM, the intrinsic signal is faster than the extrinsic signal, however, the timing of the combined signal is between the intrinsic and the extrinsic signal, which results in Si< 1 SK< ... tM, and s) are smaller for the extrin-sic stimulus (a) than for the intrinextrin-sic stimulus (b) Contrary to Table 3, the response to the combined signal is between the intrinsic and the extrinsic

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... MCP-1/CCL2) and adhesion molecules (ICAM-1) in the brain and in cultured astrocytes and brain endothelial cells [5-10] These inflammatory mediators play a critical role not only in the initiation and ... important role in the initiation and propagation of hypoxia/ischemia-induced inflammation by secreting inflammatory chemokines that attract neutrophils and monocytes into the brain However, triggers ... HIF-1-binding sites, and the underlined small-letter sequences in the sense and anti-sense primers are KpnI and BglII cutting sites, respectively The PCR fragment was cleaved with KpnI and BglII (Invitrogen)

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... al.[9] They found that vertebral wedging was more prominent in the frontal plane, and there was minimal wedging in the sagittal plane Whether the vertebral wedging in the frontal plane in AIS is the ... dissected and retrieved from the apex and the upper and lower end vertebrae of the curve, and then were further separated into two groups: samples obtained from the concave side and the samples from the ... index and apoptosis index in the resting zone between the convex side and the concave side in each location (P > 0.05) Because of the indistinct separation between the proliferative and the

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... Partnership” in The World and Vietnam magazine and the study by Do Hai Nam, Ngo Xuan Binh and Sung Yeul Koo in “Economic Cooperation between Vietnam and the Republic of Korea in the East Asian Integration” ... globalization After the Second World War in 1945, the United States and the U.S.S.R maintained high profiles in world politics However, another overlapping basic framework for maintaining international ... aggressive war-making capacity Nevertheless, the leadership in regulating world order is gradually shifting to the emerging countries The article in the Financial Times entitled “The End of US hegemony:

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... representing the edges of H x intersect the curves representing the edges of H x −1 and H x+1 We keep the following rule: the interiors of the curves representing h xyz and h (x+1)yz intersect if and ... neighborhood of the original location of the vertex v The images of the edges incident with v can be embedded in the same way as they were in the original graph. Let G = (V, E) be a graph and G ∗ = ... , m and y = 1, , (m − 1) the curves representing the edges of W xy are pairwise disjoint and for y = 2, , m − 2 the curves representing the edges of W xy intersect the curves representing the

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... up Finally, at the beginning of October 1996, the quantity of resin in each cylinder was doubled by adding a second bag containing the corresponding resin type, in order to assess the efficiency ... were greater in the incubated soils than in the undisturbed soils, before and after the harvest Before the harvest, nitrate was the dominant form of mineral N in the incubated (75%) and undisturbed ... the cyl4 inders at the end of the incubation period – + T1 = final NO 3-N (or N H -N) content of the soil inside the cylinders at the end of the incubation period – For N O 3-N: T0fNO3 = T0fiNO3

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... one in the valley of the Drac river, the other in a mountain stand in the Alps The experiments were conducted on leaf petioles (full symbols) and branches (empty symbols) These data are obtained ... remain close to its maximun value during the morning and the beginning of the afternoon, allowing a high transpiration rate (4.8 and 3.9 mmol m–2 s–1 for maple and ash trees, respectively, in ... and 6 shoot internodes The shape of the sigmọd curve was characterized by two crit-ical points,ψcavandψ100which indicated the water poten-tial values that induced the start of the embolism, and

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... subsets in spleen Local treat-ment inhibited the proinflammatory cytokine cascade in the joint Gene therapeutic targeting of TNFR1 may be a promising and safer approach for TNFα blockade in RA ... (Th2)- and IL-17 (Th17)-producing cells in spleen Conclusions: TNFR1-mediated signaling in both synovial lining cells and the reticuloendothelial system independently played a major pro-inflammatory ... impressive reduction of inflammatory cell influx We have revealed, in line with the study of Armaka and colleagues [10], a dominant role of TNFR1-mediated signaling in SLCs in joint inflamma-tion Remarkably,

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... from baseline to the 12-month follow up point Pain decreased by 3 points in the Activator group, 4 points in the manipulation group, and 3 points in the mobilisation group A reduction in pain of ... advertising and the lack of adequate time for screening and treating patients in the study We limited advertising to the major newspaper and maga-zines of the Bournemouth metropolitan area Perhaps increasing ... envelope During the baseline visit, a clinician assessed the volun-teer on the inclusion and exclusion criteria and informed the person about the study A complete history of neck pain, associated

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... population The adequacy of the model (indicated by the determination coef-ficient, r2) depends on the inbreeding: r2decreases when the inbreeding coef-ficient increases (Tab III) In the less inbred ... 2.2 Methods The inbreeding coefficient and kinship coefficients were computed iter-atively using the records of pedigree information, according to Lynch and Walsh [14] The mean inbreeding coefficient ... than 0.80 in pop100 (F10 = 0.15), they appear progressively at the expense of low and medium frequencies as the inbreeding increases (Fig 2) The allelic fixation is observed in the most inbred populations

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... brought further decline for business C Y.-Y Lin et al., National Intellectual Capital and the Financial Crisis in Austria, Belgium, The Netherlands, and Switzerland, SpringerBriefs in Economics, ... to boost demand, save jobs, and help C Y.-Y Lin et al., National Intellectual Capital and the Financial Crisis in Austria, Belgium, The Netherlands, and Switzerland, SpringerBriefs in Economics, ... 1SPRINGER BRIEFS IN ECONOMICSCarol Yeh-Yun Lin · Leif Edvinsson Jeffrey Chen · Tord Beding National Intellectual Capital and the Financial Crisis in Austria, Belgium, The Netherlands, and

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... global recovery in 2010, the economy slowed again mainly due tocontinued financial troubles in the Euro area starting the second half of 2011.During the early stages of the financial crisis, ... decline during the last quarter of 2008 continued to decline in 2009(Mansur 2011) Export-oriented sectors such as manufacturing, mining, and thetransport of re-exports was hit the hardest The kingdom’s ... relatedto the innovation capability of the region The correlation between these factorsand the GDP growth is undisputable In knowledge intense industries talent isattracting talent, and the connectivity

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... Trang 24Fig 3.32 Turning point and GDP growth enhancing and impedingfactors of Ireland 48Fig 3.33 Turning point and GDP growth enhancing and impeding factors of the United Kingdom 49Fig 3.34 ... capability in the increasingly globalized knowledgeeconomy In an era when the intangible asset has become a key competitive advantage,investing in NIC development is in essence investing in future ... development in both theintangibles and the tangibles, losing a little international competitiveness in RCand financial capital after the financial crisis It can utilize its rising HC and MC tobuild

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... authorities; and the postal savings system and the FiscalLoan and Investment Program The incomplete liberalization has led, among others, to the unraveling of themain bank system that in the past ... triggered by either the failure of financial liberalization in achieving its intended goals or new theoretical insightsinto the workings of financial markets In the 1970s, the debate on financialliberalization ... complemen-‘institutional hiatus’ in the absence of the informal institutions that were necessaryfor the effective functioning of the newly introduced formal institutions In otherwords, in the transition

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... Argentina and Chile being the high HC group and therest four countries the low group In general, the HC of these six countries was inthe last quarter amongst the 48 countries, ranking between 35 and ... hampered by thepending debt problems in the Euro zone, the modest growth in the U.S., and theslower growth in Asia Although these Latin American countries showed theirresilience during this financial ... reduce poverty and inequality, efforts may include:creating quality jobs; consolidating fiscal systems that are solid, transparent andfair; investing in education and training; increasing the efficiency

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... http://www0.mercurycenter.com/svtech/news/indepth/docs/china091900.htm. Internet in China: Big Mama is Watching You 15 3. The Internet in China This chapter will provide information about the origin and history of the internet in China. First, ... changed since the Open Door Policy in 1977. With the introduction of the internet, a lot of changes were made in the structure of the Chinese government, and therefore the different ministries and ... the Chinese government insisted in introducing and developing the internet, since it is supposed to be so troublesome to control. Then, the function of the media in China will be explained,...

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... authoritative in the Middle Ages called their authority into question. When combined with the propaganda poten- tial of the printing press to disseminate such findings, printing became a major force behind ... of books, including one on the concept of Fatherland in the Netherlands from early modern times till World War II and one on Dutch lieux- de-m´emoire. Introduction  (as developed by Gutenberg in the ... flood of supportive information and suppressing contrary stories and externally by feeding information to their vassal papers in Avignon and London.  Furthermore, in the s, they launched a...

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... Eng- land and France throughout the century. The British ‘defined themselves as Protestants struggling for survival against . . . the THE CRISIS OF LITERATURE IN THE 1790s Print Culture and the ... of their mix of promise and threat, anticipation and dread, resound in the writings of the eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries in Britain – a time and a place when the newly disturbing ... in the print industry. 22 In Letters on Education (1790), Catherine Macaulay argued that the ‘advantages of printing, by rendering easy the communication of ideas, giving an universality to their...

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